MUSIC BY SUGGESTION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10963, 4 May 1907, Page 3 (Supplement)

MUSIC BY SUGGESTION.

ALMOST ANY ONE MAY PLAY OR

SING..;

' The ..latest phase m the .all conquering progress of ;tl«i -power of mind oyer matter (says the Scotsman)' is discovered m the effect that the difficult .arts of singing and jilaying con be trfuglit by long-distance "thoUght-wayes. There is no need to fret because* ! you want to sing and have not the. voice. Folly to think that you cannot play the piano simply because your hands stubbornly refuse to travel over the keys. ; T_lt's very- easy ; under the latest method. Ybii are two miles aVvfiy from your iristructor. He sits m his studio and you wait for an inspiration. Soon you hear . the professor telling you to play. : 'You obey. Slbwiy, at first, then gradually with more ease and increasing rapidity your hands glide over, the octaves. The thing that had seemed so utterly impossible is accomplished.- . Or suppose you hare been vainly trying to fathom the mystery of the voice. You have been patient, but somehow the effort tired you and the . results were discouraging. You- consult the professor. He tells you to place yourself m what he delights to cull a receptive mood. • "Let your subjective mirid do the work, '» he -bays. You teU your subjective mind to listen to the professor. TheniVrhat happens? Suddenly you discover that, you canning. . , T, . . And it is not hjmnoßsin,, we are assured that is noli resorted \to to produce this result. When a prospective student presents herself for instruction: under this new system, she is told that all that will 'be expected s of her is to obey the impulse of the mind. The professor will say :— T "Yon liave undoubtedly been trying to sing and you have become discouraged. Now, I want- you to say to /yourself; 'I will learn. Twill master the s^ale/afad I will not give up." , '"T A MATTER OF WILL POWER.

Immediately new hope is. inspired m the student. Under this stimulus she receives some ins_ractibh.;; While it is going 'on, the professor g J yesherT the first treatment by thought-wave.' The pupil sirigs as. never before. T -• „.'

Before leaving the student is told to run over; the, sbng ; Tto- be : .suhgT When a difficulty presents itself the pupil, says tlie instructor, must put her mind severely upon it. ■ -■-.;.;,"■-. .;.-'-_■■"' ; "Keen m mind, as you go to sleep, the ■thing tliat has mist troubled, you m your singing," 'is the injunction. _ "Tell your subjective mind that you are determiried to 'succeed. This wil'. be your last thought as you pass into oblivion. "■'; "As you sleep the subjective mind will ".study; your difficulty.; It will grapple the problem by inductive reasoning. When you arise m the ; morning ybu will find that your first" thought will be of your singing. Ikying your voice, you will be surprised to find you are " able to sing notes that the . night before gave you so much trouble." .-■■■_.""

. It is .important to know ihat the professor he^ps tlie sub-conscious mind while it is doing the woi-ki . "HeT calculates that all of his papilft must be asleep at mid--night.

"Many times',", says tlie prof essor, .. "l have been told by a pupil that she was sitting at her lesson, utterly discouraged over ncr failure to accomplish anything, when she hassuddenly been seized with an inspiration. She . has felt that some one was telling her how-to play or to sing. The lesson ha. "inslantly been made easy. It is very plain, then, to me that the thought suggestion ;* sent out from the studio has helped: her." Tlie great, secret of the sub-conscious treatment, the professor affirms, is that it works immediately- upon the mbral energy. He obtains control of the pupil's mind, and m that way is able to coriipei physical obedience. Almost anyone may sing he says, but the trouble is that the mind ts ..not seriously concentrated .upon the effort., "-,-.