SUCH IS "SUGGESTION"

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXIX, Issue 3999, 27 November 1918, Page 1

SUCH IS "SUGGESTION"

By the method known/as "suggestion," it is possible (according to a medical writer) not only to perform the simple experiment of waking oneself at a given hour in the morning, but also to banish all minor physical ailments and even to correct faults in the character. Just as in the first instance the experiment before'going to sleep at night makes a mental request to himself that he shall awake at a certain time on the following morning, so in more important mailers he suggests to himself, a condition of health or a method of conduct. .. *> To take two instances.* Supposing you suffer from insomnia, you focus yevur whole attention upon the repetition four times a day of a given formula. Thus you may say to yourself that you trouble no more about the matter, merely repeating the statement at intervals. Tn two or three days at most the effect^— according to. the authority—'will be felt in sound slumbers. . Much the sani3 process is adopted where it is desired to break oneself of a bad habih The theory is that the remark at statement is addressed to your unconscious mind, which responds to your desires when expressed in this way.