The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-10-23
MOST PEOPLE DO ENTIRELY TOO
MUCH THINKING.
sNhaust the Is Of Their "Best
FRIEND by Unnecessary Thought
EHort-Not Difficult to Check
This Bad Habit.

THE brain is mans most faithful
friend. and would be mans best com
panion IT he understood 70 better
said prominent specialist
4 use the word brain TO comprehend
what we term the mind and the pro
cess Of thinking, and not as physical
object or a medium which directs our
actions or thoughts which We. or the
animate spirit, directs us, just as
theorists please to take tive viii
look upon It as a thing with which we
may hold communion and proceed
upon that hypothesis.
On the stage the prize idiot m the /
cast usually a young nobleman or a /
dude, always raises a laugh when With /
a vacant stare and set features he /
speaks his lines about the effort of |
thinking and the wearying effect such |
a mental process produces upon bis
physical being lie really speaks
greater truth tthau either he or the
audience takes in for tainking is an
effort be the thought itself ever so
nothy and ephcmeral and could we
lessen the process of thought at viii
as am engineer applies the air brakes
to his train much of the trouble aud
disease in lite would vanish like the
meadow vapor before the rays of The
rising sun
"lt is this impossible process entire
/ ly to still what is called the thinking
/ process which is one of the most I'm
teresting studies OF the specialist ior.
/ it is. plainly speaking. the inability.
/ Of the individual to eliminate certain.
thoughts, or certain thought from
/ the brain cells. or to still it into mac,
tivity. which fills the insane asyums'
produces nervous wrecks IN other in.
diyduals and causes trouble. confu-
sion and chaos all around in every,
day life
Persons to whom this fact appeals
should endeavor to take their own
brain into communion with their own
nerves; to set &c mp as another per
son with whom they may hold CON
verse and the objective and subiec.
tive mind admits of this through con.
scious action. and i'm some happy and
fortunate individuals through mcou-
scious action
"a little practice viii make this pos
slble to- the student though his prog
ress viii be by degrees and not in
one jump He should FIRST understand
that thinking is largely G matter of
habit that the brain is one of the
most willing organs ion his body at his
command and honest and faithful
as it ls To hm. win rcsp0Ga e." his
calls upon &c. He should. therefore
give st as much needed rest as pos
sible by the process OF sleep and
during waking hours By not calling
upon it for thought except when ncces
sary Tho average person win put
q tremendous amount OF nueccssa,
Thought effort upon the simplest every
day matter of life.
Again. he viii allow his objective
mind to cling TO one or several
thoughts with persistent tmaoiiy r
p this event he wears out particular
! coils OF his bos, friend and whor,
+. this habl is maintained he often bee
comes q nuisance Go his nioud8 aht
/ family by doyolopun into VEa. Is
5. termed a cHuk and ot ume Dee ox
q hausts these amc cells iu .his man
\ nor and lands DO thc aIum
3 Mos. people uso ber brains ,o,
j.. much. either u Wu idio v15to D..
a in oveIconcenrarod work. aud whct
@ lheu best friend bar0s o show
mild resentment DIS showing en o
/, fatigue they ply &C. with stmulanU
d which scicncc or Dhc dialIer hav,
placed g their disposal Even udr
these mean circumstances thc brain
diseusio1 though 30 Dos with such shah
g hy troamcut goes on DOING Che bcs
D. 10 can fo, ils owner until temporadl
insoa aiig insanity or death ca
: Sues
DO win Do found that cooperation
with the brain u thC moceaa of slim
iue thought s not aa dimcult as woub
Dee supposed for ihc brain VIII re
main quicscenI r you win only pet
mit a. aud become hencd There
by just as win respond 90 thc uui
OF exhaustion when called upon rh
theory 8 reg easily evolved Into uc
, co#fu practice and comm.ud it d
A." men of active mmd specially mo
fessioual m,u tor It wln be found O
" lessen nervous tension sootac tb
temper promote .he appodc aud plC
duce good nature in Otherwise DOTS
GUS, melancholy people