D WORRY, MELANCHOLY 62
PUTTING CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER FOOT 63
RUNNING YOUR MENTAL FACTORY 64
ACQUIRING MENTAL BALANCE 65
DISSIPATING MENTAL SPECTERS 66
HOW TO CONTROL YOUR DESTINY 67

CHAPTER I

THE TWO FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES OF MIND

[Sidenote: _Mind as a Means to Achievement_]

In the preceding book, "Psychology and Achievement," we established
the truth of two propositions:

I. _All human achievement comes about through bodily activity._

II. _All bodily activity is caused, controlled and directed by the
mind._

To these two fundamental propositions we now append a third, which
needs no proof, but follows as a natural and logical conclusion from
the other two:

III. _The Mind is the instrument you must employ for the
accomplishment of any purpose._

[Sidenote: _Three Postulates for this Course_]

With these three fundamental propositions as postulates, it will be
the end and aim of this Course of Reading to develop plain, simple
and specific methods and directions for the most efficient use of
the mind in the attainment of practical ends.

_To comprehend these mental methods and to make use of them in
business affairs you must thoroughly understand the two fundamental
processes of the mind._

These two fundamental processes are the Sense-Perceptive Process and
the Judicial Process.

The Sense-Perceptive Process is the process by which knowledge is
acquired through the senses. Knowledge is the result of experience
and all human experience is made up of sense-perceptions.

[Sidenote: _Experience and Abstractions_]

The Judicial Process is the reasoning and reflective process. It is
the purely "intellectual" type of mental operation. It deals wholly
in abstractions. Abstractions are constructed out of past experiences.

Consequently, the Sense-Perceptive Process furnishes the raw
material, sense-perceptions or experience, for the machinery of
the Judicial Process to work with.

[Sidenote: _Primary Mental Operations_]

In this book we shall give you a clear idea of the Sense-Perceptive
Process and show you some of the ways in which an understanding of
this process will be useful to you in everyday affairs. The
succeeding book will explain the Judicial Process.

CHAPTER II

SENS