Perfect health depends upon a balance of the trinityruling a body - physical, mental, emotional. You cannot run a healthy mind whenyou have a physical deficit. The mind governs, but the condition of the bodyalso affects the mind.
You must recognize that harmful thought patterns – fear,hatred, anxiety, over sensitivity - originate in brain-cell starvation andbodily fatigue. Positive thinking is utterly impossible in a mind physicallyunder par to a serious extent. If you think that food does not influence yourhusband’s frame of mind, try showing him that new dress before dinner! Now thatyou have learned your bitter lesson about food and disposition, you had bettershow him that next new hat after dinner.
Alternatively, take the husband, whom the doctor has puton a reducing diet. Feed him a low-calorie salad-and-fruit dinner, and a fewhours later he will throw caution to the wind in favour of a Dagwood sandwichdripping with calories. A clean steak, liver, or lamb chop or other proteinfoods will keep your dieting husband from raiding the icebox much more than anynagging on your part.
By making certain that you eat a diet to maintain the properchemical balance in your body, you restore your functional balance and checkthe effects of stress upon your system. Often, by relieving some of thephysical tensions caused by hidden hunger, you can soften the inner climate inwhich you must do your thinking. It is much easier to enlist your conscious ifit is not preoccupied with being hungry.
Stomachs constantly harassed with inferior, inadequate, andindigestible meals become touchy. So does a brain that is constantlyundernourished. The brain in a tired, undernourished, and ill-cared-for body ismost assuredly going to be the brain with the greatest amount of irritability.
An abused, undernourished, harassed body generally houses amind incapable of optimum thinking and reasoning power. As the central powerstation of the body, the brain must be kept in top physical condition throughnatural means so its mental activities can be controlled. Unhealthy thoughthabits have a pretty hard time dwelling in a contented body.
One of the reasons that man has advanced so much furtherthan animals is that there is very little thinking brain in animals. The basisfor their nervous control is undoubtedly autonomic or automatic. Animalsbreathe, digest food, perform muscular movements without thinking, and showbasic emotional responses - including rage. Like humans, the animal wants todestroy anything threatening his security. The thinking portion of your brainis your cerebrum. As in animals, the basic human emotion is fear. However,pragmatic man learns to overcome this with correct diet and positive thinking.
Hate, anxiety, and guilt are the emotions causing physicalillness if the thinking brain is not allowed to keep the house in order.Positive thinking restores the criteria of normalcy out of neurotictendencies-freeing you of physical symptoms, letting you progress unhampered bymental conflict, and giving you a satisfactory working capacity.
The positive thinker is able to love someone besideshimself. Do not confuse love with sex.Sex is love which loves to be loved, and is a subject which desires to possessthe from anything which would hurt itself. It becomes incapable ofunderstanding sacrifice; Pride and sex are psychologically inseparable.
Love can be shown in all relationships - man and wife,father and daughter, mother and son. It is self-surrender because of thenobility of the person loved. Love and humility are inseparable.
The most important factor in your personal health,happiness, and effectiveness depends on whether you can love and are loved morethan you hate. When you love, you give. But when you hate, you can only deprivesomeone of happiness. In addition, happiness is the only thing you can givewithout having.
We must learn to love. We must learn it repeatedly and overagain each day. In addition, we must teach it every day- in everything we do,in every contact with our fellow man .The destroying power of hate, which noone meant to teach us, comes of itself. It is true that if we say “I love you,”It may be received with doubt, for there are times when it is hard to believe.
However, say “I hate you,” and the one spoken to believes itinstantly finally. A thousand times afterward you can say ”I love you” to thatperson – and mean it every time- but it still does not change the fact thatonce you said ”I hate you, ”and meant that, too. Hate can leave a mark on thesurface that love had worn so smooth with its eternal caresses. Love must belearned, and learned repeatedly; there is no end to it.
Because of it healingeffects on your mind. In addition, body, it must be learned and relearned. Hateneeds no instruction but waits only to be provoked - and, when it is provoked,rips you apart. Do you want that? Is hating worth the price you must pay?
I think not – or do you, really. Hatred expressed hurtsthose about you; hatred repressed creates nervousness and symptoms that cansimulate almost any physical disease.
Did you ever realize how much of your conversation – andyour thinking –is taken up with harrowing tales about your annoyances, yourrelatives’ annoyances and tragedies, and all the annoyances that go with livingwith living with an average husband or wife, or having in a cleaning woman, or going to work, or doingyour shopping, or what not?
Many persons get themselves more and more neurotic byconstantly indulging in what is often called “post –mortems”; long detaileddescriptions, many times retold, of unpleasantness, family rows, slights, and sorrows. How muchbetter it would be for all of us if we would always “talk happy, “and so far aspossible avoid unpleasant topics. What good does it do to keep constantly goingback over the stories of unhappiness?
Drain your mind of the worries, the resentments, irritations,guilt reactions, and annoyances that have collected during the day just asthoroughly as you pull the stopper in the sink.
Then you can refill it with refreshing thoughts of emotionalmaturity such as these: You are going to free yourself from fears, anxieties,and tensions.
You find greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving. Youwill contribute to the improvement of your home, your community, your nation, andyour world. You seek give-and-take relationships to form. You profit from yourmistakes and successes. You use your leisure time creatively.
Recognize hate for the destructive emotional force that itis. Love is the constructive psychological force of a positive mind. Loveresurrects people who have lost life while they live. It is the force thatgives new hope, joy, vitality, and invincibility. Those of you who truly want apowerful new lease on life will find it possible through love and a positivemind.
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