PRACTICAL PSYCHOLOGY CLUB

Evening Star, Issue 22638, 3 May 1937, Page 2

PRACTICAL PSYCHOLOGY CLUB

‘ The Value of Constructive Thought* was the subject for consideration at the Dunedin Practical PsychologyjCiub last Thursday evening. Thought, ifi was stated, could, in a simple manner, be divided into two classes, constructive and destructive thought. Thoughts of health, success, courage, and leva were types of constructive thoughts, while thoughts of sickness, failure, fear, and hate would come under the second classification. Constructive thoughts built up the life and character, and when one met a man or woman who achieved and conquered, one could be very sure they were the type that habitually held in their mu>ds constructive thoughts. On the other hand, destructive thoughts broke down and destroyed the life and character, and the whole tone of the body was lowered, , , . . It depended on what type of thought man persistently dwelt upon and passed on to the sub-conscious mind, what Jus action in life would be. If. the mmd dwelt upon constructive thought, constructive action took place as a natural result. It had been truly said that thoughts were the tools with which man fashioned his life, and if man wished to build a strong and beautiful character, his thoughts must be of beauty and strength. By the law of attraction good and constructive thoughts were connected together. A good thought held steadfastly in the mind thus attracted to it other thoughts of a similar, nature, forming in the life a constructive force for good. . Every invention, everything constructed by man, had first been a thought in the mind, and, in this connection, one member briefly touched upon several lives where constructive thought,' followed by constructive action. bad helped to make the world a much better place for man to live in. For each evening the president gave members a constructive thought _to carry away, and illustrated practical wavs in which it could be used in the daily life for character building.