Add chanting to your daily positive affirmations and the effectiveness will be doubled. Singing can improve your mind and body, and help you focus only on the positive. For example, singing “I love myself, I love myself inside out, I love myself inside out, this is what I do” can help you 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 are looking for when making positive affirmations. The goal of positive affirmations is to send positive (happy) vibrations in a request to the universe instead of negative (sad or angry) vibrations. 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 it also tends to get stuck in your head. Think back to a time when you had a marketing jingle burned into 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 with 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 tend to be memorable, catchy, and simple, so look for songs that fall into those categories.

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

This is why positive thinking is important. When a person is under stress of any kind, his brain tends to fall back on old habits. The goal of affirmations is to make them a habit, so that when your brain goes back to 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 mindful of the words you choose. Negative words such as “no”, “can’t” and “won’t” should be avoided, even when used in a seemingly positive way, eg “won’t lose”. The goal of these habits is to emphasize optimism and eliminate pessimism.