‘WORRY’

Evening Star, Issue 18925, 27 April 1925, Page 3

‘WORRY’

MISS DALLAM'S FIFTH LECTURE At the Art Gallery Hall on Friday evening Miss Alfaretta Hallam gave her fifth lecture, entitled ‘ Worry, a Curable Mental Disease,’ before another large audience. A grief thought, she said, would change the chemistry of the whole body m a few moments. Borne persons had the faculty of getting a.person cornered and worrying them, and that was known as destructive suggestion. It was only by constructive suggestion that there could be harmony in their lives. If an animal was angered before it was slaughtered Hu; meat became tainted and was therefore not fit for eating. In the case of the human bodv worry thoughts. fear thoughts, and other destructive thoughts had the effect of poisoning the body and the blood. .Mental influence played a, big part in constructive suggestion, .and if they would only waken to the experiences about, them they would see the truth of mental influence. The same law that would tear people to pieces would pull them together if constructively applied. Because of their ignorance they were operating tile law of mental influence destructively instead of constructively 7, and that was at the hack of failure. An emotion was tho rebound of the sub-conscious mind when a thought had struck it. Miss Hallam said she classed all destructive thoughts and emotions under four heads. There were thoughts of fear. There wore people who feared their husbands, others who feared their wives, and others, again, who feared to die. They had no business to fear anybody or anything. Fear thoughts did not belong to this age. There were then grief thoughts. She had found that an individual could grieve over all sorts of things. .Many 7 grieved over the Joss of a friend or the death of a loved one, and it almost appeared that they could not trust the One with the power that was His. If a person was taken it meant that his time, had come, and he should bo allowed to go on, while those who were left, should go on being of service to others. A person might have lost all his money, hut that was only an experience. As, a race they had been in the habit of falling down at flic slirina of failure and worshipping there instead of rising to tho level of their experiences and learning the lesson of such experiences. If they had made money once they could do it again, and there . were the experiences to help them. The next typo of emotion was a keen sense of injustice, and Hud had to do with what tho olher fellow did to them. It was also a, destructive type. Tho next typo was tho emotion of regret. That had to do with what they had done to the other fellow. They had no right to regret. Borne people thought it was riglit to settle down ami think thoughts of regret ; hut that, ton, was wrong ami only poisoning the mind ami body. A person could worry over grief, a loss, a regret, and the sense of injustice. Worry was the treadmill at which Hey worked strenuously' without getting anywhere. It reduced their mental efficiency ami produced so-called loss of memory. Many of them knew what it was to worry, and not. one of them could afford to spend their time worrying. It was a needless waste of energy. If a person permitted himself to worry it became a haiuit, and it was a ,200(1 "thing to go outside and watch himself go by and see if he could react, towards lile s experiences in a construct ive. manner. When one worried one distrusted God and oiieseL. r l hey 7 should learn self-confidence, and build up the good in themselves, and they would find they had the ability to react constructively 7 towards experience. There were a tew big experiences in tho life of every person," hut it was the small experiences which the individual should know how to tackle. They 7 should learn to make their experiences the stepping stones to greater heights. Learn to control the emotions, she° said, not kill them; think constructively, and do not worry. There was a good attendance at the Queen’s Theatre last night, when Miss Hallam addressed men only. At the close of her lecture she was accorded a hearty vote of thanks. The subject for this evening will bo < How to Make a .Million—Honestly.’