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Chapter sixteen of the Science of Being Well by Wallace D. Waddles.
This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Read by
Daniel Sanchez supplementary instructions. In forming a conception of health,
It is necessary to think of the manner in which
you would live and work if you were perfectly well
(00:22):
and very strong. To imagine yourself doing things in the
way of a perfectly well and very strong person. Until
you have a fairly good conception of what you would
be if you were well, then take a mental and
physical attitude in harmony with this conception, and do not
depart from this attitude. You must unify yourself in thought
(00:45):
with the thing you desire, and whatever state or condition
you unify with yourself in thought will soon become unified
with you in body. The scientific way is to sever
relations with everything you do not want, and to enter
into relations with everything you do want. Form a conception
(01:05):
of perfect health, and relate yourself to this conception in word, act,
and attitude. Guard your speech. Make every word harmonize with
the conception of perfect health. Never complain, Never say things
like these, I did not sleep well last night, I
have a pain in my side, I do not feel
(01:26):
at all well today, and so on, say I am
looking forward to a good night's sleep tonight. I can
see that I progress rapidly, and things of similar meaning.
In so far as everything which is connected with disease
is concerned, your way is to forget it. And in
so far as everything which is connected with health is concerned,
(01:48):
your way is to unify yourself with it in thought
and speech. This is the whole thing in a nutshell.
Make yourself one with health in thought, word, and action,
and do not connect yourself with sickness, either by thought, word,
or action. Do not read doctor books, or medical literature,
(02:11):
or the literature of those whose theories conflict with those
herein set forth. To do so will certainly undermine your
faith in the way of living upon which you have entered,
and cause you to again come into mental relations with disease.
This book really gives you all that is required. Nothing
essential has been omitted, and practically all the superfluous has
(02:34):
been eliminated. The science of being well is an exact science,
like arithmetic. Nothing can be added to the fundamental principles,
and if anything be taken from them, a failure will result.
If you follow strictly the way of living prescribed in
this book. You will be well, and you certainly can
(02:54):
follow this way, both in thought and action. Relate not
only yourself, but, so far as possible, all others in
your thoughts to perfect health. Do not sympathize with people
when they complain, or even when they are sick and suffering.
Turn their thoughts into a constructive channel. If you can,
(03:14):
do all you can for their relief, but do it
with the health thought in your mind. Do not let
people tell their woes and catalog their symptoms to you.
Turn the conversation to some other subject, or excuse yourself
and go. Better be considered an unfeeling person than to
have the disease thought forced upon you. When you are
(03:35):
in company of people whose conversational stock in trade is
sickness and kindred matters, ignore what they say and fall
to offering a mental prayer of gratitude for your perfect health.
And if that does not enable you to shut out
their thoughts, say goodbye and leave them, no matter what
they think or say. Politeness does not require you to
(03:56):
permit yourself to be poisoned by diseased or perverted thought.
When we have a few more hundreds of thousands of
enlightened thinkers who will not stay where people complain and
talk sickness, the world will advance rapidly toward health. When
you let people talk to you of sickness, you assist
them to increase and multiply sickness. What shall I do
(04:21):
when I am in pain? Can one be in actual
physical suffering and still think only thoughts of health? Yes,
do not resist pain. Recognize that it is a good thing.
Pain is caused by an effort of the principle of
health to overcome some unnatural condition. This you must know
(04:43):
and feel. When you have a pain, think that a
process of healing is going on in the affected part,
and mentally assist and cooperate with it. Put yourself in
full mental harmony with the power which is causing the pain.
Assist it, help it alone. Do not hesitate when necessary,
(05:03):
to use hot fomentations and similar means to further the
good work which is going on. If the pain is severe,
lie down and give your mind to the work of
quietly and easily cooperating with the force which is at
work for your good. This is the time to exercise
gratitude and faith. Be thankful for the power of health
(05:25):
which is causing the pain, and be certain that the
pain will cease as soon as the good work is done.
Fix your thoughts with confidence on the principle of health,
which is making such conditions within you, that pain will
soon be unnecessary. You will be surprised to find how
easily you can conquer pain. And after you have lived
(05:46):
for a time in this scientific way, pains and aches
will be things unknown to you. What shall I do
when I am too weak for my work? Shall I
drive myself beyond my strength, trusting in God to support me.
Shall I go on like the runner expecting a second wind?
No better not. When you begin to live in this way,
(06:09):
you will probably not be of normal strength, and you
will gradually pass from a low physical condition to a
higher one. If you relate yourself mentally with health and strength,
and perform the voluntary functions of life in a perfectly
healthy manner, your strength will increase from day to day.
But for a time you may have days when your
(06:30):
strength is insufficient for the work you would like to do.
At such times, rest and exercise gratitude, Recognize the fact
that your strength is growing rapidly, and feel a deep
thankfulness to the living one from whom it comes. Spend
an hour of weakness in thanksgiving, and rest with full
(06:52):
faith that great strength is at hand, And then get
up and go on again. While you rest, do not
think of your present weakness. Think of the strength that
is coming. Never at any time allow yourself to think
that you are giving way to weakness when you rest,
as when you go to sleep, fix your mind on
(07:14):
the principle of health, which is building you into complete strength.
What shall I do about that great bugaboo which scares
millions of people to death every year? Constipation? Do nothing?
Read Horace Fletcher on the abz or our Nation nutrition
and get the full force of his explanation of the
(07:35):
fact that when you live on this scientific plan, you
need not, and indeed cannot, have an evacuation of the
bowels every day, and that an operation in from once
in three days to once in two weeks is quite
sufficient for perfect health. The gross feeders who eat from
three to ten times as much as can be utilized
(07:57):
in their systems have a great amount of waste to eliminate.
But if you live in the manner we have described,
it will be otherwise with you if you eat only
when you have an earned hunger, and true every mouthful
to a liquid, and if you stop eating the instant
you begin to be conscious of an abatement of your hunger,
(08:17):
you will so perfectly prepare your food for digestion and
assimilation that practically all of it will be taken up
by the absorbents, and there will be little, almost to
nothing remaining in the bowels to be excreted. If you
are able to entirely banish from your memory all that
you have read in doctor books and patient medicine advertisements
(08:39):
concerning constipation, you need give the matter no further thought
at all. The principle of health will take care of it.
But if your mind has been filled with fear thought
in regard to constipation, it may be well in the
beginning for you to occasionally flush the colon with warm water.
There is not the least meat of doing it, except
(09:01):
to make the process of your mental emancipation from fear
a little easier. It may be worthwhile for that. And
as soon as you see that you are making good progress,
and that you have cut down your quantity of food
and are really eating in the scientific way, dismiss constipation.
From your mind forever you have nothing more to do
(09:23):
with it. Put your trust in that principle within you,
which has the power to give you perfect health. Relate
it by your reverent gratitude to the principle of life,
which is all power, and go on your way rejoicing.
What about exercise. Everyone is the better for a little
all round use of the muscles every day, and the
(09:46):
best way to get this is to do it by
engaging in some form of play or amusement. Get your
exercise in the natural way as recreation, not as a
forced stunt for health's sake alone. Ride a horse or
or a bicycle, play tennis or ten pins, or toss
a ball. Have some avocation like gardening, in which you
(10:07):
can spend an hour every day with pleasure and profit.
There are a thousand ways in which you can get
exercise enough to keep your body supple and your circulation good,
and yet not fall into the rut of exercising for
your health. Exercise for fun or profit. Exercise because you
are too healthy to sit still, and not because you
(10:30):
wish to become healthy or to remain so. Are long
continued fasts necessary seldom, if ever, The principle of health
does not often require twenty thirty or forty days to
get ready for action. Under normal conditions, hunger will come
in much less time. In most long fasts. The reason
(10:53):
hunger does not come sooner is because it has been
inhibited by the patient himself. He begins the fast with
the fear, if not actually with the hope that it
will be many days before hunger comes. The literature he
has read on the subject has prepared him to expect
a long fast, and he is grimly determined to go
(11:14):
to a finish Let the time be as long as
it will, and the subconscious mind, under the influence of
powerful and positive suggestion, suspends hunger. When for any reason
nature takes away your hunger, go cheerfully on with your
usual work, and do not eat until she gives it back,
(11:34):
no matter if it is two, three, ten days, or longer.
You may be perfectly sure that when it is time
for you to eat, you will be hungry. And if
you are cheerfully confident, and keep your faith in health,
you will suffer from no weakness or discomfort caused by abstinence.
When you are not hungry, you will feel stronger, happier,
(11:57):
and more comfortable if you do not eat, than you
will if you do eat, no matter how long the fast.
And if you live in a scientific way described in
this book, you will never have to take long fasts,
you will seldom miss a meal, and you will enjoy
your meals more than ever before in your life. Get
(12:17):
an earned hunger before you eat, and whenever you get
an earned hunger, eat, end of chapter sixteen
Chapter sixteen of the Science of Being Well by Wallace D. Waddles.
This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Read by
Daniel Sanchez supplementary instructions. In forming a conception of health,
It is necessary to think of the manner in which
you would live and work if you were perfectly well
(00:22):
and very strong. To imagine yourself doing things in the
way of a perfectly well and very strong person. Until
you have a fairly good conception of what you would
be if you were well, then take a mental and
physical attitude in harmony with this conception, and do not
depart from this attitude. You must unify yourself in thought
(00:45):
with the thing you desire, and whatever state or condition
you unify with yourself in thought will soon become unified
with you in body. The scientific way is to sever
relations with everything you do not want, and to enter
into relations with everything you do want. Form a conception
(01:05):
of perfect health, and relate yourself to this conception in word, act,
and attitude. Guard your speech. Make every word harmonize with
the conception of perfect health. Never complain, Never say things
like these, I did not sleep well last night, I
have a pain in my side, I do not feel
(01:26):
at all well today, and so on, say I am
looking forward to a good night's sleep tonight. I can
see that I progress rapidly, and things of similar meaning.
In so far as everything which is connected with disease
is concerned, your way is to forget it. And in
so far as everything which is connected with health is concerned,
(01:48):
your way is to unify yourself with it in thought
and speech. This is the whole thing in a nutshell.
Make yourself one with health in thought, word, and action,
and do not connect yourself with sickness, either by thought, word,
or action. Do not read doctor books, or medical literature,
(02:11):
or the literature of those whose theories conflict with those
herein set forth. To do so will certainly undermine your
faith in the way of living upon which you have entered,
and cause you to again come into mental relations with disease.
This book really gives you all that is required. Nothing
essential has been omitted, and practically all the superfluous has
(02:34):
been eliminated. The science of being well is an exact science,
like arithmetic. Nothing can be added to the fundamental principles,
and if anything be taken from them, a failure will result.
If you follow strictly the way of living prescribed in
this book. You will be well, and you certainly can
(02:54):
follow this way, both in thought and action. Relate not
only yourself, but, so far as possible, all others in
your thoughts to perfect health. Do not sympathize with people
when they complain, or even when they are sick and suffering.
Turn their thoughts into a constructive channel. If you can,
(03:14):
do all you can for their relief, but do it
with the health thought in your mind. Do not let
people tell their woes and catalog their symptoms to you.
Turn the conversation to some other subject, or excuse yourself
and go. Better be considered an unfeeling person than to
have the disease thought forced upon you. When you are
(03:35):
in company of people whose conversational stock in trade is
sickness and kindred matters, ignore what they say and fall
to offering a mental prayer of gratitude for your perfect health.
And if that does not enable you to shut out
their thoughts, say goodbye and leave them, no matter what
they think or say. Politeness does not require you to
(03:56):
permit yourself to be poisoned by diseased or perverted thought.
When we have a few more hundreds of thousands of
enlightened thinkers who will not stay where people complain and
talk sickness, the world will advance rapidly toward health. When
you let people talk to you of sickness, you assist
them to increase and multiply sickness. What shall I do
(04:21):
when I am in pain? Can one be in actual
physical suffering and still think only thoughts of health? Yes,
do not resist pain. Recognize that it is a good thing.
Pain is caused by an effort of the principle of
health to overcome some unnatural condition. This you must know
(04:43):
and feel. When you have a pain, think that a
process of healing is going on in the affected part,
and mentally assist and cooperate with it. Put yourself in
full mental harmony with the power which is causing the pain.
Assist it, help it alone. Do not hesitate when necessary,
(05:03):
to use hot fomentations and similar means to further the
good work which is going on. If the pain is severe,
lie down and give your mind to the work of
quietly and easily cooperating with the force which is at
work for your good. This is the time to exercise
gratitude and faith. Be thankful for the power of health
(05:25):
which is causing the pain, and be certain that the
pain will cease as soon as the good work is done.
Fix your thoughts with confidence on the principle of health,
which is making such conditions within you, that pain will
soon be unnecessary. You will be surprised to find how
easily you can conquer pain. And after you have lived
(05:46):
for a time in this scientific way, pains and aches
will be things unknown to you. What shall I do
when I am too weak for my work? Shall I
drive myself beyond my strength, trusting in God to support me.
Shall I go on like the runner expecting a second wind?
No better not. When you begin to live in this way,
(06:09):
you will probably not be of normal strength, and you
will gradually pass from a low physical condition to a
higher one. If you relate yourself mentally with health and strength,
and perform the voluntary functions of life in a perfectly
healthy manner, your strength will increase from day to day.
But for a time you may have days when your
(06:30):
strength is insufficient for the work you would like to do.
At such times, rest and exercise gratitude, Recognize the fact
that your strength is growing rapidly, and feel a deep
thankfulness to the living one from whom it comes. Spend
an hour of weakness in thanksgiving, and rest with full
(06:52):
faith that great strength is at hand, And then get
up and go on again. While you rest, do not
think of your present weakness. Think of the strength that
is coming. Never at any time allow yourself to think
that you are giving way to weakness when you rest,
as when you go to sleep, fix your mind on
(07:14):
the principle of health, which is building you into complete strength.
What shall I do about that great bugaboo which scares
millions of people to death every year? Constipation? Do nothing?
Read Horace Fletcher on the abz or our Nation nutrition
and get the full force of his explanation of the
(07:35):
fact that when you live on this scientific plan, you
need not, and indeed cannot, have an evacuation of the
bowels every day, and that an operation in from once
in three days to once in two weeks is quite
sufficient for perfect health. The gross feeders who eat from
three to ten times as much as can be utilized
(07:57):
in their systems have a great amount of waste to eliminate.
But if you live in the manner we have described,
it will be otherwise with you if you eat only
when you have an earned hunger, and true every mouthful
to a liquid, and if you stop eating the instant
you begin to be conscious of an abatement of your hunger,
(08:17):
you will so perfectly prepare your food for digestion and
assimilation that practically all of it will be taken up
by the absorbents, and there will be little, almost to
nothing remaining in the bowels to be excreted. If you
are able to entirely banish from your memory all that
you have read in doctor books and patient medicine advertisements
(08:39):
concerning constipation, you need give the matter no further thought
at all. The principle of health will take care of it.
But if your mind has been filled with fear thought
in regard to constipation, it may be well in the
beginning for you to occasionally flush the colon with warm water.
There is not the least meat of doing it, except
(09:01):
to make the process of your mental emancipation from fear
a little easier. It may be worthwhile for that. And
as soon as you see that you are making good progress,
and that you have cut down your quantity of food
and are really eating in the scientific way, dismiss constipation.
From your mind forever you have nothing more to do
(09:23):
with it. Put your trust in that principle within you,
which has the power to give you perfect health. Relate
it by your reverent gratitude to the principle of life,
which is all power, and go on your way rejoicing.
What about exercise. Everyone is the better for a little
all round use of the muscles every day, and the
(09:46):
best way to get this is to do it by
engaging in some form of play or amusement. Get your
exercise in the natural way as recreation, not as a
forced stunt for health's sake alone. Ride a horse or
or a bicycle, play tennis or ten pins, or toss
a ball. Have some avocation like gardening, in which you
(10:07):
can spend an hour every day with pleasure and profit.
There are a thousand ways in which you can get
exercise enough to keep your body supple and your circulation good,
and yet not fall into the rut of exercising for
your health. Exercise for fun or profit. Exercise because you
are too healthy to sit still, and not because you
(10:30):
wish to become healthy or to remain so. Are long
continued fasts necessary seldom, if ever, The principle of health
does not often require twenty thirty or forty days to
get ready for action. Under normal conditions, hunger will come
in much less time. In most long fasts. The reason
(10:53):
hunger does not come sooner is because it has been
inhibited by the patient himself. He begins the fast with
the fear, if not actually with the hope that it
will be many days before hunger comes. The literature he
has read on the subject has prepared him to expect
a long fast, and he is grimly determined to go
(11:14):
to a finish Let the time be as long as
it will, and the subconscious mind, under the influence of
powerful and positive suggestion, suspends hunger. When for any reason
nature takes away your hunger, go cheerfully on with your
usual work, and do not eat until she gives it back,
(11:34):
no matter if it is two, three, ten days, or longer.
You may be perfectly sure that when it is time
for you to eat, you will be hungry. And if
you are cheerfully confident, and keep your faith in health,
you will suffer from no weakness or discomfort caused by abstinence.
When you are not hungry, you will feel stronger, happier,
(11:57):
and more comfortable if you do not eat, than you
will if you do eat, no matter how long the fast.
And if you live in a scientific way described in
this book, you will never have to take long fasts,
you will seldom miss a meal, and you will enjoy
your meals more than ever before in your life. Get
(12:17):
an earned hunger before you eat, and whenever you get
an earned hunger, eat, end of chapter sixteen
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