DON'T THINK OF DISEASE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 184, 4 August 1900, Page 2 (Supplement)

DON'T THINK OF DISEASE.

A medical authority says we can never gain health by contemplating disease, any miore than we can reach perfection by dwelling upon imperfection, or harmony through discord. We should keep a high ideal of health and harmony constantly before the mind. Never affirm 'or repeat about your health what you do not wish to ibe itrue. Do not dwell upon your ailments, nor study your symptoms. Never alljow yourself to be convinced that you are not complete master of yourself. Stoutly affirm your superiority over bodily ills, and do not acknowledge yourself the slave of any inferior power. I would, teacli children early to build a strong barrier between themselves and disease, by healthy habits of thought, high thinking and purity of life. I would teach them to expel all thoughts of death, all images iof disease, all discordant emotions, like hatred, malice, revenge, envy, and sensuality, as they would banish a temptation to do evil.' 1 would teach them that bad food, bad drink, lor bad air makes bad blood; that bad blood makes bad tissue, and bad flesh bad morals. I would teach them that healthy thoug-hts are as essential to healthy bodies as pure thoughts to a clean life.