Affirmations Can Be Psychologically Beneficial

Richard Wiseman: Affirmations can be psychologically beneficial when they're followed by action. He says there's something called learned optimism, which is sort of the opposite of learned helplessness. In some ways, he says, it's like the opposite oflearned helplessness. But guess what? Learned optimism as a coping strategy is highly correlated with happy people privilegedPeople are more likely to believe that good things will happen because their life circumstances allow them to do so.