Effects Of Thoughts On Health
And Body Previous Page Contents Next Page The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the
operations of the mind, whether they be
deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.
At the bidding of unlawful thoughts the body
sinks rapidly into disease and decay; at the
command of glad and beautiful thoughts it becomes clothed with youthfulness and beauty. Disease and health, like circumstances, are
rooted in thought. Sickly thoughts will express
themselves through a sickly body. Thoughts of
fear have been known to kill a man as speedily
as a bullet and they are continually killing
thousands of people just as surely though less rapidly. The people who live in fear of disease
are the people who get it. Anxiety quickly
demoralizes the whole body, and lays it open to
the entrance of disease; while impure thoughts,
even if not physically indulged, will sooner
shatter the nervous system. Strong pure, and happy thoughts build up the
body in vigor and grace. The body is a delicate
and plastic instrument, which responds readily to
the thoughts by which it is impressed, and habits
of thought will produce their own effects, good or
bad, upon it. Men will continue to have impure and poisoned
blood, so long as they propagate unclean
thoughts. Out of a clean heart comes a clean life
and a clean body. Out of a defiled mind
proceeds a defiled life and a corrupt body.
Thought is the fount of action, life and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all
will be pure. Change of diet will not help a man who will not
change his thoughts. When a man makes his
thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food. Clean thoughts make clean habits. The so-called
saint who does not wash his body is not a saint.
He who has strengthened and purified his
thoughts does not need to consider the
malevolent. If you would perfect your body, guard your mind.
If you would renew your body, beautify your
mind. Thoughts of malice, envy, and
disappointment, despondency, rob the body of
its health and grace. A sour face does not come
by chance; it is made by sour thoughts. Wrinkles that mar are drawn by folly, passion, pride. I know a woman of ninety-six who has the bright,
innocent face of a girl. I know a man well under
middle age whose face is drawn into in
harmonious contours. The one is the result of a
sweet and sunny disposition; the other is the
outcome of passion and discontent. As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome
abode unless you admit the air and sunshine
freely into your rooms, so a strong body and a
bright, happy, or serene countenance can only
result from the free admittance into the mind of
thoughts of joy and goodwill and serenity. On the faces of the aged there are wrinkles
made by sympathy others by strong and pure
thought, and others are carved by passion; who
cannot distinguish them? With those who have
lived righteously, age is calm, peaceful, and
softly mellowed, like the setting sun. I have recently seen a philosopher on his deathbed. He
was not old except in years. He died as sweetly
and peacefully as he had lived. There is no physician like cheerful thought for
dissipating the ills of the body; there is no
comforter to compare with goodwill for dispersing
the shadows of grief and sorrow. To live
continually in thoughs of ill will, cynicism,
suspicion, and envy, is to be confined in a self- made prison hole. But to think well of all, to be
cheerful with all, to patiently learn to find the
good in all--such unselfish thoughts are the very
portals of heaven; and to dwell day by day in
thoughts of peace toward every creature will
bring abounding peace to their possessor. View Sit