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"Nervousness is a physical disease located in the interbrain... "That the body talks to the mind, puts thoughts into our heads, is not... a new and revolutionary idea... At least seven- eights of our thinking consists of rationalization of organ needs and desires. The mind does the dancing while the body pulls the strings... Never forget that anger is... a way of physical activity... When emotion rules, the body dictates to your mind, and... this dictation is essentially a hypnotic process." (D. Fink - Psych) (61:1) "Nervousness... can paralyze your creative activities,... control your thinking. Interbrain misbehavior is hypnotic... Your body dictates to your mind, and... this dictation is essentially a hypnotic process." (D. Fink - Psych) (61:2) "Conditioned reflexes or emotional habit patterns send wave after wave of suggestions to the interbrain and to the centers of inhibition and stimulation in the forebrain. Nerve impulses spread from one center of inhibition to another, producing a condition of partial hypnosis... The result is loss of physical and mental balance, self- control. It is the fact of partial self- hypnosis that makes nervousness a mental disease. (D. Fink - Psych) (61:3) We have a vicious circle. Emotional conflicts upset the proper functioning of the body, including the nervous system. The nervous system ceases to function properly, interferes with thinking that might set the nervous sufferer back upon the right road... (D. Fink - Psych) (61:4) "In readjusting our lives so that we may live more abundantly,... we must begin by learning the technique and habit patterns of muscular relaxation. This is always the first step." (D. Fink - Psych) (61:5) "You can learn to relax while you sleep... Your mental attitude while falling asleep is going to decide the quality of sleep you will enjoy... Neurotics... wake up more tired then they were when they went to bed. Of course they are tired. Their muscles have been working all night, one muscle group against its opposite group... No wonder, then, when they wake, that they feel muscle- weary and exhausted... (D. Fink - Psych) (61:6) "Giving yourself last- minute directions before going to sleep is called 'controlled sleep'... Controlled sleep can give you waking self- control." (D. Fink - Psych) (61:7) "The smoking habit, like all other habits, is a form of self- hypnosis. Conscious suggestion while completely relaxed de hypnotizes, and breaks the habit... Remember to use controlled sleep-- last minute directions to do tomorrow what you wish you had done today... By using controlled sleep, you will be able to make yourself do the things that you know will make you happy. You knock out nervousness before it gets a chance to hurt you. (D. Fink - Psych) (61:8) "When you are returning to ways of creative living, you are breaking another wheel in the machine of self- destructive emotional behavior. Your daily adjustments become more and more satisfactory... The vicious circle of nervousness, maladjustment, and more nervousness is out." (D. Fink - Psych) (61:9) "It is only when conflict between emotional habit patterns of withdrawal and expansion-- flight and approach-- disturb the interbrain that we have trouble. Then... a few nerve cells dominate the entire brain. Instead of a democracy ruled by the many, we have a dictatorship by a part of the organism. Freedom of thought is abolished by self- induced partial hypnosis. Suggestions that normally should call forth positive responses induce apathy or opposition." (D. Fink - Psych)
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