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