Reading that amazing book by Dr Susan Jeffers again..."Feel The Fear and Do It Anyway"
She was describing a demonstration she carried out with students on her course designed to confirm the power of the sub-conscious mind, to those who doubted such a thing exists.

The student volunteer was asked to close their eyes and hold an outstretched arm before repeating the following statement..."I am a strong and worthy person"...ten times and really get the feeling as they said the words. She then asked them to resist her trying to push down the outstretched arm.

 In every case, she was unable to push that arm down. She would then ask the student to repeat the exercise but this time repeating the following words ten times..."I am a weak and unworthy person". She would again ask the student to resist her trying to push down that extended arm... in every single case...she was able to push the arm down with little or no resistance.

The student and the audience were dumbfounded...With each positive affirmation there was resistance and with each negative affirmation, no resistance. As Susan reflected later...

"Weak words meant weak arm. Strong words meant strong arm. And it didn't even matter whether the person actually believed or not. The mere uttering of them makes your inner self believe them...

What does all this mean? Stop feeding yourself negative thoughts."