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Have faith in yourself and trust your abilities.
I'd say this statement with two thought groups.
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Have faith in yourself and trust your
abilities. I stress the content words,
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the words that carry meaning. Have faith in
yourself and trust your abilities. "Yourself"
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has two syllables. Stress the second: yourself.
"Abilities" has four syllables. Stress the second:
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abilities. "Abilities" is the final content
word. This is where I use falling intonation
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to signal the end of the sentence. Have
faith in yourself and trust your abilities.
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Say this variation as an affirmation: I have
faith in myself, and I trust my abilities.
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