Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-08
Your Nerves
And You


cial articles revealing typical cases
of nervous and mental disorders
and their treatment thru thought
control as carried out by the au-
thor and his associates at the
Boston Dispensary, famous charit-
able health clinic.
BY WINFRED RHOADES
Being alive is not enough. In
what way are you alive? Are you
alive in sick way or in healthy
way? In happy way or in a des-
pairing way?
What have you permitted YOUR
self to develop into as the years
went by: a person who is unnerv-
ed. crushed, hopeless, querulous,
cowardly in spirit, always tired,
full of feelings of sickness? Or are
you living with strength and get
ting the best that is possible out
of life?
There is another question still
more important What are you
training yourself to be next year
and the year after, and ten years
from now: ailing, weak, and hu-
man failure? Or are you training
yourself to become progressively
more adequate, more sturdy, more
courageous. more gallant in spi,ht.
stronger for dealing with life and
its daily challenge? What is your
being alive leading to for yourself,
for others whose lives are inter-
twined with yours, fer humanity
at large, for civilization and its
future?
Your life both now and in the
years to come depends upon the
mental and emotional and spiritu-
al habits that you are now culti-
waiting.
Being alive wasn't meaning
much to Mrs. c. few years ago.
For five years she had been feel
sick, and finally had got her
self into such state that the tick
ing of a clock the sound OF run
ming water the clatter of dishes,
the noises of children at play,
were things that she couldn't
stand!"
She was blue and melancholy,
and was 'tired-tired-tired!' She
Stunned people, and would cross
the street if she saw a friend ap-
preaching. If she went to church
she sat in the back seat. But for
the most part she shut herself up
in the house, and wouldn't even
answer the doorbell.
She cried, hated even her own
self and wished herself dead. She
considered herself "a nervous
wreck, and feared that she was
on the road to insanity.
What led Mrs C. into such a
state? Financial worry marital
disharmony. and the extra labors
brought upon her by sick father
and mother who lived at some dis
tance were the outward causes.
But the real cause was inward: the
loss of courage. Mrs. c. had per-
mitted her spirit to droop and
faint.
If you could meet her now what
would YOU see? A woman strong
vigorous, capable, happy full OF
courage. the picture of health and
cheerfulness, an inspiration to ev-
eryone who meets her. She does
her work with pleasure. Il am
happy way down in -, she said one
day. ! am different from what I
ever was before. l crave TO see
people and be with them. I feel
all made over.
What brought about the change?
New habits of thinking. The story
of Epictetus, the Greek slave who
had nothing but was happy, she
says, made a deep impression upon
her when she heard it at the
thought control class, and she ap-
piled the lesson TO herself. She de-
cide1 that if there was no money
fer a movie she could get recrea-
ton by going window shopping.
She decided that seeing people Is
better than staying away from
them. She decided that worrying
doesn't make things better. She
built up in herself the spirit OF
courage. and the habit of finding
enjoyment in little things that