The-Conquest-of-Happiness-by-Bertrand-Russell

suggestions of the unconscious, and even to change
the contents of the unconscious, by employing the
right kind of technique. Whenever you begin to feel
remorse for an act which your reason tells you is
not wicked, examine the causes of your feeling of
remorse, and convince yourself in detail of their
absurdity. Let your conscious beliefs be so vivid
and emphatic that they make an impression upon
your unconscious strong enough to cope with the
impressions made by your nurse or your mother
when you were an infant. Do not be content with an
alternation between moments of rationality and
moments of irrationality. Look into the irrationality
closely, with a determination not to respect it, and
not to let it dominate you. Whenever it thrusts
foolish thoughts or feelings into your
consciousness, pull them up by the roots, examine
them, and reject them. Do not allow yourself to
remain a vacillating creature, swayed half by
reason and half by infantile folly. Do not be afraid
of irreverence towards the memory of those who
controlled your childhood. They seemed to you
then strong and wise because you were weak and