asleep and it went on, like three successive chapters in a novel.

_We can subdue the habit of worrying ourselves and others needlessly
about every trifling or serious cause of irritation which enters
our minds_. There are many people who from a mere idle habit or
self-indulgence and irrepressible loquacity make their own lives and
those of others very miserable--as all my readers can confirm from
experience. I once knew a man of great fortune, with many depending on
him, who vented his ill-temper and petty annoyances on almost everyone
to whom he spoke. He was so fully aware of this failing that he at
once, in confessing it to a mutual friend, shed tears of regret. Yet
he was a millionaire man of business, and had a strong will which
might have been directed to a cure. All peevish, fretful and
talkative, or even complaining people, should be induced to seriously
study this subject.

_We can cure ourselves of the habit of profanity or using vulgar
language_. No one doubts that a negro who believes in sorcery, if told
that if he uttered an oath, _Voodoo_ would fall upon him and cause him
to waste away, would never swear again. Or that a South Sea Islander
would not do the same for fear of _taboo_. Now both these forms of
sorcery are really hypnotizing by action on belief, and Forethought
aided by the sleep process has precisely the same result--it
establishes a fixed idea in the mind, or a haunting presence.

_We can cure ourselves of intemperance_. This was, I believe, first
established or extensively experimented on by Dr. CHARLES LLOYD
TUCKEY. This can be aided by willing that the liquor, if drunk, shall
be nauseating.