Your subconscious mind is amenable to suggestions and it is controlled by suggestion. One of the corollaries of the law of suggestion is that your subconscious mind does not engage in inductive reasoning, which means that it does not institute a line of research by collecting facts, classifying them and estimating their relative evidential values. It is recording your version of reality. The closest it comes to reasoning is purely deductive. This is true whether the premise is true or false.

In other words, its deductions from a false premise are as logically correct as if it came from a true one. Thus, if it is suggested to a hypnotized subject that he is a dog, he will immediately play that role and perform the acts of a dog, so far as it is physically possible to do so, while at the same time believing himself to be a dog.

In all probability, you have seen hypnotized subjects play the role of the type of character suggested to them by the hypnotist, for the subject believes himself to be the actual personality suggested. For instance, you could suggest to a hypnotized subject that he is President John Kennedy; and if at some time in the past he had heard President Kennedy speak or address the nation, his own personality would be completely submerged under the influence of the suggestion. He would believe himself to be the late President.

Two Opposing Suggestions:

What happens when you have opposing and conflicting suggestions?

You have the power to reject the suggestions of any other person. The suggestions of the other person have no power over you unless you accept them; then they become the movement of your own mind, or autosuggestion.

For example, if you say to a businessman or a professional man who is full of confidence and faith in his ability and understanding and who believes in success and achievement that he is going to fail, he laughs at you or treats the suggestion with scorn or ridicule. Actually, your suggestion acted as a stimulus to his conviction of advancement, prosperity and a triumphant life. This is a law: Your subconscious accepts the dominant of two ideas.

I traveled to Germany by a troop ship in the mid sixties. While at sea on the Atlantic Ocean on the way to Europe, one of my soldier friends thought he would have a little “fun.” We were experiencing higher than normal ocean wave, so he would go up to various soldiers that were sailing with us, and he would tell them that they looked ill, and pale and that perhaps the rough sea was making them ill. Many of these soldiers would react to his suggestions and get violently ill. A few soldiers were prepared, however, they has sailed on the ocean before. They knew how to handle this guy, when he said that to them, they replied: “I am here to have a wonderful time. I am going to roll with the waves and the rhythm of the deep. It is wonderful!” They neutralized his negative suggestions. His suggestions of illness fail on deft ears and they were not affected in anyway.

The negative suggestions of others, to be effective, must have a kindred spirit in you and be accepted; a fear pattern must be in your subconscious; otherwise, it would have no effect. Always remember that you can tune in with the Infinite Presence and Power within you. When you are aligned with the Infinite, you will gradually build up immunity to all harm and false suggestions.

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