I looked at sculptor 3...have no experience with it.
Some people don't believe that subliminals work...

"James Vicary, an advertising expert, went into a 1950s movie theater to test his devious new tool for persuading others: subliminal advertising.

During the movie he allegedly flashed the commands "EAT POPCORN" and "DRINK COKE" so fast that the unsuspecting audience couldn't consciously see the words. Vicary claimed Coke sales jumped 18.1% and popcorn sales leaped 57.7%.

On that day, subliminal advertising was born.

Today subliminal advertising is banned by most major countries. The FCC in America outlaws it by simply saying subliminal advertising is designed to deceive. For that reason alone it is forbidden to be used by any radio or television advertiser.

Still, self-help tapes that claim to have subliminal messages hidden on them continue to sell to the tune of $50,000,000 a year.

The question I bring to the table today is this: Which works better: Subliminal Advertising or Hypnotic Writing?

Vicary's famous movie theater test has been proven to be a hoax. He didn't test it on the amount of people he claimed (50,000, which the small town theater couldn't hold), and he didn't keep an accurate count of popcorn or coke sales. In short, he wanted subliminal advertising to work in order to increase his consulting business as an ad expert. But all the research shows his method did not and does not work.

The same with subliminal tapes. Anthony Pratkanis and Elliot Aronson, author of the fascinating book, "Age of Propaganda," conducted studies to see if subliminal advertising, and subliminal self-help tapes, actually worked. Their research said it did not. There was no evidence to support it. None. While people wanted to believe in subliminals, they could not prove it worked to even the slightest degree."

http://www.mrfire.com/subliminaladvertising.html

This is taken from Joe Vitale's website...He is one of these
internet business gurus but he believes in the law of vibration
and attraction, writes entertainingly and makes a great case for
what he calls "hypnotic writing".

Here's a free mini ebook on his site regarding spiritual growth,

-http://www.mrfire.com/spirit/0501.html

Personally, I find that if I'm thinking about a subject, I
take pen to paper and write about it...I find myself expressing
things that wouldn't come out normally...the pen seems to act
as a catalyst - and usually within that I find the affirmations
that actually resonate with me. Maybe there are ideas you express
more coherently on paper than you would normally do verbally.

Personally, I've found my best affirmations this way.

I just got the insight and focus cds so I'm gonna incorporate
the affirmations in with them...my reasoning being that my
brain should be more receptive when in deeper brainwave states.

The affirmware uses binaural beats as does insight & focus.

I had a look at different binaural beat technology - I'm not
the most technical of people but the technology on insight
definitely sounded the best.
I tried the Holosync sample several times; while it was deep
enough, it left me feeling a bit irritable. I think I know why.
The holosync and similar products only use a single beat differential.
Whereas, insight & focus use multiples set in a harmonic layering
that more closely mimics how the brain actually works and there fore feels more harmonious. The guy at Awakened Minds who developed the programme has a background in music.
I think meditation itself should always be harmonious and in
Holosync, they often talk about overwhelm. Not my idea of fun
and it wouldn't be acceptable in a practice such as TM.

Don't know why I'm rambling on but basically I suppose that
you can assert your own affirmations without the subliminals.

Kind Regards,
Tom