Mind and body; hypnotism and suggestion applied in therapeutics and education . -ful to her. Only one example is given, because I knowthat every parent and teacher who reads it willrecall many others like it in their own experi-ence. Education during natural sleep has justifiedits high reputation in the hands of many parents,teachers and physicians, as is abundantly shownby the enthusiastic reports coming from all quar-ters. It is simple, efficacious and free from dan-gers. No training is necessary to perfect successin its use. It consists in talking to the childrenwhile they are asleep, thus
Mind and body; hypnotism and suggestion applied in therapeutics and education . -ful to her. Only one example is given, because I knowthat every parent and teacher who reads it willrecall many others like it in their own experi-ence. Education during natural sleep has justifiedits high reputation in the hands of many parents,teachers and physicians, as is abundantly shownby the enthusiastic reports coming from all quar-ters. It is simple, efficacious and free from dan-gers. No training is necessary to perfect successin its use. It consists in talking to the childrenwhile they are asleep, thus giving to their dream-consciousnesses such suggestions as are needfulto help them in their studies. The mother orteacher goes to the bedside and softly talks to thesleeper until his attention is secured withoutwaking him; then the needful suggestions aremade. The suggestions should be reasonable, andprogress should be made from the things thesleeper likes to those that he dislikes. An illus-tration will best explain what is meant. A boy, ten years of age, who was the despair. POSING.—See Page 220. SUGGESTION AND EDUCATION. 195 of his mother and the terror of his teacher, wasgiven a course of this sort of treatment with thefollowing result. He was not a vicious boy,neither was he an angel. He was distressinglylazy and mischievous. The mother gave thetreatments under my directions. Every night fora week, and a few times afterward, she laboredwith him. The first two nights he showed adisposition to rebel, but that was the only ob-stacle. The mother told him that he was herbrave, good boy and that he would do what shewished him to do; that he was ambitious tolearn and stand well in his classes; that, while hewould enjoy his play out of doors, he would playno more pranks in the schoolroom; that he wouldbe courteous and kind, a real, little result was a transformation; he becamewhat she wanted him to be. Mothers, teachers,try this method of training and then you willk
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