Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-21
HOW TO STOP HURRY
 AND KILL WORRY
Wisdom For Women About Con- centration and Mind Control A7
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UTHATEVER is accomplished on w the plane of action must be wrought out first on the plane of thought. The greatest deeds are done by those able to concentrate their mem tai faculties most powerfully. If you leave your brain open to receive every floating mind vibration, catching what Mrs. James French King calls the "dust particles of thought" you become by and by a mental scrap bag. The hurry habit with which women are generally afflicted is destructive of mental power While 8 woman's hands are doing one thing her mind has jumped ahead to the next two or three things to be ac- complished. The woman is thus divid- ed up till parts of her are in two or three places at time. See? Hurry is of the devil" says the Arabian proverb.
 The next chronic evil mental habit prevalent among women is the worry habit You can't help worrying? You can help 1t. am going to tell you ex- actly how. Overcoming both the hurry and the worry habits is achieved by learning mental self control. Elizabeth Towne in her useful little book "Expe- r1ences" says she learned concentra- ton and mental control by following with her mind the motions of her hands while she did her housework Here ia the golden secret: Keep busy at sone- thing with your hands all the time and keep your mind on what you are doing. This will stop hurry and kill worry Suppose you are packing up to take a long journey. Let us suppose the woraf possible case-namely, that you have to take three or four children with you. Get away by yourself and coolly and quietly plan out your duties in proper order Then begin. Every moment keep your mind on what you are about noting ex- actly the spot in which you put each article. Have your trunks around with in easy reach. As you come to each ar ticle lay it where it belongs, at the same time giving yourself the mental charge to remember where it is. If you are interrupted at your work, make men, tai note where you leave off and de- clare you will begin there when you re-a5 turn. This can be done in one instant of time.
 An admirable way to fix your mind on a thing is to make picture of it mentally and see that picture constant- ly. Mental pictures are a marvellous aid to mind training. In respect to the disastrous hurry habit, say to yourself. T am going to do things swiftly, all things swiftly, nothing hurriedly.'' There is a radical difference between swiftness and hurry.
 Now, you have, let us say, an awful sorrow on your mind, the worst that can grip a girl or woman. On your life do not go off alone and brood over it. That will ruin your health and your good looks perhaps drive you crazy. So long as you must live, live sweetly and joyously, all the ills on earth to the contrary notwithstanding. Do some- thing useful or interesting g-housework. sewing, musical practice. Physical ex- ercise of all parts of the body is a brave slayer of grief. For this reason house. work is a noble restorer of mental health. Let me repeat the prescription: To get away from corroding trouble keep your body busy at some work and keep your mind fixed every moment on the motions of your hands. This every girl and woman can do. You will be astonished in few months to find how much you have gained in happiness and mind power as well. We are the rulers of ourselves.
 A unique and fascinating way of gaining mental power is to select some word or very short sentence descriptive of a mental quality or state you desire to attain. Fasten your mind on the let ters of the word or sentence. This helps greatly to steady the mind in concen- tration training. Suppose, let us say, you are like so many other women, tim- i'd, anxious, self distrustful, even cow ardly Take the sentence T am full of courage and power." Imagine it to be printed before you, see each letter and word with your minds eye, sleeping or waking. By and by the sentence will "strike in'' upon your soul, and you will become what the words declare. Try this plan. JANE NOSES