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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

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(The Actual) Threat Advisory Levels

It seems like we've been at war for a long time. World War II drifted into the Cold War and, more recently, War on Terror, War on Drugs, War on Poverty. Frankly, it sounds more like a 'War on Common Sense', aka a way to distract people from the real issues. Google the phrase "war on heart disease" and you'll find about 40,000 responses. The "war on cancer" brings up 400,000 hits but you'll find 11 million for "war on terror". A 'war' which continues to consume incalculable mo

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