They get you to focus on either what is good about you, your environment, or your behavior, or what is bad about you, your environment, or your behavior. An affirmation in the form of a question is 300 or 400 times more effective and will literally train your brain to translate the affirmations into your behavior. Why Questions are More Powerful than Affirmations Brains learn quickly to move in directions. Questions direct the mind. They divide experience and lead our attention.
Questions demand an answer.
And since it is a question which our brain may not know the answer to yet, it will search to give us an answer. If, when we ask the question, we include more of what we want in our life, our brain will search to provide us with those things which we included in our question and the answer. Asking yourself questions is one of the greatest things you can learn for yourself. Questions set your reality. Think about it.