{"id":135698,"date":"2026-07-10T01:55:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/?p=135698"},"modified":"2026-07-10T12:44:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:44:41","slug":"why-happiness-affirmations-feel-fake-and-how-to-make-them-actually-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/10\/why-happiness-affirmations-feel-fake-and-how-to-make-them-actually-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Happiness Affirmations Feel Fake \u2014 And How to Make Them Actually Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remez Sasson July 10, 2026  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.successconsciousness.com\/blog\/affirmations\/why-happiness-affirmations-feel-fake\/\">Why Happiness Affirmations Feel Fake \u2014 And How to Make Them Actually Work<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.successconsciousness.com\">Success Consciousness<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve heard that affirmations can help you feel happier. You try one: \u201cI am happy,\u201d \u201cjoy flows through me effortlessly,\u201d and instead of a lift, you feel a flicker of resistance, or worse, a small internal eye roll. If this has happened to you, you haven\u2019t failed at affirmations. You\u2019ve &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Why Happiness Affirmations Feel Fake \u2014 And How to Make Them Actually Work\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.successconsciousness.com\/blog\/affirmations\/why-happiness-affirmations-feel-fake\/#more-57029\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why Happiness Affirmations Feel Fake \u2014 And How to Make Them Actually Work\">Read the Article \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.successconsciousness.com\/blog\/affirmations\/why-happiness-affirmations-feel-fake\/\">Why Happiness Affirmations Feel Fake \u2014 And How to Make Them Actually Work<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.successconsciousness.com\">Success Consciousness<\/a>.<br \/>\nVisit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.successconsciousness.com\/books\/\">bookstore<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remez Sasson July 10, 2026 Why Happiness Affirmations Feel Fake \u2014 And How to Make Them Actually Work Success Consciousness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[273],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135699,"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135698\/revisions\/135699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}