Things like “Nobody likes me, I’m useless at everything, I don’t have the strength to change things.” Cognitive therapists refer to this as ‘negative self-talk’ or ‘Automatic Negative Thoughts’ (ANTs). If you have the chance to observe people who suffer from severe anxiety or depression you will soon notice the repetitive patterns of self-talk which feed their negative feelings. Our internal dialogue works upon our own mind in the same way, only its influence is more pervasive, more insidious, and more continuous. Sometimes people who are very sceptical about autosuggestion complain: “I don’t see how just saying stuff to yourself can make any difference!” On reflection, it should be common sense that both what we say to ourselves and how we say it, make an absolutely huge difference! We are all familiar with the effect that our words can have upon the thoughts and feelings of others. We all give ourselves suggestions (autosuggestions) all of the time, often of a negative or unhelpful nature. (Emile Coué, My Method, 1923) Negative Autosuggestion Now, it is in our power to turn the tables and to discipline suggestion, and direct it in the way we ourselves wish then it becomes auto-suggestion: we have taken the reigns into our own hands, and we have become masters of the most marvellous instrument conceivable. It is an all-powerful tyrant of which, unless we take heed, we are the blind instruments. Home / Automatic Negative Thoughts and Negative Self-Hypnosisįrom our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.
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