The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-14
THE GIRL YOU WOULD
LIKE TO BE.

tue AdS DeeH replaced Dy deeper
and more thorough-go system of
mental and physical training. The
modern man has found that he could
develop his physique twice as fast by
puttlns his whole mind into the bust
ness and By concentrating mentally
on those muscles which he wished to
develop prominent Yale professor
demonstrated this by instructing a
class OF would-be athletes TO develop
the right arm by physical exercise
without mental concentra ton and the
left arm by physical exercise plus men,
tai concentration on the muscles of
that particular arm. In. a given time
the left arm was far stronger than the
right arm.
Since this test. innumerable teachers
nave sprung up over the country who
teach what is called psycho-physical
culture, with or without knowledge of
the subject. and / must admit that
some of the lessons | have had by
young and charming teachers of this
science have been sufficiently amusing
TO pay for lack of knowledge gained
upon the subject At other times II
nave not only been greatly benefited,
but positively inspired by lesson
which has aroused not only physical
energy of the body. but as it were, the
vital energy of the soul TO greater
health and aspiration. Psyche physical
culture insists on the beautiful In
strength and the grace of every voluE-
tary musculsr action The develop
ment- of the body along these lines is
always harmonious, revealing the
beautiful evolution of the spirit behind
it.
Psycho-physical culture exercises
when they are illustrated look like any
other kind of exercises, but they are
begun from an entirely. different point
PHYSICAL culture is bodily motion ac-
cording to prescribed rules The exer-
cises we are describing today might be
called spiritual gymnastics. for with
out the spirit behind them they would
be nothing more than the ordinary
movements of the gymnast PSYCHIC
physical culture in particular is adapt
ed to the needs of the summer girl For
II enables her to repair the mental and
physical ravages left by the arduous
winters work and lay, in full supply
of health, both of body and mind
There are two distinct classes of wo-
men--those who are sluggish in body
and mind. who give the impression OF
being half awake, and the large ma
Jorfty who are preternaturally wide
awake and on the alert and make one
feel that even In sleep their bright
eyes are wide open, ever on the look
out for some new impression to COM
rnunicate TO the tired brain and nerves.
Of these two kinds of women the last
are the most to be pitied The slug
CARDS know Lot that they sleep through
life. letting it's most precious possess
sions slip through their listless fingers
These women need to be awakened
mentally and physically. and this Is
what psycho-physicaI culture can do
for them On the other hand. there is
the nervous woman, like d violin whose
strings are never slackened and IN
time are bound to snap.
1t sounds absurd to tell woman.
tired and worn out from a days shop-
ping, that she can use the street cars
10 rest in, and can feel in the crowd
ed car as thoroughly relaxed in mind
and body as she would In her own room
at home; how, with patience and con-
centration, this feeling of rest may be
acquired, no matter how harassing the
crowds around one may seem or how
tired one may be. There would be
fewer cases of nervous prostration if
every woman were taught how to rest
There would be fewer unhappy women
If each woman learned a few of the
simple psYcho-physical exercises, es-
pecially those for resting or energizing
herself and if she used them at the
proper time. 80
lHeIc are Hld1lN exercises Tor QUIET
ing the nerves. First of all one must
gain control of ones own attention
Few people can keep their minds on
anything for more than a few seconds
at time. but this controlling of the
attention is merely matter of prac-
tice. BY using some physical exercises
END putting the mind ON ii a focus is
gained for the thought or attention
BY concentrating the mind on any
part of the body and exercising that
part, the blood can be made to flow
freely to that section. and circulation
be aroused Immediately. In this way
perfect control is obtained of the
nerves and blood. Say we have very
nervous shopper, going through a
crowded store, being bumped hither
and thither, pushed and directed to
every counter except the one she wants
to arrive at.
Now she can go through this store
in two ways: thinking of the disagree
ableness of her surroundings. the lack
of courtesy of those about her and the
perverseness of inanimate objects she
can work herself into a state of semi
nervous collapse.
II, however, she makes I'D her mind
where she wants to go in the store
and then concentrates her thought on
the most sensitive part of the body
thought of peace. it's two to one that
she Will get to her counter quickly
without one rasp TO her nerves Very
few women know what this solar pIex-
us is or just how important 1T is to
human life and happiness. The die
tionary defines il as great center of
sympathetic nerves supplying the in
testines Its position lies at the pit of
the stomach. People say they are
struck by fear, and they feel the SEN
sation here at the solar plexus- This
great center Is almost like another
thought center, as Elizabeth Towne
says: THE solar piexus or sun center
is to the human body precisely what
the visible sun is TO the solar system.
1t is the source of all life and light"
The psycho-physicsl culturist awakens
her solar plexus by deep and rhythmic
breathing, but 1t must not be just
breathing Cor breath; II must be
breathing for peace, harmony or life.
The woman who worries or Is rest
less picks up some sort of book which