Your Mind and How to Use It: A Manual of Practical Psychology - Couverture souple

Atkinson, William Walker

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ISBN 10 : 1162566752 ISBN 13 : 9781162566757

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

Your Mind and How to Use It: A Manual of Practical Psychology is a book written by William Walker Atkinson that aims to provide readers with practical knowledge on how to effectively use their mind. The book is divided into 14 chapters that cover various topics such as the power of thought, the subconscious mind, mental healing, and concentration.Atkinson explains that the mind is a powerful tool that can be used to achieve success, happiness, and prosperity in life. He provides readers with practical exercises and techniques to help them develop their mental faculties, such as visualization, affirmation, and concentration.The book also delves into the concept of the subconscious mind and how it can be harnessed to achieve one's goals. Atkinson provides readers with techniques to access and influence the subconscious mind, including the use of autosuggestion and self-hypnosis.In addition to practical techniques, the book also explores the role of emotions in mental health and well-being. Atkinson discusses how negative emotions such as fear, worry, and anxiety can be detrimental to one's mental and physical health and provides readers with strategies to overcome them.Overall, Your Mind and How to Use It: A Manual of Practical Psychology is a comprehensive guide to developing one's mental faculties and achieving success in life. It is a valuable resource for anyone looking to improve their mental health, increase their productivity, and achieve their goals.1911. Contents: What is the Mind; Mental States; Nerve Centers; Attention; Perception; Memory; Imagination; Feelings; Emotions; Passions; Conception; Judgments; Primary Laws of Thought; Reasoning; The Will.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

William Walker Atkinson (December 5, 1862 – November 22, 1932) was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Thought movement. He is also thought to be the author of the pseudonymous works attributed to Theron Q. Dumont and Yogi Ramacharaka.

He is the author of an estimated 100 books, all written in the last 30 years of his life. He was also mentioned in past editions of Who's Who in America, Religious Leaders of America, and several similar publications. His works have remained in print more or less continuously since 1900.

William Walker Atkinson was born in Baltimore, Maryland on December 5, 1862, to William and Emma Atkinson. He began his working life as a grocer at 15 years old, probably helping his father. He married Margret Foster Black of Beverly, New Jersey, in October 1889, and they had two children. The first probably died young. The second later married and had two daughters.

Atkinson pursued a business career from 1882 onwards and in 1894 he was admitted as an attorney to the Bar of Pennsylvania. While he gained much material success in his profession as a lawyer, the stress and over-strain eventually took its toll, and during this time he experienced a complete physical and mental breakdown, and financial disaster. He looked for healing and in the late 1880s he found it with New Thought, later attributing the restoration of his health, mental vigor and material prosperity to the application of the principles of New Thought.

Some time after his healing, Atkinson began to write articles on the truths he felt he had discovered, which were then known as Mental Science.

In the 1890s, Atkinson had become interested in Hinduism and after 1900 he devoted a great deal of effort to the diffusion of yoga and Oriental occultism in the West. Atkinson died November 22, 1932 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 69, after 50 years of simultaneously successful careers in business, writing, occultism, and the law.

Many mysteries still surround Atkinson's life, including the fact that a certificate of copyright issued three years after his death is said to have been signed by the author himself.

Présentation de l'éditeur

What is theM ind? PSYCHOLOGY is generally considered to be the science of mind, although more properly it is the science of mental states thoughts, feelings, and acts of volition. It was formerly the custom of writers on the subject of psychology to begin by an attempt to define and describe the nature of mind, before proceeding to a consideration of the subject of the various mental states and activities. But more recent authorities have rebelled against this demand, and have claimed that it is no more reasonable to hold that psychology should be held to an explanation of the ultimate nature of mind than it is that physical science be held to an explanation of the ultimate nature of matter. The attempt to explain the ultimate nature of either is futile no actual necessity exists for explanation in either case. Physics may explain the phenomena of matter, and psychology the phenomena of mind, without regard to the ultimate nature of the substance of either.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1162566752
• ISBN 13: 9781162566757
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 228
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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