New-York tribune., 1908-03-14
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" TO W0mer1.
MENTAL THERAPEUTICS
UniUersolist WOmens alliance
Learns Hp1v To Be Good.

Dip your little thnk-bucket down ipto the great
universal reservoir of good. and draw up what
ever you want. Thought will do anything. Every
thing is yours if you will it. That is the inspir-
ing creed which Mrs W. r. Dix placed before the
members of the Universalst Women's Alliance, in
a talk on Mental Therapeutics" at the Church OF
Our Father, Grand avenue and Lenerts Place.
Brooklyn yesterday. If rapt attention means any
thing her large audience found the doctrine most
fascinating.
How foolish to- am poor, 1 am SICK
am wretched,' when there is the great universal
mind ready to give health, happiness, every
goodr' said Mrs. Dix But our minds won't reach
out for the good It is our dsobedient minds
plus circu and heredity-that are RESPONSE
Bile for all the discord and disease And clrcum-
stances can be overcome: for heredity, why are
always calling grandfathers Tor the
worst things they had? l called on my grand
fathers for infammatory rheumatism. and got l..
most beautifully
A fire was the therapeutic agent that enabled
Mrs. Dix conquer the rheumatism that chained
her to her bed. She wanted to get up ana see the
fire. and she got up And for four years didn't
have a twinge of rheumatism" she declared
Now. thought do what that fire did
Human beings miserable. Mrs DIX SAID
because their subconscious minds, by which the
universal we'll of god is tapped, are mostly kept
in a trance by that cantankerous. oSooeoiehl'
wrong-seeing little layer of mentality called the
conscious mind. The mind that is always pultihs
two and two together and calling it hve, SAID
Mrs Dix. Then she described the different klnos
of mental therapeutics that can be used 70 con-
ouer that unruly conscious mind
Il can't place Christian Science with the othef
agents" she said. "snce-though IT has come
into the world to do a great deal OF good-lt IS
sectarian To use the agents l Snail name you
don't have TO accept any creed, come unoer any
religion: you begin just wnere you are
"One agent is telepathy, a method OF conveying
thought from the centre Of mind TO the centre
Of another mind Then there is hypnotism. why
are you so afraid Of hypnotisn?" DEMANDED MIS-
Dix WHY. there isn't 2 person IN 'hls room
who hasn't been hypnotized. And you nave o1teh
deliberately hypnotized your husband, your
children when you wanted your own way. YET
YOU run at the word, 1t is true hypnotism mas
sometimes been frightfully misused, but there IS
nothing to fear in it if the right principle guides
it. Hypnotis, rightly used, closes the petty upper
strata of the mind to the petty things ABOUT u.s.
and opens up vast areas of the suoconsclous fhilo
e.Then there is auto-suggestion-the suggestion
one makes through ones sef-and there IS naental
science which is the training Of the mind 10
the knowledge OF the law Of God Are you a1rao
OF that?"
Drugs are of some USE Mrs. Dix said. They irri-
tate the nerve centres, and the subconsclous nlno
wakes up and tries TO kick them out Anything
that rouses the subconscious mind IS gooo. But Il
drugs are used too continuously the subconsclous
mind gets discouraged and goes to sleep again.
And all the good, and much more. that drugs do.
thought can do. if we know how to use It, Why'
said Mrs. Dix II know woman who seven years
seo avas nearly dead from indigestion But she
wanted fried oysters and one day she made up her
mind that she would eat fried oysters and digest
them She did and from that small beginning she
went on to realms helpfulness-drst Of herself,
then of others-and now she is doing endless
good"
All the disease that is not caused by fear Is
caused by unforgfveness. Mrs. Dix said They are
the two great poisous of humanity. She told Of a
woman who had fearful headaches, caused by her
hatred Of her husband Mrs. Dix removed the
hatred and the headaches went Ike magic.
I'VE are just beginning to realize she said.
"that there is a clear. true law which, rightly
used bring the dead to life and heal the sick.
A voice IN the audience asked the lecturer how
she would her methods in case of poverty.
well, the richest people sometimes the
poorest" began Mrs. Dix.
Il mean If you found a family starving and
freezing said the voice plurnply.
IT would give them material aid said the
lecturer, but I would give them books to read
also telling them how 10 think, and printed direc-
tions for right thinking to pin their walls and
would send out my thought TO them, and very
they would find themselves drawing all they
wanted from the universal Of good.'
After the lecture over one skeptic was heard
proclaiming herself aloud in the aisle.
indigestion is indigestion" she said II go to
bed calm and happy, and wake up with fndges-
ton something frightful Now. how will thinking
help that?"
Think you haven't got it," said believer.
"Shucks," said the skeptic