River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-05

cur again. You will take a great in
terest in that study; you will succeed
in it; you will get a high percent
age?" YES" / hear you say (turn-
ing this now to first person singular),
Il am going to study it. am going to
like it, am going to succeed in it and
I'm going to surprise and please my
teacher"
repeated these suggestions" over
and over again, not only each time
that the treatment was given, but for
many days in succession. She slept
well. When she awakened she had no
recollection of what had been said.
The Impressions had been made and
the subjective mind received them
without any conscious effort Of the
objective mind; hence no objective
recollection. Then, you may ask,
what becomes of the suggestions"
made to the subjective mind?
During the waking hours they rise
above the threshold of consciousness,
but not as thoughts suggested by an
other, but as an inspiration, a desire,
a determination emanating wholly
from the subject.
In the case of my niece the thought
found Judgment in very congenial soil
and brought forth good results. AT
the close of the next school year she
came home in great glee, saying, as
she handed me the card: See here,
uncle. Here is my marking on that
study did not like, but like it now.
See! / have a very high per cent. on
it. Amt it queer" OF course,
thought it was.
The question has been asked time
and again, IF the subjective mind is
intuitiye and if it is ever ready and
willing to assist, and if it has such
power over the human machinery,
why do you have to tell it what you
want (When it already knows), and
repeat and repeat and repeat (when
the memory of the subjective mind is
perfect) %
To all those who believe in prayer
/ would, in answer, ask this question:
If God is, as all believers will admit,
omniscient Gall knowing), and if, as
we are told, He is even more ready
than are our parents to give good
gifts unto His children, why does He,
who knows our desires without utter
ing them, why does He not grant
them without telling Him what we
want; or, having told him once, why
is it necessary to repeat and repeat
and repeat?
All the doubts and fears and dis
couragements lie in the objective
mind. If you can get rid of them by
one petition, you will never need
second You did not get them all at
once; you loaded up with them by de-
gres. Even when these things that
have been are no more, you still have
need to keep in touch-the finite with
the Infnite-to prevent occurrences.
Therefore, every time the sugges-
ton is made it is for the purposes of
Strengthening your objective mind
and thus to not interfere with the sub
jective, or soul mind, IN carrying out
your desire.
In the same manner when you pray
audibly (by yourself, not to be heard
by others), your faith is increased be-
cause of the spoken words acting as
an auto-suggestion. When in great
distress, you "cry aloud" mot loudly,
because the spoken heartfelt petition
relieves the over-burdened soul and
strengthens you.
Remember, God is ever ready to
help, but He helps only those who
help themselves; the subjective mind
(the mind of the souD is ever ready,
but 1t depends upon the attitude of
the objective. We are, indeed, free
moral agents.
Caution to Mothers.
Do not speak disparagingly to q
child, especially in the presence of
another To speak of a child's faults
upon such an occasion is to impress
them the more deeply upon the child.
To tell him he is stupid is to make
him the more so; to tell him he is a
coward is to eXaggerate the condition
of fear within him; to tell him he is
Idle and good-for-nothing is to make
him so; but to pick out the good
points and to speak of them is to en-
courage him and make him forget the
less desirable ones. The law of sug-
geStion is absolute.
You may remember the story OF the
mother who, upon leaving home, and
allowing her children to care for
themselves during her absence, said
to them: Nov, don't play with the
fire, nor put beans in your nose, nor
turn on the hose" etc. When she re-
turned she found that they had all
played with the fire, had turned on
the hose, and each of the children had
a bean up its nose.
This was the result of suggestion
thrown out by the mother; the con-
trariness of human nature asserting
itself.
Copyright, by Joseph B. Bewles)