Affirmation means to make firm by repetition. Repetition is the heartbeat of affirmation. She is not just the mother of learning; it is also the mother of mastering any skill and making it permanent. Everything you affirm you reaffirm and what you reaffirm you confirm. The affirmation is a version of the positive confession of faith intended to reprogram your mind for personal success. Your affirmations are powerful tools for personal development, self-direction, and personal achievement. It is an integral part of the law of meditation. You only state principles or programs that you know to be true; otherwise your rational (conscious) mind and your unconscious (subconscious) mind will be in conflict thereby denying the manifestation of your desire or whatever you are programming for your life. Your mouth should be in line with your head and your head should be in line with your heart.
Although psychologists have theorized that it takes 21 days to form a habit, but this seems to have a high failure rate. Thirty days seem to get better results. However, the best result is achieved when the affirmation is extended to forty days. This is the subject of this affirmation article.
Jack Canfield in his book”The principles of success” stated that affirmations take 30 days to work. However, we have noticed a high failure rate with 30 day affirmations. Why is this so? The answer found is the open secret of divine success: the Holy Bible As Albert Einstein said, “tell me the mind of God and all other things are details.”
In the supernatural and in this life, timing can be everything. Time is the raw material of life and the laws of life are the laws of success. Time is a capsule that contains a series of events. Thirty day claims are 10 days short of 40 and that is why 30 has a higher failure rate compared to 40. In the Bible God uses 40 (days, weeks or years) when deciding to make major changes or periods of Transition. Number 40 represents periods of transformations, test, test and test.
For example, the life of the prophet Moses, who wrote the first five books of the Bible, was divided into three forty-year segments. The first 40 years were of development and maturation. The second 40 years of his life were one of elaboration and formation. The last 40 years were to reign or lead. Moses also spent 40 days without food on Mount Sinai when he received the 10 commandments from the Lord. Noah’s flood lasted 40 days. The Children of Israel wandered 40 days in the desert before reaching the promised land. It seems that we need 40 days before we reach the promised land. Elijah the prophet also went to Mount Sinai because of the food he ate 40 days earlier to meet the Lord. The Lord Jesus fasted 40 days and 40 nights before being tempted by the devil in the desert. After the resurrection, the Lord waited 40 days on earth before ascending to heaven. The full-term pregnancy period in humans is also 40 weeks.
Yes, it takes 40 days to print the message or program your spiritual hard drive for change to occur and results to manifest. Otherwise, you get a partial result or are unsuccessful. This is why most 30 day affirmations or positive confessions fail because it is not enough to imprint the automatic behavior that empowers success.