Research survey responses thoughts (on-going)

Hi all!

I got an overwhelming number of really beautiful, honest, and encouraging responses. If you are one of them, thank you so much for sharing. These wonderful ladies opened up to me and every single one (so far) uses some sort of positive self talk. The vast majority uses affirmations and find them helpful, but they are uniquely personal to every single person. Almost no affirmation is the same with the exception of “I can do it”, “I release what doesn’t serve me” and “You’ve got this” – but even those are usually followed by different sentences. I find it so much more interesting and personal – affirmations such as ” I don’t need to rush to become ‘successful’. Success is small efforts that grow into the bigger picture”. – they resonate more not only with the person, but also with me. I’ve gotten responses back as well that this positive self talk closer align with the form of “mantras” or another response “Actually what I like to do rather than a positive affirmation is to manifest the day before it begins. So I will say, “I did very well today, it was extremely productive and I succeeded in my tasks” THEN begin the day. It tends to work because you chose to believe you succeeded before beginning.”

I believe that women would really, really benefit from seeing what each other wrote. Not only are the themes so consistent, and similar (it’s amazing and makes me feel less alone in my experiences!), we can really empower another through the connection of our positive self talk – be it mantra, affirmations, meditative thought process “I keep mine really simple, as I find repetition to be a really helpful part of self-affirmation. So I like to keep them short and sweet, so they’re easy to repeat and become meditative! Usually it’ll be something like “you’re okay, you’re fine”, “you know what you’re doing”, “this is great work”, “today is a good day”, etc.”, it can be really encouraging for a variety of reasons.

I think the form of a website is where it’s headed. It’s much more accessible. The option to share your own personal mantras, affirmations, self talk and the option to leave your first name and last initial, and the state you’re in (New York) or the option to stay anonymous for either name or location will help people who are not comfortable disclosing their name feel more safe to share their positive self talk.