One long-time language arts teacher I know concentrates on specific micro-affirmations (up to three) on mornings when she is feeling tired.
The more concrete, detailed and specific your affirmations are, the better you can visualize them, the more effective they can be.
When you caught such a disparagement, you were supposed to banish it and then replace it with a specific encouragement, an affirmation of yourself that you firmly believed.
And "Aristotle" meant to Aquinas not so much an individual author as a specific worldview, namely, the affirmation of natural reality as a whole, including the bodies and natural cognitive powers of human beings.
In Shochet's study, students practised specific skills including listening, affirmation, non-verbal communication and other skills.
When the plant part used is not the seed, often human selection has favoured the maintenance of high levels of heterozygosity (Zohary and Hopf, 2001; Hancock, 2004) or the affirmation of specific QTLs.
It is a personal journey, and could involve prayer, meditation, affirmations, or specific spiritual practices that are meaningful.
Whereas some have argued that we acknowledge the validity of certain insights, values and norms (Ikäheimo/Laitinen 2007, 34 37), others continue to use the term "acknowledgment" with regard to persons but intend it to denote something less ambitious than the wholesale affirmation of their specific identity (Cavell 1969; Markell 2003).
During a match, the biased behaviour of the crowd is certainly a noisy affirmation of a specific identity, but it is also a condition of taking part in the excitement". Bromberger notes the group identity of the crowd and camaraderie that immediately takes place when cheering for the same side.
He said Church leaders were not trying to make "general affirmations of a specific psychological nature" and offered Church statistics that showed that two-thirds of incidents of abuse of adolescents by priests involved homosexual priests.
If your partner's love language is words of affirmation, he advised, praise specific acts, like taking out the trash or having a good attitude.
