Mind Matters

   What Are Positive Affirmations? For those of you who aren’t familiar with the benefits of positive affirmations, I’d like to explain a little about them. An affirmation is really anything you say or think. A lot of what we normally say and think is quite negative and doesn’t create good experiences for us. We have to retrain our thinking and speaking into positive patterns if we want to change our lives. An affirmation opens the door. It’s a beginning point on the path to change. In essence, you’re saying to your subconscious mind: “I am taking responsibility. I am aware that there is something I can do to change.” When I talk about doing affirmations, I mean consciously choosing words that will either help eliminate something from your life or help create something new in your life. Every thought you think and every word you speak is an affirmation. All of our self-talk, our internal dialogue, is a stream of affirmations. You’re using affirmations every moment whether y...

Morning Affirmations To Start Your Day Our thoughts play a big and important role in our overall success and happiness, it’s important to find ways to improve our mindset. Affirmations are a powerful way to improve your mindset on a daily basis and research have shown that they can increase our feelings of As Dr. David Schechter, author of Think Away Your Pain and The Mindbody Workbook explains: “Just as we do daily physical exercise to get stronger, affirmations can be thoughts of as exercise for our mind/brain.”   Positive self-talk is a research-backed method of rising to the upper echelons of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs: self-esteem and self-actualization. Social scientist Claude Steele was the first to propose the theory of self-affirmation, where if people can feel relatively positive about themselves in one arena, they can better tolerate a threat to their self-integrity in another. More recently, MRI evidence suggests neural pathways are increased when people pr...