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Stress Is Hurting You! 5 Proven Steps To Reverse Its Effects: Deepak Chopra

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

CHAPTER

The Role of Affirmations and Positive Self-Talk in Healing

A lot of books in Instagram will say, look in the mirror and say nice things yourself. Yeah, it doesn't work. It's mental. Mind is weak. You have to go deeper. To say, if you're trying to force yourself to be positive, that's exasperating. That's very stressful. But instead of forcing yourself to bepositive, you observe your thoughts. You can't have one without the other. In biology, there's something called apoptosis. Programs cellular death. When a cell forgets to die, it becomes cancer. A cancer cell doesn't die when it was supposed to. Normally, our cells are dying constantly so you can be born again.

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