Positive Thinking
Where you have used Rational Thinking to identify incorrect negative thinking, it can often be useful to prepare rational positive thoughts and affirmations to counter them. It can also be useful to look at the situation and see if there are any useful opportunities that are offered by it.
 
Affirmations help you to build self-confidence. By basing your affirmations on the clear, rational assessments of facts that you made using Rational Thinking,you can use them to undo the damage that negative thinking may have done to your self-confidence.

Tip:
Your affirmations will be strongest if they are specific, are expressed in the present tense and have strong emotional content..
 
Continuing the examples above, positive affirmations might be:
* Feelings of inadequacy: “I am well trained for this. I have the experience, the tools and the resources I need. I have thought through and prepared for all possible issues.
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