How to create positive affirmations

Positive affirmations can be highly effective for improving your mental health, self-confidence and mood. You can create your own positive affirmations and repeat them to yourself each day.

Here are some helpful steps for creating positive affirmations:

• Make them personal and unique to you by considering the usual things that impact your mindset or thoughts
• Use present tense to create the feeling of the affirmations being relevant to you right now
• Keep the affirmations short and simple
• Start the affirmations with ‘I’ or ‘My’
• Make the positive affirmations believable
• Add emotion to your affirmations
• Repeat the affirmations daily
• Visualize the things you’re saying or thinking