🙏🏽 The Science of Being Well, ch 12 Wallace D. Wattles Preface Audiobook #rifevibes #taletellertherapy

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Chapter twelve of the Science of Being Well by Wallace D. Waddles.
This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Read by
Daniel Sanchez, Hunger and Appetites, It is very easy to
find the correct answer to the question how much shall
I eat? You are never to eat until you have

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an earned hunger, and you are to stop eating the
instant you begin to feel that your hunger is abating.
Never gorge yourself. Never eat to repletion. When you begin
to feel that your hunger is satisfied, know that you
have enough for Until you have enough, you will continue
to feel the sensation of hunger. If you eat as

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directed in the last chapter, it is probable that you
will begin to feel satisfied before you have taken half
your usual amount. But stop there all the same, no
matter how delightfully attractive the dessert, or how tempting the
pie or pudding, do not eat a mouthful of it
if you find that your hunger has been in the
least degree assuaged by the other foods you have taken.

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Whatever you eat after your hunger begins to abate is
taken to gratify taste and appetite, not hunger, and is
not called for by nature at all. It is therefore
excess mere debauchery, and it cannot fail to work mischief.
This is a point you will need to watch with
nice discrimination, for the habit of eating purely for sensual

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gratification is very deeply rooted with most of us. The
usual dessert of sweet and tempting foods is prepared solely
with a view to inducing people to eat after hunger
has been satisfied, and all the effects are evil. It
is not that pie and cake are unwholesome foods. They

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are usually perfectly wholesome if eaten to satisfy hunger and
not to gratify appetite. If you want pie, cake, pastry,
or puddings, it is better to begin your meal with them,
finishing with the plainer and less tasty foods. You will find, however,
that if you eat as directed in the preceding chapters,

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the plainest food will soon come to taste like kingly
fair to you, for your sense of taste, like all
your other senses, will become so acute with the general
improvement in your condition, that you will find new delights
in common things. No glutton ever enjoyed a meal like
the man who eats for hunger only, who gets the

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most out of every mouthful, and who stops on the
instant that he feels the edge taken from his hunger.
The first intimation that hunger is abating is the signal
from the subconscious mind that it is time to quit.
The average person who takes up this plan of living
will be greatly surprised to learn how little food is

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really required to keep the body in perfect condition. The
amount depends upon the work, upon how much muscular exercise
is taken, and upon the extent to which the person
is exposed to cold. The wood chopper who goes into
the forest in the winter time and swings his axe
all day can eat two full meals, but the brain

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worker who sits all day on a chair in a
warm room does not need one third, and often not
one tenth as much. Most wood choppers eat two or
three times as much, and most brain workers from three
to ten times as much as nature calls for, and
the elimination of this vast amount of surplus rubbish from

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their systems is attacks on vital power, which in time
depletes their energy and leaves them an easy prey to
so called disease. Get all possible enjoyment out of the
taste of your food, but never eat anything merely because
it tastes good. And on the instant that you feel

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that your hunger is less keen, stop eating. If you
will consider for a moment, you will see that there
is positively no other way for you to settle these
various food questions than by adopting the plan here laid
down for you. As to the proper time to eat,
there is no other way to decide than to say

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that you should eat whenever you have an earned hunger.
It is a self evident proposition that that is the
right time to eat, and that any other is a
wrong time to eat. As to what to eat, the
eternal wisdom has decided that the masses of men shall
eat the staple products of the zones in which they live.

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The staple foods of your particular zone are the right
foods for you, And the eternal wisdom, working in and
through the minds of the masses of men, has taught
them how best to prepare these foods, by cooking and otherwise.
And as to how to eat, you know that you
must chew your fe food, and if it must be chewed.

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Then reason tells us that the more thorough and perfect
the operation, the better. I repeat that success in anything
is attained by making each separate act a success in itself.
If you make each action, however small and unimportant, a
thoroughly successful action, your day's work as a whole cannot

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result in failure. If you make the actions of each
day successful, the sum total of your life cannot be failure.
A great success is the result of doing a large
number of little things, and doing each one in a
perfectly successful way. If every thought is a healthy thought,

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and if every action of your life is performed in
a healthy way, you must soon attain to perfect health.
It is impossible to devise a way in which you
can perform the act of eating more successfully and in
a manner more in accord with the laws of life,
than by chewing every mouthful to a liquid, enjoying the

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taste fully, and keeping a cheerful confidence the while nothing
can be added to make the process more successful, while
if anything be subtracted, the process will not be a
completely healthy one. In the matter of how much to eat.
You will also see that there could be no other guide,
so natural, so safe, and so reliable as the one

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I have prescribed to stop eating on the instant you
feel that your hunger begins to abate. The subconscious mind
may be trusted with implicit reliance to inform us when
food is needed, and it may be trusted as implicitly
to inform us when the need has been supplied. If

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all food is eaten for hunger, and no food is
taken merely to gratify taste, you will never eat too much,
And if you eat whenever you have an earned hunger,
you will always eat enough. By reading carefully the summing
up in the following chapter, you will see that the
requirements for eating in a perfectly healthy way are really

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very few and simple. The matter of drinking in a
natural way may be dismissed here with a very few words.
If you wish to be exactly and rigidly scientific, drink
nothing but water. Drink only when you are thirsty, Drink
whenever you are thirsty, and stop as soon as you
feel that your thirst begins to abate. But if you

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are living rightly in regard to eating, it will not
be necessary to practice asceticism or great self denial in
the matter of drinking. You can take an occasional cup
of weak coffee without harm. You can, to a reasonable extent,
follow the customs of those around you. Do not get
the soda fountain habit. Do not drink merely to tickle

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your palate with s sweet liquids. Be sure that you
take a drink of water whenever you feel thirst. Never
be too lazy, too indifferent, or too busy to get
a drink of water when you feel the least thirst.
If you obey this rule, you will have little inclination
to take strange and unnatural drinks. Drink only to satisfy thirst.

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Drink whenever you feel thirst, and stop drinking as soon
as you feel thirst. Abating that is the perfectly healthy
way to supply the body with the necessary fluid material
for its internal processes. End of chapter twelve.