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Autosuggestion is most commonly accomplished by presenting (either through caressing or bombarding) one's mind with repetitive Thoughts (negative or positive), until those thoughts become internalized. Practitioners typically hope to transmute thoughts into beliefs, and even into actualities. Visualizing the manifestations of a belief, verbally affirming it, and thinking it using one's "internal voice", are typical means of influencing one's mind via repetitive autosuggestion. Autosuggestion is normally thought of as a deliberate tool, but it can also refer to an unintentional process. The French psychologist Emile Coué wrote extensively on the theory and practice of autosuggestion. Applications of deliberate autosuggestion are intended to change the way one believes, perceives, or thinks; to change one's Acts ; or to change the way one is composed physically or Physiologically . An example might be individuals reading nightly aloud a statement they have written describing how they would like to be, then repeating the statement in their mind until they fall Asleep . People have attributed changes to such a nightly routine or similar employment of autosuggestion, for example, increased Confidence , the conquering of life-long Fear s, heightened mental faculties (e.g., ability to calculate Mathematics or Read at a quicker rate), eradication of Disease s or Infection s from one's Body , and even improved Eyesight and growing taller. It is not uncommon to hear people claim that they have been able to get rid of Wart s on their hands, simply by making a point of saying, "There go my warts!" every time they saw a garbage Truck or a trashcan, but it is not clear whether such anecdotal reports should be taken as evidence of the power of autosuggestion. The same type of effect that deliberate autosuggestion may achieve can also be seen in individuals not consciously trying to program themselves through autosuggestion. The dominant thoughts that occupy a person's conscious mind, if constantly present over an extended period of time, may have the effect of training that person's subconscious mind to organize that individual's beliefs according to those thoughts. In this sense, the mechanisms of pathological fixations and Obsession s to some extent resemble the process of autosuggestion. Autosuggestion is differentiated from Brainwashing or Hypnosis in that the suggestions given during the sessions originate with the individual, rather than originating with suggestions from others. Afterwards Johannes Schultz developed this theory as Autogenic Training REFERENCES
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