THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 29, 1987.
How It Feels
Feels To Be Psychologised!
Yo Full of
reality.
to be "psychologised" all you need do is talk, you are mistaken.
OU may have come many miles. could possibly commit. Experiences are. You are urged to face a brutal If you think that when you go
great expectations. that to you-seemed unique. You have heard talk of modern psychology and its wonders. How it can cure distresses of the mind and soul that neither priest nor ́or- dinary doctor can touch.
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You link it up in your mind per- haps with incense.
You thought they and forgotten.
Your excuses, your alibis are ex- posed and analysed. No wonder
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You are co-operating in a very real task.
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were buried some people dare not submit to process so ruthless.
It requires your will. As well Faulty emotional attitudes stand as your psychologist's skill. revealed. In your work you may The reward is self-knowledge, be expecting too much of ourself.
It cannot make Your ambitions may be out of all courage, power.
Life magically easy. Life is always proportion to your capacity
a struggle. opportunities.
Buried, yes. But forgotten-no.
The Mind never forgets. It has merely repressed these painful ex- Passes and in- periences into its deepest subcon-
calm, poised, scious layers..
Velvet hangings, cantations. The mysterious voice of an oracle.
With a personality half Svengali, half bearded patriarch.
Instead you are met by a mere The odds are that he is a very unimpressive man.
man.
He is there, of course, you, not to impress you.
and
There they start a racket and a wrangling and a constant internal strife that in some people in Demanding "Love
And you may be setting the wrong way about their accomplish- ment.
so intense as to come to the mind's surface.
In the form of phobias or unrea- sonable fears. Obsessions, constant
to help niggling unhappiness, bad sleep, neurosis, even as a complete mental
The impressive sort-for some breakdown. reason or another-do not seem to
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Nothing kills the germs of men- have the same flair for understand- tal conflict and worry so effectively ing and helping their fellow-men.
as the antiseptic sun-clear light of He motions you to an easy chair. the conscious mind. Offers you a cigarette. Tells you to talk. Just talk,
light
The psychologist's aim is to help you bring these repressed memories And keep on talking.
subconscious Later he and thoughts-these will probably ask you to relax on a conflicts-into the
of con- couch. He will sit just behind your
sciousness.
head so that you are not distract- ed by his gaze.
No flashing hypnotic eyes. hocus-pocus.
To bring your enemy into the daylight, where you may vanquish
No him.
But you haven't come all that way just to talk. You are disap- pointed disillusioned.
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But it releases subconscious for- ces that have been tied up in war- fare in the depths of your soul.
If you have been unhappy, gives you greater energy, greater zest, the ability to see Life as Д Your attitudes to people and to joyous struggle a greater capacity love may be childish, immature. for happiness. You may be subconsciously demand- ing love without the capacity to re- turn it and to earn it.
Attitudes like these are doomed to make your life complicated, un- happy.
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The psychologist's words.
True. But they standing.
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weapon is
are words of under-
Coronation Ceremonies And
Processions
On May 12, the Coronation Ser- For these broadcasts more than vice of their Majesties King George fifty microphones will be employed, VI and Queen Elizabeth will be thirty-three of which will be in- broadcast from Westminster Abbey stalled in the Abbey itself. A separ- by all BBC transmitters.
ate system of about fifteen micro- phones will be placed at the ser- Descriptions of the processions vice of foreign broadcasting organ- Palace isations that are sending their own from and to Buckingham before and after the Coronation observers to London and for whom Service will be given by sever BBC special facilities, including exclu- observers, stationed in the precincts sive observation booths, will be pro- of Buckingham Palace, at the cor- vided by the BBC. Belgium, Czecho- ner of The Mall and Constitution slovakia, Denmark, France, Ger- your per- Hill, at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, many, Holland, Hungary, Italy, outside Westminster Abbey, in the Japan, Norway, Sweden, the US.A., geon. There are many competent He reveals how the Past bears Abbey Annexe, inside the Abbey it and Yugoslavia are among the logists. You relax and unload your upon your Present. He reveals pain-self, and at the top of Constitution countries that have made applica- packet of troubles. The mere con- ful experiences to which you have fession is helpful, of course.
From the day-dreams and phan- tasies that flood into your mind as you relax on his couch, experience You might have guessed that the has taught him to pick out unerr- psychologist's job is not quite so ingly the important clues that over simple as all that.
flow from your subsconscious mind. Actually it takes - many more Slowly, painfully, inevitably, he years to make a good psychologist picks up the threads of than it takes to make a good sur- sonality.
surgeons, far too few good psycho-
But not enough.
Hill.
never consciously adjusted your. The actual Coronation Service. self.
will be broadcast in full with the beliefs exception of certain parts that are AŁ out-unsuitable for broadcasting.
these points, readings of appro- priate rubrics will keep listeners in Faulty emotional attitudes to touch with the proceedings. An
Mischievous childhood You tell the story of your life. that you have never From your very earliest memory.
And a good story
of it, too.. right things.
grown.
have made.
really
but just the people, parents, failure, work, love. explanation of the various ceremon-
Then-full stop.
"Go on with your story.
"But I've finished." "Well,
then, what was in your mind, this very moment?”
"Oh. It's not important." But the odds are that it is im- portant.
As you learn to relax body and mind, you are asked to utter every thought that enters your mind.
Whether it be pleasant or painful -shocking or dull.
He gives hauses, efferts, reasons. Your night dreams too give him important clues.
the
In his hands the dream is another important weapon for gaining clues Then something strange happens. about the subconscious part of your Unless you have experienced it your- mind.. self you will never quite understand
tion for these facilities.
An elaborate control-room, which will have been installed by the BBC in the Abbey, will be the focal point of the broadcasts from within the Abbey and from the observation points on the processional route. the sound From this control-room
to Home
ies and acts that form part of the pictures will be sent to Broadcast-
ing House for radiation solemnity will be include in a pre- and Daventry listeners. liminary description.
The commentaries of foreign ob- The broadcasts of the Procession. At night, when
conscious from Buckingham Palace to West- servers will be handled by another control-room which will mind rests, the subconscious mind minster Abbey and of the Corona- special
have been installed in Middlesex comes out to play. The dream is its tion Service will last three
and
Guildhall (adjacent to the Abbey) play.
three-quarter hours.. from 9.15
and connected direct to the Inter- Unhappy conflict-ridden
a.m. G.M.T. to 1.0 p.m. G.M.T. At people
their national Telephone Exchange. Five 1.0 p.m. the hour at which have the most vivid dreams.
Majesties are expected to leave tons of equipment, including batter- ies with a total weight of 6,000 lbs., Psychologists by analysing Parliament Square for the return,
will have to be accommodated in a thousands have learnt the symbo- by a long and circuitous route, to lic language of dreams.
Buckingham Palace listeners will space 14 ft. by 12 ft. for the pur- be taken back to the studio for a Poses of this control-room. brief programme by the BBC MI- Nearly forty engineers will be litary Band. It is probable, how on duty at Westminster Abbey and ever, that this concert will be in at the Observation points, about terrupted to enable listeners to fol fifteen of whom will be exclusively low the progress of the Procession concerned with the foreign broad- But for you this is an extremely by means of sound effects picked up casts.
the painful ordeal. Make no mistake by microphones - placed
Thames Embankment, at Trafal- Transmission A, about that.
gar Square, St. James's Palace, and You are compelled to make ad- Piccadilly Circus. At 1.15 pm, the missions about yourself that you commentaries will be resumed as shrink from.
the Royal Progress nears its end, descriptions of the scenes on the
May 12, 7.80 p.m. G.M.T: processional route and outside Buc- Transmission D, kingham Palace being given by the
May 12, 11.20 p.m. G.M.T. At the time you may have Slowly but inevitably you are observers at Constitution Hill and Transmission E, thought them sins that no one else made to see yourself as you really in the Palace precincts.
May 13, 4 a.m. G.MT.
To your to your horror thoughts, memor- ies, experiences crop up into your consciousness. Things you had thought long and well forgotten.
Some of them are so painful that you never thought you dare tell them.
azement-sometimes
Your dearest illusions are torn from you.
May 12, 9.15 a.m. G.M.T. and May-12, 1.15 p.m. G.M.T. and May 12, 2.45 p.m. G.M.T. Transmission C,