Emily McDonald

They just didn't make him feel good.

He just didn't really believe them.

But...

you know, he actually unlocked something where he started to, he fixed up this old jet ski and he started to go out on the little like pond or something or lake next to his house every morning.

And he listened to my affirmations on a speaker on his jet ski.

And he found that they became all of a sudden so much more believable.

And we'd really do, I mean, resistance lowers in our mind of the logical mind when we're moving forward, like forward movement.

That's why walking is so helpful for processing information.

So that's actually how I started was I would go out in the morning every single morning on a walk and listen to affirmations in my headphones while I walked every morning.

And so that can actually lower resistance to sort of

Absorbing these affirmations, but then also I think he unlocked another component which was that he was already both boosting dopamine from being on his jet He was having fun but also right it's so much easier to believe in the good when you're having fun Play right exactly and play is so good for your brain That's why I always say like activating your whimsy is a pro level brain hack and just doing everything with fun and that's something that I do all the time like especially when I was writing my book and

where I would be like, how can I make this more fun?

Because it makes it so much easier to start.

So yeah, I think also, you know, that's where dancing and doing affirmations or listening to, there's this one YouTube track that I really like, and it's like a song with this funky beat, but it's like funny.

It's hilarious.

I think it's Bob Baker.

And it's a funky beat.

It's like, it's just hilarious.

And it's hard to take seriously, but that's the point.

And the affirmations, it all of a sudden becomes fun and it becomes way easier to absorb.