🙏🏽 The Science of Being Well, ch 15 Wallace D. Wattles Preface Audiobook #rifevibes #taletellertherapy

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The Science of Being Well by Wallace D. Waddles. This
LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Read by Daniel Sanchez.
Sleep vital power is renewed in sleep. Every living thing sleeps, Men, animals, reptiles,
fish and insects sleep, and even plants have regular periods

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of slumber. And this is because it is in sleep
that we come into such contact with the principle of
life in nature that our own lives may be renewed.
It is in sleep that the brain of man is
recharged with vital energy, and the principle of health within
him is given new strength. It is of the first importance, then,

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that we should sleep in a natural, normal, and perfectly
healthy manner. Studying sleep, we note that the breathing is
much deeper and more forcible and rhythmic than in the
waking state. Much more air is inspired when asleep than
when awake, and this tells us that the principle of
health requires large quantities of some element in the atmosphere

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for the process of renewal. If you would surround sleep
with natural conditions, then the first step is to see
that you have an unlimited supply of fresh and pure
air to breathe. Physicians have found that sleeping in the
pure air of out of doors is very efficacious in
the treatment of pulmonary troubles, and taken in connection with

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the way of living and thinking prescribed in this book,
you will find that it is just as efficacious in
curing every other sort of trouble. Do not take any
half way measures in this matter of securing pure air
while you sleep. Ventilate your bedroom thoroughly, so thoroughly that
it will be practically the same as sleeping out of doors.

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Have a door or window open wide, Have one open
on each set the room, if possible. If you cannot
have a good draft of air across the room, pull
the head of your bed close to the open window,
so that the air from without may come fully into
your face, no matter how cold or unpleasant to the weather.
Have a window open and open wide, and try to

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get a circulation of pure air through the room. Pile
on the bedclothes if necessary to keep you warm, but
have an unlimited supply of fresh air from out of doors.
This is the first great requisite for healthy sleep. The
brain and nerve centers cannot be thoroughly vitalized if you
sleep in dead or stagnant air. You must have the

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living atmosphere vital with nature's principle of life. I repeat,
do not make any compromise in this matter. Ventilate your
sleeping room completely, and see that there is a circulation
of outdoor air through it while you sleep. You are
not sleeping in a perfectly healthy way. If you shut
the doors and windows of your sleeping room, whether in

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winter or summer, have fresh air. If you are where
there is no fresh air, move if your bedroom cannot
be ventilated, get into another house. Next in importance is
the mental attitude in which you go to sleep. It
is well to sleep intelligently, purposefully, knowing what you do

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it for. Lie down, thinking that sleep is an infallible vitalizer,
and go to sleep with a confident faith that your
strength is to be renewed, that you will awake full
of vitality and health. Put purpose into your sleep, as
you do into your eating. Give the matter your attention
for a few minutes as you go to rest. Do

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not seek your couch with a discouraged or depressed feeling.
Go there joyously to be made whole. Do not forget
the exercise of gratitude in going to sleep. Before you
close your eyes, give thanks to God for having shown
you the way to perfect health, and go to sleep
with this grateful thought uppermost in your mind. A bedtime

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prayer of thanksgiving is a mighty good thing. It puts
the principle of health within you into communication with its
source from which it is to receive new power. While
you are in the silence of unconsciousness, you may see
that the requirements for perfectly healthy sleep are not difficult.
First to see that you breathe pure air from out

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of doors while you sleep, and second to put the
within into touch with the living substance by a few
minutes of grateful meditation as you go to bed, observe
these requirements, go to sleep in a thankful and confident
frame of mind, and all will be well. If you
have insomnia, do not let it worry you. While you

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lie awake, form your conception of health. Meditate with thankfulness
on the abundant life which is your breathe, and feel
perfectly confident that you will sleep in due time, and
you will. Insomnia, like every other ailment, must give way
before the principle of health aroused to full constructive activity

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by the course of thought and action herein described. The
reader will now comprehend that it is not at all
burdensome or disagreeable to perform the voluntary functions of life
in a perfectly healthy way. The perfectly healthy way is
the easiest, simplest, most natural, and most pleasant way. The

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cultivation of health is not a work of art, difficulty,
or strenuous labor. You have only to lay aside artificial
observances of every kind, and eat, drink, breathe, and sleep
in the most natural and delightful way. And if you
do this, thinking health and only health, you will certainly

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be well. End of Chapter fifteen.