Auto Suggestion What It Is And How To Use It For Health Happiness And Success

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII AutoSuggestion; Its Influence on Health in the Winter IF IT were not for the great increase 'in sickness during the winter months, thousands of physicians now practicing in the United States would be forced to seek ways of making a living other than prescribing or dispensing medicines for the suffering sick. A large percentage of the medical profession is comparatively idle during the summer months; but by collecting his fees from patients who have run up accounts with him during the winter months, the physician is able to tide over the slack season. Now, the cause for this phenomenon is not difficult to find, for it can be traced Tery directly, first, to the great difference between the methods of partaking of the life essentials in winter and in summer; and, second, to the depressed mental attitude so many people allow themselves to fall into at the approach of winter, and their fearful anticipation of the dangers they think it necessarily brings. The fact is, that health is quite as easily maintained, generally speaking, in winter as in any other season, if one only observes the necessary conditions. As already implied, these conditions --and they are all very simple--are both physical--that is to say, material --and mental. I shall speak first of the material conditions, or agencies, then of the right mental attitude and bow it may be strengthened by auto-suggestion. Many will say that the clothing worn is an essential consideration, but I do not intend to enter here into a discussion of the clothing question. It has been discussed over and over again by persons looked upon as eminent authorities--no two of whom can agree. Still the fact remains that there are healthy people wbo wear flannel underclothing and healthy...

Excerpt from Auto-Suggestion: What It Is and How to Use It for Health, Happiness and Success During the years 1903 and 1904 I published a series of articles on auto suggestion in the magazine suggestion. From the reception accorded the series and the great demand for back numbers of the magazine, which could not be supplied, I decided to revise the articles, make some additions and publish them in their present form. It is only within the last few years that we have thoroughly recognized the existence of one of the greatest forces in Nature, auto-suggestion, and the part it plays in influencing health, happiness and success; and the more we study its operations the clearer becomes the ex planation for so many things that for merly appeared to belong to the realm of occultism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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During the years 1903 and 1904 I published a series of articles on auto- suggestion in the magazine Suggestion. From the reception accorded the series and the great demand for back numbers of the magazine, which could not be supplied, I decided to revise the articles, make some additions and publish them in their present form. It is only within the last few years that we have thoroughly recognized the existence of one of the greatest forces in Nature, auto-suggestion, and the part it plays in influencing health, happiness and success; and the more we study its operations the clearer becomes the ex- planation for so many things that for- merly appeared to belong to the realm of occultism. It is now a demonstrable fact that all the phenomena of Christian Science, Magnetic Healing, Divine Science, Men- tal Science, Sacred Shrines, Absent 3 Treatment, Success Circles, etc., are due to auto-suggestion. In fact, the major- ity of cures made under the direction of the practitioners of the various schools of medicine can be traced directly to the same cause, and progressive physicians everywhere are now studying the phe- nomena of auto-suggestion, and the leading monthly medical magazines are teeming with valuable contributions on psycho-therapeutics. Every human being is continually in- fluenced by the subtle power of auto- suggestion, for it enters into every con- scious and unconscious action of our lives. Through its unconscious use per- sons have been made invalids for years, only to recover when the character of their auto-suggestions was changed, al- though the change may have occurred as unconsciously as the harmful auto- suggestions were first developed. After fourteen years' practical expe- rience with Suggestive Therapeutics in the treatment of patients, I have no hes- itation in saying that the most impor- tant study connected with the healing art is the study of auto-suggestion; but auto-suggestion plays such a vital part in our daily lives, in the forming of char- 4 aeter and in our successes and our fail- ures, that it should be studied and un- derstood by everyone in every walk of life. In these few chapters I have endeav- ored to show what auto-suggestion is, and have given a few illustrations to show how it can be used to advantage when understood. During the time these articles were appearing in Sugges- tion I received scores of letters from persons who claimed they had relieved themselves of long-standing troubles by following the simple instructions given therein, and I sincerely hope they may prove as beneficial to many other suffer- ers in their new form. To those who desire to make a more thorough study of Suggestive Thera- peutics in all its branches I take pleas- ure in heartily recommending my larger work entitled, "A Course in Suggestive Therapeutics."

This book continues the series on New Psychology, together with the books on "Memory Culture" and "The New Psychology". It explores how suggestions and especially autosuggestions are a key element in the obtainment of health, happiness and prosperity. Suggestion is everywhere. Therefore, we must be extremely careful on knowing what we are allowing into our lives, because suggestions are extremely powerful, as the author states in this following paragraph."Writers along special lines often have a hard fight to avoid being overcome with the Auto-Suggestions made easy by reason of their constant statements of certain special things. Experts on insanity frequently become insane. Writers upon certain forms of disease are often affected by their own statements, constantly repeated. Salesmen become impressed with certain tales told about their particular goods, that if they happen to change employers the old Auto-Suggestions are very hard to overcome. Fanaticism and bigotry arise often from the constant statement of certain beliefs to others, acting as Auto-Suggestion. In short, that which we constantly repeat to ourselves, and others, tends to become a fixed impression in our minds, difficult to eradicate, and often influencing us to a great extent. This being the case, we should avoid influencing ourselves along these undesirable lines, and should always try to impress ourselves with desirable qualities and ideas. We have the power of intelligent choice in this matter-there is no excuse for not using it properly."