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03 - Effect of Thought on Health and the Body - As a Man Thinketh - James Allen · Logic Library

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  Chapter three. Effect of thought on health and the body. The body is
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  the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether
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  they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed. At the bidding of unlawful thoughts,
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  the body sinks rapidly into disease and decay. At the command of glad and
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  beautiful thoughts, it becomes clothed with youthfulness and beauty. Disease and health like
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  circumstances are rooted in thought. Sickly thoughts will express themselves through a sickly body.
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  Thoughts of fear have been known to kill a man as speedily as a
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  bullet, and they are continually killing thousands of people just as surely, though
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  less rapidly. The people who live in fear of disease are the people who
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  get it. Anxiety quickly demoralizes the whole body and lays it open to the
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  entrance of disease. While impure thoughts, even if not physically indulged, will
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  soon shatter the nervous system. Strong, pure and happy thoughts build up the
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  body in vigor and grace. The body is a delicate and plastic instrument which
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  responds readily to the thoughts by which it is impressed, and habits of thought
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  will produce their own effects, good or bad, upon it. Men will
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  continue to have impure and poisoned blood so long as they propagate unclean thoughts.
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  Out of a clean heart comes a clean life and a clean body. Out
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  of a defiled mind precedes a defiled life and a corrupt body. Thought is
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  the fount of action. Life and manifestation. Make the fountain pure, and
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  all will be pure. Change of diet will not help a man who will
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  not change his thoughts. When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no
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  longer desires impure food. If you would perfect your body, guard your mind,
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  if you would renew your body, beautify your mind. Thoughts of malice,
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  envy, disappointment, despondency rob the body of its health and grace.
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  A sour face does not come by chance. It is made by sour thoughts.
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  Wrinkles that mar are drawn by folly, passion, and pride. I
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  know a woman of ninety six who has the bright, innocent face of a
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  girl. I know a man well under middle age whose face is drawn into
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  inharmonious contours. The one is the result of a sweet and sunny disposition.
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  The other is the outcome of passion and discontent. As you cannot have a
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  sweet and wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms.
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  So a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can
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  only result from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and goodwill
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  and serenity. On the faces of the age, there are wrinkles made by
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  sin empathy, others by strong and pure thoughts. Others are carved by passion.
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  Who cannot distinguish them with those who have lived righteously. Age is calm,
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  peaceful, and softly mellowed, like the setting sun. I have recently
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  seen a philosopher on his death bed. He was not old except in years.
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  He died as sweetly and peacefully as he had lived. There is no
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  physician like cheerful thought for dissipating the ills of the body. There is no
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  comforter to compare with good will for dispersing the shadows of grief and sorrow.
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  To live continually in thoughts of ill will, cynicism, suspicion, and envy
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  is to be confined in a self made prison whole, but to think well
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  of all, to be cheerful withal, to patiently learn to find the good
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  in all. Such unselfish thoughts are the very portals of heaven. And to
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  dwell day by day in thoughts of peace toward every creature will bring a bounding
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  peace to their possessor. End of Chapter three. Health and the Body,