The Successful State

In Think and Grow Rich Napoleon Hill says that one can change their beliefs by changing their subconscious thoughts through Auto-Suggestion and the involvement of the 5 senses. This method will work to a degree, but what is also needed for any thought to make it into the subconscious is strong emotions.

The subconscious sees, hears, and processes all data that you receive, but will only index information as important if it is tagged with emotion. The stronger the emotion attached to incoming information the more important a tag the subconscious will place on the data.

If you have a bad experience with strong emotions attached to it the subconscious will place high importance on that data, and the next time something similar happens the subconscious will respond as before. This includes all senses and feelings attached to that information.

Let’s say a loved one has passed away. Your emotions are strong, you feel sad, depressed, and very shutdown. As people console you many of them touch your left shoulder saying how sad they are.

Months, or even years, go by and someone touches your left shoulder in the same way and instantly you find yourself in a depressed mood. What happen? Your subconscious has linked that touch to that memory, those feeling and instantly puts you in that place.

How do you change that thought? Think of a time that is a really happy memory, get yourself worked up and in a very happy mood, then ask a friend or relative to touch your left should in the same way. You may feel your mood slipping into a depressed state with the touch, but quickly think of the happy experience and get yourself worked up again. Repeat this over and over until the touch now triggers a happy feeling.

Keep building on this until that just by touching your left shoulder you can put yourself into a happy, motivated mood.

You can do this with any thought and emotional state. NLP focuses on many of these methods with great results. These triggers can then be used to put yourself into states of happiness, success, power, or any other state you wish.

Auto-Suggestion is a powerful tool but needs to be combined with strong emotions to be truly effective. Auto-Suggestions alone will work to a degree if you believe they will work, but only by combining it with strong emotions will it become a powerful tool for you to us.

Try this. Think of a very HAPPY time in your life. See that moment in your mind, feel the emotions that come with it, remember everything about it, make it real, make it now, and feel it now. When you are in the positive state briskly rub your two hands together and say, “I feel great!” Do this over and over. Repeat this for the entire week, two to five times a day.

The following week without thinking of the Happy moment briskly rub your hands together and say, “I feel great!” and see how you feel?

James Darren Davis