{"id":783,"date":"2011-12-15T15:50:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T20:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=783"},"modified":"2011-12-15T15:50:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T20:50:16","slug":"power-of-affirmation-positive-self-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/15\/power-of-affirmation-positive-self-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"POWER OF AFFIRMATION &#038; POSITIVE SELF-TALK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good way to create positive self talk is through affirmations.\u00a0 An affirmation is a positive statement that represents your desired condition or outcome.\u00a0 Interesting enough, your subconscious mind does&#8217;t know the difference between a real experience &amp; a vividly imagined\u00a0 &#8220;mental&#8221; experience.\u00a0\u00a0 World-class athletes understand the value of affirmation &amp; recognize the impact of their mental preparation on their physical performance.\u00a0 They use the power of positive affirmation to reduce anxiety &amp; increase their expectation of achievement.\u00a0 To be of maximum benefit an affirmation must be simple, encouraging &amp; stated in the present tense.\u00a0 By repeating an affirmation over &amp; over again it becomes embedded in the subconscious mind.\u00a0 A positive affirmation might be &#8220;I take good care of my clients &amp; they show their appreciation by referring their friends to me&#8221;.\u00a0 Say in the present tense &amp; say each morning &amp; evening before falling asleep.\u00a0 Feel the emotions associated with the affirmation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good way to create positive self talk is through affirmations.\u00a0 An affirmation is a positive statement that represents your desired condition or outcome.\u00a0 Interesting enough, your subconscious mind does&#8217;t know the difference between a real experience &amp; a vividly imagined\u00a0 &#8220;mental&#8221; experience.\u00a0\u00a0 World-class athletes understand the value of affirmation &amp; recognize the impact of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}