Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Many people see affirmations as magical thinking. Positive self-talk can help during the tougher times of life and we have some you can say these without cringing.
“Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.” —Ruth Bader Ginsburg “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”
“Affirmations are positive statements someone says to themselves that can help shift their thoughts and behaviors,” Caroline Fenkel, an adolescent mental health expert and the chief clinical ...
Self-affirmation theory is a psychological theory that focuses on how individuals adapt to information or experiences that are threatening to their self-concept. Claude Steele originally popularized self-affirmation theory in the late 1980s, [1] [2] and it remains a well-studied theory in social psychological research.
The Power of Positive Thinking: A Practical Guide to Mastering the Problems of Everyday Living is a 1952 self-help book by American minister Norman Vincent Peale.It provides anecdotal "case histories" of positive thinking using a biblical approach, and practical instructions which were designed to help the reader achieve a permanent and optimistic attitude.
Individuals with low self-esteem who made future tense affirmations (e.g. "I will") saw positive effects. [7] Some studies have found that self-affirmations, which involve writing about one's core values rather than repeating a positive self-statement, can improve performance under stress. [8]
The character was popular enough to spawn a 1992 book, I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!:Daily Affirmations with Stuart Smalley.The book keeps in line with the concept of the character and is presented (tongue-in-cheek) as a legitimate day-to-day affirmation book.
Affirmations or positive polarity items (PPIs) are expressions that are rejected by negation, usually escaping the scope of negation. [4] PPIs in the literature have been associated with speaker oriented adverbs, as well as expressions similar to some, already, and would rather. [4] Affirmative sentences work in opposition to negations.