Positive Self-Talk
Negative self-talk also has to go, to be replaced with positive self-talk.
According to John Caunt (2003) you should cut yourselves some slack – questioning negative thoughts and opinions and recognising instead your positive qualities, even writing down (in the usual place) strong statements of support that help recast your set beliefs and reframe your outlook using “half full” rather than “half empty” language.
In Change Your Attitude, Bay and Macpherson implore us to overcome the negative self-talk, stating that everyone has inbuilt negative self-talk tapes they need to destroy. Instead, we should learn to compliment ourselves, they state, which is true at every level – even if you are simply recording those small but accumulating ...
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