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Mental pictures. I hang bright pictures
in my mind. Bright pictures encourage one.

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Gloomy ones depress, Get rid of
your old, gloomy mental pictures,

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make a bonfire of them, get
rid of the particularly miserable one first of

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all, then put bright ones in
their places. I now hang bright pictures

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in my mind, said a friend
to me recently. Her remark explained to

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me, without the necessity of further
words, the cause of her bright,

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cheerful and happy disposition so greatly in
contrast with that of the despondent, fretful

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woman I had known a few months
ago. The change seemed so remarkable that

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one would have almost expected her to
have claimed some startling currents as the cause

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of the wondrous transformation, and instead
of giving so commonplace an explanation. But

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just think how much there is in
this thought. I hang bright pictures in

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my mind. Stop a moment,
and let the thought sink deep into your

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inner consciousness. Bright pictures in the
mind. Why not? Indeed, if

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we wish to make a chamber or
office bright and cheery, we see that

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nothing but pictures representing bright, cheerful
subjects are hung there. They may be

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the choicest engravings or paintings, or
they may be some little inexpensive things.

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But just so they are bright and
cheery, the purpose is accomplished, and

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the room somehow see a happier,
more joyous place than before. If we

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were preparing a new room for the
occupancy of some dear one, would we

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place there any but the brightest picture? Would we hang there? Pictures of

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pain and misery, hate and murder, jealousy and revenge, sickness, suffering

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and death, failure and discouragement.
Would we do this thing? I ask

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you? Would you do it?
And if not, why not? Pray?

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Simply because you in extinctively feel that
the gloomy, hateful subjects would react

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upon the loved one, And you
know is the same way that the bright,

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cheerful, and inspiring subjects are likely
to uplift, stimulate, encourage,

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and make better the occupant of the
chamber. Have you ever noticed that some

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rooms always seem to exert a beneficial
effect upon you, while others seem to

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depress you? Certainly you have well
the next time you go into these rooms,

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look around a little and see if
the explanation of your moods is not

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to be found in the character of
the pictures on the walls. You may

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not have specially noticed them before,
but your subconscious mental faculties have taken up

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the impression and the reflex action has
affected you. Who can resist the fetching

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qualities of a bright baby face smiling
from a little picture on the mantle or

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on the wall? Not I for
one? And who can help feeling the

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sense of comradeship for the kindly Saint
Bernard, whose great affectionate eyes look down

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upon you from the engraving on the
other side of the room. And on

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the other hand, who could?
But now I'm not going to describe the

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other kind of pictures in this article, But now to get back to the

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pictures in the mind. If the
gloomy pictures on the wall affect people,

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what do you suppose will be the
effect of carrying around gloomy, fearful,

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hateful, jealous, envious, despondent
mental pictures? Can any good come of

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lugging this trash around with you?
Come? Now, be honest, why

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don't you bundle up these horrible cormas
of the mind and then make a bonfire

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of the lot. Now is the
time for a mental house cleaning. Get

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to work and clean out these miserable
DoBeS and replace them with a nice,

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bright, cheerful, happy, sunny
mental works of art. Do it to

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day. You can't afford to put
it off until tomorrow. Indeed you can't.

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Oh. Yes, I know that
you have grown attached to some of

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these old mental pictures. You've had
them round so long that you hate to

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part with them. There's that particular
miserable one at which you're so fond of

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looking. You know which one.
I mean, you see, I know

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all about it. You've been in
the habit of standing before it with folded

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hands and gazing and gazing and gazing
at it. And the more you gazed,

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the more miserable you grew, until
at last you felt that you would

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like to lie down and die,
only that there was some work to do

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around the house and you could spare
the time. Yes, that's the picture.

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I mean. Take it down and
put it on top of the bonfire

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pile, and touch off the whole
lot. Then go back into the house

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and hang up all the new ones
to be found, And the brightest one

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of the lot must hang in the
place of that dear old miserable one that

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you threw out last that one which
was so hard to part with, the

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meanest one in the lot. Always, and after you have done these things,

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how good you will feel. See
how bright and cheerful the sun is

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shining, How pure and fresh the
air seems. Take a good long draft

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of it. Look out the window
and see the fleecing white clouds floating across

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the sky. The sky itself,
how blue it is. And just listen

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to the bluebirds down by the old
gate. Spring must be coming. Ah,

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how good it is to be alive.