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affirmations
guidelines and precautions
psychospiritual approaches
definition
Guidelines:
(1) See if you can find a correlation between the diseases and the probable causes listed. Look up the mental cause, and see if this if true for you. If not, sit quietly and ask yourself what thoughts in you may have created your condition.
(2) Repeat to yourself, "I am willing to release the pattern in my consciousness that created this condition."
(3) Repeat the new thought pattern to yourself several times.
(4) Assume that you are already in the process of healing.
(5) Whenever you think of the condition, repeat the steps.
(Hay, 1984, p. 149)
Precautions:
Affirmations that are not accurate or believable to an individual may be harmful, especially if s/he feels guilty or feels a sense of failure at not being able to respond to the affirmation. A non-credible affirmation, one which is not congruent with the individual's belief system, may make the individual feel worse by creating inner conflict, and may cause further splitting of the psyche. (Timberlake)
see:
exploratory or mechanistic?
obesity: behavioral affirmations
subjective inquiry approach
transference and countertransference
imagery: precautions
imagery: principles: receptive or programmed?
footnotes