Research has demonstrated that we have between 45,000 and 51,000 thoughts a day. That’s about 150 to 300 thoughts a moment. Research has likewise demonstrated that for most individuals 80% of those thoughts are damaging.Now, we have been taught to think that many of these 51,000 thoughts are “sub-conscious” thoughts meaning that they're below our conscious cognizance level. Affirmations in reality make your sub-conscious thoughts conscious.Affirmations make you consciously cognizant of your thoughts. If you begin making conscious favorable thoughts, you in reality become more aware of the damaging thoughts that are constantly threatening to take over.