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III.
Effect
of
Thought
on
Health
and
the
Body
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
soon
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
corrupt
body.
Thought
is
the
fountain
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.
If
you
would
perfect
your
body,
guard
your
mind.
If
you
would
renew
your
body,
beautify
your
mind.
Thoughts
of
malice,
envy,
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
inharmonious
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
good
will
and
serenity.
On
the
faces
of
the
aged
there
are
wrinkles
made
by
sympathy,
others
by
strong
and
pure
thought,
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
good
will
for
dispersing
the
shadows
of
grief
and
sorrow.
To
live
continually
in
thoughts
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
to
day
in
thoughts
of
peace
toward
every
creature
will
bring
abounding
peace
to
their
possessor.
on
to
Chapter
IV:
Thought
and
Purpose...
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