Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
HEALTH BY THOUGHT

spealxing of the relation of mans
mental attitude to his physical body
and his environment, DR.. Paul Bauer,
Los Angeles physician and psycholo-
gist, in a recent address said:
Few people realize that new
thoughts or new ideas bring strength
to body as well as mind. but fewer
vet would be the number ready to
accept the fact that our very bodies
decay and lose vigor through thinking
continually the same set of thoughts.
Thought is food for your spirit as
much as is bread food for your body.
Old thought is literally old, stale SUBJ
stance or element. 1t does not prop
erly nourish the spirit. IL the spirit Is
starved the body will suffer. 1t will
become either a contaminated fossil,
or, if the spirit be sufficiently strong
to assert it's demands caused by the
cravings of its hunger, there will be
perpetual unrest, uneasiness and some
form of bodily disease.
From such cause are thousands
suffering today. They 'grieve the
spirit; that is, their worldly educa-
tion, OF rather that portion of their
spirit trained almost unwillingly to
the opinion of silly custom and life
about them, resists the intuition or
pleadings of their spirits, which they
often deem foolish whins and fancies.
New thought is new life and renewal
of life. A new idea, plan or purpose
fills us with hope and vigor. One Sc
cret Of eternal life and happiness is
to be ever pushing forward toward the
new, or forgetting the things which
are behind and pressing forward to
those which are before Eternity and
endless space are exhaustless Of the
new. Senility comes through ever
I;,rfn N,
You have nothing to do with the
person you were a year ago save to
profit by experience. That person is
dead. The you Of today is another
and q newer individual. The you Of
next year will be still another and
newer one. I live daily said Paul,
by which he inferred that some
thought of yesterday was dead today
and cast off like an old garment. In
its place was the newer one. When
our spirits are growing healthfully
we have done forever with part of
ourselves at each days end. That
part is dead. 1t is with us a dead
thought. We have no further use for
1t. To use it Injuries us. 1t is cast
off as our bodies daily cast off a GER
tain number Of dead cells.
ITO him or her who has increase of
new thought new world is lived in
daily AS regards happiness. it does
not matter so much where we are so
that we can bring to ourselves this
daily inf1owing of new thought: we
can so bring to ourselves happiness In
a dungeon when people closed TO new
ideas are miserable in palaces. We
are, then, on the road to an independ-
ence almost complete Of the physical
world. Independence means power.
SO long as we are in any way depend
ent on n person, a food, drug,
stimulant, or any condition of things
about u.s. are we to that extent the
slave of these things. Thus perpetual
infowing of new ideas makes a way for
escape out of the dungeon Of material
and spiritual poverty.
you may be rich in this worlds
goods, yet be poor in not being able
to enjoy them You cannot long re-
main poor in the worldly sense if you
are spiritually rich. But spiritual
richness asks for no more than it can