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How to Use Positive Affirmations

To Create Your Best Life BY DUDLEY EVENSON

If you listen to the news or read social media , you become aware of much grief and tragedy in the world . Our own personal lives have also been greatly disrupted over the past several years of the pandemic . Yet bad news just seems to keep coming . As you try to digest the constant barrage coming through the media , you may feel a knot of anxiety growing in your stomach . Naturally , when we pay too much attention to news or events outside ourselves , much of which is beyond our immediate control , we often feel it internally . The news affects us all , often painting a pessimistic picture of the world , coloring the content of our thoughts .

How do we overcome the tendency toward worry and negative thinking ? How can we

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