No, St. John birthed the idea of affirmations after his own attempts at manifesting with affirmations had seemingly been fruitless, experiencing great resistance and disbelief when saying out loud that positive present tense sentences. And he pondered, if human thought is the process of asking and searching for answers to questions, why are we going around making statements we don't believe? I somehow knew that if we started asking ourselves better questions instead of saying statements we didn't believe, it would change everything