Show I 1 WHY WE HATE I 1 IC by M K THOMSON ph 0 t 31 3 31 ALL hate bonts none nona ot of as wilke WE like to be told that we must not do da this or that every such command Is ii a challenge to our personality we rebel the natural reaction to every dont Is to do the very thing we are commended not to do F avery very dont arouses a counter suggestion the force of an idea Is such that once the idea takes possession it has a way of working itself out to in action whenever the dont Is repeated either by ourselves or by others it serves to keep the idea at the focus of consciousness we cannot live on bonts body and mind we are made for action bonts do not provide opportunity for doing and since we must do something we WB end by doing the very thing that Is prohibited the laws of asso elation clation and suggestion turn th the trick etrick the most important reason why we hate bonts Is that the thing prohibited Is usually something we e have done bel be fore or are likely to do this means that it Is something we like to do we therefore resent being told not to do it A dont implies an act that Is already begun began or Is strongly contemplated in either case the muscles as well as the inner mental attitude are all set for it once an ac act t has begun to function any interruption Is looked upon as an impertinence the whole mechanism Is thrown out of g gear L ar consequently the resources of tile man are called into play piny in behalf of the act in question so that hint what was originally a mild reaction becomes a storm at mobilized rm center with the whole man mobilized in its favor 04 0 by mcclure newspaper syndicate syndic 0 |