2.25pm: You can listen to Gordon Brown's Downing Street statement yourself here.
No sergeant will take that statement — you, the detective, take the statement yourself, and then you type it up and get the signatures on it and photocopy it and file it and all the rest.
No sergeant will take that statement you, the detective, take the statement yourself, and then you type it up and get the signatures on it and photocopy it and file it and all the rest.
Read the whole statement yourself, and see if anything in it even remotely constitutes any such "threat".
Stand in front of a mirror, look yourself in the eye and make affirmative statements to yourself.
After statements from yourself, your representative and/or the Home Office presenting officer, the case is decided by an independent judge (the 'special adjudicator').
You can — and should — read the statements for yourself.
There are also all sorts of cognitive strategies that can be taught such as picturing previous successes at crucial moments or repeating positive statements to yourself.
Affirmations are simply positive statements about yourself and what you can achieve.
You were not born with internal negative statements about yourself, you learned, practiced and perfected them and you can do the same with creative comebacks.
