THE BRAIN AND THE SILENT
DOG WHISTLE
Both are alike in that they radiate messages that the
human ear cannot hear.
1 HAVE A whistle that is tuned to the ear of my Doberman
Pinschers, and that I can't hear nor any other human beings.
It is tuned to the ears of dogs. It is silent to me it is silent
except to dogs.
It delivers messages to dogs, and I believe the brain is the
same way.
You think up something. You imagine something. You
have daydreams and build Castles in Spain and you have
three wishes.
You think about them and set up some sort of magnetism
inside your brain muscles that vibrates a message to the sub-
conscious mind where it is either catalogued or worked on
at once.
This is some sort of high-vibration, just like the silent dog
whistle.
You can't "hear" the brain send its message. You might
"sense" it is doing so. You might feel a flush, or a reaction
of some sort, but you can rest assured a message is being
delivered.
Where Is It Delivered?
This I don't know. Some scientists claim the imagination
of the person is the "sending set," and that the brain is the
"receiving set."
Others say that the thinking mind is the "sending set/' and
the subconscious mind, that great storehouse of all we do, is
the "receiving set/' Dianetic students seem to claim it this
way.
However, until it is proved, all we know is that each thing
we do each moment is registered somewhere in the head-
beginning about one inch from the forehead where that mass
of grey matter is located.
We know that strong thought can vibrate urges to the
great storehouse and cause it to react, but how that we don't
know.
The brain when stirred up by thought or a strong prayer
warms up the great storehouse and this power plant begins
to function.
How Important Is Instinct in Making Daydreams
Come True?
"I've a hunch to go to town today," says the wife at break-
fast.
She does and finds some of the biggest bargains in dresses
in her whole life.
What gave her that hunch?
A husband says, "I just jdt I shouldn't go fishing today,"
and sure enough an unforseen storm came up, and several
lives were lost on that very lake he planned to fish.
What was speaking to him?
Do intuition, hunch, instinct really exist?
Is it more pronounced in women than in men ?
What Scientists Say
As IVe brought out, I'm no scientist. I'm just a reporter of
what is happening in America.
I'm a newspaperman who has watched people become
successes, wondered why with a nose for news, and found
success did have a set pattern anybody could follow.
I don't know why a woman will say, "I just know I just
know!" and sure enough the old gal is right!
One brilliant psychologist claims women "feel" more than
do men, and "hear" with their "feelings" not their ears.
Therefore, their emotions "speak" to them not their
reasoning.
It seems women pay little attention to what others say,
and more to the way others feel about what they say, which
is why they "feel" that certain people are honest; others dis-
honest.
Women "Feel" Their Thoughts
The wife says very little as the salesman talks. In fact, she
is perhaps just sewing away all by herself in the corner.
Yet when the salesman leaves, and hubby asks her what
she thought of the salesman's stock plan, she ups and says
right out of a clear sky:
"He isn't honest!"
When hubby wants proof, she says, "Oh, I just feel it
that's all."
Hubby is irritated and annoyed and asks, "Just what did
he say that makes you think him dishonest?"
She can't tell him. She doesn't know the exact words. She
just "felt" his words. Didn't hear them. Just jdt them.
Which is why often a woman's intuition is so horribly
right it annoys the male no end!
And which is also why a good salesman should never
overlook the wife in his selling.
One Doctor's Statement
Dr. Carl Jung in fancy words describes instinct as, "a
basic psychological function which transmits perceptions in
an unconscious way."
John Kord Lagemann describes it more simply as, "a
short-cut to truth."
Which it is. The woman short-cuts all the salesman says
and so arrives at the bare truth, un-draped in fancy sales
lingo.
The gin-rummy player or the poker player, often "just
feels" which cards you have, perhaps by the way you hold
your hand, blink, drink, or something that sends a wireless
message to the expert's subconscious.
Intuition he calls it. Yet it is perhaps no more than that
expert's long association with people, and his understanding
of how they react when they get an Ace or a King of
Hearts.
I've heard someone say "instinct is just a bundle of reason-
ing." That is, you've seen the same thing so often you just
know what will happen when those same situations arise
again.
A hunch might well be called just common sense.
Women fed how old you are. Men try to guess!
A Judge Has His Hunches. Too
Why can a judge hear someone explain why he was driving
too fast, or otherwise alibi something he is accused of, and
know that person is lying?
Experience I'd say.
Experience hearing so many people lie that the judge sees
a pattern in lying.
Maybe he doesn't quite hear what is said, but through the
sense of eyesight he sees a tell-tale twitch of the liar's mouth,
the faint movement of his hand, weak, trying to "cover up."
These little tell-tale things tip off the judge's intuition: He
has another liar before him.
In a survey I made sometime ago on theft in grocery
stores, I met one store manager who perhaps sums up intui-
tion best.
When I asked him how he has caught more shop-lifters
than any store manager in his whole chain, he said:
"I always know when they are about to steal. They always
look over their shoulder first!"
Your Subconscious Never Sleeps
Perhaps because the subconscious never sleeps, and is
always cataloging impressions all around you, it develops
intuition in you.
This is nothing magical. Just that the subconscious has
recorded so many similar things, that when a similar set
comes up you "feel" the subconscious mind reacting similarly
and you know what will happen all over again.
Which is why after lots of hard thinking, in which you
have stirred up the subconscious, things "dawn" on you.
"I can now see it all so clearly/* is a favorite expression
you heard from people who have solved tough problems.
They "got into their shell" and emerge with the answers.
You seem to know more than you think you know!
While your conscious mind was too busy on some problem
to register the impressions around you, your subconscious
mind was recording them for your later use.
You might say everybody is two people with two minds!:
the conscious mind that is awake to what is going on around
you the subconscious mind that is like your shadow, with
you but you are not aware of it until you start looking for it!
Does the Brain Need Rest?
The silent dog whistle doesn't need rest. It is always ready
to summon your dog.
So with the brain. It needs little rest, and its subconscious
elements go on working even while you sleep.
And sleep is an important thing while we are on the sub-
ject. George Mikan of Minneapolis, one of the greatest
basketball players in history, gives 12 hours sleep a night the
credit for his great success.
On the other hand, Paul Gaynor, a New York advertising
man who is conducting the Defense Department campaign
for blood donations to the Red Cross, gets along on four to
six hours a night.
How much sleep do you need to be a success ?
Well, according to recent tests, it depends on the work
you do.
These general rules may be helpful if you are Mr. or Mrs.
Average American.
If you do manual labor, or if your housework uses up most
of your energy, it should take only four or five hours to
restore your strength.
But if you work chiefly with your mind, you'll need your
full eight hours or more each night.
There are many exceptions of course. George Mikan and
Paul Gaynor don't fit the average, for example.
Mikan, instead of getting along on four or five hours, needs
12 - despite the fact much of his energy is spent playing pro-
fessional basketball.
And Gaynor, who spends most of his time doing mental
work, needs much less than average.
Over the years, however, you'll find your own success will
depend on getting the amount of rest you require.
Getting the right amount of sleep is one of the most im-
portant success secrets I know.
A Doctor Has Intuition
Many a doctor knows what is wrong with you, yet cannot
put his feelings into actual words.
It is often difficult to express the "feelings" you get from
your subconscious mind so you say, "I just \new what was
wrong!"
That was cold experience talking through your subcon-
scious mind.
Artists, musicians and writers work on intuition. Often
when they let loose, they come up a few pages later, a few
bars of music later, with things that flowed out of them
which they didn't know were in them.
They will re-read what they wrote as if for the first time
they saw those words!
Dr. Eliot Hutchiason claims 80 per cent of these folks
work on intuition! His surveys unearthed this amazingly
large per cent!
People Marry On Instinct
Very seldom can anybody, a few years later, tell why they
married.
The father reasons why the daughter should not marry.
He can give many facts.
She doesn't pay a bit of attention. She just feels that her
husband-to-be "is my man" and she marries him.
Many a mother feels a certain boy is not good for her
daughter, but she cannot put those feelings into words suffi-
ciently strong enough to persuade daughter not to marry.
Is intuition Good or Bad?
After hobnobbing with 1,000 men and women and chil-
dren who have become "millionaires," I'd say intuition is
good, not bad.
It guides you where you conscious mind cannot.
It takes you over humps and bumps.
So I highly recommend you cultivate instinctive reasoning.
That you sharpen your feelings and emotions.
Then let them guide you.
You can always out-reason anything you want to do. You
can always find reasons for doing or not doing, anything!
But if you'll let your feelings carry you along, as often as
possible, you might find your subconscious mind a better
judge of what to do than your conscious reasoning.
Your subconscious mind isn't crowded by extraneous
thinking. It gives facts exactly as recorded not as you
wish to think they were recorded.
If you say, "I feel I am right," you are more often apt to
be right and win in life,, than if you sit back and say, "I
know from these facts I am right."
Feel right and you'll be right!
"I'm Squeezing for You"
Summed up, many factors help you toward success. They
are inaudible like the dog whistle or God.
You're a college student cramming for exams. Your father
writes you a note, "I'm squeezing for you/' and you don't
let him down. His efforts and concentration join your own.
You pass your exams.
When someone says, "You took the very words out of my
mouth," it indicates that some power is radiating from both
of you who thought the same thing.
Sometimes two people will even suddenly start saying the
same thing. Why?
I think it is a power working on both of you and both of
you are attuned to it, and respond just like all radio sets that
are tuned into the same wave length will get the same
program.
So squeeze for success! The extra power will help you
obtain more than reason or ability alone could account for.
There Might Be Something After All to "Wishing Wells"
