According to Osho, affirmations cannot decondition the mind; they are the very mechanism of conditioning, whether asserting belief or disbelief. Repetition breeds autohypnosis and imitational certainty. Deconditioning happens only through negation—neti, neti—relentlessly discarding every belief and conclusion until nothing remains. In that contentless emptiness arises a deconditioned 'no-mind,' the freedom to inquire directly without societal imprints or borrowed answers.
Repeating ideas just trains your brain; real freedom comes by gently dropping every belief until the mind is clear and silent.