Toxemial Explained - Poise

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Poise

THE state or quality of being balanced.

Figuratively, equanimity; repose.

Equanimity--Evenness of mind

or temper; composure; calmness. (Standard Dictionary.)

I presume that, to be technically poised,

we should be anatomically, physiologically, and chemically balanced;

but, as asymmetry

is the rule, we cannot hope to be balanced. We can, however, strive for

equanimity--evenness

of mind and temper.

Contentment comes with striving, not

with possession. Apparently this is not always true; for we see people

very dissatisfied

and unhappy who are busy.

Someone has said: "Blessed is

the man who has found work." This means that he is fully occupied and

contented

with his work, not its emoluments. No man is satisfied with work that

has nothing

in it but the dollars he gets out of it. Nothing but creative work

satisfies the

mind.

What is there in it? Advancement,

self-development,

and a chance in the future to do good are about as little as will

satisfy ambition.

To make for contentment, the work must

occupy and satisfy the mind. Idle minds are dissatisfied minds. If

asked what prescription

I would give children to secure their future happiness, I would say:

Teach then to

love work! work! work! We have overworked the old saying: "All work and

no play

makes Jack a dull boy." Now it is reversed to: '`All play and no work

makes

Jack a bandit. '

If parents cannot keep children busy,

the city, county, or state should furnish work--not in industrial

schools, but the

work that is best suited to each child. A child must be busy. Christ

got busy at

twelve years of age and earlier. We must be busy.

As I said, contentment comes with striving,

not with possession. This is a law of psychology as l well as of

physics. We should

be happy that we are not contented; for; if we were, we should not have

anything

to overcome--no reason for striving--and, of course, fail to enjoy the

work and labor

of attaining.

"Man never is, but always to

be blest. (Pope.)" Because Pope made that statement, it should not

be taken

too seriously. I have found many people blest who did not know it.

There are more

blessings in disguise than are found in the limelight. One of the

commonest blessings

of mankind is that about ninety-nine per cent of our wants we never

realize. If most

people could cut out time as often as they wish, their lives would be

greatly shortened:

"I wish it were this time next year." "I wish now were ten years from

now; I should then be through college and established in business."

The disposition of most people is to

seek abridgement. Nature abhors a vacuum, and that is what abridgements

are. "Get-Rich-Quick

Wallingford" is the ideal of all.

Short-cuts to success; a salesmanship

that means coercing the vacillating--those of weak will, those who can

be persuaded

to buy prematurely, those who do not know their own minds; in short,

inducing people

to buy what they do not need and cannot afford is called good

salesmanship. What

is the matter with the people today? General indebtedness. The

sales-people have

made more than they know how to spend wisely on themselves--they do not

know how

to fill their vacuums. Those who have been persuaded to run in high

when they should

have stayed in low--or, what would have been better, continued to ride

a bicycle

or remained on foot--are distressed because of premature supply. Both

extremes lack

poise, and build restlessness and dissatisfaction. The automobile is a

necessity;

but it has been forced into a luxury that has far outrun necessity. It

has built

great fortunes at one end, and marked poverty at the other end, that

will create

a financial disease called panic, unless remedied soon. Panic is

another name for

a vacuum which will be filled with much unhappiness. A prediction of

five years ago.

Getting through school without filling

in the time well, by short-cuts, ponies, and favoritism, builds

vacuity. Time and

honest labor are necessary for building character, education, and

ability in any

and all lines. In the physical as well as in the mental world the old

Latin apothegm

applies: Cito maturum, cito putridum--"Soon ripe, soon rotten."

Athletes die early. Why? Development is forced. Excessive use of the

muscular system

forces an extra supply of blood to the muscles. This in turn forces an

extra supply

of food to meet the demand of waste and supply. Overstimulation

enervates, and the

toxin fails to be carried out as rapidly as formed; hence Toxemia is

established,

which gradually brings on degeneration of heart and blood-vessels. "No

chain

is stronger than its weakest link." In athletics' the strongest links

are in

constant use for all the strength they have. The stability that youth

gives tissue

is rapidly ageing, with the result that the athlete dies of senility in

youth. Fitzsimmons

was called the "grand old man of the ring" at thirty-five. In this

saying,

which was meant to be a compliment to the king of athletes, was an

expression of

scientific knowledge beyond understanding in the sporting

world--subconsciously building

better than they knew; for in reality he had aged himself by stressing

his body.

Youth wants to move faster than good,

substantial growth justifies. Young professional men are in hot-haste

to succeed

their predecessors, always confident that they can do more than fill

their places.

Today inexperience is hot-footing

civilization

to a quick maturity, and obviously to a premature end. Hot-haste has

ill-prepared

even those with age to be safe advisers. Knowledge not seasoned by

time, experience,

and poise never matures.

Poise and equanimity have become meaningless

terms in this age. The elements of success which make for ideal

maturity are lacking

in the welding influence of time and experience. Thc present-day mind

is athletic;

it is prematurely aged at the expense of time, which is required for

stabilizing.

Hospitals, penitentiaries, and insane asylums cannot be built fast

enough to accommodate

the prematurely senile. That is what disease is--old-age tissue

outrunning the supply

of new.

Too many abridgments, from the kindergarten

to the high school and on through college, leave vacuums to be filled

by the lies

of civilization, and the disease and unhappiness that false knowledge

and immature

judgment bring.

Personal peculiarities, affectations,

and petty habits of all kinds are boomerangs that return to poison

life's sweet dreams.

Nature smiles on those who are natural;

but those who persist in grimacing, mentally or physically, she joins

in a conspiracy

to distort them at their pleasure. We can be happy and contented, or we

can be unhappy

and discontented. We can make our choice, and nature will do the rest.

I just came from a drug-store into

which I had stepped to purchase a tube of camphor ice. The druggist

fumbled, and,

being self-conscious, his self-pity made it necessary for him to say

that he was

feeling bad and had been lying down most of the afternoon. He

accompanied his remarks

with a sick grimace of his features and a bodily expression of

weakness. He, no doubt,

would have enjoyed discussing his discomforts with me, but I ignored

the subject

and passed out. He is cultivating a sick habit that will spoil his life

and make

of him a bore to all except those who frequent his shop hunting cures.

"Misery

loves company." People with the sick habit flock together, and never

appear

to tire recounting and comparing their discomforts. The most

insignificant symptoms

are retained in memory for years. Self-pity causes them to exaggerate,

and in time

they believe the worst possible about themselves. Such a life is

ruined, unless complete

reformation is made. This state of mind brings on enervation and

Toxemia. The symptoms

are a general nervousness, indigestion, constipation, coated tongue,

anxiety concerning

cancer or some other malady that may prove fatal. The muscular system

is more or

less tensed. The constipation is accompanied by an abnormal contraction

of the rectum.

The entire body is abnormally tense. Such patients have difficulty in

going to sleep,

and when they are about to drop off to sleep they are awakened with a

jerk--a violent

contraction of all the muscles. These people are light sleepers, and

complain that

they do not sleep at all. A few complain of headache and nausea. They

are imitators,

and often develop new symptoms after reading about disease or listening

to others

relating their symptoms.

Many of these cases of neurosis are

operated upon for various supposed abdominal derangements. Too often

doctors treat

such people for what they say is the matter with them. Occasionally we

find self-sacrificing,

amiable women who are never robust, but who live and work beyond their

strength for

others. These mothers in early life had ambitions for a career, and the

disappointment

brought on a profound enervation, permanently impairing nutrition; for

the one great

sorrow prevented a full return to normal. Fortunately, surcease was

found in doing

for others; and in time making others happy became a vicarious nepenthe

so perfect

that those whom they soothed with their sweet smiles and cheering words

often said:

"Aunt , you must have lived a charmed life in which no sorrow ever

entered."

The answer would be more smiles and encouragement.

Those who find a life of service to

take the place of ambition's jilts have made no mistake in the

selection of the Great

Physician; but those who seek cures outside of self are hunting cures

in a Fool's

Paradise.

Cures! There are no cures. The subconscious

builds health or disease according to our order. If we send impulses of

irritation,

discontent, unhappiness, complaining, hate, envy, selfishness, greed,

lust, etc.,

the subconscious builds us in the image of our order.

If we send to the subconscious sensual

impulses, our order is returned to us blear-eyed, with swollen

features, headaches,

bad breath, pain here, pain there, blurred intellect, carelessness in

business, of

friends, and of self. We interpret our state of disease, and send for a

doctor, who

finds albumin in the urine, rheumatism in the joints, a leaky heart,

threatened apoplexy,

dropsy, et alii. We take his dope, his operations, his immunizations;

but we continue

to send sensual impulses-- big dinners, strong cigars, lascivious

indulgences. The

doctor does no good. Another and another is sent for. Skillful

examinations are given.

Syphilis is found. Synthetic drugs are prescribed. Other doctors

examine, who find

tuberculosis. And at last real skill is discovered in a physician who

finds cancer.

But all the time our orders are going to the subconscious, and the

returns are made

faithfully in the image of their maker.

The truth is that we are not needing

a doctor at all. We need a physician who will erect a reconciliation

between our

subconscious maker and ourselves. What we need is to be taught

self-control, poise)

equanimity, repose. And when these impulses are sent over the

sympathetic nerves

to our subconscious maker, we shall begin to receive images of a more

man, until

an approach to perfection is attained.

Self-control, with an ideal of just

the kind of person we should like to be held before the subconscious

all the time,

will be returned to us just as we order. We are made in the image of

the ideal we

hold before our maker--the subconscious. We must live it, however.

Simply holding

an ideal will not get us anywhere. If our ideal is for sobriety,

getting drunk will

not bring our dreams true. If our ideal is for perfect health, we

certainly cannot

expect a sensual life to build it.

We may have an ideal image, but if

we do not live it, a distortion will be created.

A disgruntled, complaining habit, builds

that kind of an individual.

If we refuse to live composed, poised,

and relaxed, we become tense and build discomfort. A contracted brow

builds headache.

A tense, fixed state of the muscular system brings on muscle-fatigue,

which may be

treated as neuralgia, neuritis, or rheumatism. A slight injury to any

part of the

body, coddled, nursed, and kept without motion, may start a fixation of

the muscles,

causing more pain from muscle-fatigue than from the injury.

Enough neurotics have been relieved

and cured of muscle-fatigue to put two schools of spine manipulators in

good standing

with the people.

All through the ages mountebanks, magnetic

healers, and various cults of "laying on of hands" have worked among

people

who had time to nurse a slight injury into a very large fatigue

disease. Fortunes

have been made out of vile-smelling liniments because of the supposed

cures made

by rubbing the dope on sprained backs and joints. The same cures could

have been

made by simply rubbing the parts; but the minds that go with spineless

people, who

have time to wait for miraculous cures, could not be made to believe

that a cure

could be excreted without that mysterious healing property associated

with evil-looking

and vile-smelling medicaments.

A sensitive, insignificant pile tumor

may set up such a tense state of the entire muscular system as to

render the subject

a confirmed invalid. Such a case became a patient of mine a few weeks

ago. On examination,

I found an extreme contraction of the sphincter muscles. His entire

body was tense,

and, of course, he had muscle-fatigue, which caused him to believe that

he was a

very sick man. I had him lie down, and I taught him how to relax; then

I introduced

a finger into his rectum--very slowly, to avoid giving pain as much as

possible.

I was about thirty minutes bringing relaxation of the anal muscles.

While manipulating,

I was advising relaxation of his body. Before he left my office he

declared that

he felt better than he had for two years, notwithstanding the fact he

had been in

a hospital and otherwise treated most of that time. I gave him

instructions on how

to poise, how to manipulate the rectum and anus. All his stomach

troubles, and discomforts

generally, passed away in a week.

I have seen many invalids of nervous

type who had been treated by many doctors and for many diseases.

Tension of the entire

body was one of the pronounced symptoms, and health could not be

brought back until

this habit was overcome.

The discomforts complained of by those

who have tumor of the womb, goiter, cystitis, stomach and bowel

derangements, rest

largely on a basis of nervous tension, which must be overcome before

comfort and

full health will return.

Position in standing, walking, sitting,

and lying down may be such as to cause tension. We have occupational

diseases and

emotional diseases; and lack of poise complicates all of these

so-called diseases

and brings on tension.

Children are prone to become nervous

and excited when tired. When allowed to eat heartily, when excited and

tired, they

have indigestion. Extreme cases develop convulsions. Fear and anxiety

are two elements

that lead on to chorea.

Poise of mind and body should receive

attention early as well as late in life.

Good health late in life indicates

self-control, moderation in all things, and equanimity--poise.

Moderation does not mean the same to

all people. Some men call three to six cigars a day moderate

indulgence; others believe

that one to six a month is temperate. Those who have an irritable heart

and stomach

are immoderate when they use tobacco at all.

Fortunate is the person who knows his

limitations and respects them. Of such a person it may be said that he

is poised.

IMMUNIZATION

Wouldn't it be incongruous if in the

evolution of man such an important element as autoimmunization should

be left out.

No animal has been forgotten in the great scheme of creation. Powers of

offense and

defense have been wisely provided, and to suppose that king of all

animals--man--should

be left defenseless is most absurd. No, man is provided with a nervous

system, at

the head of which is a brain capable of thinking, which can come to the

aid of a

flagging nervous system and help to renew it.

When the nervous system is normal--when

there is full nerve-energy--man is normal and immune to disease.

Disease begins to

manifest only when environments and personal habits use up energy

faster than it

is renewed. This contingency the properly educated mind begins to

remedy at once

by removing or overcoming all enervating influences.

Man's immunization to disease requires

a life so well ordered that his nerve-energy is kept at or near normal.

When nerve-energy

is prodigally squandered, he is forced into a state of enervation; then

elimination

of the waste-products is checked, leaving the waste--toxin--in the

blood, causing

Toxemia self-poisoning--the first, last and only true disease that man

is heir to.

All other poisons are accidental and evanescent, and without Toxemia

can have no

entree to the system. Poisons may be swallowed, injected or inoculated

into the body

and poison or even kill; but such an experience is not to be classed as

disease,

any more than a broken leg or a gunshot wound.

Toxin is a normal, natural product

of the system, always present. Being a constant, it answers every

requirement for

a universal cause of all so-called diseases. All the different

symptom-complexes,

which are given special names, take their names frown the organs

involved in the

toxin crisis; but they are not individual--they are only symptoms of

vicarious elimination.

For example: Tonsilitis, gastritis, bronchitis, pneumonia, colonitis,

are each and

every one Toxemic crises, differing only in location and symptoms.

So-called diseases

are just so many different locations where toxin is being eliminated.

All are different

manifestations of one disease Toxemia.

Toxemia is the only explanation of

why so many young men were refused by the examining boards during the

late war. Many

were sent over to France who soon found the hospitals for they were

near the limit

of their toxin-resistance. The excitement used up their nerve-energy.

The enervation

was quickly followed by Toxemia. Their sicknesses were given names, but

the truth

was that they had Toxemia, and their diseases were crises of Toxemia,

which means

vicarious elimination.

After the numerous vaccinations to

which the boys were subjected on entering the army, probably fear or

apprehension

was next in order of enervating influences.

DIAGNOSIS A MEDICAL DELUSION

Diagnosing according to modern medical

science is a scheme of symptomatology that means nothing except a guide

in discovering

organic change--pathological change; and if no change or pathology is

found, the

case is sent home, with the advice to return again in a few months; or

perhaps it

will be kept under observation for a while. Even cases presenting

pathological changes,

such as we see in rheumatic arthritis, I have known of being sent home

for six months,

because no point of infection could lee found. The patient would be

sent away with

the statement: "After a thorough examination, we cannot find the cause

of your

disease. Come back in about six months, and it may be showing up in

that time."

So much for the influence that focal infection has on the mind of the

profession.

Suppose infected teeth were found. or sinus infection, what of it? What

causes the

teeth and sinuses to be infected? Why is rheumatism a symptom of

infection, and the

focal infections not a symptom of rheumatism?

The truth is that rheumatism, infected

teeth, and sinus infections, as well as every other pathology found in

the body,

are effects. Symptoms without lesions represent functional derangements

which have

not been repeated long enough or often enough to cause organic change.

If, as diagnosis

goes, the cause is to be found in the disease, at what stage are we to

look for it?

Is it at the beginning, or in the fully developed organic change, or in

the dead

man? Mackenzie believed that it should be looked for at the very

beginning, which

meant with him the earliest change. He believed that an intensive study

at this stage

would discover cause. This was a mistaken idea of his, which is proved

by the fact

that the cause of rheumatism and cancer cannot be found early or late,

and that those

who believe germs cause disease cannot find them until pathology is

found. It appears

to me, after being in the game for over fifty years, that a plan which

has received

so much labor without reward should be abandoned.

Diagnosis is so fraught with the element

of uncertainty that no reliance can be placed upon it.

Research occupies an army of laboratory

experts in hunting the cause of disease, and also cures. They are

doomed to fail;

for how is it possible to find cause in effects?

The specialist is so limited in his

knowledge of the philosophy of health and disease that he becomes

deluded on the

subject; and this delusion often causes him to see meningitis,

appendicitis, ovaritis--or

any disease that happens to be the subject of his specialty--in every

case brought

to him. As a matter of fact, most attacks of disease of any and all

kinds get well,

whether treated or not, if they have not passed from functional to

organic.

This statement needs a little explanation.

It is said that eighty per cent who fall sick get well, or could get

well without

the aid of a doctor. All so-called attacks of disease of whatever kind

are crises

of Toxemia, which means vicarious elimination of Toxin that has

accumulated above

the saturation (toleration) point. These crises may be symptoms which

we call cold,

"flu," tonsilitis, gastritis, headache, or some other light malady.

They

come today and are gone in a few days. If treated, we say they were

cured. If they

are not treated, we say they got well without treatment. The truth is

that the surplus

toxin--the amount accumulated above the point which can be maintained

with comfort--is

eliminated, and comfort returns. This is not a cure; it is one of

nature's palliations.

When the cause or causes of enervation are discovered and removed, the

nerve-energy

returns to normal. Elimination removes toxin as fast as developed by

metabolism.

This is health--this is all there is to any cure. In a few words: Stop

all enervating

habits; stop eating; rest until nerve-energy is restored to normal.

When this is

accomplished the patient is cured. A short or long fast is beneficial

to most sick

people. Those who are afraid of fasting should not fast. All other

so-called cures

are a delusion, and at the most a passing palliation; but enough such

cures are performed

daily to keep a large army of doctors and cultists in bread, butter,

and a degree

of respectability. The cured patients, however, glacier-like, move

steadily down

to the river Styx --thousands and thousands of them years before their

time, many

even before their prime, and all maintaining a false belief concerning

what disease

is, and a more foolish notion concerning cures.

TOXEMIA SIMPLIFIES THE

UNDERSTANDING OF DISEASE

When a child shows symptoms of high

fever, pain, and vomiting, what is the disease? It may be indigestion

frown overeating

or eating improper food. It may be the beginning of gastritis, scarlet

fever, diphtheria,

meningitis, infantile paralysis, of some other so-called disease. The

treatment,

according to the Philosophy of Toxemia, may be positive and given with

confidence.

There need be no waiting for developments, no guessing, no mistakes.

What is done

is the correct treatment for any so-called disease, named or not named.

Get rid of

the exciting causes, whatever they are. Ninety-nine times out of a

hundred the stomach

and bowels are full of undigested foods. Wash out the bowels, and get

rid of this

source of infection. Then give a hot bath of sufficient duration to

furnish complete

relief from any pain. When discomfort returns, give another bath. Use

an enema every

day, and twice daily if symptoms demand.

So long as there is fever, rest assured

that the bowels are not cleaned out. Provide plenty of fresh air and

water, and keep

the patient quiet. See to it that nothing but water goes into the

stomach until the

fever and discomfort are entirely overcome; then give very light food

at first.

A child that is given meat and eggs

and an excess of milk is liable to develop putrefactive diseases. It is

doubtful

(and I believe impossible) if any child brought up on fruit, whole

wheat and other

grains, and vegetables can ever evolve diphtheria, scarlet fever, or

smallpox, or

develop septic fever--typhoid.

The methods of the regular practice

of medicine are in keeping with the habits of body and mind that lead

to malignant

disease, epidemics, etc. As a man thinketh, so is he.

The regular profession believes in

antitoxin, vaccine, and autogenous remedies; and these remedies fit the

psychology

of a mode of living that leads to vicious types of disease.

Most people are in sympathy with impossible

cures--cures without removing causes.

All so-called cures will some day be

proved a delusion. Remember that children will not be sick if they are

not toxemic.

Let the local manifestations be what they may, the basic cause is

always the same--Toxemia

plus septic infection; and if this state is not added to by food, cases

treated in

this way will be aborted--jugulated, if you please. Doctors who have

seen only regular

practice will declare that the cases recovering in this manner are

irregular and

lacking in intensity. Of course, they are not typical; for they have

not been complicated

with fear and disease-building treatment.

Doctors will say: "Suppose it

is a case of diphtheria? Antitoxin should be used, for it is a

specific." What

is diphtheria? A toxemic subject with gastro-intestinal catarrh becomes

infected

from decomposition of animal food eaten in excess of digestive powers.

The symptoms

are those of tonsilitis, showing a grayish exudite covering the tonsils

or other

parts of the throat, accompanied by a disagreeable, pungent, fetid

breath. There

is great prostration. Subjects developing these symptoms have been

living haphazardly.

Their eating has been too largely of animal foods and starch--the

conventional mixtures--and

devoid of raw vegetables and fruit. The only animal food may be milk,

and the patient

a young child. There have been running before, for a longer or shorter

term, gastric

irritation, constipation, perhaps several gastric attacks--acute

indigestion.

In some cases the physical state is

so vicious that a severe development of gastro-intestinal putrefaction

may end fatally

in from one to three days. These are the cases supposed to be

overwhelmed by the

diphtheritic toxin, which means an acute protein-poisoning--intestinal

putrefaction--in

a subject already greatly enervated and toxemic.

ACUTE MALIGNANCY DEFINED

Malignancy occurs in toxemic subjects

who have been carrying continuously a state of gastrointestinal

indigestion from

a surfeit of food, in which animal substances, possibly only milk,

predominated.

The entire organism is more or less infected by the protein

decomposition. A feast-day

comes along; an excess produces a crisis; and the organism, which is

enervated and

toxemic to the point of no resistance, is overwhelmed by septic

poisoning.

WHAT CAUSES FATALITY

Fatal cases in all epidemics are

food-drunkards

who are very much enervated, toxemic and infected from putrescence in

the bowels.

It is a crime to feed anything to the

sick. No food should be given until all symptoms are gone; then fruit

and vegetable

juices (never any animal foods not for weeks). A hot bath should be

administered

three times daily. Wash out the bowels by enemas every few hours, until

all putrescent

debris is throughly cleared out; and, when possible, give a gastric

ravage daily,

until the stomach and bowels are thoroughly cleared of all putrescence.

The life

of the patient depends upon getting rid of the putrid food still

remaining in the

bowels, before enough putrescence is absorbed to cause death. All

epidemic diseases

are wholesale food-poisonings among people who are pronouncedly

enervated and toxemic.

The poisoning by food is on the order of poisoning by chemicals. Those

who have least

resistance (are most enervated and toxemic) suffer most and succumb the

easiest;

for the poisoning brings on a crisis of Toxemia, and the two

nerve-destroying influences

overwhelm the reduced resistance, and may end in death unless wisely

treated. All

acute diseases are gastro-intestinal infections acting on toxemic

subjects. The more

enervated and toxemic the subject, the more severe the crisis.

Certainly anyone with

intelligence should see the danger in giving food when the exciting

cause of the

disease is food-poisoning.

Keep the patient warm and quiet, and

in good air. More treatment is meddlesome. Getting rid of putrefaction

is most important.

Such diseases develop only in those of pronounced enervation and

toxemic, and those

of very bad eating habits.

TO SUM UP

To sum up briefly the difference between

the toxemic methods and "regular medicine": Toxemia is a system based

on

the true cause of disease--namely Toxemia. Before Toxemia is

developed, natural

immunization protects from germs, parasites, and all physical

vicissitudes.

Toxin is a by-product as constant and

necessary as life itself. When the organism is normal, it is produced

and eliminated

as fast as produced. From the point of production to the point of

elimination, it

is carried by the blood; hence at no time is the organism free from

toxin in the

blood. In a normal amount it is gently stimulating; but when the

organism is enervated,

elimination is checked. Then the amount retained becomes

overstimulating--toxic--ranging

from a slight excess to an amount so profound as to overwhelm life.

The treatment is so simple that it

staggers those who believe in curing. Heroic treatment is

disease-building. Find

in what way nerve-energy is wasted, and stop it--stop all nerve-leaks.

Then returning

to normal is a matter of time, in which nature attends to all repairs

herself. And

she resents help--medical officiousness.

In writing and giving advice, I often

make the mistake of taking for granted that the consultant understands

what I have

in mind. Why should he, when I have not given oral or written

expression to my meaning?

In the matter of stopping nerve-leaks,

it is easy for me to say: "Find out in what way nerve-energy is wasted,

and

stop it--stop all nerve-leaks," etc. I am appalled at my stupidity in

saying

to a patient to stop enervating himself, and allowing the matter to end

by naming

one or two gross enervating habits; for example: Stop worry; stop

smoking; stop stimulants;

control your temper; stop eating too rapidly; stop allowing yourself to

become excited.

Stopping one enervating habit benefits; but dependable health brooks no

enervating

habits at all.

-- Peace be with you,

Don "Quai" Eitner

"Spirit sleeps in the mineral, breathes in the vegetable, dreams in the animal and wakes in man."

Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses. ~Baptiste Molière, Le Malade Imaginaire

The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb