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