Does Positive Thinking Work?: When Positive Affirmations Aren't Enough to Change Your Life

Is Positive Thinking Enough to Change Your Life?

Have you ever tried to change your life by reciting positive affirmations? You state that you already have what you want to have. So, if you want to move into a new house, you declare: "I now live in my new house."
Are such declarations enough? People who teach positive thinking tell you that you must visualize what you want and state your affirmations with deep feelings. So you do your best to visualize yourself living in your house. You try to feel what it would be like to live in your new house. You express gratitude for your new house: "I am so happy and grateful that I now live in my new house."
Are you now living in your new house?
If all of your positive thinking and positive affirmations about living in your new house didn't work, why didn't they work? Was it something you did or didn't do? Maybe you didn't visualize hard enough. Maybe you didn't feel your emotions deeply enough. Maybe you didn't feel grateful enough. Maybe you didn't recite the affirmations often enough. Maybe. Or maybe not.
Does Positive Thinking Work? is about the missing element in claims about positive thinking and the power of positive affirmations to change your life.