POWER of AUTO-SUGGESTION

You have the power to control your thoughts and make them do your bidding.  Your brain maybe likened to a dynamo in this respect that it generates or sets into motion the mysterious energy called thought. The stimuli that start your brain into action are of two sorts: one is AUTOSUGGESTION and the other is SUGGESTION. You can select the material out of which you're thinking is produced and that is autosuggestion or self-suggestion.

You can permit others to select the material out of which your thinking is produced and that is suggestion. It is a humiliating fact that most thought is produced by the outside suggestions of others and it is more humiliating still to have to admit that the majority of us except this suggestion without either examining it or questioning its soundness.

We read the daily paper as though every word were based upon fact. We are swayed by the gossip and idle chatter of others as though every word were true. Thought is the only thing over which you have absolute control yet unless you are the proverbial exception, which is about 1 out of every 10000, you permit other people to enter the sacred mansion of your mind and there deposit through suggestion, their troubles and woes, adversities and falsehoods just as though you did not have the power to close the door and keep them out.

You have within your control the power to select the material that constitutes the dominating thoughts of your mind. And just as surely as you are reading these lines, those thoughts which dominate your mind will bring you success or failure, according to their nature. The fact that thought is the only thing over which you have absolute control is within itself of most profound significance as it strongly suggests that thought is your nearest approach to divinity on this earthly plane.

Self Control is sole a matter of thought control.

The man who exercises complete self control cannot be permanently defeated as Emerson has so well stated on his essay on compensation, for the reason that obstacles and opposition have a way of melting away when confronted by the determined mind that is guided to a definite end with complete self control.


-Excerpt from Law of Success Disc 3 (8) Napoleon Hill

Self-Control is solely a matter of Thought-Control

A person with well-developed self-control does not indulge in hatred, envy, jealousy, fear, revenge or any similar destructive emotion. A person with well-developed self-control does not go into ecstasies or become ungovernable enthusiastic over anything or anybody.

Greed and selfishness and self approval beyond the point of accurate self-analysis and appreciation of one's actual merits indicate lack of self-control in one of its most dangerous forms. Self-confidence is one of the most important essentials of success but when this faculties developed beyond the point of reason it becomes very dangerous. Self-sacrifice is a commendable quality but when it is carried to extremes, it also becomes one of the dangerous forms of lack of self-control.

You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person. Love is essential for happiness but the person who loves so deeply that his or her happiness is placed entirely in the hands of another resembles the little lamb who crept into the den of the nice gentle little wolf and begged to be permitted to lie down and go to sleep or the canary bird that persisted in playing with the cats whiskers.

-Excerpt from Law of Success Disc 3 (8) Napoleon Hill

Psycho-Cybernetics (Session 1)