Do positive affirmations actually work?
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." - Richard Bach Like many people, I grew up with parents who regularly gave me advice to "think positive". Whenever I was down, it seemed that I had to reprogram my mind with positive affirmations and suppress any negativity. My parents, in turn, were just following advice that goes back at least 100 years ago to when French psychologist Emile Coué introduced a popular method of psychotherapy and self-improvement ba