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powerfully influenced by the nature of 

 our thoui^hts. There is no more firmly 

 established scientific principle than that 

 we experience the reaclion of our thouj^hls 

 either m increased strength and vitality, 

 or Ihe opposite. 



To have a perfectly healthy body, one 

 must possess a cheerful, healthy, oplimis- 

 lic mind. Love, peace, jov, gladness, 

 kindness, unselfishness, contentment, 

 serenity — these are the mental attributes 

 which, by bringing ail the bodily func- 

 tions into harmony, produce a sound, 

 healthy body. Any one who chooses 

 may externalize these attributes in him- 

 self by persistent correct thinking. 



"I have seen gleams in the face and 

 eyes of the man," says Carlyle, "that 

 have let you look into a higher country." 

 It is in that "higher country" that we 

 must live continualh' if we would domi- 

 nate our moods and attain that peace and 

 serenity which insure health and happi- 

 ness, it is not an easy matter to conquer 

 wrong thinking. Captious moods, fret- 

 fulness, worry, anxiety, fear, — all the 

 little imps of the mind that perpetually 

 seek to draw us from the higher to the 

 lower country can only be overcome by 

 constant watchfulness and the greatest 

 earnestness and persistence. 



Wrong thinking is indicative of weak- 

 ness; it is, indeed, a species of insanity, 

 for a wrong thinker is continually tear- 

 ins/ down and wrecking his own mental 

 and physical struciure. Tlie right think- 

 er is ihe only sane thinker, and he is the 

 happiest as well as the most successful 

 man. He knows better ihan to keep 

 constantly tripping himself up with the 

 adverse thought which produces destruc- 

 tive conditions. 



We all know the disastrous effects of 

 wrong thinking. We know by experi- 

 ence how it cripples us mentally and 

 physically. Physicians are well awaie 

 that anger poisons the blood, and that 

 fear, anxiety, fretting and all other in- 

 harmonious thoughts seriously interfere 

 with the normal action of all the bodily 

 functions. They are also alive to the 

 fact that anxiety or apprehension of im- 

 pending disaster, if of long duration, is 

 liable to bring on paralysis. It is an es- 

 tablished fact that a mother is not only 

 seriously affected by her own thoughl, 

 but that it affects her infant to such an 

 extent that the same symptoms and con- 

 ditions from which the mother suffers are 

 reproduced in the body of the infant. 

 Selfishness, jealousy and envy long in- 

 dulged in tend to produce serious liver 



troubles and certain forms of dyspepsia. 

 Lack of .self-control an 1 habitual indul- 

 gence in violent ])assions shatter the ner- 

 vous system, lessen the will power, and 

 induce grave disorders. Worry is one of 

 the greatest enemies of the human race; 

 it carves its deep furrows wherever it 

 goes; it carries gloom and unhappiness 

 with it; it delays or prevents the processes 

 of digestion and assimilation until the 

 starved brain and nerve cells utter their 

 protest in various kinds of disease, some- 

 limes even in insanil}'. 



Wrong thinking, whatever its nature, 

 leaves indelible scars on mind and body 

 alike. It affects character and material 

 prospects ecjually. Every time you 

 grumble or find fault; every time you 

 lose your temper; every time you do a 

 mean, contemptible thing, you suffer a 

 loss which cannot be repaired. You lose 

 a certain amount of power, of self-respect 

 and of an uplifting and upbuilding char- 

 acter force. You are conscious of your 

 loss, too, which tends to weaken you siill 

 further. 



A business man will find that, every 

 time he gets out of sorts, flies into a rage, 

 or "goes all to pieces" when things go 

 wrong, he is not only seriously injuring 

 his health, but is also cripphng his busi- 

 ness. He is making himself repellent; 

 he is driving away success conditions. 



A man who wants to do his best must 

 keep himself in good mental trim. If he 

 would achieve ttie highest success he 

 must be a correct thinker. He cannot 

 think discord and bring harmonious con- 

 ditions into his business. His wrung 

 thought will honeycomb and undermine 

 his prospects in lite. 



Many a once prosperous man has gone 

 down in financial ruin because he had not 

 learned how to control his thoughts. He 

 gave way to the "blues," he l)egan to 

 worry, fret and find fault with everybody. 

 Tlie fault-finding habit became fixed and 

 continued until he sank into a cundilion 

 where nothing suited him and nobody 

 could please him. His old employes left 

 him; his customers dropped awav; his 

 business began to decline and his credit- 

 ors to question his financial soundness. 

 There was a general .slump in his affairs, 

 and he finally "went to pieces " 



We can conquer our mo<xls; we can 

 think correctly; we can be what we will 

 to be; we can work miracles with our- 

 selves by the power of aflfirmative or 

 creative thought; we can make ourselves 

 magnets to attract the conditions we de- 

 sire, instead of repellent forces. 



