How to start:
· Choose a positive affirmation
· Take deep breaths, breathe in through your nose, breathe out through your mouth
· Feel your lungs fill up as your breathe in, feel your body sink as you breathe out
Technique:
Relax your breathing to your normal breathing and begin to repeat a positive affirmation. You may do 1 or 2 in a cycle or focus on just one. Different affirmations will be useful at different times. Here are a few suggestions.
• I am my own superhero
• I am in charge of how I feel and today I am choosing happiness
• I am enough, I have enough, I do enough
• I have the power to create change
• My creativity has a purpose in my life and in the world
• I can, I will, Watch me
• I am kind, I am strong, I am beautiful
• I work hard and I know my worth
• There is something good in every day
If you find your thoughts wander, gently bring your attention back to your affirmation and continue. After 5 minutes, take a deep breath, have a gentle stretch and gently open your eyes.
Useful times to use:
· Use in times of self-doubt to overcome the negativity and be more positive
· Use daily to help overcome the negativity bias of your brain
· Use regularly and have a stock few to repeat to boost your confidence
· To have a bigger impact say out loud, then your brain hears the affirmation as well as saying it
