Introduction : * "A Common-Sense View of the Mind Cure", by Laura M. Westall, [1908], p. 4 p. 5 Out of the night that covers me, Dark as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever Gods may be For my unconquerable soul. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master...
Vii. The Nature Of Pain : * "A Common-Sense View of the Mind Cure", by Laura M. Westall, [1908], p. 64 VII THE NATURE OF PAIN THERE is a great deal going on around us of which we are wholly unconscious, for the reason that nature has set limits to our perceptive powers. There are sounds which we never hear, sights which we...
Vi. The Attention : * "A Common-Sense View of the Mind Cure", by Laura M. Westall, [1908], p. 55 VI THE ATTENTION YOU are walking through the city street, thinking of nothing in particular, watching the passing throng, glancing idly about. But suddenly you stop short with your gaze riveted upon a shop...
Viii. The Environment : * "A Common-Sense View of the Mind Cure", by Laura M. Westall, [1908], p. 73 VIII THE ENVIRONMENT LIFE is series of reactions upon environment. In other words, the self-existent principle of life perpetuates itself by reacting upon natural forces which play upon it. Just as the life-principle...
A Few Practical Applications : * "A Common-Sense View of the Mind Cure", by Laura M. Westall, [1908], p. 108 X A FEW PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS HEADACHE.--This is usually due to nervous collapse (of the brain), and this causes a derangement of the circulation. The blood congests or stagnates in the membrane which lines the br...
Ii. The Brain : * "A Common-Sense View of the Mind Cure", by Laura M. Westall, [1908], p. 24 II THE BRAIN WE are accustomed to speak of the brain as the organ of mind, but it is more than that; it is the engine which runs the body--a sort of powerhouse, so to speak. The varied stock of ideas which beat upon it...
Title Page : * "A Common-Sense View of the Mind Cure", by Laura M. Westall, [1908], p. 1 A COMMON-SENSE VIEW Of THE MIND-CURE BY LAURA M. WESTALL FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK AND LONDON [1908] Scanned , October, 2006. Proofed and formatted by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the United...
Conclusion : * "A Common-Sense View of the Mind Cure", by Laura M. Westall, [1908], p. 78 IX CONCLUSION IT is impossible to state at this moment just what the limitations of mind-cure are. It has been little more than half a century since the subject was lifted out of the realm of the occult and placed up...
V. The Imagination : * "A Common-Sense View of the Mind Cure", by Laura M. Westall, [1908], p. 46 V THE IMAGINATION WE think in pictures. Each idea which is presented to the mind forms a picture. Thus, if I say, "I hear a robin singing," a picture of a redbreast on the branch of a tree, with his throat swelling with...
Iv. The Emotions : * "A Common-Sense View of the Mind Cure", by Laura M. Westall, [1908], p. 40 IV THE EMOTIONS IT must be clear from what has already been said that in order to conserve health it is necessary to maintain unimpaired the mental energy, or, as it is sometimes called, the vitality. It will be well...
I. The Mind : * "A Common-Sense View of the Mind Cure", by Laura M. Westall, [1908], p. 11 COMMON-SENSE VIEW OF THE MIND-CURE I THE MIND WE "feel" before we "think;" but this is merely another way of saying that mind is developed by means of sensations. Each one of us is possest of five senses--sight, hearing...
Iii. The Nervous System : * "A Common-Sense View of the Mind Cure", by Laura M. Westall, [1908], p. 31 THE NERVOUS SYSTEM WITHOUT some knowledge of the nervous system, it is impossible to understand fully how the mind may affect the body. To begin with, as every schoolboy knows, each human being has a complex system...
Untitled : And with all the [world crises] going on today, it's no wonder that a lot of people are beginning to feel like a Christian Scientist with appendicitis--Tom Leher, "That Was The Year That Was" A lot of the theories floated by progressive thinkers at the turn of the 20th century have today been...
