How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its SatisfactionsCurry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)
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How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions
Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)
Hygiene; Physical education and training
Making a constant and careful study of himself he again began his life
as a teacher. He met with one with great knowledge of the human body,
one who had studied it from many points of view. He was surprised when
that expert said to him:--"Your dieting will not do you much good, that
is not your trouble. You do not sit right nor stand right, your chest is
too low, it not only cramps your breathing but what is still more
important, it cramps your stomach and all the other vital organs." The
scientist eagerly asked what he could do to recover his strength, and he
received a few valuable suggestions, which he followed, and in six
months he was stronger than ever.
As a student and teacher of human expression for nearly forty years, I
have found most important connections between man's mind, body and
voice. The right use of the voice is next to impossible unless a man
stands properly. There are certain inter-relations between the simple
conditions and actions of the body, and the conditions and the true use
of the voice are determined by the way a man thinks and feels.
A man must not only have right feeling but must express it. He cannot
get right expression without right thinking. Health, itself, is one of
man's mental and emotional conditions.
This book is an endeavor to study human unfoldment from an all-sided
observation of the whole nature of man. Man is a unity, and an endeavor
to establish health from a mere material point of view has always
failed. Expression is a study from a higher point of view. The organism
is studied from the point of view of its mental function. Expression
implies the subordination of the body to the actions of the mind. This
gives a truer point of view for an all-sided human development.
It also implies a study of the especial significance and use of certain
primary acts of our lives:--such as the way we wake up in the morning
and certain movements which are taken at that time by animals and normal
beings. The stretches, yawnings and breathings, peculiar to that moment,
are never lost by animals, but human beings, with their higher
possibilities but greater power of perversion, lose the significance
and helpfulness of this primarily instinctive movement.
The study of expression also reveals to us that certain emotions are
normal or positive and develop health and strength, while certain other
emotions are negative and destructive of vitality as well as of manhood.
We also find that the emotions we choose to express become our own and,
therefore, we should choose normal conditions of mind and emotions, and
express these consciously and deliberately, especially at the most
negative time in the morning, when we first wake up.
Expression is one of the necessary elements of human development. We
control emotions and control their expression. We welcome noble thoughts
or noble feelings, and that which we welcome we become.
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