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How to use this study guide
POWER OF WILL
Frank Channing Haddock, M.S., PH.D.
HOW TO USE AND STUDY THIS GUIDE
How To Study "Power of Will"
My first recommendation is to carefully and methodically read the lectures from beginning to end. Do not skip about, but take each lesson in regular order. Mentally absorb as much of what you read as you can, making note of such paragraphs or sections as afford instructions which you feel particular need of. Return to them later on.
Try each day to put into practical use in your personal affairs and your associations with other people, the principles you have found in the lessons.
As you come to the lessons in Sense Culture,do not "peter out" and allow your original resolution to develop will power to be balked, just because there are some exercises.
Remember this, all that you will ever know in this world, every iota of knowledge you will ever possess, comes to you through your Five Senses. A child without Sight, Hearing, Touch, Taste or Smell never would gain any knowledge, it would be but a physical machine absolutely devoid of the ability to know, think, reason or understand.
Therefore, the greatest opportunity in your life is the opportunity to learn how to make your five senses yield you greater brain powers. And to this end Dr. Haddock has in the second division, "The WILL and SENSE CULTURE," given you the most elaborate and successful exercises ever arranged to multiply the powers of your Senses, through which your knowledge and success may be enhanced.
How To Use The Exercises
There are exercises for the Eye 11 of them; then come 10 for the Ear; 9 for Touch ( a separate lesson for each Sense.) It is best to take three or four exercises from each lesson and work on these 5 sets for the period of 10 days. If time will not allow so many, then take but two exercises from each of the five lessons in Sense culture.
After the ten day period, drop the exercises, and take as many more new ones from each of the five lessons. In this way, you will have covered all of the exercises in the five lessons on Sense culture in three or four ten day periods. Many have asked if they were to take but one exercise and do that for ten days before taking another. No!. Take several at a time and from several of the lessons.
The same plan of practice also covers lessons ; The Nerves; Hands; Steadiness etc. In lessons on Attention; Attention in Reading; Attention in Thinking also appear problems to work out, but these are straight away methods for development of Brain power.
The Only Possible Way To Develop Will Power
Commenting up the fact that there are dozens of exercises in the material given, and your possible thought that you won't have time to practice them, I say that you can no more acquire powers of Mind, Will and Success by merely passively reading about them, than you could become a Sandow by simply reading all the books in existence about muscle.
ACTUAL PRACTICE -- ACTUAL EXERCISE OF THE BRAIN POWERS is the only method under the sun that will yield you INCREASED POWERS. Therefore with joy hail the arrival of this book which shows you the direct road, which provides tested exercises for your personal improvement.
As previously mentioned, it seems a good plan to first read the material from beginning to end, not stopping during the, first reading to work out all of the exercises. TAKE THEM UP FOR METHODICAL PRACTICE AFTER YOU HAVE COMPLETED A GENERAL READING OF THE MATERIAL.
Look upon "POWER OF WILL" as a guide and consellor and a mine of golden information, a master instructor that will show you how to make the most of your God given mental forces, but which can be made the most of -- ONLY THROUGH ACTUAL EXERCISE. Return to it again and again and always will you find new values. Don't part with it just because there may be parts of it you can't use right now you CAN use it later on.
If I may be allowed a personal word, when I began the study of "POWER OF WILL" I was an $8 a week bill clerk. What I learned from the lectures by CONTINUED study of its pages made a fortune for me and not only that, it developed an intellect.
It CAN and WILL produce results for you.
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POWER OF WILL
Frank Channing Haddock, M.S., PH.D.
INTRODUCTION
THIS study guide comes to you as a Well-wisher, a Teacher, and a Prophet.
It will become a Teacher if you will honestly try to secure mental reaction upon it; that is, if you will resolve to THINK, to Think with it and to Think into it.
It will be Prophet of a higher and more successful living if you will persistently and intelligently follow its requirements, for this will make yourself a more complete "Manual of the Perfected Will".
But remember! This study guide cannot think for you;
THAT IS THE TASK OF YOUR MIND.
This study guide cannot give you greater power of Will;
THAT IS FOR YOURSELF TO ACQUIRE BY THE RIGHT USE OF ITS CONTENTS.
This study guide cannot hold you to persistence in self culture;
THAT IS THE TEST OF YOUR WILL.
This study guide is not magical. It promises nothing occult or mysterious. It is simply a call to practical and scientific work.
If you will steadfastly go on through the requirements marked out, this book will develop within you highest wishes of welfare for self, it will make you a teacher of self, it will inspire you as a prophet of self brought to largest efficiency.
ALL NOW RESTS WITH YOU
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POWER OF WILL
Frank Channing Haddock, M.S., PH.D.
THE WILL AND SUCCESS
-THE WILL AND ITS ACTION-
There has been altogether too much talk about the secret of success. Success has no secret. Her voice is forever ringing through the marketplace and crying in the wilderness, and the burden of her cry is one word, will. Any man who hears and heeds that cry is equipped fully to climb to the very heights of life. If there is one thing I have tried to do through these years it is to indent in the minds of the men of America the living fact that when they give Will the reins and say 'Drive!' they are headed toward the heights.
-Dr. Russell H. Conwell.
The human Will involves mysteries which have never been fathomed. As a "faculty" of mind it is, nevertheless, a familiar and practical reality. There are those who deny man's spiritual nature, but no one calls in question the existence of this power. While differences obtain among writers as to its source, its constitution, its functions, its limitations, its freedom, all concede that the Will itself is an actual part of the mind of man, and that its place and uses in our life are of transcendent importance.
Disagreements as to interpretations do not destroy facts.
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POWER OF WILL
Frank Channing Haddock, M.S., PH.D.
THE WILL AND SUCCESS
-PRESENT THEORY OF WILL-
"The Will," says a French writer," is to choose in order to act." This is not strictly true, for the Will does not choose at all. The person chooses. But in a general or loose way the Will may be now defined as a power to choose what the man shall do.
The choice is always followed by volition, and Volition by appropriate action. To say that we choose to act in a certain way, while abstaining from so doing, is simple to say either that, at the instant of so abstaining, we do not choose, or that we cease to choose.
We always do what we actually choose to do, so far as mental and physical ability permit. When they do not permit, we may desire, but we do not choose in the sense of willing. In this sense choice involves some reason, and such reason must always be sufficient in order to induce person to will.
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POWER OF WILL
Frank Channing Haddock, M.S., PH.D.
THE WILL AND SUCCESS
-TESTS OF WILL –
The seat of the Will seems to vary with the organ through which it is manifested; to transport itself to different parts of the brain, as we may wish to recall a picture, a phrase, or a melody; to throw its force on the muscles or the intellectual processes. Like the general-in-chief, its place is everywhere in the field of action. It is the least like an instrument of any of our faculties; the farthest removed from our conceptions of mechanism and matter, as we commonly define them."
O.W.Holmeses.
The developed Will manifests itself, as has been suggested, in two general ways.
In an energetic single act; here it may be called the Dynamic Will. The Will so acting is not necessarily ideal. " Rousseau," says Carlyle, "has not depth or width, nor calm force for difficulty; the first characteristic of true greatness. A fundamental error, to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion fits, though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man."
In a series of acts conducted with force and related intelligently to a given end; here the Static Will discharges in dynamic actions its store of accumulated power.
Acts of Will may be described as Explosive, Decisive, Impelling, Restraining, Deliberative, Persistent. These forms of Will are exhibited in connection with Physical, Mental, Moral states of the man.
Remembering that the Will is always the mind's power of self-direction, we now suggest certain:
General Functions of Will
The strong Will is master of the body.
The right Will is lord of the mind's several acuities.
The perfect Will is high priest of the moral self
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POWER OF WILL
Frank Channing Haddock, M.S., PH.D.
THE WILL AND SUCCESS
-ACCORDING TO YOUR WILL-
Mastery of the body is frequently seen in remarkable instances of physical control. All voluntarily acquired habits are examples. Though a given habit becomes automatic, it yet represents a long and persistent application of Will, and, as often, perhaps, the present exercise of Volition directing and maintaining actions that are apparently unconscious.
The singer's use of voice exhibits trained impulse; the musician's manipulation of his fingers, habituated movements; the skilled rider's mastery of his limbs in most difficult feats and unexpected situations, spontaneous response to mind; the eloquent orator, celerity of muscular obedience to feeling. In all these and similar cases the Will must act, coordinating particular movements with general details of Volition: with the ultimate purpose in view. Indeed, the specific activities that make up the complex physical uses of the human body in all trades of skill demand supervision of the Will as an adequate explanation. The person may not be conscious of its sovereign acts, but it is the power upon the throne.
Underlying those states of the soul of which it is immediately aware are conditions not formulated in consciousness, which nevertheless constitute its highest powers. If these exhibitions of "second nature" involved no immediate action of Will, the very exercise and training of Will which look to their attainment would, so far forth, defeat the end in view; they would weaken rather than develop Will.
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