PSYCHIC POWER.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12017, 26 March 1920, Page 2

PSYCHIC POWER.

• FRAIL BOXER’S SUCCESS. ARMY DOCTOR’S THEORY. 1 ) A possible explanation of why the two most successful boxers, Georges Oarpentier and Jimmy Wilde, men of comparatively frail physique, are able to overcome men, of greatly superior strength is .contained in a remarkable essay by Dr. /Arthur Hadfield, of the Ashhurst Neurological War Hospital, Oxford, in a newbook called “The Spirit.” It has been seriously suggested that the French boxer is possessed, of exceptional psychic powers which enable.him to triumph over his opponents. Dr Hadfield asked three men, one of whom was a prizefighter, to submit themselves to test the effect of mental suggestion on their strength which was measured by gripping a dynamometer. “I tested them, ’’ says Dr Hadfield, “(1) in their normal waking condition, (2) after suggesting to them under hypnosis that they were ‘weak’, (3) after suggesting under hypnosis that they were ‘very strong. ’ In each case the men were told to grip the dynamometer as tightly as they could—that is to say, extend the will to the utmost.” “In the normal waking condition the men gave an average grip of 1011 b. When under hypnosis, I had given the men the idea that they were ‘verj' weak,’ the average grip was only 291 b, one of them, a prize tighter, remarking that his arm felt ‘tiny like a baby’s. ’ My suggestions of strength produced an ayerage grip of 1421 b, as aganat 1011 b, which was the best they could do in their normal waking conditions. “In brief, when I suggested ‘weakness’ the full flood of energy was cnecked, and the men were capable of only one-third of their normal strength, whereas by suggestion of ‘strength’ latent powers were liberated and tbeir normal strength increased by half as much again.” He concludes from this experiment that “the limits of possibilitj' in our daily lives are defined less by the body than by the mind, and that the resources of power are psychic rather than physical in charcter.” He adds this interesting comment : “The energies which give the driving force to our lives are not derived from the will, but from another source; they will be found to have their origin in the instinctive emotions. . , . Modern psychotherapy confirms the old religious belief that to give power to the will, confidence of faith in the possibilities of victory are essential.” Dr Hadfield makes the very interesting statement that we are “living far below the limits of our possible selves, and there are open to us resources of power which will free os for a life of energy and strength.” “There have been men—and. chiefly among them religions men—who have held that it our powers seem to fail, it is not because all the energy available is used up, but because its flow is checked, either by the channel being blocked up, or by our inability to use it aright. The chief cause of fatigue is not exhaustion, but stagnation. "The way to power, therefore is not to harbour our resources and store up our strength by inactivity, but to find the way to tap the resources of power at our disposal, so that they may flood our life and fill us with energy. ”

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