13 Principles to Manifesting Money – Principle 3
“Autosuggestion – The medium for Influencing the Subconscious Mind” ~ Napoleon Hill
Principle 3 – Autosuggestion
“Autosuggestion” refers to all ideas, thoughts and self-administered stimuli that reach your mind through the five senses. It is the communication between your conscious and sub-conscious mind…the thoughts you allow to dominate your mind – either positive or negative.
“Autosuggestion” is something we all do constantly, all day, every day of our lives – usually without thinking about it or considering the consequences. And there ARE consequences – we must live our life based on what we suggest to our subconscious mind, which then manifests it back to us in physical form. It doesn’t matter whether our suggestions are positive or negative. Our subconscious doesn’t differentiate between them – it accepts our dominating thoughts without question.
We have been designed by our Infinite Being to have absolute control over our thoughts – everything that reaches our subconscious mind. However, the greatest majority of people in the world pay no attention to what thoughts, ideas, and messages they are sending to their minds…they do not exercise their ability to control their minds and through it their life’s experiences. “Autosuggestion” is the method we have to absolutely control what we feed into our minds and attract into our lives.
In Principle 1 on ‘Desire’ there were six (6) steps to transmute your desire into money, the last step being to read aloud twice daily the written statement of your ‘Desire’ – incorporating emotions of gratitude, joy, love, excitement - repeating your statement while ‘seeing’ and ‘feeling’ yourself already possessing what you ‘Desire.’ Following these instructions daily you are using “Autosuggestion” to create habits of thought enabling you to control your mind and manifest your ‘Desire.’ Exercising your ability to control your thoughts enables you to change your “money consciousness” in a positive way.
Remember that just reading the words will achieve nothing. You must incorporate strong emotional feelings with your words – feel the Joy and Gratitude of holding the money in your hands; feel the excitement and satisfaction of paying off your bills, mortgage, and creditors; feel the Joy of giving to others and seeing the Happiness on their faces.
Your subconscious only recognizes and acts on the thoughts and words repeated with great emotion. This is the main reason people get no results, even though they are repeating their affirmations regularly. Mixing emotion with your words is so important Hill includes a reminder of it in nearly every chapter of his book, Think & Grow Rich.
Think about it for a moment and you’ll know this is true. Have you heard others (or yourself) saying, “I just can’t afford that” or “I have the worst luck” or “I’ll never be able to speak in front of a group”? What emotions or feelings are they evoking with these statements… doubt, discouragement, apprehension, defeat, fear? It’s these emotions which zoom the thoughts directly to the subconscious, creating the negative experiences everyone says they don’t want. Sending these negative emotions to your subconscious also prevents the positive statements you are affirming from taking hold in your mind. Your subconscious mind cannot hold both negative and positive at the same time.
Unemotional words don’t influence your subconscious; therefore, you get no results. But don’t get discouraged – persist in repeating your ‘Desire’ statement, increasing your feelings and emotions each time. You will notice your feelings building upon themselves as you persist. Although not difficult or hard work, it is the ‘persistence’ in following the steps, concentrating solely on your ‘Desire’ despite discouragement or lack of results, incorporating great emotion – especially Faith, the most powerful emotion – that enables you to retrain your subconscious to manifest your ‘Desire.’
Skepticism is normal and common to human beings, but don’t let it deter you. Follow the 6 Steps anyway and your skepticism will soon be replaced with Belief – the precursor to Faith. And Faith is the strongest, most effective emotion in training your subconscious.
Now get ready to read the next article in the series to learn the fourth principle in “13 Principles to Manifesting Money” …based on information gleaned from Napoleon Hill’s book, Think & Grow Rich
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(The excerpts noted in this and the following articles in this series are not meant to replace or supplant reading Napoleon Hill’s complete book Think & Grow Rich. My intention is to pique your interest and your desire to read Hill’s book by providing an overview of its concepts. In fact, I highly encourage you to read the entire book, re-read it, then read it again. No matter if reading a few marked passages or entire chapters, I always reap from this book some new understanding to apply in my life. And we never know what will stir the ‘AHA’ or mindset shift that begins our Journey to Success!)
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