Hypnotism and Hynotic Suggestion; A Scientific Treatise on the Uses and Possibilities of Hypnotism, Suggestion and Allied Phenomena (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...the latter. Another class well worth your study is those who make no impression upon you. The milk and water people whom you ignore inadvertently and notice only when they step on your toes. They have found, without an effort, the dead level of mediocrity, the commonplace position of the average. There is some reason for their lack of personality. Discover it, if possible, and add it to your list of things to avoid. The student of hypnotism understands auto-suggestion. Let him practice it to develop his personal magnetism. Determine to be magnetic and the condition is self-induced. Turn your will upon your wants and hold it there as the mariner holds the proud ship upon her course. Imagine a Napoleon without a will. a Grant without self-reliance, a Lincoln without fortitude Train your will upon the object of your achievement and do not swerve. Every obstacle may be surmounted, every desire achieved, every worthy wish gratified. Such a will may garner a plentiful harvest where the fields have been devastated by blighting failure. Such a will may unhorse death itself. It is the attribute of kings, yet it is beyond the reach of none who would acquire it. HYPNOTIC STATES AND THEIR NEXT OF KIN. By WILLIAM ROMAI.''E NEWBOLD, Ph, D., University of Pennsylvanla. One often hears the word "hypnosis" used as though the thing for which it stands were as definite an entity as typhoid fever or diphtheria. Any recognized disease consists of certain well-marked symptoms which succeed one another in a fairly constant order, and, taken together, they constitute a relatively permanent system. This is not true of "hypnosis." What in a disease would be called the "symptoms" are, it is true, fairly determinate in it...