How and why do affirmatiions work?

Have you ever wondered why or how affirmations work? Here is my understanding. We have created many of our behaviors and thoughts by way of repeated messages that were told to us, or that we told ourselves until they became true for us. Affirmations are the very same thing with a different name. When we are changing our thoughts, and behaviors via affirmations, our conscious mind filters what is allowed to get into our sub-conscious mind. After repeatedly saying affirmations with emotion they too become true for us. Eventually they get through the filters and enter the sub-conscious and voila! a new way of thinking and a new attitude. So it is necessary to say affirmation often, very often, and when you add the emotion, you have a recipe for success. One very generic affirmation written long ago is "Every day in every way I am getting better and better".
Love and blessings
Joe

Row Row Row Your Boat

Let go and let God. I believe this means not obsessing or worrying about the outcomes of situations. To stop trying to control every result. To have faith (sometimes blind faith) that there is a higher power at work and that eveything happens for a reason. Our spirit knows this, it is our mind that has difficulty with it. However, it also does not mean that we do not have to do anything. It is our job to row the boat, (do the footwork) and our higher power steers the boat (guides us in directions). We cannot row and steer at the same time, and our higher power does not row. If we do nothing we go no-where, when we do the work and allow ourselves to be guided, and accept that where we are is exactly where we are suppose to be we are now-here. Like the song says Row, row, row, your boat, gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrilyLife is but a dream
Love and blessings
Joe