autonomic=self-regulating/self-guiding in this context?

English translation: faculties to regulate/guide oneself

15:39 Jul 13, 2012

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English term or phrase: autonomic=self-regulating/self-guiding in this context?

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Man from a psychological standpoint of development is not what he should be. He does not possess the self-mastery, the self-directing power of concentration that is his by right.

He has not trained himself in a way to promote his self-mastery. Every balanced mind possesses the faculties whose chief duties are to engineer, direct and concentrate the operations of the mind, both in a mental and physical sense. Man must learn to control not only his mind but his bodily movements.

When the controlling faculties (autonomic) are in an untrained condition, the impulses, passions, emotions, thoughts, actions and habits of the person suffer from lack of regulation, and the procedure of mental concentration is not good, not because the mind is necessarily weak in the autonomic department of the faculties, but because the mind is not properly trained.

When the **self-regulating** faculties are not developed the impulses, appetites, emotions and passions have full swing to do as they please and the mind becomes impulsive, restless, emotional and irregular in its action. This is what makes mental concentration poor.

When the **self-guiding** faculties are weak in development, the person always lacks the power of mental concentration. Therefore you cannot learn to concentrate until you develop those very powers that qualify you to be able to concentrate. So if you cannot concentrate one of the following is the cause:

I'm not sure I understand correctly the meaning of "self" in "self-regulating" and "self-guiding" here. Does "self" imply that these faculties are autonomic, i.e. cannot by regulated by the person, or does it imply that they can be regulated by the person himself/herself and, hence, they are self-regulating/guiding?

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