Conscious Auto-suggestion

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T. F. Unwin, limited, 1924 - 207 страници
 

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Страница 9 - Lastly, physical investigation, more than anything besides, helps to teach us the actual value and right use of the Imagination — of that wondrous faculty, which, left to ramble uncontrolled, leads us astray into a wilderness of perplexities and errors, a land of mists and shadows; but which, properly controlled by experience and reflection, becomes the noblest attribute of man ; the source of poetic genius, the instrument of discovery in Science, without the aid of which Newton would never have...
Страница 197 - ... affairs, and in every circumstance of life ; I say it is of much more real advantage to him to be thus qualified, than to be a master of all the arts and sciences in the world beside. Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.
Страница xiii - I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind...
Страница 123 - Wherefore let us examine, watch, observe and inspect our own hearts, for we ourselves are our greatest flatterers : we should every night call ourselves to an account, what infirmity have I mastered to.day ? What passion opposed ? What temptation resisted ? What virtue acquired ? Our vices will abate of themselves, if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Страница 170 - The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.
Страница 10 - But though our thought seems to possess this unbounded liberty, we shall find, upon a nearer examination, that it is really confined within very narrow limits, and that all this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience.
Страница 179 - The most critical interval of human life is that between the hour of our birth and twelve years of age. This is the time wherein vice and error take root, without our being possessed of any instrument to destroy them: and when the implement is found, they are so deeply grounded, that they are no longer to be eradicated.
Страница 26 - My experiments show that irascible, malevolent, and depressing emotions generate in the system injurious compounds, some of which are extremely poisonous ; also, that agreeable, happy emotions generate chemical compounds of nutritious value which stimulate the cells to manufacture energy.
Страница xiii - ... and they would irritate themselves until they got really sick; but Nature invariably came to the rescue, and all the third class got well.
Страница 66 - The subject is immediately felt to make a slight movement backwards, and either to stop himself from falling or else to fall completely. In the first case, tell him that he has resisted, and that he did not think just that he was falling, but that he might hurt himself if he did fall. That is true, for if he had not thought the latter, he would have Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion fallen like a block.

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