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Flipping your Mindset: The Healing Power of Affirmations, Mindfulness and Gratitude

Flipping your Mindset: The Healing Power of Affirmations, Mindfulness and Gratitude by Daniel Wittler. Photograph of a man skipping through the city by Andrew Hunter
Photograph by Andrew Hunter

Negative thinking happens to all of us, but you don’t have to stay stuck there. Here are practices to bring more positivity and joy to your life

My mind is racing all day. I spend so much of my day talking to myself… do you as well?

Our minds work non-stop. Besides some meditation now and then, there is not much we can do about the volume of thoughts we have. But we think about. 

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