The short answer is no – unless you have a few years to spare and a heavy-duty supply of perseverance.  Self-affirmation addresses the conscious mind – but your conscious mind has nothing to do with the way you behave, react, view the world or, most importantly, view yourself.  However, as a I said, if you throw enough mud at your conscious mind, sooner or later – actually, definitely later – some of that mud will stick and make an impression on your subconscious mind.  However, you’d have to stick at it religiously and, even then, you’d be facing an uphill battle.  Why?  Your subconscious mind dictates your beliefs, behaviours and reactions and creates your reality.  Self-affirmation is like try to having a snowball fight in hell’s fiery furnace!!

If you want to change your life, some aspect of your life, or change yourself, how you view yourself or some unpalatable behaviour or bad habit, it’s your subconscious mind that you need to impress.  It holds all the keys, has its hand on all the levers and its feet on all the pedals that either get your life moving in the fast lane or, more normally, grind to a complete and juddering halt.

To impress your subconscious mind, you’re going to have to become like a little child all over again – not childish but childlike.  When you were a child you paid full attention to the reality of the moment, using all of your five senses.  As an adult, you pay little or no attention to reality – your subconscious mind kinda makes it up as it goes along!  You’ve got to come back to your senses, to relearn how to pay attention to what’s before your very eyes, rather than pay attention to the subconscious baggage that’s weighing you down.