Self-Esteem Affirmations: Motivational Affirmations for Building Confidence and Recognizing Self-Worth

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Summary: Very effective
Review: The cassette version has Louise Hay explaining about self-esteem and subliminal technology on the A-side, followed by the music and audible affirmations. On the B-side, all you can hear is the music. Yes, the phrases do sound a bit childish, but that is exactly what the subconscious mind responds to - simple positive statements delivered in a warm and friendly voice. Since self-esteem or the lack thereof lies at the root of many psychological problems, this is a great place to start in a programme of self-improvement. Hay is an expert in the field and is blessed with a very comforting voice. Listening to this cassette does work if you are consistent about it. What is even more effective, is when you memorise some of the affirmations and repeat them to yourself, silently in your mind, throughout the day. No cutting-edge brain entrainment methods (such as metronomes) are used here, but her reassuring voice makes up for that. Give it a try!

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Summary: Listen to this only when you are really, really low
Review: When I first listened to Hay's affirmations (tape A as spoken words and tape B as subliminal with soothing music) in this recording, I said to myself 'Oh, my God... I don't want anyone to know I owe it...I am NOT THAT SAD', as I found them awfully embarassing (3 years ago). But then, recently I had experienced a really depressing phase of my life, a sort of middle-age crisis, feeling my confidence was totally destroyed. So I have played it while I was working (for only half a day for 2 days). Miraculously enough, not only didn't I find it embarasssing, but also I felt so poised and calmed that the panic crisis seems to be almost over now!! I am glad that I didn't have to rely on Valium.

Her guidance at the very beginning clearly said that the purpose is for ONE'S SUBCONSCIOUS MIND TO ABSORB THE MESSAGES which conscious mind would reject, which one should bear in mind. No wonder that such affirmations like "I am lovable because I exist" or "I am good enough just as I am" or "I love myself more and more evey day" sound too awkward to listen to when you are 'SOBER'. I doubt it's that useful if you CONSCIOUSLY try to remember the phrases as some of the reviewers suggest. However, I cannot deny this tape actually rescued me at subconscious level. Perhaps it may be the affirmations' power, or may be just the relaxing Hay's voice and the music that really helped me, who knows. I confess that I ordered the CD version last week and I am looking forward to receiving it.

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Summary: If you are experiencing difficulties with the hay
Review: When you really think about it, she's more showing us how to do something rather than, say, feeding us every time we pop the tape or CD in. It's like Jesus, in a way, when he taught his disciples how to pray: he wasn't really saying, "Pray this prayer, boys, every time you need prayer," but, instead, was saying, "Pray according to these guidelines and do in the same spirit what I do, touching the same bases," and so on. The tape and CD are for people too distracted to take time out to do "mirror exercises," and if you have no clue what that means, all the more power to you to go out and get her book on healing yourself.

If you were doing the exercises yourself and half-took your own healing seriously, you wouldn't need any tapes. Seriously. You wouldn't need any CD's, and you wouldn't need anymore Louise Hay, bless her soul. (I think that's how she meant for things to be in the end. No dependency.) You would be free. Free to be you without fear, shame, or guilt. Free to make your own personalized CD with your own music and your choice of affirmations. Make sense? So read the book, pull out what you need, and save yourself some money by making your own recording, tape or CD, with your own choice-picked affirmations done in your own lovely voice. No tone or resonance resembles the voice of God more than the one that resides within your very own throat and breast. Enjoy your voice: it is the voice that can move mountains. On the real.