Chapter I: Front Matter

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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