The cell structures respond to this error belief, and the person becomes tired easily, and the body slows down or suffers from pains. All this, you see, is mental. Then there is the physical cause of age. One who does not understand that the body requires care day by day often fails to do that which is truly best for the body. It is a common error among us that we do not exercise, rest, work, eat, and drink as we should.
Food habits are perhaps the most direct in their effects on the system.
If you were in a happy state of mind and doing a reasonable amount of work that you love and were eating the foods you should eat, your limbs and feet would not trouble you. Swelling and stiffness and soreness are evidence of accumulations in the blood and the tissues. Supply the foods that are needed, so that the bloodstream can be clean Page 93 and vital and enabled to do its work of washing out the accumulations and rebuilding and perfecting the muscles, nerves, bones, and tissues. Youth and the good looks of youth are the fruits of young and eager and joyous and loving attitudes of mind and heart. Obedience to the law of love and life results in harmony and order in the organism.