Few people understand this term; auto-suggestion or haven’t come across it at all. But great leaders and successful individuals use this trick often and it pushes them in the right direction. Auto-suggestion is the use of positive words and sentences which, when repeated over and over, change your inner world. Let me put some light into this.. When a sports man e.g a basket-baller is given the chance to take the last shot of the game that might win the title(when the pressure is on) he begins to increase his self belief by repeating “he can do this”!. he chants this several times to himself and immediately his subconscious faculties begin to accept this pool of thought and he releases the right amount of energy to actually hit the spot.
AFFIRMATION/AUTO-SUGGESTION:
Telling yourself what to do and actually doing it against immeasurable odds. You see the mind is a very powerful tool which is divided into two faculties:
1) Conscious faculty:
enables you to think, anticipate and react to various scenarios. Can differentiate between what is real and what is not (what’s possible and what isn’t).
2) Subconscious faculty:
accepts everything you tell it, everything around your environment and cannot differentiate between what’s real and imaginary (what’s possible and what isn’t).You might probably doubt the latter but ask yourself why do you randomly lip-sync a song after hearing it repeatedly even when you told yourself at first you hated the track….Ahah!
So here’s the trick of affirmation/auto-suggestion, the more you tell yourself you can do something or become someone, your subconscious faculty accepts the idea whether its possible or not and then motivates you into actually doing it, whether it was a sale you thought couldn’t be made or a goal you felt was to far-fetched for your “not so feeble mind” . so keep repeating to yourself that you are the greatest at what you do and eventually you will be .
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