The Scientific Reason Affirmations Work
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7 min readApr 15, 2019
Anyone who’s read even a little self-help has come across New Age-y talk of vibrations. The theory goes like this: Everything in the world has a ‘vibration.’ Good things, like wealth and love and fabulous skin, have a ‘high vibration.’ Bad things, like drug addiction and the IRS auditing you, have a ‘low vibration.’
“Judgment is a negative frequency.”
Stephen Richards