Show by JEAN NEWTON A WOMANS EYES WHEN WE WAKE UP T ONDON neurologists rece recently antly carl L ried on an Inter interesting eating nt av with ith three soldiers of the british army they tested the soldiers as to the effect of their mental attitude on their physical ply leal strength this tais was in measured by a device which the men gripped with all their might registering as they gripped it was found that in their normal state the men had au an average grip of a hundred and one pounds then hypnotized and told they were wea weak their greatest effort registered only twenty nine pounds still hypnotized hypnotize and told they were very strong their strength returned to the normal hundred and one pounds and then jumped to a hundred and forty onel one 1 so the men were weaker in tile the relation of twenty rikuo to a hundred and one when t they hey beair BELIEVED VE D they were weak but br they were strong they actu actually llly registered streng strength tb of a hundred and forty one against a normal best of a hundred and one sure enough people are arc constantly hypnotizing themselves into one thing or another some allow a few disappointments point ments or defeats to hypnotize them into accepted failure of most of these it is true that if they believed better of thern themselves selves they could do better it Is also true as enthusiastic encouragers encourage rs point out to us that most of the unusual achievements in the world went hand in hand with ene the supreme confidence which Is self hyp which convinced somo some men and women they could not fail however killjoy kill joy though trough it brands me it must be pointed out that self hypnotism can be a two edged sword how about tile the man who would have made a perfectly good carpenter who hypnotized himself into confidence that he was cut out for tile the law and lived the lire life of tile the also ran and the failure how about the farm farin lad who found self expression and joy in making things grow out of the earth but who hypnotized himself or allowed a fond parent to hypnotize him into belief that lie he was called to go to the city and make good how about abou t the woman who would have made a good accompanist but who hypnotized herself into belief that she must not be lost to the concert stage that story of heartbreak and defeat Is a not cot uncommon one the experiment of the soldiers proves how belief in ourselves can hypnotize us into strength the question is can we follow through when we wake up 0 dell bell syndicate service |