What is the difference between how people feel and react? How they think. How a person thinks and interprets a situation will determine what feelings result. Many feelings and reactions we have, to all sorts of situations, we learn as we grow and interact with the world. We have all practiced feeling and behaving in ways that were either created for us by our parents, other people who had influence over us, or by deciding for ourselves how we wanted to feel and react.

As adults, we can control the way we think and we are each responsible for the thoughts we have. Each one of us controls what we think inside our heads. If we don't like how we are feeling or reacting in a certain situation we can learn to feel or react in a different way. What is required is for us to practice thinking in a new way.

That is where affirmations are so effective and useful. By creating and using affirmations, you are making a conscious effort to change how you think. Repeated over a time, the effort becomes a practice of a new way of thinking and becomes automatic. The result is that the feeling and reaction becomes automatic as well.