The truth about listening to affirmations while sleeping [+ How to do it]

Did you know that listening to affirmations while you’re sleeping can effectively influence your subconscious mind?

Well, we often hear that affirmations are an excellent way to build self-confidence, boost your motivation, and get you in the right mindset.

However, we also hear that affirmations should be said out loud and not just thought in our heads.

Recently, I’ve tried to listen to affirmations while sleeping, and it turns out that this strategy can work this way even better!

So, does it make sense to listen to affirmations while sleeping? Well, yes! And in this article, I’ll share the reasons why.

How does listening to affirmations while sleeping work?

Who says affirmations don’t work while you’re sleeping?

In the past, we’ve heard that affirmations are ineffective while we’re sleeping. We’ve also heard that they never work. And we’ve even heard that they can be counterproductive.

But now, I’d like to tell you something different: affirmations are extremely effective when we fall asleep! It’s just a matter of how you listen to them and when.

This is because listening to affirmations while you’re sleeping is a unique way of processing your subconscious mind, which results in more natural and effective results than listening to affirmations out loud.

How does this work?

Let’s start with the basics.

In order to understand how affirmations can work while you’re sleeping, you should also know how the sleep process works.

The truth is that when you sleep, your brain goes through a series of stages.

During the initial stage, your body relaxes and you drift off to sleep.  The deep relaxation of this stage is what helps you to fall asleep quickly.

After this period, your body enters a deep sleep state that lasts from about 30 minutes to an hour and a half.  During this stage, you are in a state of unconsciousness and are no longer consciously aware of anything that’s going on around you.

But here’s the important thing you should know:

When we fall asleep, we are not fully unconscious.

During this time, we’re not in the deep sleep stage, and we go through a process called “sleep architecture”, which consists of 5 stages.

The last stage is called Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, which is when most dreaming occurs.

Why am I telling you this?

Well, that’s when your affirmations can reach your brain and get processed! As studies prove, self-affirmation activates specific brain systems, and this leads to successful affirmations.

And this indeed means that you can actually try using affirmations while you’re sleeping in order to experience more effective results.

Now let’s focus on the benefits of listening to affirmations while sleeping.

6 benefits of listening to affirmations while sleeping

1) You dream more vividly

Did you know that listening to affirmations while you’re sleeping can help you to dream more vividly?

At least, that’s what happened in my case.

The first and most obvious benefit of listening to affirmations while I was sleeping was that I woke up one day with a vivid dream.

In my case, it was a dream about being in a market and buying something – I don’t know what.

Anyway, this was the first time for me to have such vivid dreams, and I’m sure you’ll also get more vivid dreams if you listen to affirmations while sleeping.

What’s the reason for dreaming more vividly after listening to affirmations?

This is because when you listen to affirmations out loud, your brain tends to filter them out.

However, when you listen to affirmations while you’re sleeping, your brain does not stop processing the information.

So your mind can actually process the information at a deeper level and help you gain more insight.

The result?

When you listen to affirmations while sleeping, your dreams are likely to be more vivid, and you’ll be able to remember them clearly.

Maybe you’ll see something convincing in your dreams that you need to remember, or maybe you’ll get some insight that will help you achieve your goals.

2) Your negative thoughts disappear

Another thing that I noticed while listening to affirmations while I was sleeping is that my negative thoughts disappeared.

Sounds impressive, right?

Well, one of the reasons why we tend to use affirmations is that we want to replace negative thoughts with positive ones.

And if you listen to affirmations while you’re sleeping, your brain will be able to process the information even more deeply and replace those negative thoughts with new positive thoughts.

Why so?

Well, believe it or not, when you listen to affirmations while sleeping, they can reach a deeper level of your consciousness and become a part of your subconscious mind.

This is because your subconscious mind is the part of your brain that processes information at a deeper level.

So when you listen to affirmations while sleeping, they can reach a deeper level of your subconscious mind and help you replace the negative thoughts with new positive thoughts.

Let me give you an example.

When I decided to try listening to my affirmations while sleeping, I felt depressed. I was full of negative thoughts about my career and wanted to quit.

But after listening to affirmations for a week, I noticed that my negative thoughts about my career started to disappear.

Before, I used to think that it was impossible for me to quit my job because I’m so good at it, but after listening to affirmations for a week, I felt that I could easily quit my job and achieve what I want in life.

So the result?

My dreams started becoming more vivid and the positive thoughts about quitting started replacing the negative thoughts.

The affirmations worked well for me, and I could get rid of all my negative thoughts.

This is because when you listen to affirmations out loud, your brain filters them out.

However, when you listen to affirmations while you’re sleeping, your brain does not stop processing the information.

So your mind can actually process the information at a deeper level and help you gain more insight.

That’s why your mind becomes more positive and helps you overcome all the negative thoughts in your head and find solutions to them.

3) You become more optimistic

After pointing out that listening to affirmations while sleeping can replace your negative thoughts with positive ones, you won’t be surprised to know that it can also help you become more optimistic.

The thing is that when you listen to affirmations while sleeping, you’re more in touch with all of your feelings and emotions.

You’re able to feel the emotions that you are feeling, and you can get better insight into them.

As a result, these affirmations have a bigger impact on your and you start to feel more optimistic because of them.

You will also notice that when you listen to affirmations, your mind starts to process the information faster, and you start to feel happier.

As a result, it can help you understand the emotions that you are feeling and how to deal with them.

I know, you may be thinking that listening to affirmations while sleeping may not be the best option to become more optimistic.

But you know what?

It’s actually one of the best ways to be in touch with your emotions and understand why you’re feeling what you feel.

So, if you want to impact your emotions and become more optimistic about your life, maybe this is the way for you to go.

You see, when you have negative thoughts about something, it is easy for you to feel frustrated about it.

However, when you listen to affirmations while sleeping, this negativity can start filling up all the negative spaces in your mind and replace them with positive ones.

By doing this, your mind becomes more optimistic and helps you overcome all the negative thoughts in your life.

4) It can make you feel more confident about your actions

Let me take a wild guess.

You started using affirmations because you weren’t satisfied with your actions and you wanted to do something about it.

Does this sound like you?

If so, chances are that you turned to affirmations because you wanted to feel better about what you do and how you do it.

That’s exactly the reason why I tried to make affirmations in the beginning.

I didn’t feel confident about myself. I realized I lacked self-confidence and wanted to use this technique to change that.

You know, researchers frequently point out that positive self-talk can significantly increase our self-esteem and change the way we perceive ourselves.

Since I wanted to change my attitude towards myself and become more self-confident, I decided to try positive self-talk, and making affirmations was the best possible option I could start with.

And it worked!

But you know what?

Lately, I’ve found out that it’s even more effective when you listen to affirmations while you’re sleeping.

In this way, your mind is able to absorb all the positive affirmations that you listen to and then starts to apply them in your daily life.

This is why it’s important to listen to affirmations while sleeping.

When you listen to affirmations while sleeping, you will notice that your mind starts to process the information faster and that it helps you gain more confidence in your actions.

Even if you don’t know what your actions are going to be, your mind starts to process the information faster and helps you make decisions on what actions to take.

As a result, it can help you feel confident about these actions and make them happen in your life.

5) It can help you make decisions easier

Speaking of making decisions, listening to affirmations while sleeping can help you make decisions easier and better.

This is because affirmations help you make decisions while your mind is sleeping.

It’s like a combination of the two processes mentioned above.

As I already pointed out, when you listen to affirmations when you’re sleeping, it works on a deeper level of the mind than the conscious mind.

In fact, when you listen to affirmations while sleeping, your mind starts to process the information faster and it helps you make decisions easier when making new plans or changes in your daily routine.

You see, when the mind is processing information fast, it makes it easier for the brain to understand what is happening around you.

So by listening to affirmations while sleeping, your mind will start processing this new information faster and make decisions on what actions should be taken next.

What does it mean?

It means that if you’re struggling to make a decision between a few options and are looking for a helpful way to make a decision, you should try listening to affirmations while sleeping.

Trust me, it can actually help you decide what’s best for you in the given moment and help you take the right action.

So I recommend that you try it out and see what happens.

6) It will make your brain more active and alert

And the last benefit that I’ve discovered while listening to affirmations before sleeping is that it will make your brain more active and alert.

I know that the reason why you’re making affirmations isn’t to feel more active, but isn’t this a great benefit to increase overall alertness?

The reason why this happens is that having affirmations turned on while you’re sleeping doesn’t allow your brain to completely detach from the environment and stop thinking about things.

Instead, it keeps your brain focused on the information you’re listening to while you’re sleeping.

This is a great benefit and can actually help your mind feel more alert while sleeping and make it easier for you to wake up with a fresh mind ready to take action in the morning.

This means that your brain will be ready to process the new information you get while you’re sleeping.

And by listening to affirmations while sleeping, you’ll push your brain to process this new information faster and make it easier for you to make decisions on what action should be taken next.

As a result, it can also help you feel more confident in these actions and make them happen in your life.

How to listen to affirmations while sleeping?

After explaining the benefits of listening to affirmations while sleeping, the most important part is indeed helping you to understand how to do so.

Well, first of all, you should know that in order to make this strategy actually work, you need to make it a part of your daily sleeping routine.

What does this mean?

It means that you must listen to affirmations every day before going to sleep.

It doesn’t matter if it’s for 10 minutes or for an hour in the evening.

You just need to make sure that you’re listening to affirmations every day before going to sleep and that you’re doing this routine at least 3-5 times a week.

And I know that this can be a bit difficult to do at first as you might find it a bit strange.

But trust me, if you want to start seeing these benefits, this is what you need to do.

Now you probably wonder what’s the best way of doing this.

Well, the easiest way is by going to sleep with affirmations turned on and listening to them while in bed.

This way, your brain will be able to process these affirmations while going through the process of falling asleep and eventually make them part of your daily habit in order for them to become easier to use in the future.

How can you start?

I’ve created a small step-by-step guide to help you get through this process and make it easier for you to start using affirmations while sleeping.

So, let’s first take a look at the guide below.

1) Make a list of affirmations that you’d like to listen to

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the first step of listening to affirmations while sleeping is to determine the affirmations that you’d like to listen to.

And this is a very important step as it will help you to make sure that you’re listening to the affirmations that you need and not the ones that you don’t.

The reason why I want to emphasize this is that you can’t include all the affirmations in your sleeping schedule.

Instead, you need to focus on the ones that are safe because listening to affirmations while sleeping is going to have a big impact on your subconscious mind and change the way you perceive things.

That’s why I’d like you to focus on the affirmations that are going to have a positive impact on you and your life in general.

And if you want to get more specific, I’d like you to focus on the affirmations that will help you improve your life in a significant way.

So, just create a list of affirmations that you’re going to listen to every night before going to sleep, and make sure that you’re only listening to the ones that are going to have a positive impact on you.

2) Record your affirmations

Have you thought about the way of listening to affirmations while sleeping?

If you haven’t, you should know that you aren’t going to listen to affirmations already made by someone else.

Instead, if you want it to actually make an impact, you should be the one who creates the affirmations.

And the way of doing that is by recording your own affirmations and listening to them before going to sleep.

You can do it in a couple of different ways, but the one that I’m going to help you with is by using an audio recorder app on your smartphone.

The reason why I suggest this method is because it will make sure that you’re making all of your affirmations yourself and not just following someone else’s instructions.

Why does it matter?

Well, the reason why it matters is that the affirmations that you make will be a lot more effective than those made by someone else.

So, get your list of affirmations ready and record them to prepare for the next step of listening to affirmations while sleeping.

3) Choose quality and comfortable headphones

Based on my experience, headphones are the best thing to use when you want to listen to affirmations while sleeping.

The reason why I say this is because they’re going to make sure that you’re not distracted and that you can focus on your affirmations.

That’s why I’d like you to choose quality headphones, as they’re going to make sure that they’re comfortable and that they have nice sound quality.

But you know what else is important?

Other than the quality of your headphones, they should allow you to sleep in a comfortable pose and shouldn’t bother you when you’re trying to fall asleep.

And the best way to do that is by making sure that your headphones aren’t going to be too tight on your head and that they don’t have any pressure points.

So, make sure you choose your headphones wisely and that they’re going to be comfortable enough for you to sleep in a comfortable pose while listening to affirmations.

4) Set reminders for yourself when it’s time to listen to affirmations

Now, this next part is important because it’s going to make sure that you stick with what’s been mentioned previously.

And one way of doing this is by setting a reminder for yourself as soon as it’s time for you to listen to affirmations.  That way, you’ll know exactly when it’s time so that you can get up and start listening before going back to bed again.

This will also make sure that there aren’t any distractions during the process of listening and that it doesn’t take more than 30 minutes or an hour as some people think.

It shouldn’t take more than 30 minutes or an hour at most, so don’t worry about this part too much!

So, once again, set a reminder for yourself as soon as it’s time for you to listen to affirmations while sleeping so that there are no distractions during the process of listening.

5) Listen while lying down in bed

If these steps are followed correctly, then it’s time to start listening to affirmations while sleeping.

So, get your equipment ready, close your eyes, prepare yourself for sleep, and then start listening to affirmations while lying down in bed.

When it’s time for you to listen to affirmations, then you should put your headphones on and lie down in bed.

Make sure that there are no distractions during the process of listening, and don’t forget that you should do it at exactly the same time every day.

That way, you’ll easily see all the benefits of doing affirmations while sleeping and you’ll be amazed at how quickly these benefits will start showing up in your life.

So, once again, do this and do it at the exact same time every day.  That way, you’ll easily see all the benefits of doing affirmations while sleeping.

Final thoughts

As you can see, listening to affirmations while sleeping boosts the benefits of performing this technique.

So, if you’re looking for a way to increase your motivation, confidence, or general well-being, listening to affirmations while sleeping can be something you should try.

Don’t forget to follow the steps I described precisely and enjoy all the benefits of listening to affirmations while sleeping.

The best part is you won’t even notice it happening!