Research has demonstrated that we have between 45,000 and 51,000 thoughts a day. That’s about 150 to 300 thoughts a moment. Research has likewise demonstrated that for most individuals 80% of those thoughts are damaging. Now, we have been taught to think that many of these 51,000 thoughts are “sub-conscious” thoughts meaning that they're below our conscious cognizance level. Affirmations in reality make your sub-conscious thoughts conscious.

Affirmations make you consciously cognizant of your thoughts. If you begin making conscious favorable thoughts, you in reality become more aware of the damaging thoughts that are constantly threatening to take over. It’s an interesting phenomenon, in truth. It in reality proves true what your mother always cautioned: be careful of what you think as what you think is what you get. She was essentially telling you that you produce what you think about. When you’re not cognizant of your thoughts, they tend to be damaging. And not being aware of your thoughts tends to induce an awful spiral downward.