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Show .y'POWKU OF SUGGESTION, j Uv ro v,m f-'''( "l1 m "lp morning and it'" sttirt out feeling fine. You meet a '' nfriend who says, "What's the mnt-'V'it'ter, mnt-'V'it'ter, have you lieeu sick? You look , ,11 kind of pale under the gills." -,:,a.' Y'ou laugh, but the suggestion )r I '' clings in your mind. Now, if you happen to meet several friends and , t'-r all of them express t lie opinion v "'it that you look 111, the chances are '. ;)J" you will begin to feel ill. - ," . This is a very old lesson In psy-,.hi psy-,.hi chology, but It is such n basic or ' ' vt rock-bottom trulli that it cannot be Is emphasized too often. f " The whole theory of Cone and rj all other experts in mental sugges-1 sugges-1 T -ii I tien or self-hypnotisni dating back f'' ,ni even to Socrates is that people react very decidedly to suggestions. "n II y"" lrll a man that be looks v -di ill, and led him often enough, the : 1 il1 chalices are he will hypnotize him-i i ' ' self into actual illness. Often, too, I if you led a nervous case such as l ol a hypoehonil fine that, be looks a V well, you help him recover. )' v All of us are subject to sugges tion. II! you doubt it, just watch n clever woman make a simpleton of n man by flattering him. Children, with their volatile imagination, are ten times as responsive re-sponsive to suggestion as grownups. grown-ups. Tell a boy he is brave, and even though timid he may become brave, if the suggestion is indelibly Impressed on his brain often enough. Take even a naturally brave boy, and impress on him that he is a coward, and you can make him a coward by destroying his confidence in himself. The worst thing parents can do to children is to say to them: "You wicked boy ! You are bad. You'll never come to any good end." Many a man, now behind the' bars in penitentiaries, is there partly because in his youth he had it constantly dinned into him that lie was bad to the heart, evil to the core. If you want to help make ii child good, impress on him that he is fundamentally good. Then tell him where be falls down. Plant good suggestions, not bad, in I his ferl ile niiud. |