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Speaker 1: Mental pictures. I hang bright pictures in my mind. Bright

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pictures encourage one. Gloomy ones depress, Get rid of your old,

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gloomy mental pictures, make a bonfire of them, get rid

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of the particularly miserable one first of all, then put

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bright ones in their places. I now hang bright pictures

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

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remark explained to me, without the necessity of further words,

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the cause of her bright, cheerful and happy disposition so

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greatly in contrast with that of the despondent, fretful woman

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I had known a few months ago. The change seemed

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so remarkable that one would have almost expected her to

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have claimed some startling currents as the cause of the

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

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But just think how much there is in this thought.

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I hang bright pictures in my mind. Stop a moment,

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and let the thought sink deep into your inner consciousness.

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

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wish to make a chamber or office bright and cheery,

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we see that nothing but pictures representing bright, cheerful subjects

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are hung there. They may be the choicest engravings or paintings,

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or they may be some little inexpensive things. But just

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

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and the room somehow see a happier, more joyous place

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than before. If we were preparing a new room for

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the occupancy of some dear one, would we place there

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

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

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

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I ask you? Would you do it? And if not,

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why not? Pray? Simply because you in extinctively feel that

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the gloomy, hateful subjects would react upon the loved one,

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And you know is the same way that the bright, cheerful,

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

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make better the occupant of the chamber. Have you ever

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noticed that some rooms always seem to exert a beneficial

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effect upon you, while others seem to depress you? Certainly

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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

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your moods is not to be found in the character

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of the pictures on the walls. You may not have

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specially noticed them before, but your subconscious mental faculties have

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taken up the impression and the reflex action has affected you.

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Who can resist the fetching qualities of a bright baby

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face smiling from a little picture on the mantle or

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

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help feeling the sense of comradeship for the kindly Saint Bernard,

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whose great affectionate eyes look down upon you from the

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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

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to describe the other kind of pictures in this article,

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But now to get back to the pictures in the mind.

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If the gloomy pictures on the wall affect people, what

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do you suppose will be the effect of carrying around gloomy, fearful, hateful, jealous, envious,

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despondent mental pictures? Can any good come of lugging this

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trash around with you? Come? Now, be honest, why don't

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you bundle up these horrible cormas of the mind and

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then make a bonfire of the lot. Now is the

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time for a mental house cleaning. Get to work and

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clean out these miserable DoBeS and replace them with a nice, bright, cheerful, happy,

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sunny mental works of art. Do it to day. You

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can't afford to put it off until tomorrow. Indeed you can't. Oh. Yes,

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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

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that you hate to part with them. There's that particular

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miserable one at which you're so fond of looking. You

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know which one. I mean, you see, I know all

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

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it with folded hands and gazing and gazing and gazing

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at it. And the more you gazed, the more miserable

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you grew, until at last you felt that you would

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like to lie down and die, only that there was

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some work to do around the house and you could

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spare the time. Yes, that's the picture. I mean. Take

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it down and put it on top of the bonfire pile,

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and touch off the whole lot. Then go back into

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the house and hang up all the new ones to

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be found, And the brightest one of the lot must

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hang in the place of that dear old miserable one

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that you threw out last that one which was so

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hard to part with, the meanest one in the lot. Always,

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and after you have done these things, how good you

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will feel. See how bright and cheerful the sun is shining,

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How pure and fresh the air seems. Take a good

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long draft of it. Look out the window and see

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the fleecing white clouds floating across the sky. The sky itself,

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how blue it is. And just listen to the bluebirds

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

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how good it is to be alive.