OMZOE

A free tool

Make a subliminal track in your own voice

Record your affirmations, or upload a file you already have. Pick the bed you want to hear them over, how many times they repeat, and how far under the bed they sit. We assemble the track and hand it back.

Everything here happens in your own voice and your own words. Nothing is written for you, nothing is analysed, and the recording is deleted along with the track if you do not come back for it.

Your affirmations

Ten to twenty-five affirmations is the usual range — nearer ten if they are long or if this is your first one, nearer twenty-five once you know which lines you actually believe. Read them slowly, with a breath between each.

MP3, WAV, M4A, WebM or Ogg, up to 25 MB and five minutes. At least 0:05.

Writing affirmations worth repeating

Repetition moves a statement in whichever direction you already lean. A line you quietly think is untrue does not become true by being played four hundred times — it gets further away, because every repetition is another moment of noticing you do not believe it. So the first question is not what you want, it is what you can currently say without flinching.

Write in the present, about something you do rather than something you have. "I am someone who starts before it is ready" gives you a thing to be true tomorrow morning; "I am a millionaire" gives you a thing to be false at every repetition. Attach it to a real cue where you can — a time, a place, the thing that happens just before — because a sentence with a cue in it is a sentence you can act on.

Say nothing about what you are leaving behind. Statements framed as absence keep the thing they name in the room, and the mind does not hear the "no" in front of a picture. Write the positive act underneath the letting-go instead: not "I no longer put things off", but "I open the file first".

Keep them short enough to say in one breath, and keep the set small. Ten lines you mean beats twenty-five you are performing, and you can always record the next one when the first set stops feeling like a stretch.

How to play it

Put it on while you are doing something undemanding and wordless — walking, dishes, a commute. Not while reading, writing or talking to someone: language competing with language is the one condition that stops it working.

Set the volume so the voice is clear if you turn your attention to it, then put your attention somewhere else. Turning the system volume down is right; burying the voice is not.

Not while driving, and not on in-ear headphones through the night. If you play it at night and your sleep gets worse in the first week, stop the night pass — the sleep is worth more.