Faith is developed by listening to and reciting positive affirmations. It can also be developed by listening to something good that happened to a friend. So, you can say to yourself, "If it happened to Jack, it can happen to me."

The vital key here is to inject passion into your beliefs/affirmations in order for that faith to ignite. Mindless repetition alone will do little for your faith and beliefs.

I'm a believer.. It's huge to have confident in whatever you do and believe in yourself. Persist - truly right mind set to have in any business.

This is what I wrote in a thread I started a few days ago;

I tend to disagree with using affirmations in most situations. Regarding
your title of how to develop faith, I'll say the following which is also
related to affirmations.

If you try to butt heads inside your head with conscious mind and
unconscious mind, the latter will win every time unless you use your
conscious mind in a different way.

The reason affirmations tend to be ineffective is because there is
an unconscious belief that is the antithesis of the affirmation. But
the person will never know that, or have conscious awareness of it.

I'll proffer that the main ingredient for a successful affirmation is
to make every effort to be sure both minds are on the same page
and in agreement.

Most people, I believe, have enough awareness to know whether or not
they really believe in an affirmation they're repeating. We all know
that subtle nagging feeling when we're trying to convince ourselves of
something that just doesn't feel right deep down inside.

A person can feel and believe that he or she is the ugliest person in the
world. Just an example and can be anything.

No amount of affirming will change that belief.

I've known truly attractive women who felt ugly, physically unattractive.
Any guy would look at her and think how attractive that woman is. But
there was no amount of convincing her otherwise.

If other people cannot change that belief, why would anyone expect an
affirmation of being attractive, or at least not being ugly, to change the
belief?

Something happened in that woman's life to completely convince her that
she is ugly. And it probably happened when she was very young as is often
the case with limiting and false beliefs that we all carry into adulthood.

The key to changing those false beliefs is to have awareness and an open
mind to even accept the possibility that some of our beliefs were actually
thoughts and ideas sown a long time ago.

The best situation is if that woman, for example, could identify what made
her start believing she was ugly. It could have been an off comment made
by someone whose word she took in as truth such as a parent or other
adult in her life.

No affirmation can overcome the awesome power of a firmly entrenched
unconscious belief.

You have to dig to the root and find out what's going on, first. Or at least
have an open mind to realize that many self-limiting beliefs were planted
a helluva long time ago. And they are not true; they are not the truth.

Once a person can get to that point, then something meaningful can start
to happen, otherwise there's a lot of wheel spinning and not much else.


Ken