1. Life Skills
The Art of Using Affirmations
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2. What negative things might we
think about ourselves?
• I don’t like myself
• I don’t have any friends
• I’m ugly
• I’m fat!
• I hate myself
• “ I can’t do it”
• “I’m no good at anything”
• TASK: Recreate these
examples of negative self
talk into positive self
talk/affirmations.
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3. Turn the negatives into positive
affirmations
For instance:
• ‘I like myself’
• ‘I have friends’
• ‘I’m pretty’
• ‘I’m a healthy weight’
• ‘I deserve to be loved’
• ‘I love myself’
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4. The Art of Using Affirmations to
Create The Life You Really Want
Identify even more uplifting alternative affirmations to
those above:
For instance:
• ‘I like myself more and more each day’
• ‘I always have healthy, positive friends who are good for
me and supportive’
• ‘It’s wonderful how I get prettier and prettier each day’
• ‘I always eat healthy food to create my healthy ideal
weight for my body.’
• ‘I love myself more and more each day.’
• ‘The more I love myself, the more loving I become.’
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5. The Art of Using Affirmations
• The brain can only deal
with one thought at a
time, negative or positive.
• Which will you choose?
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6. “If you think you can, you’re right! If you
think you can’t, you’re right!”
Henry Ford
• Our mind will believe whatever we keep
telling it.
• In order for us to change from a negative
mindset to a positive mindset, we need to
re-train our mind and feed it with lots of
affirmations/positive self talk, over and
over again.
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7. The Art of Using Affirmations to
Create The Life You Really Want
Affirmations are created by using the
3P’s:
• Affirmations must be Positive
• Affirmations must be in the Present
Tense
• The affirmation must be in the First
Person, i.e. ‘I’
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8. What areas of your life do you
want to improve?
School
Health Friends
ME
Financial Home
Careers Relationships
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9. What is the difference between having
your affirmations and being big headed?
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10. What is the difference between having
your affirmations and being big headed?
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