Graham, Texas (CNN) -- A fast-moving wildfire ravaged Lonnie Creswell's life in a matter of minutes.
In their study, Creswell and his colleagues asked participants about their stress levels over the previous month.
According to Creswell, general affirmations do not direct our attention to anything concrete.
"We found that self-affirmation completely eliminates the effects of chronic stress, " Creswell observed.
Creswell and Swindlehurst were among five British men kidnapped from an Iraqi finance ministry in Baghdad in May 2007.
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"There was generations of family heirlooms that can't be replaced, " Creswell said.
Struggling to hold back tears, Creswell described driving to a nearby church and looking back at their property only to see the flames engulf everything.
The flames rolled right over a rooster coop on the property, but when Creswell came back to assess the damage she found the roosters unscathed.
Creswell's research may offer a remarkably effective and simple recourse.
Based on "strong indications, " the bodies are those of Jason Creswell, originally from Glasgow, Scotland, and Jason Swindlehurst, originally from Skelmersdale, England, the British Foreign Office said in a statement.
While research on the benefits of self-affirmation goes back several decades, we still don't have a good understanding of the underlying pathways or why it produces such wide-ranging effects, Creswell says.
"This is one remarkable feature of self-affirmation, " Creswell said.
It's reflecting on an important personal value, Creswell said.
Creswell was also involved in a 2009 study that showed just two 10-minute affirmation writing activities in the weeks leading up to a test were sufficient to relieve the study subjects' stress-related reaction to the examination.
These participants ranked things -- friends, family, a hobby or a religious value -- that were important to them and wrote down a few sentences about why their top-ranked value was important (this is a standard self-affirmation exercise, Creswell says).
As Creswell puts it, self-affirmation provides "an easy and portable strategy that you can roll out before you enter a high-pressure situation where you are required to perform well, " whether it's engaging in public speaking, readying for an important exam or giving a critical presentation to your boss and her boss.
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