So, hoping to make some things clearer , let’s begin.
So, first, what exactly are affirmations ?
Affirmations are short and precise sentences / phrases that you use , in one way or another, to help you reach whatever it is you’re aiming at.
Some people like repeating them in their mind, some prefer writing it, some prefer singing it. Quite anything is possible . It is my advice that you seek out whatever works best for you. It’s very different for every person.
That shouldn’t be too difficult to understand. The trouble starts in knowing how to use them.
The #1 mistake people make (and this might seem contradictory at first) is that the affirmations use starts and ends when you say them. As if you are pushing a button and that’s it. While that analogy can be true in some cases, most people tend to look away from the architecture of why and how affirmations work, causing them to miss some , if not the, most important aspects of affirming.
Let’s pretend our brain is a huge planet. There’s lots of places in it, and lots of roads leading from one to another. Very similar to planet Earth 
Every ‘place’ is a state of mind.
we could liken a city to be an ‘area of different state of minds on the same subject’ , so Paris could be where all the state of minds related to your perception and appreciation for yourself are.
While London could be the place where all states of mind related to your abundance related issues are.
and New York could be the place where all state of minds regarding your physical well being (physical health) are.
Now, every city has houses, hotels, and other places to stay at.
And each one of them, is a specific state of mind in that city.
So a hotel in Paris could say:
" I am ugly and repulsive "
and a different one could say:
" I am beautiful in every way "
A hotel in London could say :
" I have to put a lot of efforts to be abundant "
or " I don’t deserve abundance "
or " Money is falling on me from the sky "
A hotel in New york could say:
" I am always perfectly healthy "
a different one could say:
" My health is always at stake "
A different one could say:
" I have to sustain my good health "
and a different one could say:
" My maximum health capacity is getting better with every breath I take "
It’s important to understand that the brain is a HUGE planet, with practically infinite cities, and more importantly, infinite hotels in each of them.
Now, this is a very general summary of the entire law of attraction, almost every person on earth has his hotel in Paris, his hotel in London, his hotel in New York, and hotels he usually goes to when ‘visiting’ all the other cities. The result of what hotels you visit, is called your life.
This is crucially important to understand. It is quite easy to understand intellectually, but much harder to really wrap your mind around.
If you go to the hotel in Paris saying you are ugly and repulsive, to the one in london saying you have to work hard for abundance , to the one in new york saying your health is always at stake and to the one in Barcelona (houses city) saying : ‘my house is always small and not comfortable for me’.
That will be your life.
You will find yourself looking at the mirror, thinking you are ugly and repulsive, working hard, probably not getting to much money for it, living in a house you don’t like while barely being able to afford it and always having health issues ‘attack’ you.
It’s important to understand, the outcome of your life, is a result of the hotels you visit to, not the physical actions you take.
And the hotels you visit to are obviously all internal processes.
Thoughts, of one kind or another, conscious and subconscious.
note there’s not only ‘two’ types of thoughts, there’s an infinite scale of thoughts, ranging from the most conscious, on the surface thoughts, to your own pure self, consciousness.
So if you go to the hotel in Paris saying you are beautiful, to the one in london saying you are always swimming in abundance, to the one in barcelona saying your house is comfortable and beautiful and to the hotel in new york saying your health is always increasing.
You will find yourself in that reality.
It makes absolutely no difference what you ‘do’.
We all probably know about some guy that never worked for his whole life and won some amazing lottery ticket/fell in love with a beautiful millionaire or maybe thought of a simple gadget that earned him his life income.
We all probably know someone that looks as if he’s never sick, despite the fact that he ‘isn’t taking care of himself’. There’s also that guy that never looks for sex , never thinks about it, but always finds himself with a partner when he wants to have sex.
More importantly, we all know of probably a lot more than one man that worked hard and ended up with a lot of bills to pay, of the guy that went around all day looking for girls/guys and winding up in bed all alone, and of that guy that always worries about how’s he’s dressed so he won’t be cold, about what he’s breathing into himself , yet always moves from one disease to the other.
Think about it for a moment.
And now, the important part. How this whole concept works and how to use affirmations.
Ok, so you know you have your hotel in every city, but how do you change them?
I said that a hotel is a state of mind, so if I now really , sincerely think I am very healthy, shouldn’t I be very healthy?
No. 
It doesn’t work that way.
You see, when you want to go to a new hotel in New York, you don’t know the road. Yes, you may have been there before, but now it’s all hazy and it takes a lot of time to get there. More importantly , even after you get there, the old hotel manager (neuron) is still reserving the room for you. You can go to a different hotel today in New York, but when you wake up tomorrow, the people in the old hotel will get you to come there again, they (can be likened to the cells in your body) want you to come there, and you feel somewhat comfortable around them, not because the beds and food are great there, they might completely suck, but it is known territory. And that’s how the vicious cycle continues and people fail to really change their life. Cause they can’t find a new hotel as easy as the old one, let alone, talk to manager, get inside the bed and sleep comfortably, so their fear of change is driving them to go to the old one. Despite how good or bad it may be.
That’s where affirmations kick in.
As I said earlier, affirmations are not all about the saying.
Affirming is a process.
Let’s say you want to have better relationships with people.
Let’s say you are now staying in a hotel in Amsterdam (relationship city) that says:
" i communicate badly with people and always end up with people I do not like "
Let’s say you want to go to the hotel that says:
" my communication with others is perfect and every person I run across is exactly the kind I prefer to run into. "
Most people are very accustomed to their hotel. They completely forgot how to get there. They probably completely forgot that there are other hotels in the city.
So, you phrase an affirmation, the name of the hotel you want to go to, in this case:
“my communication with others is perfect and every person I run across is exactly my type of guy. "
note, always make affirmations as short and precise as possible, always in the present tense, and always in a positive manner, that is do not phrase something like: " I am never sick " but " I am always vibrantly healthy”
Ok, so you phrased the affirmation , and you begin repeating it in whatever way it works for you.
You have not moved to the other hotel yet. That’s where people are mistaking.
You are trying to get the traveller part of you to that hotel.
So at first, you just might be wondering Amsterdam looking for how the hotel looks like, then you might find it, then you might actually go to it, but still the other hotel reserves your place and pressures you to come there.
You start using the affirmation, that is, you START building that neural pathway in your brain, you start finding the way to that hotel, it might be sluggish and slow, cause you haven’t gone down that road for a long time, but keep it up.
After a few days, you suddenly run into a great woman in the street and have a very lovely chat. You are smiling and go to your house happy about it.
That re enforces on your brain the fact that the hotel you are looking for does exist. So, the people there get to know you a bit better and you are becoming much more familiar with the road as time goes. Now, as you state the affirmation (try to go to the new hotel), it’s easier and most importantly, you feel better while you’re at it.
The people in the old hotel still feel protective over you and tend to pressure you to come visit them .
You stick with your affirmation and open the road to the new hotel more and more. After some time, as your life and mind-set changes, the road is completely open and you travel them with no problem at all. You are very comfortable with the people there and you just love it. The people in the old hotel had completely forgotten about you and you have completely forgotten about them.
Now, you are automatically going to that hotel, you don’t need to concentrate to go there, or to make any effort, it is the hotel your cells know and like, and it is where you are used to be. If you just go about your days, you will keep going to that hotel Note, we are always present to information, therefore, our mind-set is always changing, although not rapidly but gradually, towards one way or another
That’s when I can say:
Congratulations, you have consciously moved a hotel !
I hope this makes quite a few themes more clear and understandable.
A few general tips for affirmations.
Doing them after waking and before sleeping is good (on the condition you are concentrated) because you more in touch with higher aspects of yourself.
The more often you do them, the better. You could always throw one in your head, while you’re showering, while you’re driving, eating, whatever…
As I said, a hotel is a state of mind , so saying the affirmation is just getting in the cab and telling the driver to go. Each state of mind , or you could say, vibration, has it’s own feeling. So if you’re trying to make something positive manifest (and I do hope you are going for positive things) , feel the positive feelings connected to that affirmation. If you say:
" My communication is always good and I like the people I run across etc… "
yet feel very sad and frustrated about your current relationships, it’s like telling the driver to go, but trying to reach out of the car to the old hotel. That is looking to the old hotel . That will you keep you in touch with the people from that hotel, and your room will be kept there. Release the attachments you have from that hotel, let go of it and go to new one . Know, consciously, that you are the creator of your life and feel accordingly.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi said:
"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. "
Do not fear the new hotel won’t suit you, and don’t worry about the old hotel.
Let go of it, and know that if the new one isn’t as good, you can always find your way back.
Hope this helps,
and Ill be glad to address any question that someone might have 
