The general manager of an organization told me that
for three years he feared he would lose his position. He was
always imagining failure. The thing he feared did not exist,
save as a morbid anxious thought in his own mind. His vivid
imagination dramatized the loss of his job until he became
nervous and neurotic. Finally he was asked to resign. Actually,
he dismissed himself. His constant negative imagery and fear suggestions to his subconscious mind caused the latter to.
accordingly. It caused him to make mistakes respond and react
and foolish decisions which resulted in his failure as a general
manager.
His dismissal would never have happened, if he had
immediately moved to the opposite in his mind.