Have you a strong will? or, How to develop and strengthen will-power, memory, or any other faculty or attribute of the mind, by the easy process of self-hypnotism / by Charles Godfrey Leland.

  • Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903
Date:
1912
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Have you a strong will? or, How to develop and strengthen will-power, memory, or any other faculty or attribute of the mind, by the easy process of self-hypnotism / by Charles Godfrey Leland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    20/360
    contents form a system of education, yet one from which the old as well as young may profit. It is worth noting that, were it for nervous invalids alone, or those who from various causes find it difficult to sleep, or apply the mind to work, this book would be of unquestionable value. In fact, even while writing this chapter, a lady has called to thank me for the substantial benefit which she derived from my advice in this respect. And, mindful of the fact that Attention and Unwearied Persever- ance are most necessary to succeed in such processes as are here described, I have taken pains to show or explain how they may be rendered more attractive, tolerable, and habitual to the fickle or light-minded ; this, too, being a subject which has been very little considered from a practical point of view. But, above all things, I beg the reader, laying aside all prejudice or preconceived opinion, and neither believing nor disbe- lieving what he reads, to simply try it— that is, to test in his own person to what degree he can influence his will, or bring about subsequent states of mind, by the