Show LETS LET'S TALK TALKA I ABOUT A B 0 U T BY CHARLES B B. B ROTH I GIVE YOURSELF TO A CHAIR cnAIR CHAIRA A friend of the late William James greatest psychologist of his day asked the noted man man If he would mind giving a few rules for forthe forthe forthe the Improvement of personality One rule I will give you responded responded responded re re- re- re Dr James a Ua simple rule but but so Important The rule is this Learn to give yourself up to a chair at least once each ach day Mystified the Inquirer asked what Dr James meant when he said give yourself up to a chair Practice conscious relaxation ho he was told Relax every day Relaxation particularly the ease case and restfulness associated with utter relaxation Is one of the best aids I know in developing a charming personality How often one sees these futile runarounds run men and women who are arc busy from rom morning till night who never relax who dash from one thing to another who fidget and fume who talk rapidly who burn burnup burnup burnup up energy and tire themselves and everyone else out by their fruitless display of waste motion And how rarely one finds the composed relaxed relaxed re re- re personality of power Dr James' James advice was of course purely physical physical all all you had to do was to give yourself up to the chair relax utterly let your body sag where It would But there is always al ale ways a subtle and marked relationship relation ship between mind and body And the purpose of his counsel was tc let your mental moods take then their th I tone from your physical department What mental mood can you expect ex expert pert if U you are re alway always physically tense he Inquired Jl J t t. t J |