Mental Inefficiency Factors
Illness can affect your concentration and memory functions that suffer most. In such cases, physical and mental remedies should be used together cautiously, slowly and hopefully. Avoid negative suggestion, such as “I don’t think my memory will ever recover,” can affect your Physical neglect will also exert a mischievous influence on the powers of the mind. The first step then is to work on being physically. Or at least as physically fit as you can be.
Age and Mental Efficiency
“Am I too old’?” This is a serious question that can hit anyone one, even those who are merely 40. Age is a state of mind.
The age limit for mental efficiency depends on the individual. If you let your mind to “run to seed,” it will naturally take a little longer to remedy the situation. The first thing to do is stop the mental drift that has set in. You can recover a good deal of what you had lost. If you have been using your mind, you will be able to increase your mental powers regardless of your age. The results of inquiry into this matter show that many of the world’s great people have done their best work after the age of 50.
The Mechanism of Mind
How does our mind work? Pelman says that the mind is a unity. There are factors that impact on our minds. Feeling, Thought and Will are the three chief forms in which the human mind manifests itself. You cannot use your mind in a manner that could not be classified under one of these three headings. Every mental product is, in the main, either a Feeling, a Thought or an act of Will. But there is only one Mind. Note that very carefully. There are not three distinct and separate compartments of the mind. These three functions interact.
Here’s an example: If you approach a man in the street and deliberately knock his straw hat into the mud, you know that that man’s mind will be supercharged with Feeling–a feeling of anger and indignation preponderates. But Thought is not absent. He is thinking about you, very rapidly, of course; and it is just possible that in a second or two Will may assert itself, and you will be called upon to defend your person against a counter attack. In that event Will is preponderant, but Thought is not absent. It is decidedly present, and is seen in the skilful tactics adopted by the enemy to fight you into a corner and have you at his mercy. When it is all over, and you sit down at home to reflect, thinking is preponderant, and you realize that the excuse you made, i.e., “He has no right to wear a hat in April” is unjustifiable. But even so, Will is present, guiding your Thoughts, and Feeling is also expressed in the desire to review the whole matter.
Feeling is Fundamental
We know that Feeling is the most fundamental of our psychical function.
Feeling or Emotion are the same thing. Desire is an example. You see a beautiful house on a hillside in the country, and you long to have one like it. Feeling in the form of desire is always urging us forward to action, and Thought sits in judgment, deciding for or against every scheme for which a plea is made. This deep, varied, and complex life of Feeling is older and more profound than the life of Thought.
So don’t discount your feelings. Energize your feelings. Look for beauty in life. Success in business is due to a large extent to a scientific use of the imagination. Is it likely, therefore, that your neglect of the imagination in matters of art, music, poetry, painting, will give you additional imaginative powers in business?
The aim of Pelmanism is a synthetic working of all functions in the individual in relation to the environment in which he or she may be placed, or which he or she aspires to reach.
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