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  Speaker 1: Preface. This volume is the second of a series, the
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  Speaker 1: first of which is The Science of Getting Rich. As
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  Speaker 1: that book is intended solely for those who want money,
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  Speaker 1: so this is for those who want health and who
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  Speaker 1: want a practical guide and hand book, not a philosophical treatise.
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  Speaker 1: It is an instructor in the use of the universal
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  Speaker 1: principle of life, and my effort has been to explain
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  Speaker 1: the way in so plain and simple a fashion that
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  Speaker 1: the reader, though he may have given no previous study
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  Speaker 1: to new thought or metaphysics, may readily follow it to
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  Speaker 1: perfect health. While retaining all essentials, I have carefully eliminated
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  Speaker 1: all non essentials. I have used no technical obstruse or
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  Speaker 1: difficult language, and have kept the one point in view
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  Speaker 1: at all times. As its title asserts, the book deals
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  Speaker 1: with science, not speculation. The monistic theory of the universe,
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  Speaker 1: the theory that matter, mind, consciousness, and life are all
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  Speaker 1: manifestations of one's substance, is now accepted by most thinkers,
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  Speaker 1: and if you accept this theory, you cannot deny the
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  Speaker 1: logical conclusions you will find Herein best of all, the
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  Speaker 1: methods of thought and action prescribed have been tested by
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  Speaker 1: the author in his own case, and in the case
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  Speaker 1: of hundreds of others, during twelve years of practice, with
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  Speaker 1: continuous and unfailing success, I can say of the science
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  Speaker 1: of being well that it works, and that whatever its
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  Speaker 1: laws are compiled with, it can no more fail to
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  Speaker 1: work than the science of geometry can fail to work.
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  Speaker 1: If the tissues of your body have not been so destroyed,
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  Speaker 1: the continued life is impossible. You can get well, and
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  Speaker 1: if you will think and act in a certain way,
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  Speaker 1: you will get well. If the reader wishes to fully
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  Speaker 1: understand the monistic theory of the cosmos, he is recommended
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  Speaker 1: to read Hegel and Emerson to read also The Eternal News,
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  Speaker 1: a pamphlet by J. J. Brown, three hundred Cathcart Road,
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  Speaker 1: Govan Hill, Glasgow, Scotland. Some enlightenment may also be found
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  Speaker 1: in a series of articles by the author which were
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  Speaker 1: published in The Nautilus, Holyoke, Massachusetts, during the year nineteen
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  Speaker 1: o nine under the title what is Truth. Those who
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  Speaker 1: wish more detailed information as to the performance of the
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  Speaker 1: voluntary functions eating, drinking, breathing and sleeping may read New
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  Speaker 1: Science of Living and Healing. Letters to a Woman's Husband
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  Speaker 1: and the Constructive Use of Foods booklets by W. D. Waddles,
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  Speaker 1: which may be obtained from the publishers of this book.
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  Speaker 1: I would also recommend the writings of Horace Fletcher and
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  Speaker 1: of Edward Hooker Dewey. Read all these if you like,
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  Speaker 1: as a sort of boutris to your faith. But let
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  Speaker 1: me warn you against making the mistake of studying many
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  Speaker 1: conflicting theories and practicing at the same time parts of
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  Speaker 1: several different systems. For if you get well, it must
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  Speaker 1: be by giving your whole mind to the right way
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  Speaker 1: of thinking and living. Remember that the science of being
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  Speaker 1: well claims to be a complete and sufficient guide in
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  Speaker 1: every particular. Concentrate upon the way of thinking and acting
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  Speaker 1: it prescribes, and follow it in every detail, and you
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  Speaker 1: will get well, Or if you are already well, you
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  Speaker 1: will remain so trusting that you will go on until
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  Speaker 1: the priceless blessing of perfect health is yours. I remain
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  Speaker 1: very truly yours, Wallace D. Wattles. The principle of health.
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  Speaker 1: In the personal application of the science of being well,
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  Speaker 1: as in that of the science of getting rich, certain
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  Speaker 1: fundamental truths must be known in the beginning and accepted
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  Speaker 1: without question. Some of these truths we state. Here, the
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  Speaker 1: perfectly natural performance of function constitutes health, and the perfectly
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  Speaker 1: natural performance of function results from the natural action of
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  Speaker 1: the principle of life. There is a principle of life
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  Speaker 1: in the universe. It is the one living substance from
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  Speaker 1: which all things are made. This living substance permeates, penetrates,
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  Speaker 1: and fills the interspaces of the universe. It is in
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  Speaker 1: and through all things, like a very refined, indiffusible ether.
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  Speaker 1: All life comes from it. Its life is all the
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  Speaker 1: life there is. Man is a form of this living
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  Speaker 1: substance and has within him a principle of health. The
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  Speaker 1: word principle is used as meaning source. The principle of
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  Speaker 1: health in man, when in full constructive activity, causes all
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  Speaker 1: the voluntary functions of his life to be perfectly performed.
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  Speaker 1: It is the principle of health in man which really
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  Speaker 1: works all healing, no matter what system or remedy is employed.
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  Speaker 1: And this principle of health is brought into constructive activity
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  Speaker 1: by thinking in a certain way. I proceed now to
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  Speaker 1: prove this last statement. We all know that cures are
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  Speaker 1: wrought by all the different and often opposite men methods
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  Speaker 1: employed in the various branches of the healing art. The
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  Speaker 1: allopath who gives a strong dose of a counter poison
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  Speaker 1: cures his patient, and the homeopath who gives a diminutive
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  Speaker 1: dose of the poison most similar to that of the
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  Speaker 1: disease also cures it. If allopathy ever cured any given disease,
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  Speaker 1: it is certain that homeopathy never cured that disease. And
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  Speaker 1: if homeopathy ever cured an ailment, allopathy could not possibly
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  Speaker 1: cure that ailment. The two systems are radically opposite in
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  Speaker 1: theory and practice, and yet both most diseases, and even
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  Speaker 1: the remedies used by physicians in any one's school, are
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  Speaker 1: not the same. Go with the case of indigestion to
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  Speaker 1: half a dozen doctors and compare their prescriptions. It is
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  Speaker 1: more than likely that none of the ingredients of any
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  Speaker 1: one of them will be in the others. Must we
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  Speaker 1: not conclude that their patients are healed by a principle
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  Speaker 1: of health within themselves and not by something in the
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  Speaker 1: varying remedies. Not only this, but we find the same
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  Speaker 1: ailments cured by the osteopath with manipulations of the spine,
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  Speaker 1: by the faith healer, with prayer, by the food scientists,
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  Speaker 1: with bills of fair, by the Christian scientists with the
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  Speaker 1: formulated creed, statement, by the mental scientists with affirmation, and
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  Speaker 1: by the hygienus with differing plans of living. What conclusion
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  Speaker 1: can we come to in the face of all these
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  Speaker 1: facts but that there is a principle of health which
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  Speaker 1: is the same in all people, and which really accomplishes
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  Speaker 1: all the cures, And that there is something in all
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  Speaker 1: the systems which, under favorable conditions, arouses the principle of
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  Speaker 1: health to action. That is, medicines, manipulations, prayers, bills of
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  Speaker 1: fair affirmations, and hygienic practices cure whenever they cause the
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  Speaker 1: principle of health to become active, and fail whenever they
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  Speaker 1: do not cause it to become active. Does not all
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  Speaker 1: this indicate that the results depend upon the way the
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  Speaker 1: patient thinks about the remedy, rather than upon the ingredients
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  Speaker 1: in the prescription. There is an old story which furnishes
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  Speaker 1: so good an illustration on this point that I will
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  Speaker 1: give it here. It is said that in the Middle Ages,
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  Speaker 1: the bones of a saint kept in one of the
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  Speaker 1: monasteries were working miracles of healing. On certain days, a
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  Speaker 1: great crowd of the afflicted gathered to touch the relics,
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  Speaker 1: and all who did so were healed. On the eve
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  Speaker 1: of one of those occasions, some sacrilegious rascal gained access
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  Speaker 1: to the case in which the wonder working relics were kept,
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  Speaker 1: and stole the bones, And in the morning, with the
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  Speaker 1: usual crowd of sufferers waiting at the gates, the fathers
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  Speaker 1: found themselves shorn of the source of the miracle working power.
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  Speaker 1: They resolved to keep the matter quiet, hoping that by
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  Speaker 1: doing so they might find the thief and recover their treasures.
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  Speaker 1: And hastening to the cellar of the convent, they dug
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  Speaker 1: up the bones of our murderer, who had been buried
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  Speaker 1: there many years before. These they placed in the case,
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  Speaker 1: intending to make some plausible excuse for the failure of
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  Speaker 1: the Saint to perform his usual miracles on that day.
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  Speaker 1: And then they let in the waiting assemblage of the
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  Speaker 1: sick and infirm, to the intense astonishment of those in
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  Speaker 1: the secret, the bones of the malefactor proved as efficacious
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  Speaker 1: as those of the saint, and the healing went on
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  Speaker 1: as before. One of the fathers is said to have
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  Speaker 1: left a history of the occurrence, in which he confessed
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  Speaker 1: that in his judgment, the healing power had been in
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  Speaker 1: the people themselves all the time, and never in the
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  Speaker 1: bones at all. Whether the story is true or not,
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  Speaker 1: the conclusion applies to all the cures wrought by all
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  Speaker 1: the systems. The power that heals is in the patient himself,
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  Speaker 1: and whether it should become active or not does not
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  Speaker 1: depend upon the physical or mental means used, but upon
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  Speaker 1: the way the patient thinks about these means. There is
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  Speaker 1: a universe principle of life, as Jesus taught, a great
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  Speaker 1: spiritual healing power, and there is a principle of health
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  Speaker 1: in man which is related to this healing power. This
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  Speaker 1: is dormant or active according to the way a man thinks.
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  Speaker 1: He can always quicken it into activity by thinking in
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  Speaker 1: a certain way. Your getting well does not depend upon
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  Speaker 1: the adoption of some system or the findings of some remedy.
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  Speaker 1: People with your identical ailments have been healed by all
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  Speaker 1: systems and all remedies. It does not depend upon climate.
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  Speaker 1: Some people are well and others are sick in all climates.
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  Speaker 1: It does not depend upon avocation, unless in case of
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  Speaker 1: those who work under poisonous conditions. People are well in
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  Speaker 1: all trades and professions. You're getting well depends upon your
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  Speaker 1: beginning to think and act in a certain way. The
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  Speaker 1: way a man thinks about things is determined by what
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  Speaker 1: he believes about them. His thoughts are determined by his faith,
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  Speaker 1: and the results depend upon his making a personal application
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  Speaker 1: of his faith. If a man has faith in the
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  Speaker 1: efficacy of a medicine and is able to apply that
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  Speaker 1: faith to himself, that medicine will certainly cause him to
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  Speaker 1: be cured. But though his faith be great, he will
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  Speaker 1: not be cured unless he applies it to himself. Many
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  Speaker 1: sick people have faith for others, but none for themselves.
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  Speaker 1: So if he has faith in a system of diet
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  Speaker 1: and can personally apply that faith, it will cure him.
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  Speaker 1: And if he has faith in prayers and affirmations and
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  Speaker 1: personally applies his faith, prayers and affirmations will cure him.
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  Speaker 1: Faith personally applied cures And no matter how great the
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  Speaker 1: faith or how persistent the thought, it will not cure
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  Speaker 1: without personal application. The science of being well, then includes
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  Speaker 1: the two fields of thought and action. To be well,
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  Speaker 1: it is not enough that man should merely think in
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  Speaker 1: a certain way. He must apply his thought to himself,
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  Speaker 1: and he must express and externalize it in his outward
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  Speaker 1: life by acting in the same way that he thinks
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  Speaker 1: the foundations of faith. Before man can think in a
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  Speaker 1: certain way which will cause his diseases to be healed,
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  Speaker 1: he must believe in certain truths which are here stated.
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  Speaker 1: All things are made from one living substance, which, in
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  Speaker 1: its original state permeates, penetrate, and fills the interspaces of
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  Speaker 1: the universe, while all visible things are made from it.
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  Speaker 1: Yet this substance, in its first formless condition, is in
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  Speaker 1: and through all the visible forms that it has made.
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  Speaker 1: Its life is in all, and its intelligence is in all.
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  Speaker 1: This substance creates by thought, and its method is by
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  Speaker 1: taking the form of that which it thinks about. The
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  Speaker 1: thought of a form held by this substance causes it
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  Speaker 1: to assume that thought of a motion causes to institute
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  Speaker 1: that motion. Forms are created by this substance in moving
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  Speaker 1: itself into certain attitudes or positions. When original substance wishes
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  Speaker 1: to create a given form, it thinks of the motions
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  Speaker 1: which will produce that form. When it wishes to create
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  Speaker 1: a world, it thinks of the motions, perhaps extending through ages,
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  Speaker 1: which will result in its coming into the attitude and
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  Speaker 1: form of the world, and these motions are made. When
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  Speaker 1: it wishes to create an oak tree, it thinks of
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  Speaker 1: the sequences of movement, perhaps extending through ages, which will
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  Speaker 1: result in the form of an oak tree, and these
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  Speaker 1: motions are made. The particular sequences of motion by which
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  Speaker 1: differing forms should be produced were established in the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: They are changeless. Certain motions institute in the formless substance
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  Speaker 1: will forever produce certain forms. Man's body is formed from
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  Speaker 1: the original substance, and is the result of certain motions
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  Speaker 1: which first existed as thoughts of original substance. The motions
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  Speaker 1: which produce, renew and repair the body of men are
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  Speaker 1: called functions, and these functions are of two classes, voluntary
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  Speaker 1: and involuntary. The involuntary functions are under the control of
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  Speaker 1: the principle of health and man, and are performed in
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  Speaker 1: a perfectly healthy manner so long as man thinks in
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  Speaker 1: a certain way. The voluntary functions of life are eating, drinking, breathing,
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  Speaker 1: and sleeping. These entirely or in part are under the
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  Speaker 1: direction of man's conscious mind, and he can perform them
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  Speaker 1: in a perfectly healthy way if he will. If he
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  Speaker 1: does not perform them in a healthy way, he cannot
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  Speaker 1: long be well. So we see that if man thinks
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  Speaker 1: in a certain way, and eats, drinks, breathes, and sleeps
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  Speaker 1: in a corresponding way, he will be well. The involuntary
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  Speaker 1: functions of man's life are under the direct control of
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  Speaker 1: the principle of health, and so long as man thinks
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  Speaker 1: in a perfectly healthy way, these functions are perfectly performed.
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  Speaker 1: For the action of the principle of health is largely
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  Speaker 1: directed by man's conscious thought, affecting his sub conscious mind.
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  Speaker 1: Man is a thinking center, capable of originating thought, and
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  Speaker 1: as he does not know everything, he makes mistakes and
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  Speaker 1: thinks error. Not knowing every everything, he believes things to
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  Speaker 1: be true which are not true. Man holds in his
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  Speaker 1: thought the idea of diseased and abnormal functioning and conditions,
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  Speaker 1: and so perverts the action of the principle of health,
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  Speaker 1: causing diseased and abnormal functioning and conditions within his own body.
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  Speaker 1: In the original substance, there are held only the thoughts
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  Speaker 1: of perfect motion, perfect and healthy function, complete life. God
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  Speaker 1: never thinks disease or imperfection, but for countless ages men
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  Speaker 1: have held thoughts of disease, abnormality, old, age, and death,
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  Speaker 1: and the perverted functioning resulting from these thoughts has become
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  Speaker 1: a part of the inheritance of the race. Our ancestors
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  Speaker 1: have for many generations held imperfect ideas concerning human form
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  Speaker 1: and functioning, and we begin life with racial subconscious impressions
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  Speaker 1: of imperfection and disease. This is not natural or a
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  Speaker 1: part of the plan of nature. The purpose of nature
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  Speaker 1: can be nothing else than the perfection of life. This
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  Speaker 1: we see from the very nature of life itself. It
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  Speaker 1: is the nature of life to continually advance toward more
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  Speaker 1: perfect living. Advancement is the inevitable result of the very
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  Speaker 1: act of living. Increase is always the result of active living.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever lives must live more and more. The seed lying
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  Speaker 1: in the granary has life, but it is not living.
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  Speaker 1: Put it into the soil and it becomes active, and
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  Speaker 1: at once begins to gather to itself from the surrounding
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  Speaker 1: substance and to build a PlantForm. It will so cause
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  Speaker 1: increase that a seed head will be produced containing thirty,
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  Speaker 1: sixty or one hundred seeds, each having as much life
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  Speaker 1: as the first. Life. By living increases, life cannot live
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  Speaker 1: without increasing, and the fundamental impulse of life is to live.
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  Speaker 1: It is in response to this fundamental impulse that original
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  Speaker 1: substance works and creates. God must live, and he cannot
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  Speaker 1: live except as he creates and increases in multiplying forms.
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  Speaker 1: He is moving on to live more. The universe is
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  Speaker 1: a great advancing life, and the purpose of nature is
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  Speaker 1: the advancement of life toward perfection, toward perfect functioning. The
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  Speaker 1: purpose of nature is perfect health. The purpose of nature,
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  Speaker 1: so far as man is concerned, is that he should
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  Speaker 1: be continuously advancing into more life and progressing toward perfect life,
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  Speaker 1: and that he should live the most complete life possible
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  Speaker 1: in his present sphere of action. This must be so
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  Speaker 1: because that which lives in man is seeking more life.
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  Speaker 1: Give a little child a pencil and paper, and he
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  Speaker 1: begins to draw crude figures. That which lives in him
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  Speaker 1: is trying to express itself in art. Give him a
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  Speaker 1: set of blocks, and he will try to build something.
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  Speaker 1: That which lives in him is seeking expression in architecture.
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  Speaker 1: Seat him at a piano, and he will try to
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  Speaker 1: draw harmony from the keys. That which lives in him
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  Speaker 1: is trying to express itself in music. That which lives
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  Speaker 1: in man is always seeking to live more. And since
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  Speaker 1: man lives most when he is well, the principle of
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  Speaker 1: nature in him can seek only health. The natural state
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  Speaker 1: of man is a state of perfect health, and everything
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  Speaker 1: in him and in nature tends toward health. Sickness can
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  Speaker 1: have no place in the thought of original substance, for
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  Speaker 1: it is by its own nature continually impelled towards the
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  Speaker 1: fullest and most perfect life, therefore toward health. Man as
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  Speaker 1: he exists in the thought of the formless substance, has
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  Speaker 1: perfect health. Disease, which is abnormal or perverted function, motion
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  Speaker 1: imperfectly made or made in the direction of imperfect life,
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  Speaker 1: has no place in the thought of the thinking stuff.
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  Speaker 1: The supreme mind never thinks of disease. Disease was not
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  Speaker 1: created or ordained by God or sent forth from Him.
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  Speaker 1: It is wholly a product of separate consciousness of the
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  Speaker 1: individual thought of Man. God, the formless substance not see disease,
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  Speaker 1: think disease, no disease, or recognize disease. Disease is recognized
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  Speaker 1: only by the thought of Man. God thinks nothing but health.
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  Speaker 1: From all the foregoing we see that health is a
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  Speaker 1: fact or truth in the original substance, from which we
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  Speaker 1: are all formed, and that disease is imperfect functioning, resulting
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  Speaker 1: from the imperfect thoughts of men past and present. If
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  Speaker 1: man's thoughts of himself had always been those of perfect health,
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  Speaker 1: man could not possibly now be otherwise than perfectly healthy.
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  Speaker 1: Man in perfect health is the thought of original substance,
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  Speaker 1: and man in imperfect health is the result of his
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  Speaker 1: own failure to think perfect health and to perform the
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  Speaker 1: voluntary functions of life in a healthy way. We will
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  Speaker 1: here a range in a syllabus the basic truths of
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  Speaker 1: the science of being well. There is a thinking substance
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  Speaker 1: from which all things are made, and which, in its
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  Speaker 1: original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe.
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  Speaker 1: It is the life of all. The thought of a
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  Speaker 1: form in this substance causes the form, the thought of
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  Speaker 1: emotion produces the motion. In relation to man. The thoughts
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  Speaker 1: of this substance are always of perfect functioning and perfect health.
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  Speaker 1: Man is a thinking center, capable of original thought, and
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  Speaker 1: his thought has power over his own functioning. By thinking
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  Speaker 1: imperfect thoughts, he has caused imperfect and perverted functioning, and
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  Speaker 1: by performing the voluntary functions of life in a perverted
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  Speaker 1: manner he has assisted in causing disease. If man will
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  Speaker 1: think only thoughts of perfect health, he can cause within
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  Speaker 1: himself the functioning of perfect health. All the power of
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  Speaker 1: life will be exerted to assist him. But this healthy
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  Speaker 1: functioning will not continue unless man performs the external or
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  Speaker 1: voluntary functions of living in a healthy manner. Man's first
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  Speaker 1: step must be to learn how to think perfect health,
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  Speaker 1: and his second step to learn how to eat, drink,
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  Speaker 1: breathe and sleep in a perfectly healthy way. If man
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  Speaker 1: takes these two steps, he will certainly become well and
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  Speaker 1: remain so. Life and its organisms. The human body is
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  Speaker 1: the abiding place of an energy which renews it when worn,
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  Speaker 1: which eliminates waste or poisonous matter, and which repairs the
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  Speaker 1: body when broken or injured. This energy, we call life.
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  Speaker 1: Life is not generated or per produced within the body.
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  Speaker 1: It produces the body. The seed which has been kept
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  Speaker 1: in the storehouse for years will grow when planted in
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  Speaker 1: the soil, it will produce a plant, But the life
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  Speaker 1: in the plant is not generated by its growing. It
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  Speaker 1: is the life which makes the plant grow. The performance
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: of function does not cause life. It is life which
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: causes function to be performed. Life is first function. Afterward,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: it is life which distinguishes organic from inorganic matter. But
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: it is not produced after the organization of matter. Life
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: is the principle or force which causes organization. It builds organisms.
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  Speaker 1: It is a principle or force inherent in original substance.
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  Speaker 1: All life is one This life, principle of the all
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: is the principle of health in man, and becomes constructively
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  Speaker 1: active whenever man thinks in a certain way. Whoever therefore
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  Speaker 1: thinks in this certain way, will surely have perfect health
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  Speaker 1: if his external functioning is in conformity with his thought.
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  Speaker 1: But the external functioning must conform to the thought. Man
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  Speaker 1: cannot hope to be well by thinking health if he
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  Speaker 1: eats strings, breathes, and sleeps like a sick man. The
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: universal life principle, then, is the principle of health in man.
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  Speaker 1: It is one with original substance. There is one original
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  Speaker 1: substance from which all things are made. This substance is alive,
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  Speaker 1: and its life is the principle of life. The universe.
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  Speaker 1: This substance has created from itself all the forms of
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: organic life by thinking them, or by thinking the motions
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: and functions which produce them. Original substance thinks only health
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  Speaker 1: because it knows all truth. There is no truth which
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  Speaker 1: is not known in the formless, which is all and
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: in all it is not only knows all truth, but
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: it has all power. Its vital power is the source
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  Speaker 1: of all the energy. There is a conscious life which
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  Speaker 1: knows all truth and which has all power, cannot go
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  Speaker 1: wrong or perform function imperfectly. Knowing all, it knows too
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  Speaker 1: much to go wrong, and so the formless cannot be
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  Speaker 1: diseased or think disease. Man is a form of this
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  Speaker 1: original substance and has a separate consciousness of his own.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: But his consciousness is limited and therefore imperfect. By reason
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: of his limited knowledge, man can and does think wrongly,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: and so he causes perverted and imperfect functioning in his
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: own body. Man is not known too much to go wrong.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: The diseased or imperfect functioning may not instantly result from
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: an imperfect thought, but it is bound to come if
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: the thought becomes habitual, and a thought continuously held by
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: man tends to the establishment of the corresponding condition in
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  Speaker 1: his body. Also, man has failed to learn how to
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: perform the voluntary functions of his life in a healthy way.
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  Speaker 1: He does not know when, what, and how to eat.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: He knows little about breathing, and less about sleep. He
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: does all these things in a wrong way and under
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: wrong condition, and this because he is neglected to follow
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  Speaker 1: the only sure guide to the knowledge of life. He
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: has tried to live by logic rather than by instinct.
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  Speaker 1: He has made living a matter of art and not
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: of nature, and he has gone wrong. His only remedy
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: is to begin to go right, and this he can
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  Speaker 1: surely do. It is a work of this book to
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: teach the whole truth, so that the man who reads
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: it shall know too much to go wrong. The thoughts
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: of disease produce the forms of disease. Man must learn
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: to think health, and being original substance which takes the
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: form of its thoughts, he will become the form of
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  Speaker 1: health and manifest perfect health and all his functioning. The
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  Speaker 1: people who were healed by touching the bones of the
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: saint were really healed by thinking in a certain way,
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  Speaker 1: and not by any power emanating from the relics. There
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: is no healing power in the bones of dead men,
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  Speaker 1: whether it be those of saint or sinner. The people
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: who were healed by the doses of either the alleopath
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: or the homeopath, were also really healed by thinking in
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  Speaker 1: a certain way. There is no drug which has within
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: itself the power to heal disease. The people who have
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: been healed by prayers and affirmations were also healed by
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: thinking in a certain way. There is no curative power
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: in strings of words. All the sick who have been
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: healed by whatsoever system have thought in a certain way,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: and a little examination will show us what this way is.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: The two essentials of the way are faith and a
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: personal application of the faith. The people who touched the
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  Speaker 1: saint's bones had faith, and so great was their faith
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: that in the instant they touched the relics, they severed
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: all mental relations with disease and mentally unified themselves with health.
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  Speaker 1: This change of mind was accompanied by an intense devotional feeling,
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  Speaker 1: which penetrated to the deepest recesses of their souls and
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: so aroused the principle of health to powerful action. By faith,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: they claimed that they were healed or appropriated health to themselves,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: and in full faith, they ceased to think of themselves
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: in connection with disease and thought of themselves only in
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: connection with health. These are the two essentials to thinking
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: in a certain way which will make you well. First,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: claim or appropriate health by faith, and second, sever all
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: mental relations with disease and enter into mental relations with health.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: That which we make ourselves mentally we become physically, and
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: that with which we unite ourselves mentally we become unified
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: with filth. If your thought always relates you to disease,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: then your thought becomes a fixed power to cause disease
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: within you. And if your thought always relates you to health,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: then your thought becomes a fixed power exerted to keep
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: you well. In the case of the people who are
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: healed by medicines, the result is obtained in the same way.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: They have consciously or unconsciously sufficient faith in the means
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: used to cause them to sever mental relations with disease
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: and enter into mental relations with health. Faith may be unconscious.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: It is possible for us to have a subconscious or
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: imbrid faith in things like medicine in which we do
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: not believe to any extent objectively, and this subconscious faith
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: may be quite sufficient to quicken the principle of health
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: into constructive activity. Many who have little conscious faith are
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: healed in this way. Why many others who have great
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: faith in the means are not healed because they do
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: not make the personal application to themselves. Their faith is
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: general but not specific for their own cases. In the
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: science of being well, we have two main points to consider, First,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: how to think with faith, and second, how to so
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: apply the thought to ourselves as to quicken the principle
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: of health into constructive activity. We begin by learning what
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: to think what to think. In order to sever all
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: mental relations with disease, you must enter into mental relations
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: with health, making the process positive not negative, one of assumption,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: not of rejection. You are to receive or appropriate health,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: rather than to reject and deny disease. Denying disease accomplishes
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: next to nothing. It does little good to cast out
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: the devil and leave the house vacant. You will presently
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: return with others worse than himself. When you enter into
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: full and constant mental relations with health, you must, of
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: necessity seize all relationship with disease. The first step in
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: the science of being well is then to enter into
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: complete thought connection with health. The best way to do
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: this is to form a mental image or picture of
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: yourself as being well, imagining a perfectly strong and healthy body,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: and to spend sufficient time in contemplating this image to
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: make it your habitual thought of yourself. This is not
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: so easy as it sounds. It necessitates the taking of
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: considerable time for meditation, and not all persons have the
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: imaging faculty well enough developed to form a distinct mental
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: picture of themselves in a perfect or idolized body. It
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: is much easier, as in the science of getting rich,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: to form a mental image of the things one wants
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: to have. For we have seen these things or their
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: counterparts and know how they look. We can picture them
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: very easily from memory. But we have never seen ourselves
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: in a perfect body, and a mental image is hard
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: to form. It is not necessary or essential, however, to
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: have a clear mental image of yourself as you wish
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: to be. It is only essential to form a conception
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: of perfect health and to relate yourself to it. This
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: conception of health is not a mental picture of a
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: particular thing. It is an understanding of health and carries
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: with it the idea of perfect functioning in every part
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: and organ. You may try to picture yourself as perfect
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: in physique. That helps, and you must think of yourself
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: as doing everything in the manner of a perfectly strong
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: and healthy person. You can picture yourself as walking down
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: the street with any and a vigorous stride. You can
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: picture yourself as doing your day's work easily and with
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: surplus vigor, never tired or weak. You can picture in
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: your mind how all things would be done by a
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: person full of health and power, and you can make
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: yourself the central figure in the picture, doing things in
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  Speaker 1: just that way. Never think of the ways in which
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: weak or sickly people do things. Always think of the
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: way strong people do things. Spend your leisure time in
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: thinking about the strong way until you have a good
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: conception of it, and always think of yourself in connection
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: with the strong way of doing things. This is what
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I mean by having a conception of health. In order
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: to establish perfect functioning in every part, man does not
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: have to study anatomy or physiology so that he can
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: form a mental image of each separate organ and address
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: himself to it. He does not have to treat his liver,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: his kidneys, his stomach, or his heart. There is one
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: the principle of health in man, which has control over
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: all the involuntary functions of his life, and the thought
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: of perfect health impressed upon this principle will reach each
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: part and organ. Man's liver is not controlled by a
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: liver principle, his stomach by a digestive principle, and so on.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: The principle of health is one. The less you go
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: into the detailed study of physiology, the better for you.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Our knowledge of this science is very imperfect and leads
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: to imperfect thought. Imperfect thought causes imperfect functioning, which is disease.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Let me illustrate. Until quite recently, physiology fixed ten days
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: as the extreme limit of man's endurance without food. It
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: was considered that only in exceptional cases could he survive
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: a longer fast. So the impression became universally disseminated that
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: one who was deprived of food must die in from
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: five to ten days, and numbers of people, when cut
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: off from food by shipwreck, accident, or famine, did die
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: within this period. But the performances of doctor Tanner the
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: forty day Faster, and the writings of doctor Dewey and
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: others on the fasting Cure, together with the experiments of
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: numberless people who have fasted from forty to sixty days,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: have shown that man's ability to live without food is
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: vastly greater than had been supposed. Any person properly educated
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: can fast from twenty to forty days with little loss
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: in weight, and often with no apparent loss of strength
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: at all. The people who starved to death in ten
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: days or less did so because they believed that death
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: was inevitable. An erroneous physiology had given them a wrong
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: thought about themselves. When a man is deprived of food,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: he will die in from ten to fifty days, according
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: to the way he has been taught, or in other words,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: according to the way he thinks about it. So you
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: see that an erroneous physiology can work very mischievous results.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: No science of being well can be founded on current physiology.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: It is not sufficiently exact in its knowledge, with all
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: its pretensions. Comparatively, little is really known as to the
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: interior workings and processes of the body. It is not
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: known just how food is digested. It is not known
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: just what part food plays, if any, in the generation
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: of force. It is not known exactly what the liver, spleen,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: and pancreas are for, or what part their secretions play
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: in the chemistry of assimilation. On all these and most
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: other points, we theorize, but we do not really know.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: When man begins to study physiology, he enters the domain
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: of theory and disputation. He comes among conflicting opinions, and
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: he is bound to form mistaken ideas concerning himself. These
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: mistaken ideas lead to the thinking of wrong thoughts, and
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: this leads to perverted functioning and disease. All that the
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: most perfect knowledge of physiology could do for man would
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: be to enable him to think only thoughts of perfect health,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: and to eat, drink, breathe, and sleep in a perfectly
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: healthy way. And this, as we shall show, he can
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: do without studying physiology at all. This, for the most part,
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: is true of all hygiene. There are certain fundamental propositions
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: which we should know, and these will be explained in
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: later chapters. But aside from these propositions, ignore physiology and hygiene.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: They tend to fill your mind with thoughts of imperfect conditions,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: and these thoughts will produce the imperfect health conditions in
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: your own body. You cannot study any science which recognizes disease.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: If you are to think nothing but health, drop all
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: investigation as to your present condition, its causes, or possible results,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: and set yourself to the work of forming a conception
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: of health. Think about health and the possibilities of health,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: of the work that may be done, and the pleasures
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: that may be enjoyed in a condition of perfect health.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Then make this conception your guide in thinking of yourself.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Refuse to entertain for an instant any thought of yourself
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: which is not in harmony with it. When any idea
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: of disease or imperfect functioning enters your mind, cast it
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: out instantly by calling upon a thought which is in
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: harmony with the conception of health. Think of yourself at
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: all times as realizing conception as being a strong and
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: perfectly healthy personage, and do not harbor a contrary thought.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Know that as you think of yourself in unity with
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: this conception, the original substance which permeates and fills the
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: tissues of your body, is taking form according to the thought.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: And know that this intelligent substance or mind stuff, will
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: cause function to be performed in such a way that
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: your body will be rebuilt with perfectly healthy cells. The
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: intelligent substance from which all things are made permeates and
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: penetrates all things, and so it is in and through
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: your body. It moves according to its thoughts, and so
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: if you hold only the thoughts of perfectly healthy function,
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: it will cause the movements a perfectly healthy function within you.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Hold with persistence to the thought of perfect health in
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: relation to yourself. Do not permit yourself to think in
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: any other way. Hold this thought with perfect faith that
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: it is the fact, the truth. It is the truth.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: So far as your mental body is concerned, you have
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: a mind body and a physical body. The mind body
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: takes form just as you think of yourself, and any
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: thought which you hold continuously is made visible by the
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: transformation of the physical body into its image. Implanting the
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: thought of perfect functioning in the mind body will in
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: due time cause perfect functioning in the physical body. The
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: transformation of the physical body into the image of the
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: ideal held by the mind body is not accomplished instantaneously.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: We cannot transfigure our physical bodies as well as Jesus
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: did in the creation and recreation of forms. Substance moves
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: along the fixed lines of growth it has established, and
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: the impression upon it of the health thought causes the
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: healthy body to be built cell by cell. Holding only
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: thoughts of perfect health will ultimately cause perfect functioning, and
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: perfect functioning will in due time produce a perfectly healthy body.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: It may be as well to condense this chapter into
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: a syllabus. Your physical body is permeated and fitted with
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: an intelligent substance which forms a body of mind stuff.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: This mind stuff controls the functioning of your physical body.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: A thought of disease or of imperfect function impressed upon
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: the mind stuff causes disease or imperfect functioning in the
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: physical body. If you are diseased, it is because wrong
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: thoughts have made impressions on this mind stuff. These may
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: have been either your own thoughts or those of your parents.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: We begin life with many subconscious impressions, both right and wrong.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: But the natural tendency of all mind is toward health.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: And if no thoughts are held in the conscious mind
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: save those of health, all internal functioning will come to
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: be performed in a perfectly healthy manner. The power of
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: nature within you is sufficient to overcome all hereditary impressions.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: And if you will learn to control your thoughts so
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: that you shall think only those of health, and if
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: you will perform the voluntary functions of life in a
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: perfectly healthy way, you can certainly be well. Faith The
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: principle of health is moved by faith. Nothing else can
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: call it into action, and only faith can enable you
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: to relate yourself to health and sever your relation with
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: disease in your thoughts. You will continue to think of
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: disease unless you have faith in health. If you do
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: not have faith, you will doubt. If you doubt, you
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: will fear, And if you fear, you will relate yourself
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: of mind to that which you fear. If you fear disease,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: you will think of yourself in connection with disease, and
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: that will produce within yourself the form and motions of disease.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Just as original substance creates from itself the forms of
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: its thoughts, so your mind body, which is original substance,
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: takes the form and motion of whatever you think about.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: If you fear disease, dread disease, have doubts about your
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: safety from disease, or if you even contemplate disease, you
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: will connect yourself with it and create its forms and
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: motions within you. Let me enlarge somewhat upon this point.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: The potency or creative power of a thought is given
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: to it by the faith that is in it. Thoughts
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: which contain no faith, create no forms. The formless substance,
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: which knows all truth and therefore thinks only truth, has
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: perfect faith in every thought, because it thinks only truth,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: and so all its thoughts create. But if you will
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: imagine a thought and formless substance in which there was
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: no faith, you will see that such a thought could
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: not cause the substance to move or take form. Keep
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: in mind the fact that only those thoughts which you're
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: conceived in faith have creative energy. Only those thoughts which
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: have faith with them are able to change function or
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: to quicken the principle of health into activity. If you
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: do not have faith in health, you will certainly have
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: faith in disease. If you do not have faith in health,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: it will do you no good to think about health,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: for your thoughts will have no potency and will cause
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: no change for the better in your conditions. If you
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: do not have faith in health, I repeat, you will
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: have faith in disease. And if under such conditions you
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: think about health for ten hours a day and think
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  Speaker 1: about disease for only a few minutes, the diseased thought
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  Speaker 1: will control your condition because it will have the potency
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  Speaker 1: of faith, while the health thought will not your mind
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  Speaker 1: body will take on the form and motions of disease
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  Speaker 1: and retain them, because your health thought will not have
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  Speaker 1: sufficient dynamic force to change form or motion. In order
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  Speaker 1: to practice the science of being well, you must have
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  Speaker 1: complete faith in health. Faith begins and believe, And we
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: now come to the question what must you believe? In
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: order to have faith in health? You must believe that
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  Speaker 1: there is more health power than disease power in both
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  Speaker 1: yourself and your environment. And you cannot help believing this
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  Speaker 1: if you consider the facts. These are the facts. There
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  Speaker 1: is a thinking substance from which all things are made,
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  Speaker 1: and which in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills
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  Speaker 1: the interspaces of the universe. The thought of a form
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  Speaker 1: in this substance produces the form. The thought of emotion
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  Speaker 1: institutes the motion. In relation to man, the thoughts of
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  Speaker 1: original substance are always the perfect health and perfect functioning.
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  Speaker 1: This substance, within and without man always exerts its power
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  Speaker 1: toward health. Man is a thinking center capable of original thought.
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  Speaker 1: He has a mind body of original substance permeating a
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  Speaker 1: physical body, and the functioning of his physical body is
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  Speaker 1: determined by the faith of his mind. Body. If man
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: thinks with faith of the functioning of health, he will
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: cause his internal functions to be performed in a healthy manner,
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  Speaker 1: provided that he performs the external functions in a corresponding manner.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: But if man thinks with faith of disease or of
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: the power of disease, he will cause his internal functioning
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  Speaker 1: to be the functioning of disease. The original intelligent substance
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  Speaker 1: is in man moving towards health, and it is pressing
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  Speaker 1: upon him from every side. Man lives, moves, and has
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  Speaker 1: his being in a limitless ocean of health power, and
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  Speaker 1: he uses this power according to his faith. If he
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  Speaker 1: appropriates it and applies it to himself, it is all his.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: And if he unifies himself with it by unquestioning faith,
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: he cannot fail to attain health, for the power of
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: this substance is all the power. There is. A belief
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: in the above statements is a foundation for faith in health.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: If you believe them, you believe that health the natural
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: state of man, and that man lives in the midst
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  Speaker 1: of universal health, that all the power power of nature
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: makes for health, and that health is possible to all
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  Speaker 1: and can surely be attained by all. You will believe
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  Speaker 1: that the power of health in the universe is ten
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  Speaker 1: thousand times greater than that of disease, in fact, that
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: disease has no power whatever, being only the result of
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  Speaker 1: perverted thought. In faith, and if you believe that health
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: is possible to you, and that it may surely be
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  Speaker 1: attained by you, and that you know exactly what to
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: do in order to attain it, you will have faith
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  Speaker 1: in health. You will have this faith and knowledge if
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  Speaker 1: you read this book through with car and determined to
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: believe in and practice its teachings. It is not merely
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: the possession of faith, but the personal application of faith
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: which works healing. You must claim health in the beginning
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: and form a conception of health and as far as
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: may be, of yourself as a perfectly healthy person. And
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: then by faith you must claim that you are realizing
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: this conception. Do not assert with faith that you're going
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: to get well, assert with faith that you are well.
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: Having faith in health and applying it to yourself means
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: having faith that you are healthy, and the first step
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: in this is to claim that it is the truth. Mentally,
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: take the attitude of being well. Do not say anything
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  Speaker 1: or do anything which contradicts this attitude. Never speak a
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: word or assume a physical attitude which does not harmonize
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: with this claim. I am perfectly well. When you walk
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: go with a brisk step and with your chest thrown
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: out and your head held up. Wats it. At all
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: times your physical actions and attitudes are those of a
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: healthy person. When you find that you have relapsed into
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: the attitude of weakness or disease, change instantly, straighten up,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: think of health and power. Refuse to consider yourself as
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: others than a perfectly healthy person. One greatest aid, perhaps
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: the greatest aid, in applying your faith, you will find
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: in the exercise of gratitude. Whenever you think of yourself
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: or of your advancing condition, give thanks to the great
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: intelligent substance for the perfect health you are enjoying. Remember that,
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  Speaker 1: as Swedenborg taught, there is a continual inflow of life
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  Speaker 1: from the Supreme which is received by all created things
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  Speaker 1: according to their forms, and by man according to his faith.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: Health from God is continually being urged upon you. And
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: when you think of this, lift up your mind reverently
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  Speaker 1: to Him and give thanks that you have been led
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  Speaker 1: to the truth and into perfect health of mind and body.
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  Speaker 1: Be all the time in a grateful frame of mind,
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: and let gratitude be evident in your speech. Gratitude will
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: help you to own and control your own field of thought.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: Whenever the thought of disease is presented to you, instantly
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: claim health and thank God for the perfect health you have.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Do this so that there shall be no room in
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: your mind for a thought of ill. Every thought connected
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: in any way with ill health is unwelcome, and you
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: can close the door of your mind and its face
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: by asserting that you are well, and by reverently thanking
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: God that it is so soon the old thoughts will
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: return no more. Gratitude has a too fold effect. It
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: strengthens your own faith, and it brings you into close
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: and harmonious relations with the Supreme. You believe that there
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  Speaker 1: is one intelligent substance from which all life and all
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: power come. You believe that you receive your own life
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  Speaker 1: from this substance, and you relate yourself closely to it
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: by feeling continuous gratitude. It is easy to see that
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: the more closely you relate yourself to the source of life,
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: the more readily you may receive life from it. And
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: it is easy also to see that your relation to
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: it is a matter of mental attitude. We cannot come
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: into physical relationship with God, for God is mind's stuff,
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: and we also are mind stuff. Our relation with Him
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: must therefore be a mind relation. It is plain then
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: that the man who feels deep and heartily gratitude will
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: live in closer touch with God than the man who
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: never looks up to him in thankfulness. The ungrateful or
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: unthankful mind really denies that it receives it all, so
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: cuts its connection with the Supreme. The grateful mind is
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: always looking towards the Supreme and is always open to
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: receive from it, and it will receive continually the principle
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  Speaker 1: of health, and man receives its vital power from the
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: principle of life in the universe. And man relates himself
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: to the principle of life by faith in health and
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: by gratitude for the health he receives. Man may cultivate
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: both faith and gratitude by the proper use of his will.
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  Speaker 1: Use of the will in the practice of the science
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: of being well, the will is not used to compel
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: yourself to go when you are not really able to go,
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: or to do things when you are not physically strong
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: enough to do them. You do not direct your will
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: upon your physical body or try to compel the proper
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: performance of internal function by willpower. You direct the will
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: upon the mind and use it in determining what you
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: shall believe, what you shall think, and to what you
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: shall give your attention. The will should never be used
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: upon any person or thing external to you, and it
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: should never be used upon your own body. The sole
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: legitimate use of the will is in determining to what
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: you shall give your attention and what you shall think
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: about the things to which your attention is given. All
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: belief begins in the will to believe. You cannot always
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: and instantly believe what you will to believe, but you
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: can always will to believe what you want to believe.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: You want to believe truth about health, and you can
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: will to do so. The statements you have been reading
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: in this book are the truth about health, and you
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: can will to believe them. This must be your first
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: step toward getting well. These are the statements you must
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: will to believe. That there is a thinking substance from
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: which all things are made, and that man receives the
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: principle of health, which is his life, from this substance,
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: that man himself is thinking substance a mind body permeating
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: a physical body, and that as man thoughts are so,
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: will the functioning of his physical body be. That if
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: man will think only thoughts of perfect health, he must
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: and will cause the internal and involuntary functioning of his
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: body to be the functioning of health, provided that his external,
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: involuntary functioning and attitude are in accordance with his thoughts.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: When you will to believe these statements, you must also
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: begin to act upon them. You cannot long retain a
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: belief unless you act upon it. You cannot increase a
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: belief until it becomes faith unless you act upon it.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: And you certainly cannot expect to reap benefits in any
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: way from a belief so long as you act as
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: if the opposite were true. You cannot long have faith
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: in health if you continue to act like a sick person.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: If you continue to act like a sick person, you
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: cannot help continuing to think of yourself as a sick person.
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: And if you continue to think of yourself as a
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: sick person, and you will continue to be a sick person.
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: The first step toward acting externally like a well person
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: is to begin to act internally like a well person.
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  Speaker 1: Form your conception of perfect health, and get into the
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: way of thinking about perfect health until it begins to
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: have a definitive meaning to you. Picture yourself as doing
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: things a strong and healthy person would do, and have
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: faith that you can and will do those things in
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: that way. Continue this until you have a vivid conception
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: of health and what it means to you. When I
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: speak in this book of a conception of health, I
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: mean a conception that carries with it the idea of
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: the way a healthy person looks and does things. Think
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: of yourself in connection with health until you form a
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: conception of how you would live, appear, act, and do
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: things as a perfectly healthy person. Think about yourself in
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: connection with health until you conceive of yourself in imagination
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: as always doing everything in the manner of a well person.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: Until the thought of health conveys the idea of what
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: health means to you. As I have said in a
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: former chapter, you may not be able to form a
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: clear mental image of yourself in perfect health, but you
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: can form a conception of yourself as acting like a
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: healthy person. Form this conception and then think only thoughts
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: of perfect health in relation to yourself, and so far
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: as may be possible, in relation to others. When a
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: thought of sickness or disease is presented to you, reject it,
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: do not let it get into your mind, do not
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: entertain or consider it at all. Meet it by thinking health,
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: by thinking that you are well, and by being sincerely
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: grateful for the health you are receiving. Whenever suggestions of
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: disease are coming thick and fast upon and you are
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: in a tight place, fall back upon the exercise of gratitude.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: Connect yourself with the Supreme Give thanks to God for
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: the perfect health he gives you, and you will soon
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: find yourself able to control your thoughts and to think
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: what you want to think. In times of doubt, trial
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: and temptation, the exercise of gratitude is always a sheet
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: anchor which will prevent you from being swept away. Remember
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: that the great essential thing is to sever all mental
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: relations with disease and to enter into full mental relationship
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: with health. This is the key to all mental healing.
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: It is the whole thing. Here we see the secret
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: of the great success of Christian science. More than any
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: other formulated system of practice, it insists that it converts
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: shall sever relations with disease and relate themselves fully with health.
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: The healing power of Christian science is not in its
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: theological formula, nor in its denial of matter, but in
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: the fact that it induces the sick to ignore disease
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: as an unreal thing and accept health by faith as reality.
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: Its failures are made because its practitioners, while thinking in
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: a certain way, do not eat, drink, breathe, and sleep
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: in the same way. While there is no healing power
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: in the repetition of strings of words, yet it is
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: a very convenient thing to have the central thoughts so
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: formulated that you can repeat them readily, so that you
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: can use them as affirmations. Whenever you are surrounded by
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: an environment which gives you adverse suggestions, when those around
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: you begin to talk to sickness and death, close your
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: ears and mentally assert something like the following. There is
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: one substance, and I am that substance. That substance is eternal,
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: and it is life. I am that substance, and I
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: am eternal life. That substance knows no disease. I am
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: that substance, and I am health. Exercise your willpower in
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: choosing only those thoughts which are thoughts of health, and
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: arrange your environment so that it shall suggest thoughts of health.
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: Do not have about you books, pictures, or other things
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: which suggest death, disease, deformity, weakness, or age. Have only
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: those which convey the ideas of health, power, joy, vitality,
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: and youth. When you are confronted with a book or
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: anything else which suggests disease, do not give it your attention.
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: Think of your conception of health and your gratitude, and
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: affirm as above, use your will power to fix your
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: attention upon thoughts of health. In a future chapter. I
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: shall touch upon this point again. What I wish to
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: make plain here is that you must think only health,
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: recognize only health, and give your attention only to health,
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: and that you must control thought, recognition, and attention by
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: the use of your will. Do not try to use
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: your will to compel the healthy performance a function within you.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: The principle of health will attend to that if you
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: give your attention only to thoughts of health. Do not
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: try to exert your will upon the formless to compare
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: to give you more vitality or power. It is already
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: placing all the power there is at your service. You
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: do not have to use your will to conquer adverse
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: conditions or to subdue unfriendly forces. There are no unfriendly forces.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: There is only one force, and that force is friendly
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: to you. It is a force which makes for health.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: Everything in the universe wants you to be well. You
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: have absolutely nothing to overcome but your own habit of
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: thinking in a certain way about disease. And you can
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: do this only by forming a habit of thinking in
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: another certain way about health. Man can cause all the
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: internal functions of his body to be performed in a
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: perfectly healthy manner by continuously thinking in a certain way
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: and by performing the external functions in a certain way.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: He can think in this certain way by controlling his attention,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: and he can control his attention by the use of
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: his will. He can decide what things he will think
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: about health from God. I will give a chapter here
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: to explaining how man may receive health from the Supreme.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: By the Supreme, I mean the thinking substance from which
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: all things are made, and which is in all and
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: through all seeking more complete expression and fuller life. This
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: intelligent substance, in a perfectly fluid state, permeates and penetrates
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: all things and is in touch with all minds. It
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: is the source of all energy and power, and constitutes
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: the inflow of life which Swedenburgh saw vitalizing all things.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: It is working to one definitive end and for the
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: fulfillment of one purpose. And that purpose is the advancement
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: of life toward the complete expression of mind. When man
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: harmonizes himself with his intelligence, it can and will give
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: him health and wisdom. When man holds steadily to the
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: purpose to live more abundantly, he comes into harmony with
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: this supreme intelligence. The purpose of the Supreme Intelligence is
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: the most abundant life for all. The purpose of this
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: Supreme intelligence for you is that you should live more abundantly.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: If then your own purpose is to live more abundantly,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: you are unified with the Supreme You are working with it,
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: and it must work with you. But as the Supreme
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: Intelligence is in all, if you harmonize with it, you
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: must harmonize with all, and you must desire more abundant
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: life for all, as well as for yourself. Two great
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: benefits come to you from being in harmony with the
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: Supreme Intelligence. First, you will receive wisdom by wisdom, I
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: do not mean knowledge of facts so much as ability
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: to perceive and understand facts, and to judge soundly and
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: act rightly in all matters relating to life. Wisdom is
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: the power to perceive truth and the ability to make
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: the best use of the knowledge of truth. It is
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: the power to perceive at once the best end to
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: aim at and the means best adapted to attain that end.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: With wisdom comes poised and the power to think rightly,
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: to control and guide your thoughts, and to avoid the
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: difficulties which come from wrong thinking. With wisdom, you will
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: be able to select the right courses for your particular needs,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: and to so govern yourself in all ways as to
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: secure the best results. You will know how to do
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: what you want to do. You can readily see that
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: wisdom must be an essential attribute of the supreme intelligence,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: since that which you knows all truth must be wise.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: And you can also see that just in proportion, as
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: you harmonize and unify your mind with that intelligence, you
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: will have wisdom. But I repeat that, since this intelligent
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: diligence is all and in all, you can enter into
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: its wisdom only by harmonizing with all. If there is
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: anything in your desires or your purpose which will bring
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: oppression to any, or work in justice to or cause
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: lack of life for any, you cannot receive wisdom from
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: the Supreme. Furthermore, your purpose for your own self must
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: be the best. Man can live in three general ways,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: for the gratification of his body, for that of his intellect,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: or for that of his soul. The first is accomplished
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: by satisfying the desires for food, drink, and those other
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: things which give enjoyable physical sensations. The second is accomplished
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: by doing those things which cause pleasant mental sensations, such
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: as gratifying the desire for knowledge, or those for fine clothing, fame, power,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: and so on. The third is accomplished by giving way
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: to the instincts of unselfish love and altruism. Man lives
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: most wisely and completely when he functions most perfectly along
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  Speaker 1: all of those lines, without excess and any of them.
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  Speaker 1: The man who lives swineishly for the body alone is
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  Speaker 1: unwise and out of harmony with God. That man who
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  Speaker 1: lives solely for the cold enjoyments of the intellect, though
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  Speaker 1: he be absolutely moral, is unwise and out of harmony
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  Speaker 1: with God. And the man who lives holy for the
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  Speaker 1: practice of altruism, and who throws himself away for others
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  Speaker 1: is as unwise and as far from harmony with God
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  Speaker 1: as those who go to excess in other ways. To
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  Speaker 1: come into full harmony with the Supreme you must purpose
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  Speaker 1: to live, to live to the utmost of your capabilities
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  Speaker 1: in body, mind, and soul. This must mean the full
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  Speaker 1: exercise of function in all the different ways, but without excess,
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  Speaker 1: for excess in one causes deficiency and the others. Behind
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  Speaker 1: your desire for health is your own desire for more
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  Speaker 1: abundant life, and behind that is the desire of the
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  Speaker 1: formless Intelligence to live more fully in you. So as
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  Speaker 1: you advance toward perfect health, hold steadily to the purpose
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  Speaker 1: to attain complete life, physical, mental, and spiritual, to advance
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  Speaker 1: in all ways and in every way, to live more.
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  Speaker 1: If you hold this purpose, you will be given wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: He that willeth to do the will of the Father
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  Speaker 1: shall know, said Jesus. Wisdom is the most desirable gift
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  Speaker 1: that can come to man, for makes him rightly self governing.
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  Speaker 1: But wisdom is not all you may receive from the
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Intelligence. You may receive physical energy, vitality, life force,
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  Speaker 1: The energy of the formless substance is unlimited and permeates everything.
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  Speaker 1: You are already receiving or appropriating to yourself this energy
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  Speaker 1: in an automatic and instinctive way, but you can do
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  Speaker 1: so to a far greater degree if you set about
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  Speaker 1: it intelligently. The measure of a man's strength is not
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  Speaker 1: what God is willing to give him, but what he
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  Speaker 1: himself has the will and the intelligence to appropriate to himself.
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  Speaker 1: God gives you all there is. Your only question is
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  Speaker 1: how much to take of the unlimited supply. Professor James
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  Speaker 1: has pointed out that there is apparently no limit to
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  Speaker 1: the powers of men, and this is simply because man's
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  Speaker 1: power comes from the inexhaustible reservoir of the Supreme. The
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  Speaker 1: runner who has reached the stage of exhaustion, when his
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  Speaker 1: physical power seems entirely gone, by running on in a
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  Speaker 1: certain way, may receive his second win. His strength is
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  Speaker 1: renewed in a seemingly miraculous fashion, and he can go
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: on indefinitely, and by continuing in a certain way he
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: may receive a third, fourth, and fifth wind. We do
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  Speaker 1: not know where the wafe it is, or how far
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  Speaker 1: it may be possible to extend it. The conditions are
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  Speaker 1: that the runner must have absolute faith that the strength
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  Speaker 1: will come, that he must think steadily of strength and
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  Speaker 1: have perfect confidence that he has it, and that he
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  Speaker 1: must continue to run on. If he admits a doubt
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  Speaker 1: into his mind, he falls exhausted. And if he stops
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  Speaker 1: running to wait for the accession of strength, it will
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  Speaker 1: never come. His faith in strength, his faith that he
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  Speaker 1: can keep on running, his unwavering purpose to keep on running,
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  Speaker 1: and his action in keeping on seem to connect him
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  Speaker 1: to the source of energy in such a way as
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  Speaker 1: to bring him a new supply. In a very similar manner,
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  Speaker 1: the sick person who has unquestioning faith and health, whose
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  Speaker 1: purpose brings him into harmony with the source, and who
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  Speaker 1: performs the voluntary functions of life in a certain way,
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  Speaker 1: will receive vital energy sufficient for all his needs and
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: for the healing of all his diseases. God, who seeks
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  Speaker 1: to live and express himself fully in man, delights to
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  Speaker 1: give man all that is needed for the most abundant life.
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  Speaker 1: Action and reaction are equal. And when you desire to
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  Speaker 1: live more, if you are in mental harmony with the Supreme,
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  Speaker 1: the forces which make for life begin to concentrate about
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  Speaker 1: you and upon you, the one life begins to move
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  Speaker 1: towards you, and your environment becomes surcharged with it. Then,
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  Speaker 1: if you appropriate it by faith it is yours. Ye
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  Speaker 1: shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done
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  Speaker 1: unto you. Your father giveth not his spirit by measure.
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  Speaker 1: He delights to give good gifts to you. Summary of
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  Speaker 1: the mental actions. Let me now summarize the mental actions
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  Speaker 1: and attitudes necessary to the practice of the science of
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  Speaker 1: being well. First, you believe that there is a thinking
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  Speaker 1: substance from which all things are made, and which, in
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  Speaker 1: its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of
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  Speaker 1: the universe. This substance is the life of all, and
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  Speaker 1: is seeking to express more life in all. It is
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  Speaker 1: the principle of life of the universe and the principle
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  Speaker 1: of health in man. Man is a form of this
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  Speaker 1: substance and draws his vitality from it. He is a
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  Speaker 1: mind body of original substance, permeating a physical body, and
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  Speaker 1: the thoughts of his mind body control the functioning of
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  Speaker 1: his physical body. If man thinks no thoughts save those
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  Speaker 1: of perfect health, the functions of his physical body will
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  Speaker 1: be performed in a manner of perfect health. If you
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  Speaker 1: would consciously relate yourself to the all health, your purpose
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  Speaker 1: must be to live fully on every plane of your being.
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  Speaker 1: You must want all that there is in life for body, mind,
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  Speaker 1: and soul, and this will bring you into harmony with
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  Speaker 1: all the life. There is. A person who is in
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  Speaker 1: conscious and intelligent harmony with all will receive a continuous
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  Speaker 1: inflow of vital power from the supreme life. And this
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  Speaker 1: inflow is prevented by angry, selfish, or antagonistic mental attitudes.
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  Speaker 1: If you are against any part, you have severed relations withal,
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: you will receive life, but only instinctively and automatically, not
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  Speaker 1: intelligently and purposefully. You can see that if you are
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  Speaker 1: mentally antagonistic to any part, you cannot be in complete
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  Speaker 1: harmony with the whole. Therefore, as Jesus directed, be reconciled
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  Speaker 1: to everybody and everything. Before you offer worship, want for
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  Speaker 1: everybody all that you want for yourself. The reader is
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  Speaker 1: recommended to read what we have said in a former
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  Speaker 1: work concerning the competitive mind and the creative mind. It
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  Speaker 1: is very doubtful whether one who has lost health can
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  Speaker 1: completely regain it, so long as he remains in the
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  Speaker 1: competitive mind and being on the creative or good will
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  Speaker 1: plaine in mind. The next step is to form a
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  Speaker 1: conception of yourself as in perfect health, and to hold
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  Speaker 1: no thoughts which are not in full harmony with this conception.
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  Speaker 1: Have have faith that if you think only thoughts of health,
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  Speaker 1: you will establish in your physical body the functioning of health.
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  Speaker 1: And use your will to determine that you will think
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  Speaker 1: only thoughts of health. Never think of yourself as sick
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  Speaker 1: or as likely to be sick. Never think of sickness
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  Speaker 1: and connection with yourself at all, and as far as
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  Speaker 1: may be, shut out of your mind all thoughts of
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: sickness and connection with others. Surround yourself as much as
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  Speaker 1: possible with the things which suggest the ideas of strength
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: and health. Have faith in health and accept health as
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  Speaker 1: an actual present fact in your life. Claim health as
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  Speaker 1: a blessing bestowed upon you by the supreme Life, and
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  Speaker 1: be deeper grateful at all times. Blame the blessing by faith,
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  Speaker 1: know that it is yours, and never admit a contrary
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  Speaker 1: thought to your mind. Use your willpower to withhold your
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  Speaker 1: attention from every appearance of disease in yourself and others.
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  Speaker 1: Do not study disease, think about it, nor speak of
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  Speaker 1: it at all times. When the thought of disease is
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  Speaker 1: thrust upon you, move forward into the mental position of
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  Speaker 1: prayer for gratitude for your perfect health. The mental actions
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  Speaker 1: necessary to being well may now be summed up in
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: a single sentence. Form a conception of yourself in perfect health,
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  Speaker 1: and think only those thoughts which are in harmony with
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  Speaker 1: that conception. That, with faith and gratitude and the purpose
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  Speaker 1: to really live, covers all the requirements. It is not
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  Speaker 1: necessary to take mental exercises of any kind, accept as
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  Speaker 1: described in chapter six, or to do wearying stunts in
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  Speaker 1: the way of affirmations and so on. It is not
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  Speaker 1: necessary to concentrate the mind on the affected parts. It
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  Speaker 1: is far better not to think of any part as affected.
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  Speaker 1: It is not necessary to treat yourself by Auto's suggestion,
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  Speaker 1: or to have others treat you in any way. Whatever.
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  Speaker 1: The power that heals is the principle of health within you,
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  Speaker 1: and to call this principle into constructive action. It is
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  Speaker 1: only necessary, having harmonized yourself with the all mind, to
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  Speaker 1: claim by faith the all health, and to hold that
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  Speaker 1: claim until it is physically manifested in all the functions
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  Speaker 1: of your body. In order to hold this mental attitude
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  Speaker 1: of faith, gratitude, and health, however, your external acts must
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  Speaker 1: be only those of health. You cannot long hold the
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  Speaker 1: internal attitude of a well person if you continue to
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: perform the external acts of a sick person. It is
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  Speaker 1: essential not only that your every thought should be a
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: thought of health, but that your every act should be
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  Speaker 1: an act of hea, performed in a healthy manner. If
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  Speaker 1: you will make every thought a thought of health, and
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  Speaker 1: every conscious act and active health, it must infallibly follow
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  Speaker 1: that every internal and unconscious function shall come to be healthy.
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  Speaker 1: For all the power of life is being continual exerted
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  Speaker 1: toward health. We shall next consider how you make every
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  Speaker 1: act and act of health when to eat. You cannot
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  Speaker 1: build and maintain a perfectly healthy body by mental action alone,
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  Speaker 1: or by the performance of the unconscious or involuntary functions alone.
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  Speaker 1: There are certain actions, more or less voluntary, which have
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  Speaker 1: a direct and immediate relation with the continuance of life itself.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: These are eating, drinking, breathing, and sleeping. No matter what
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  Speaker 1: man's thought or mental attitude may be, he cannot live
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  Speaker 1: unless he eats, drinks, breathes, and sleeps. And moreover, he
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  Speaker 1: cannot be well if he eats, drinks, breathes, and sleeps
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  Speaker 1: in an unnatural or wrong manner. It is therefore vitally
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  Speaker 1: important that you should learn the right way to perform
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  Speaker 1: these voluntary functions. And I shall proceed to show you
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  Speaker 1: this way, beginning with the matter of eating, which is
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  Speaker 1: most important. There has been a vast amount of controversy
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  Speaker 1: as to when to eat, what to eat, how to eat,
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  Speaker 1: and how much to eat. And all this controversy is unnecessary,
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  Speaker 1: for the right way is very easy to find. You
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  Speaker 1: have only to consider the law which governs all attainment,
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: whether of health, wealth, power, or happiness. And that law
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  Speaker 1: is that you must do what you can do now
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: where you are. Now, do every separate act in the
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: most perfect manner possible, and put the power of faith
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: into every action. The processes of digestion and assimilation are
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: under the super and control of an inner division of
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: man's mentality, which is generally called the subconscious mind, and
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: I shall use that term here in order to be understood.
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  Speaker 1: The subconscious mind is in charge of all the functions
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  Speaker 1: and processes of life, and when more food is needed
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  Speaker 1: by the body, it makes the fact known by causing
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  Speaker 1: a sensation called hunger. Whenever food is needed and can
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  Speaker 1: be used, there is hunger, and whenever there is hunger,
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  Speaker 1: it is time to eat. When there's no hunger, it
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  Speaker 1: is unnatural and wrong to eat, no matter how great
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: may appear to be the need for food, even if
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  Speaker 1: you are in a condition of apparent starvation with great emaciation.
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  Speaker 1: If there is no hunger, you may know that food
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  Speaker 1: cannot be used, and it will be unnatural and wrong
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: for you to eat, though you have not eat for days, weeks,
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  Speaker 1: or months. If you have no hunger, you may be
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  Speaker 1: perfectly sure that food cannot be used and will probably
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  Speaker 1: not be used if taken. Whenever food is needed, if
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  Speaker 1: there is power to digest and assimilate it so that
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  Speaker 1: it can be normally used, the subconscious mind will announce
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  Speaker 1: the fact by a decided hunger. Food taken when there
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  Speaker 1: is no hunger will sometimes be digested and assimilated, because
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  Speaker 1: nature makes a special effort to perform the task which
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  Speaker 1: is thrust upon her against her will. But if food
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  Speaker 1: be habitually taken when there is no hunger, thy digestive
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  Speaker 1: power is at last destroyed, and numberless evils cause if
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  Speaker 1: the foregoing be true, and it is indisputably so, it
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  Speaker 1: is a self evident proposition that the natural time and
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  Speaker 1: the healthy time to eat, is when one is hungry,
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  Speaker 1: and that it is never a natural a healthy action
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  Speaker 1: to eat when one is not hungry. You see, then
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  Speaker 1: that it is an easy matter to scientifically settle the
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  Speaker 1: question when to eat. Always eat when you are hungry,
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  Speaker 1: and never eat when you are not hungry. This is
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  Speaker 1: obedience to nature, which is obedience to God. We must
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  Speaker 1: not fail, however, to make clear the distinction between hunger
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  Speaker 1: and appetite. Hunger is the call of the sub conscious
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  Speaker 1: mind for more material to be used in repairing and
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  Speaker 1: renewing the body and in keeping up the internal heat,
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  Speaker 1: and hunger is never felt unless there is need for
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  Speaker 1: more material, and unless there is power to digest it
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  Speaker 1: when taken into the stomach. Appetite is a desire for
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: the gratification of sensation. The drunkard has an appetite for
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: liquored but he cannot have a hunger for it. A
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  Speaker 1: normally fed person cannot have a hunger for candy or sweets.
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  Speaker 1: The desire for these things is an appetite. You cannot
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  Speaker 1: hunger for tea, coffee, spice foods, or for the various
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: taste tempting devices of the skilled cook. If he desire
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: these things, it is with appetite, not with hunger. Hunger
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  Speaker 1: is nature's call for material to be used in building
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: new cells, and nature never calls for anything which may
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  Speaker 1: not be legitimately used for this purpose. Appetite is often
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: largely a matter of habit. If one eats or drinks
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: at a certain hour, and especially if one takes sweetened
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: or spiced and stimulating foods, the desire comes regularly at
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: the same hour. But this habitual desire for food should
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: never be mistaken for hunger. Hunger does not appear at
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: a specified times. It only comes when work or exercise
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: has destroyed sufficient tissue to make the taking in of
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: new raw material a necessity. For instance, if a person
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: has been sufficiently fed on the preceding day, it is
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: impossible that he should feel a genuine hunger on arising
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: from refreshing sleep. In sleep, the body is recharged with
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: vital power, and the assimilation of the food which has
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: been taken during the day is completed. The system is
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: no need for food immediately after sleep, unless the person
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: went to his rest in a state of starvation. With
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: a system of feeding which is even a reasonable approach
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: to a natural one, no one can have a real
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: hunger for an early morning breakfast. There is no such
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: thing possible as a normal or genuine hunger immediately after
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: arising from sound sleep. Their early morning breakfast has always
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: taken to gratify appetite, never to satisfy hunger. No matter
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  Speaker 1: who you are or what your condition is, no matter
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: how hard you work or how much you are exposed,
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: unless you go to your bed starved, you cannot arise
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: from your bed hungry. Hunger is not caused by sleep,
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  Speaker 1: but by work, and it does not matter who you are,
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: or what your condition, or how hard or easy your work.
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  Speaker 1: The so called no breakfast plan is the right plan
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: for you. It is the right plan for everybody because
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: it is based on the universal law that hunger never
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: comes until it is earned. I am aware that a
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  Speaker 1: protest against this will come from the large number of
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: people who enjoy their breakfasts, whose breakfast is their best meal,
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: who believe that their work is so hard that they
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: cannot get through the forenoon on an empty stomach, and
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: so on. But all their arguments fall down before the facts.
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  Speaker 1: They enjoy their breakfast as the topper enjoys his morning
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: dram before it gratifies a habitual appetite, and not because
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: it supplies a natural want. It is their best meal
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: for the same reason that is morning drawm is the
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: topper's best drink, and they can get along without it
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: because millions of people of every trade and profession do
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: get along without it, and are vastly better for doing so.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: If you are to live according to the science of
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: being well, you must never eat until you have unearned hunger.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: But if I do not eat on a rising in
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: the morning, when shall I take my first meal? In
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: ninety nine cases out of one hundred, twelve o'clock noon
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: is early enough and is generally the most convenient time.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: If you are doing heavy work, you will get by
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: noon a hunger sufficient to justify a good sized meal,
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: And if your work is light, you will probably still
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: have hunger enough for a moderate meal. The best general
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: rule or law that can be laid down is that
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: you should eat your first meal of the day at
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: noon if you are hungry, and if you're not hungry,
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: wait until you become so, and when shall I eat
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: my second meal? Not at all unless you are hungry
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: for it, and that with a genuine earned hunger. If
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: you do get hungry for a second meal, eat at
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: the most convenient time. Who do not eat until you
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: have a really earned hunger. The reader who wishes to
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: fully inform himself as to the reasons for this way
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: of arranging the meal times will find the best books
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: there on site in the preface to this work. From
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: the foregoing, however, you can easily see that the science
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: of being well readily answers the question when and how
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: often shall I eat? The answer is eat when you
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: have an earned hunger, and never eat at any other time.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: What to eat? The current sciences of medicine and hygiene
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  Speaker 1: have made no progress toward answer the question what shall
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: I eat? The contests between the vegetarians and the meat eaters,
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: the cooked food advocates, raw food advocates, and various other
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: schools of theorists seem to be interminable, and from the
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: mountains of evidence an argument piled up for and against
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: each special theory. It is plain that if we depend
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: on these scientists, we shall never know what is the
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: natural food of man? Turning away from the whole controversy.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: Then we will ask the question of nature herself, and
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: we shall find that she has not left us without
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: an answer. Most of the errors of dietary scientists grow
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: out of a false premise as to the natural state
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: of man. It is assumed that civilization and mental development
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: are a natural things. That the man who lives in
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: a modern house in city or country, and who works
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: in modern trade or industry for his living, is leading
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: an unnatural life and is in an unnatural environment. That
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: the only natural man is a naked savage, and that
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: the farther we get from the savage, the farther we
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: are from nature. This is wrong. The man who has
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: all that art and science can give him is leading
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: the most natural life, because he is living most completely
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: in all his faculties. The dweller in a well appointed
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: city flat, with modern conveniences and good ventilation is living
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: a far more naturally human life than the Australian savage
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: who lives in a hollow tree or a hole in
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: the ground. That great intelligence, which is in all and
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: through all, has in reality practically settled the question as
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: to what we shall eat. In ordering the affairs of nature,
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: it has decided that man's food shall be according to
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: the zone in which he lives. In the frigid regions
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: of the far North, fuel foods are required, the development
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: of brain is not large, nor is the life severe
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: in its labor tax on muscle, and so the Eskimo
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: live largely on the blubber and fat of aquatic animals.
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  Speaker 1: No other diet is possible to them. They could not
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: get fruits, nuts, or vegetables, even if they were disposed
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: to eat them, and they could not live on them
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: in that climate if they could get them. So, notwithstanding
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: the arguments of the vegetarians, the Eskimo will continue to
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: live on animal fats. On the other hand, as we
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: come toward the tropics, we find fuel foods less required,
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: and you find the people naturally inclining toward a vegetarian diet.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: Millions live on rice and fruits, and the food regime
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: of an Eskimo village, if followed upon the equator, would
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: result in speedy death. A natural diet for the equatorial
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: regions would be very far from being a natural diet
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: near the North Pole, and the people of either zone,
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: if not interfered with by medical or dietary scientists will
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: be guided by the all intelligence which seeks the fullest
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: life in all to feed themselves in the best way
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: for the promotion of perfect health. In general, you can
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: see that God, working in nature and in the evolution
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: of human society and customs, has answered your question as
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: to what you shall eat? And I advise you to
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: take his answer and preference to that of any man.
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: In the temperate zone, the largest demands are made on
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: man in spirit, mind and body. And here we find
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: the greatest variety of foods provided by nature. And it
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: is really quite useless and superfluous to theorize on the
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: question what the masses shall eat, for they have no choice.
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: They must eat the foods which are staple products of
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: the zone in which they live. It is impossible to
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: supply all the people with a nut and fruit or
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: raw food diet. And the fact that it is impossible
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: is proof positive that these are not the foods intended
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: by nature. For nature, being formed for the advancement of life,
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: has not made the obtaining of the means of life
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: and impossibility. So I say the question what shall I eat?
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: Has been answered? For you eat wheat, corn rye oats, barley, buckwheat,
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: eat vegetables, eat meats, eat fruits, Eat the things that
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: are eaten by the masses of the people around the world.
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: For in this matter, the voice of the people is
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: the voice of God. They have been led generally to
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: the selection of certain foods, and they have been led
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: generally to prepare these foods in generally similar ways. And
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: you may depend upon it that in general they have
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: the right foods and are preparing them in the right way.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: In these matters the race has been under the guidance
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: of God. The list of foods in common use is
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: a long one, and you must select therefrom according to
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: your individual taste. If you do, you will find that
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: you have an infallible guide, as shown in the next
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: two chapters. If you do not eat until you haven't
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: earned hunger, you will not find your taste demanding unnatural
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: or unhealthy foods. The wood chopper, who has swung his
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: axe continuously from seven in the morning until noon, does
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: not come in clamoring for cream puffs and confectionery. He
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: wants pork and beans, or beef, steak and potatoes, or
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: cornbread and cabbage. He asks for the plain solids. To
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: crack them a few walnuts and give them a plate
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: of lettuce, and you will be met with huge disdain.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: Those things are not natural foods for a working man,
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: and if they are not natural foods for are working man,
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: they are not for any other man. For work hunger
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: is the only real hunger, and requires the same materials
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: to satisfy it, whether it be in wood chopper or banker,
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: in man, woman or child. It is a mistake to
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: suppose that food must be selected with anxious care to
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: fit the vocation of the person who eats. It is
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: not true that the wood chopper requires heavy or solid
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: foods and the bookkeeper like foods. If you are a bookkeeper,
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: or rather brain worker, you do not eat until you
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: have an earned hunger. You will want exactly the same
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: foods that the wood chopper wants. Your body is made
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: of exactly the same elements as that of the wood chopper,
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: and requires the same materials for cell building. Why men
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: feed him on ham and eggs and corn bread and
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: you on crackers and toasts. True, most of his waist
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: is of muscle, while most of yours is of brain
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: and nerve tissue. But it is also true that the
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: wood chopper's diet contains all the requisites for brain and
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: nerve building in far better proportions than they are found
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: in most light foods. The world's best brain work has
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: been done on the fare of the working people. The
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: world's greatest thinkers have invariably lived on the plain, solid
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: foods common among the masses. Let the bookkeeper wait until
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: he hasn't earned hunger before he eats, And then if
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: he wants ham, eggs and corn bread, by all means,
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: let him eat them. But let him remember that he
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: does not need one twenty of the amount necessary for
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: the wood chopper. It is not eating hardy foods which
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: gives the brain worker indigestion. It is eating as much
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: as would be needed by a muscle worker. Indigestion is
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: never caused by eating to satisfy hunger. It is always
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: caused by eating to gratify appetite. If you eat in
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: the manner prescribed in the next chapter, your taste will
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: soon become so natural that you will never want anything
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: that you cannot eat with impunity, and you can drop
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: the whole anxious question of what to eat from your
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: mind forever and simply eat what you want. Indeed, that
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: is the only way to do if you are to
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: think no thoughts but those of health, For you cannot
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: think health so long as you are in continual doubt,
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: an uncertainty as to whether you are getting the right
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: bills of fair Take no thought what ye shall eat,
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: said Jesus, and he spoke wisely. The foods found on
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: the table of any ordinary middle class, working class family
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: will nourish your body perfectly if you eat at the
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: right times and in the right way. If you want meat,
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: eat it. And if you do not want it, do
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: not eat it, and do not suppose that you must
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: find some special substitute for it. You can live perfectly
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: well on what is left on any table after the
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: meat has been removed. It is not necessary to worry
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: about a very diet so as to get in all
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: the necessary elements. The Chinese and Hindus build very good
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: bodies and excellent brains on a diet of few variations,
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: rice making almost the whole of it. The Scotch are
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: physically and mentally strong on oat milk cakes, and the
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: Irishman is husky of body and brilliant of mind on
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: potatoes and pork. The wheat berry contains practically all that
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: is necessary for the building of brain and body, and
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: a man can live very well on a mono diet
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: of navy beans. Form a conception of perfect health for yourself,
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: and do not hold any thought which is not a
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: thought of health. Never eat until you have an earned hunger.
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: Remember that it will not hurt you in the least
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: to go hungry for a short time, but it will
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: surely hurt you to eat when you are not hungry.
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: Do not give the least thought to what you should
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: or should not eat. Simply eat what is set before you,
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: selecting that which pleases your taste most. In other words,
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: eat what you want. This you can do with perfect
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: results if you eat in the right way, and how
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: to do this will be explained in the next chapter,
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: how to Eat. It is a settled fact that man
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: naturally chooses food. The few fadus who maintain that we
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: should bolt our nourishment after the manner of the dog
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: and others of the lower animals can no longer get
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: a hearing. We know that we should chew our food,
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: and if it is natural that we should chew our food,
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: the more thoroughly we chew it, the more completely natural
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: the process must be. If you will chew every mouthful
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: to a liquid, you need not be in the least
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: concerned as to what you shall eat, for you can
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: get sufficient nourishment out of any ordinary food. Whether or
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: not this chewing shall be an irksome and laborious task
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: or a most enjoyable process, depends on the mental attitude
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: in which you come to the table. If your mind
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: and attitude are on other things, or if you are
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: anxious or worried about business or domestic affairs, you will
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: find it almost impossible to eat without bolting more or
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: less of your food. You must learn to live so
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: scientifically that you will have no business or domestic cares
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: to worry about. This you can do, and you can
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: also learn to give your undivided attention to the act
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: of eating while at the table. When you eat, do
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: so with an eye single to the purpose of getting
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: all the enjoyment you can from that meal. Dismiss everything
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: else from your mind, and do not let any thing
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: take your attention from the food and its taste until
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: your meal is finished. Be cheerfully confident, for if you
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: follow these instructions, you may know that the food you
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: eat is exactly the right food, and that it will
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: agree with you to perfection. Sit down to the table
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: with confident cheerfulness, and take a moderate portion of the food.
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 1: Take whatever things look most desirable to you. Do not
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: select some food because you think it will be good
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: for you. Select that which will taste good to you.
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: If you are to get well and stay well, you
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: must drop the idea of doing things because they are
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: good for your health, and do things because you want
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: to do them. Select the food you want most gratefully,
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: give thanks to God that you have learned how to
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: eat it in such a way that digestion shall be perfect,
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: and take a moderate mouthful of it. Do not fix
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: your attention on the act of chewing. Fix it on
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: the taste of the food, and taste and enjoy it
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: until it is reduced to a liquid state and passes
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: down your throat by involuntary swallowing, no matter how long
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: it takes. Do not think of the time, Think of
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: the taste. Do not allow your eyes to wander over
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: the table speculating as to what you shall eat next.
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: Do not worry for fear there is not enough and
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: that you will not get your share of everything. Do
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: not anticipate the taste of the next thing. Keep your
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: mind centered on the taste of what you have in
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: your mouth, and that is all of it. Scientific and
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: healthful eating is a delightful process after you have learned
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: how to do it, and after you have overcome the
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: bad old habit of gobbling down your food unchewed. It
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: is best not to have too much conversation going on
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: while eating. Be cheerful, but not talkative. Do the talking afterward.
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 1: In most cases, some use of the will is required
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: to form the habit of correct eating. The bolting habit
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: is an unnatural one and is, without doubt, mostly the
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: result of fear. Fear that we will be robbed of
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: our food, fear that we will not get our share
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: of the good things, fear that we will lose precious time.
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: These are the causes of haste. Then there is anticipation
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: of the dainties that are to come for dessert, and
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: the consequent desire to get at them as quickly as possible.
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: And there is mental abstraction or thinking of other matters
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: while eating. All these must be overcome. When you find
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: that your mind is wandering, call a halt. Think for
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: a moment of the food, and of how good it tastes,
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: of the perfect digestion, and a simulation that are going
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: to follow the meal and begin again, begin again and again,
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: though you must do so twenty times in the course
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: of a single meal, and again and again, though you
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: must do so every meal for weeks and months. It
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: is perfectly certain that you can from the Fletcher habit.
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: If you preserve, and when you have formed it, you
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: will experience a healthful pleasure you have never known. This
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: is a vital point, and I must not leave it
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: until I have thoroughly impressed it upon your mind. Given
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: the right materials, perfectly prepared, the principle of health will
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: positively build you a perfectly healthy body. And you cannot
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: prepare the materials perfectly in any other way that the
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: one I am describing. If you are to have perfect health,
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: you must eat in just this way you can, and
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: the doing of it is only a matter of a
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: little perseverance. What use for you to talk of mental
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: control unless you will govern yourself and so simple a
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: matter as seizing to bolt your food? What used to
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: talk of concentration unless you can keep your mind on
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: the act of eating it for so short a space
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: as fifteen or twenty minutes, especially with all the pleasures
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: of taste to help you go on and conquer. In
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: a few weeks or months, as the case may be,
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 1: you will find the habit of scientific eating becoming fixed,
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: and soon you will be in so splendid a condition
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: mentally and physically that nothing would induce you to return
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: to the bad old way. We have seen that if
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 1: a man will think only thoughts at perfect health, his
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: internal functions will be performed in a healthy manner. And
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: we have seen that in order to think thoughts of health,
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: man must perform the voluntary functions in a healthy manner.
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: The most important of the voluntary functions is that of eating,
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: and we see so far no especial difficulty in eating
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: in a perfectly healthy way. I will here summarize the
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: instructions as to when to eat, what to eat, and
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: how to eat, with the reasons therefore, never eat until
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: you haven't earned hunger, no matter how long you go
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: without food. This is based on the fact that whatever
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: food is needed in the system, if there is power
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: to digest it, the subconscious mind announces the need by
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: the sensation of hunger. Learn to distinguish between genuine hunger
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: and the nine and craving sensations caused by unnatural appetite.
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: Hunger is never a disagreeable feeling accompanied by weakness, faintness,
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: or nying feelings at the stomach. It is a pleasant,
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: anticipatory desire for food and is felt mostly in the
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: mouth and throat. It does not come at certain hours
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: or at stated intervals. It only comes when the suncutous
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: mine is ready to receive, digest, and assimilate food. Eat
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: whatever food you want, making your selection from the staples
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: in general use in the zone in which you live.
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 1: The supreme intelligence has guided man to the selection of
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: these foods, and they are the right ones for all.
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: I am referring, of course, to the foods which are
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: taken to satisfy hunger, not to those which have been
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 1: contrived merely to gratify appetite or perverted taste. The instinct
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 1: which has guided the masses of men to make use
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: of the great staples of food to satisfy their hunger
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: is a divine one. God has made no mistake. If
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: you eat these foods, you will not go wrong. Eat
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: your food with cheerful confidence and get all the pleasure
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: that is to be had from the taste of every mouthful.
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: Chew each morsel to a liquid, keeping your attention fixed
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 1: on the adjoinment of the process. This is the only
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: way to eat in a perfectly complete and successful manner.
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: And when anything is done in a completely successful manner,
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: the general result cannot be a failure. In the attainment
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 1: of health, the law is the same as in the
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: attainment of riches. If you make each act a success
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: in itself, the sum of all your acts must be
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: a success. When you eat in the mental attitude I
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: have described, and in the manner I have described, nothing
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: can be added to the process. It is done in
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: a perfect manner, and it is successfully done. And if
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: eating is successfully done, digestion, assimilation, and the building of
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 1: a healthy body are successfully begun. We next take up
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: the question of the quantity of food required, hunger and appetites.
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: It is very easy to find the correct answer to
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: the question how much shall I eat? You are never
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: to eat until you have an earned hunger, and you
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: are to stop eating the instant you begin to feel
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: that your hunger is abating. Never gorge yourself, Never eat
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  Speaker 1: to repletion. When you begin to feel that your hunger
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: is satisfied, know that you have enough. For Until you
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 1: have enough, you will continue to feel the sensation of hunger.
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  Speaker 1: If you eat as directed in the last chapter, it
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: is probable that you will begin to feel satisfied before
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: you have taken half your usual amount. But stop there
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: all the same, no matter how delightfully attracted the dessert,
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: or how tempting the pie or pudding, do not eat
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: a mouthful of it if you find that your hunger
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: has been in the least degree assuaged by the other
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: foods you have taken. Whatever you eat after your hunger
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: begins to abate is taken to gratify taste and appetite,
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: not hunger, and is not called for by nature at all.
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: It is therefore excess mere debakery, and it cannot fail
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: to work mischief. This is a point you will need
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: to watch with nice discrimination, for the habit of eating
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: purely for sensual gratification is very deeply rooted with most
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: of us. The usual dessert of sweet and tempting foods
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: is prepared solely with a view to inducing people to
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: eat after hunger has been satisfied, and all the effects
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: are evil. It is not the pie and cake or
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 1: unwholesome foods. They are usually perfectly wholesome, if eaten to
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: satisfy hunger and not to gratify appetite. If you want pie, cake, pastry,
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: or puddings, it is better to begin your meal with them,
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: finishing with the plainer and less tasty foods. You will find, however,
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: that if you eat as directed in the preceding chapters,
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: the plainest food will soon come to taste a kingly
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: fair to you, for your sense of taste, like all
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: your other senses, will become so acute with the general
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: improvement in your condition, that you will find new delights
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: in common things. No glutton ever enjoyed a meal like
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: the man who eats for hunger only, who gets the
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 1: most out of every mouthful, and who stops on the
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: instant that he feels the edge taken from his hunger.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: The first intimation that hunger is abating is the signal
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: from the subconscious mind that it is time to quit.
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: The average person who takes up this plan a living
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: will be greatly surprised to learn how little food is
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: really required to keep the body in perfect condition. The
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: amount depends upon the work, upon how much muscular exercise
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: is taken, and upon the extent to which the person
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: is exposed to cold. The wood chopper who goes into
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: the forest in the winter time and swings his axe
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: all day can eat eat two full meals, but the
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: brain worker who sits all day on a chair and
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: a warm room does not need one third, and often
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: not one tenth as much. Most wood choppers eat two
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: or three times as much, and most brain workers from
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: three to ten times as much as nature calls for,
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: and the elimination of this vast amount of surplus rubbish
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: from their systems is a tax on vital power. The
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: average person who takes up this plan a living will
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: be greatly surprised to learn how little food is really
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: required to keep the body in perfect condition. The amount
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 1: depends upon the work, upon how much muscular exercise is taken,
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: and upon the extent to which the person is exposed
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: to cold. The wood chopper who goes into the forest
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: in the winter time and swings his axe all day
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: can eat two full meals, but the brain worker who
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: sits all day on a chair in a warm room
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: does not need one third, and often not one tenth
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: as much. Most wood choppers eat two or three times
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: as much, and most brain workers from three to ten
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: times as much as nature calls for, and the elimination
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: of this vast amount of surplus rubbish from their systems
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: is a tax on vital power, which in time depletes
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 1: their energy and leaves them an easy prey to so
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: called disease. Get all possible enjoyment out of the taste
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 1: of your food, but never eat anything merely because it
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: tastes good. And on the instant that you feel that
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: your hunger is less keen, stop eating. If you will
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: consider for a moment, you will see that there is
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: positively no other way for you to settle these various
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: food questions. Then by adopting the plan here laid down
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: for you. As to the proper time to eat, there
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: is no other way to decide than to say that
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: you should eat whenever you have an earned hunger. It
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: is a self evident proposition that that it is the
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 1: right time to eat, and that any other is a
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: wrong time to eat. As to what to eat, the
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: eternal wisdom has decided that the massive of men shall
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 1: eat the staple products of the zones in which they live,
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: the staple foods of your particular zone are the right
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: foods for you. And the internal wisdom working in and
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: through the minds of the masses of men, has taught
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: them how best to prepare these foods, by cooking and otherwise.
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: And as to how to eat, you know that you
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: must chew your food. And if it must be chewed,
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 1: then reason tells us that the more thorough and perfectly operation,
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 1: the better. I repeat that success in anything is attained
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: by making each separate act a success in itself. If
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: you make each action, however small and unimportant, a thoroughly
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 1: successful action, your day's work as a whole cannot result
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: in failure. If you make the actions of each day successful,
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: the sum total of your life cannot be failure. A
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: great success is the result of doing a large number
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: of little things, and doing each one in a perfectly
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: successful way. Thought is a healthy thought, and if every
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: action of your life is performed in a healthy way,
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: you must soon attain to perfect health. It is impossible
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: to devise a way in which you can perform the
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: act of eating more successfully and in a manner more
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: in accord with the laws of life than by chewing
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 1: every mouthful to a liquid, enjoying the taste fully and
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: keeping a cheerful confidence the while nothing can be added
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: to make the process more successful, while if anything be subtracted,
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: the process will not be a completely healthy one. In
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: the matter of how much to eat, you will also
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: see that there could be no other guide, so natural,
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: so safe, and so reliable as the one I have prescribed.
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: To stop eating on the instant you feel that your
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: hunger begins to abate. The subconscious mind may be trusted
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: with implicit reliance to inform us when food is needed,
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 1: and it may be trusted as implicitly to inform us
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: when the need has been supplied. If all food is
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: eaten for hunger, and no food is taken merely to
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 1: gratify taste, you will never eat too much, And if
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: you eat whenever you have an earned hunger, you will
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: always eat enough. By reading carefully the summing up in
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: the following chapter, you will see that the requirements for
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 1: eating in a perfectly healthy way are really very few
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: and simple. The matter of drinking in a natural way
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: may be dismissed here with a very few words. If
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: you wish to be exactly and rigidly scientific drink nothing
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 1: but water. Drink only when you are thirsty. Drink whenever
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 1: you are thirsty, and stop as soon as you feel
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: that your thirst begins to abate. But if you are
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 1: living rightly in regard to eating, it will not be
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 1: necessary to practice asceticism or great self denial. In the
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: matter of drinking. You can take an occasional cup of
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: weak coffee without harm. You can, to a reasonable extent,
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: follow the customs of those around you. Do not get
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: the soda fountain habit. Do not drink merely to tickle
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 1: your palate with sweet liquids. Be sure that you take
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: a drink of water whenever you feel thirst. Never be
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: too lazy, too indifferent, or too busy to get a
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 1: drink of water when you feel the least thirst. If
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: you obey this rule, you will have little inclination to
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: take strange and unnatural drinks. Drink only to satisfy thirst.
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: Drink whenever you feel thirst, and stop drinking as soon
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: as you feel thirst abating. That is the perfectly healthy
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: way to supply the body with the necessary fluid material
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: for its internal processes. In a nutshell, there is a
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 1: cosmic life which permeates penetrates and fills the interspaces of
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: the universe, being in and through all things. This life
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: is not merely a vibration or form of energy. It
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: is a living substance. All things are made from it.
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: It is all and in all. This substance thinks, and
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 1: it assumes the form of that which it thinks about.
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 1: The thought of a form in this substance creates the form.
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 1: The thought of emotion institutes the motion. The visible universe,
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: with all its forms and motions, exists because it is
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: in the thought of original substance. Man is a form
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: of original substance and can think original thoughts, and within himself.
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 1: Man's thoughts have controlling or formative power. The thought of
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: a condition produces that condition. The thought of emotion institutes
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: that motion. So long as man thinks of the conditions
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 1: and motions of disease, so long will the conditions and
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: motions of disease exist within him. If man will think
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 1: only of perfect health, the principle of health within him
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 1: will maintain normal conditions. To be well, man must form
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: a conception of perfect health and hold thoughts that's harmonious
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: with that conception. As regards himself and all things He
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: must think only of healthy conditions and functioning. He must
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: not permit a thought of unhealthy or abnormal conditions or
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 1: functioning to find lodgment in his mind at any time.
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 1: In order to think only of healthy conditions and functioning,
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: man must perform the voluntary acts of life in a
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: perfectly healthy way. He cannot think perfect health so long
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: as he knows that he is living in a wrong
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: or unhealthy way, or even so long as he has
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 1: doubts as to whether or not he is living in
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 1: a healthy way. Man cannot think thoughts of perfect health
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 1: while his voluntary functions are performed in the manner of
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 1: one who is sick. The voluntary functions of life are eating, drinking, breathing,
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 1: and sleeping. When man thinks only of healthy conditions and
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: functioning and performs these externals in a perfectly healthy manner,
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 1: he must have perfect health. In eating, man must learn
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: to be guided by his hunger. He must distinguish between
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: hunger and appetite, and between hunger and the cravings of habit.
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 1: He must never eat unless he feels an earned hunger.
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 1: He must learn that genuine hunger is never present after
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 1: natural sleep, and that the demand for an early morning
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 1: meal is purely a matter of habit and appetite, and
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 1: he must not begin his day by eating in violation
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 1: of natural law. He must wait until he has an
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 1: earned hunger, which in most cases will make his first
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 1: meal come at about the noon hour. No matter what
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 1: is condition, vocation, or circumstances, he must make it his
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 1: rule not to eat until he has an earned hunger.
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 1: And he may remember that it is far better to
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 1: fast for several hours after he has become hungry than
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 1: to eat before he begins to feel hunger. It will
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: not hurt you to go hungry for a few hours,
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: even though you are working hard, but it will hurt
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 1: you to fill your stomach when you are not hungry,
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 1: whether you are working or not. If you never eat
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 1: until you have an earned hunger, you may be certain that,
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 1: in so far as the time of eating is concerned,
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: you are proceeding in a perfectly healthy way. This is
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: a self evident proposition as to what he shall eat.
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 1: Man must be guided by that intelligence which has arranged
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: that the people of any given portion of the Earth's
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 1: surface must live on the staple products of the zone
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 1: which they inhabit. Have faith in God, and ignore food
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 1: science of every kind. Do not pay the slightest attention
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 1: to the controversies as to the relative merits of cooked
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 1: and raw foods, of vegetables and meats, or as to
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 1: your need for carbohydrates and proteins. Eat only when you
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 1: have an earned hunger, and then take the common foods
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 1: of the masses of the people in the zone in
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: which you live, and have perfect confidence that the results
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: will be good. They will be. Do not seek for luxuries,
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 1: or for things imported or fixed up to tempt the taste.
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: Stick to the plain solids, and when these do not
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 1: taste good, fast until they do. Do not seek for
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: light foods, for easily digestible or healthy foods. Eat what
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 1: the farmers and working men eat. Then you will be
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 1: functioning in a perfectly healthy manner, so far as what
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 1: to eat is concerned. I repeat, if you have no
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 1: hunger or taste for the plain foods, do not eat
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 1: at all. Wait until hunger comes, Go without eating until
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 1: the plainest food tastes good to you, and then begin
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: your meal with what you like best. In deciding how
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: to eat, man must be guided by reason. We can
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: see that the abnormal states of hurry and worry produced
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 1: by wrong thinking about business and similar things have led
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: us to form the habit of eating too fast and
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 1: chewing too little. Reason tells us that food should be chewed,
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 1: and that the more thoroughly it is chewed, the better
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 1: it is prepared for the chemistry of digestion. Furthermore, we
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 1: can see that the man who eats slowly and chooses
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 1: food to a liquid, keeping his mind on the process
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 1: and giving it his undivided attention, will enjoy more of
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: the pleasure of taste than he who bolts his food
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 1: with his mind on something else to eat. In a
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 1: perfectly healthy manner, man must concentrate his attention on the
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 1: act with cheerful enjoyment and confidence. He must taste his food,
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 1: and he must reduce each mouthful to a liquid before
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 1: swallowing it. The foregoing instructions, if followed, make the function
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: of eating completely perfect. Nothing can be added as to what, when,
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 1: and how. In the matter of how much to eat,
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 1: man must be guided by the same inward intelligence or
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 1: principle of health, which tells him when food is wanted.
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 1: He must stop eating in the moment that he feels
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 1: hunger abating. He must not eat beyond this point to
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: gratify taste. If he ceases to eat in the instant
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 1: that the inward demand for food ceases, he will never overeat,
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 1: and the function of supplying the body with food will
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 1: be performed in a perfectly healthy, healthy manner. The matter
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 1: of eating naturally is a very simple one. There is
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: nothing in all the foregoing that cannot be easily practiced
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 1: by anyone. This method, put in practice will infallibly result
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 1: in perfect digestion and assimilation, and all anxiety and careful
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: thought concerning the matter can at once be dropped from
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 1: the mind. Whenever you have an earned hunger, eat with
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 1: thankfulness what is set before you, chewing each mouthful to
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 1: a liquid, and stopping when you feel the edge taken
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 1: from your hunger. The importance of the mental attitude is
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 1: sufficient to justify an additional word. While you are eating,
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 1: as at all other times, think only of healthy conditions
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 1: and normal functioning. Enjoy what you eat. If you carry
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 1: on a conversation at the table, talk of the goodness
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 1: of the food and of the pleasure it is giving you.
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 1: Never mention that you dislike this or that speak only
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 1: of those things which you like. Never discuss the wholesomeness
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 1: or unwholesomeness of foods. Never mention or think of unwholesomeness
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 1: at all. If there is anything on the table for
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 1: which you do not care, pass it by in silence
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: or with a word of commendation. Never criticize or object
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 1: to anything. Eat your food with gladness and with singleness
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: of heart, praising God in giving thanks. Let your watchword
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 1: be perseverance. Whenever you fall into the old way of
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 1: hasty eating or of wrong thought and speech, bring yourself
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 1: up short and begin again. It is one of the
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 1: most vital importance to you that you should be a
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 1: self controlling and self directing person, and you can never
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: hope to become so unless you can master yourself in
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 1: so simple and fundamental a matter as the manner and
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 1: method of your eating. If you cannot control yourself in this,
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 1: you cannot control yourself in anything that will be worth while.
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: On the other hand, if you carry out the foregoing instructions,
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 1: you may rest in the assurance that in so far
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 1: as right thinking and right eating or concerned, you are
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 1: living in a perfectly scientific way. And you may also
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 1: be assured that if you practice what is prescribed in
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 1: the following chapters, you will quickly build your body into
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 1: a condition of perfect health breathing. The function of breathing
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 1: is a vital one, and it immediately concerns the continuance
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: of life. We can live many hours without sleeping, and
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: many days without eating or drinking, but only a few
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 1: minutes without breathing. The act of breathing is involuntary, but
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 1: the manner of it, and the provision of the proper
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 1: conditions for its healthy performance, falls within the scope of volition.
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 1: Man will continue to breathe involuntarily, but he can voluntarily
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 1: determine what he shall breathe, and how deeply and thoroughly
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 1: he shall breathe, And he can, of his own volition
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 1: keep the physical mechanism in condition for the perfect performance
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 1: of the function. It is essential, if you wish to
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: breathe in a perfectly healthy way, that the physical machinery
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: used in the act should be kept in good condition.
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 1: You must keep your spine moderately straight, and the muscles
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 1: of your chest must be flexible and free in action.
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 1: You cannot breathe in the right way if your shoulders
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 1: are greatly stooped forward and your chest hollow and rigid.
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 1: Sitting or standing at work in a slightly stooping position
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 1: tends to produce hollow chest. So does lifting heavy weights
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 1: or light weights. The tendency of work of almost all
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 1: kinds is to pull the shoulders forward, curve the spine,
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 1: and flatten the chest. And if the chest is greatly flattened,
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: full and deep breathing becomes impossible, and perfect health is
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: out of the question. Various gymnastic exercises having devised to
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 1: counteract the effect of stooping while at work, such as
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 1: hanging by the hands from a swing or trapeze bar,
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 1: or sitting on a chair with the feet under some
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 1: heavy article of furniture and bending backward until the head
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 1: touches the floor, and so on. All these are good
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 1: enough in their way. The very few people will follow
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 1: them long enough and regularly enough to accomplish any real
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 1: gain in physique. The taking of health exercises of any
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 1: kind is burdensome and unnecessary. There's a more natural, simpler,
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 1: and much better way. The better way is to keep
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: yourself straight and to breathe deeply. Let your mental conception
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 1: of yourself be that you're a perfectly straight person. And
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 1: whenever the matter comes to your mind, be sure that
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 1: you instantly expand your chest, throw back your shoulders, and
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 1: straighten up. Whenever you do this, slowly draw in your
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 1: breath until you fill your lungs to their utmost capacity.
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: Crowd in all the air you possibly can, and while
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 1: holding it for an instant in the lungs, throw your
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 1: shoulders still further back and stretch your chest. At the
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 1: same time, try to pull your spine forward between the shoulders.
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: Then let the air go easily. This is one great
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: exercise for keeping the chest full, flexible, and in good condition.
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 1: Straighten up, feel your lungs full, stretch your chest, and
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 1: straighten your spine, and exhale easily. In this exercise you
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: must repeat in season and out of season, at all
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 1: times and in all places, until you form a habit
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 1: of doing it. You can easily do so whenever you
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 1: step out of doors into the fresh, pure air. Breathe
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 1: when you are at work and think of yourself and
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 1: your position. Breathe when you are in company and are
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 1: reminded of the matter. Breathe when you are awake in
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 1: the night. Breathe no matter where you are or what
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 1: you are doing. Whenever the idea comes to your mind,
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 1: Straighten up and breathe. If you walk to and from
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 1: your work, take the exercise all the way. It will
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 1: soon become a delight to you. You will keep it
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 1: up not for the sake of health, but as a
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 1: matter of pleasure. Do not consider this a health exercise.
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 1: Never take health exercises or do gymnastics to make you well.
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: To do so is to recognize sickness as a present
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: fact or as a possibility, which is precisely what you
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 1: must not do. The people who are always taking exercises
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 1: for their health are always thinking about being sick. It
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 1: ought to be a matter of pride with you to
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 1: keep your spine straight and strong, as much so as
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 1: it is to keep your face clean, keep your spine
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 1: straight and your chest full and flexible, for the same
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 1: reason that you keep your hands clean and your nails manicured.
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 1: Because it is slovenly to do otherwise, do it without
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 1: a thought of sickness present or possible. You must either
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 1: be crooked and unsightly, or you must be straight. And
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: if you are straight, your breathing will take care of itself.
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: You will find the matter of health exercises referred to
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: again in a future chapter. It is essential, however, that
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 1: you should breathe air. It appears to be the intention
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: of nature that the lung should receive air containing its
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: regular percentage of oxygen, and not greatly contaminated by other
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 1: gases or by filth of any kind. Do not allow
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 1: yourself to think that you are compelled to live or
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 1: work where the air is not fit to breathe. If
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 1: your house cannot be properly ventilated, move And if you're
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 1: employed where the air is bad, get another job. You
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 1: can by practicing the methods given in the preceding volume
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 1: of this series, The Science of Getting Rich. If no
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 1: one would consent to work in bad air, employers would
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 1: speedily see to it that all workrooms were properly ventilated.
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 1: The worst air is that from which the oxygen has
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 1: been exhausted by breathing, as that of churches and theaters,
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 1: where crowds of people congregate and the outlet and supply
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 1: of air are poor. Next to this is air containing
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 1: other gases than oxygen and hydrogen, sewer gas, and the
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 1: effluvium from decaying things. Air that is heavily charged with
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 1: dust or particles of organic matter may be endured better
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 1: than any of these. Small particles of organic mather other
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 1: than food are generally thrown off from the lungs, but
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 1: gases go into the blood. I speak advisedly when I
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 1: say other than food, air is largely a food. It
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 1: is the most thoroughly a live thing we take into
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 1: the body. Every breath carries in millions of microbes, many
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 1: of which are assimilated. The odors from earth, grass, tree, flour, plant,
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 1: and from cooking foods are found in themselves. They are
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 1: my new particles of the substances from which they come,
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 1: and are often so attenuated that they pass directly from
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 1: the lungs into the blood and are assimilated without digestion,
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 1: and the atmosphere is permeated with the one original substance,
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 1: which is life itself. Consciously recognize this. Whenever you think
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 1: of your breathing and think that you are breathing in life,
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 1: you really are. And conscious recognition helps the process. See
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 1: to it that you do not breathe air containing poison gases,
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 1: and that you do not rebreathe the air which has
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 1: been used by yourself or others. That is all there
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 1: is to the matter of breathing correctly, keep your spine
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 1: straight and your chest flexible, and breathe pure error, recognizing
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 1: with thankfulness the fact that you breathe in the eternal
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 1: life that is not difficult. And beyond these things, give
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 1: little thought to your breathing, except to thank God that
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 1: you have learned how to do it perfectly. Sleep. Vital
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 1: power is renewed in sleep. Every living thing sleeps, men, animals, reptiles, fish,
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 1: and insects sleep, and even plants have regular periods of slumber.
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 1: And this is because it is in sleep that we
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 1: come in such contact with the principle of life and
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 1: nature that our own lives may be renewed. It is
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 1: in sleep that the brain of man is recharged with
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 1: vital energy, and the principle of health within him is
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 1: given new strength. It is of the first importance, then,
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 1: that we should sleep in a natural, normal, and perfectly
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 1: healthy manner. Studying sleep, we note that the breathing is
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 1: much deeper and more forcible and rhythmic than in the
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 1: waking state. Much more error is inspired when asleep than
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 1: when awake, and this tells us that the principle of
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 1: health requires large quantities of some element in the atmosphere
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 1: for the process of renewal. If you would surround sleep
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 1: with natural conditions, then the first step is to see
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 1: that you have an unlimited supply of fresh and pure
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 1: air to breathe. Physicians have found that sleeping in the
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 1: pure air of out of doors is very efficacious in
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 1: the treatment of pulmonary troubles and taking in connection with
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 1: the way of living and thinking prescribed in this book,
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 1: you will find that it is just as efficacious in
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 1: curing every other sort of trouble. Do not take any
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 1: halfway measures in this matter of securing pure air while
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 1: you sleep. Ventilate your bedroom thoroughly, so thoroughly that it
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 1: will be practically the same as sleeping out of doors.
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 1: Have a door or window open wide. Have one open
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 1: on each side of the room, if possible. If you
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 1: cannot have a good draft of air across the room,
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 1: pull the head of your bed close to the open window,
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 1: so that the air from without may come fully into
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: your face, no matter how cold or unpleasant the weather.
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 1: Have a window open and open wide, and try to
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 1: get a circulation of pure air through the room. Pile
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 1: on the bedclothes if necessary to keep you warm, but
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 1: have an unlimited supply of fresh air from out of doors.
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 1: This is the first grate requisite for healthy sleep. The
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 1: brain and nerve centers cannot be thoroughly vitalized if you
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 1: sleep in dead or stagnant air. You must have the
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 1: living atmosphere vital with nature's principle of life. I repeat,
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 1: do not make any compromise in this matter. Ventilate your
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 1: sleeping room completely and see that there is a circulation
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 1: of outdoor air through it while you sleep. You are
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 1: not sleeping in a perfectly healthy way. If you shut
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 1: the doors and windows of your sleeping room, whether in
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 1: winter or summer, have fresh air. If you are where
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 1: there is no fresh air, move If your bedroom cannot
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 1: be ventilated, get into another house. Next in importance is
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 1: the mental attitude in which you go to sleep. It
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 1: is well to sleep intelligently, purposefully, knowing what you do
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 1: it for. Lie down thinking that sleep is an infallible vitalizer.
• 2:11:53
  Speaker 1: A go to sleep with the confident faith that your
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 1: strength is to be renewed, that you will awake full
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 1: of vitality and health. Put purpose into your sleep as
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 1: you do into your eating. Give the matter your attention
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 1: for a few minutes as you go to rest, do
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 1: not seek your couch with a discouraged or depressed feeling.
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 1: Go there joyously to be made whole. Do not forget
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 1: the exercise of gratitude in going to sleep. Before you
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 1: close your eyes, give thanks to God for having shown
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 1: you the way to perfect health, and go to sleep
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 1: with this grateful thought uppermost in your mind. At bedtime,
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 1: prayer of thanksgiving is a mighty good thing. It puts
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 1: the principle of health within you into communication with its source,
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 1: from which it is to receive new power. While you
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 1: are in the silence of unconsciousness, you may see that
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 1: the requirements for perfectly healthy sleep are not difficult. First
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 1: to see that you breathe pure air from out of
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 1: doors while you sleep, and second to put the within
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 1: into touch with the living substance by a few minutes
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 1: a grateful meditation as you go to bed, observe these requirements,
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 1: go to sleep in a thankful and confident frame of mind,
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 1: and all will be well. If you have insomnia, do
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 1: not let it worry you. While you lie awake, form
• 2:13:13
  Speaker 1: your conception of health. Meditate with thankfulness on the abundant
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 1: life which is yours. Breathe and feel perfectly confident that
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 1: you will sleep in due time, and you will. Insomnia,
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 1: like every other ailment, must give way before the principle
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 1: of health aroused to full constructive activity. By the course
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 1: of thought and action herein described, the reader will now
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 1: comprehend that it is not at all burdensome or disagreeable
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 1: to perform the voluntary functions of life in a perfectly
• 2:13:46
  Speaker 1: healthy way. The perfectly healthy way is the easiest, simplest,
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 1: most natural, and most pleasant way. The cultivation of health
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 1: is not a work of art, difficulty or strenuous labor.
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 1: You have only to lay us artificial observances of every kind,
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 1: and eat, drink, breathe, and sleep in the most natural
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 1: and delightful way. And if you do this, thinking health
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 1: and only health, you will certainly be well. Supplementary instructions
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 1: in forming a conception of health, it is necessary to
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 1: think of the manner in which you would live and
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 1: work if you were perfectly well and very strong, to
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 1: imagine yourself doing things in the way of a perfectly
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 1: well and very strong person. Until you have a fairly
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 1: good conception of what you would be if you were well,
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 1: then take a mental and physical attitude in harmony with
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 1: this conception, and do not depart from this attitude. You
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 1: must unify yourself in thought with the thing you desire,
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 1: and whatever state or condition you unify with yourself in
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 1: thought will soon become unified with you in bye. The
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 1: scientific way is to sever relations with everything you do
• 2:15:05
  Speaker 1: not want, and to enter into relations with everything you
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 1: do want. Form a conception of perfect health, and relate
• 2:15:12
  Speaker 1: yourself to this conception in word, act, and attitude. Guard
• 2:15:18
  Speaker 1: your speech. Make every word harmonize with the conception of
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 1: perfect health. Never complain. Never say things like these, I
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 1: did not sleep well last night, I have a pain
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 1: in my side, I do not feel at all well today,
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 1: and so on. Say I am looking forward to a
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 1: good night's sleep tonight. I can see that I progress rapidly,
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 1: and things of similar meaning. In so far as everything
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 1: which is connected with disease is concerned, your way is
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 1: to forget it. And in so far as everything which
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 1: is connected with health is concerned, your way is to
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 1: unify yourself with it in thought and speech. This is
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 1: the whole thing in a nutshell. Make yourself one with
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 1: health in thought, word, and action, and do not connect
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 1: yourself with sickness, either by thought, word, or action. Do
• 2:16:16
  Speaker 1: not read doctor books, or medical literature, or the literature
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 1: of those whose theories conflict with those herein set forth.
• 2:16:25
  Speaker 1: To do so will certainly undermine your faith in the
• 2:16:28
  Speaker 1: way of living upon which you have entered, and cause
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 1: you to again come into mental relations with disease. This
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 1: book really gives you all that is required. Nothing essential
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 1: has been omitted, and practically all the superfluous has been eliminated.
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 1: The science of being well is an exact science, like arithmetic.
• 2:16:48
  Speaker 1: Nothing can be added to the fundamental principles, and if
• 2:16:51
  Speaker 1: anything be taken from them, a failure will result. If
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 1: you follow strictly the way of living prescribed in this book,
• 2:16:58
  Speaker 1: you will be well. And you certainly can follow this
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 1: way both in thought and action. Relate not only yourself, but,
• 2:17:07
  Speaker 1: so far as possible, all others in your thoughts to
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 1: perfect health. Do not sympathize with people when they complain,
• 2:17:15
  Speaker 1: or even when they are sick and suffering. Turn their
• 2:17:18
  Speaker 1: thoughts into a constructive channel. If you can, do all
• 2:17:21
  Speaker 1: you can for their relief, but do it with the
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 1: health thought in your mind. Do not let people tell
• 2:17:27
  Speaker 1: their woes and catalog their symptoms to you, turn the
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 1: conversation to some other subject, or excuse yourself and go.
• 2:17:35
  Speaker 1: Better be considered an unfeeling person than to have the
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 1: diseased thought forced upon you. When you are in company
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 1: of people whose conversational stock in trade is sickness and
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 1: kindred matters, ignore what they say and fall to offering
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 1: a mental prayer of gratitude for your perfect health. And
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 1: if that does not enable you to shout out their thoughts,
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 1: say good bye and leave them, no matter what they
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 1: think or say. Politeness does not require you to permit
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 1: yourself to be poisoned by diseased or perverted thought. When
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 1: we have a few more hundred of thousands of enlightened
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 1: thinkers who will not stay where people complain and talk sickness,
• 2:18:15
  Speaker 1: the world will advance rapidly toward health. When you let
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 1: people talk to you of sickness, you assist them to
• 2:18:21
  Speaker 1: increase and multiply sickness. What shall I do when I
• 2:18:24
  Speaker 1: am in pain? Can one be in actual physical suffering
• 2:18:27
  Speaker 1: and still think only thoughts of health? Yes, do not
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 1: resist pain, recognize that it is a good thing. Pain
• 2:18:35
  Speaker 1: is caused by an effort of the principle of health
• 2:18:37
  Speaker 1: to overcome some unnatural condition. This you must know and feel.
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 1: When you have a pain, think that a process of
• 2:18:45
  Speaker 1: healing is going on to the affected part, and mentally
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 1: assist and cooperate with it. Put yourself in full mental
• 2:18:52
  Speaker 1: harmony with the power which is causing the pain. Assist it,
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 1: help it along. Do not hesitate when necessary, to use
• 2:19:01
  Speaker 1: hot fomentations and similar means to further the good work
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 1: which is going on. If the pain is severe, lie
• 2:19:09
  Speaker 1: down and give your mind to the work of quietly
• 2:19:12
  Speaker 1: and easily co operating with the force which is at
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 1: work for your good. This is the time to exercise
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 1: gratitude and faith. Be thankful for the power of health
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 1: which is causing the pain, and be certain that the
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 1: pain will cease as soon as a good work is done.
• 2:19:29
  Speaker 1: Fix your thoughts with confidence on the principle of health,
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 1: which is making such conditions within you that pain will
• 2:19:35
  Speaker 1: soon be unnecessary. You will be surprised to find how
• 2:19:39
  Speaker 1: easily you can conquer pain. And after you have lived
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 1: for a time in this scientific way, pains and aches
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 1: will be things unknown to you. What shall I do
• 2:19:49
  Speaker 1: when I am too weak for my work? Shall I
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 1: drive myself beyond my strength, trusting in God to support me,
• 2:19:56
  Speaker 1: Shall I go on like the runner expecting a second wind?
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 1: No better not. When you begin to live in this way,
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 1: you will probably not be of normal strength, and you
• 2:20:06
  Speaker 1: will gradually pass from a low physical condition to a
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 1: higher one. If you relate yourself mentally with health and strength,
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 1: and perform the voluntary functions of life in a perfectly
• 2:20:17
  Speaker 1: healthy manner, your strength will increase from day to day.
• 2:20:21
  Speaker 1: But for a time you may have days when your
• 2:20:23
  Speaker 1: strength is insufficient for the work you would like to do.
• 2:20:27
  Speaker 1: At such times, rest and exercise gratitude. Recognize the fact
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 1: that your strength is growing rapidly, and feel a deep
• 2:20:35
  Speaker 1: thankfulness to the living one from which it comes. Spend
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 1: an hour of weakness in thanksgiving, and rest with full
• 2:20:43
  Speaker 1: faith that great strength is at hand, and then get
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  Speaker 1: up and go on again. While you rest, do not
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  Speaker 1: think of your present weakness. Think of the strength that
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  Speaker 1: is coming. Never at any time allow yourself to think
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  Speaker 1: that you are giving way to weakness when you rest,
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  Speaker 1: as when you go to sleep, fix your mind on
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  Speaker 1: the principle of health, which is building you into complete strength.
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  Speaker 1: What shall I do about the great bugaboo which scares
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  Speaker 1: millions of people to death every year constipation do nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Read Horace Fletcher on the abz or our own nutrition,
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  Speaker 1: and get the full force of his explanation of the
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  Speaker 1: fact that when you live on this scientific plane, you
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  Speaker 1: need not, and indeed cannot, have an evacuation of the
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  Speaker 1: bowels every day, and that an operation in from once
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  Speaker 1: in three days to once in two weeks is quite
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  Speaker 1: sufficient for perfect health. The gross feeders who eat from
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  Speaker 1: three to ten times as much as can be utilized
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  Speaker 1: in their systems, have a great amount of waste to eliminate.
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  Speaker 1: But if you live in the manner we have described,
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  Speaker 1: it will be otherwise with you. If you eat only
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  Speaker 1: when you have an earned hunger, and chew every mouthful
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  Speaker 1: to a liquid, and if you stop eating the instant
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  Speaker 1: you begin to be conscious of an abatement of your hunger,
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  Speaker 1: you will so perfectly prepare your food for digestion and
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  Speaker 1: assimilation that practically all of it will be taken up
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  Speaker 1: by the absorbents, and there will be little, almost nothing
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  Speaker 1: remaining in the bowels to be excreted. If you are
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  Speaker 1: able to entirely banish from your memory all that you
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  Speaker 1: have read in doctor books and patent medicine advertisements. Concerning constipation,
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  Speaker 1: you need give the matter no further thought at all.
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  Speaker 1: The principle of health will take care of it. But
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  Speaker 1: if your mind has been filled with fear thought in
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  Speaker 1: regard to constipation, it may be well in the beginning
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  Speaker 1: for you to occasionally flush the colon with warm water.
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  Speaker 1: There is not the least need of doing it, except
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  Speaker 1: to make the process of your mental emancipation from fear
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  Speaker 1: a little easier. It may be worthwhile for that. And
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  Speaker 1: as soon as you see that you are making good progress,
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  Speaker 1: and that you have cut down your quantity of food
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  Speaker 1: and are really eating in the scientific way, dismiss constipation
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  Speaker 1: from your mind forever you have nothing more to do
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  Speaker 1: with it. Put your trust in that principle within you,
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  Speaker 1: which has the power to give you perfect health. Relate
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  Speaker 1: it by your reverent gratitude to the principle of life,
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  Speaker 1: which is all power, and go on your way rejoicing.
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  Speaker 1: What about exercise. Everyone is the better for a little
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  Speaker 1: all round use of the muscles every day, and the
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  Speaker 1: best way to get this is to do it by
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  Speaker 1: engaging in some form of play or amusement. Get your
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  Speaker 1: exercise in the natural way as recreation not as a
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  Speaker 1: forced stunt for health's sake alone. Ride a horse or
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  Speaker 1: a bicycle, play tennis or ten pins, or toss a ball.
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  Speaker 1: Have some avocation like gardening, in which you can spend
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  Speaker 1: an hour every day with pleasure and profit. There are
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  Speaker 1: a thousand ways in which you can get exercise enough
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  Speaker 1: to keep your body supple and your circulation good, and
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  Speaker 1: yet not fall into the rut of exercising for your health.
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  Speaker 1: Exercise for fun or profit. Exercise because you are too
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  Speaker 1: healthy to sit still, and not because you wish to
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  Speaker 1: become healthy or to remain so. Are long continued fast
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  Speaker 1: necessary seldom, if ever, the principle of health does not
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  Speaker 1: often require twenty thirty or forty days to get ready
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  Speaker 1: for action. Under normal conditions, hunger will come in much
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  Speaker 1: less time, in much long fast. The reason hunger does
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  Speaker 1: not come sooner is because it has been inhibited by
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  Speaker 1: the patient himself. He begins the fast with the fear,
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  Speaker 1: if not actually with the hope that it will be
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  Speaker 1: many days before hunger comes. The literature he has read
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  Speaker 1: on the subject has prepared him to expect a long fast,
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  Speaker 1: and he is grimly determined to go to a finish let.
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  Speaker 1: The time be as long as it will, and the
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  Speaker 1: subconscious mind, under the influence of powerful and positive suggestion,
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  Speaker 1: suspends hunger. When for any reason nature takes away your
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  Speaker 1: high unger, go cheerfully on with your usual work, and
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  Speaker 1: do not eat until she gives it back, no matter
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  Speaker 1: if it is two, three, ten days, or longer. You
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  Speaker 1: may be perfectly sure that when it is time for
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  Speaker 1: you to eat, you will be hungry. And if you
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  Speaker 1: are cheerfully confident, and keep your faith in health, you
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  Speaker 1: will suffer from no weakness or discomfort caused by abstinence.
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  Speaker 1: When you are not hungry, you will feel stronger, happier,
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  Speaker 1: and more comfortable. If you do not eat, then you
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  Speaker 1: will if you do eat, no matter how long the fast,
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  Speaker 1: And if you live in the scientific way described in
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  Speaker 1: this book, you will never have to take long fast.
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  Speaker 1: You will seldom miss a meal, and you will enjoy
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  Speaker 1: your meals more than ever before in your life. Get
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  Speaker 1: an earned hunger before you eat, and whenever you get
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  Speaker 1: an earned hunger, eat. A summary of the science of
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  Speaker 1: being well. Health is perfectly natural, functioning, normal living. There
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  Speaker 1: is a principle of life in the universe. It is
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  Speaker 1: the living substance from which all things are made. This
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  Speaker 1: living substance permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe.
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  Speaker 1: In its invisible state, it is in and through all forms,
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  Speaker 1: and yet all forms are made of it. To illustrate,
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  Speaker 1: suppose that a very fine and highly diffusible aqueous vapor
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  Speaker 1: should permeate and penetrate a block of ice. The ice
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  Speaker 1: is formed from living water and is living water in form,
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  Speaker 1: while the vapor is also living water unformed, permeating a
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  Speaker 1: form made from itself. This illustration will explain how living
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  Speaker 1: substance permeates all forms made from it. All life comes
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  Speaker 1: from it. It is all the life there is. The
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  Speaker 1: universal substance is a thinking substance and takes the form
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  Speaker 1: of its thoughts. The thought of a form held by
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  Speaker 1: it creates the form, and the thought of emotion causes
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  Speaker 1: the motion. It cannot help thinking, and so is forever creating,
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  Speaker 1: and it must move on toward fuller and more complete
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  Speaker 1: expression of itself. This means toward more complete life and
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  Speaker 1: more perfect functioning, and that means toward perfect health. The
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  Speaker 1: power of the living substance must always be exerted toward
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  Speaker 1: perfect health. It is a force in all things making
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  Speaker 1: for perfect functioning. All things are permeated by a power
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  Speaker 1: which makes for health. Man can relate himself to this
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  Speaker 1: power and ally himself with it. He can also separate
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  Speaker 1: himself from it in his thoughts. Man is a form
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  Speaker 1: of this living substance and has within him a principle
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  Speaker 1: of health. This principle of health, when in full constructive activity,
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  Speaker 1: causes all the involuntary functions of man's body to be
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  Speaker 1: perfectly performed. Man is a thinking substance permeating a visible body,
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  Speaker 1: and the processes of his body are controlled by his thought.
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  Speaker 1: When man thinks only thoughts of perfect health, the internal
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  Speaker 1: processes of his body will be those of perfect health.
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  Speaker 1: Man's first step toward perfect health must be to form
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  Speaker 1: a conception of himself as perfectly healthy and is doing
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  Speaker 1: all things in the way and manner of a perfectly
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  Speaker 1: healthy person. Having formed this conception, he must relate himself
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  Speaker 1: to it in all his thoughts and sever all thought
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  Speaker 1: relations with disease and weakness. If he does this, and
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  Speaker 1: thinks his thoughts of health with positive faith, man will
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  Speaker 1: cause the principle of health within him to become constructively
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  Speaker 1: active and to heal all his diseases. He can receive
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  Speaker 1: additional power from the universal principle of life by faith,
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  Speaker 1: and he can acquire faith by looking to this principle
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  Speaker 1: of life with reverent gratitude for the health it gives him.
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  Speaker 1: If man will consciously accept the health which is being
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  Speaker 1: continually given to him by the living substance, and if
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  Speaker 1: he will be duly grateful, therefore he will develop faith.
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  Speaker 1: Man cannot think only thoughts of perfect health unless he
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  Speaker 1: performs the voluntary functions of life in a perfectly healthy manner.
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  Speaker 1: These voluntary functions are eating, drinking, breathing, and sleeping. If
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  Speaker 1: man thinks only thoughts of health, has faith in health,
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  Speaker 1: and eats, drinks, breathes, and sleeps in a perfectly healthy way,
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  Speaker 1: he must have perfect health. Health is the result of
• 2:29:48
  Speaker 1: thinking and acting in a certain way, and if a
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  Speaker 1: sick man begins to think and act in this way,
• 2:29:54
  Speaker 1: the principle of health within him will come into constructive activity,
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  Speaker 1: and he fiel all his diseases. This principle of health
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  Speaker 1: is the same in all and is related to the
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  Speaker 1: life principle of the universe. It is able to heal
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  Speaker 1: every disease and will come into activity whenever man thinks
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  Speaker 1: and acts in accordance with the science of being well.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore every man can attain to perfect health.