By 1984, Hay had included her "Heal Your Body" list in her book "You Can Heal Your Life," which also contained such affirmations as "it is essential that we stop worrying about money and stop resenting our bills".
Cancer isn't cute, and the selfies make fundraising as much about the poster's need for self-affirmation as it is about the cancer itself.
Our conversation meandered on, my only contributions being grunts of affirmation as I tried to keep track with his racing thoughts.
In front of me were some 4000 men and women who yelled in affirmation as I proudly declared that I am a woman.
One might think that a denial of the common element view is at least as committal as its affirmation, for it involves a substantive metaphysical claim about the nature of perceptual experience.
Without denying reality, you can affirm your personal assets, such as transferable skills, and you can repeat these affirmations as often as necessary.
Maybe do affirmations as well.
As Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant once wrote in a bracing essay on the power of hatred: "I retain the old-fashioned belief that pop music is meant to be a challenge to society as well as an affirmation of it.
To give herself a mental edge, she practices visualization exercises in which she envisions herself defeating her opponent and routinely repeats such affirmations as, "I'm the best; I enjoy winning; I'm ambitious and self-assured".
The book starts out as a study of parents raising "difficult" children, and ends up as an affirmation of what it is to be human.
The novel's huge success stemmed, it may be, as much from its vivid religious affirmations as from its attack on slavery.
