NewswireTODAY - /newswire/ - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 2010/11/27 - LTK Enterprise has announced the launch of a website featuring an unknown personal development course from the early 1900's titled, "Pelmanism: The Pelman System for the Training of Mind, Memory and Personality".

"The goal of this website is to provide a place for people searching in the self help or personal development areas free access to this internationally famous course from our past." said Lawrence Katcher, founder. "Many people today have never heard of the Pelman Institute nor know they were considered one of the contributing leaders in the self help movement close to 100 years ago. With the growth of the Internet, hopefully this website will be of some assistance today as the Institute was so many years ago."

The Pelman Institute originated out of London, England at the start of the 1900's offering a 12 lesson course called "The Pelman System of Mind and Memory Training." They advertised their correspondence style course as an unique mind training system of material and practical exercises based on years of scientific psychological research into the well-being, development and strengthening of a person's mental functions in order to have mind and body operate together as a complete working 'unit.'

The Institute also stated their desire was to help people have a powerfully trained and efficient mind; thus allowing anyone to expertly adapt to any circumstances and situations they may encounter in their own lives. Throughout the course a student is introduced in simple terms to understanding the human mind and its various operations; and shown how inter-dependent all its various mental functions and abilities are on each other (and to the human body).

The comparison to someone who spends consistent effort and dedication to the progressive strengthening and development of their physique from a regular program of exercises was an analogy the Pelman Institute used to help students realize their mind could be trained just like their muscles.

At the end of each lesson was a set of content related "brain" exercises a student was strongly encouraged to do in order to fully benefit from what they had just read. The Pelman Institute firmly believed that only through direct practical application of its exercises would a student realize the full potential of the lesson material. Various physical exercises were also provided in each lesson a student could do in the comfort of their home as the Institute supported both mental and physical improvement to its students.

The Institutes' success grew after World War I with offices soon established in various major cities across the continents as demand for their "little gray books" soared. At the height of their popularity on the front cover of a free informational booklet titled "Mind and Memory," was a claim of "over 650,000 successes in all parts of the world." This booklet (which can be read online) gave people a brief history about how the Pelman Institute got started, numerous testimonials and course description. As time progressed so were continual improvements in the course material made as the Institute soon offered an expanded 15 lesson version.

Upon further study into what possibly made this course so unique and successfully popular was the 'individualized' attention each student received from an assigned qualified instructor upon registering for the course. At the end of each lesson was a worksheet the student was to complete and mail back to the Institute. The worksheet would be commented on by their assigned Examiner constructively and returned with the next lesson. Also, each student received a course certificate upon satisfactory completion from the Pelman Institute.

With the deaths in 1947 of two of the principal founders plus rumored management issues that soon followed, it was only a matter of time before the Pelman Institute ceased to operate in the late 1960s as it once had. For more information about "Pelmanism" and this rare self help classic course visit thepelmansystem.com/.

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