Initiative Psychic Energy - Being the Sixth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the - Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and - Business Efficiency by Warren Hilton
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consciousness of any one of these component elements of a complex
brings with it all the rest_. [Sidenote: _Bodily Effects of Ideas_] For example, the ideas pertaining to any terrifying experience, when recalled to consciousness, bring with them the trembling, the wildly beating heart, the shaking knees, with which they were originally accompanied. The victim of stage-fright feels his knees give way and that he is sinking to the floor; his heart beats tumultuously, cold perspiration covers his body, he blushes, his mouth is dry, and his voice sticks in his throat. Afterwards, alone in his own room, the memory of that dreadful moment, the thought of another appearance before that audience, will be accompanied by the same physiological effects. [Sidenote: _Impulses and Inhibitions_] Every such bodily movement is an expression of energy. The recall to consciousness of the terrifying experience, the recall of the picture of the assembled audience, these things automatically produce bodily activities. So we must conclude that _Every idea in memory has associated with it the potential energy necessary for the production of muscular movement_. It does not necessarily follow that the recall to consciousness of a given idea will be invariably followed by an outwardly visible muscular activity expressive of its energy. Just as the mere presence of an idea in consciousness tends to bring about a movement, so _the presence of a contrary idea will tend to inhibit it_. |
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