POSITIVE AUTOSUGGESTION: 9 TRICKS TO USE IT - ARTE - 2024

The autosugestión is the influence that a person does on his own mental life and therefore on their own behavior. It can be used for all kinds of goals: lose weight, win prizes, achieve difficult goals…

Surely you have ever felt that you would like to be in a positive state, motivated or with enough energy to finish things. However, sometimes it seems impossible. One of the possible solutions is in positive suggestion. With it you can:

• Increase motivation
• Adopt beliefs that benefit you
• Eliminate destructive beliefs
• Treat some psychological disorders
• Use it as an educational method in children and adolescents

An example of autosuggestion

While I was studying at the university, I was struck by the case of a boy who had beliefs that did not adapt to reality.

The guy you are quite normal, however, he deeply believed that he had the attractiveness of a model. In fact, he was compared to athletes of body 10 like Cristiano Ronaldo.

What's more, although he had no muscles and was somewhat plump, he believed he was very strong and had abs.

He had definitely suggested himself so much that he had come to change reality.

In my opinion, this is not bad, except that the autosuggestion assumes:

• Believing it too much and not working to change the problem or improve (if you think you are the best dance and do not train, you are probably not the best)
• That negatively influences personal or professional life

The most important thing you need to know about autosuggestion

Basically, autosuggestion consists of transmitting an idea to yourself and managing to believe it. The important thing, therefore, is that you create that idea.

In fact, we are often suggested by other people:

• Leaders often suggest their followers to do what they propose
• We are suggested by the media to buy products or believe ideas or events that are sometimes false
• Our family members can also suggest us. For example, a father can make her son believe that she is the most intelligent person in the world
• Books are also suggestive. From self-help books, to love books or to earn money

In all of the above cases, ideas are introduced into the mind that succeed in influencing behavior, sometimes unconsciously.

What if you were already suggested?

Yes, in reality you are already suggested to some beliefs. And the ideal is that you are suggested towards beliefs that suppose benefits for you.

• If you have had negative experiences that have destroyed your self-esteem, you will be suggested to be someone of little value
• If you have lived in a racist environment, you will be suggested to the belief that skin color matters
• If your environment has always considered you very attractive, whether you are or not, you will be suggested by the beliefs that you are attractive
• If your family has told you that traveling is dangerous and it is better to stay at home, you will tend to believe it

Sometimes it's in your control and sometimes it's not

These are examples of cases in which you would be inadvertently being suggested (out of control):

• Your friends, partner or family transmit negative beliefs or ideas (although without bad intention)
• TV, a constant source of negative news, makes you pessimistic

These are examples of cases in which you decide what influences you (in your control):

• You choose a book because you know the author and agree with his values
• You go to a seminar to train on a topic

In general, when you are aware that something is influencing you for better or for worse, it is in your control.

When something influences your life and you do not realize it, it is out of your control and it is without a doubt something negative.

Therefore, your goal should be to realize what is influencing your life:

• What beliefs
• What influences
• What habits

Tricks for using autosuggestion

Surround yourself with what makes you grow

You will have understood already that depending on what you surround yourself in your life you will have some influences or others.

The idea is that you are aware of what influences you, and consequently, surround yourself with the positive.

Therefore, you must be aware of where you want to go and what you want to achieve in your life.

If for example you want to become a positive person:

• Read books on improvement or positive psychology
• Connect with positive people
• Avoid watching the news: 95% are negative and do not count the positive events of the world
• Do activities that put you in a positive frame of mind
• Follow people who are already positive

Use self-affirmations

Self-affirmations are nothing more than phrases that you say to yourself, and they can be negative or positive.

In reality, you are constantly saying them to yourself, although you are often unaware of them and the degree to which they influence you.

One of the ways to self-suggest is by using self-affirmations repeatedly that influence:

• Believe in your skills and talents
• Feel attractive
• See life as an opportunity
• Accept problems and see solutions
• Feel in control of your life
• Persistence
• Create positive relationships
• Accept yourself and value yourself as a person

Examples would be:

• "I am a talented and decent person"
• "I am attractive / and attract people of the opposite sex"
• «I am in control of my life and I make my own decisions»
• «My life is an opportunity to enjoy and be happy»
• "If I persist I will be able to achieve what I propose"
• "I constantly build positive relationships with close people"

Self-affirmations work, although it is also necessary to live according to them and act.

I advise you to take 4-5 self-affirmations of beliefs that you want to adopt and repeat them 1-2 minutes in the morning and 1-2 minutes in the afternoon.

Here are many sample sentences that can give you ideas.

Use visualization

With visualization you can also self-suggest by imagining the situation or state you want to reach.

For example, you can visualize:

• Being happy and in a good mood
• Seeing you as the person you want to be
• Achieving your goals

Repetition and constancy

Autosuggestion works with repetition and consistency.

There is no use using visualization or self-affirmations if you use it one day and then forget about it for weeks or months.

It is better to use them for a short time a day and every day.

For example, visualize or read self-affirmations for 5-10 minutes a day.

Be close to reality

If in the future you want to see yourself as a successful professional, you can achieve it, complying with certain variables, such as time and your effort.

However, you may use unrealistic autosuggestions such as:

• "I'm always smiling." It is practically impossible to always be happy and smiling, because problems are normal. It would be more correct: I am happy and I solve problems with positivity.
• "I'm losing weight" (even if you are not on a diet or do not exercise)
• "I can run a marathon." This autosuggestion can be used perfectly if you have trained. But if you haven't, and you try to finish the marathon, your motivation will drop like a spray. It would be more correct: "If I train daily I will finish the marathon"
• "I am equal to a model." A realistic autosuggestion is to see yourself as an attractive person
• "I have achieved all my goals." A more correct autosuggestion would be; "I'm doing things every day that lead me to my goals"

Use exciting words

If you feel strong emotions, the conditioning will happen much faster.

This can be achieved with words that suggest an emotion: wonderful, powerful, generous, exciting, beautiful, vibrant, exciting…

Use your values

Values ​​are the things that matter to you in your life and your principles of action.

Because they are an essential part of your life, if self-affirmations confirm your values, they will be much more effective.

For example, if one of your values ​​is generosity, it would be more effective:

"Every day I am generous and I help people"

If your value is ambition, it would be more effective:

«I am ambitious and I try to give the best of myself»

Use the present

Whenever possible, use the present tense for self-suggestions, both in visualization and in self-affirmations.

For example, if you want to improve your confidence:

• «I am a person worthy of value, I have power over myself»
• Visualize yourself in the present moment that way

When you want to focus on situations that need time to change you will have to use another time:

Instead of "I have lost 20 kilos and I am skinny" use "I am losing weight little by little, exercising daily and watching my diet"

Accept it and believe it

If you visualize something or self-affirm and you really don't believe it, it will be very difficult for it to influence you.

But if you repeat it daily (morning and afternoon for example) and if you believe it, it will influence your life and your behavior.

Work on yourself!

A self-affirmation like "I am becoming a great singer" can work and if you repeat it every day and believe it, the day will come when you really have it.

However, if you don't work on being a great singer, practicing and training, you won't be by magic.

Therefore, in autosuggestion requiring the adoption of skills, it is necessary to add autosuggestion to the effort.