"Every Day In Every Way, I'm Getting Better and Better"

This phrase is one of those that you can carry around in your pocket. It's easy to roll off your lips and you can insert it wherever you need it. What a "positive affirmation" actually accomplishes is the following:
Constant repetition of a positive statement works on the universal laws of the mind that go like this: "Whatever you repeat becomes a habit" and "What you expect to happen usually does happen".
People whose lives are full of negative chaos have learned to repeat such negative beliefs for much of their lives. Happy people tend to do the exact opposite. Try this experiment for a month. Contract with yourself that everyday when you wake up in the morning, the first thing you say is this:
"Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better".
Do not wait for everyone else to make your life happy. Just keep repeating the phrase no matter what happens out there. See what happens. Send a message back to me here after a month to report what happened.
"Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better".
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Change Your Brain, Change Your Life

I've been following the work of Dr. Daniel Amen for a few years now. He wrote the book "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life" which is really revolutionary in terms of our understanding of the amazing human brain and how to protect it, right down to not allowing kids of head-butt in playing soccer! The only problem I have with it is that the kind of testing they do at their clinics (brain scans) are extraordinarily expensive and I haven't yet figured out why no one else seems to be utilizing this amazing technology to make it more accesible for ordinary working people.
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Trust is the Most Important Thing

More people are realizing how normal and high-functioning it is to seek outside help at various times in our lives. In the beginning, just having someone else who is not emotionally involved in the situation really helps a lot. The most important thing is to find someone you can trust, establish an ongoing relationship with that therapist, even if you just pop in there once a month. The trusting relationship a person develops with their therapist makes more of an impact on the therapeutic outcome than any other factor.