Hops, how funny that you posted this today!
I have used affirmations, on and off, for about fourteen years now. I first read about them in one of Louise Hay's books and they crop up in all sorts of other things I've read over the years. In all honesty I had never felt they really did much to help. There would be the odd thing that would happen but it wasn't frequent enough to feel like anything more than a coincidence and generally speaking I always felt like I was being dragged down some how, and that affirmations didn't really do much to shift that.
But about a month ago I went to see a lady who is a spiritual healer. She used crystals, meditation and chanting, and we sat and wrote a list of affirmations for me to use at home. I did it, expecting not very much from them, but I do feel different and we have had some really amazing strokes of luck recently. My son got the funding he needed for his bike, I was refunded some money that the company kept insisting they didn't owe me, I made a complaint about a minor matter with another company and they gave me compensation that was far in excess of what I had expected (it was a minor matter and I just asked them to reimburse the bank charges I incurred due to an error on their part and they've given me that plus a sum for upset and stress!). So they do seem to have had a beneficial effect more recently (or something has, anyway!).
I will have a good read through of that article you've posted later on. I've just looked through some posts and seen some of the replies I've made recently aren't there so I'm not sure why that's happened, I will have to go back and rewrite them a bit later
