Michelle Blood explains how affirmations work: you state them as already true, then emotionalize them so they bypass your doubting mind and reach the subconscious. She connects this to consciousness, neuroscience, and theories about holographic reality.
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So because I wasn't healed, my first lyric was I am healed. I know I am. I love myself, I am my friend. None of those things were true, but I wanted them to be true. So I had the perfect affirmation. However, the doubting mind kept spitting it out. The reason everyone says you've got to emotionalize the affirmation is because the short term memory, or call it the doubting mind, if it goes into the short term memory and the doubting mind spits it out, well then it doesn't go into the subconscious mind where it needs to be fed. I mean everyone knows now neuroscientists, quantum physics about they've proven everything is consciousness now. They've proven that we are just a hologram. They've proven that black holes aren't really what we thought they were all in the last three years. It's incredible. But back then no one had proven any of this but I believed it anyway.