Do affirmations for self improvement really work?

Keir — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:19:54 +0000

Affirmations are phrases you tell yourself or other people. An example of an affirmation, one that Tony Robbins loves by the way, is “Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better”. This may sound picturesque and old fashioned, which is hardly surprising, as it comes from Dr. Emile Coue. He directed a clinic in France in the beginning of the 20th century. His main technique to treat thousands of patients was to repeat this affirmation 20 times, twice a day. Although he claims he never actually cured anyone, and they cured themselves, these cures certainly did happen.

Affirmations can be either positive or negative. If you say to yourself “This always happens to me” when something goes wrong, then you are making a negative affirmation. Well designed affirmations can be a perfect way to substitute negative thoughts and feelings with empowering self beliefs and character traits. You can find many examples online if you do a search on popular article directories.

The True Benefits of Article Marketing

Internet marketers are always searching for the best ways to get traffic to their websites. Many promotional and traffic strategies today are based on leveraging Web 2.0 sites and services. You can use these methods, of course, but you may also want to do some article marketing, which is perhaps the best and simplest way to get free traffic and publicity. You can write articles telling everyone about your products and website and then distribute them all over the web. The following are some of the reasons why so many internet marketers use article marketing as one of their main strategies.

Out of all the things you get out article marketing, by far the best one is your site’s pagerank going up. You will earn a backlink for every article you put on the internet. If you can get more inbound links, your pagerank will increase. Before long you’ll see your pagerank increase in the minds of Google and also the general public.

Every online business should aim at building a strong goodwill with their prospects, as it will help on the long run. That’s exactly what happens when you get into article marketing. You have a much better chance of selling to your niche audience if you can write quality articles that give your customers what they’re looking for. It helps you build an unshakable rapport with your prospects and helps you stand out of the competition. Now, if you get all that for nothing, can you imagine what you’d get if you paid?

These articles can also be included in certain products (ebooks, reports, etc.), which will effectively bring more traffic. Another good way to go about it is to re-pack the articles into one book to give to subscribers or just people who visit your site in general. Then you’ll want to give them rights to reprint the materials so that you can get even more traffic. It’s not uncommon for good reports to drive traffic for months and even years.

Article marketing can be a great way to achieve financial freedom by using a free form of marketing to promote anything at all. You can use your articles to sell products directly or use them to create mailing lists. Whatever way you choose to leverage article marketing, it’s important to remember that this method requires consistent effort on your part to see good results. Once you can see steady results, you could decide to hire another writer to create your articles for you. With someone else taking care of writing and submission, you will have effectively built a hands-free online business that generates profits for you.

The majority of self improvement experts and scientists working on the human brain are convinced that there is solid scientific evidence that affirmations, and our belief system, in fact create our reality, and influence and form what we experience in our lives.

A rather basic explanation is that there are forces within the universe that we all interact with, even if we are aware of it. Say you are a positive person who always the best outcome in any situation, the power of the universe will work for you, and often unexplainably you make it happen. Thinking about your desires and goals regularly, and confidently expecting them to materialize, you are directing forces in motion taking you towards these goals.

None of this is actually new. Wallace D. Wattles, in his book, “The Science of Getting Rich”, expands on the notions of “Original Substance”, “Thinking Substance” and even “Formless Stuff”. He claims that all the things in the universe originate from them. He takes it even further saying that our mental focus on ‘Original Substance’ can cause what we think about to be created.

Napoleon Hill, on the other hand, referred to “Infinite Intelligence” to illustrate these inexplicable forces. Actually, the main theme of “Think and Grow Rich”’ is that we become what we think about most. He interviewed the most successful people of his time, and came to the conclusion that our firmly held thoughts and beliefs interconnect with greater forces which lead us to create our future.

Using affirmations we nurture our minds with positive thoughts wiping out negative and destructive thoughts and feelings. Once our subconscious mind accepts what we’re saying it as fact, and this requires repetition, then it connects with the universe to create the reality we feed it.

Do affirmations really work? I really doubt if there is any person dealing with personal development would dispute, that we attract, gravitate towards, and become what we think about most. Change what you think and say to yourself, and you can change what you believe. Change what you believe then almost certainly you change your actions, which in turn will change your results. It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Choose your affirmations wisely.

In the meantime, be your best.

Keir

Further reading on article marketing.

Practical Article Marketing Tips that Work

It can be challenging to turn your website into a successful online business. In order for any website to be successful, it needs to attract visitors who are targeted towards the kind of offers you are presenting. Regardless of what niche you are in or what you are selling, you won’t be successful without a good flow of traffic coming to your site.

With all of the different possible ways to promote your website, many beginners get overwhelmed. This usually confuses a new marketer and he ends up wasting time and money trying out various marketing strategies. There are not many marketing tactics that produce results and don’t require an upfront investment, but there are a few. Article marketing is one such strategy, and all this involves is distributing articles that promote your site. If you follow some of the guidelines given below, you will be able to make a profitable start with article marketing.

When you submit articles to directories, they will often be ranked by the search engines, which is a very effective way to get traffic to your site. Make sure you use your targeted keywords in the titles of your articles, as well as making them sound interesting. The title of your article can influence how it’s ranked by the search engines. Not using your keywords in the title will reduce the amount of traffic you get, as people who search for your keywords in the search engines won’t find you.

There are many online article directories, and you should be sure to submit your articles to some of these. There are a number of ways to do this. You can focus on either quantity or quality, sending your articles to as many directories as possible or only to those with the highest page rank or best reputation. But if you’re focusing on getting traffic through the search engines, then it makes sense to submit your optimized article to a top directory like Ezinearticles.com that will help you get ranked well.

Whatever way you choose, just make sure you divide your articles into categories to make the job easier.

Show the reader what benefit they would be getting out of reading your article. It’s important to provide this perk in the title of the article as well, not just in the article itself. It’s common for people not to put the benefits in the title, yet that’s the most critical part of an article. Readers must have a reason to read what you’ve written. The more eye-catching your titles are the higher will be your article’s open rate.

Article marketing is a very effective yet simple way to promote your business online. And the best part is that it’s free of cost. The most effective way to get the most out of your articles is to promote them in as many places as possible, but at the same time keep the good ones for the top directories. Remember, the more organized and readable your articles are, the more people will read them.

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