My life is wonderful in every way I can imagine

Yesterday evening I was reading my You Can Heal Your Life book by Louise L. Hay. One of the exercises she suggests is saying "I approve of myself" over and over. Here is the excerpt:

For the next month say over and over to yourself, "I approve of myself."
Do this three or four hundred times a day at least. No, it's not too many times. When you are worrying, you go over your problem at least that many times. Let "I approve of myself" become your walking mantra, something you just say over and over and over to yourself almost nonstop. Saying, "I approve of myself" is a guaranteed way to bring up everything buried in your consciousness that is in opposition.

Two things about this struck me. One: thinking of this as a "mantra". I've never known how mantras work but have always found the idea to be interesting. Two: this exercise being able to bring up everything that is buried in your consciousness. I wondered "what am I supposed to do when all of those things that are buried in my subconscious come up?".

On my drive home this evening, I began doing some affirmations. I started with "I love and accept myself", "I forgive those who I perceived to have hurt me", and some others. I said each several times as I have been doing lately. Then I began to get a little pumped. I came up with several more and continued, saying each out loud several times and with feeling. I really meant each thing I said. Eventually I just focused mostly on one, "My live is wonderful in every way I can imagine". I said it over, and over, and over, and over. I said it the entire drive home, occassionally saying a different itteration of the same thing, "In every way, my life is wonderful," "Everything in my life is wonderful," etc. And every time I said it, I really felt it, and I began to feel so happy knowing that this is the truth for my life. But here's the really cool part, as I repeated it, my mind would think of something to try to tell me why my life isn't wonderful, but because I was saying this--believing this--again and again, the thought (belief) would immediately pass. It would just dissolve away. And then some other doubt or fear or negativity would surface, and same as the others, immediately and gently faded away.

So just as Louise had said, this was my mantra and all sorts of things surfaced. And the greatest part is I didn't have to figure out what to do with these things that surfaced, they just took care of themself.