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The vitriol directed at the LGBTQ+ community lately can feel defeating, and studies have shown that anxiety levels for queer folks have skyrocketed. But psychologists have also developed a simple technique you can do anywhere to calm yourself and grow your feelings of self-worth.
You only need your mobile device or a laptop to feel better using “positive affirmation.”
“People wish to view themselves as competent, compassionate, and worthy individuals, but their attitudes, intentions, and behaviors do not always match this ideal,” according to psychological researchers Clayton R. Critcher and David Dunning. “As such, people possess an eclectic toolkit of strategies for defending their positive self-views even when their thoughts, their behavior, or external events call those self-views into question,” they added while discussing their experiments on self-affirmations.
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