for example if you're looking in the mirror and you wanna see a smile in the mirror, you must first smile so that the mirror will reflect you smiling. the assumption always comes first. affirmations are thoughts. affirming/thinking = the same thing. if you have hot and cold thoughts then you’re going to experience a hot and cold reality, so to manifest what you want you must affirm and not contradict yourself. contradicting yourself can look like ; 

affirming and then looking for it (this is dumb because your reality is looking towards you so it can reflect what YOU want)

so in short all you have to do to apply the law of assumption is tell yourself you have what you want, think as if it’s already true. understand that this works because whatever you tell yourself is true without contradiction MUST be true. anything else is so irrelevant.  

tell yourself u have what u want, think as if its already true without contradicting yourself