The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-08

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| of course, that which is contrary to
the laws of nature and the universe.
How are we to attain this COM
mand? We must first thoroughly
grasp az least the elements Of the
mechanism of the mental portion of
what constitutes the human being.
| The mental personality is composed
| of the conscious and the subcon-
| scious. 1t is generally believed that
the power and acts of a man depend
! almost exclusively upon his conscious
| self. 1t is beginning to be under
| stood, however, that compared with
! the immensely of the role of the SUBJ
| conscious, that of the conscious self
| is as little islet in a vast ocean,
| subject to storm and tempesr.
| The subconsicious is a permanent.
| ultra sensitive Photographic plate
which nothing escapes. 1t registers
| all things. all thoughts, from the
most insignificant to the most sub
| lime. But it is more than that. 1t
is the source of creation and inspira-
| tion: it is the mysterious power that
| terminates ideas and effects their
naturalization in the conscious form
| of action. IL we agree that the
point of departure of our joys, our
aspirations, of all our emotions, is
| in our subconscious self. then we may
| logically deduct that every idea ger
minated in our mind has a tendency
to realization.
The Case of the Lemon
| Hundreds OF examples drawn from
little incidents of every day exist
ence enable us to verify the truth OF
all this. To illustrate the action OF
| thought on the emotive faculties, we
have but to remember any grave ac-
cident or narrowing spectacle Of
which we have BEEN a witness; i'm
mediately to feel the sensations of
pain or horror, with greater or less
| intensity, according to our individual
| temperament.
a simpler and perhaps even more
| striking example is the classic one
of the lemon. Imagine that you are
sucking a juicy, sour lemon. and your
mouth will inevitably and instan-
taneously begin to water. What has
happened Simply this: under the
influence of the idea, the glands have
gone to work and secreted an album
dant quantity of saliva--afmost as
much, in fact, as if you had actually
taken a bite at real lemon. Again,
| Just think of a scratching Iencil be-
! ing drawn perpendicularly over a
slate. and you cannot avoid shudder-
| ing and screwing up your face under
| the shock, while contracted nerves
send SILVER from the back of your
| head all down your spine.
| We must. therefore, realize that
| it is impossible to separate the ply
steal from the mental, the body from
| the mind; that they are dependent
upon each other; that they are really
one. The mental element, however,
| is always dominant. Our physical
organism is governor by 1t. So that
! we actually make or mar our own
| health and destinies according TO
1 scious self. / mean by this we are
absolutely free to implant whatever
ideas we desire in our subconscious
self, which is a never tagging re-
corder, and those ideas determine the
whole trend of -our material, mental
and moral being. 1t is just as easy
| to whisper into our receptive sub
| conscious the idea of health, as it is
| to moan over our troubles; and those
| who do may be certain of the result.
| because, as l hope | have convinced
them, it is based on natures laws.
| Role of Imagination
Before beginning to explain the
practical application of auto-sugges :
tion AMI the extremely simple method
by which it is possible for everyone
to gain complete mastery over his or
her physical organism, l must speak