Succumbing to suggestions from other people, you can lose your individuality. To prevent this from happening, you must learn to resist the influence of others on your thoughts, principles and worldview.
Suggestion around you
Understand that suggestion is happening all the time. Advertising, traditions, presentations, social stereotypes, magazine articles and Internet posts can contain elements that can somehow influence the decisions you make. If you want to think for yourself, not dance to anyone's tune, you need to learn how to calculate when some kind of manipulation is taking place.
Suggestion can also be found in the workplace. Managers, employers skillfully focus the attention of employees on certain points. For example, to improve the efficiency and productivity of workers, bosses distract the attention of their subordinates from problems with wages or social insecurity. It sets new important tasks and exaggerates the responsibility of everyone involved in the common process.
Suggestion helps to control the behavior of people. It is not always harmless. In order not to act contrary to your principles and interests, you need to learn to recognize the signs of manipulation of your consciousness. It happens that the news skillfully brings to the fore some issues designed to divert the close attention of the people from global, serious problems.
Protection from suggestion
To resist any kind of suggestion, you need to have a clear system of values and your own opinion on issues that are important to you. You will need a critical look at external information and the ability to think logically, analyze various data. After hearing some statement, do not take their word for it. Check the facts.
Always think if any person has a motive to deceive you. If he can get any benefit, the chances of being under his pressure are higher. Don't be overly gullible and naive. Unfortunately, some can take advantage of you and use manipulation to achieve their own goals.
Be objective. Be realistic about life situations. Do not let other people deceive you, mislead you about the current situation, thickening the colors. Learn to recognize when others are dramatizing the situation on purpose in order to influence your decision.
Don't let others lead you astray. Trust yourself first of all. Otherwise, you may fall under the influence of a person who is not quite competent in this matter, or even an attacker. If you really need advice, contact an independent consultant.
