Affirmations & Mind Chatter  Affirmations: Words are Things  How
to Use Affirmations on Mind Chatter:  Words are things: All
thought is an affirmation - not just the spoken word.
Affirmations are a powerful tool for manifesting our desires or
making deep psychological changes to our personality. The
subconscious mind is open to any suggestion and will manifest
whatever we tell it.  In fact, it cannot tell the difference
between reality and suggestions, so it processes suggestions (or
affirmations) as being real, and goes about initiating magical
processes that actualize those affirmations.  The Four
Principles of Affirmations    1. Concentration :     Becoming
aware of your thoughts is the first step.  Sometimes thoughts
are cloaked in "feelings" and these also need to be recognized
in order to stop the negative process.   2. Meditation : 
After "awareness" has stopped the negative process, attunement
with the "truth" can be established. (The "truth" usually being
the complete opposite (180 degrees) of t