I think that affirmations would almost certainly work best said in your own native language.
My mother tongue is English and when I say the word 'vinegar' just once or even think the word, hear it or read it, my salivary glands always salivate because, when we eat food pickled in vinegar, the acetic acid in the vinegar tends to makes us salivate quite a lot...It's a Pavlov's dogs-type anticipatory physical reaction/learned response that my subconscious (automatically) causes. However, I learned/studied German and Russian at school and know and remember from those days that the German word for vinegar is 'Essig' and the Russian word is 'уксус', but thinking them, saying them, reading them or hearing those words doesn't make me salivate at all. What 'gets' to my brain and can create a physical reaction/response is my mother tongue. (Maybe it would be different if I spoke German and Russian regularly - or had studied them when I was at junior school, rather than just at senior school when I was older - but I have my doubts about that.)
How is it for you - do you salivate when you say 'eddike' (if Danish is your mother tongue) and 'vinegar'? Or, if neither gives you a physical response, you could perhaps test things out using a word in your mother tongue that does usually create a physical response for you when you say it or think about it, and compare it to the English word for the same thing.
My mother tongue is English and when I say the word 'vinegar' just once or even think the word, hear it or read it, my salivary glands always salivate because, when we eat food pickled in vinegar, the acetic acid in the vinegar tends to makes us salivate quite a lot...It's a Pavlov's dogs-type anticipatory physical reaction/learned response that my subconscious (automatically) causes. However, I learned/studied German and Russian at school and know and remember from those days that the German word for vinegar is 'Essig' and the Russian word is 'уксус', but thinking them, saying them, reading them or hearing those words doesn't make me salivate at all. What 'gets' to my brain and can create a physical reaction/response is my mother tongue. (Maybe it would be different if I spoke German and Russian regularly - or had studied them when I was at junior school, rather than just at senior school when I was older - but I have my doubts about that.)
How is it for you - do you salivate when you say 'eddike' (if Danish is your mother tongue) and 'vinegar'? Or, if neither gives you a physical response, you could perhaps test things out using a word in your mother tongue that does usually create a physical response for you when you say it or think about it, and compare it to the English word for the same thing.
Not that I remember. I've got their books on kindle and have just done a search for you using appropriate key words to double check and there's nothing specific about mother tongue language compared to learned language in either Kehoe's book or Helmstetter's book. Kehoe, however, does mention about one's mother tongue being 'imprinted' in one's brain.
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