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 General Supplement

THIS GENERAL SUPPLEMENT TO THE PELMAN

COURSE IS FOR REFERENCE AS THE STUDENT
PROCEEDS WITH EACH OF THE FIFTEEN TEXT-
BOOKS IN THEIR SEQUENCE

FOREWARD
The lasting value to you of your course in Pelmanism is vested in the tuition. The
individual guidance by your examiner, through the Progress Sheets, constitutes
specialized training of your mind as a whole.

The exponents of a method and system that adjusts favorably the mental attitude of a
person undertake no small measure of responsibility.

That Pelmanism achieves this objective is proven by the sustained enrollment of students
whose fathers and mothers and guardians took former editions of the Pelman Course.

Individual idiosyncrasies cannot be developed, retarded, canalized or otherwise adjusted

merely by reading generalized treaties on the working of the mind. There are no two
minds exactly alike, hence the need for this progressive course embodying the basic text-
books, the student’s progress sheets, the Pelman examiner’s corrections, comment—and
instruction.

Therefore, it follows that for the student to derive those invaluable benefits accruing from
the application of the principles of Pelmanism, the examiner, who is the student’s guide
and sympathetic friend, needs to have the progress sheet that goes with each lesson, in
order to analyze specific requirements revealed by the student’s reactions as indicated
through his, or her, co-operation in working through the sheets.

Always fill in your examiner’s number in the space provided at the top of each of your
progress sheets and, of course, your student’s number.

This General Supplement to the Pelman Course has been written for an important
reason. We, of the Pelman Institute, know, from results recorded over a period exceeding
forty years, that we have tested seeds of success to sow—seeds that will germinate and
yield the fruits of peace-of-mind provided the soil in which the seeds are to be sowed is
prepared.

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Therefore, we desire to clear away, should clearance be necessary, what may be called
debris of the mind—those things that hamper the cultivation of straight thinking and
purposeful procedure.

If you cannot control your thinking, your thinking will control you. You can, and
you will, direct your thoughts once you know how your mind works either for, or against,
you. So let this Supplement link-up with each of the fifteen lessons of your Pelman
course, then your investment in Pelmanism will yield dividends for the rest of your life.

PELMANISM FOR EVERYONE

Lesson No. 9 adequately deals with this aspect. Nevertheless, numbers of folk are
handicapped gravely by viewpoints that hamper clear thinking and confident action. The
earlier pages of this General Supplement will enable those given to disturbing attitudes of
mind to adjust their thinking processes so that maximum benefit may be derived from the
Pelman Course. Subsequent sections show the student how to enhance the gift of a mind
that may not be trammeled with any lack of self-confidence, yet still needs direction. The
Pelman Course is for Everyone.

BARRIERS OF THE MIND

There are recognized fundamental herd instincts, inhibitions and other mental barriers to
progress and happiness, many of which are due to early influences which, as seeds sowed
in the soil of impressionable years, hamper most of us at one period or another.

Probably one of the most handicapped brakes on self-confidence is Anxiety. The

Dictionary tells us the word Anxiety means a condition of mental uneasiness arising from
fear. Let us be clear in our conception of this word fear.

 Wholesome fear that prompts caution and prudence inducing foresight,

forethought and action calculated to prevent, or to circumvent, threatened
misfortunes is Wisdom, whereas
 Irrational fear that arises from nervous anticipation, negative thinking and
unnecessary worry is both unwise and harmful in view of the known reactions of
the organs of the body to a disturbed mind.

This supplement to the Pelman Course is concerned with uneasy states of mind which
have no foundations of fact, yet act as powerful deterrents to one’s poise, personality and
progress.

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Such condition is Exaggerated Anxiety. In the experience of most of us, when perhaps a
rung on the ladder of success has been within our grasp, we have lost grip and let it
go. Notwithstanding an excellent quality of character, there has operated a powerful
deterring factor that has robbed us of successful achievement in our hour of opportunity.

To be reasonably conscientious is admirable. It is wise to weigh the pros and cons of a

proposition before coming to an important decision, yet it is by no means uncommon in
many individuals to carry caution too far and to permit nervous apprehension to become a
habit of mind.

INFLUENCES FROM THE PAST

A number of things we dread never happen. In the past, annoyances, upsetting
circumstances and frustrations have happened to all of us; for many of us in years gone
by there have been injustices, losses—and sorrows. Perhaps time has healed.

Consciously we have forgotten these blows, but the submerged memories remain in the
store-houses of memory—the associated zones. For many people, fortunately,
recollection does not take place.

These are they who have learned that to keep their minds turned outwards toward other
people, other things and to be interested in a creative occupation admit of no turning of
the mind inwards on the self and feeling—to permit:

1. morbid self-analysis,
2. negative comparison with others, and
3. self-pity

—constitutes the withering condition known as Introspection. If and when one has
allowed oneself to become an Introvert, there is an ever-present predisposition to draw on
episodes of the past. It is the emergence of these into the awareness at a given moment
that provides the source of most of our anxious fears.

Text-Book No. 6 of the Pelman Course gives an exposition of the subconscious mind, a
collective name popularly connoting the association areas. It is the working of the Law
of association-of-ideas that exerts so great an influence on our views, feelings, thoughts,
will and actions.

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POWER OF SUGGESTION FROM OTHERS
For the most part, we are to-day what we were thinking yesterday; to-morrow we shall be
what we are thinking to-day. Our life pattern was shaped to a considerable extent by
Hetero-Suggestion—that which was suggested to us by other people.

Our daily actions are prompted, to a degree we do not realize, by Auto-Suggestion—that

which we suggest to ourselves. But it is most important that the student shall understand
what follows.

Much that you suggest to yourself has as its origin an idea that was projected on to the
screen of your receptive mind by adults during the character-formation period of
childhood, before you had come to think for yourself and when you were so dependent on
parents, guardians, relatives, school-teachers and others in authority.

Of course this influence works both ways. Many great men and women owe their
success entirely to the foundations of Faith and Character, and to the principles of right
living inculcated by those who were responsible for their upbringing.

On the other hand, unfortunately, domineering, egotistic, unsympathetic and ill-informed

adults, some of whom may have had temperaments of an over-strung, neurotic nature,
sowed the seeds of fears, doubts, over-caution, self-consciousness and anxieties in the
soil of the impressionable years.

It is these retained ideas, pictures held in mind, that can and do work on through the years
as centers of disturbance in the associated zones, acting as phantasms influencing from
the past our present reactions and attitudes toward life and affairs.

"LIFE IS A BATTLE WITH PHANTOMS OF THE MIND." (Ibsen.)

Ibsen wrote truly, yet modern mind-training teaches one to avoid trying to fight these
enemies to progress and, rather to eradicate them altogether. To oppose these phantoms
of the mind with the attention necessitated if there is to be a fight gives rise to a resistance
that strengthens the enemy.

To uproot them and destroy them is the only form of strategy leading to victory over
these harassing foes. The tactics following this wise strategy must be as follows—

Invade the position the phantom holds, clear it out and consolidate the position won by
establishing a new habit of mind, preferably an exact opposite one.

Thus, you will see that this method rules out the focusing of attention on the enemy and,
instead, concentrating thought and action as allies in the army of occupation.

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There can be no vacant space in your mind, therefore it is useless to try to eliminate any
habit unless you have the better and more profitable habit ready to take the place of the
undesirable one.

It will be helpful if you realize your mind can hold but one idea or thought at a time. Let
us remind you of the slogan of Pelmanism—

Remember—Everything you do is preceded by your attitude of mind. Everything you

DO—this implies action; action wins

General Supplement—Part Two

"HE GRIEVES MORE THAN HE NEED WHO GRIEVES BEFORE HE

NEED." (Seneca.)

True, but it is of little use if merely we agree with the pearl of wisdom quoted above, yet
take no action in an attempt to adjust our negative ideas concerning ourselves.

The victim of a chronic anxiety state—of feelings of inferiority—of some kind of

irrational fear, must DO something about it, otherwise a life may be spoiled,
unnecessarily.

You have shown your readiness to do something constructive by enrolling for the Pelman
Course. We desire greatly that you derive fullest benefit from each Pelman Lesson, in its
logical sequence, by applying what you are learning about the mechanics of mind to each
Text-Book of the Course.

Every hint given in this General Supplement links up with that self-confident attitude of
mind essential to balanced thinking and directed purpose as each Text-Book and progress
Sheet follow on.

HYPERSENSITIVITY
The mind becomes sensitized from reiteration. Past impressions and experiences persist
in the mind through Cell-Memory. If, and when, we are intolerant of new conditions we
get to be hypersensitive—we live in the past.

 Childhood’s inhibitions,

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  schooldays’ maladjustments,
 perplexities of Adolescence,
 early frustrations in career,
 will-weakening habits setting up fear of consequences,
 shocks to the young love-life,
 thwarting of ambitions,
 the criticisms and reprimands from our elders

—all of these bruises form youthful memories. They are part of the stock of the
subconscious store-house. The mental process known as Association of Ideas, mentioned
previously, means:

1. that at a given moment in the present we tinge and tone and color some problem,
circumstance or happening with the memory of a past experience;
2. it follows by the same mental law that we feel and, as it were, live over again the
original embarrassment.

WE ARE RULED BY OUR FEELINGS

We feel in conformity with whatsoever PICTURE has projected itself on to the screen of
our mind. The word Idea means a picture held in the mind. The point to be emphasized
here is that when an individual is:

 making up his mind,

 coming to a decision,
 weighing up possible or probable consequences of his, or her, contemplated
action,

—invariably the standard of comparison governing the decision is one of some past
similar experience.

It will be seen how it behooves one to be on guard so that present procedure shall not be
slowed down, or abandoned, because a misleading impression from the past, when
entirely different circumstances obtained, blocks the road with false fears, doubts and
anxieties.

It is this holding-up process in the mind that generates a Conflict. When such conflict
holds sway over a period, the bewildered, harassed individual non-consciously seeks
escape from a position that has become intolerable.

This escape is the all-too-prevalent condition given the somewhat unscientific name
Nervous Breakdown.

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THE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
The sufferer from chronic anxiety may continue to work in his, or her, profession or
business for quite a long time, but always at—tension. Then something upsetting
happens. It may be trivial when compared with former setbacks, which were mastered,
but this last straw produces the staged retreat from realities.

This breaking-down of will to face and overcome a difficult position offers an excuse, as
it were, because the sufferer cannot fairly be blamed for inadequacies, errors and
failure. Those with whom he was working, and relatives, will say he, or she, would have
done well had that nervous breakdown not come on.

1. It need not have happened.

2. It is anxious tension, operating over a period, adding stress to strain, that at last
snaps under the cumulative results of Protracted Anxiety.
3. It is a functional disorder, not organic.

Mostly the condition has arisen from negative thinking actuated by the causes we have
enumerated in the previous section titled "Hypersensitivity." A Pelman-trained Mind has
the power to ward off this so-called nervous breakdown, one of the products of needless
irrational fear coupled with nervous anticipation.

REMEDY FOR ANXIETY THINKING

Let it be realized it is not the thing, matter or circumstance, person or persons thought to
be causing the anxiety so much as it is what is THOUGHT about the thing, matter or
circumstance, person or persons involved.

The victim of nervous anxiety clothes a given situation, makes it up and produces it in all
its fearful setting on the stage of his shadowy mind.

Then, in accordance with the accepted laws of the mechanics of mind, because he, or she,
sees, with the mind’s eye, the situation in such and such a setting, he, or she, feels the
dread of imagined consequences—thinks along that line of thought, and both Will and
Action have to operate accordingly.

AUTO-SUGGESTION
None of us can help what kind of thought comes into our mind at a given moment, but all
of us can help how long we permit any thought to remain in the mind. A person who is

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harassed by an anxious, worrying thought can superimpose a new, opposite, confident
and reassuring AFFIRMATION.

Revisit the previous section titled, "The Power of Suggestion From Others." Part 3 of the
Pelman Course constitutes one of the key lessons in Pelmanism. When you are studying
Part 3, in connection with Auto-Suggestion, do not hold the idea that it is useless to tell
yourself something you cannot yet believe.

Your subconscious level of mind accepts a positive affirmation, and when such
affirmation is repeated with feeling-tone, the function of the subconscious is to help your
awareness to prompt the action in conformity with the suggestion—to make the belief
materialize. Confidently expect that which you tell yourself to take shape.

On no account mention the thing, habit or handicap you desire to adjust; always name its
opposite. Thus you will not suggest to yourself—I am not afraid—but—I am
courageous.

Repetition is essential.

Apply Auto-suggestion the last thing before giving yourself up to sleep and the first thing
when you awake. It is at these periods when the subconscious mind is most receptive.

Here is a caution.

Auto-suggestion can fail to produce results if the person using it merely says the
sentences but makes no effort to ACT in accordance with the suggestion.

There must be so great a confidence in its efficacy as to impel an attitude as if the desired
results were already apparent. Admittedly, this phase is the most difficult one in the
technique, but it is not too difficult if one’s Will is exercised.

THE MIND-BODY RELATIONSHIP

The Body-Mind Relationship is a Partnership. It is now accepted as an axiom that should
one nurse a fear or feed an anxiety over a period of several months, a bodily symptom
can develop.

Both conscious and subconscious levels of mind send impulses (thoughts that are
messages) actuating voluntary and involuntary processes.

1. The nerve systems deliver messages.

2. The blood system delivers materials.

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 3. The blood-stream carries materials to the Glands. The Glands govern the
Personality. These endocrine glands separate elements of the blood and
manufacture chemical substances known as Hormones.

It is the combined functioning and interaction of the glands that determine Endocrine
Balance. Fear, worry and anxiety, being depressives, upset the balance. Brain, heart,
muscles, internal organs and limbs can be affected.

It would be futile, and a disservice to the invaluable work of mind training, were it
claimed that its teachings could over-rule given circumstances actually existing in one’s
affairs.

Facts are facts, and where there is real cause for apprehension, an individual can hope for
a way out to be found by:

1. facing the facts calmly,

2. taking action, and
3. refusing to allow exaggerated anxiety to take toll of the nervic force.

This mind-body relationship is shown clearly when:

 one’s mouth waters at the sight of a delectable article of food,

 tears come at the sight, or thought, of something moving to one’s feelings,
 the heart beats furiously at the sight, or thought, of something emotional,
 a sudden fright makes one go hot, then cold, or perspire freely,
 some upset feelings can cause stomach-ache or diarrhea,
 certainly a shock can make one sick,
 a passing remark, or a memory, brings the blush or flush,
 passions are aroused merely by reading a book or looking at a picture.

Many people, they:

 tremble,
 feel weak at the knees,
 experience that sinking feeling,
 stammer,
 loose voice,
 drop something,
 pace the room,
 clench the fists,
 cough,
 weep,
 experience a sense of bladder pressure,
 and other physical inconveniences

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—without there having been the slightest physical disability beforehand. All of these
symptoms can be due to a picture held in mind of consequences thought of with nervous
anticipation.

Realize that sense-impressions are carried to the brain and spinal cord by the afferent
nerves and the body acts accordance with the return instructions telegraphed, as it were,
to body organs through the efferent nerves.

This is reflex action, meaning a mechanically determined response. Mind is a state of

awareness, it is the real you. Your body is not you, it is a machine used by your
mind.

SOME EFFECTS OF CONTROLLED THINKING

Thought uncontrolled, due to an untrained mind, can be the cause of:

1. Sudden intolerance towards a person, place, thing, food, beverage; or

system. Law, rule or regulation.
2. Quarrels between good friends or married partners.
3. Depression due to lowered oxidation, oxygen starvation in the blood-stream. The
efficient working of the brain depends upon a constant supply of oxygenated
blood.
4. Sexual Impotence, one of the chief causes of which is the self set-up fear that the
natural, normal relationship cannot function. Many who have indulged a weak-
willed habit during earlier years spoil their lives, and often the live of one who
might have found happiness in the married state, because of an exaggerated
feeling of inferiority, loss of self-esteem and a sense of guilt.
5. Nervous Dyspepsia,—Nervous Catarrh,—Nervous Heart,—Speech Hesitancy, the
Stammer of Stutter,—Hand Trembling,—Blushing,—Insomnia and a general
lowering of the body’s power of resistance to real diseases.
6. NEURASTHENIA One of the far-too-prevalent disabilities of this era is the
condition named Neurasthenia. The term means nervous debility—possibly
before long, it may be shown that the condition is more to do with the muscle
groups than with the maligned nerves.ῼIt sounds rather like a verdict of doom
and, perhaps, the word is attached as a label too carelessly.

Be this as it may, the sufferer does not always understand the word. Months follow, often
years, with the individual driving a weighted mind and lagging body through the mire of
a nameless fear. The idea is set up from outside (hetero-suggestion) that there is
something wrong with the brain.

Beware of the Tyranny of Words. Refer to Lesson No. 3 of your Pelman Course, Section
17—The Tyranny of Thought. Look at it this way—sometime in the past something
happened in your experience that caused a shock to:

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  your self-esteem, or
 to your affections, pride, loyalties, ideals, or
 especially to your ideas concerning yourself.

Possibly:—

1. It may have come from someone to whom you looked up, someone in authority.
2. It may have been a snub, sneer, reprimand, criticism or something else that hurt
your feelings or injured your pride.
3. It passed out of your consciousness and is stored in your subconscious.

Your conscious mind is occupied with the affairs and needs of to-day, but the mind
behind the mind retains the submerged memory. Any association of ideas, at a given
moment, links up, and the former feeling is re-produced, yet the original episode is not
recollected.

Thus, through some past loss of self-esteem your present attitude of mind is—colored and
toned and your views, feelings, thoughts and action—are influenced detrimentally.

You now realize, we hope, how one’s outlook on:

1. oneself,
2. one’s associates,
3. one’s work,
4. the imagined trend of events,
5. the readiness to shoulder responsibilities, or a shrinking from the undertaking,

—either courage, or fear of failure, depend so much on the ability to control thought.

If, after you have completed your Pelman Course, you desire to follow up this subject
read the books:

1. Understanding Human Nature and What Life Should Mean to You, both by Alfred
Adler,
2. also How to Conquer Nervous Fears and That Inferior Feeling, both by T. Gilbert
Oakley.

Your Examiner will suggest other books for future reading to meet specific interests if
you so desire. Lesson No. 14 will enable you to make the best use of a good book. And
we urge you to read through your Pelman Text-books again as a refresher. Numbers of
past students tell us they frequently refer to one or another of the Lessons as a mental
tonic.

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 General Supplement—Part Three

HOW OLD ARE YOU EMOTIONALLY?

We have three ages:—

1. Chronological (actual physical) age.

2. Mental age.
3. Emotional age.

The emotional age constitutes a powerful factor in our lives in so far that it reacts on the
mental age. Emotion is FEELING. You have read in earlier pages of this supplement
that, as you see in your mind so you feel, and as you feel so you think, will and ACT.

Modern mind-training, in its recent findings, deals with individuals as having two
somewhat opposite poles—namely, Ego-feeling and Community-feeling.

Many of us never grow up emotionally, and this failure to adjust ourselves to the pressure
of the herd is the reason why there is so much unhappiness, misunderstanding, conflict
and failure. This need not mean such as one is fated to remain a victim of emotions.

There is always hope for a fresh start being made and adjustment carried to a successful
issue if, and when, Pelmanism is applied conscientiously. The subconscious CAN be
trained by the conscious. Study Lesson No. 6 of the Pelman Course.

Everyone of us is living each minute in a mind-life nourished by memories, experiences

and, as has been shown, suggestion coming from within (auto-suggestion) and from
without (hetero-suggestion). To recognize your emotional shortcomings is to reveal to
yourself just where the need for self-adjustment lies.

PELMANISM TEACHES SELF-REALIZATION

AND SELF-MASTERY
Most of our students are reasonably emotionally mature. Here and there a student reveals
that emotionally he or she is immature. Should you realize tendencies in this direction
you might, with advantage, make a point of correcting mental attitude when occasion
demands.

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30 SELF-ANALYSIS TESTS
Honestly and fearlessly question yourself on the following personal points. Make a note
and strike the balance—

Do I easily feel hurt by some tactless remark?

No—Mature. Yes—Immature.

Am I always wondering what others think of me?

No—Mature. Yes—Immature.

Do I feel life has dealt hardly with me?

No—Mature. Yes—Immature.

Do I quickly upset myself when affairs go wrong?

No—Mature. Yes—Immature.

Am I anxious for sympathy over my circumstances?

No—Mature. Yes—Immature.

When I know I am wrong, do I admit it?

Yes—Mature. No—Immature.

Does my temper rise when I am annoyed?

No—Mature. Yes—Immature.

Do I dress and behave to attract attention?

No—Mature. Yes—Immature.

Do I study myself at the expense of others?

No—Mature. Yes—Immature.

Do I frequently have quarrels with relatives?

No—Mature. Yes—Immature.

Do I readily blame others for my slow progress?

No—Mature. Yes—Immature.

Do I strive to keep up appearances?

No—Mature. Yes—Immature.

Do I attempt to make others feel I am superior?

No—Mature. Yes—Immature.

Do I feel miserable if alone and not entertained?

No—Mature. Yes—Immature.

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Do I feel any general depreciation is meant for me?
No—Mature. Yes—Immature.

Do I try to evade the results of my errors?

No—Mature. Yes—Immature.

Do I allow trivial worries to upset my balance?

No—Mature. Yes—Immature.

Do I readily join in with others?

Yes—Mature. No—Immature.

If annoyed, do I let off steam by turning to something active?

Yes—Mature. No—Immature.

Do I make allowance for the opinions of others?

Yes—Mature. No—Immature.

Do I keep my head when trouble arises?

Yes—Mature. No—Immature.

Do I allow for those who are sensitive?

Yes—Mature. No—Immature.

Am I satisfied to live within my income?

Yes—Mature. No—Immature.

Do I spend more than I should in order to impress people?

No—Mature. Yes—Immature.

Is my household awed by me?

No—Mature. Yes—Immature.

Am I incline to belittle competitors?

No—Mature. Yes—Immature.

Do I underrate things I do not understand?

No—Mature. Yes—Immature.

Am I despondent when my ideas are not accepted?

No—Mature. Yes—Immature.

Am I easily influenced by rumor?

No—Mature. Yes—Immature.

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Do I adjust myself to sound modern ideas?
Yes—Mature. No—Immature.

Should your score show a balance on the immature side, do not entertain any feelings of
inferiority now that you are going through the Pelman Course. The sure way to
personality-adjustment is shown in the Text-Books and Progress Sheets of this exemplary
mind-training. There have been, and will be, thousands of people whose entire outlook
on life has been changed for the better through Pelmanism.

YOU CAN CONTROL THOUGHT

The basic need in the life of every one of us is to be able to direct and control our
thoughts. If we take care of our thoughts there will be little need to worry over our
actions. Each one of us has some measure of a will of his own.

Every hour, in one way or another, we elect to exercise our will over some decision and
consequent action. Some of can be willful to a point of stubbornness.

To apply Will to Thinking is not always one of the easiest of things to do, yet it can be
done. We agree, there is the pull of circumstances, matters, people, other things. You
may imagine such other things are too strong for your will to counteract.

This is not so unless meekly you submit your will to the competitive thoughts. At this
very moment, are you:

1. occupied in your mind with the last printed sentence, or

2. are you thinking about having your boots repaired?

If this mention of your boots now switches your thought off the sentence and on to your
boots, it is for you to switch back from your boots to this paragraph.

Can you do so? You know you can.

How was it done? You used your will.

As we have shown earlier, your mind can hold only one dominant thought at a time. By
using your will you can push any thought out of mind by pushing in another thought. Do
this now.

Is it not so? You did control your thinking.

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But in the more important matters calling for sustained thought control, you will need the
ability to Concentrate, so give special attention to Lessons 3 and 4.

STAMMERING
Unless, unquestionably, there has been malformation of the organs of speech from birth,
there can be hope that the stammer, stutter or any other form of speech hesitancy, may be
eradicated. Mostly, the word-traffic-block is caused through misdirection by an anxious
mind.

The stammer knows what he wishes to say, but the wish is retained as confused thought
hampering action. A false idea anticipating the reactions of the person spoken to, sets up
conflict between the mind of the speaker and his organs of speech. This means
sensitiveness through nervous effort to avoid feared results.

The cause of the stammering might be traced to:

1. a subconscious memory of some past uncomfortable dilemma,

2. a perplexed state of mind experienced when young,
3. some episode setting up embarrassment when one was in a fix, suddenly
questioned by an irascible adult, or otherwise frightened,

—would remain as a submerged and disguised memory.

Any association of ideas would reproduce to-day the former feeling of embarrassment—
hence the stoppage of free flow of words. The stammering comes on through the fear of
creating a wrong impression.

The would-be-free speaker is torn between an effort to speak and the hesitancy to
speak—this conflict blocks the passage. The trouble is not with the organs of speech, the
nerves themselves are not to be blamed and elocution lessons are not needed.

The stammer must realize that often he speaks without any difficulty. When alone, he
speaks normally, there is no stammering when the mind is focused on an interesting
subject. Thus:

1. Turn all thoughts onto the actual matter upon which conversation is to be made,
not on the individual addressed, nor on selection or phrasing of sentences.
2. Especially avoid nervous anticipation of the oncoming of the hesitancy.
3. Never mention the word stammering or stuttering.
4. Ignore the whole thing and speak from the heart as it were, not with contemplated
effort. Apply the foregoing in conjunction with Lesson No. 8 of the Pelman
Course.

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BLUSHING
Many people of both sexes are troubled with a form of what is named erythema. There
are causes where a gland, not balanced in its functioning, is the cause; but in the great
majority of cases the mind is responsible for the inconvenience.

If, and when, one feels one will blush and focuses thought on the fear of blushing, fully
expecting to blush, most assuredly, one will blush.

Here again, as in our paragraphs on Stammering, probably in the past one may have
experienced some kind of:

 severe embarrassment,
 shock to modesty,
 deep feeling of hurt pride, and so on and so forth,

—and the buried memory remains in the store-house of memories.

Will-power cannot prevent the blush; one cannot fight it—that would be paying attention
to the blush. Instead of expecting to blush, expect that on all occasions you will be cool,
calm and collected and in control of your thoughts, words, and actions.

Never discuss the matter and delete the word from your vocabulary. Sufferers mistakenly
keep the habit active through continually dwelling on it as a drawback. Give careful
attention to Lesson No. 7 of the Pelman Course.

General Supplement—Part Four

SPEAKING IN PUBLIC
Numbers of men and women who could be useful to the community, by taking their place
in public life, feel they cannot address an audience, respond to a toast, or otherwise
express themselves freely by the spoken word.

In so many instances there is no:

1. lack of culture,
2. education and experience in affairs,
3. disability of vocal organs,
4. or reason whatsoever

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—preventing these people from being able to say a few words interestingly and
successfully—excepting the one basic reason:—

they turn their mind inwards towards themselves and their feeling of supposed
inadequacy; instead of turning their mind outwards and focusing their attention on the
matter upon which they could speak—did they not doubt themselves.

Some there are who write a speech and read it out loud.—This is better than making no
effort, but one will not become an arresting speaker if this reliance on a written speech is
encouraged.

In his dealings with others, man has no more powerful aid than the spoken word. Next
comes the eye.

The eye not only conveys impressions to the brain; it projects impressions from the brain
of the speaker to other people. A good speaker uses his eyes in conjunction with his
voice—appropriate gesture should follow naturally.

The speaker who holds his listeners’ favorable attention speaks from his heart, not from
his notes, spontaneously, convincingly, because he is not dividing his attention between
what he must remember to say and how he is striking his hearers—this is the anxiety that
sets up self-consciousness.

The only way to become a good speaker is to speak. Remarkable improvement follows
practice. Here are some hints—

1. Correct breathing clears the brain and aids articulation.

2. Make a point of re-charging the lungs with air at every pause; after a time you
will be able to speak loudly without forcing your breath. This is why experienced
speakers can speak for a long time without fatigue and with sustained vocal
quality. Take care of the consonants and the vowels will take care of
themselves. Practice speaking words in which consonants come at the end and
listen to your voice— m = emmer n = enner d = der
3. Always take into account the size of the room, hall or place where you are
speaking. Speak fairly slowly, otherwise the ring will ruin your words into one
another; the larger the place the slower you should speak.

Let us suppose you are going to speak at a meeting. Do not start by apologizing for
addressing the audience. If you can relate, smilingly, a short, apt anecdote calculated to
make your audience laugh during the opening minutes, you will have established helpful
contact.

Then plunge directly to your subject. From this moment—forget all about yourself.

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Let your eyes travel slowly from left to right just above the heads of the people in the
back row of seats. This spares you any possible embarrassment should a couple talk to
each other—furthermore, you appear addressing each of your listeners in turn.

Give no thought to your hands or feet, then your mind will control them naturally. Turn
to your Chairman, and to others who may be supporting you on the platform, now and
again. Permit nothing to detract your thoughts from your subject.

Know when to stop speaking. It is better that your hearers should wish you have spoken
for a longer time. Bring your speech to a climax and finish on a subdued, measured,
earnest note of conviction. Study Lessons No. 5, 8 and 15.

Trust yourself.

A DOMINANT THOUGHT LESSON BY LESSON

Keep a dominant thought in the foreground as you assimilate each lesson of the Pelman
Course. Let the thought for each text-book be its key-note.

Lesson 1—I am resolved to shape my to-morrow through my thoughts to-day.

Lesson 2—Every day, from now onward, shall see me do something to consolidate
my future success.

Lesson 3—I intend to translate purposeful thinking into progressive action, through
my Will.

Lesson 4—I shall develop the power to Concentrate, so that no endeavor may fall
short through mind-wandering.

Lesson 5—My mind shall work for me; it shall not be permitted to work against me.

Lesson 6—Having discovered the true source of Negative Feelings, no longer can
they control me; I now direct my feelings constructively.

Lesson 7—Withering feelings of inferiority have no place in my outlook; I am now

realizing my new self.

Lesson 8—I shall get on well with those with whom I come in contact. My
personality will command favorable opinion.

Lesson 9—Good Judgment being an essential in business success, and since this is a
mental process, I am now training my mind for the development of this asset.

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Lesson 10—My opinions will be sought by those people who matter in my affairs
because I reason from facts, not mere theories.

Lesson 11—What others have done in building reasonable financial security, I can
do provided I give my thought to the laws of mind governing this achievement.

Lesson 12—I shall develop forethought through the exercise of Imagination leading
to practical ideas for my progress and usefulness.

Lesson 13—My all-round Efficiency will be increased due to my newly acquired

knowledge as to the correct application of all of my senses.

Lesson 14—My impressions regarding Life, People and Matters will be clarified
through applying the principles of Pelmanism to my Reading.

Lesson 15—Henceforth I shall adjust my powers of Seeing, Feeling, Thinking,

Willing and Acting to meet the needs of the New World in which I intend to play my
part—worthily.

THE ABILITY TO RELAX

Every one of us should relax now and then, if only for a few minutes. No matter how fit
in both mind and body we may consider ourselves to be, we owe it as a duty to ourselves
to obtain a little relaxation. From a point of view of working efficiency it is a wise
investment.

Although we see to it that machinery, engines, horses, and the soil, have periods of rest—
because we realize it pays us to do so—few of us give thought to the needs of the human
machine.

We must not confuse recreation with relaxation. A game of chess, bridge, billiards, darts
or other indoor games and outdoor sports and games of every kind are greatly to be
desired as recreations.

Everyone should have a hobby; the person who works all day with the brain should use
the hands in making things or playing an instrument when gardening or other outside
interests cannot be followed.

But all of these recreations call for the application of thought and attention; very
strenuous thinking in many instances, whereas true relaxing is:

letting go all muscular tension, permitting the organs and limbs to sag and, more
especially, the relieving of the mind from stress and strain.

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Anxiety—Fatigue can attack one who usually enjoys the working of an outstandingly
brilliant brain and robust constitution—if there be no relaxation over a long period of
sustained energy output.

Much has been written by way of suggesting this or that technique for securing a state of
relaxation: the use of gadgets, systems of breathing and mental concentration, etc.,—all
of which imply careful following of directions and close attention to varied things and
certainly to oneself.

It would appear that care to do the right thing in the right way and in its proper order,
saying nothing of the effect to secure privacy, a darkened room and an assured absence of
any disturbing factor during the ritual, must defeat the end in view.

One cannot relax in the real meaning of that word if one is concerned or anxious or
having to focus the mind on rules. Neither can the average person, who is not in a
Tibetan monastery or on the banks of the Ganges, empty his, or her, mind completely.

To tell an individual to make the mind a blank is asking too much, and failure on the part
of the one trying to relax merely shakes confidence and disappoints. What, then can be
done? Perhaps it will be helpful to recall that delight of childhood’s days—the Magical
Lantern.

We had a collection of highly colored slides, the white sheet was there, the lens was
focused. If we did not wish to project a picture of a shipwreck or a fire or a railway
smash or any similar discomforting picture—we had the will and we used the will to
reject that picture and, instead, we selected and projected a picture of, say, a lovely South
Seas island, restful and pleasurable to look upon, or a grove of stately trees or majestic
mountains, lakes and blue sky—so peaceful and desirable.

We can, if we will, anywhere and at any time, close our eyes and superimpose an
imaginary restful scene on any disturbing idea that may be on the screen of our mind.

Then, when alone, we can do this and at the same time lean back or recline and,
commencing with the muscles of the mouth, passing to the neck, shoulders, arms, wrists,
hands and then to the abdomen, thighs, legs and feet—absolutely and completely let
every inch of our person sag like a deflated rubber balloon.

No clenched fists, no set jaw, no tension anywhere. Deep, measured rhythmic

breathing. In—out, in—out, in—out. And the effortless, serene thought must be—

I am relaxed from head to toe, relaxed—calm—peaceful—relaxed.

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EPILOGUE
What matters most in your life is YOU. This statement is not made in support of
selfishness. Selfishness is a vice, it is opposed to the welfare of the community. People
who do not think constructively are invariably introverts.

1. They are introspective, their thoughts are turned inwards.

2. They are hyper-sensitive through everlastingly watching and sensing themselves.
3. These are they, who are selfish.

The usefulness of your life, and therefore your merit, will be in ratio to your ability to co-
operate with others.

This means Service.

It means Citizenship.

It comes from the thought—What do I give?—rather than from the thought—What do I

get?

You cannot take out of life more than you put into it.

Your measure of success will be computed by proof of how much you can turn what you
think into what you do.

Pelmanism is a summons to Action—the Pelman Course shows the student that all action
is preceded by THOUGHT.

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