Do affirmations really work?

I've read many conflicting articles on both sides of the argument. The self help sites and writers all support the theory that affirmations work. The scientific community are of course skeptical. One article written on the Positive Physchology website states...there is no conculsive evidence to support the theory that affirmations work. What's a guy to do?

I guess the logical thing to do is to test it ourselves? I found a ton of sites that give you suggested wording etc. All embraced it's effectiveness. What I found little of was evidence of success. I remain optomistic and will therefore test it for myself.

One article that I found interesting was written by Scott Adams, he's the guy who writes the Dilbert comic strip. He claims he was highly sceptical but tried it out and found as he describes it, amazing success. He was able to manifest everything he wrote affirmations about except winning a Nobel prize.

Scott's method was to write out his affirmation 15 times a day. This reminded me of when the teacher would have you write out on the chalk board....I will not poke Billy in the back of head just for the fun of it....a hundred times. I guess that worked as well, as I never poked Billy in class again (ok, maybe in the school ground, but never in class).

So I'm going to try Scott's method with a Truthteller twist! I'll write out my affirmation 15 times a day for one full month. However, since I'm going to choose a really big affirmation, I'm going to employ a creative idea with it. As I said in the previous article, by writing with your opposite hand you engage your creative (right) side of the brain. That should give me a double whammy! It should only take 5-10 minutes of my day, so why don't you join me. A few minutes a day is worth the potential windfall. (Please don't write...I'm going to win the lottery, I already tried that one without success)

No, I'm not going to tell you what my affirmation is! That's my little secret, however, if successful I'll be dancing down the street yelling at the top of my lungs...YAHOO!

Eduardo

P.S. A friend just correctly pointed out to me, that my magic cards are a form of affirmation. So now I'll have a triple whammy, thanks.