PSYCHOLOGY CLUB.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 182, 3 July 1937, Page 13

PSYCHOLOGY CLUB.

The Palmerston North Psychology Club held its weekly meeting yesterday afternoon at the Y.W.C.A. rooms, Airs M. Hovvley (president) being in the chair. The speaker ior the afternoon was Sister Lillian Evans. In introducing the speaker, Airs Howley said they were privileged in having Sister Evans to address them. Sister Evans was not only a traveller, writer, and health educationist, but also a psychologist, and the subject on which she would speak would be practical psychology. The speaker said psychology, the science of the mind, was first taught in a more or less academic form, largely in colleges. While this was beneficial and significant, the form in which psychology was taught in the higher institutions of learning was rather “too deep” and involved for practical, everyday application. Therefore, what had been termed the new psychology had developed out of the needs of the people. Psychology and psycho-analysis should be a bery important study to every human being; it was a very definite science, and its study would bring forth and eliminate many of the peculiarities, fears and complexes which bad been so bewildering. “In studying human nature T find that great lack in life is the lack of understanding. When we have learned to understand our neighbours and ourselves wo will have more harmony, peace, and success, as well as reaping greater benefits from life itself,” Sister Evan-s added. “Atost people become their own gaolers and cut themselves off from the things they desire.. They wear self-imposed mental straight-jackets. Everyone should expect the things they want, and tune in with the law of supply; the subconscious mind is the creator of all things. All tilings begin in the mind and are brought forth by thought and manifested by word and deed. What we send out will come back to us; also what we send after will come to us. Everything about a person tells a story —the shape of the head, the hand, tlie voice, the laugh, the walk; all are outward expressions of thinking, whether it be positive, negative, or fearful. All this makes an indelible impression nil the mind of others, for we telegraph or broadcast our thoughts to others who are helped or harmed by them. Tt is possible to mentally broadcast for anything we want, and get it. This is true and has been proved, not only by myself.” concluded the speaker. Airs Howlev proposed at vote of thanks to Sister Evans, which was carried l>y acclamation.