El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-23

eldSIlClIy. SUep dCToSS liz ~ hOiS"
lessly. If one should do a proper thing
wrong. you will suggest This is the
way to do that" don't mention the
thing you would not have done. At
tract the effort to doing the proper
thing. If you keep that system up a
while, you will hav established a
habit cure in your. class room.
Our education is made up of sug-
g~estions, and every suggestion is in
huenced entirely by those which have
preceded it. If a suggestion is con-
tinued long enough it will bear fruit as
sure as the sun line Suggestion
moves everything. 1t is important that
we have the undivided attention of the
one we wish to impress by a suggestion.
| Not only natural attentions, as of the
| animal, which is but curiosity, and
soon passes to something else that at
tracts, but voluntary attention, where
| by we are able to overcome the dis
| position to wonder.
The voluntary attention and inclinn-
ton can be developed in ourselves and
1.-THE child. 1t is will power and to the de-
| the child. 1t is will power, another de-
gree to which it is developed, do we
| find reason present. The five have the
habit of inattentiOn, consequently you
feel that everything that you have said
and done to them has been lost. Not
so. for it is stored up within him, 1T has
1 nOU rOIleu OIL. lie CHllu ludI Id a
habits can be made to have good hab-
its. You will not be able to blot out of
! the mind the old thought, but if they
! are undesirable we may overcome their
effects by placing new thoughts there.
The new thought will replace the old
che. provided the suggestion is repeat
ed often enough. DR.. Parkyn of the
| Chicago School of Psychology. says:
we give suggestion for three
/ purposes. 1. To replace old thoughts
with new ones. 2. To arouse dormant
cells to the performance of their proper
functions. 3. To place entirely new
impressions in the mind" Get the
thought you wish entertained. drilled
into the mind. keep them stimulated by
repetition. Suggestion and good is al
most certain to come. Remember, the
highest degree of suggestibility which
it is possible to induce in any indi-
vidual, is present the instant his at
tention is concentrated on the suggeS-
ton he is receiving. DR.. Baldwin
says: Teaching is the art of fixing
the attention" BY suggestion a will
full, disobedient child can be made
heedful-obedient. BY suggestion a
bright and industrious. So a violent.
disagreeable child may be made gentle
and agreeable. There can be but n
thought it seems present at a time;
now if you keep the thought in the
mind you wish to bear fruit. it gets
stronger, and the opposition gets
weaker. Suggestion upon suggestion.
Emerson said: THE river makes its
own banks. and each legitimate idea
makes its own channel also" There
is no thought in any mind, but it
quickly tends to convert itself into a
power, and organizes a huge inStru-
mentality of means. Direct the stream,
guide the thought by suggestion.
If the blood is drawn from one set
of cells it flows to another. 1t is prop
er to direct it to the set of cells we
would strengthen. By suggestion.
those having ability and are not able
to use it. can be so developed that the
output will be most satisfactory. Some
of the best writers now, were. at
the flow was damned up-under the
treatment of a good suggestion they
were set free. and you very likely have
read their works. and have been en-
tranced- The tongue can be loosened
by suggestion, and e%loquence is pres
ent with enthusiastic fire.
BY the same means one who slut
lieved. The inebriate is made
by suggestion. The drug fiend is re-
stored to the family, and made a sue
ceSSful citizen. Pain may be stopped,
insomnia cured. Great is suggestion.
In order to lave the entire and quick
| effect desired, one must not offer any
resistance to the suggestion, all the
faculties of the objective min should
be eliminated as nearly as possible.
then the subjective mind or sublimated
self is eXhalted. and accepts and car
ries out any suggestion not liable to do
him or others harm. or that is not
contrary to his ideas or morals.
h subjective mind never looses
the thought of self-preservation. or the
safety of friends. If those sports
could be taken to quietude, and placed
in a suggestive condition" that of en-
tire eXpectant centered attention. and
The state of mind and action desired
suggested. repeated and repeated, a
radical change would soon be observ-
ed, More permanent results are OBJ
tanned if Their are no counter sug-
gestiOns present. The great master
understood these laws perfectly, so he
took the blin and dumb man aside
from the multitude, and opened his
\ eyes n ears. He took with him only
such as were in sympathy when he
raised the damsel from death.
Fix the attention and suggest. There
is nothing unnatural. unreasonable or
sensational, it is simply what the law
is and how to apply it. Get hold of
the power that gives self or anti-sug-
| gestions and direct it in the line OF
thought and action desired. 1t is not
| complimentary to our boosted men
talitv. but is a fact. an untruth may be
told SO often by one that he will be-
iieve it to be true. So a statement
made to one often and persistently will
have its effect in nine times out of ten.
l Of course it is only possible to touch
on some things of psychology at this
| time. We are iuSt begiQnin to under