rs to learn what relaxing is; but having
once learned, its helpful power is too evident for us not to keep at
it, if we really desire to gain our freedom.

To give the same direction to a worrier that was so effective with the
woman whose feelings were easily hurt, may seem equally ridiculous; but
in many cases it will certainly prove most useful. When you begin to
worry, think your legs heavy. Your friends will appreciate the relief
more than you do, and will gain as you gain.

A recital of all the emotional disturbances which seem to have so
strong a hold on us, and which are merely misdirected nervous force,
might easily fill a volume; but a few of the most common troubles, such
as have been given, will perhaps suffice to help each individual to
understand his own especial temptations in that direction,--and if I
have made even partially clear the ease with which they may be relieved
through careful physical training, it is all I can hope for.

The body must be trained to obey the mind; the mind must be trained to
give the body commands worth obeying.

The real feelings of life are too exquisite and strengthening in their
depth and power to be crowded out by those gross forms of nervous
excitement which I can find no better name for than sham emotions. If
we could only realize this more broadly, and bring up the children with
a wholesome dread of morbid feeling what a marked change would there be
in the state of the entire race!

All physicians agree that in most cases it is not overwork, it is not
mental strain, that causes the greater number of cases of nervous
disturbance, but that they are more often brought on by emotional
strain.

The deepest grief, as well as the greatest joy, can be met in a way to
give new strength and new power for use if we have a sound philosophy
and a well-guided, wholesome body to meet it. But these last are the
work of years; and neither the philosophy nor the physical strength can
be brought to bear at short notice, although we can do much toward a
better equilibrium even late in life.

Various forms of egotism, if not exactly sham emotions, are the causes
of great nervous strain. Every physician knows the intense egotism
which often comes with nervous prostration. Some one has very aptly
said that insanity is only egotism gone to seed. It often seems so,
especially when it begins with nervous prostration. We cannot be too
careful to shun this nervous over-care for self.

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