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became cool and collected.
You answered his qucations well, your mind suddenly decided to work properly again. Your mouth resumed its normal state of moisture, and you no longer needed to lick your lips.
Why were you so terrified when alone with your thoughts?
I'll tell you the answer.... Your fear was not real fear, for this only invades the mind in moments of real danger.
You were suffering from an attack of nerves. And I'll tell you why all nervous feelings left you as soon as you were actually in the room.
You'd got something else to think about. You were no longer stirring up your glands by all kinds of imaginary terrors.
"NERVES" are a kind of first cousin to fear. Real fear is helpful-It's got a purpose. It makes us take care of ourselves when danger's about.
The "nerves" which masquerade as fear only mislead us they make us think there's some- thing to be frightened of when there isn't.
I wonder how many times you've been cross- ing the road, failed to notice a car-then only A just avoided it in time. And how many of us realise that it's fear-the real fear-which saves
WHAT AM I going to do for the our lives on these occasions?
Empire?
Men and women in Hongkong must ask themselves that question,
and must give a practical answer As part of the new Empire plan of passive defence the greatest effort in history is being launched in Hongkong, as in other strategic Colonies, to organise for war ser- vice on voluntary Ines.
The "Telegraph" published on Saturday a list of the services for which volunteers are being called. They include fire fighting, air raid precautions and first aid for those who will have to be trained, and the enrolment of those who are at ready trained or semi-trained in various essential professions. For the women there is also A.R.P. and nursing.
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MEDICAL
EXPLANATION OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET "WIND UP," WITH FULL DIRECTIONS FOR DEALING WITH THE SITUATION
WHAT actually happens Does this picture make immediate penalty of failure by in the blood of those chemicals "Inside us" is this: you shudder? Then your & contemplation of how little the which are poured out when we're we see the motor-car rushing adrenal glands are working world in the long run. towards us and we realise that harder than usual.
particular deed will affect the frightened makes us more aus-
ceptible to infection. the driver has not seen us--or,
But, as most of us have found perhaps, only just done so-and
BUT how can the subject out by experience, we get very
of "nerves" help him- it's too late for him to pull up.. Abuse of anything (however little real help from such con- self? What's he to do when he
Quick as an electric current good it may be in moderation siderations as these. (and not altogether unlike it), and when used in the proper message is sent down the place) may turn an asset into a specialised part of the nervous liability.
worry.
the end, materialised.
have
never
finds himself in a blue funk, and,
THINK of the number of try as he will, he can't control times we've worried the trembling of his limbs, or system which denis with When we keep our
fear over possible troubles until we the sweat which will moisten emotions.
mechanism on a hair-trigger were almost ill-troubles which, his brow?
There's one tip I can offer any This is in such close connec- we're abusing our protective.in
Let him one in such a staté. tion with the adrenal glands apparatus.
"Don't worry-it may never concentrate on what's going on. that, almost simultaneously with And it's exactly this which the recognition of danger, they
It doesn't much matter what, truthful aphorism. And, what's begin to pour out their contents. many of us are doing when we happen," is a hackneyed but outside himself. And it's the chemical made by
more, we shall find it a good deal so long as the act itself succeeds these glands which sensitises the
THINK of the way we more helpful when we're "funk in switching his mind off him- nervous.system.
try to encourage each ing" some situation than either self.
If it makes it impossible for advance) It speeds up all its responses, other when we've got to do of the two previous dicta. As in England, the Hongkong making it possible for you to get something we dread.
upon him to live (in The Many people look. system la voluntary, and relies out of the way in time, Without phrases we're in the habit of disease, not in the way healthy through possible terrors he'll entirely upon a spirit of co-opera- this recognition of danger in using show what we're really people do, but with terror which find that the physical part tion. In addition to these services your consciousness, and the thinking.
makes their lives dreadfully un- fear-the dry mouth, the shak more and more recruits are always prompt secretion of adrenalin to "Go on!-He can't-eat-you,"-is-which has never been adequately will cease-to-trouble-him
happy. It's a well-known fact, ing limbs and the beating heart needed for the Hongkong Volun- which it leads, you'd never be
a very usual method of en- teer Defence Corps, which one of able to move quickly enough.
explained, that individuals seem Why? Because by this device (As if the only our General Officers Commanding No "thought-out" action could couragement.
afraid of,
Soon after he's succeeded in this once declared was the Colony's first possibly be as speedy as the so- penalty for failure was to be the to catch those diseases they're he's side-tracked introspection.
victim of cannibalism.) called "conditioned"" reflex. It's
Doctors, and nurses go about the sympathetic system will The big question, of course, is the automatic response of your It'll be all the same in a hundred never considering the possibility
Or, again: "What's it matter? their work in fever hospitals calm down. Will a voluntary service succeed? body to the knowledge of dan years, Even if this were true that they'll catch any of the ill-ceive excessive quantities of The blood will no Inoger re- The Volunteer Corps and the Naval ger.
(which is by no Volunteer Force were successful,
mcane neces- nesses they're always in contact thyroid and adrenal secretion. Now
TOW can you sec although they should be much
the sarily the case), a century is a with. And, curiously enough, Then he'll once more feel con- difference between long time, and one can be very they rarely de.
fident. stronger than they are. It takes a shake-up like the September crisis, the fear which protects you and uncomfortable during whatever unfortunately, to bring home to the the "nerves" which plague you? majority of people here the urgent It's a small but very important necessity of offering their services difference.
line of defence.
in one form or the other. There was an Immediate rush of volun- teers in September, and they would have been worse than useless had the crisis ended in war, for it takea at least six months to train a sol- dier,
While the period of training is less in the voluntary services for which recruits are now being called, it is nevertheless a necessity before efficiency can be obtained. That la why we should enrol now. PIONEERS
A GIANT flying-boat, the largest
in the world, came out of the skies, attened out on the waters opposite Kal Tak Airport. It was the most exclting aerial event in our history. Hundreds of people cheer.. ed as the air-liner gracefully land- od; later, hundreds clamoured to be shown the new wonder.
Yes, it was a grand flight, a 41- ton mammoth of steel crossing 1,000 miles of ocean,
We could take more pride in it if it had been an Empire flying boat we were welcoming from England instead of an American ship from California. How many months is it since we first heard that Imperial Airways was going to modernlao the feeder service to Hongkong?
You would think that if Pan American Airways believe the China nir passenger trade is worth doing properly, it would also be worth our while showing this con- tinent that we really have the planes. Five major airlines have Kai Tak schedules now, and our planes do not compare favourably with the others.
Try this-when next you're
I think the reason is to be
Such a phrase shows how we already referred to.
And it all try to avoid dwelling on the seems more than likely that when fear is nagging at the aympathetic nervous system (it's this part which is utilised by the emotions) the presence
proportion of it one's alive. found in the machinery I've panicky.
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PEACE" SOCIETY
the Pence
a few women in the North of Mr. Chamberlain quoted Shakes- England, who have been worried penre and that is why by the number of their sex who will Society has for its motio, "There is harp on the theory that war is bound nothing either good or bad, but think-
in ing makes it so." to come, have started a society which each member pledges herself The entrance fee is merely nominal, to belleve we shall have penca for just enough to pay a club room. Each our and our children's time.
member, under the penalty of a fine, Because the old-time theory that pledges herself to speak of peace as thought is purely abstract and inert being here for all. Ume. I fear or enters her mind, she in its relation to tangible things is fast dread of war pussing into oblivion, we must know must keep pushing it away until it funt what we think we often create. Is too wenry and weak to come back. I remember a woman who had The woman with a pretty hat which pleases her, would never have had it been bed-ridden some years, and had but that someone thought about mak- come to think she would never get ing it. All the clothes we wear, the up again. Then one day a friend of her father's came along and enld to goods with which our houses furnished, and even the food we eat, ter quite simply "Don't you know must either rise above, a have to be a thought before they de-that we
thing or let It-crush u97" velop into actualities.
'ore
She hadn't thought of that, but It is difficult to estimate the number when he advised her to form a men- of girls who are juted in the end, tai picture of herself strong and weil, largely because they began by think and to keep pulling it back if it et ing their lovers were faithless, before tempted to go, she promised to try, Infidelity over entered the men's "But," he said, "You must use your”- minds.
commonsense, too. You must do all To prepare for war may be to pre- you can to get yourself well." vent wur. but to think peace certainly | can create peace.
The World's Desire.
The things we believe
to be we
Six weeks after my friend's talks with this man she was up and well, and has not looked back since. Just a minor allment now and tlien perhaps, but that is all.
invariably work towards achieving, "Thinking Makes it So' consciously or sub-consciously, And
so, if we keep on making up our minds What can be done with health can that we shall have war and talk about be done with anything. If there ra it, should It comp about we who sufficient of us, wishing to maintain the thus will be largely to blame.
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