I have recently come across a quote form an older book by Joseph Murphy called The Power of Your Subconscious Mind. In there he emphasizes the role of the so called subconscious mind in the personal reality creation process. Well, subconscious is in essence all conscious, so this term 'subconscious' has to do with a personal cutoff point of what a given individual is conscious of.
Joseph goes that for example to attract money, it doesn't do much good to state the focusing affirmations in the first person as that can be creating a conflict with currently held believes, reinforced by the status-quo of currently experienced reality feedback :-) Instead, in the example of creating personal financial affluence he suggests repeating for some period, few times a day words 'Wealth' and 'Success'. That gearing for having the mind ruminating on the desired topic while creating positive and accomplishing type feelings along the way.
The technique is similar to some of the Abraham channel info. A couple of those are mnemonics of the type: 'What if' and 'Wouldn't it be nice, if'. In Abe's lingo it is called 'lowering of resistance' meaning lowering of the friction between the desired and the experience while exerting the mental initiative in the direction of the desired.
I think that using the word 'I' in affirmation is still beneficial, it just needs to be done quickly in a narrowly focused fashion, say once a day within a time span of 10 minutes.
