d is the best mode of rest.
Rest also results from normal functioning. A person can sit or stand in
true poise, giving freedom to breathing, and be able to rest much more
truly than in an unnatural, abnormal, collapsed condition.

This can be well illustrated by the fact that when a person starts out
to walk with the chest slumped, the head hung down and with all the
vital organs cramped, he comes back more weary than rested.

In walking we should, as has been shown, keep the chest well expanded,
the body elevated, co-ordinating all the normal relations of parts. If
we walk in this way it tends to rest rather than to weary us.

Therefore stand sympathetically expanded and easily tall. Walk in the
same way and sit in the same way. Let there be a certain exhilaration
and a sense of satisfaction.

4. HOW TO LIE DOWN

Dr. Lyman Beecher said that one should always assume a horizontal
posture in the middle of the day. The heart, he said, had less difficult
work to pump the blood horizontally than vertically.

Henry Ward Beecher attributed his power to do a great deal more work
than ordinary men to this habit of his life of always resting in the
middle of the day.

He justified his habit by quoting from his father, using even his
father's antique pronunciation of "poster."

There is no doubt truth in this. To one very active and who performs a
great deal of work it brings a variety of positions and greater rhythm.
It rests the vital organs. It brings a harmonious repose and relation of
parts.

Even in lying down, we find abnormal conditions. Some men cramp and
constrict themselves. The chest is allowed to collapse and the whole
body tends to be drawn together. Grief or any negative emotion of
feeling or condition destructive to health tends to act in this way.

People, therefore, should lie down properly. They should lie down, as
has been said, sympathetically and expansively long. They should
directly manifest courage rather than shrinking, joy rather than
sadness, with thankful animation rather than in a despairing state of
mind. By the expression of joy and courage and peaceful repose and with
a deep sense of the acceptance and realization of the good of life lying
down will mean more. Express this in the body by normal position, by
expansion, no matter what attitude the body may occupy. Man, whether he
chooses or not, always expresses the state of his mind in the action of
his body. And by cultivating the rig