Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Durgadas Allon Duriel, author of The Little Work: Magic to Transform Your Everyday Life and the new Worthy As You Are. Though affirmations are often associated with spirituality, their power is also evident in psychotherapeutic settings. One of the most popular methods of psychotherapy today, cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on the fact that how we think influences how we feel and perceive reality. Affirmations harness this fact by attempting to influence our perception of reality through shifting how we think. To help build motivation for affirming, it can be beneficial to consider the ways affirmations can aid us, across how we