| Show IIII Through JEAN NEWTON NEKTON by A WOMANS WOMAN'S EYES WHEN WE WAKE UP LONDON neurologists recently carried car ried sled on an Interesting experiment with three soldiers of the British army They tested the soldiers as os to the effect ef I feet of their mental attitude on their I physical strength This was measured b by a device which 1 the men 1010 grIp gripped lIed I with all their might rt registering as asI I they gripped It was found that In their normal state the mt men n had bad an nn average grip of ot a hundred and one pounds Then hypnotized and told they were weak I heir greo greatest test effort registered only twenty nine pounds Still Stilt hypnotized and told they were WE're very ery strong their strength rt returned to the normal hundred hun hun- dyed dred and one pounds and then jumped to a hundred and one forty I ISo ISo ISo So the wen WEre WE're weaker In to the relation of twenty nine to a hundred and one when thE they m they were weak but O they were wre strong they actually registered strength of a 0 hundred and forty one forty one against a normal best of a hundred and one onel I Sure t enough nou h people are constantly h hypnotizing themselves Into one thing or another Some allow a ft few w disappointments disappointments disappointments or defeats detents to hypnotize then them Into acct accepted failure Ot Of most of these sl It Is true that If it they bt believed better of themselves they y could do better It Is also true as na enthusiastic encouragers point out cut to us that most of the unusual achievements In Inthe Inthe Inthe the world went hand In hand honl with the supreme ron confidence which confidence w Is st self self-hyp which which convinced some mine men and women they y could not fall tall However er killjoy kill-joy though It brands brans me It must be pointed palmed put out that self self- hypnotism can be a two edged sword I low flow about the man who would have made a perfectly good carpenter r r who hypnotized ll himself t Into confidence that ho lie was cut out for the law law and and Tiled lived the If life of the ohio also ra rail Tali and the tho rail full ure tire How ilow about the farm farad lad lid who found self telf expression and joy In mak makIng In Ing things grow out of ot the earth larth but who wo himself or r allowed we t a fond parent to hypnotize him him Into belief be pe belIet flat lief that he was called to go to the city and make good How flow about the woman who ho would have made a gooi good accompanist but who hypnotized her herself self telf elf Into belief that she must not be lost to the concert stage That story of heartbreak and defeat Is a not un uncommon uncommon un un- common one The experiment of ot the soldiers soldier proves how belief In ourselves can hypnotize hypnotize hypnotize hyp hyp- us Into strength The question Is can we wo follow through when w we wake up C. C Dell Belt Syndicate W U Service |
