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The power of suggestion BY D. Paul Reilly: The human mind is like a sponge which literally soaks up all that it hears and senses. Now the real trouble arises, when it is literally bombarded from outside with an endless stream of negative, destructive ideas and concepts. Yes indeed, as the title of this article puts it 'The power of suggestion' has a mighty influence upon exactly how we think, that is of course, if we haven't yet learned the most important art of 'Thought Monitoring'. And what exactly is 'Thought Monitoring many may say? Well, to put it in really simple terms which hopefully all can fully comprehend, it means, thinking about what we're thinking about at all times. When you are monitoring your thoughts, you can quite quickly catch the very negative ones and thus eliminate them, thereby not allowing them to take root in your consciousness. So, where exactly do many of the negative suggestions come from, which if not immediately banished, can have an extremely negative effect on our thinking, and subsequent actions? Well obviously number one on the list, is the people whom you're surrounded with daily....family, friends, business associates. Now, you need to seriously think about this for a moment or two here today. If upon reflection, you realize that someone very close to you is in fact influencing you in a negative way; well then, you need to make a resolution to, either not listen to that particular person and their negative prognostications, or maybe make sure that in the future, you have no or very little actual contact with them. Yes indeed, as we've all heard before on many occasions, we need to be extremely careful of the actual company which we keep, day in and day out, for their suggestions, either negative or positive, can indeed influence our thinking, and subsequent actions. Of course, one of the daily sources of utter pessimism and negativity is The Media. That's right, all of the headlines in newsprint, or on the airwaves be it radio, T.V. or internet, are usually extremely negative, trying to tell people how very bad things are. If we daily insist on consuming a large diet of negative news, it too will undoubtedly influence us in a negative way. Yes My Friend, 'The Power of Suggestion' is enormous. So, as the young folks say, make a resolution to just 'Hang' with truly 'Positive People', whilst at the same time most definitely limiting your intake of negative, depressing news, from any source.
THINK ABOUT IT! Email: dpr@bahamas.net.bs Listen to 'Time To Think' the radio program on Star 106.5 FM at 8:55 AM & 6:20PM
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