Suggestion and Auto-Suggestion.
Through
this and other lessons of the Laws of Success course the student has learned
that sense impressions arising out of one’s environment, or from statements or
actions of other people, are called suggestions, while sense impressions that
we place in our own minds are placed there by self-suggestion, or
Auto-suggestion.
All
suggestions coming from others, or from environment, influence us only after we
have accepted them and passed them on to the sub-conscious mind, through the
principle of Auto-suggestion, thus it is seen that suggestion becomes, and most
become, Auto-suggestion before it influences the mind of the one receiving it.
Stated
in another way, no one may influence another without the consent of the one
influenced, as the influencing is done through one’s own power of Auto-suggestion.
The
conscious mind stands, during the hours when one is awake, as a sentinel,
guarding the sub-conscious mind and warding off all suggestions which try to
reach it from the outside, until those suggestions have been examined by the
conscious mind, passed upon and accepted. This is Nature’s way of safe-guarding
the human being against intruders who would otherwise take control of any mind
desired at will.
It
is a wise arrangement.
~
Napoleon
Hill, The
Law of Success (1928)
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