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Show CZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZI Auto-suggestion is the power of the will '& ' used with deliberate purpose to effect a fL--i-- given end. It can bo used or abused, even as our will power. The majority of men, even tho most temperate and the best-con- r-p ducted among us, abuso it, although they M. OO do it unconsciously. Nevertheless, this un- nv conscious abuse of our power to will has tho effect of shortening our lives. To begin with, each one of us starts out with the notion that if wo reach, let us say, the ago By M. JEAN F1N0T. q w(j jmvfl don(j prcUy wcU fa the matter of a time record. Herein is tho first opening afforded the great dc-6troyer, dc-6troyer, and the germ of dissolution forthwith enters as an active force into tho system, slowly but nono the less surely, making headway toward our destruction, to come sooner or later. In youth, manhood and up to middle age wo are not conscious of its effects. About the age of CO, however, when wo imagine we ought to re tire, as our forefathers did before us, we begin to find old ago lying heavily heavi-ly upon us. This is really the germ of dissolution, which has reached a certain strength in its career, and which then feels powerful enough to assert its presence. Pollowing the time-honored custom, tho man of CO adopts sedentary habits and begins in most cases to lead an idle life. He is in reality playing the game for tho enomy. By degrees tho -J germ gets hi its fino work; the blood becomes vitiated; tissuo refuses to rc-crcate; tho body becomes a prey to all kinds of illnesses, to which tho inactivo life has .naturally predisposed the system. Old ago comes upon us with a rush, long, long years before it is due, and simply because wo did not make uso of our powers of auto-suggestion. What are wo to do, then? Ono of tho greatest thinkers that the world has ever known, Goethe, says that man has tho power in his own mind to eliminate from his body all 'matters that cause him suffering. But negative action will by no means suffice. Wo must live by autosuggestion, auto-suggestion, not die by it. It takes 6omo men at least 70 or 80 years to acquire a full knowledge of tho capacities and caprices of their particular physical make-up under existing conditions of knowledge. Auto-suggestion steps in, however, and makes tho body what tho mind wishes it to be. Nature has created poisons; poi-sons; but she has also created antidotes. Death is nothing but a poison which is by the averago thoughtless man allowed to take effect long years before it has reached its full power to be effective. Tho antidote to our early deaths at GO, 70, or even 80 is properly directed reflective will power pow-er or auto-suggestion. |