Singing your positive affirmations makes them more effective

Add chanting to your daily positive affirmations and the effectiveness will double. Singing can improve your state of mind and body, and helps you focus only on the positive. For example, singing “I love myself, I love myself inside out, I love myself from the outside in, this is what I do” can help improve your life.

In a case like the song above, reading the lyrics without even singing them can create the positive feelings and vibes that people look for when doing positive affirmations. The goal of positive affirmations is to send positive (happy) vibes in a request to the universe instead of negative (sad or angry) vibes. Knowing what kind of vibrations you are sending out into the universe can help you turn things around in your favor.

This works well with music because music is a natural vibration and also tends to get stuck in your head. Think back to a time when you had an advertising jingle stuck in your head: Agencies do it on purpose with the goal of getting you to buy their product. By using positive affirmations in the form of music, you can use this same technique on yourself. The key to making a positive affirmation work is repetition, which is certainly something that happens when a song is stuck in your head. Putting music to your affirmations will make the affirmation work on autopilot in your subconscious.

Using the example above, the phrase “I love myself” is a great statement to repeat in your head. People aren’t used to saying they love themselves, so it might seem a bit silly, but it’s a positive and uplifting message, after all: everyone wants to be loved. The songs that will stick around tend to be memorable, catchy, and simple, so look for songs that fall into those categories.

At this point, you are probably wondering why music works so well for affirmation. The answer is simple: the auditory cortex of the brain continues to work at all times, even when a person is tired or stressed. This is how things are recorded in your memory. The reason positive affirmations flash to the forefront of your memory, even when you’re not feeling very positive, is because they’ve been repeated enough.

That is why positive thinking is important. When a person is under stress of any kind, his brain often falls back on old habits. The point of affirmations is to make them a habit, so that when your brain returns to the habits, the habit is positive. That’s why songs work so well as affirmations: they’re already buried in your brain.

Another positive habit you can adopt is to be aware of the words you choose. Negative words such as “no”, “can’t” and “won’t” should be avoided, even when used in an apparently positive way, eg “I won’t lose”. The goal of these habits is to emphasize optimism and eliminate pessimism.