Positive Affirmations: Too Good to Be True?

There is nothing wrong with positive thinking and goals, but it goes off the rails when it becomes what therapists call, "magical thinking".

Why?

Two reasons.

First, magical thinking instills the belief that the believer does not have to act in order to achieve their goals. In other words, their mental incantations are sufficient to obtain their desires. This then becomes a road block to actually achieving goals, due to a lack productive action taking.

Second, like all of "new age" wicca, these outlet mall practitioners of manifestation have little idea as to what forces they are calling upon.

Here, there is a great distinction between "magical thinking", which does nothing at all save, perhaps, lend focus to desired goals, and those who invoke real entities who can act upon the physical world.

Many so-called churches are now teaching demonology by way of prosperity preaching.

Christ warned about this long ago.

People are playing with hellfire and post it all over tiktok, dragging others with them.

If you knew even a little bit about demonology, you would not dabble in this.

You, an eternal soul, are not meant to worship the physical world.

I have always seen affirmations as mostly lying to yourself or magical thinking. However, you made a leap to demonology that doesn't seem justified to me at all. After all, affirmations are essentially just one person talking to themself. Where does the demon come in there?