THE POWER OF THOUGHTS

 

                            HOW OUR THOUGHTS WORKS

                           ALL STUDENTS OF MENTAL INFLUENCE HAVE NOTICED THE CLOSE RESEMBLANCE THAT IS MANIFESTED BETWEEN TEH PHENOMENA ELECTRICAL AND MAGNETIC ENERGY ON THE ONE HAND AND THE PHENOMENA OF MENTAL ENERGY ON THE OTHER. SO CLOSE IS THE ANALOGY THAT OE MAY TAKE THE PROVEN FACTS OF SCIENCE RELATING TO ELECTRICAL AND MAGNETIC PHENOMENA AND CONFIDENTLY PROCEED WITH THE CERTAINLY OF FINDING A STRIKINGLY CLOSE CORRESPONDENCE IN  THE FIELD OF MENTAL PHENOMENA. AND THE RECOGNITION OF THIS FACT IS HELPING THE WORKERS IN THE MENTAL FIELD GROUP TOGETHER THE VARIED PHENOMENA THAT COME UNDER THEIR NOTICE, AND TO WORK OUT THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MENTAL INFLUENCE.

                           IN THE FIRST PLACE, IT IS NOW A FACT WELL KNOWN AND ACCEPTED BY INVESTIGATORS THAT THE GENERATION OF THOUGHT AND THE MANIFESTATION OF MENTAL STATES OCCASIONS A "BURNING UP" OF BRAIN MATTER, AND THE CONSEQUENT PRODUCTION OF A FORM OF ENERGY OF HIGH VIBRATORY POWER. PHYSIOLOGISTS RECOGNIZE THIS FACT, AND THE TEXTBOOKS MAME REFERENCE  TO IT. EXPERIMENTS HAVE SHOWN THAT THE TEMPERATURE OF THE BRAIN IS INCREASED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTENSITY OF FEELING AND THOUGHT, AND THAT THERE IS UNDOUBTEDLY A GENERATION OF ENERGY AND A CONSUMPTION OF BRAIN MATTER WHICH BEARS A VERY CLOSE RESEMBLANCE TO THE PROCESS OF THE GENERATION OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY. AND THIS BEING CONCEDED, IT FOLLOWS THAT THIS ENERGY ONCE RELEASED MUST BE EMANATED OR SENT FORTH FROM THE BRAIN IN THE MANNER AKIN TO THE EMANATIO OF OTHER KNOWN FORMS OF ENERGY, I.E IN THE FORM OF "WAVES" OF VIBRATORY FORCE. LIGHT AND HEAT TRAVEL IN THIS WAY - SO DO ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM - SO DO THE FORCES OF RADIOACTIVITY. AND THE INVESTIGATORS THAT THERE IS SUCH A THING AS THOUGHT-INDUCTION, AND MANY OTHER PHASES OF MANIFESTATION SIMILAR TO THAT EXHIBITED BY ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM.

                      YOU WILL READILY UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS A GREAT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOUGHT-WAVES SENT FORTH IDLY AND UNCONSCIOUSLY, AND WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE OF THE UNDERLYING LAWS OF MENTAL INFLUENCE, AND THOSE PROJECTED  WITH A FULL KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAWS GOVERNING THE PHENOMENA AND URGED ON AND DIRECTED BY A POWERFUL WILL OF THE SENDER. THE FORCE IS THE SAME, BUT THE DEGREE OF ITS POWER, AND THE MEASURE OF ITS EFFECTS ARE DETERMINED BY THE CONDITIONS OF ITS SENDING FORCE.

                        THE VIBRATORY FORCE OF THESE THOUGHT-WAVES DOES NOT CEASE WITH THE SENDING FORTH OF THE WAVE, BUT PERSISTS FOR A LONG TIME AFTERWARD. JUST AS HEAT IN A ROOM PERSISTS LONG AFTER THE FIRE IN THE STOVE HAS BEEN EXTINGUISHED - JUST AS THE PERFUME OF THE FLOWER EXISTS IN A ROOM LONG AFTER THE FLOWER HAS BEEN REMOVED - JUST AS A RAY OF LIGHT TRAVELS THROUGH SPACE FOR MILLIONS OF MILES, AND FOR CENTURIES AFTER THE STAR ITSELF HAS BEEN BLOTTED OUT OF EXISTENCE - JUST AS ANY AND ALL FORMS OF VIBRATORY ENERGY PERSIST IN MANIFESTING AFTER THE INITIAL IMPULSE HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN - SO DO THE VIBRATIONS OF THOUGHT CONTINUE LONG AFTER THE THOUGHT, LONG AFTER THE BRAIN WHICH SENT THEM FORTH HAS PASSED INTO DUST.

                     THERE ARE MANY PLACES TODAY FILLED WITH THE THOUGHT-VIBRATIONS OF MINDS LONG SINCE PASSED OUTSIDE OF THE BODY. THERE ARE MANY PLACES FILLED WITH THE STRONG VIBRATION OF TRAGEDIES LONG SINCE ENACTED THERE. EVERY PLACE HAS AN ATMOSPHERE OF ITS OWN, ARISING FROM THE THOUGHT VIBRATIONS SET IN MOTION BY THE VARIOUS PERSONS WHO HAVE INHABITED OR OCCUPIED THEM. EVERY CITY HAS ITS OWN MENTAL ATMOSPHERE, WHICH HAS AN EFFECT UPON PERSONS MOVING INTO THEM. SOME ARE LIVELY, SOME DULL, SOME PROGRESSIVE, SOME OLD-FOGEYISH, SOME MORAL, SOME IMMORAL - THE RESULT OF THE CHARACTER OF THE EARLY SETTLERS AND LEADING SPIRITS OF THE PLACES. THE ATMOSPHERE AFFECTS PERSONS MOVING INTO THESE TOWNS, AND EITHER SINKS TO THE GENERAL LEVEL, OR ELSE, IF STRONG ENOUGH HELPS TO CHANGE THE MENTAL TONE OF THE PLACE. SOMETIMES A CHANGE IN CONDITIONS BRINGS A LARGE INFLUX OF NEW PEOPLE TO THE TOWN,  AND THE MENTAL WAVES OF THE NEWCOMERS TEND TO BRING ABOUT A MARKED CHANGE IN THE LOCAL MENTAL ATMOSPHERE. THESE FACTS  HAVE BEEN NOTED BY MANY OBSERVING PEOPLE WHO WERE, PERHAPS, NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE LAWS AND PRINCIPLES UNDERLYING THE PHENOMENA.

                       THE LOW QUARTERS OF OUR CITIES, THE DENS OF VICE AND HAUNTS OF DISSIPATION VIBRATE WITH THE CHARACTER OF THOUGHT AND FEELING OF THOSE INHABITING THEM. AND THE WEAK-WILLED VISITORS IS THUS TEMPTED. AND, IN THE SAME WAY, CERTAIN PLACES ARE FILLED WITH STRONG, HELPFUL, ELEVATING VIBRATIONS, WHICH TEND TO LIFT UP AND ELEVATE THOSE COMING WITHIN THEIR CIRCLE OF INFLENCE. THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS ARE CONTAGIOUS, BY REASON OF THE LAW OF VIBRATION AND MENTAL INDUCTION. WHEN THIS LAW IS UNDERSTOOD THE INDIVIDUALS IS ENABLED TO PROTECT AND IMPROVE HIMSELF. SUCH KNOWLEDGE BRINGS STRENGTH.

                              KEY POINTS

                      THE MIND, IN ITS MANIFESTATION OF THOUGHT IN THE BRAIN, GENERATES A FORM OF ENERGY OF INTENSIVELY HIGH VIBRATION, WHICH ENERGY IS PROFJECTED IN VIBRATORY WAVES FROM TEH BRAINS OF OTHER PERSONS WITHIN ITS FIELD OF INFLUENCE, WHETHER THAT PERSON IS NEARBY OR AT A DISTANCE.

                         WHEN A THOUGHT OF FEELING IS GENERATED IN THE MIND OR BRAIN OF A PERSON, THE ENERGY GENERATED FLOWS FORTH FROM THE BRAIN OF THE PERSON IN THE FORM OF WAVES OF MENTAL ENERGY, SPREADING FROM THE IMMEDIATE NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE THINKER TO A DISTANCE PROPORTIONED TO THE STRENGTH OF THE THOUGHT OR FEELING. THESE THOUGHT-WAVES HAVE THE PROPERTY OF AWAKENING SIMILAR VIBRATIONS IN THE MINDS OF OTHER PERSONS COMING WITHIN THEIR FIELD OF FORCE, ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF MENTAL INFLUENCE.

                           THOUGHT-WAVES ARE MANIFESTED IN A VARIETY OF FORMS AND PHASES. SOME ARE THE WAVES EMANATED FROM THE MINDS OF ALL THINKERS, UNCONSCIOUSLY AND WITHOUT PURPOSE, AND USUALLY WITHOUT MUCH FORCE. OTHERS ARE SENT FORTH WITH GREAT FORCE, AND TRAVEL FAR, MANIFESTING A DEGREE OF INFLUENCE COMMENSURATE WITH THE FORCE WITH WHICH THEY ARE PROJECTED . OTHERS ARE DIRECTED PURPOSELY TOWARD CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS OR PLACES, AND TRAVEL ALONG RAPIDLY IN A STRAIGHT LINE TO THE POINT THAT THEY HAVE BEEN DIRECTED OR AIMED. OTHERS ARE SENT FORTH WITH GREAT STRENGTH AND POWER, BUT INSTEAD OF BEING DIRECTED TOWARD ANY PARTICULAR PERSON OR PLACE, ARE DESIGNED TO SWEEP AROUND IN GREAT WHIRLPOOLS OF ENERGY AFFECTING ALL WHO HAPPEN TO FALL WITHIN FIELD FORCE.

THE MEANING OF VIBRATION

 

                               THE LAW OF VIBRATION

                            STUDENTS OF HISTORY FIND A CONTINUOUS CHAIN OF REFERENCE TO THE MYSTERIOUS INFLUENCE OF ONE HUMA OVER THAT OF OTHERS. IN THE EARLIEST RECORDS, TRADITIONS AND LEGENDS MAY BE FOUND GIVING REFERENCE TO THE GENERAL BELIEF THAT IT WAS POSSIBLE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL TO EXERT SOME WEIRD UNCANNY POWER OVER THE MINDS OF OTHER PERSONS, WHICH WOULD INFLUENCE THE LATTER FOR GOOD OR EVIL. AND MORE THAN THIS, THE STUDENT WILL FIND AN ACCOMPANYING BELIEF THAT CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS ARE POSSESSED OF SOME MENTAL POWER WHICH BENDS EVEN "THINGS" AND CIRCUMSTANCES TO ITS MIGHT.

                      WAY BACK IN THE DIM PAST OF HUMAN HISTORY ON THIS PLANET, THIS BELIEF EXISTED, AND IT HAS STEADILY PERSISTED IN SPITE OF THE STRENUOUS OPPOSITION OF MATERIAL SCIENCE, EVEN UNTO THE PRESENT DAY. THE YEARS HAVE NOT AFFECTED THE BELIEF, AND IN THESE DAWNING DAYS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY IT HAS TAKEN ON A NEW STRENGTH AND VITALITY, FOR ITS ADHERENTS HAVE BOLDLY STEPPED TO THE FRONT, AND CONFRONTING THE DOUBTING MATERIALISTIC THINKERS, HAVE CLAIMED THED NAME OF "SCIENCE" FOR THIS TRUTH AND HAVE INSISTED THAT IT BE TAKEN, ONCE AND FOR ALL, THE CATEGORY OF SUPERSTITION, CREDULITY AND IGNORANT PLANTASM.

                                UNDERSTAND QUICKLY

                              UNDERLYING ALL FORMS, DEGREES AND APPARENT DIFFERENCE IN MATTER AND ENERGY, THERE IS TO BE FOUND A MANIFESTATION OF SOME ELEMENTARY ENERGY, WHICH MANIFEST IN WHAT IS KNOWN AS VIBRATION. EVERYTHING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD IS IN VIBRATION - EVER MANIFESTING A HIGH DEGREE OF MOTION. WITHOUT VIBRATION THERE WOULD BE NO SUCH THING AS A MATERIAL UNIVERSE. VIBRATION IS THE BASIC FORCE UNDERLYING OTHER FORCES AND THE VARIOUS FORMS OF MATTER. THE APPARENT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE VARIOUS FORMS OF MATTER, AND ALSO BETWEEN THE VARIOUS FORMS OF ENERGY, ARE CAUSED SIMPLY AND SOLELY BY THE VARYING DEGREES OF VIBRATION MANIFESTED.

                               THERE IS BUT ONE TRUTH, AND IT MANIFESTS ON ALL PLANES - THE SPIRITUAL, THE MENTAL, AND THE PHYSICAL - AND MANIFESTATIONS AGREE AND FOR EACH PLANE WILL BEAR OUT THE FACTS AND PHENOMENA OF THE ONES BELOW OR ABOVE IT - THE THREE ARE BUT VARYING PHASES OF ONE.

POINTS TO GET CONCENTRATION POWER

                               

                                GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

                  HOW TO GET CONCENTRATION POWER

                               POINT  1 : GIVE TO THE THING THAT YOU WISH TO MEMORIZE AS GREAT A DEGREE OF CONCENTRATE ATTENTION AS POSSIBLE.

                            THE DEGREE OF CONCENTRATTED ATTENTION BESTOWED UPON THE OBJECT UNDER CONSIDERATION, DETERMINES THE STRENGTH , CLEARNESS AND DEPTH OF THE IMPRESSION RECEIVED AND STORED AWAY IN THE SUBCONSCIOUSNESS. THE CHARATER OF THESE STORED AWAY IMPRESSIONS DETERMINES THE DEGREE OF EASE IN REMEMBRANCE AND RECOLLECTION.

                            POINT 2 : CONSIDERING AN OBJECT TO BE MEMORIZED, ENDEAVOR TO OBTAIN THE IMPRESSIONS THROUGH AS MANY FACULTIES AND SENSES AS POSSIBLE.

                            AN IMPRESSION RECEIVED THROUGH BOTH SOUND AND SIGHT IS DOUBLY AS STRONG AS ONE RECEIVED THROUGH ONLY ONE OF THESE CHANNELS. YOU MAY REMEMBER A NAME, OR WORLD, EITHER BY HAVING SEEN IT IN WRITING OR PRINT, OR ELSE BY REASON OF HAVING HEARD IT, BUT IF YOU HAVE BOTH SEEN AND HEARD IT YOU HAVE A DOUBLE IMPRESSION, AND POSSESS TWO POSSIBLE WAYS OF REVIVING THE IMPRESSION. YOU ARE ABLE TO REMEMBER AN ORANGE BY REASON OF HAVING GREEN IT, SMELT IT, FELT IT AND TASTED IT, AND HAVING HEARD ITS NAME PRONOUNCED. ENDEAVOR TO KNOW A THING FROM AS MANY SENSE IMPRESSION AS POSSIBLE - USE THE EYE TO ASSIST EAR IMPRESSIONS, AND THE EAR TO ASSIST IN EYE IMPRESSIONS. SEE THE THING FROM AS MANY ANGLES AS POSSIBLE.

                            POINT 3: EXERCISING THE PARTICULAR FACULTY THROUGH WHICH THE WEAK IMPRESSIONS ARE RECEIVED MAY STRENGTHEN SENSE IMPRESSIONS.

                         YOU WILL FIND THAT EITHER YOUR EYE MEMORY IS BETTER THAN YOUR EAR MEMORY, OR VICE VERSA. THE REMEDY LIES IN EXERCISING THE WEAKER FACULTY, SO AS TO BRING IT UP TO THE STANDARD OF THE STRONGER. THE CHAPTERS OF EYE AND EAR TRAINING WILL HELP YOU ALONG THESE LINES. THE SAME RULE APPLIES TO THE SEVERAL ONES WILL TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES. THE ONLY WAY TO DEVELOP A SENSE OF FACULTY IS TO INTELLIGENTLY TRAIN, EXERCISE AND USE IT. USE, EXERCISE AND PRACTICE WILL WORK MIRACLES IN THIS DIRECTION.

                          POINT 4 : MAKE YOUR FIRST IMPRESSION STRONG AND FROM ENOUGH TO SERVE AS A BASIS FOR SUBSEQUENT ONES.

                          GET INTO THE HABIT OF FACING A CLEAR, STRONG IMPRESSION OF A THING TO BE CONSIDERED, FROM THE FIRST. OTHERWISE YOU ARE TRYING TO BUILD UP A LARGE STRUCTURE UPON A POOR FOUNDATION. EACH TIME YOU REVIVE AN IMPRESSION YOU DEEPEN IT, BUT IFYOU HAVE ONLY A DIM IMPRESSION TO BEGIN WITH, THE DEEPENED IMPRESSION WILL NOT INCLUDE DETAILS OMITTED IN THE FIRST ONE. IT IS LIKE TAKING A GOOD SHARP NEGATIVE OF A PICTURE THAT YOU INTEND TO ENLARGE AFTERWARD. THE DETAILS LACKING IN THE SMALL PICTURE WILL NOT APPEAR IN THE ENLARGEMENT, BUT THOSE THAT DO APPEAR IN THE SMALL ONE, WILL BE ENLARGED WITH THE PICTURE.

                       POINT 5: REVIVE YOUR IMPRESSIONS FREQUENTLY AND THUS DEEPEN THEM.

                        YOU WILL KNOW MORE OF A PICTURE BY SEEING IT A FEW MINUTES EVERY DAY FOR A WEEK, THAN YOU WOULD BY SPENDING SEVERAL HOURS BEFORE IT AT ONE TIME. SO IT IS WITH THE MEMORY. BY RECALLING AN IMPRESSIONS A NUMBER OF A TIMES, YOU FIX IT INDELIBLY IN YOUR MIND IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT MAY BE READILY FOUND WHEN NEEDED. SUCH IMPRESSIONS ARE LIKE FOVORITE TOOLS THAT YOU NEED EVERY LITTLE WHILE - THEY ARE NOT APT TO BE MISLAID, AS ARE THOSE THAT ARE BUT SELDOM USED. USE YOUR IMAGINATION IN "GOING OVER " A THING THAT YOU WISH TO REMEMBER . IF YOU ARE STUDYING A THING, YOU WILL FIND THAT THIS "GOING OVER " IN YOUR IMAGINATION WILL HELP YOU MATERIALLY IN DISCLOSING THE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE NOT REMEMBERED ABOUT IT. BY THUS RECOGNIZING YOUR WEAK POINTS OF MEMORY, YOU MAY BE ABLE TO PICK UP THE MISSING DETAILS WHEN YOU STUDY THE OBJECT ITSELF THE NEXT TIME.

                            QUERY TABLE : ASK YOURSELF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS REGARDING THE THING UNDER CONSIDERATION. IT WILL DRAW OUT MANY BITS OF INFORMATION AND ASSOCIATED KNOWLEDGE IN YOUR MIND:

   

                          WHAT ?

                        WHERE ?

                         WHEN ?

                            HOW ?

                           WHY ?

                            WHILE THE ABOVE SIX QUERIES ARE GIVEN YOU AS A MEANS OF ACQUIRING CLEAR IMPRESSIONS AND ASSOCIATION, THEY WILL ALSO SERVE AS A MAGIC KEY TO KNOWLEDGE, IF YOU USE THEM INTELLIGENTLY, IF YOU CAN ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS REGARDING ANYTHING, YOU WILL KNOW A GREAT DEAL ABOUT THAT PARTICULAR THING. AND AFTER YOU HAVE ANSWERED THEM FULLY, THERE WILL BE BUT LITTLE UNEXPRESSED KNOWLEDGE REGARDIG THAT THING LEFT IN YOUR MEMORY.

REMEMBER FACT ( BRAIN )

 

                 

                        TIPS TO GET REMEMBER FACT

                                   QUESTIONS

                        * WHERE DID IT COME FROM OR ORIGINATE?

                        * WHAT CAUSED IT?

                        * WHAT HISTORY OR RECORD DOES IT HAVE?

                       * WHAT ARE ITS ATTRIBUTES, QUALITIES AND                                                             CHARACTERISTICS?

                       * WHAT THINGS CAN I MOST READILY ASSOCIATE WITH IT?

                       * WHAT IS IT LIKE?

                       * WHAT IS GOOD FOR - HOW MAY IT USED - WHAT 

                           CAN I DO WITH IT?

  

                       * WHAT IS IT LIKE?

                       * WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR - HOW MAY IT BE USED - WHAT 

                           CAN I  DO WITH IT?

                       * WHAT DOES IS PROVE - WHAT CAN BE DEDUCED

                           FROM IT?

                       * WHAT ARE ITS NATURAL RESULTS - WHAT HAPPENS                                               BECAUSE OF IT ?

                       * WHAT IS ITS FUTURE AND ITS NATURAL

                           OR PROBABLE END OR FINISH?

                       * WHAT DO I THINK OF IT, ON THE WHOLE - WHAT 

                           ARE MY GENERAL IMPRESSIONS REGARDING IT?

                      * WHAT DO I KNOW ABOUT IT, IN THE WAY 

                           OF GENERAL INFORMATION?

                      * WHAT HAVE I HEARD ABOUT IT, AND FROM

                          WHOM, AND WHEN?

                        IF YOU WILL TAKE THE TROUBLE TO PUT ANY "FACT " THROUGH THE ABOVE RIGID EXAMINATION, YOU WILL NOT ONLY ATTACH IT TO HUNDREDS OF CONVENIENT AND FAMILIAR OTHER FACTS, SO THAT YOU WILL REMEMBER IT READILY UPON OCCASION, BUT YOU WILL ALSO CREATE A NEW SUBJECT OF GENERAL INFORMATION IN YOUR MIND OF WHICH THIS PARTICULAR FACT WILL BE THE CENTRAL THOUGHT.

                        THE MORE OTHER FACTS THAT YOU MANAGE TO ASSOCIATE WITH ANY ONE FACT, THE MORE PEGS WILL YOU HAVE TO HANG YOUR FACTS UPON - THE MORE "LOOSE ENDS" WILL YOU HAVE WHEREBY TO PULL THAT FACT INTO THE FIELD OF CONSCIOUSNESS - THE MORE CROSS INDEXES WILL YOU HAVE WHEREBY YOU MAY "RUN DOWN" THE FACT WHEN YOU NEED IT. THE MORE ASSOCIATES YOIU ATTACH TO A FACT, THE MORE "MEANING" DOES THAT FACT HAVE FOR YOU, AND THE MORE INTEREST WILL BE CREATED REGARDING IT IN YOUR MIND. MOREOVER, BY SO DOING, YOU MAKE VERY PROBABLE THE "AUTOMATIC" OR INVOLUNTARY RECOLLECTION OF THAT FACT WHEN YOU ARE THINKING OF SOME OF ITS ASSOCIATED SUBJECTS, THAT IS, IT WILL COME INTO YOUR MIND NATURALLY IN CONNECTION WITH SOMETHING ELSE- IN A "THAT REMINDS ME" FASHION. AND THE OFTEN THAT YOU ARE INVOLUNTARY "REMINDER" OF IT, THE CLEARER AND DEEPER ITS IMPRESSION BECOMES ON THE RECORDS OF YOUR MEMORY. THE OFTENER YOU USE A FACT, THE EASIER DOES IT BECOME TO RECALL IT WHEN NEEDED. AND THE MORE ASSOCIATIONS THAT YOU BESTOW UPON A FACT, THE OFTENER IS IT LIKELY TO BE USED.

                               KEY POINTS 

                           THE MEMORY OF FACTS IS THE ABILITY TO STORE AWAY THE RECOLLECT ITEMS OF KNOWLEDGE BEARING UPON SOME PARTICULAR THING UNDER CONSIDERATION WHEN WE ASSOCIATE WHAT IS NEW WITH WHAT MOST NEARLY RESEMBLES IT IN THE MIND ALREARY, WE GIVE IT ITS PROPER PLACE IN OUR FABRIC OF THOUGH. BY MEANS OF ASSOCIATION BY SIMILARLY, WE TIE UP OUT IDEAS, AS IT WERE, IN SEPARATE BUNDLES, AND IT IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE THAT ALL THE IDEAS THAT MOST NEARLY RESEMBLE EACH OTHER BE IN OUR BUNDLE.

                             THE BEST WAY TO ACQUIRE CORRECT ASSOCIATIONS FOR A SEPARATE FACT THAT YOU WISH TO STORE AWAY SO THAT IT MAY BE RECOLLECT WHEN NEEDED OR SOME USEFUL BIT OF INFORMATION OR INTERESTING BIT OF KNOWLEDGE THAT "MAY COME IN HANDY" LATER ON - IS TO ANALYZE IT AND ITS RELATIONS. THIS MAY BE DONE BY ASKING YOURSELF QUESTIONS ABOUT IT - EACH THING THAT YOU ASSOCIATE IT WITH IN YOUR ANSWERS BEING JUST ONE ADDITIONAL "CROSS-INDEX" WHEREBY YOU MAY FIND IT READILY WHEN YOU WANT IT.

                                LEARN AS MANY FACTS ABOUT A SITUATION AS YOU CAN. THEN MORE ASSOCIATIONS THAT YOU BESTOW UPON A FACT, THE OFTENER IT IT LIKELY TO BE USED.

                             EVERY MENTAL IMAGE OR IDEA, OR RECOLLECTION IS ASSOCIATED WITH AND CONNECTED TO THE PRECEDING THOUGHT AND THE ONE FOLLOWING IT. IT IS A CHAIN THAT IS ENDLESS, UNTIL SOMETHING BREAKS INTO THE SUBJECT FROM OUTSIDE. A FACT FLASHES INTO YOUR  MIND, APPARENTLY FROM SPACE AND WITHOUT ANY REFERENCE TO ANYTHING ELSE, IN SUCH CASES YOU WILL FIND THAT IT OCCURS EITHER BECAUSE YOU HAD PREVIOUSLY SET YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS  MENTALITY AT WORK UPON SOME PROBLEM, OR BIT OF RECOLLECTION, AND THE FLASH WAS THE BELATED AND DELAYED RESULT, OR ELSE THAT THE FACT CAME INTO YOUR MIND BECAUSE OF ITS ASSOCIATION WITH SOME OTHER FACT, WHICH IN TURN CAME FROM A PRECEDENT ONE, AND SO ON.

TO GET MORE MEMORY POWER

 

                        

                             THE POWER OF YOUR BRAIN

                             HOW TO REMEMBER PLACES

                              THERE IS A GREAT DIFFERENCE IN THE VARIOUS DEGREES OF DEVELOPMENT OF "THE SENSE OF LOCALITY" IN DIFFERENT PERSONS. BUT THESE DIFFERENCES MAY BE TRACED DIRECTLY TO THE DEGREE OF MEMORY OF THAT PARTICULAR PHASE OF FACULTY OF THE MIND, WHICH IN TURN DEPENDS UPON THE DEGREE OF ATTENTION , INTEREST AND USE THAT HAS BEEN BESTOWED UPON THE FACULTY IN QUESTION. THE FACULTY OF LOCALITY INCLUDES COGNIZANCE OF PLACE, RECOLLECTION OF THE LOOKS OF PLACES, ROADS, SCENERY, AND THE LOCATION OF OBJECTS, WHERE ON A PAGE IDEAS ARE TO BE FOUND, AND POSITION GENERALLY, THE GEOGRAPHICAL FACULTY, THE DESIRE TO SEE PLACES, AND HAVE THE ABILITY TO FIND THEM.

                           PERSONS IN WHOM THIS FACULTY IS DEVELOPED TO THE HIGHEST DEGREE SEEM TO HAVE AN ALMOST INTUITIVE IDEA OF DIRECTION, PLACE AND POSITION. THEY NEVER GET LOSE OR "MIXED UP" REGARDING DIRECTION OR PLACE.THEY REMEMBER THE PLACES THEY VISIT AND THEIR RELATION IN SPACE TO EACH OTHER . THEIR MINDS ARE LIKE MAPS UPON WHICH ARE ENGRAVED THE VARIOUS ROADS, STREETS AND OBJECTS OF SIGHT IN EVERY DIRECTION. WHEN THESE PEOPLE THINK OF CHINA, LABRADOR, TERRA DEL FUEGO, NORWAY, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, TIBET, OR ANY OTHER PLACE, THEY SEEM TO THINK OF IT IN "THIS DIRECTION OR THAT DIRECTION" RATHER THAN AS A VAGUE PLACE SITUATED IN A VAGUE DIRECTION. THEIR MINDS THINK "NORTH, SOUTH, EAST OR WEST, AS THE CASE MAY BE WHEN THEY CONSIDER A GIVEN PLACE. 

                              SHADING DOWN BY DEGREES WE FIND PEOPLE AT THE OTHER POLE OF THE FACULTY WHO SEEM TO FIND IT IMPOSSIBLE TO REMEMBER ANY DIRECTION, OR LOCALITY OR RELATION IS SPACE, SUCH PEOPLE ARE CONSTANTLY LOSING THEMSELVES IN THEIR OWN TOWS, AND FEAR TO TRUST THEMSELVES IN A STRANGE PLACE. THEY HAVE NO SENSE  OF DIRECTION, OR PLACE, AND FAIL TO RECOGNIZE A STREET OR SCENE THAT THEY HAVE VISITED RECENTLY, NOT TO SPEAK OF THOSE THAT THEY TRAVELED OVER IN TIME PAST. BETWEEN THESE TWO POLES OR DEGREES THERE IS A VAST DIFFERENCE, AND IT IS DIFFICULT TO REALIZE THAT IT IS ALL A MATTER OF USE, INTEREST AND ATTENTION. THAT IT IS BUT THIS MAY BE PROVEN BY  ANYONE WHO WILL TAKE THE TROUBLE AND PAINS TO DEVELOP THE FACULTY AND MEMORY OF LOCALITY WITHIN HIS MIND. MANY HAVE DONE THIS, AND ANYONE ELSE MAY DO LIKEWISE IF THE PROPER METHODS WERE EMPLOYED.

                         THE SECRET OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FACULTY AND MEMORY OF PLACE AND LOCALITY IS AKIN TO THAT MENTIONED IN THE PRECEEDING CHAPTERS, IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MEMORY FOR NAMES AND FACES. THE FIRST THING NECESSARY IT TO DEVELOP AN INTEREST IN THE SUBJECT. YOU SHOULD BEGIN TO "TAKE NOTICE" OF THE DIRECTION OF THE STREETS OR ROADS OVER WHICH YOU TRAVEL, THE LANDMARK THE TURNS OF THE ROAD, THE NATURAL OBJECTS ALONG THE WAY. YOU SHOULD STUDY MAPS, UNTIL YOU AWAKEN A NEW INTEREST IN THEM, JUST AS DID MR.X, WHO USED THE DIRECTORY IN ORDER TO TAKE AN INTEREST IN NAMES. YOU SHOULD PROCURE A SMALL GEOGRAPHY BOOK AND STUDY DIRECTION, DISTANCE, LOCATION, SHAPE AND FORM OF COUNTRIES, ETC. NOT AS A MERE MECHANICAL THING BUT AS A LIVE SUBJECT OF INTEREST. IF THERE WERE A LARGE SUM OF MONEY AWAITING YOUR COMING IN CERTAIN SECTIONS OF THE GLOBE, YOU WOULD MANIFEST A DECIDED INTEREST  IN THE DIRECTION, LOCALITY AND POSITION OF THOSE PLACES, AND THE BEST WAY IN REACH THEM. BEFORE LONG YOU WOULD BE A VARIATABLE REFERENCE BOOK REGARDING THOSE SPECIAL PLACES. THE WHOLE THING LIES IN THE DEGREE OF "WANT TO" REGARDING THE MATTER. DESIRE AWAKENS INTERESTS, INTEREST EMPLOYS ATTENTION, AND ATTENTION BRINGS USE. YOU MUST FIRST WANT TO DEVELOP THE FACULTY OF LOCALITY - AND WANT TO "HARD ENOUGH". THE REST IS A MERE MATTER OF DETAIL.

                        KEY POINTS

                        THE FACULTY OF LOCALITY INCLUDES COGNIZANCE OF PLACE, RECOLLECTION OF THE LOOKS OF PLACES, ROADS, SCENERY, AND THE LOCATION OF OBJECTS, WHERE ON A PAGE IDEAS ARE TO BE FOUND, AND POSITION GENERALLY, THE GEOGRAPHICAL FACULTY, THE DESIRE TO SEE PLACES, AND HAVE THE ABILITY TO FIND THEM.

                         PROCURE A SMALL GEOGRAPHY BOOK AND STUDY DIRECTION, DISTANCES, LOCATION , SHAPE AND FORM OF COUNTRIES, ETC. NOT AS A MERE MECHANICAL THING BUT AS A LIVE SUBJECT OF INTEREST.

                            WHEN YOU GO OUT FOR A WALK OR A DRIVE IN YOUR CAR, GO IN A ROUND-ABOUT WAY, TAKING AS MANY TURNS AND TWISTS AS POSSIBLE. IN ORDER TO EXERCISE YOUR FACULTY OF LOCALITY AND DIRECTION - BUT ALWAYS NOTE CAREFULLY DIRECTION AND GENERAL COURSE, SO THAT YOU MAY REPRODUCE IT CORRECTLY ON YOUR MAP WHEN YOU RETURN.

                          IF ABOUT TO VISIT A STRAGE CITY, PROCURE A MAP OF IT BEFORE STARTING, AND BEGIN BY NOTHING THE CARDINAL POINTS OF THE COMPASS, STUDY TEH MAP - THE DIRECTIONS OF THE PRINCIPAL STREETS AND THE RELATIVE POSITIONS OF THE PRINCIPAL POINTS OF INTEREST, BUILDINGS, ETC. IN THIS WAY YOU NOT ONLY DEVELOP YOUR MEMORY OF PLACES, AND RENDER YOURSELF PROOF AGAINST BEING LOST, BUT YOU ALSO PROVIDE A SOURCE OF NEW AND GREAT INTEREST IN YOUR VISIT.

THE POWER OF YOUR EAR

 

                                TRAINING YOUR EAR

                                THE SENSE OF HEARING IS ONE OF THE HIGHES OF THE SENSES OR CHANNELS WHEREBY WE RECEIVE IMPRESSIONS FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD. IN FACT, IT RANKS ALMOST AS HIGH AS THE SENSE OF SIGHT. IN THE SENSE OF TASTE, TOUCH, AND SMELL THERE IS A DIRECT CONTACT BETWEEN THE SENSITIVE RECIPIENT NERVE SUBSTANCE AND THE PARTICLES OF THE OBJECT SENSED, WHILE IN THE SENSE OF SIGHT AND THE SENSE OF HEARING THE IMPRESSION IS RECEIVED THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF WAVES IN THE ATMOSPHERE (IN THE CASE OF SIGHT), OR WAVES IN THE AIR (IN THE SENSE OF HEARING). MOREOVER IN TASTE, SMELL AND TOUCH THE OBJECTS SENSED ARE BROUGHT INTO DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE TERMINAL NERVE APPARATUS, WHILE IN SEEING AND HEARING THE NERVES TERMINATE IN PECULIAR AND DELICATE SACS WHICH CONTAIN A FLUIDIC SUBSTANCE THOUGH WHICH THE IMPRESSION IS CONVEYED TO THE NERVE PROPER. LOSS OF THIS FLUIDIC SUBSTANCE DESTROYS THE FACULTY TO RECEIVE IMPRESSIONS, AND DEAFNESS OR BLINDNESS ENSUES.

                      JUST AS IT IS TRUE THAT IT IS THE MIND AND NOT THE EYE THAT REALLY SEES, SO IS IT TRUE THAT IT IS THE MIND AND NOT THE EAR THAT REALLY HEARS. MANY SOUNDS REACH THE EARS THAT ARE NOT REGISTERED BY THE MIND. WE PASS ALONG A CROWDED STREET, THE WAVES OF MANY SOUNDS REACHING THE NERVES OF THE EAR, AND YET THE MIND ACCEPTS THE SOUNDS OF BUT FEW THINGS, PARTICULARLY WHEN THE NOVELTY OF THE SOUNDS HAS PASSED AWAY. IT IS A MATTER OF INTEREST AND ATTENTION IN THIS CASE, AS WELL AS IN THE CASE OF HEARING. FOR EXAMPLE, IF WE SIT BY AN OPEN WINDOW IN THE COUNTRY ON A SUMMER DAY, WE MAY HAVE MANY STIMULI KNOCKING AT THE GATE OF ATTENTION. THE TICKING OF A CLOCK, THE SOUND OF THE WIND, THE CACKLING OF FOWL, THE QUAKLING OF DUCKS, THE BARKING OF DOGS, THE LOWING OF COWS, THE CRIES OF CHILDREN AT PLAY, TEH RUSTLING OF LEAVES, THE SONGS OF BIRDS, THE RUMBLING OF WAGONS, ETC. IF ATTENTION IS CENTERED UPON ANY ONE OF THESE, THAT FOR THE TIME BEING, ACQUIRES THE IMPORTANCE OF A KING UPON THE THRONE OF OUR MENTAL WORLD.

                         KEY POINTS

                           JUST AS IT IS TRUE THAT IT IS THE MIND AND NOT THE EYE THAT REALLY SEES, SO IS IT TRUE THAT IS THE MIND AND NOT THE EAR THAT REALLY HEARS.

                              THE MIND WILL HEAR AND FAINTEST SOUNDS FROM THINGS IN WHICH IS CENTERED INTEREST AND ATTENTION, WHILE AT THE SAME THING IGNORING THINGS IN WHICH THERE IS NO INTEREST AND TO WHICH THE ATTENTION IS NOT TURNED.

                            THE REMEDY FOR POOR HEARING, AND POOR MEMORY OF THINGS HEARD IS TO BE FOUND IN THE USE OF THE WILL IN THE DIRECTION OF VOLUNTARY ATTETION AND INTEREST.

                            THE REASON THAT MANY PEOPLE DO NOT REMEMBER THINGS THAT THEY HAVE HEARD IS SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT LISTENED PROPERLY.

                                   WAYS TO IMPROVE

                           YOUR LISTENING SKILLS:

                       * MEMORIZE AND REPEAT WORDS AND THOUGHTS HEARD IN COVERSATIONS, LECTURES, SERMONS, TV AND RADIO PROGRAMS. PICK OUT THE FIRST SENSTENCE FOR MEMORIZING AND MAKE UP YOUR MIND THAT YOUR MEMORY WILL BE AS WAX TO RECEIVE THE IMPRESSION AND AS STEEL TO RETAIN IT.

                       * LISTEN TO THE STRAY SCRAPS OF CONVERSATION THAT COME TO YOUR EAR WHILE WALKING ON THE STREET, AND ENDEAVOR TO MEMORIZE A SENTENCE OR TWO, AS IF YOU WERE TO REPEAT IT LATER IN THE DAY.

                       * LISTEN TO THE FOOTSTEPS OF DIFFERENT PERSONS AND ENDEAVOR TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THEM- EACH HAS ITS PECULIARITIES.

 

                       * GET SOME ONE TO READ AND LINE OR TWO OF POETRY OR PROSE TO YOU, AND THEN ENDEAVOR TO REMEMBER IT. A LITTLE PRACTICE OF THIS KIND WILL GREATLY DEVELOP THE POWER OF VOLUNTARY ATTENTION TO SOUNDS AND SPOKEN WORDS.

                        * ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE, PRACTICE REPEATING THE WORDS AND SOUNDS THAT YOU HAVE MEMORIZED, SO FAR AS IS POSSIBLE - FOR BY SO DOING YOU WILL GET THE MIND INTO THE HABIT OF TAKING YOU NOT ONLY IMPORVE THE SENSE OF HEARING, BUT ALSO THE FACULTY OF REMEMBERING.

PERCEPTION OF YOUR SIGHT

 

                                  TRAIN YOUR BRAIN

                              TO GET GOOD RESULTS

                                                       TRAINING THE EYE

                               BEFORE THE MEMORY CAN BE STORED WITH SIGHT IMPRESSIONS - BEFORE THE MIND CAN RECOLLECT OR REMEMBER SUCH IMPRESSIONS - THE EYE MUST BE USED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE ATTENTION. WE THINK THAT WE SEE THINGS WHEN WE LOOK AT THEM, BUT IN REALITY WE SEE BUT FEW THINGS, IN THE SENSE OF REGISTERING CLEAR AND DISTINCT IMPRESSIONS OF THEM UPON THE TABLETS OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND. WE LOOK AT THEM RATHER THAN SEE THEM.

                           A BODY MAY BE IMAGED ON THE RETINA WITHOUT INSURING PERCEPTION. THERE MUST BE AN EFFORT TO CONCENTRATE THE ATTENTION UPON THE MANY THINGS THAT THE WORLD PRESENTS TO OUR SENSES. A TEACHER ONCE SAID TO THE PUPILS OF A LARGE SCHOOL, ALL OF WHOM HAD SEEN COWS, I SHOULD LIKE TO FIND OUT HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW WHETHER A COW'S EARS ARE ABOVE, BELOW, BEHIND, OR IN FRONT OF HER HORNS.

                            I WANT ONLY THOSE PUPILS TO RAISE THEIR HANDS WHO ARE SURE ABOUT THE POSITION AND WHO WILL PROMISE TO GIVE A DOLLAR TO CHARITY IF THEY ANSWER WRONG'. ONLY TWO HANDS WERE RAISED. THEIR OWNERS HAD DRAWS COWS AND IN ORDER TO DO THAT HAD BEEN FORCED TO CONCENTRATE THEIR ATTENTION UPON THE ANIMALS. FIFTEEN PUPILS WERE SURE THAT THEY HAD SEEN CATS CLIMB TREES AND DESCEND THEM. THERE WAS UNANIMITY OF OPINION THAT THE CATS WENT UP HEADS FIRST. WHEN ASKED WHETHER THE CATS CAME DOWN HEAD OR TAIL FIRST, THE MAJORITY WAS SURE THAT THE CATS DESCENDED, AS THEY WERE NEVER KNOWN TO DO. ANY ONE WHO HAD EVER HAD EVER NOTICED THE SHAPE OF THE CLAWS OF ANY BEAST OF PREY COULD HAVE ANSWERED THE QUESTION WITHOUT SEEING AN ACUTAL DESCENT. 

                           FARMER'S BOYS WHO HAVE OFTEN SEEN COWS AND HORSES LIE DOWN AND RISE, ARE SELDOM AND RISE, ARE SELDOM SURE WHETHER THE ANIMALS RISE WITH THEIR FORE OR HIND FEET FIRST, OR WHETHER THE HABIT OF THE HORSE AGREES WITH THAT OF THE COW IN THIS RESPECT. THE ELM TREE HAS ABOUT ITS LEAF A PECULIARITY WHICH ALL OUGHT TO NOTICE THE FIRST TIME THEY SEE IT, AND YET ONLY ABOUT FIVE PER CENT OF A CERTAIN SCHOOL COULD INCORPORATE IN A DRAWING THIS PECULIARITY, ALTHOUGHT IT IS SO EASILY OUTLINED ON PAPER. PERCEPTION, TO ACHIEVE SATISFACTORY RESULTS, MUST SUMMON THE WILL TO ITS AID TO CONCENTRATE THE ATTENTION. ONLY THE SMALLEST PART OF WHAT FALLS UPON OUR SENSES AT ANY TIME IS ACTUALLY PERCEIVED.

                         THE WAY TO TRAIN THE MIND TO RECEIVE CLEAR SIGHT-IMPRESSIONS, AND THEREFORE TO RETAIN THEM IN THE MEMORY IS SIMPLY TO CONCENTRATE THE WILL AND ATTENTION UPON OBJECT OF SIGHT, ENDEAVORING TO SEE THEM PLAINLY AND DISTINCTLY, AND THEN TO PRACTICE RECALLING THE DETAILS OF THE OBJECT SOME TIME AFTERWARD. IT IS ASTONISHING HOW RAPIDLY ONE MAY IMPROVE IN THIS RESPECT BY A LITTLE PRACTICE. AND IT IS AMAZING HOW GREAT A DEGREE OF PROFICIENCY IN THIS PRACTICE ONE MAY ATTAIN IN A SHORT TIME.

                         PERCEPTION, TO ACHIEVE SATISFACTORY RESULTS, MUS SUMMON THE WILL TO ITS AID TO CONCENTRATE THE ATTENTION. ONLY THE SMALLEST PART OF WHAT FALLS UPON OUR SENSES AT ANY TIME IS ACTUALLY PERCEIVED.

                          THE WAY TO TRAIN THE MIND TO RECEIVE CLEAR SIGHT-IMPRESSIONS, AND THEREFORE TO RETAIN THEM IN THE MEMORY IS SIMPLY TO CONCETRATE THE WILL AND ATTENTION UPON OBJECTS OF SIGHT, ENDEAVORING TO SEE THEM PLAINLY AND DISTINCLY, AND THEN TO PRACTICE RECALLING THE DETAILS OF THE OBJECT SOME TIME AFTERWARD.

                            THE DESIRE TO ACCOMPLISH THE TASK ADDS AND CREATES AN ARTIFICIAL INTEREST JUST AS EFFECTIVE AS THE NATURAL FEELING. IT IS ALL A MATTER OF ATTENTION, INTEREST (NATURAL OR INDUCED) AND PRACTICE.

                               BY CHANGING YOUR MENTAL FOCUS, BY MEAS OF WILL AND ATTENTION YOU WILL BE ABLE TO CURE YOURSELF OF THE CARELESS METHODS OF SEEING AND OBSERVING THAT HAVE BEEN HINDRANCES TO YOUR SUCCESS. YOU HAVE BEEN BLAMING IT ON YOUR MEMORY, BUT THE FAULS IS WITH YOUR PERCEPTION.

                         IN ORDER TO REMEMBER THE THINGS THAT PASS BEFORE YOUR SIGHT, YOU MUST BEGIN TO SEE WITH YOUR MIND, INSTEAD OF WITH YOUR RETINA. LET TEH IMPRESSION GET BEYOND YOUR RETINA AND INTO YOUR MIND.