Dating Advice: The 411 on Positive Self-Affirmations & Dating Success
How to Use Positive Affirmations for Dating Success
In my new PBS Special, Finding Your Own True Love I focus on the importance of loving self affirmations for dating success. Research has repeatedly shown the power of positive self-talk, which is what most of us call affirmations. Positive affirmations have been used to: change behavior in under-achieving students; increase nurses’ and doctors’ well-being and lower their stress levels; reduce breast cancer patients’ cortisol levels; and heighten athletic performance. People cope more easily when going into new social situations and are less likely to make downward social comparisons when they practice self-affirmations. Participants in one study that said self-affirmations before a new social encounter reduced their thoughts about being rejected compared with another group that focused on the party and who would be there. (more…)