A great way to stay focused and reach our goals successfully is to understand and recognize how the power of suggestion can enhance or diminish our behaviors, and therefore our results.
If you are someone who is susceptible to suggestion, you may be swayed or convinced to take an alternative course of action just by hearing someone mention it.
This could be favorable if you planned on doing something dangerous and someone suggested that you didn’t do it. Or if someone suggested that it was a good idea to do something in which you truly believed in.
But the power of suggestion can be extremely disadvantageous if you allow others or external messages and images to distract you from your goals with ideas of lack, limitation and fear.
I’ve mentioned previously about the importance of keeping guard of your thoughts and what you allow to enter your mind.
This includes everything in which I write and speak about.
This practice of guarding our thoughts, both from what we are saying to ourselves as well as what is coming from external sources is of vital importance for staying laser-focused on reaching your goals.
Let me just take a moment to list some various types of suggestion:
1) Suggestion—anything you see, hear, feel, taste or smell.
Suggestion comes from the outside, the external.
2) Self-suggestion—the suggestions you intentionally give to yourself
3) Auto-suggestion—an automatic suggestion from the subconscious mind
4) Hetero-suggestion—a suggestion used by one person to influence another
5) Counter-suggestion—an opposing or alternative suggestion
Persistent and repetitious suggestions of all kinds impact the subconscious mind.
Being aware of this, we have the ability to keep our mind focused on what we want, what’s constructive and what’s in-line with our nature and who we are.
We can utilize the power of suggestion to help ourselves and others to learn, to grow, to empower and to inspire.
It is also possible to use this power for ulterior purposes.
Remain aware of all of the various types of suggestions you encounter each day, reduce or eliminate the dis-empowering ones, and make a conscious effort to keep your thoughts on the good, the positive and the constructive.
The better we get at keeping our thoughts constructive, the better we'll be at reaching our goals.
Thank you,
Francis Bills
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