Pick up the paper any day, and you can read dozens of
items that could sow the seeds of futility, fear, worry, anxiety,
and impending doom. If accepted by you, these thoughts
of fear could cause you to lose the will for life. Knowing
that you can reject all these negative suggestions by giving
your subconscious mind constructive autosuggestions, you
counteract all these destructive ideas.
Check regularly on the negative suggestions that people
make to you. You do not have to be influenced by destructive
heterosuggestion. All of us have suffered from it in our
childhood and in our teens. If you look back, you can easily
recall how parents, friends, relatives, teachers, and associates
contributed in a campaign of negative suggestions.
Study the things said to you, and you will discover much
of it was in the form of propaganda. The purpose of much
of what was said was to control you or instill fear into you.
This heterosuggestion process goes on in every home, office,
factory, and club. You will find that many of these sugy “stions
are for the purpose of making you think, feel, and act, as others
want you to and in ways that are to their advantage.