HOW TO KEEP HEALTHY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 301, 22 November 1918, Page 7

HOW TO KEEP HEALTHY.

TALK HEALTH AND THINK HEALTH. The following most excellent advice is given by a correspondent to the Wellington Post:— The mental law of health is to think health, talk health, act health, ■ and you will have health. Unfortunately there are too many who do very little else but talk. influenza. 'Now all thoughts which give rise to I the negative emotions of worry, ' fear, etc., are disease-producing i thoughts which are destructive to ! happiness and health. i Some years ago, disease was looked upon as a necessary part of man’s existence. People expected to be ill (unfortunately some people do now) a few times each year; prepared for it, in fact. It was considered to be quite the thing to have nervous prostration or something, of the sort. We are, however, beginning to realise that disease is not ■a ‘‘necessary evil,” and that health I is possible to all, but if we persist ■in harbouring disease-producing thoughts, they will generate acids j which will kill the body as certain- ’ ly as poison taken internally. | Professor Elmer Gates, as a re- ■ suit of his chemical' experiments ’ with the breath of patients, says:— ‘‘My experiments show that irascible, malevolent, and depressing emotions generate in the system injurious compounds, some of which are extremely poisonous : also, that agreeable, happy emotions generate i chemical compounds of nutritious ■ value, which stimulate the cells to : manufacture energy. From the above I take it that disease is the result of inharmony between mind and body ; inharmqny is the result ■ of destructive, devitalising thought; ' destructive devitalising thought is ‘ worry, fear, etc. The emotion, of i fear tends to contract the muscles, dry up the secretion and renders r tense the whole nervous system, j Great fear has been known to in-1 stantlj r paralyse the heart’s action.” ! i Dr. C. W. Saleebv, F.R.S., in his book ‘‘Worry: The Disease Age,” i records this case. A schoolboy was blindfolded and told that he was to > he beheaded j and at the word of command,. his neck was struck ; sharply with .a wet towel. Instant i • death ensued. The mental effects of i the positive are action, buoyancy, ■ joyousness, and optimism. The phy- i sical effects are poise and strength. ‘ ; A calnf, poised mind expresses it- i ' self in a healthy body. The first requisite of health, then, is to cleanse \ the mind of all mental fear ; of all disease-producing thoughts. Never ; allow a shadow or doubt to enter your mind that the Creator did not intend y«u to be healthy and happy, i Do not talk influenza, fear or death. I Regard every suggestion of failure to keep healthy and happy as an ■ enemy to be expelled from your mind as you would .eject a thief from your home; we cannot expect Co feel well and happy if we will insist in hanging upon the walls of our minds the pictures of disease and death. Well, then, let us make up our minds that we are not going to contract influenza ; keep the thought positive on this point, and disease will disappear like darkness before the rising sun. Concentrate our thoughts on health, morning, noon, and night, and get the habit of: thinking health. Talk health, be cheerful, and smile, smile, smile.