Personal Development
Another point to be kept in mind is the fact that, just
as electricity will turn the wheels of industry and serve mankind in a
million other ways, or snuff out life if wrongly applied, so will this
principle of Autosuggestion lead you up the mountain-side of peace and
prosperity, or down into the valley of misery and poverty, according to the
application you make of it.
If you fill your mind with doubt and unbelief in your ability to achieve, then the principle of Auto-suggestion takes this spirit of unbelief and sets it up in your subconscious mind as your dominating thought and slowly but surely draws you into the whirlpool of failure. But, if you fill your mind with radiant Self-confidence, the principle of Auto-suggestion takes this belief and sets it up as your dominating thought and helps you master the obstacles that fall in your way until you reach the mountain-top of success.
THE POWER OF HABIT
Having, myself, experienced all the difficulties that stand in the road of those who lack the understanding to make practical application of this great principle of Auto-suggestion, let me take you a short way into the principle of habit, through the aid of which you may easily apply the principle of Auto-suggestion in any direction and for any purpose whatsoever.
Habit grows out of environment; out of doing the same
thing or thinking the same thoughts or repeating the same words over and
over again. Habit may be likened to the groove on a phonograph record, while
the human mind may be likened to the needle that fits into that groove.
When any habit has been well formed, through repetition of thought or action, the mind has a tendency to attach itself to and follow the course of that habit as closely as the phonograph needle follows the groove in the wax record. Habit is created by repeatedly directing one or more of the five senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and feeling, in a given direction.