PRACTICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22519, 13 March 1935, Page 12

PRACTICAL PSYCHOLOGY

DUNEDIN CLUB'S MEETING The Dunedin Practical Psychology Club held its first meeting of the year on Thursday last, Mrs H. S. Tiley presiding. Miss J. T. Falconer delivered a lecture on " The Key to Freedom. Miss Falconer said that the mystery of man's objective life experiences had been found in "the creative power of man's thought." So our thoughts must be watched, since every desire that was felt deeply was impressed upon the subsconcious mind and caused the thing desired to be produced in the within so that it must come forthinto expression in the personality. In learning to use the mind constructively we had to train the different faculties of mind to obey the will. The purpose of the will was to control and direct all the other powers of man; it should direct those powers so as to cause them all to do what we wanted them to do. Thought never became action unless the same will to think also willed to act. Constructive thought would promote our advancement both in attainment and achievement when the desire to work out the ideal was just as positive as the desire to imagine the ideal. The power of the will was indispensable whether the action was physical or mental. What. w e wished to have done in the body we must will to do in the body. But we must give soul to our desires. Every ■ form _of disposition came from the subconscious, be it sweetness or otherwise, but the undesirable might be removed completely by impressing upon the subconscious our most perfect idea of a sweet and kindly nature. When we are inclined to feel depressed or out of sorts we should turn our attention to the finest side of our nature and think strongly and feelingly of brightness and kindliness, cheerfulness and happiness, trying to enter into the very life of these states, endeavouring to feci that wc were becoming re-created according to be image wc were holding in mind. A loving disposition was essentia! if we desired to promote the highest development of mind, so we must cultivate a bright and happy state of mind. As the sweetness of our nature developed, all undesirable feelings and dispositions would disappear. The mind must not entertain any thoughts of fear or doubt; they must be entirely eliminated. Courage and confidence with determination and persistence would carry us forward to the attainment of the highest we could desire. Health, happiness, and prosperity were ours by divine right, so with confidence and assurance we could impress the subconscious with the perfect image of health, happiness, and prosperity, holding the imago clearly in mind until it was impressed upon miiid sulxrtanee, and definitely expect results. We must, however, be one-pointed in our desire, and hold the desire until it became pictured in our lives.