The Science of Being WellWattles, W. D. (Wallace Delois)
Science
The Science of Being Well
Wattles, W. D. (Wallace Delois)
Health; Mental healing; New Thought
Next in importance is the mental attitude in which you go to sleep. It
is well to sleep intelligently, purposefully, knowing what you do it
for. Lie down thinking that sleep is an infallible vitalizer, and go to
sleep with a confident faith that your strength is to be renewed; that
you will awake full of vitality and health. Put purpose into your sleep
as you do into your eating; give the matter your attention for a few
minutes, as you go to rest. Do not seek your couch with a discouraged or
depressed feeling; go there joyously, to be made whole. Do not forget
the exercise of gratitude in going to sleep; before you close your eyes,
give thanks to God for having shown you the way to perfect health, and
go to sleep with this grateful thought uppermost in your mind. A bedtime
prayer of thanksgiving is a mighty good thing; it puts the Principle of
Health within you into communication with its source, from which it is
to receive new power while you are in the silence of unconsciousness.
You may see that the requirements for perfectly healthy sleep are not
difficult. First, to see that you breathe pure air from out of doors
while you sleep; and, second, to put the Within into touch with the
Living Substance by a few minutes of grateful meditation as you go to
bed. Observe these requirements, go to sleep in a thankful and confident
frame of mind, and all will be well. If you have insomnia, do not let it
worry you. While you lie awake, form your conception of health; meditate
with thankfulness on the abundant life which is yours, breathe, and feel
perfectly confident that you will sleep in due time; and you will.
Insomnia, like every other ailment, must give way before the Principle
of Health aroused to full constructive activity by the course of
thought and action herein described.
The reader will now comprehend that it is not at all burdensome or
disagreeable to perform the voluntary functions of life in a perfectly
healthy way. The perfectly healthy way is the easiest, simplest, most
natural, and most pleasant way. The cultivation of health is not a work
of art, difficulty, or strenuous labor. You have only to lay aside
artificial observances of every kind, and eat, drink, breathe, and sleep
in the most natural and delightful way; and if you do this, thinking
health and only health, you will certainly be well.
CHAPTER XVI.
SUPPLEMENTARY INSTRUCTIONS.
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