The Power of Suggestion

The most powerful influence on our action and behaviors in life is the power of love. Everything that we do in life is either to get love or to compensate for a lack of love.

The most powerful single influence on the people that we become is the power of suggestion. The power of the suggestion influences the environment that surrounds us.

We are influenced by everything that we see, hear, read, watch on television, hear on the radio, read in newspapers and magazines. We are surrounded by a suggestive environment that dramatically effects how we think and feel about ourselves.

Out of all the elements in our suggestive environment, the single most influential part are the human beings with whom we habitually associate with.

Dr. David Mc Clelland of Harvard after 25 year of research into achievement found that you could take people and give them the finest training in achievement qualities and characteristics, train them in overcoming negative emotions, and developing positive attitudes, train then in mental programming in goal setting, creativity, problem solving and everything else.

However, if they went away from the training and back into an association with their previous reference group, if they began hanging out with old negative go nowhere crowd that that alone would be enough to prevent all possibility of them ever developing and reaching their full potential as a human being.

The discovery and the understanding of the importance of our reference group, the people with whom we habitually associate and identify. The people whom our role models are derived.

The reference groups are:
The family, grade school, church, sports organization we belong to, people we work with, friends and associates.

If we do not consciously deliberately select and associate with a positive reference group of achievement oriented individuals – if we continuously stay with people who are going nowhere…. That alone is enough to cut off all possibility of our ever becoming high achieving men and women.

The importance of the reference group can not be stressed enough.

We must seriously consider what we want to accomplish with our lives and remember that “birds of a feather flock together.”

If we associate on an ongoing basis with negative, pessimistic, cynical people who are going nowhere with their lives— that alone is enough to assure that we go nowhere with our lives.

It’s very important if we are seriously concerned about becoming high achievers that we make a conscious effort to begin to form newest association with positive men and women.

Make your life a total affirmation. From the time you get up in the morning remember that everything that you think about is having an effect on the person you are becoming.

Remember that you are continually evolving and growing toward the realization of your ideal self. And that the more clear and vivid that ideal self is in your imagination the more rapidly you become that person.

The more you talk about and think about visualize affirm and act the part of the person you want to be the more rapidly it comes into your reality.

The more you talk to yourself on a systematic purposeful positive basis the more likely it is that you will override all previous negative habit patterns and establish new positive habit patters of thought and begin to act like the new person.

The key to all of this is SELF DESCIPLINE… If you repeat these exercises over and over again you MUST BECOME THE NEW PERSON.

That is the way we have become the people we are today through repetition. We become the people we want to be tomorrow through repetition also.

If we develop positive expectations and always look for the good in every situation that also accelerates our program. Refuse to accept any negatives about yourself of any case.

If you make a mistake or if you fall back occasionally don’t worry about it. Throw it off. Live in the NOW… don’t worry about tomorrow. Don’t worry about the past. Just concentrate on living in the now one day at a time. Keeping your mind focused on where you want to go and who you want to be today this minute and don’t worry about anything else. Everything else will take care of itself.

Finally, continually feed your mind with books, tapes, seminars, and course, feed your mind with rich mental nutrition. Read, study, listen associate with positive people, program your mind continuously.

Imagine that you are in training for a mental marathon, starting in the morning and straight through the day you must continuously be thinking about and talking about the person you want to be with the qualities you want to have.

And finally, remember all causation is mental. Everything that ever happens to you, today, tomorrow, and the future for the rest of your life, will be determined by the content of your conscious mind. And since the only thing in the world which you have complete control is your thoughts. If you just keep your thoughts consistent with what you want to be have and do, that alone is enough to enable you to control your destiny.