Agency for combating Disease

The thoughts in the mind need to be controlled, for they have a most powerful influence upon the health and are the most effective agency for combating disease. The electric power of the brain, promoted by mental activity, vitalizes the whole system, and thus is the most invaluable aid in resisting disease. To array someone's mind against sickness, is the supreme art of medicine. Inspire in a person courage and purpose, and the mind-power will cast out disease. Willpower is another name for life force. Men with great willpower resist and combat disease. The imagination often misleads, and when indulged, brings severe forms of disease upon the afflicted. Sickness of the mind prevails everywhere. Nine tenths of the diseases from which we suffer have their foundation here. Ninety percent of illnesses are mentally triggered mostly due to stress and guilt.

A HAPPY HEART

Our thoughts are the food that our brains feed on. As we can eat foods that steal from our bodies, like sugar; we can also think thoughts that steal from our bodies, like anger. We can choose what we think, and in doing so, we choose between health and disease.

Redford Williams, M.D., author of the book Anger Kills, wrote: "Getting angry is like taking a small dose of some slow-acting poison every day of your life:' Grief, anxiety, discontent, remorse, guilt, distrust, all tend to break down the life-forces and to invite decay and death.

Norman Cousins in his book, Anatomy of an Illness, describes his recovery from ankylosing spondylitis, a disease of "unknown etiology" with a survival chance of one in 500. In a desperate bid to survive, Cousins rejected his drug therapy, hired a projector and amused himself watching old comedy movies. He was following a hunch he had acquired from reading Dr. Hans Selye's book The Stress of Life, and his changed state of mind, helped by laughter, improved diet and his own determination, was the turning point from which he recovered full health in a few months. It has been said that a hearty laugh a day may keep the doctor away. Laughter has innumerable benefits. It increases blood flow as much as a 15- to 3D-minute workout.  It proves a potent anti-stress factor, decreases asthmatic attacks, increases stamina, relieves arthritic pain, and promotes good sleep. Also, since the serotonin levels go up after laughter, it is an effective antidote for depression. Studies have shown that even breastfed babies with eczema experience milder symptoms if their mothers laugh hours before feeding them

What Is the Importance of Sweet Words?

Gary Smalley and Rex Russell in their book “Food and Love” assembled the following research that was most revealing:

Medical research has studied the effect of chronic quarrelling on a person's health and have found that couples and roommates who frequently quarrel tend to have more illnesses than do the people in amicable relationships. Those who have constant fights suffer a weakening of their immune systems and are generally less healthy than those who react amicably with friends and family.

A study of students at Yale University discovered that room- mates who disliked each other had far more colds and flues and visits to physicians than did roommates who liked each other- and the greater the dislike-the higher the number of illnesses.