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If you are ill in mind or body, remember that it is natural to be well,
and that within your body nature has stored the most wonderful forces
which are always tending towards the normal, or health, if not
obstructed or hindered.

Nature sometimes needs help to stimulate those forces, or to reinforce
them, or to remove obstructions. This is where the physician comes in.
But you yourself can aid nature the most by realizing that _nature is
health and it is normal to be well_. By so doing, all of your organs
function better and you are restored to normal more rapidly.

[Sidenote: _Sleep_]

[Sidenote: _Fresh Air_]

Second: It is very important to have enough sleep. Dr. Richard Cabot
says that probably resistance is lowered as much by lack of sufficient
sleep as by any other factor, and that all you can soak into your system
in twenty-four hours is not too much. Don't forget the fresh air.

You generally suffer from sleeplessness, I believe. The overweights are
always advised not to sleep too much. They will find while reducing that
they won't want to sleep so much, anyway. They will like to stay
awake--they feel so much happier.

[Sidenote: _Sometimes_]

Now, when you retire and try to sleep but cannot, try this--it works
with me. You know when you are passing over your mental images become
distorted and grotesque. I artificially induce that state. If I find
myself rehearsing about two hundred times, with appropriate gestures,
the keen, witty, logical remarks which I could have made in favor of my
pet legislation in the club discussion, but didn't, then I begin after
this fashion:

Pink elephants with green ribbons on their tails--red rhinoceri (is that
right, or should it be rhinoceroses?)--smiling peanuts--Woman's City
Club--Social Health Insurance--why didn't I say--I wish I had
said--(here get out, you annoyance!)--pink elephants--and so forth and
so forth.

[Sidenote: _Picture of Pink Elephant Adorned_]

[Sidenote: _Woe Is Me_]

Now I realize I have ruined myself. I am my own worst enemy. I have
exposed my whole life before those modern vivisectionists, the army of
amateur psycho-analysts.

[Sidenote: _Exercise_]

Third: Exercise. Great muscular exertion should be avoided, but the
setting-up exercises that I advise, if begun with moderation and
increased gradually, will undoubtedly stimulate the appetite and help
the body functions to be better performed.

[Sidenote: _Food_]

Fourth: Since f