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Napoleon Hill Golden Rules to auto suggestion. He term auto suggestion simply means self

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suggestion sugs ty in which one deliberately
makes to oneself. James Allen, in

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his excellent Little Magazine, As a
Man Thinks, has given the world a

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fine lesson in auto suggestion by having
shown that a man may literally make himself

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over through this process of self suggestion. This lesson, like James Allen's magazine,

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is intended mainly as a means of
stimulating men and women to the discovery

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in percept tian of the truth that
they themselves are makers of themselves by virtue

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of the thoughts which they choose and
encourage, that mind is the master weaver

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both of the inner garment of character
in the outer garment of circumstance, and

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that as they have hitherto woven in
ignorance, pain and grief, they may

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now weave in enlightenment and happiness.
This lesson is not a preachment, nor

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is it a treatise on morality or
ethics. It is a scientific treatise through

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which the student may understand the reason
why the first rung in the magic ladder

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to success was placed there, and
how to make the principle back of that

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rung a part of his or her
own working equipment with which to master life's

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most important economic problems. This lesson
is based upon the following facts. One

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dot. Every movement of the human
body is controlled and directed by thought,

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that is, by orders sent out
from the brain, where the mind has

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its seat of government. Two dot. The mind is divided into two sections,

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one being called the conscious section,
which directs our bodily activities while we

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are awake, and the other being
called the subconscious section, which controls our

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bodily activity while we are asleep.
Three dot. The presence of any thought

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or idea in one's conscious mind,
and probably the same is true of thoughts

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and ideas in the subconscious division of
the mind, tends to produce a passociated

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feeling and to urge one to appropriate
bodily activity in transforming the thought so held

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into physical reality. For example,
one can develop courage and self confidence by

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the use of the following or some
similar positive statement, or by holding the

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thought of this statement in one's mind
constantly. I believe in myself, I

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am courageous, I can accomplish whatever
I undertake. This is called auto suggestion.

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We shall now proceed to give you
the modus operandi through which the first

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step in the magic ladder to success
can be appropriated and used. To begin

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with search diligently until you find the
particular work to which you wish to devote

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your life, taking care to see
that you select that which will profit all

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who are affected by your activities.
After you have decided what your life work

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is to be, write out a
clear statement of it, and, then,

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committed to memory. Several times a
day, and especially just before going

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to sleep at night, repeat the
words of this written description of your life

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work, and affirm to yourself that
you are attracting to you the necessary forces,

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people, and material things with which
to attain the open object of your

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life work, or your definite aim
in life. Bear in mind that your

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brain is literally a magnet, and
that it will attract to you other people

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who harmonize in thought and in ideals
with those thoughts which dominate your mind and

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those ideals which are most deeply seated
in you. There is a law,

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which we may properly call the law
of attraction, through the operation of which

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water seeks its level, and everything
throughout the universe of like nature seeks its

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kind. If it were not for
this law, which is as immutable as

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the law of gravitation, which keeps
the planets in their proper places, the

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cells out of which an oak tree
grows might scamper away and become mixed with

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the cells out of which the poplar
grows, thereby producing a tree that would

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be part poplar and part oak.
But such a phenomenon has never been heard

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of. Following this law of attraction
a little further, we can see how

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it works out among men and women. We know that successful prosperous men of

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affairs seek the companionship of their own, while the down and outer seeks his

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kind, And this happens just as
naturally as water flows downhill like attracts like

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a fact which is indisputable. Then
if it is true that men are constantly

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seeking the companion ship of those whose
ideals and thoughts harmonize with their own,

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can you not see the importance of
so controlling and directing your thoughts and ideals

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that you will eventually develop exactly the
kind of magnet in your brain that you

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wish to serve as an attraction in
drawing others to you. If it is

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true, that the very presence of
any thought in your conscious mind has a

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tendency to arouse you to bodily muscular
activity that will correspond with the nature of

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the thought. Can you not see
the advantage of selecting with care the thoughts

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which you allow your mind to dwell
upon. Read these lines carefully, and

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think over and digest the meaning which
they convey. Because we are now laying

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the foundation for a scientific truth,
which constitutes the very foundation upon which all

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worth while human accomplishment is based.
We are beginning now to build the roadway

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over which you will travel out of
the wilderness of doubt, discouragement, uncertainty,

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and failure. And we want you
to familiarize yourself with every inch of

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this road. No one knows what
thought is, but every philosopher and every

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man of scientific ability who has given
any study to the subject is in accord

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with the statement that thought is a
powerful form of energy which directs the activities

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of the human body, that every
idea held in the mind through prolonged concentrated

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thought takes on perma neant form and
continues to affect the bodily activities according to

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its nature, either consciously or unconsciously. Auto suggestion, which is nothing more

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or less than an idea held in
the mind through thought, is the only

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known principle through which one may literally
make one's self over after any pattern he

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or she may choose