🙏🏽 The Science of Being Well, ch 13 Wallace D. Wattles Preface Audiobook #rifevibes #taletellertherapy

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Chapter thirteen of the Science of Being Well by Wallace D. Waddles.
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Daniel Sanchez in a nutshell, There is the cosmic life,
which permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe,
being in and through all things. This life is not

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merely a vibration or form of energy. It is a
living substance. All things are made from it. It is
all and in all. This substance thinks, and it assumes
the form of that which it thinks about. The thought
of a form in this substance creates the form. The

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thought of a motion institutes the motion. The visible universe,
with all its forms and motions, exists because it is
in the thought of original substance. Man is a form
of original substance and can think original thoughts, and within himself.
Man's thoughts have controlling or formative power. The thought of

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a condition produces that condition. The thought of emotion institutes
that motion. So long as man thinks of the conditions
and motions of disease, so long will the conditions and
motions of disease exist within him. If man will think
only of perfect health, the principle of health within him

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will maintain normal conditions. To be well, man must form
a conception of perfect health and hold thoughts harmonious with
that conception. As regards himself and all things, he must
think only of healthy conditions and functioning. He must not
permit a thought of unhealthy or abnormal conditions or functioning

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to find lodgment in his mind at any time. In
order to think only of healthy conditions and functioning, man
must perform the voluntary acts of life in a perfectly
healthy way. He cannot think perfect health so long as
he knows that he is living in a wrong or
unhealthy way, or even so long as he has doubts

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as to whether or not he is living in a
healthy way. Man cannot think thoughts of perfect health while
his voluntary functions are performed in the manner of one
who is sick. The voluntary functions of life are eating, drinking, breathing,
and sleeping. When man thinks only of healthy conditions and

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functioning and performs these externals in a perfectly healthy manner,
he must have perfect health. In eating, man must learn
to be guided by his hunger. He must distinguish between
hunger and appetite, and between hunger and the cravings of habit.

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He must never eat unless he has an earned hunger.
He must learn that genuine hunger is never present after
natural sleep, and that the demand for an early morning
meal is purely a matter of habit and appetite. And
he must not begin his day by eating in violation
of natural law. He must wait until he has an

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earned hunger, which in most cases will make his first
meal come at about the noon hour. No matter what
his condition, vocation, or circumstances, he must make it his
rule not to eat until he has an earned hunger,
and he may remember that it is far better to
fast for several hours after he has become hungry than

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to eat before he begins to feel hunger. It will
not hurt you to go hungry for a few hours,
even though you are working hard, but it will hurt
you to fill your stomach when you are not hungry,
whether you are working or not. If you never eat
until though you have an earned hunger, you may be
certain that, in so far as the time of eating

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is concerned, you are proceeding in a perfectly healthy way.
This is a self evident proposition as to what he
shall eat. Man must be guided by that intelligence which
has arranged that the people of any given portion of
the Earth's surface must live on the staple products of
the zone which they inhabit. Have faith in God, and

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ignore food science of every kind. Do not pay the
slightest attention to the controversies as to the relative merits
of cooked and raw foods, of vegetables and meats, or
as to your need for carbohydrates and proteins. Eat only
when you have an earned hunger, and then take the
common foods of the masses of the people in the

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zone in which you live, and have perfect confidence that
the results will be good. They will be. Do not
seek for luxuries, or for things imputs or fixed up
to tempt the taste. Stick to the plain solids, and
when these do not taste good, fast until they do.
Do not seek for light foods, for easily digestible or

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healthy foods. Eat what the farmers and working men eat.
Then you will be functioning in a perfectly healthy manner,
so far as what to eat is concerned. I repeat,
if you have no hunger or taste for the plain foods,
do not eat at all. Wait until hunger comes, go
without eating until the plainest food tastes good to you,

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and then begin your meal with what you like best.
In deciding how to eat, man must be guided by reason.
We can see that the abnormal states of hurry and
worry produced by wrong thinking about business and similar things,
have led us to form the habits of eating too
fast and chewing too little. Reason tells us that food

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should be chewed, and that the more thoroughly it is chewed,
the better it is prepared for the chemistry of digestion. Furthermore,
we can see that the man who eats slowly and
choose his food to a liquid, keeping his mind on
the process and giving it his undivided attention, will enjoy
more of the pleasure of taste than he who bolts

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his food with his mind on something else. To eat.
In a perfectly healthy manner, man must concentrate his attention
on the act with cheerful enjoyment and confidence. He must
taste his food, and he must reduce each mouthful to
a liquid before swallowing it. The foregoing instructions, if followed,

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make the function of eating completely perfect. Nothing can be
added as to what, when, and how In the matter
of how much to eat. Man must be guided by
the same inward intelligence or principle of health health, which
tells him when food is wanted, he must stop eating
in the moment that he feels hunger abating. He must

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not eat beyond this point to gratify taste. If he
ceases to eat in the instant that the inward demand
for food ceases, he will never overeat, and the function
of supplying the body with food will be performed in
a perfectly healthy manner. The matter of eating naturally is
a very simple one. There is nothing in all the

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foregoing that cannot be easily practiced by anyone. This method,
put in practice will infallibly result in perfect digestion and assimilation,
and all anxiety and careful thought concerning the matter can
at once be dropped from the mind. Whenever you have
an earned hunger, eat with thankfulness what is set before you,

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chewing each mouthful to a liquid, and stopping when you
feel the edge taken from your hunger. The the importance
of the mental attitude is sufficient to justify an additional word.
While you are eating, as at all other times, think
only of healthy conditions and normal functioning. Enjoy what you eat.

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If you carry on a conversation at the table, talk
of the goodness of the food and of the pleasure
it is giving you. Never mention that you dislike this,
or that speak only of those things which you like.
Never discuss the wholesomeness or unwholesomeness of foods. Never mention
or think of unwholesomeness at all. If there is anything

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on the table for which you do not care, pass
it by in silence or with a word of commendation.
Never criticize or object to anything. Eat your food with
gladness and with singleness of heart, praising God and giving thanks.
Let your watchword be perseverance. Whenever you fall into the

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old way of hastie eating, or of wrong thought and speech,
bring yourself up short and begin again. It is of
the most vital importance to you that you should be
a self controlling and self directing person, and you can
never hope to become so unless you can master yourself
in so simple and fundamental a matter as the manner

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and method of your eating. If you cannot control yourself
in this, you cannot control yourself in anything that will
be worthwhile. On the other hand, if you carry out
the foregoing instructions, you may rest in the assurance that,
in so far as right thinking and right eating are concerned,
you are living in a perfectly scientific way. And you

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may also be assured that if you practice what is
prescribed in the following chapters, you will quickly build your
body into a condition of perfect health. End of Chapter thirteen.