Your Mind and How to Use It Author:William Walker Atkinson CHAPTER I. What is the Mind ? 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... more » 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. The science o
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Contents; Chaftbb Pagb; y I What is the Mind 6; II The Mechanism of Mental States 11; III The Great Nerve Centers 17; IV Consciousness 24; v V Attention 29; ^ VL Perception 36; ^VII Memory 45; SVLIL Memory (continued) 54; IX Imagination 62; X XI The Feelings 72; The Emotions 79; XII The Instinctive Emotions 88; v/XIII The Passions 96; ^XIV The Social Emotions 104; XV The Religious Emotions Ill; XVI The Aesthetic Emotions 117; XVII Thr 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; xxni 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 W« less