Do Affirmations
Even Work?
You're stuck in the same patterns.
Same relationships. Same money problems. Same weight struggles. Same self-doubt on repeat.
You wake up each day and think the same thoughts you thought yesterday. You say the same things you said last week. You feel the same frustration you felt last month.
And you wonder why nothing ever changes.
Here's why: You're already doing affirmations. You just don't realize it.
Every thought you think is an affirmation.
Every word you speak is an affirmation.
The problem isn't that affirmations don't work—it's that you're unconsciously affirming the life you already have instead of the life you want.
It's: "What am I affirming right now?"
When you say "I'm so bad with money," that's an affirmation.
When you think "I always mess things up," that's an affirmation.
When you tell yourself "I'm not good enough," that's an affirmation.
And your subconscious mind—the part responsible for 95% of your actions—takes every single one of those statements as an instruction manual for your life.
It doesn't question whether these affirmations are true or helpful.
It just makes them real.
Some people ask whether affirmations even work. To me that's like asking if thoughts or words even work.
Do thoughts work at helping us imagine or create? Do words work at helping us describe or communicate our intentions, desires, hopes, dreams and plans?
Of course they do.
Our thoughts and words shape our lives—and that's why affirmations work.
Because everything you think and say is an affirmation.
Now, sometimes those affirmations are unconscious and habitual and only serve to replicate, repeat and re-hash familiar experiences, whether those familiar experiences are good or bad.
But when we consciously use affirmations, we begin to understand what our feelings are behind our thoughts.
And it's those feelings which attract or repel whatever we want or don't want.
We become aware of and begin to positively influence our subconscious mind—the part of the mind that is responsible for 95% of our actions
So affirmations definitely work—when we work with them.
And, in a way, they work even when we don't realize we're using them.
The trick is to become totally aware that everything we think and everything we say is an affirmation.
Then we can choose what we think and say.
Then we choose our lives.
We don't just live life on repeat.
They write them down once. They say them a few times in the mirror. They hope for the best.
And then they wonder why nothing changes.
Here's the truth: Your subconscious mind needs repetition.
It needs to hear the new affirmations more often than it hears the old ones.
It needs to feel the new beliefs more deeply than it feels the old fears.
That's why I created B.A.M.s—Binaural Affirmation Meditations.
Each B.A.M. is a 24-minute hypnotic audio experience that combines:
You don't have to force yourself to "believe" the affirmations.
You just listen. Your subconscious does the rest.
Choose one B.A.M. that speaks to what you're ready to shift.
Listen daily for 7 days.
Watch what changes.
Browse all B.A.M.s here: https://grant-empowerment.com/bams-to-buy/
Your life is already being shaped by affirmations—conscious or unconscious.
The only question is: which ones are you choosing?
— Ben Grant Mitchell