The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-09
NERVOUS REFLECTION GENERAL, SAYS COUE
As French Visitor Goes West He Finds Fast Pace of American Life Betrayng Its Marks On Nine-enths of Men and Women He Meets-Hard Work Hurts No One, if Properly Directed

and disdain to pause to breathe in their race to their goal of achieve ment. Now, nerves cannot be kept taut for long without something else giving way So sick men and women are made. l have been asked if auto suggestion will cure them. It is i'm : possible to say with certainty, but improvement is bound to result. have told them so, but better still, the practice of auto suggestion will prevent all such evils. It cannot be too strongly recommended to ousi- ness men and workers of al kinds who are inclined to waste vital nar- vous energy in abnormal bratn ac- tiyity. 1t will act as a break. It will quiet quivering nerves; trans form an unbridled torrent ;; thoIe ht into an even flowing cain stream taa- furnishes infinitely mo:= real ererey in the long run.
 I was asked only a few days ago If l condemned the strenuous way of living and l answered, Certainly not" Work as much as you like, although it is wise not to exaggerate. But work does not hurt you if you control it and do not let it control you. Therein lies the danger. If you understand auto suggestion thoroughly. if you practice it in the spirit as well as in the letter in your business as in your social life, you will be able to obtain that essential control of your nervous force which will enable you to be as strenuous as you like and work a much as you like within the limits of human en- durance. of course, because, as I am compelled to repeat every day, auto suggestion is nothing more than the art of availing ourselves of the nat ural powers within us all and 1t should be obvious that none of us can go beyond them.
 Makes Hard Tasks Easy
 Auto suggestion teaches how to make hard tasks easy; how to an alyze thought; how to accomplish things with minimum of effort and nerve expenditure. There is not q trick in it. It is simply self mastery. Musing on the character of the peo- pie in these industrial cities, my train of thought was interrupted by man staying in the same hotel who, in the course of short conver- sation, gave me what l believe to be the key to it. His grandfather was one of those who in 1890 tracked westward and founded the city of Chicago. Where that immense city now stands there were then three or four log huts, a hundred years ago. That is what l have been trying to visualize-this amazing growth of a nation. The men of that generation were giants of achievement. reckless and extravagant in their outpouring of energy because of their haste to turn primitive settlements into or ganized states and transform indus trious communities into cities of in- dustry and thriving trade. The force of suggestion emanated from them and still works. The present gener- ation is still under its influence. null tiplied a hundred thousand fold by the accumulation of the idea of haste in the transmission of the sugges- tion from individual to individual. The suggestive force of this kind moved from east to west. That seems to explain adequately the still red hot. fast throbbing energy of these westerly cities.
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