Tuesday, February 21, 2012

The power of a positive body and mind



Perfect health depends upon a balance of the trinity ruling a body - physical, mental, emotional. You cannot run a healthy mind when you have a physical deficit. The mind governs, but the condition of the body also affects the mind.

You must recognize that harmful thought patterns – fear, hatred, anxiety, over sensitivity - originate in brain-cell starvation and bodily fatigue. Positive thinking is utterly impossible in a mind physically under par to a serious extent. If you think that food does not influence your husband’s frame of mind, try showing him that new dress before dinner! Now that you have learned your bitter lesson about food and disposition, you had better show him those new shoes after dinner!

Alternatively, take the husband, whom the doctor has put on a reducing diet. Feed him a low-calorie salad-and-fruit dinner, and a few hours later he will throw caution to the wind in favour of a Dagwood sandwich dripping with calories. A clean steak, liver, or lamb chop or other protein foods will keep your dieting husband from raiding the icebox much more than any nagging on your part.

By making certain that you eat a diet to maintain the proper chemical balance in your body, you restore your functional balance and check the effects of stress upon your system. Often, by relieving some of the physical tensions caused by hidden hunger, you can soften the inner climate in which you must do your thinking. It is much easier to enlist your conscious if it is not preoccupied with being hungry.

Stomachs constantly harassed with inferior, inadequate, and indigestible meals become touchy. So does a brain that is constantly undernourished. The brain in a tired, undernourished, and ill-cared-for body is most assuredly going to be the brain with the greatest amount of irritability.

An abused, undernourished, harassed body generally houses a mind incapable of optimum thinking and reasoning power. As the central power station of the body, the brain must be kept in top physical condition through natural means so its mental activities can be controlled. Unhealthy thought habits have a pretty hard time dwelling in a contented body.

One of the reasons that humans have advanced so much further than animals is that there is very little thinking brain in animals. The basis for their nervous control is undoubtedly autonomic or automatic. Animals breathe, digest food, perform muscular movements without thinking, and show basic emotional responses - including rage. Like humans, the animal wants to destroy anything threatening his security. The thinking portion of your brain is your cerebrum. As in animals, the basic human emotion is fear. However, pragmatic humans learn to overcome this with correct diet and positive thinking.

Hate, anxiety, and guilt are the emotions causing physical illness if the thinking brain is not allowed to keep the house in order. Positive thinking restores the criteria of normalcy out of neurotic tendencies-freeing you of physical symptoms, letting you progress unhampered by mental conflict, and giving you a satisfactory working capacity .

The positive thinker is able to love someone besides himself.  Do not confuse love with sex. Sex is love which loves to be loved, and is a subject which desires to possess the from anything which would hurt itself. It becomes incapable of understanding sacrifice. Pride and sex are psychologically inseparable.

Love can be shown in all relationships - man and wife, father and daughter, mother and son. It is self-surrender because of the nobility of the person loved. Love and humility are inseparable.

The most important factor in your personal health, happiness, and effectiveness depends on whether you can love and are loved more than you hate. When you love, you give. But when you hate, you can only deprive someone of happiness. In addition, happiness is the only thing you can give without having.

We must learn to love. We must learn it repeatedly and over again each day. In addition, we must teach it every day- in everything we do, in every contact with our fellow humans .The destroying power of hate, which no one meant to teach us, comes of itself. It is true that if we say, “I love you,” It may be received with doubt, for there are times when it is hard to believe.

However, say “I hate you,” and the one spoken to believes it instantly finally. A thousand times afterward you can say ”I love you” to that person – and mean it every time- but it still does not change the fact that once you said ”I hate you, ”and meant that, too. Hate can leave a mark on the surface that love had worn so smooth with its eternal caresses. Love must be learned, and learned repeatedly; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction but waits only to be provoked - and, when it is provoked, rips you apart. Do you want that? Is hating worth the price you must pay?

NO! Hatred expressed hurts those about you; hatred repressed creates nervousness and symptoms that can simulate almost any physical disease.

Be positive!

Danie De Villiers