iving ones.

The next time you feel jaded, discouraged, completely played out and
"blue," you will probably find, if you look for the reason, that your
condition is largely due to exhausted vitality, either from overwork,
overeating, or violating in some way the laws of digestion, or from
vicious habits of some kind.

The "blues" are often caused by exhausted nerve cells, due to
overstraining work, long-continued excitement, or over-stimulated
nerves from dissipation. This condition is caused by the clamoring of
exhausted nerve cells for nourishment, rest, or recreation. Multitudes
of people suffer from despondency and melancholy, as a result of a
run-down condition physically, due to their irregular, vicious habits
and a lack of refreshing sleep.

When you are feeling "blue" or discouraged, get as complete a change of
environment as possible. Whatever you do, do not brood over your
troubles or dwell upon the things which happen to annoy you at the
time. Think the pleasantest, happiest things possible. Hold the most
charitable, loving thoughts toward others. Make a strenuous effort to
radiate joy and gladness to everybody about you. Say the kindest,
pleasantest things. You will soon begin to feel a wonderful uplift;
the shadows which darkened your mind will flee away, and the sun of joy
will light up your whole being.

Stoutly, constantly, everlastingly affirm that you will become what
your ambitions indicate as fitting and possible. Do not say, "I shall
be a success sometime"; say, "I am a success. Success is my
birthright." Do not say that you are going to be happy in the future.
Say to yourself, "I was intended for happiness, made for it, and I am
happy now."

If, however, you affirm, "I am health; I am prosperity; I am this or
that," but do not believe it, you will not be helped by affirmation.
_You must believe what you affirm and try to realise it_.

Assert your actual possession of the things you need; of the qualities
you long to have. Force your mind toward your goal; hold it there
steadily, persistently, for this is the mental state that creates. The
negative mind, which doubts and wavers, creates nothing.

"I, myself, am good fortune," says Walt Whitman. If we could only
realize that the very attitude of assuming that we are the real
embodiment of the thing we long to be or to attain, that we possess the
good things we long for, not that we possess all the qualities of good,
but that we