Self-affirmations—brief exercises in which people reflect on their core values, identity and positive traits—can increase people's general well-being and make them happier in small but significant ...

Let’s try a quick exercise. The table below lists 15 values that most people find important. Select the two values that are most important in your life and think about why they’re important to you. It ...

Self-affirmations are effective in boosting mood and easing anxiety, evidence shows Benefits from self-affirmation exercises last days or weeks Adults benefit more than teens from self-affirmations ...

Self-affirmations can help increase your self-worth and motivation. With regular practice, you can shift your focus toward your strengths and adapt to new circumstances more easily. Self-affirmation ...

We all go through difficult times, make mistakes, or say the wrong thing sometimes. In these situations, our inner critic often takes over, scolding us and leaving us feeling angry, upset, ...

Providing teenagers opportunities to affirm positive aspects of their identities can help bolster their self-esteem over time and ease transitions to high school, new Cornell psychology research finds ...

At some point in your life, when you were feeling down, you may have been told to just “stay positive!” And you probably thought: that’s certainly easier said than done. Positivity doesn’t always come ...

Key Takeaways Self-renaming leverages neuroplasticity and self-affirmation principles to support confidence and positive self-perception through established psychological mechanisms Research shows ...

In the 1990s, comedian—now U.S. Sen.—Al Franken made the line, “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!” part of the national lexicon with the creation of the fictional ...

The beginning of each new day is considered by psychologists and experts on personal well-being to be one of the most ...

That is quite a powerful response to a short exercise and shows why value affirmation can have such a profound effect on students’ performance years later. Given the low cost of such an ...