In Tune with the Infinite; or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and PlentyTrine, Ralph Waldo
Religion
In Tune with the Infinite; or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty
Trine, Ralph Waldo
New Thought
To dwell upon the negative side is always destructive. This is true of
the body the same as it is true of all other things. The following
from one whose thorough training as a physician has been supplemented
by extensive study and observations along the lines of the powers of
the interior forces, are of special significance and value in this
connection: "We can never gain health by contemplating disease, any
more than we can reach perfection by dwelling upon imperfection, or
harmony through discord. We should keep a high ideal of health and
harmony constantly before the mind. . . .
"Never affirm or repeat about your health what you do not wish to be
true. Do not dwell upon your ailments, nor study your symptoms. Never
allow yourself to be convinced that you are not complete master of
yourself. Stoutly affirm your superiority over bodily ills, and do not
acknowledge yourself the slave of any inferior power. . . . I would
teach children early to build a strong barrier between themselves and
disease, by healthy habits of thought, high thinking, and purity of
life. I would teach them to expel all thoughts of death, all images of
disease, all discordant emotions, like hatred, malice, revenge, envy,
and sensuality, as they would banish a temptation to do evil. I would
teach them that bad food, bad drink, or bad air makes bad blood; that
bad blood makes bad tissue, and bad flesh bad morals. I would teach
them that healthy thoughts are as essential to healthy bodies as pure
thoughts to a clean life. I would teach them to cultivate a strong
will power, and to brace themselves against life's enemies in every
possible way. I would teach the sick to have hope, confidence, cheer.
Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our
possibilities. No man's success or health will ever reach beyond his
own confidence; as a rule, we erect our own barriers.
"Like produces like the universe through. Hatred, envy, malice,
jealousy, and revenge all have children. Every bad thought breeds
others, and each of these goes on and on, ever reproducing itself,
until our world is peopled with their offspring. The true physician
and parent of the future will not medicate the body with drugs so much
as the mind with principles. The coming mother will teach her child to
assuage the fever of anger, hatred, malice, with the great panacea of
the world,--Love. The coming physician will teach the people to
cultivate cheerfulness, good-will, and noble deeds for a health tonic
as well as a heart tonic; and that a merry heart doeth good like a
medicine."
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