Health Through Self-Control in Thinking, Breathing, Eating (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1907. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... chapter V inhibition how habits, customs, beliefs, opinions, conversation, acts, may produce health When a certain thought is inhibited, it is dismissed from the mind, or kept out of it. Since there are emotional thoughts of such a character that they would wreck one if he indulged in them, it is wise, if he wishes to win salvation, to learn, as a habit, to inhibit. "Sow a thought and reap a tendency, sow a tendency and reap a habit, sow a habit and reap a character, sow a character and reap an eternity," right or wrong. To train our subjective mind well, we must train our objective mind well, thus " pressing the button," the eternal laws will do the rest and the best. Right thinking consumes oxygen, food, blood, protoplasm, but wrong thinking consumes much more; the laws of chemical and electrical combustion distinguish between good and bad. The burden of this law is light when the thoughts are right. If we change this energy from a wrong use to a right use, we transmute, save ourselves. We overcome evil with good, or bring evil over to good. When one listens to laughter, he feels better. If he hears, sees, writes, or speaks the word, laughter, he feels better in some particular, though it may be only a little. This comes about by the " law of the association of ideas." In the human race the sound of laughter is woven into gladness. To hear laughter or to laugh mechanically, even, will bring gladness. Mental laughter will arouse physical laughter, physical laughter will arouse mental laughter. If you hear the cry of a suffering babe, you immediately feel bad. Seeing the word, speaking, writing it, exerts some bad effect by the " law of the association of ide...