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Title: Brains and how to get them
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Larson, Christian D. (Christian Daa), b. 1874
Subjects: New Thought
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : New Literature Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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where to concentrate for the development of thebrain in this connection see Figure VI. To il-lustrate, when you concentrate upon that part ofthe brain through which the imaging facultyis expressed, use the imagination to the fullest ex-tent and use it in picturing the various parts of theinvention you desire to perfect. This inventionmay be a book, a musical composition, a machine,an architectural structure or a group of plans andmethods for the promotion of some commercialenterprise. In other words, while you are con-centrating upon that part of the brain which isused by the faculty in question, put that faculty towork. You will thereby develop both the brainand the mind at the same time, which is highlyimportant. To develop the mental faculty alone is not suf-ficient. You might just as well expect a greatmusician to do justice to himself on some crude,primitive instrument as to expect a highly de-veloped faculty to express talent or geniusthrough a crude sluggish brain. For the same
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FIG. VI. 1. Imagination 2. Construction. 3. Interior Sight Brains and How to Get Them 181 reason it is not sufficient to develop the brainalone. The brain is the instrument of the mentalfaculty; therefore when the faculty itself is notdeveloped, there will be nothing in the mind tomake full use of the highly developed brain thatmay have been secured. For this reason the fac-ulty should be exercised whenever attention isconcentrated upon that part of the brain throughwhich the faculty naturally functions. When exercising the imaging faculty duringconcentration the imagination should be used withsome definite purpose in view. We should neverpermit the imagination to work at random, butshould give it something special to work out intoa complete mental picture. And here we shouldremember that the imagination is one of the great-est mental faculties in the mind. In fact, it is soimportant that no matter how practical or matterof fact your work may be, you will find it abso-lutely necessary

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