New Age Hail Mary

A powerful except from the book I’m currently reading:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6685530/

“The Book put forth the theory that what a person envisions is what a person attracts, so that if you envision loss, despair, loneliness, etc., that is indeed what will befall you. The Book also claimed that all of us lie to ourselves all the time, so why not tell positive lies-known as “affirmations”-instead of negative ones?

For example if Wanda felt like writing, “Nobody will ever love me again,” which, according to the book’s author, was a lie, she wrote instead, “A loving relationship awaits me.” If Wanda felt like writing, “All men are fucked-up dickwads who deserve to die,” she forced her hand into a steady calmness and wrote instead, “There are good men in the world, somewhere.”…And if she felt her spooks coming on, those familiar voices that said, “You’re going to die alone. People started leaving you when you were six years old and they’re going to keep on leaving you, so why bother?” she would print, as if she were competing for a penmanship prize, “I love myself. I. Love. Myself. I do not need another person’s love to make me whole”; and she would think, What a load of bullshit, and watch clear, precise lines of her script blur and melt into unrecognizable water blobs.

If all else failed, she would copy the affirmation that was supposed to be the be-all and end-all of all affirmations:”This, or something better, will manifest for me the highest good of the universe.”

She called this affirmation the New Age Hail Mary. Lately, she’d had to use it a lot.”

What affirmations are you telling yourself?

http://www.toanthai.com/italy2003/florence2003/pages/florence21.htm