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Using Personal Computers for Affirmations and Autosuggestions Vladimir V. Stankovic Computer Science Department Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Aleksandra Medvedeva 14 Nis, Serbia email: [email protected] Abstract—In the last several decades there has been a revolution going on in the self-development area. Every day it becomes more and more clear that one of the main things influencing the quality of people's lives is their way of thinking. One's mental attitude influences not only their mental aspects like self-esteem and confidence but it outspreads to literally all areas of life including health, relationships or financial situation. Among other various tools, one of the widely spread techniques for enhancing one's life is using affirmations or autosuggestions. This paper exhibits the origins and various uses of affirmations in several life areas and tries to give a simple scientific explanation about how and why affirmations work. It then shows how this process can be alleviated and accelerated with the help of personal computers. A computer application developed by the author that serves this purpose is also described. Keywords-affirmations; autosuggestion; personal computer; computer application;

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INTRODUCTION

In the last several decades there has been a revolution going on in the self-development area. Every day it becomes more and more clear that one of the main things influencing the quality of people's lives is their way of thinking i.e. their mental attitude. It is obvious that one's mental attitude influences aspects like self-esteem and confidence. People's experiences also show that their mental attitude may also have a huge impact on various areas of their lives like health, relationships or financial situation. In more and more medical studies control groups (groups that did not get the medicament and were not aware of that fact) show significant recoveries just like the group that was really treated. This is well known as placebo effect. Athletes and top sportsmen emphasize the importance of their mental training. Let us, for example, remind of the four minute mile myth. For a long time it was believed that it is impossible for a human being to run a mile for less than 4 minutes. When Roger Bannister finally managed to achieve this in 1954, the 'four minute barrier' has since been broken by many male athletes, and is now the standard of all male professional middle distance runners. In the last 50 years the mile record has been lowered by almost 17 seconds. The internet expansion enabled us to become familiar with many ordinary men and women who managed to make breakthroughs in their previously mediocre lives and achieve huge success in various aspects of their lives. All of them say that the most important thing is one's mental attitude. Among other various tools they have used, one of the widely spread techniques is using affirmations. In this paper we will see the origin of

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affirmations and their various uses in several life areas and we will try to give a simple scientific explanation about how and why using affirmations work. Then we will see how this process can be alleviated and accelerated by using personal computers and finally we will see a description of a computer application that serves this purpose, developed by the author of this paper. The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 discuses the origins of affirmations. Section 3 describes using affirmations for improving confidence, health and financial situation and section 4 gives a scientific explanation about how and why affirmations work. Section 5 describes drawbacks of affirmations and difficulties of their using in the standard way and introduces the possible use of personal computers for transcending these drawbacks and difficulties and section 6 describes the developed computer application. Section 7 is the conclusion. II.

ORIGINS OF AFFIRMATIONS

The man who is considered to be the father of affirmations and autosuggestions is Emile Coue [1, 2, 3]. He was a French pharmacist and self-trained psychologist, who lived in the early 1900s. He operated a free clinic in Nancy (France), where students came from around the world to learn his autosuggestion techniques, many of them having tried various orthodox medical treatments for their illnesses. Coue combined his discovery of the placebo effect (which had no name at that point) with the medical hypnotism that he had previously learned. He had discovered that the human mind had a greater influence over the human body than had previously been suspected and learned that where a physical cure failed, a hypnotic cure could be effective, at least for a little while. Unfortunately, the patients tended to suffer a relapse. However, when these patients added a special affirmation to their regular habits, the cures became permanent. Not only that, but secondary illnesses miraculously cleared up on their own. The main postulate of his method was that if you repeat a statement, orally or mentally, with feeling for about 15 minutes a day and do it consecutively for 21 days it will become a command for your brain, which it will execute. His most famous sentence, which helped many people to heal from various illnesses, was "Every day in every way I'm getting better and better". This affirmation was recited 20 times every morning right after waking up and 20 times every night right before going to bed. It was to be recited verbally, softly, with faith but without force or effort.

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Coue was a scientist and requested those who used his methods to also act like scientists, so he requested from his students to keep records of their sessions. There are lots of noted cases in which his methods have helped people to improve their medical conditions, or to heal completely, including various illnesses such as: tuberculosis, asthma, bronchitis, eczema, gout, rheumatism, kidney disease, neuralgia, neurasthenia, varicose ulcers, sinus problems, heart disease, paralysis, etc. III.

USING AFFIRMATIONS IN VARIOUS ASPECTS OF PEOPLE'S LIVES

In this section we will consider using affirmations in three different aspects of people's lives: self-confidence, health and financial situation. A. Usinf affirmations for improving self-confidence Although Emil Coue started using affirmations for improving health conditions, today affirmations are mainly used for improving self-confidence. Coue himself was not focused only on illnesses, but was advising people to use affirmations on whatever subject they wish. Today there is practically no self-improvement guru that has not used affirmations to improve their own confidence or is not recommending people to use affirmations for improving confidence. In this paper we will focus on Susan Jeffers [4, 5, 6], since in [4] she describes an exercise that she uses on her seminars, which may be considered to be a sort of scientific proof that affirmations work. First a volunteer (preferably a male) stands in front of the class and straightens his arm in front of him with a job to strengthen his muscles and not let the arm be pushed down. Then Jeffers tries to push his arm down without success (since he is physically stronger than her). After that the volunteer rests his arm, closes his eyes and repeats in his head the sentence "I am a weak and worthless person" 10 times. His job is to really feel this while saying it as if it was true. After that he straightens his arm again and has to use all the power he has to stop Jeffers from pushing his arm down, but without success. She always manages to push his arm down. The volunteer is often surprised and wants to repeat the exercise but the result is the same. After that he is to repeat the sentence "I am a strong and worthy person" and this time he is strong again, even stronger than the first time. If this is repeated with various combinations of the positive and negative sentence the results are always the same - he is strong after the positive and weak after the negative sentence. This is also true even when Jeffers does not know whether the sentence was positive or negative while pushing the arm. This experiment shows that the words we say (or think) have an amazing effect on our minds. Based on these findings, Jeffers advises that everybody should pay attention to what phrases they use in their everyday talk, and introduces a special "From Pain to Power" vocabulary [4]. It shows which negative phrases are to be replaced with proper positive ones. For example, "I can't" is to be replaced with "I won't", "It's not my mistake" is to be replaced with "It's completely my responsibility", "This is a problem" with "This is an opportunity", "Life is a struggle" with "Life is an adventure", etc.

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B. Using affirmations for improving health Even though there are lots of written cases of Coue's students having success in improving their health conditions using affirmations and autosuggestion, the most famous person that introduced using affirmations for improving health is Louise Hay [7-10]. She is an internationally known leader in the self-help field. She herself was diagnosed with cancer and managed to heal from it. Her key message is "If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed". Hay says that our subconscious mind accepts whatever we choose to believe. What you choose to think about yourself and about life becomes true for you. If you want to believe that life is lonely and that nobody loves you, then that is what you will find in your world. However, if you are willing to release that belief and to affirm for yourself the affirmation "Love is everywhere and I am loving and lovable" and if you hold on to that new affirmation and repeat it often, then it will become true for you. Loving people will come into your life and you will find yourself easily expressing love to others. Hay explains that kids learn how to feel about themselves and about life by the reactions of the adults around them. After they grow up, they have a tendency to recreate the emotional environment of their early home life. People also tend to treat themselves the way their parents treated them, they scold and punish themselves the same way. And they also love and encourage themselves in the same way as they were loved and encouraged as children. Whatever happens to us is a consequence of our beliefs, since our beliefs attract people who will treat us according to our beliefs. So, if you find yourself saying "Everyone always does such and such to me, criticizes me, is never there for me, uses me like a doormat and abuses me" then this is your pattern. As long as you think that way you will attract people who exhibit this behavior. According to Hay the main reasons why we are sick are negative feelings like resentment, criticism, guilt and fear. Resentment that is long held can eat away at the body and become cancer, criticism as a permanent habit can lead to arthritis in the body, guilt looks for punishment and punishment creates pain while fear and the tension it produces can create things like baldness, ulcers, even sore feet. In [7] Hay literally says: "I have found that forgiving and releasing resentment will dissolve even cancer. While this may sound optimistic, I have seen and experienced it working." The way to change is to change your attitude toward the past and in order to release the past you must be willing to forgive. Hay says: "We may not know how to forgive and we may not want to forgive but the very fact that we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing process. It is imperative for our own healing that we release the past and forgive everyone." The affirmation that sets you free is: "I forgive you for not being the way I wanted you to be. I forgive you and I set you free." In [8] Hay gives affirmations for various issues: health, fearful emotions, critical thinking, addictions, forgiveness, work, money and prosperity, friends, love and intimacy and aging. Speaking about using affirmations for improving health we must also mention Gary Craig, the founder of EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques). In [11] he talks how he used affirmations to loose more than 30 pounds. He used to be over

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190 pounds, even 195 pounds at one point. He used to eat a lot of cookies and ice cream almost daily. He decided it was time for him to loose weight but he was not about to use will power. Craig says he wanted to weigh 160 pounds and he used the affirmation "My normal weight is 160 pounds, and that's what I weigh". He was also daydreaming how he would look like, how he could not hold his pants. He did not diet, but ate whatever he wanted to eat. He would eat a lot of cookies and ice cream if he felt like eating them. He would loose a little weight and then gain a little bit. Then again he would loose a little weight and gain a little bit. Then one day he noticed that he forgot about the cookies when he went to the store. And he did not have the motivation to go back to the store to buy them. He continued with his affirmation and visualization, and also continued loosing and gaining weight. After a while he stopped eating ice cream and cookies at all. The important thing is that it was not his conscious decision to do that, he was just not enjoying it any more. He also started to eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. Then he gradually ate less and less fruits and vegetables until he changed his diet to eat normally. Six months later he was 160 pounds. He knew he wasn't going to gain weight back, and he explains why: "My new consistent thoughts became my reality. I had a new picture of myself. I changed my diet in the process as a consequence of this, not because of will power." Several years later, at the moment when he was speaking about this experience, he was still about 160 pounds, so the results were permanent. All of that was gained by using just affirmations and visualizations. C. Using affirmations for improving financial situation When we talk about changing your mental attitude in order to improve your financial situation, the expert and the most famous person in this field is Bob Proctor [12, 13]. He has been studying the concepts of how to make money for over 40 years. He went from making $4,000 per year to making $175,000 per year. After that he went on to make over $1,000,000 a year. In [12] Proctor talks about a special exercise which shows you why you do not have the amount of money you want to have. You have to imagine that you are with several of your friends and you announce them your intention to become wealthy enough to live the way you choose to live. Then you imagine how that would make you feel. Most people feel very uncomfortable doing this. People who are already wealthy, however, never feel uncomfortable when the subject of money is brought up. If you ask yourself why, the most obvious answer would be because they already have lots of money. However, that is not the correct answer. Proctor says that it is not that wealthy people do not feel uncomfortable about money because they have it but it is the other way around - they have money because they feel comfortable about it. In other words, wealthy people have a state of mind that Proctor calls "prosperity consciousness". So it follows that if you wish to attract money, you must begin to foster a prosperity consciousness as well. The way to do this is to start seeing yourself, in your mind's eye, as already possessing the amount of money that you desire. That way you will soon become very comfortable with the idea of money. When that happens, you will become as wealthy as you want. Proctor's most famous affirmation for achieving success and financial independence is "I am so happy and grateful now that money comes to me in

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increasing quantities through multiple sources on a continuous basis". IV.

SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION ABOUT HOW AND WHY AFFIRMATIONS WORK

In the last section we have seen examples of three main areas in which famous people, authors of bestsellers, describe how to change your habits and your behavior using affirmations. In each of these areas there were thousands, if not millions, of people that, by following their advice, have succeeded in changing their habits and behaviors using mainly affirmations, and very often, nothing more than affirmations. So we may agree that there is a lot of evidence that using affirmations does work. However, the question that logically arises is how and why affirmations work, what is the actual mechanism behind this process. This is especially important if we know that the average person today very often laughs when she hears about affirmations and/or mocks at people doing affirmations. We can easily find the answer in the field of neuroscience. Simply stated, affirmations reinforce a chemical pathway in the brain, making the connection between neurons stronger. It is known that neurons that are routinely fired in a specific pattern will strengthen their bond, that way wiring in a complex network that will be automatically set off whenever a trigger is presented in one's everyday life. We might conclude that something similar to this process is what is going on in someone's brain while she is doing affirmations. In a way the process of doing affirmations is similar to Pavlov's famous experiments with his dogs. Pavlov would give his dogs food and at the same time he would ring a bell. The dogs would salivate, which is a normal response triggered by the food. After repeating this enough number of times, the dogs would salivate by just hearing the bell, with no food around. Practically the dogs created new neural pathways in their brains in which they connected the sight of the food with the sound of the bell. We can now better understand how people form beliefs about themselves from the early childhood - according to psychologists the child's character is created in the first several years of its life. If the child repeatedly hears 'You are no good', 'You are stupid' it creates appropriate neural pathways in its brain so it becomes something it believes to be true. The same is true for positive statements like 'You are a good boy/girl' or 'You are smart'. Very often this is the reason why some people have positive or negative beliefs like these about themselves. It is possible to change, or better said to correct these beliefs by using positive affirmations - by repeating the affirmation(s) the neurons will keep firing and the appropriate neural pathway will be formed and strengthened. When this new pathway becomes strong enough the person will believe the new statement as if it was true. Of course, this process is not that simple as it sounds. In the next section we will consider the difficulties in using affirmations, especially when using them the classic way. V.

DIFFICULTIES IN USING AFFIRMATIONS THE CLASSIC WAY

In the last section we concluded that the process of using affirmations basically creates and strengthens new neural pathways in a person's brain. After a while this new neural

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pathway becomes strong enough and automatically sets off whenever an appropriate trigger is presented. However, there are lots of problems in this process. Let us assume we have a person who has the belief 'I am stupid' and she wants to change this to 'I am smart' or 'I am intelligent'. First of all, if the negative belief was formed in the person's early childhood (which is very probable) then it has since influenced her life in a big way. There were probably lots of situations in which this belief was reinforced - practically every time this person did or said something stupid, she would probably think of that event as a new evidence that she really is stupid and the pathway 'containing' the negative belief would get strengthened. It is important to notice that people who believe that are intelligent also sometimes say or do something stupid, but they never view that event as evidence that they are stupid. So it would probably feel weird for a person who has the belief 'I am stupid' to say 'I am smart' since she feels the opposite to be true. She will have to repeat this statement over and over again, until her brain 'gives up' and starts accepting that this might be true (which practically means that a new pathway was created and is now slowly strengthening). Another problem is that during this process which takes time it is very probable that the person will from time to time say or do something that might be considered as stupid. Any time something like this happens this will strengthen the old belief i.e. the old pathway and weaken the new belief i.e. the new pathway. Basically there will be a kind of war going on between the pathways and the person will have to be persistent enough until the new pathway 'wins', i.e. becomes much stronger than the old one. Actually we do not know for sure if there are two pathways or it is maybe the same pathway that is changing its structure - from the structure that contains the belief 'I am stupid' to the structure that contains the belief 'I am intelligent'. Anyway, whatever really happens, it will obviously take time for the change to take place. This is the reason why the 21 days time period that Coue talks about is very often not enough. The time period of 21 days would probably be enough if the person did not have any 'negative' pathways and she only wanted to create a positive one. Most people already have lots of negative stuff that they want to change, or should we say reprogram, so the process will demand much longer time period. For this reason lots of people try affirmations and quit after couple of days or couple of weeks. Very low percentage of people is able to be persistent enough, since you have to keep repeating the affirmations even when you don't see any improvement at all. One way to overcome this in the past was using tape recorders. You would record yourself speaking your affirmations and then you could play the tape whenever you wanted. Today various digital devices are used instead of tape recorders. This is obviously simpler and easier than repeating the affirmations yourself, especially for people that are not persistent or patient. However this method also has a huge drawback - the experts say that you have to say the affirmations with a confident voice when recording them. You practically have to be in a state of mind in which you believe the affirmations to be true, since any doubt that could be sensed by the brain would drastically weaken the affirmations' effect. This is obviously a serious problem, since a person, as we have already seen, does not yet believe the affirmations to be true, especially in the beginning, when the 'negative' pathway is still

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strong. This can be easily overcome by personal computers. They can show the affirmations on the screen so all you have to do is type your affirmations into a text file, use a proper software program and just look at the screen. Using personal computers in this way has 2 main advantages over using tape recorders/mp3 players: 

First, there is no need to record the affirmations, so the doubt factor is practically eliminated. After the new pathway has been created and the person starts to believe a little bit in the new affirmations, she can also record the affirmations and then listens to them, if she prefers that way. Or she can both listen to the affirmations and look at them. So, if nothing else, using personal computers may dramatically help the person to start the process.

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Second, it is known that largest percentage of the information we receive in our everyday life is from a visual source. Also, it is estimated that more than 70% of people are visual types, with much less percentage of people who are audio or kinesthetic types. So, it would be easier if you are looking at the affirmations instead of hearing them, especially in the beginning.

We may conclude that using personal computers might be much more appropriate for large percentage of people. And even for the smaller percentage of people that are not visual type of persons it will be helpful to see the affirmations in the beginning and after a while they may record and listen to them. Not to mention the fact that personal computers can also be used for recording and playing audio files. In the next section a computer application for affirmations, developed by the author of this paper, will be described. VI.

THE APPLICATION

Fig. 1 shows the starting window of the application. The user has to enter values for speed, 3D effect, size, type of movement, number of repetitions of each affirmation, number of repetitions of the whole file and name of the text file that contains the affirmations. The last 3 values are pretty selfexplanatory. The field 'Speed' relates to the speed of playing the affirmations. It represents the number of pixels that determines for how much the affirmation will be moved compared to its position in the previous frame. This means that the user has practically number of options for the speed, from very slow, almost no moving at all, to extremely fast, with lots of medium values in between. The field '3D effect' adds shadow to the letters that are shown which gives them a 3D effect. Here the user can choose the degree of this effect by entering a value from 0% to 100%. Obviously, 0 means no 3D effect and 100 is the maximum 3D effect. Fig. 2 shows an example where the same text is written with 3 different values of the 3D effect factor: 20% (upper), 40% (middle) and 70% (lower). The field 'Size' refers to the size of the letters of the affirmations, again with many possible values, and the field 'Type of movement' has 8 possible values at the time of writing this paper: left to right, right to left, top down, bottom up, top left to bottom right, bottom right to top left, top right to bottom left and bottom left to top right. Additional options are planned to be added for this field, like going in a circle (clockwise and counter clockwise), going in a spiral (clockwise and counter

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clockwise combined with going from the center outside and from the outside to the center), random, etc.

Figure 1. Starting window of the application

do not take into consideration subliminal affirmations. Subliminal affirmations are affirmations that are barely visible when shown, or are very often practically invisible. The idea is that they can not be seen by the conscious, but can be seen by the subconscious mind. This type of affirmations is out of scope of this paper and will probably be subject of future work. So, the main drawback in all the other applications which show affirmations that are fully visible, that the author of this paper has tried, for example like [14, 15, 16], is that the affirmations are just flashed on the screen. Each affirmation is static and the user can only change the amount of time for how long each affirmation is shown. We should say that these applications do have some options that are not yet present in our application, like choosing various fonts types and colors (all these are planned to be included in our application in the near future), but the important thing is that the affirmations are static. In our application, as already explained, the affirmations are moving while being shown. It is obvious that the implemented types of movement, as well as the new ones that will be available in the near future, combined with the 3D effect (which is a feature that is also absent in other similar applications), together with the various values for size and speed makes our application much more useful. If we add to that the feature to dynamically change the speed and the 3D effect (also another feature that other similar applications do not possess - they practically do not have the possibility to dynamically change any parameter), we can easily conclude that our application not only has greater number of valuable options, but is also more user friendly than other similar applications. All these different features give our application lots of variety, which has double impact: 

First of all, the application has much higher potential to make greater impression on the user's brain, which should shorten the number of repetitions needed for strengthening the neural pathways compared to static two-dimensional text. This practically means shortening the time needed before the affirmations start 'working'.

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Second, with static affirmations it will not take a long time before the user gets bored and stops using the application, which basically means stopping the positive change taking place inside her brain. With several types of movement that have many speed values and many 3D effect values it will take much longer time before the user gets bored, which means extension of the time period in which there is a positive change inside the user's brain.

Figure 2. 3D effect

After clicking the 'Go' button the application opens and reads the text file. When entering affirmations into this file the user has to separate the affirmations by pressing the 'Enter' key. The application reads the text file and shows the affirmations with the selected speed, 3D effect factor, size and type of movement, repeating each affirmation as many times as the user has entered on the starting window in the field 'Repeat each affirmation X times'. After all the affirmations from the file have been shown, everything is repeated for the proper amount of times defined by the value in the field 'Repeat the whole file X times'. After that the starting window is shown again. While the affirmations are playing the user has additional options. First of all, by using the up and down arrows keys, the user is able to increase or decrease the 3D effect factor by 10%. The user can also dynamically increase or decrease the speed by value of 10 by using the right and left arrows keys. Pressing the space bar pauses/continues the playing of the affirmations. Finally, pressing the 'Esc' key will immediately stop the playing of the affirmations and the starting window will be shown again. We will now explain the main advantages of this application compared to other similar applications. It is important to say that in this paper we only consider applications that show affirmations which are fully visible - we

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The two bullet points above means that not only will the user sooner notice positive changes but she will also be 'exposed' to these positive changes for a longer time. From a practical point of view, for a person who wishes to change a negative belief she has, the first bullet point is more important. The reason for this is the fact that very often people believe that 'it is just the way I am' and 'nothing can be done'. So, once a person notices the positive changes in her everyday life and concludes that the affirmations work, she will naturally be eager to keep using the application, and will probably not stop until she changes everything she wishes to change.

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Another important thing should be mentioned. Since many people get bored easily, even if some application has the same options as other applications, it can still be valuable since if the application has anything different, it will be interesting, at least for a while (and each application must have something different compared to other applications even if it basically does not offer anything new). That means that for some people having several applications might be 'the answer' - when one application becomes boring they can change to using another one, when that one becomes boring, they can change to using another one, etc. and all the while the positive changes in their brain are taking place, which is the purpose of existence of such applications. This means that any new application that has anything different is, as the matter of fact, valuable. If it posses several important new features on top of that, that surely cannot be a miss. VII. CONCLUSION One of the most frequently used techniques in selfdevelopment is doing affirmations. Practically there is no selfimprovement guru today that has not used affirmations or that is not recommending people to use affirmations to improve their life. In this paper we saw the origins of affirmations and their various uses in several life areas - confidence, health and financial situation. We also saw that the scientific explanation about how and why affirmations work may be found in neuroscience. Each time a person says an affirmation a proper neural pathway is being strengthened. If the person repeats the affirmations enough number of times, the neural pathway will become strong enough and the person will 'accept' the affirmation as reality. Then we exposed the difficulties and challenges in using the affirmations the classic way and saw how using personal computers can transcend these difficulties and challenges. Finally we saw a description of a computer application, with several important advantages compared to similar applications, which alleviates the process of doing affirmations and accelerates the proper progression. We can

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conclude that using personal computers can indeed accelerate the positive changes in the process of doing affirmations and autosuggestions. This can be especially useful for people who would otherwise quit doing affirmations when doing them just the classic way. For those people using applications such as the one described in this paper may be the critical factor that helps them succeed and reach their goals. REFERENCES [1] [2]

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