Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-09
Doctors Say You
Can Live Just As
Long as You Will
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knowing that they are going to be beat, don't they
get terrible walloping? But if they go in deter
mined to win, don't they usually win? Or if they
get beat, isn't it less of defeat than If they had
not been determined to win? You are getting into
the realm of the psychic when you ask me such
questions, into the realm of the spiritual"
Here 1 asked him what he meant by spiritual,
and he answered, 81 mean by spiritual that which
might concern the soul"
I said, "You believe then, there is soul?'
Certainly there is a SOUL" he answered, land
it lives after what we call death. Thought is
the motivating power. Before you ask me what
thought is will say that if 1 should be asked this
examination I would ponder long as to how
it should be answered 1t is one of the deep ques-
tions of life
IN PHOENIX, Arizona, is DR.. E. Payne Palmer,
] president of the staff of st. Joseph's Hospital,
Phoenix, Arizona. talked with DR.. and Mrs Pal
mer informally concerning the deeper problems of
life. DR.. Palmer explained that he, as a surgeon,
never liked operating on person who had no wish
to live because the chances of recovery were there
by handicapped. He said, "The will to live pro-
longs life"
Probably few surgeons in the country are more
deeply loved than DR.. Palmer, who is the father
of the idea of placing rstaid stations throughout
the United States and is actually responsible for
the endorsement of this by the American College
of Surgeons and the Red Cross. The doctor does
not believe that the identity is physical, and says
of this identity that ''the soul lives after the
death of the body. DEFINITELY THE SOUL
LIVES ON"
IN THE Lone Star State of Texas, in San Antonio,
] is DR.. August F. Heff of San Antonio, Texas. In
his delightful Texans draw which, however, does
not conceal superintendent mind and extensive
medical training and practice, he says, "Of
what you think determines your physical condi
tion Don't you sad motion picture and cry?
Don't the tear glands respond to the sad thought?
When you have mean argument and eat dinner,
isn't your digestion affected? The mind controls
the cells of the body and they in turn build or tear
down. have seen it many times in my practice.
Some patients succumb to certain diseases which
others would hardly notice because of the differ
ence in their thought processes On the other hand
| have seen patients determined to live fight
through things that you would believe couldn't
be fought through.
1--WE are finding more and more that the body
is built by what we think, so it is possible that
some day we may combat death by this process
Certainly we are learning great deal about it.
By observation we checking causes that years
ago were ignored"
\Y/HAT is still more interesting to me is that
w have talked confdentially to dozens of sur
geons and physicians who admitted that thew be-
lieved the medical world was on the edge of the
great discovery that one could will to live and
live They are not ready to go into print with the
final word however, but those of us who watch
their splendid work behind closed doors and talk
with them in hours of deep confidence have been
given the courage to say-YOU DON'T HAVE,
TO DIE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO! We might
even go one step further and say that IDENTIFY
Is THOOGHT-THOUGHT is A POWER WITH