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perverted good, which is evil; we experience conflict and sorrow, and we ally ourselves with all conflicting conditions. There is about us beauty, happiness, love, abundance; limitless good for us to use-and for us to use today-everything to make life a growth of ever unfolding joy, if we intelligently direct this (our) energy. Every new view we obtain through experience, or inspiration, points to heights not yet attained, nor even conceived, but which the soul knows awaits the earnest, believing climber.

"Browning, who studied so deeply into man's nature and possibilities, said: 'Man is not yet, but is becoming.' Then in a moment of sublime realization of achievement and prophecy he exclaimed: 'I shall arrive.'"-M. Woodbury Sawyer.

"Positive and negative are relative terms. Each thing, each person, is negative to all above in pitch, and is positive to all below. Each center with less velocity. is negative to those centers that, in their own sphere, revolve faster. Note the whirlwinds; when two meet, they become one and take a direction which follows the diagonal represented by the parallelogram of the two forces. So is it with whirlpools. The one law of nature is that the greater centers of like motion swallow the less; but the lesser, when thus enfolded, proportionately changes the direction of the greater and lowers its pitch."

The Practice of Psycho-Therapy

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Our unconscious influence is the projection of our unconscious mind and personality unconsciously over others. This acts unconsciously on their unconscious centers, producing effects in character and conduct, recognized in consciousness. For instance, the entrance of a good man into a room where foul language is used will unconsciously modify and purify the tone of the whole room. Our minds cast shadows of which we are as unconscious as those cast by our bodies, but which affect for good or evil all who unconsciously pass within their range. This is a matter of daily experience, and is common to all, though more noticeable with strong personalities."-Schofield.

"The mind is a magnet. At the core of the soul lies our attracting power. We get what we expect. We see what we look for. Every thought we think images itself in the mind and every image that is persistently held in mind is bound to materialize. This is the law. I cannot tell why it is so, any more than I can tell why from a few seeds sown in fertile soil we reap an abundant crop. I only know that the law of thought-externalization is as definite and as sure in results as are the laws of seed-time and harvest." -Jean Porter Rudd.

CHAPTER III.

THE PRACTICE OF PSYCHO-THERAPY-CONTINUED.

SUGGESTION TO OTHERS.

Concerning the Physician Himself.

It was well to begin with auto-suggestion, as he who expects to do good work for others should be able to do good work for himself.

I have no faith in the artistic taste of a man who wishes to decorate my house if I find in his own home a most execrable display of artistic ability. He may be a good workman with the brush, but he has not the comprehensive grasp of general artistic concepts that is required properly to choose, to harmonize and to distribute values.

It is equally true that I have no confidence in the ability of a man to build me up along right lines and to round me out into full mental and physical proportions whose mind is in evident disorder and whose body is under the power of disease. I should certainly say: "Physician heal thyself."

The physician and the surgeon, of all men, should be free from mental, moral and physical

taints.

Accordingly, he will have abundant occasion to practice upon himself; and he ought to devote his energies to putting himself into a state of mental, moral and physical health before resorting to a use of the delicate, yet tremendous,

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