Positive affirmations

"Positive affirmations are phrases or words that people say to themselves to replace negative thoughts with positive ones. They can help people feel more motivated, confident, and encourage positive changes in their lives."

Source: Best practices for positive affirmations

Source: What are positive affirmations?

Source: What are positive affirmations?

Articles on positive affirmations:

• Positive Affirmations: Too Good to Be True?, Healthline.com
• Using Affirmations, Mindtools.com.

Science and positive affirmations:

• Do Positive Affirmations Work? What Experts Say, Cleveland Clinic.
• How to make self-affirmation work, based on science, Washington Post, 2022.
• Do Positive Affirmations Work? A Look at the Science by Steve Rose, PhD.
• Is There Science Behind Positive Daily Affirmations?.
• 5 Steps to Make Affirmations Work for You by Ronald Alexander Ph.D.
• The psychology of change: self-affirmation and social psychological intervention, PubMed.
• Reinstating the Resourceful Self: When and How Self-Affirmations Improve Executive Performance of the Powerless, PubMed.
• Self-affirmation activates brain systems associated with self-related processing and reward and is reinforced by future orientation, PubMed.
• Understanding self-affirmation effects: The moderating role of self-esteem, PubMed.

Videos:

• Science/application of self-affirmations - playlist.