How to make your own subliminal with Subliss, step by step

By Subliss

You can make your own subliminal in one sitting. Write 15 to 20 affirmations, record them in your own voice, speed them up, put a sound layer over them, set the volumes and save. This guide walks through every step in the Subliss builder , with the settings we use ourselves. If you are still deciding whether it is worth doing, why make your own at all covers that first.

What you will do

• Write 15 to 20 short lines, first person, present tense, on one goal.
• Record the list in your own voice, read once at a natural pace.
• Speed it up to 2x or 4x, so more repetitions fit into the five-minute track.
• Add one main sound, and at most a noise layer and one frequency or brainwave layer.
• Set the mix: affirmations 1 to 3 percent, main sound 30 to 50 percent, anything else under 8 percent.
• Save it, then pick one slot in your day and play it there.

It takes about twenty minutes the first time.

Before you start

You need one goal, a written list of affirmations, a quiet room, and a phone or laptop with a microphone. The builder runs in the browser, so there is nothing to install, and it asks for microphone permission the first time you record.

Pick a goal you can describe in one sentence. “Sit down and study every weekday evening” is a goal. “Be more successful” is a mood, and it produces vague lines you will not want to repeat.

Write the list before you open the builder. Reading from a list gives a steadier take than improvising, and on the free plan you get 3 subliminals in total. Deleting one does not free up a slot, so the first three are worth doing properly.

Step 1. Write your affirmations

Write 15 to 20 short lines, in the first person and the present tense, about one topic. Every line should be something you can say out loud without arguing with it.

Four rules cover most of it. For the background, what affirmations are explains the practice, and how to write affirmations goes through the full method with 50 examples to edit.

• Say “I”, not “you”. The lines are yours, in your voice. A list written to you by someone else reads like an instruction.
• Write for the resistance. Ask what gets in the way, then write the line that answers it in words you can accept. “I always put it off until it is too late” becomes “I start before I feel ready”. “I am not a studying person” becomes “I am someone who sits down and begins”.
• Keep each line under about twelve words. A long sentence turns to mush at 4x, and a line you cannot say in one breath will not record cleanly.
• Cut anything you would flinch at. If a line makes you wince when you read it back, it will make you wince every time you press play. Soften it until it is true enough to say.

If you are staring at a blank page, the Affirmations Library has starter sets by category, and Premium accounts can save their own lists and generate a draft to edit. Edit is the word. A list you did not touch is somebody else’s subliminal.

A worked example, for the study goal:

• I sit down at my desk at seven and start.
• I start before I feel ready.
• I am someone who finishes what I open.
• I understand this material a little better every day.
• I put my phone in the other room while I work.
• I work in short blocks and come back after each break.
• I stay calm when a problem takes longer than I expected.
• I ask for help early instead of late.
• I read the question twice before I answer.
• I finish the evening knowing what I did.
• I am the kind of person who shows up on a Tuesday.
• I keep my desk ready for tomorrow.
• I trust that small sessions add up.
• I am allowed to find this hard and keep going.
• I am proud of the work I did today.

Step 2. Record your voice

Open the builder at subliss.app/create , paste your list into the box under the record button, press record, and read the list once at a natural pace with a short pause between lines. The timer runs while you record, a waveform shows the level, and you can stop and re-record as many times as you like before moving on.

Three things make the take cleaner.

• Sit close to the microphone, in a room without a fan or an open window.
• Read slightly slower than you think you need to, because the speed step compresses everything.
• Do not perform it. A flat, matter-of-fact read sounds better sped up than a dramatic one, and it is easier to do again tomorrow.

The box under the recorder can be dragged taller, so the whole list fits on screen and you are not scrolling mid-take.

Once you stop, the waveform stays on screen with a handle at each end. Trim the silence off the start and the finish, and play the trimmed version back before you go on. Whatever you leave in gets repeated every time the loop comes round.

If you do not like the sound of your own voice, record anyway and judge it at the Mix step. Sped up two to four times and sitting under rain, it is not the voice you hear on a voicemail.

Your recording is private by default and stored in a private bucket. You choose what to publish at the Save step, and you can delete a subliminal at any time.

Step 3. Choose your speed

Pick the speed at which you can no longer follow the sentences but can still tell it is a voice. For most recordings that is 2x or 4x. The builder offers 1x, 2x and 4x, and you can switch between them and listen before you commit.

Speed does two things. It shortens the loop, so more repetitions fit into the five-minute track, and it compresses your voice so the words sit under the ambient layer instead of on top of it. At 1x you hear every line, which some people prefer, and the track is then spoken affirmations over ambience with nothing hidden.

The shorter loop is the point. A 16-second reading becomes a 4-second loop at 4x, which fits 75 repetitions into a five-minute track. At 2x it is an 8-second loop and 37 repetitions. At 1x, 18.

Step 4. Add your sounds

Add one main sound and stop there, or at most add one noise layer and one low frequency or brainwave layer on top.

The Sounds step has five tabs: Nature, Frequencies, Brain Waves, Noise and Melodies. Tap an icon to preview a sound, tap Add to put it in the mix, and you can remove anything later at the Mix step. Free accounts get a smaller selection, and Premium opens all of them.

Two setups cover most tracks.

• A nature bed. Rain, ocean, forest, fire or thunder as the main layer, brown or pink noise under it if you like, and a single frequency or brainwave track kept low. Calm, with no music to get tired of.
• A melody bed. A melody as the main layer, with a nature sound or noise under it. Skip the frequency tracks here, because a tone under a melody fights it and the mix gets muddy fast.

Keep it to three layers at most. Past that the mix turns to mud and your voice is the first thing to disappear. Keep any frequency or brainwave layer low, and if a layer is unpleasant to sit with, turn it down or take it out. You will play this track many times, so it should be easy to have on.

Step 5. Set the mix

Start with your voice at 1 to 3 percent, your main sound at 30 to 50 percent, and any frequency or brainwave layer under 8 percent, then adjust by ear on the headphones or speaker you will actually use. The Mix step plays the full five-minute loop as it will be saved, with a slider for each track, so you can move things while it plays.

These are the two starting mixes we use.

Play the preview and listen for one thing: can you tell someone is speaking, without being able to follow a sentence? The first time you hear your own voice at 4x under rain it sounds like someone muttering in the next room, and that is roughly the target.

If you hear nothing at all on the speaker you will use, nudge the voice up a point. A mix that sounds right on headphones can be near-silent on a phone speaker, and the preview is where you find that out.

Step 6. Save and name it

Press Save, give the subliminal a name and a few tags, choose whether it is private or public, and the builder renders a five-minute looped MP3. The render happens on your device, in the browser, which is why it can take a moment on an older phone, so keep the tab open until it finishes.

Private is the default, and it means the track sits in My Subliminals for you alone. Public puts it on Discover , where other people can play it and save it to their own library. Name it for the goal and the sound, for example “Study evenings, rain”, so you can tell your tracks apart once you have a few.

On the free plan this is one of your 3 subliminals in total. Premium removes the limit and adds playlists, the full sound library and the listening stats below.

Now listen to it

Pick one slot in your day, play the track in that slot, and let the counter do the remembering. A five-minute loop fits under a commute, the washing up, or the first few minutes in bed.

The Dashboard keeps your listening stats, and Premium adds repetitions, streaks and consistency, so you can see the practice instead of guessing at it.

Spread the listening across days rather than cramming it into one long session. Ten minutes a day is easier to keep going than an hour on a Sunday, and the streak is the part worth protecting.

Playback runs in a browser tab, so on a phone it behaves the way your browser treats a tab in the background, and it needs a connection. Premium accounts can put several tracks in a playlist, which is the easiest way to run a longer session without touching the phone.

Frequently asked questions

How many affirmations should a subliminal have? Fifteen to twenty short lines on one topic. A longer list dilutes the repetitions and tempts you to stack goals.

Can I use a computer voice instead of recording? Not in the Subliss builder today. It records your own voice through the microphone. If you cannot get past hearing yourself, record at 4x, where the voice is hardest to recognise, and decide at the Mix step.

Does it matter if I can hear the affirmations? That is your call. Under a sound bed at 1 to 3 percent you will mostly not hear them, and at 1x with the voice up you will hear every line. Both are fine.

Can I make one on my phone? Yes. The builder runs in your phone’s browser, and it will ask for microphone permission. The render is slower on an older phone, so keep the tab open until the save finishes.

How long should I listen each day? Pick a length you will repeat tomorrow, and let the Dashboard show you whether you did. One play of the track is five minutes.

Can I change the affirmations later? Record a new subliminal. The saved track is a rendered MP3, so the words are fixed once you save, which is why it is worth reading your list through before you press record.

Where does my recording go, and can I delete it? It is stored in a private bucket, private by default, and nothing is public unless you publish it. You can delete a subliminal at any time.

How many can I make for free? Three in total on the free plan. Deleting one does not free up a slot. Premium removes the limit.

Can I listen while I sleep? You can, at low volume. Keep it quiet enough that it does not wake you, and remember playback needs the tab open and a connection.

That is the whole build. Open the builder , write your fifteen lines and make the first one. The second one takes half as long.