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You must mentally wipe out the negative image, for example. If you think that tomorrow Johnny F will misbehave in study hall, you should, in your mind, replace this with the image of Johnny F behaving very well. In the first place, if you imagine that a particular student will misbehave, you are automatically sending him a telepathic message to that effect. If he is highly susceptible to suggestion, he will carry out the suggestions that you have given.

[...] For this reason it is misbehaving. [...]

[...] The mother frequently took away gifts that she had given the child, when the child misbehaved, making it clear that even these were not the child’s by right.

[...] Since the furnace has been misbehaving to some degree lately, he is quite anxious to find the cover, which he believes he misplaced some months ago, in order to keep people from tampering with the delicate thermostat mechanism. [...]

[...] And right away she described several occasions when she thought her thyroid gland had rather seriously misbehaved. [...]

[...] He has mellowed in his attitude toward my youngest sister, also.] We got spanked when we misbehaved, which is something I’ve always been ashamed to admit to others. [...]