In this episode of Unf*ck Your Mindset, BP touches on last week’s topic about affirmation and declaration and that doing this is also doing what he calls intention and counter intention.

The reason why affirmations don’t work on most people is because it allows doubt to creep in to your mind. Most people don’t have the mental capacity to actually believe the affirmation and if you don’t believe, not only are you not going to get it but you’re actually going to attract more doubt. 

As you allow more doubt, that’s like keeping your foot on the brake. 

Like attracts like, what you put out into the universe is what you’re going to get. 

For most people their negative ball of energy is bigger than their positive ball of energy.

Your mind knows you more than you know yourself.

Your intention for your affirmation is to achieve a certain goal. However, your counter intention which is all the doubt and negativity, especially if it goes on and you’re not getting closer to your goal.

This resembles pressing down on the brake and pressing down on the gas at the same time and it makes you feel like you’re going somewhere but it doesn’t really get you anywhere. At the same time you’re continuing to feed your negative ball of energy.

 A lot of problems can come by setting that intention and counter intention and having them go at the same time. It's very important that when you're setting an intention, you remove the counter intention. If it’s bringing you that much negative counter intention, stop doing it and get your mind right then go back. 

“Know thy self and know thy enemy”, and knowing thy enemy is understanding counter intention.