Suggestion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n So friendly and so close and overlapping that there is a spontaneous reaction before you consciously know it. This is the aim of AURELIS autosuggestion. There is no coercion involved at all. [see: \u201cAutosuggestion versus Hypnosis<\/a>\u201d]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please, will you do this for me \u2015 which is also for you? In this overlap, rational and total-person-oriented, you may recognize Compassion. [see: \u201cCompassion, basically<\/a>\u201d]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Auto<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is ancient Greek for \u2018self,\u2019 of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Intriguingly, \u03b3\u03bd\u1ff6\u03b8\u03b9 \u03c3\u03b5\u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u03cc\u03bd<\/em> (gnoothi seauton, know thyself) was one of three maxims written at the entry of the temple of Apollo at Delphi. To me, the ancient meaning of \u2018auto\u2019 in this proverb wasn\u2019t about money earned or power in society, or even any conceptual measure at all. Remember, we\u2019re at Delphi, the center of a mystery religion. People were supposed to visit it carrying their deepest questions, hoping for an answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I guess the answer always came down to the same, related to \u2018self\u2019 \u2015 more specifically, the deeper self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With the deeper self, we\u2019re also at AURELIS.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Only now, there is also the science to back it up [see: \u201cThe Post-Postmodernist Brain<\/a>\u201d], and a few millennia of trial and error from which humanity seems to have learned nothing, but nevertheless. History is available, and tons of culture are at anybody\u2019s fingertips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Put in a simplified way, the deeper self is the conglomerate of broader and ever broader mental-neuronal patterns of which one is conscious, barely conscious, or non-conscious. [see: “What is \u2018Depth\u2019?<\/a>“]<\/p>\n\n\n\n The broader the pattern, the more I see it as \u2018deep.\u2019 This is not necessarily the same as \u2018far away from conscious processing.\u2019 A wise person can say profound things rather consciously \u2015 take Socrates, who liked to use the above maxim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Auto-suggestion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is vertical communication, right towards depth, to know thyself and kindle thyself to action. One may have some surface goal, such as diminishment of pain or addiction. In such a case, autosuggestion is also the communication of this goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While doing so, the goal becomes deeper, also in order to be understandable down there. The deeper self doesn\u2019t get exclusively conceptual stuff. For many, this may be the main challenge in using anything autosuggestion-related.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Practice, guidance, and putting real effort in trying to make it happen as by itself.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Nobody ever said it would be easy, not in ancient Greece, nor now. Eventually, important is what happens in depth. That is the real \u2018auto\u2019 \u2015 not the same as mere-ego. [see: “Speak to Ego and You Form Ego<\/a>“]<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you want to attain depth, you have to put aside mere-ego, even if only for a little while. This may seem easy. Think again. For a starter, who is doing the thinking now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is what I mean with real effort: starting all over again with this last question, and again, and again, for instance, before listening to some piece of autosuggestion. Without this effort, one way or another, you\u2019re kidding yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Crucial in this is utmost friendliness, for the purpose of ethics as well as efficiency.<\/p>\n