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Man's supreme inheritance

Chapter 41: INDEX
By F. Matthias Alexander
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A practitioner advances a theory that many physical and mental ailments arise from habitual misuse of the body and can be addressed through conscious guidance and re-education of posture, breathing, and coordination. He critiques contemporary physical-culture remedies as inadequate, outlines practical principles and exercises for teachers and clinicians, and supports his claims with clinical observations and philosophical reflection on human development. The work seeks to promote integrated, efficient bodily use to reduce strain, improve daily and artistic function, and foster broader physical and mental well-being.

INDEX

  • Abdominal wall, 20, 202, 264, 286, 291;
  • Abnormality, 69, 115;
    • abnormal physical condition, 71, 115, 262.
  • Aborigines, of North America, New Zealand, Japan, 8, 10.
  • Acrobats and athletes, 278, 296.
  • Acts (actions), mechanical, 9, 33 ff.;
    • mechanical repetition of, 6, 33;
    • reflex, 54;
    • reasoned and unreasoned, 185–188, 204, 252;
    • instinctive number of, decreasing, 197;
    • imitative and reasoned, 207;
    • muscular, performed vicariously by teacher, 23, 207, 212, 214 ff., 217, 257;
    • performance of habitual, by other than habitual methods, 213,
      • in sitting, 284;
    • antagonistic action, 185;
    • manner of performance, all-important, 74;
    • act of faith, 48 ff.
  • Adaptability, man’s, to changing environment, 28, 140, 143, 156, 161 ff., 182, 187, 195, 197, 237 ff.;
  • Affirmatives, 53.
  • Alcohol, 59, 288. v. Overindulgence.
  • Ambidexterity, 118.
  • America, 174 ff.
  • Anæmia, 15.
  • Anæsthesia, 124, 236.
  • Anger, 44.
  • Ankles, 184, 279.
  • Appendicitis, Preface, 183, 191, 235, 303–305.
  • Apprehension, 88;
    • in pupil, 253;
    • and re-education, 249–59;
    • cultivated, 25.
  • Aptitude, natural, 205.
  • Archer, William, 76 ff.
  • Argument, 193 ff.
  • Arms, incorrect use of, 23, 98, 184, 216, 219, 238, 276;
    • in drawing, 130.
  • Associations, mental, connected with ideas of speech, 54.
  • Asthma, 234, 274, 288, 299, 336.
  • Atavism, 10, 14.
  • Athletes, 57, 278, 296.
  • Atmospheric pressure, in connection with breathing, 20, 147, 324 ff., 336.
  • Attention, attitude of, 103 ff.;
    • “stand at attention,” 334.
  • Auto-intoxication, 21, 190, 234, 304;
    • in case of child, 113.
  • Automatism, 160–167;
    • automatic control, 46, 54;
    • automatic functions, 189, 290–292;
    • automatic development, 160 ff.;
    • automatic training and machinery, 169.
  • Auto-suggestion, 38, 52, 218, 231.
    • v. Self-hypnotism.
  • Bacteriology, Preface.
  • Back, wrong use of, 98;
  • Bad temper, 58, 133, 222.
  • Balance, lack of mental, 131;
    • upset by emergency, 252;
    • v. Co-ordination.
  • Bicycling, 226.
  • Blood, v. Circulation.
  • Body, human, potentialities of, Preface, 2;
    • v. Potentialities.
  • Body, civil war in, 15 ff., 93, 186, 197;
    • in so-called concentration, 103;
    • as a mechanism not understood, 16–18;
    • delusions in regard to uses of, 20;
    • false poise and carriage of, 86, 114, 129,
      • in drawing, 130,
      • in dancing, 136,
      • due to rigidity, 213;
    • lengthening of, 284 ff.
  • Boxing, 232.
  • Breathing, explanation of act, 147;
  • British, methods of, 171 ff.
  • Bronchitis, 183, 299, 336.
  • Brute force, principle of, 161, 165 ff.
  • Cancer, Preface, 47, 183, 288.
  • Carlyle, Thomas, 245.
  • Catarrh, 336.
  • Cause and effect, due sequence of, 45, 96, 132;
    • effects given significance of causes, 133;
    • in usual teaching methods, 205;
    • in connection with re-education, 200, 215.
  • Chemical changes, in physical constitution, produced by mental condition, 47.
  • Chest, unduly elevated, 264, 276, 298, 307, 327, 330, 334;
    • measurements, fallacy of, 325.
  • Child, v. Education.
  • Circulation, 17, 19, 21, 29, 289, 308.
  • Civilisation, as a factor in physical degeneration, 7 ff., 14;
    • in relation to evolution, 11;
    • artificial, 14, 317, 340;
    • man’s progress towards higher stage of, 155, 187;
    • critical stage of, 159, 192;
    • future, to be based on reason, 243.
  • Claim, synopsis of, 181–192.
  • Colitis, 235.
  • Colon, atony of, 320.
  • Common-sense, 30.
    • v. Reason.
  • Concentration, 89, 216, 261;
    • warning with regard to, 102 ff.;
    • national, 169.
  • Conscious guidance and control, theory and practice of, Preface;
    • man’s progress in direction of, 31 ff., 107, 115, 141, 155, 186, 197, 208;
    • necessity for, 35, 54, 57–72, 84, 156, 163, 179, 181, 187, 227, 296, 305, 322;
    • possibility of complete, 41, 44 ff., 56;
    • primarily universal, secondly a specific, 59, 209;
    • universal application of, 72, 141, 181 ff., 192;
    • practical application of, 57–72, 179;
    • reasoned, 182, 187;
    • as synonym for mobility of mind, 92;
    • for poise, 136;
    • for reasoned experience, 68;
    • as fundamental of future education, 141–155;
    • danger of underrating power of, 291;
    • as adaptability in emergency, 241.
  • Conscious guidance and control, methods of, 94, 189, 225, 230,
    • formulation of, 119 ff.;
    • four essential stages in, 200 ff.;
    • compared with other teaching methods, 52;
    • mental position of teacher and pupil, 89, 231;
    • application in connection with breathing, 91;
    • dramatic training, 138;
    • golf, 221–226;
    • ploughing, 239 ff.;
    • sitting, 283;
    • rising, 285;
    • walking, 279–283;
    • automatic functions, 290–292;
    • emergencies, 243 ff., 249, 282, 297;
    • individual errors and delusions, 260272;
    • bad habits, 288 ff.;
    • application, in case of stuttering, 219 ff., 294,
    • spinal curvature, 301;
    • appendicitis, 304;
    • effects of treatment, 233 ff., 306–312;
    • in case of defective speech, 53, 133, 231, 233 ff.;
    • lasting quality of change, 234.
  • Confidence, based on reason, 215;
    • loss of, due to subconscious guidance, 222.
  • Consciousness, with regard to use of muscular mechanisms, 17 ff., 94, 96;
    • necessity of quickening the conscious mind, 52.
  • Constipation, 20, 235, 274, 304, 320.
  • Contortions, subconscious, 231;
    • facial, 229–307.
  • Control, defective mental and physical, 23 ff., 267, 288;
    • growth and progress of intellectual, 30;
    • mental, in “New Thought,” 44;
    • co-ordinated reasoned, 308.
  • Co-ordination, defective, case of congenital, 53;
    • in case of stammering, 53 ff.;
    • overindulgence, 58 ff., 68, 71;
    • deep breathing, 146;
    • children dancing, 126;
    • drawing, 130;
    • national, 170;
    • with reference to respiration, 148, 316;
    • to education, 140;
    • case of deterioration of correct, 127 ff.;
    • of improved, 219;
    • correct, 190, 304, 308;
    • in standing position, 278;
    • test of correct, 309;
    • individual and national compared, 175.
  • Crippling, 215.
  • Courage, 2, 161, 171.
  • Dancing, 124 ff., 165.
  • Debility, 13, 15, 86.
  • Defects, bodily, 14 ff., 51, 114, 183 ff.;
    • failure to eradicate by direct means, 95, 255;
    • dangerous, initiated by school methods, 127, 129, 132, 152.
  • Degeneracy, 6, 7, 12, 107, 179, 212, 247, 311, 319, 340;
    • comparison between rural and urban, 6;
    • not an epidemic, but a stage in progress of human race, 192 ff.;
    • in children, 106.
  • Delusions (mental and physical), 18, 89, 185, 188, 206, 214, 216, 219, 232, 253;
    • in connection with physical exercises, 21 ff.;
    • national, 167, 209;
    • specific cases, 260, 272.
  • Deterioration, physical, Preface. v. Degeneracy.
  • Development, 11, 160, 238;
    • scientific theory of, 195.
  • Diagnosis, 89, 193, 213, 255, 308.
  • Diaphragm, 337.
  • Digestion, 179, 266, 320.
  • Disablement, subconsciously willed, 216.
  • Disease, immunity from, 43, 86;
    • resistance to, Preface, 179;
    • submission to, 268 ff.
  • Doe, John, case of, 15 ff., 21 ff., 93 ff.
  • Dorando, 281–296.
  • Dramatic expression, 138.
  • Drawing, 129 ff.
  • Dreaming, 25, 131.
    • v. Self-hypnotism.
  • Drug habit, 66 ff.
  • Dumb-bells, 13, 26, 97.
  • Eccentricity, 131 ff.
  • Education, in relation to evolution, 11, 25 ff.;
    • as generally understood, does not necessarily mean progress on the evolutionary plane, 165;
    • in earlier years, two methods of learning, 109, 114, 118;
    • compared with re-education, 178;
    • indictment of, 252.
    • Methods of education, on false basis, 25 ff.;
      • on true basis, such as will establish a normal kinæsthesia, 71, 140, 155.
    • On subconscious basis, two methods, older, of supervision, modern, of free expression, 115 ff.;
      • older method, 122, 134;
      • rigidity in, 136 ff., 144, 145, 151, 155;
      • concentration in, 103;
      • physical exercises, criticism of, 115, 145,
      • as doing more harm than good, 146;
      • as haphazard system, 310 ff.;
      • failure of, owing to general ignorance of ideal physical condition in children, 114, 127;
      • modern method (free expression), 115 ff., 122, 136, 142;
      • danger of experimentation, 150.
    • On basis of Conscious Guidance and Control, 134 ff., 228, 296;
      • essential starting point, 135;
      • guidance and direction necessary in earliest years, 134;
      • postulates concerning necessity of conscious guidance and control as fundamental in education and commanding fundamental of free expression, 141–143;
      • meaning of “training,” 144;
      • child’s right of choice within limits, 151;
      • problem to be solved, 153 ff.;
      • primary and secondary education, 141.
  • Effects and causes, v. Cause and Effect.
  • Effort, minimum of, employed, 94;
  • Emotion, 25, 34, 46, 90, 278, 328;
    • in connection with music and dancing, 124.
  • Emphysema, 298, 328.
  • End, v. Means whereby.
  • Energy, 14, 179;
  • Enunciation, 231.
  • Environment, in education, 110, 123, 128, 136.
  • Equilibrium, 95, 238, 265, 274, 280, 324.
  • Eugenics, 106, 194.
  • Eulenburg, myopathic theory of, 300.
  • Evolution, 3–12, 28, 31, 37, 185, 319;
  • Face, expression of, 306 ff.;
    • change during treatment, 308.
  • Faith-healing, Preface, 38, 40, 45 ff., 52, 193, 215, 218, 288;
    • dangers of, 48.
  • Fat, reduction of, 339;
    • morbid condition of, 86.
  • Fear, 34, 44, 88, 161, 182, 265;
    • fear reflexes, 88, 133;
    • stage fright, 139;
    • causing self-hypnotism, 242.
  • Feeling-tones, v. Sensory appreciation.
  • Feet, position of, for standing, 274, 279;
    • for walking, 279–283;
    • flatfoot, 264, 280.
  • Fencing, 204, 226.
  • Flaccidity, undue, 95.
  • Frazer’s “Golden Bough,” Preface.
  • Freedom, 136, 143, 163;
    • German conception of, 163 ff.
  • Free expression, 116 ff., 122 ff., 136, 142, 143, 150;
    • in dramatic training, 138 ff.
  • Functions, bodily, 15, 16, 184, 288, 305, 308;
  • Games, 211.
  • Germany, 163 ff.
  • Golf, 204, 211–213, 221–226.
  • Gravity, centre of, 285, 324, 336.
  • Greece, civilisation of, 7.
  • Habit (Habits), effects of, slow to show themselves; difference between old and new conception of, 87, 90, 92;
    • predisposition to, 86;
    • in child, 108 ff.;
    • of thought and of body, 73 ff., 86 ff.;
    • muscular, 18, 54, 212;
    • mental, 47, 53, 212;
    • how affected by act of faith, 47 ff.;
    • by suggestion, 52 ff.;
    • control of mental, 102;
    • mechanical, 75, 77 ff., 105, 116;
    • harmful, 86, 189, 234, 322, 333, 340;
    • attachment to harmful, 101, 106;
    • specific harmful, 219, 273, 286–290, 317;
    • of using eyes, 184;
    • of submission to illness;
    • cultivation of harmful, 105, 147, 207, 239, 262;
    • development of harmful in children, 106, 111, 114, 123, 132–134;
    • incorrect changed to correct, 86, 104, 151, 189, 214, 241, 289, 332;
    • ability to check incipient, 234;
    • habit of distinguishing between reasoned and unreasoned actions, necessary to evolution, 188.
  • Hallucination, 85.
  • Hand, evolution of, 5;
    • movement of, 23;
    • incorrect use of, in drawing, 130;
    • position of hands as test of co-ordination, 309 ff.
  • Hayfever, 235, 299.
  • Head, delusion in regard to movement of, 18;
  • Heart, 15, 19, 56, 298, 318;
    • heart trouble among soldiers, 148;
    • case of dilation of, 307.
  • Heredity, 10, 108 ff.
  • Hips, 184, 279, 284.
  • Hypnotism, Preface, 38 ff., 52, 218 and note, 231, 236;
    • dangers of, 41.
  • Hypochondria, 99.
  • Ideo-motor centres, 53, 129, 211.
  • Idée fixe, 50, 83, 85, 95, 262, 267;
    • national, 170–173.
  • Ill health, in some people as natural as health in others, 71.
  • Imitation, 212, 292–297, 310, 317, 332;
  • Improvement, signs of, 53, 133, 233 ff., 306–312.
  • Indigestion, 15, 20, 201.
  • Individual. v. State, 160 ff., 166, 167.
  • Inertia, mental, 101, 105, 185.
  • Influenza, 305.
  • Inhibition, 35 ff., 54, 86, 94, 188, 200, 212, 225, 231 ff., 256, 301;
  • Initiative, 99, 121.
  • Inoculation, 2.
  • Insanity, Preface, 74.
  • Insomnia, 15.
  • Instinct, 33 ff., 186, 188, 196;
  • Intelligence, growth of, in man, 4 ff., 54, 84, 98;
    • dominating instinct, 37.
  • Intoxication, emotional, 125.
  • Intuition, 34, 186, 203;
    • compared with instinct, 221.
  • Jaw, movement of, in speaking, 230;
    • relaxation of, to open mouth, 232 ff.
  • Judgment, 206, 241, 248;
    • German failure in, 163 ff.
  • Kinæsthetic register, 97.
    • v. Sensory appreciation.
  • Kinæsthetic systems, defective and delusive, 22, 70, 89 ff., 206;
    • normal, 71;
    • case of George Gray, 137;
    • overexaltation of, 125;
    • demoralisation of, 151, 155;
    • national, 158;
    • satisfactory condition of, constitutes “means whereby” of free and full expression, 140;
    • re-education of, in connection with breathing, 148;
    • with speaking, 230.
  • Knees, 184, 279, 284.
  • Ku-Klux Klan, 161.
  • Kultur, 169.
  • Larynx, depressed, 233, 267, 299, 327;
    • in children dancing, 126;
    • raised and relaxed, 233.
  • Lassitude, 15, 101.
  • Legs, movement of, 23, 184;
    • shortening of, 280;
    • stiffening of, 307.
    • v. Golf and Ploughing.
  • Lips, incorrect use of, in speech, 53, 133.
  • Lordosis, 298.
  • Lungs, 17, 19, 92, 235, 318, 325 ff., 335.
  • Malformations, 188, 235.
  • Malthus, 8.
  • Man, present danger of, 5 ff., 13, 23;
  • Manipulation, v. Acts, vicariously performed by teacher.
  • Manufactured premises, 162, 210.
  • Massage, internal natural, 190, 191, 289, 304 ff., 316.
  • “Means whereby,” rather than the end, to be considered, 16, 135, 140, 189, 204, 210, 230, 262, 263, 266, 283;
    • of successful re-adjustment, 67;
    • of free and full expression, 140;
    • of conscious guidance and control, 197;
    • of controlled speech, 208, 220, 230;
    • of playing golf, 224, 226;
    • of bicycling, 226;
    • of ploughing, 237 ff.;
    • of standing position, 275 ff.;
    • of walking, 279–283;
    • of sitting, 283;
    • of rising, 285;
    • in relation to social reform, 11, 154;
    • to education, 154;
    • to individual errors and delusions, 262 ff.
  • Mechanical advantage, position of, 27, 86, 94, 96 ff., 132, 189 ff., 214, 273, 277, 301, 304, 321 ff., 335.
  • Mechanistic theory, 4.
  • Medical opinion concerning respiration, 319.
  • Mental attitude, importance of subjects, 15 ff., 20 ff., 46, 51 ff., 73 ff., 85, 93;
  • Method of teaching, 204 ff.
  • Militarism, 166, 169 ff.
  • Monomania, v. Idée fixe.
  • Mouth, imperfect opening of, 229;
  • Müller, Max, 56.
  • Münsterberg, psychological theories of, 30.
  • Muscles, new ways of using, 6;
    • atrophied, 6, 15;
    • semi-automatic, 56;
    • conscious movement of, 57;
    • control and co-ordination of, 93.
  • Muscular mechanism (muscular system), incorrect use of, 17 ff., 51, 86, 95, 288, 310;
    • correct use of, 93, 225, 278, 289;
    • mechanical development of, 16;
    • derangement of, in child, 113;
    • correct natural use of, in children, 132;
    • thoracic, 317.
  • Music, 124 ff., 165;
    • musical instruments, 211.
  • Myers, F. W. H., his concept of the subconscious self, 30 ff.
  • Natural aptitude, 205, 262, 283.
  • Natural selection, 3–5, 16, 195;
    • as opposed to conscious selection, 6.
  • Neck, shortening of, 262, 283;
  • Nervous prostration, 16.
  • “New Thought,” 44, 52, 287.
  • Obsession, v. Idée fixe, 168.
  • One-brain-track method, 262, 266, 270.
  • “Open mind,” 51, 76 ff., 160, 174;
    • contrasted with credulity, 98.
  • Orders, conscious guiding, 55 ff., 87 ff., 91;
  • Overcompensation, 25, 61, 64, 90, 162, 262.
  • Overindulgence, 58 ff., 66 ff., 74, 273, 288.
  • Pain, 48, 68 ff., 100, 218;
    • perverted form of pleasure in, 71.
  • Panaceas, Preface, 287.
  • Paralysis, 234, 235.
  • Persia, civilisation of, 7.
  • Philosophy, 4, 28, 38;
    • application of conscious control to, 182.
  • Physical culture, Preface, 4, 13 ff., 17 ff., 25, 97, 145, 201–202, 275, 299 ff.;
    • methods of, 299 ff.;
    • v. Spinal curvature.
  • Physical exercises, mechanical, 14, 19, 93, 145 ff., 201;
    • recent tendency to modify, 26;
    • reason for failure of, 21;
    • imitations of bad models in, 115;
    • unnecessary under methods of conscious guidance and control.
  • “Phobia,” 34.
    • v. Fear reflexes.
  • Pineal eye, 5.
  • Plague, as a factor in evolution, 7.
  • Play, children’s, 121.
  • Ploughing, 237–241.
  • Poise, 86, 95, 136, 213, 231, 286, 317;
    • mental, physical, and spiritual balance, 11.
  • Potentialities, man’s, Preface, 4, 11, 192, 196, 205, 208, 236;
    • of conscious control in modern child, 116;
    • standard of kinæsthetic, in modern child, lowered, 120;
    • debasement of, 166.
  • “Practice,” 88, 207, 227, 230.
  • Precept, 106, 109, 118.
  • Preconceived ideas, erroneous, 23, 54, 144, 183, 184, 203, 205, 215, 216, 232, 261, 301;
    • in a nation, 162;
    • as the legacy of instinct, 212;
    • in relation to lifting a weight, 97 ff.;
      • to art, 131;
      • to speech, 228.
  • Predisposition, 86, 99 ff., 108.
  • Prejudice, 51, 83, 98;
    • prejudiced arguments, 25, 75, 251.
  • Psychology, 29 ff., 38.
  • Psycho-physical, examination, 19, 128, 133, 202, 215;
    • p. conditions, 58, 62;
    • p. process, 65;
    • p. make-up of the individual, 70;
    • p. organism, 89;
    • p. condition of child at birth, 154;
    • p. forces, 160;
    • p. guidance, 181;
    • p. spheres, 192;
    • p. turning point in civilisation, 194;
    • p. mechanism, 210;
    • p. habit, 262, 301;
    • p. peculiarities, 260;
    • p. treatment, 270.
  • Psycho-therapy, 235.
  • Reaction of mind on body and body on mind, 45, 134, 212.
  • Re-adjustment, 59, 63, 65, 71, 140, 147, 192, 202;
    • national, 144;
    • “means whereby,” of successful, 67, 278.
  • Reason, 30, 35, 67;
    • domination of, by sensation, 25, 160, 197, 256, 290, 311;
    • national stultification of, 162, 170;
    • as basis of confidence, 215;
      • of new civilisation, 242;
    • necessity for, in emergency, 243 ff., 249, 282.
  • Re-education, 59, 65–71, 96, 189, 253 ff., 258, 277, 340;
    • specific meaning of, 199;
    • fundamental principle of, 256;
    • of kinæsthetic systems, 148, 302;
    • respiratory, 313–340;
    • in connection with overcoming bad habits, 288;
      • with spinal curvature, 301.
  • Reform, social, 11, 153;
    • induced by suggestion, 54;
    • in connection with will-power, 59;
    • cause of failure of, 61.
  • Relaxation, Preface, 13, 24, 89, 217, 261, 284;
    • real meaning of, 26, 96;
    • illustration of, in lifting weight, 98.
  • Resistance to disease, Preface, 179, 284, 288, 318, 340.
  • Respiration, 20, 113;
    • respiratory re-education, 313–340;
    • medical opinion concerning, 319.
    • v. Breathing.
  • Responsibility of patient, 188, 215.
  • Rest cures, Preface, 16, 43, 99.
  • Ribs, movement of, in breathing, 302, 310, 333.
  • Rigidity, 95, 148, 212–213, 264;
    • mental, 50, 76, 82 ff.;
      • applied to physical functions, 51;
    • harmful thoracic, 147, 201;
    • national, 160–167;
    • in educational methods, 118, 136, 139;
    • in military methods, 170, 172.
  • Rome, civilisation of, 7.
  • Rupture, 310.
  • Sandow, 330.
  • School furniture, 154.
  • Science, as another name for common-sense, 30;
    • advance of, impeded, 51.
  • Scott, Sir Walter, 103.
  • Self-hypnotism, 24 ff., 131, 216, 262;
    • national, 162, 166;
    • in connection with “frightfulness,” 171;
    • due to fear, 243–245.
  • Self-preservation, 41, 99.
  • Sensation, pandering to, 66, 68 ff., 111, 113, 290;
    • perverted, 69, 74;
    • new correct guiding, 189.
  • Sensory appreciation, habit of dependence on, 9, 232, 237;
  • Shakespeare-Bacon controversy, 81 ff.
  • Shaw, G. Bernard, on education, 122.
  • Shortening (“pressing down”). v. Spine.
  • Shoulders, delusions in regards to movement of, 18, 23, 214, 276.
  • Simple life, 8 ff.
  • Singing, 232.
  • Sitting, act of, 179, 283–285, 332;
    • in children, 120;
    • rising from sitting, 285–286.
  • Skin, 264, 308, 339.
  • Speech, 53 ff., 219 ff., 220 ff., 294, 332;
    • in children, 120;
    • case of defective, 133.
  • Spine, lengthening of, 202, 222, 277;
  • Stammering, 53, 219, 293.
  • Standing, 179, 264, 267, 273, 279, 320;
    • “proper standing position,” 276, 278, 284, 332;
    • no correct standing position for each and every person, 278;
    • “stand at attention,” 204, 334.
  • Stature, shortening of, 128, 266, 276.
  • Stealing, case of, 59 ff.
  • Stigmatisation, 39.
  • Stimulants, 16.
  • Stomach, protruding, 115, 201, 274, 291.
  • Stooping, case of, 276.
  • Subconsciousness (subconscious self), 29–47, 54;
    • Myers’ concept of, 30 ff., 85;
    • education of, below the plane of reason, 33;
    • impressionability to suggestion, 34;
    • definition of, 42;
    • delusive, 64, 89, 270;
    • dominating reason, 58, 128, 287, 252;
    • function of, after conscious control has been acquired, 92;
    • as synonym for habit, 92, 174, 227;
    • elimination of inherited, 211;
    • built up of delusion and undue apprehension, 253.
  • Subconscious guidance and control, 52, 61, 67–72, 83, 142, 205, 207, 266, 281;
    • failure of, 63, 183, 201, 241, 249 ff.;
    • in modern child, 120 (v. Instinct);
    • in primitive nations, 160, 186;
    • in civilised nations, 161, 174, 247;
    • in relation to reform, 11,
      • to education, 25 ff., 115,
      • to self-help, 262;
    • advance to conscious guidance, hitherto inadequate, 187;
    • standard of accuracy lost, 217.
  • Sympathy, 188, 215.
  • Symptoms, 193, 261, 267;
    • regarded rather than causes, 19, 193, 218.
  • Taboos, 37.
    • v. Inhibition.
  • Taste, sense of, 68 ff., 111;
    • case of perverted, in child, 112.
  • Teeth, 4.
  • Tendencies, criminal, 61.
    • (v. Reform);
    • subconscious, 67;
    • inherent, 70, 109 ff.
  • Tension, degree of, required, 24, 89, 97 ff.;
    • undue, 23, 95, 216–219, 256, 261,
      • in so-called concentration, 102,
    • in speaking, 230, in ploughing, 238,
    • in walking, 280,
    • in sitting, 283.
  • Thoracic capacity, explained and illustrated, 20;
  • Thorax, 19, 147, 184, 191, 201, 267, 277, 298, 324.
  • Throat and ear trouble, 233, 235, 262, 276, 299, 336.
  • Tobacco, 288.
  • Tongue, incorrect use of, 133;
    • importance of, for clear enunciation, 233.
  • Tonics, 17.
  • Totems, 39.
  • Toxic poisoning, 114.
    • v. Auto-intoxication.
  • Training, v. Education.
  • Trance, 41, 52.
    • v. Hypnotism.
  • Trine, Ralph Waldo, 45.
  • Tuberculosis, 183, 234, 274, 288.
  • Upward, Allen, on child education, 151.
  • Varicosity, 234, 298.
  • Vermiform appendix, 5.
  • Viscera, abdominal, 19 ff., 264, 291, 304 ff., 333, 336.
  • Visceroptosis, 320.
  • Vocalisation, 138, 231, 327, 330, 338;
    • change in quality of voice, 192, 308;
    • vocal chords, 228;
    • vocal control, 278, 295;
    • loss of voice, 266, 336.
  • Volition, v. Will.
  • Walking, 179, 264, 267, 270, 279–283, 332;
    • in children, 120.
  • War, 8;
    • the present crisis, 157 ff., 164, 167 ff., 175;
    • discussion of causes of, 160;
    • re-adjustment after, 144.
  • Will, 38, 86, 99, 203, 215, 333;
    • the will to live, 42, 99;
    • will-power in relation to overindulgence, 59.
  • Wish, meaning of, with reference to the eradication of bad habits, 103 ff.
  • Worry, 44, 252 ff.
  • Yogis, system of breathing, 56.