This method is usually most effective because it is applied at times
and in a manner which tends to overcome any tendency to negative
influence of the conscious mind. All have seen the pitifully bashful
child whose mother takes every opportunity to tell the visitors, =in
the child's hearing=, how bashful she is. To the child she says: "My,
you are the most bashful child I ever saw." The former statement made
to the visitor, is a negative indirect suggestion; the latter, the
statement to the child, is negative Direct Suggestion. Both of these
tend to increase the child's bashfulness. They will never overcome it.