Part 1 (1/2)

Applied Psychology: Making Your Own World

by Warren Hilton

CHAPTER I

THE TWO FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES OF MIND

[Sidenote: _Mind as a Means to Achievey and Achievement,” we established the truth of two propositions:

I _All huh bodily activity_

II _All bodily activity is caused, controlled and directed by the mind_

To these two fundamental propositionsappend 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 ai 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 hly 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 ith

[Sidenote: _Priive you a clear idea of the Sense-Perceptive Process and show you so of this process will be useful to you in everyday affairs The succeeding book will explain the Judicial Process

CHAPTER II

SENSATIONS AND OUR PERCEPTION OF THEM

[Sidenote: _Mind's Source of Supplies_]

Whatever you know or think you know, of the external world coht, hearing, touch, taste and smell, or some one of the secondary senses, such as the muscular sense and the sense of heat and cold