Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 42055-h.htm or 42055-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42055/42055-h/42055-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42055/42055-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://archive.org/details/yourmindhowtouse00atki Transcriber's note: The author's use of three asterisks * * * to serve as ellipses has been preserved as printed in the original publication. [Illustration: William Walker Atkinson] YOUR MIND AND HOW TO USE IT A Manual of Practical Psychology by WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON It is not enough merely to have a sound mind--one must also learn how to use it, if he would become mentally efficient. Published by the Elizabeth Towne Co., Holyoke, Mass. L.N. Fowler & Co., London. Copyright, 1911. Elizabeth Towne. Copyrighted in the United States and England. Contents. CHAPTER PAGE I. WHAT IS THE MIND 5 II. THE MECHANISM OF MENTAL STATES 11 III. THE GREAT NERVE CENTERS 17 IV. CONSCIOUSNESS 24 V. ATTENTION 29 VI. PERCEPTION 36 VII. MEMORY 45 VIII. MEMORY (continued) 54 IX. IMAGINATION 62 X. THE FEELINGS 72 XI. THE EMOTIONS 79 XII. THE INSTINCTIVE EMOTIONS 88 XIII. THE PASSIONS 96 XIV. THE SOCIAL EMOTIONS 104 XV. THE RELIGIOUS EMOTIONS 111 XVI. THE ÆSTHETIC EMOTIONS 117 XVII. THE INTELLECTUAL EMOTIONS 125 XVIII. THE ROLE OF THE EMOTIONS 131 XIX. THE EMOTIONS AND HAPPINESS 136 XX. THE INTELLECT 143 XXI. CONCEPTION 151 XXII. CLASSES OF CONCEPTS 158 XXIII. JUDGMENTS 164 XXIV. PRIMARY LAWS OF THOUGHT 171 XXV. REASONING 176 XXVI. INDUCTIVE REASONING 181 XXVII. DEDUCTIVE REASONING 186 XXVIII. FALLACIOUS REASONING 193 XXIX. THE WILL 201 XXX. WILL-TRAINING 213 XXXI. WILL-TONIC 219 CHAPTER I. What is the Mind?