If you want to influence your emotional mind, don’t argue with it. Instead, overwhelm it with positive affirmations.  The inner skeptic is massively susceptible to the power of positive affirmations.

When reason tells you one thing and emotions tell you another, your emotions will hold sway in the short term.  It’s not that the power of reason is weak.  Rather, it’s that the power of emotion is so strong.  When the two are in conflict, emotion emerges the winner because it overwhelms the rational mind.

The inner emotional skeptic isn’t interested in logic; it’s more susceptible to the power of repetition than it is to the power of reason.  If you repeat anything enough times, the inner skeptic slowly has a change of heart, and it changes the way you feel. 

Affirmations aren’t aimed at your rational mind.  Instead, they take aim on your emotional mind to push it in a positive direction.  They transform your life by putting good things into your heart.  Repeating affirmations increases their power, and the more times you repeat them, the sooner you feel better.

Affirmations are especially effective in the hearts of people who have a personal relationship with God based on love.  God’s love is the most powerful force in the universe, and when his love floods your heart and mind, it heals your damaged emotions.  Affirmations help you focus on God’s love and practice his healing presence.

Excerpt from :

Zero Tolerance To Negative Thinking : Good-by Depression - Hello Positive Mind

David J Abbott M.D.