u/Queasy-Preference171

I hear a lot of people say things like "You need to believe in your affirmations."

No, you don't. I mean, you can obviously believe in them, but it's not necessary.

Your subconscious doesn't know whether you think what you're saying is true or not in the 3D.

Personally, I've manifested things by robotically affirming even when I didn't believe them at all. Actually, I was like, "Nah, how can this possibly be true? You're just crazy" lol. But I continued and then it manifested in my reality.

I also think this, forcing the belief, the emotion, "otherwise it doesn't work", can be harmful because someone might start affirming, realize they don't believe it, get frustrated, and eventually give up on manifestation, thinking, "It's all bullshit."

At the end of the day, you are the operant power, so you decide what is true. If you believe you don't have to believe your affirmations, then you don't have to.

Let me know if you've ever manifested something without believing your affirmations.

I know this might sound strange to some people, but it’s what made me believe in manifestation 100%.

Yesterday, I was chatting with an AI chatbot out of boredom and made up a scenario. I told it that someone in my friend group had insulted me and that I’d found out someone had been spreading a negative rumor about me. I was just curious to see how the chatbot would respond.

Then, the very next day, I went out with my friends and found out that a girl (who doesn’t hang out with us anymore) had told someone in the group something I’d confided in her two weeks earlier, and that person had passed it on to the others. Now I feel like some of my friends are giving me dirty looks or judging me.

It’s not a big deal, though, so I’m not worried. It’ll probably blow over soon.

What are the odds that something like this would happen the very day after I came up with a similar scenario with the chatbot? I’d never experienced anything like this before, and then it happens right after I talked about it with the AI chatbot.

Maybe I should start using this as a manifestation method lol.

What do you guys think about this?

Has anything like this ever happened to anyone else?

During my current 165-day streak, I've noticed that many of the benefits of SR might come after you've felt urges to relapse but managed to resist them. Past the first 30 days, I almost never felt the urge to relapse.

Until about a week ago, I had experienced some benefits, but nothing obvious. There were two or three days when the urges were very strong and I had thoughts like "it'll be fine if I relapse anyway".

But I held on and didn't relapse.

Literally a few days later, I was walking in nature at a place I've been going to for years, and nothing special had ever happened there before. There were three guys sitting on a bench who stopped me, asked me what my favorite song was, and played it on their speaker, inviting me to sit with them, all for no apparent reason.

A few days after that, I was downtown with some friends. I grabbed a coffee at a café, and out of nowhere the barista gave me a discount, something that had never happened to me before in my life.

Sure, these could just be coincidences, but what are the odds?

I don't know how to explain it, but something about SR seems to bring good things your way.

So if you're going through a period of strong urges, hold on. Do something to distract yourself, because it might be a kind of test and if you manage to pass it, it could lead you toward bigger and better things.

I'm 144 days into SR and lately I’ve been reflecting on something that goes beyond the physical or psychological benefits people usually talk about.

Have you ever felt like SR attracts positive events or opportunities into your life? Not necessarily in an obvious or spectacular way, but those kinds of things that at first glance seem ordinary or random, and only later do you realize that they were actually turning points that completely changed your life for the better.

It could be anything: a new job opportunity that came out of nowhere, a new relationship with a girl beginning out of nowhere, an improvement in your health or physical condition (in my case, after starting SR I felt naturally driven to start working out, something I’d never done in my life), a financial change, or simply finding yourself in the right place at the right time.

I’m curious to know if you think SR somehow puts you in a better position to receive these things or even attracts them. And if you’ve only connected the dots by looking back.

I found this video, which I actually think was made about heroin addiction, but I believe it applies just as much to people addicted to PMO. The first time you do it, it feels so good, but then you keep doing it even though the actual pleasure fades. What do you think about it?