The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-11-10
OVERTAX THE BRAIN
MOST PEOPLE DO ENTIRELY TOO
MUCH THINKING.
Exhaust the Cells Of Their BEST
Friend" by Unnecessary Thought
Effort-Not Difficult to Check
This Bad Habit.

"The brain is mans most faithful
friend, and would be mans best com.
panion II he understood it better,
said a prominent specialist.
i 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 will
look upon it as a thing with which we
may hold communion and proceed
upon that hypothesis.
On the stage the prize idiot IN the
cast, usually a young nobleman or
dude, always raises a laugh when with
vacant stare and set features ne
speaks his lines about The effort of
thinking and the wcarying effect such
mental process produces upon his
physical being. He really speaks a
greater truth THAN either he or the
audience takes in, for thinking is an
effort, be the thought itself ever so
frothy and Cphemeral, aud could we
lessen the process of thought at VIII,
as an engineer applies the air brakes
to his train, much Of the trouble and
disease in life would vanish like the
meadow vapog before the rays of the
rising sun.
ut is this impossible process entire.
ly to still { is Gale he thinking
process which is one of the most in
teresting studies of the specialist, for
it is, plainly speaking, the inability
of the individual to elm nate certain
thoughts, or certain thought, from
the brain cells, or to still It. into mac
tivity, which fills the insane asylums,
produces nervous wrecks in other in
dividuals 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 { 1t up as another per-
son, with WON they may hold con.
verse and the objective and subjec.
tive mind admits of this through con
scious action, and In some happy and
fortunate individuals through uncon.
scious action
"A little practice will make this pos.
sible to the student, though his prog.
ress will be by degrees and not in
one jump lie should first understand
that thinking is largely a matter of
habit that the brain is one of the
most willing organs in his body at his
command, and, honest and faithful
as it Is to him, will respond to his
calls upon H. He should, therefore,
give IL as much needed rest as pos.
sible by the process of sleep, and
during waking hours by not calling
upon 1t for thought except when neces-
sary. The average person will put
tremendous amount of unnecessary
thought effort upon the simplest every
day matter of life.
Again, he will allow his objective
mind to cling to one or several
thoughts with persistent tenacity. In
this event he wears out particular
cells of his best friend and where
this habit is maintained he often be.
comes n nuisance to his friends and
family by developing into what Is
termed crank; and at times he ex.
hausts these same cells in this man.
ner and lands in the asylum
Most people use their brains too
much either in utter idle waste or
in overconcentrated work, and when
their best friend begins to show
mild resentment by showing signs of
fatigue they ply it with stimulants
which science or the distillery have
placed at their disposal. Even under
these mean circumstances the brain,
disguised though it is with such shah.
by treatment, goes ON doing the best
it can for its owner until temporarily
insensibility, insanity or death en-.
sues.
1t will be found that cooperation
with the brain in the process of still.
ing thought is not as difficult as would
be supposed, for the brain will re.
main quiescent If you win only per.
NIT It, and become strengthened there.
by, just as 1t will respond to the limit
of exhaustion when called upon. This
theory is very easily evolved into sue.
cessful practice, and | commend IL 10
men of active minds, especially pro.
fessional men, for il will be found to
lessen nervous tension, sootho the
temper, promote the appetite and pro-
duce good nature in otherwise nerv-
Gus, melancholy people