Why Most Affirmations Fail

and

The Four Building Blocks of Successful Affirmations

From radio personality and syndicated newspaper columnist

Jennifer Shepherd,

The Lipstick Mystic®

Do Affirmations Work?

Yes, but most people are doing them wrong!

Through twenty years of firsthand research, I've identified four building blocks that are the foundation of all successful affirmations. I've also discovered nine critical mistakes people make when doing affirmations.

This information will shatter your beliefs about how affirmations should be done. I've identified what works and what doesn't work so that you can put these principles to work for yourself today!

Learn more in my new Affirmations Package!

Why Most Affirmations Fail and the Four Building Blocks of Successful Affirmations

February 14, 2012:I have some exciting news! I've launched another Lipstick Mystic® Site as part of my expanding network of sites

On this site I'll be giving you all the information you need to become more confident about your ability to manifest excellent cash flow, including practical information about running a business, setting up websites, and self-publishing (three things I've been doing for a long time.) I'll also be posting cutting edge articles about the energy of money and how you sometimes need to dig a little deeper within yourself to unlock financial programming, vows of poverty, tribal conditioning and more which might be holding you back from experiencing true prosperity and abundance.

You'll also learn about a cutting edge self-study course I've created called The Money Materialization Course. You just download a lesson each week and experiment with the healing exercises and affirmations I include for you in the lesson. Each lesson also contains real stories from my own life, plus I share some of my past students' experiences. It's material I've been putting together since I worked with over 10,000 clients in my counselling practice, with much of the healing and advice I shared with people being about money matters. I also taught workshops on affirmations and visualizations many times and have decided to take what I've learned and put it all together for you in this huge, honking, controversial course.

Be sure to check out my daily money tips at the site, too! These are often about exploring the metaphysics of money, the unseen energy, hidden attitudes, and subconscious conditioning we all have around money.

Money isn't evil; it's a physical expression of value which helps complex, advancing societies grow and evolve. But because some corrupt people have held much of the world's wealth over time, most of us have a lot of "money is evil" programming. And this gets in our way when we work to become financially sovereign and independent.

LipstickMysticMoney.com is THE place to be if you're willing to let go of sabotaging beliefs about money and start experiencing better cash flow and long-term prosperity.

I invite you to stop by - and feel free to leave comments or questions. I'll be happy to respond to them. Just give me a little time to respond and approve comments since I manage LOADS of websites right now. But your feedback is very valuable and important to me! :) (And don't forget to check out my daily free tea leaf readings, info about tea, and info about psychic readings and how they work at my other new site: LipstickMysticTea.com.

January 30, 2012: New Site Launches : I'm in the process of a massive redesign of all my sites, and with many of them, I will be posting daily updates,fun affirmations and healing articles, and more.

I've just launched a new website devoted to talking about the health benefits of tea (You can download a free report there about my 5 Fave Herbal remedies - no need to sign up for anything to get the report.) And also on this site I'm showcasing my background as someone who not only had a full-time psychic counselling practice for about a decade, but I also did real tea leaf readings as part of that.

Most people don't know much about tea leaf readings, and they're really cool! At the site I'll be doing daily readings aimed at YOU, all my readers across all my different sites. And I'll also be selling my own personalized individual readings there.

If you'd like to read an uplifting "thought for the day" type of feature designed to give you things you can troubleshoot for that day as well as positive things to focus on, I think you'll like my free daily tea leaf readings at my new site.

And also look for more to be happening at AffirmationsThatWork.com very soon! I'm redesigning the site as a blog where I'll be posting affirmations for each day - yet another way to access positive energies each day!

From time to time I still get requests from people who would like a psychic reading from me. (I had a full-time psychic counselling practice for a decade back in the day.) Recently I've been receiving some requests to offer tea leaf readings again. (Yes, they're the real thing! I just do them for you remotely, tuning into your energy after you give me your full birth name and date of birth.) Right now for a limited time only I'm offering tea leaf readings again, both shorter, general readings and longer, in depth readings. You can also purchase these for a friend or a family member who might enjoy getting a reading. I'll send you a nice gift certificate you can present to them at the holidays or on their birthday. You can read some of my past tea leaf readings, learn more about how they work, and order your own tea leaf reading here:

**New: October 22, 2011: My New Money Materialization Self-Study Course: Plus My New AffirmationsThatWork.com Website

I've just given birth to a huge beast of a self-study course. It's called The Money Materialization Course, and it's based on over 20 years of work I've done with some 10,000 individuals and a bunch of groups in workshop settings. See, over time in my work teaching techniques like affirmations and visualizations I've come to perceive certain blockages, negative tribal conditioning, and even vows of poverty which most people carry around. You can actually see some of these things clairvoyantly in the energy field. Others operate on a more hidden, subconscious level.

Sometimes when people are working very hard on self-improvement and self-healing they keep hitting these weird brick walls. That's why you know that there's something deeper going on. In my role as both psychic counsellor and shamanic healer, I've worked in helping people release those vows of poverty, erase negative "hivemind" conditioning, and help them shift other spiritual and emotional "booby traps" which prevent them from experiencing a positive flow of abundance in their lives.

So many people -- especially ones who are interested in spirituality and psychic development -- seem to default to that "garbage programming" that "money is evil." The truth is that we live on a planet of 7 billion people, and ancient systems like barter (where you trade a good or a service for something else) don't work anymore. So we use money, which is a representation of a good or a service, and we need to acquire a certain amount of money in order to do things like afford shelter, clothing, food, and transportation.

Vows of poverty tend to come from either times when people were actually living in a religious order (like those nuns and monks who took poverty vows) or from the larger Judeo-Christian culture itself, which carries a group programming that money is evil. Sure, there are nasty rich people. There are also very nice ones. So having money itself does not define moral or spiritual character!

Shamanically speaking, you can also develop lots of energy holes or "leaks" when you have, over the years, learned to equate earning money with suffering. How many horrible jobs did you have, especially when you were younger? Remember exhausting yourself waiting tables at weird hours while you went to college during the day? Remember getting paid practically nothing, being physically drained all the time, and having to deal with emotionally toxic customers who were abusive? These early formative experiences around money have a HUGE impact and they really do permanently shape how you feel about money. And since the human spirit tends to embrace joy and flow, if you've learned to associate money with pain and suffering, you will actually BLOCK yourself from receiving money because, unconsciously, you want to avoid pain.

There's a lot more to it. I've set up a whole new website devoted to taking positive thinking, applied faith, power prayer, affirmations, visualizations, and instant manifestation to the next level -- providing ebooks, articles, courses and consultations designed to help you dig under those psychic "rocks" and upend all that garbage programming that is holding you back from being truly healthy and abundant on all levels.

This material can be triggering. It's definitely controversial. And it's extremely cutting edge. Quite bluntly, f**k "The Secret," "Abraham/Hicks," and all that jazz. While these teachers can be useful for guiding you on a very basic or superficial level when you want to make that connection between mind and matter, you HAVE to dig deeper to experience real progress.

My new Money Materialization Course forces you to do some REAL work so you can have measurable change in your life. I'm not helping you put a Band-Aid on your money problems. I'm going to tell you the hardcore truth about how your family and loved ones are holding you back from experiencing the true prosperity you're capable of generating. I'm going to help you learn how to figure out your "financial baseline," which is the sum energy total of all the good and bad money programs you've absorbed from your family, your romantic partners, and even society itself. And then I'm going to give you tools to erase those sabotage mechanisms so you can open up the flow to being more creative, more confident, and more open to enjoying money instead of blocking yourself from receiving it.

At my new website, http://www.affirmationsthatwork.com, you can download the intense 30 page first lesson of the course for free. I want you to get a taste for what you'll be learning in this cutting edge class. In Lesson One of the Money Materialization Course I share my experience of instantly manifesting $4000 by practicing the four core principles of successful manifestation which I taught in my earlier Ebook, Why Most Affirmations Fail and the Four Building Blocks of Successful Affirmations. These are the same principles I use every day in my life as a self-employed person and business owner. I've used them for over 20 years now and still haven't gotten a "real" job! Once you learn to manifest multiple streams of income and have a positive vibration around money, you don't need jobs. You create FUN and you find opportunities and creative challenges everywhere. Life becomes full of possibility instead of spoiled by limitation.

Check it out now at my new site. By the way, if you purchase the 21 lesson self-study course (The Money Manifestation Course) you also receive my earlier Why Most Affirmations Fail Ebook for free since it's really a "pre-requisite" for you to follow this course. Why Most Affirmations Fail is sort of a 101 or beginner's level, while the Money Materialization Course is the deep, dark, powerful 201 material that will boost your ability to successfully use affirmations to help your financial flow. And if you have already purchased Why Most Affirmations Fail, I'll give you a juicy discount on The Money Materialization Course.

Okay, go have a look, download Lesson One, and enjoy!

Visit AffirmationsThatWork.com now!

*NEW: Posted August 16, 2011: Recently I've given birth to two elephants - two huge packages of pretty website header graphics for people to use when they are putting together a website or blog and want to have a stylish website header image at the top. I've been doing a lot of graphic design in recent years - (not counting on this site, which needs to be revamped soon!) Check out my 100 Business, Futuristic and Technology Website Headers and my 100 Elegant, Fancy and Sophisticated Website Headers at my new site: HeaderGraphicGarden.com. Meanwhile, I'm still posting updates every few days about the interesting effects of this current Mercury retrograde period at my personal blog, JenniferShepherd.com.

*NEW: Posted July 25, 2011: How to Handle Mercury Retrograde - I haven't had a chance to update this site for a while, so look for a redo this fall. In the meantime, I have two new sites up. Check out my article about Mercury retrograde at JenniferShepherd.com and look at my cool new art site where you can purchase gorgeous header graphics for your website or blog: ArtSansRaison.com.

*Fawn Photos - Fresh fawn photos! Look what I saw in the fields behind our house.....too cute to behold! Fawn Photos

*Movies Like The Secret and What the Bleep - Check out this cool movie program: Spiritual Cinema Circle

*Why Most Affirmations Fail and the Four Building Blocks of Successful Affirmations - Download this free book excerpt

Interested in checking out my eBook? You can download a free excerpt from the book so you can see what all the fuss is about:

* Free Audio "The Law of Attraction - When Will It Work?"

People frequently ask me how soon the law of attraction will work. How quickly can they start seeing great results when working with affirmations? I've just uploaded a new audio you can listen to. It's about eleven minutes long. It gives you some tips and strategies on how to improve your results with the law of attraction.

The audio is in mp3 format but I've uploaded it as a zipped file due to size. You'll need an unzip program to listen to the audio. Download the free evaluation version of Winzip here if you don't already have an unzip program:

*More on the Law of Attraction: There is an accompanying short article I wrote for Ezinearticles that is meant to introduce the free audio above - you can read this introduction here if you like: Law of Attraction Myths Debunked

*Interview: Check out a brief interview with Lee Nutter, publisher of a fabulous free membership site devoted to affirmations and positive thinking. Interview with Lee Nutter of Bmindful.com

*New Moon Times: I've just posted some of the New Moon Times for 2008. Write your new moon abundance check on those dates and watch the magic happen!

*More Articles: You might enjoy these two new articles I wrote for Ezinearticles.com:

* Note: I'm looking for affiliates to help get my newly revamped Affirmations Package out to more people! You can earn $16.50 per sale through Clickbank. For more information, click here.

* I've created a fun report for you with lots of real life stories about affirmations that worked. Download this new free report (pdf file format) Turbo Charge Your Affirmations Today

For other law of attraction and affirmations articles, please check out the different categories listed at the right. Check back regularly as more articles are added!

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