Body-mind nudges avoid the key psychological obstacles inherent in mind-mind interventions, such as verbal self-affirmations of power (e.g., telling yourself “I am confident!”). Why do those approaches often fail? Because they require you to tell yourself something you don’t believe, at least not in the moment. While you’re in the throes of doubting yourself, you’re certainly not going to trust your own voice to tell you that you’re wrong to doubt yourself (even if you are, in fact, wrong to doubt yourself).
