How best to get out of traffic jams

Marcie Good Contributing Writer

“YOU see that red car?

That’s mine,” savs Anne Marie Evers, pointing to one parked at the end of a row on Lonsdale Avenue. “People say they have trou- ble parking here. | don’t. 1 just order one up.”

That’s the power of posi- tive thinking. The Affirmations: Your Passport to Happiness, teaches a tech- nique that she says can be successful in resolving prob- ems in relationships, carcers, health, and even traffic.

She explains in her book how the power of positive thinking can help when she is in a traffic jam: “1 simply say, with great feeling, ‘Clear front and back.’” This exer- cise, she says, has helped her catch planes on time and avoid frustration. It can also help her, apparently, find

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Evers, whose father was a Pentecostal minister, preach- es hee philosophy with fer- vour. She has worked on her ideas tor more chan 30 vears, and first published Affirmations in 1989. The fourth edition of the book was published recently and Evers has spoken on televi- sion and radio tlk shaws about the technique.

An affirmation is simply goal or a prayer, a “ma firm™ of something that you want to happen.

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She adds, however, that affirmations must be proper- ly done. Phat means the per- son must add “for the good ofall concerned.” They must never be done to hurt any- one else.

Affirmations must also have a 50% believability fac-

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they will have a 10- impact on their lite. and visualizing, however, bumps that success up ote “05% — impact. Writing, visualizing, feeling, and focissing on your affir: mations, Evers guarantees, will make a 100% impact.

She arrived at those fig- ures, she said, through a lot of trial and error. She tried just reading her own atirma- dons, and fogad they didn’r work as well. She abo receives many letters from people who have read) her book and tried her method, and vive her feedback on how well it has worked.

“The exciting thing is, it doesn’t just: work for me,” she said. “It works for everv- one.

People tell her how the method has helped them deal with illness, financial prob- lems, and relationship fail- ures. Those letters, she s: are the biggest reward 5

ives from her work.

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trsal Mind, her Christian influence is evi- dent. The affirmations are similar to devotions, she says, and she stresses the need for faith. She also puts a strong emphasis on forgivene encouraging people to for: give everything and everyone who has ever hart them.

erful,” she writes. “When you forgive, vour energy changes ‘the physical struc ture of vour cells and your DNA. When you | are

mbroiled in guilt, shame or depression, vou close down the energy systems of your

She also has strong evangelical belief in’ | work, and endless enthu

in the world,” she said. “But you know not everyone is ready to listen, The time will come for everyone.”

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