Think and Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill) - Chapter 04:
CHAPTER 4: AUTO-SUGGESTION:
Medium for Influencing the Subconscious Mind
- The Third Step Toward Riches
Auto suggestion is your conscious mind communicating with your subconscious mind, using any of the five senses. Up to this point I've been thinking auto-suggestion is affirmations. But it's more than that. Every thought you think, whether consciously or unconsciously, forms part of your auto-suggestion to your subconscious. Hill suggests that humans have the ability to choose which thoughts reach the subconscious mind. Trouble is that we don't exercise this control. As a result, all forms of negative thoughts also find their way to our subconscious mind and become our reality, even though we'd prefer a different reality.
Treat Your Mind Like A Garden.
Always remember that weeds will grow in your garden unless you plant the seeds of the crops you want and look after these seeds until they bloom. Auto-suggestion is like the act of planting seeds in your garden.
Auto-suggestion (thoughts or spoken words) without feeling or emotion won't help. You need to infuse faith and belief into your affirmations. But how? Is it possible to fake a feeling, to act as if you feel a certain way even if you don’t?
Napoleon Hill suggests that you try and try again until you get it right. Focus on your desire until it becomes a burning obsession. Once you get to this point, you will have no trouble infusing emotion into your thoughts actions and words.
Picture The Exact Thing You Want
Next he encourages us to learn the art of concentration. Sit down with your eyes closed. Fix your desire in your mind until you develop a picture in your mind of the exact thing you want. Do this every day. See yourself in possession of the thing you want. Visualize daily, with concentration, until your subconscious mind shows you practical plans of how you can attain the money you desire.
The plan is not a blueprint with the exact step by step instructions to make things happen. It will most likely be a flash of inspiration to take a particular action. Follow this divine inspiration. Take action immediately. Don't worry if the flash of inspiration makes no logical sense to you. Trust the Infinite Intelligence to guide you to wealth, health and happiness.
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