The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-11
CTT/rTECTTnM. ITS INFLUENCE ON DOUULO11OlVs OUR LIVES
By Mrs. W. J. Chambers. Read Before Mothers Union
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nCEC QO w eGt tA-tN t0Ne~ S~ ~~6 gestion? That is not the most import ant query. The question that hlls us with wonder is. how could we have lived, or can we live, without realizing this wonderfully powerful force in our lives today?
 Suggestion is scientifically recogniz- ed as the most powerful force now known. in its far reaching and lasting influence. It has been proclaimed from platform, pulpit and in the home, that it- is almost impossible to rise above or overcome your environment-sug- gestion by another fEame. The real benefft of an understanding of the law of suggestion lies in its application to the daily life of the individual. In- telllgent or ignorant, each individual obeys this law. Consciously or uneon- Bciously, each person controls his life through obedience to this law. No matter what the event or the result, it has been determined by the indIvfd- uafs use of this law to bring 1t about, and to regulate its effects on himself. This Is but saying, that no event oc- CUTS. in life unless it Is preceded by some thought conditions. Physical eff fects are thoughts materialEzed. Thoughts preceae an act, and each thought concerning ones self, is self suggestion. I can. or I cannot, pre- cedes every effort. and this resolute suggestion decides every individual ac- ton. Decision IS self suggestion. This fact shows the importance Of this study. I am, what have suggested to myself, I am. I am, that which I think I am, is true affirmation of myself. 1 am controlled by my convic- ton of truth. That which is truth to us, controls our lives. When our con- victions change, or when we are strong ly suggested to, our lives change. These convictions are strong self suggestions; instinctively from childhood we have obeyed the law of suggestion, and not understanding the law, have harmed as often as benefited ourselves.
 No better illustration of the law of self-suggestion can be found than the admonition of Paul: 'Whatsoever things are true. whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatso- ever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things" It is thinking-sef suggestion, that makes the man mentally what he is As a man thinketh in his heart, sure enough, so is he. In his heart means convic- ton.
 Now. the question comes, how are we to get the benefit of the knowledge of this law of suggestion. what are the most necessary suggestions for mother to have; for If the parent has them, the child environment will be right. Health, think, comes first, as we must have our bodies in good condition to achieve happiness, morality, joy, sue- cess, supply.
 First, let us consider suggestions of health. We are told by scientists that our bodies are made up of millions of cells, each containing a mind fitted to perform the duties to which it is as- signed, and that all of these small minds are under the control of our conscious mind. Accepting this state ment, which I-do, opens up to us long and broad vista of possibilities, for if we are the dominating or ruling mind over these smaller minds, we must use this law of suggestion to reach them, for it necessarily follows that our ob- jective mind must give the suggestion to the subconscious, and it will if we give it properly, see that it is carried out
 Remember that suggestion is all pow erful; that it acts through the object i've mind to the subconscious, and through it to the smaller or group minds, which will possibly explain those remarkable cures of some sects. How can we get health thoughts or suggestions7 There are two ways of avoiding the effects of current sugges- tions adverse to health: The frat is, by avoiding the suggestions themselves. The second by opposing counter sug- gestion. recall the case of friend whose sitting room wall paper had loosened in one corner of the room and sagged markedly; she did not want to have the room repapered just then, so decided to endure, but she became so depressed, so ambitionless,-no desire A. -I1 ing a prey to the oh! let things go poison; she realized this was let down suggestion, and the only cause she saw was that wall paper. As she was a woman with the courage of her opinions, she had her room repapered I at once, thereby giving herself a pow
 erful suggestion that our thoughts make our physical condition as well as mental.
 Another mode of preventing adverse
 suggestion is by not allowing others | to pour out their ills and miseries on
 us Chronic invalids of all kinds are
 prone to discourse exhaustively on
 their miseries whenever they can vic timize a sympathetic listener. It nev-
 CT occurs to them that they are not as interesting to others as to themselves
 nor do they think ever that they may be infiicting a possible wrong upon their listener, by filling their minds with suggestions adverse to theii
 health. Sympathy is what they want and it is often injudiciously extended l to them, for the sympathetic remarks | of a friend amount to suggestions that
 confirm and increase the already exist. ing condition.
 We get so many adverse suggestions 1 by our desires to be sympathetic tC
 an afflicted one. let us try the other method of sympathy. Come into theil room with bouyant step and with tho ! brightest look on your face you car l possibly put there; tell them some | pleasant piece of news tastefully; don't pour so much health Ideas on them | that you discourage them. Leave with
 them some pleasant thought conscious | ly, and fill their room with the though | radiations of health, for we must re.
 member that thoughts are created
 things. You know you have often haC | the experience of receiving a though
 message from friend who had decided
 to come and see you. Just so will th'
 sick one get your health suggestive | thoughts.
 | Another way to keep from getting adverse health suggestions; Do no Il read the symptoms of the hundred anC Il one patent medicines; for you know you will surely have some of them, ant Il when that time comes you have tn, corresponding suggestion for that dis
 ease, and very probably away all thos II organized minds carry you to the sug II gested goal. For instance, let us talk il our comparatively recent surgical fad fl -