Speaker 1: Future impression. Now I wish to call to your attention
to what may be called future impression, or as the
hypnotists call it, post hypnotism, et cetera. Future impressions are
like seeds planted in the mind, which grow, blossom and
bear fruit at some future time. The hypnotists produce this
phenomena by giving the subject, while in the hypnotic sleep,
the suggestion that at a certain time, either in a
few minutes or hours or days, he will do certain
things or feel certain things. But the newer school of
psychologists have discovered that these future impressions may be made
in the ordinary receptive state, just as is the case
with any of the other forms of mental impressions, and
the result will be the same as that obtained by
the hypnotists. In spite of their theories and methods the
general principles, I do not propose going into detail regarding
this class of phenomena, because all that is necessary to
be said can be comprised in the following two statements.
One that generally speaking, all the phenomena of the ordinary
immediate mental impression may be produced as future impression, and
two that all the phenomena of future impression produced by
the operator on the subject may be likewise produced by
auto impression of the subject, that is, by the subject
inducing impressions in himself. How future impressions are given. In
the first of the above stated principles, the subject is
merely told that you will do so and so at
such and such a time, instead of do so and
so now. For instance, instead of telling the impressionable that
the chair is burning him now, you may tell him
that in two minutes he will feel the chair burning him.
The result will be similar in both cases. Apply the
same principle to any of the mesmeric phenomena mentioned in
pre chapters, and the result will be similar. The force
of the impression, the degree of impressionability, et cetera, will
play the same part in both immediate impression and future impression.
This principle is called into operation by suggestionists in treating
for habits, the suggestions being given along the lines of
every time you pick up a cigar, you will feel
nauseated and will think of a disgusting barroom spittoon, et cetera,
et cetera. It is always a case of you will
in future impression instances from everyday life. Many foolish suggestions
are given in everyday life along the lines of future impression,
and alas many of them are accepted carelessly owing to
a lack of knowledge of the principle. How many times
has it been said to an impressionable young bride, never mind,
you'll grow tired of him after a while, et cetera.
Or to a man, wait until the novelty wears off,
and you'll see how sick of the job you'll get.
Or you'll lose your interest and enthusiasm by and by,
or you'll find him out after a while, and we'll
see that he's not what he seems, and so on.
You may add to these instances from your own experience,
and too often these suggestions are recalled and have a
tendency to cause the person to make them come true.
Many fortune tellers prophecies have been made come true in
this way by impressionable and ignorant people. I have given
you a key to this principle. Now heed the lesson.
If you feel that an attempt at future impression is
being made on you headed off with a mental no,
I won't. That is the antidote for the bane. Remember this.
It may save you trouble some day. The secret of
future auto impressions the second principle in the statement made
several paragraphs further back. I e. That all the phenomena
of future impressions may be duplicate by auto impression or
impressions made by one's self is true and worthy of consideration.
You make up your mind that you must awaken to
catch a train at four tomorrow morning, and you awaken
in time, you have set your mental alarm clock. If
you have an engagement at three this afternoon, you may
set your alarm as follows. Talking to yourself. Of course,
now see here, Remember that you must see Smith at
three this afternoon. Three three I say. Remember now, three
I say. And if you impress it sufficiently strong upon
your mind a little before three, you will begin to
feel uneasy. And then suddenly your Smith engagement will pop
into your mind from your subconscious region, and you will
reach out for your hat and overcoat mental alarm clock.
Remember that tells the whole tale. The mental alarm clock.
You see the experimenter giving future impressions, simply, that's the
mental alarm clock going along impressionable lines. He makes the
mental impression and attaches it to the mental alarm clock.
When the alarm goes off, the impression emerges into the
field of consciousness and acts just as if it had
been freshly made. That's the whole story, in plain homely
terms self protection. But don't be frightened, you timid people.
Remember this that you will not accept a future impression
unless you would also accept a present impression. The degree
of impressionability is the same in both cases. The only
reason a future impression has the advantage over a present
one is that it is more subtle, and people are
not as much on guard about future things as they
are about things to be done right now. You will
resent an impression that you do this thing right now,
while you pay but little attention to the earnest impression
that in a year from now you will feel so
and so about this matter, and dismiss the subject with
a shrug of the shoulders instead of saying, at least mentally, no,
I won't. The present impression is apt to attract your
attention the more forcibly because it is more apparent, while
the future impression is more insinuating. But now that you
know the facts of the matter, you may laugh at
them both and take the sting out of them by
your little No, I won't how to kill out old
adverse impressions. And just one word more, if you feel
that you are harboring any future impressions made on you
in the past, but upon which the alarm has not
yet gone off, you may kill them by direct self
impression or auto suggestions. To the contrary, That is, you
may say, I will not act upon any adverse impressions
that may have been made to me. I will them
out of my mind. I kill them this moment by
the power of my will, and at the same time
make a mental picture of the impression being obliterated by
the action of your will, just as the chalk mark
is erased from the blackboard by the passing over of
it of the eraser. Try this plan and be free.
Some of you will thank me for this mark my
words