Effect of Thought on Health

“Effect of Thought on Health and the Body

[By James Allen]

The first thought is one I sent to my teenage daughter a while ago. The second one was one I sent to other friends and colleagues involved with Personnel Management. I am sending you both for you might find them valuable.

You might find this cool; yeah, very cool to help you stay healthy. Aside from taking medicine to get rid of colds, taking supplemental vitamins, eating healthy, working out to stay fit, you know already that how we think, what thoughts individually we have can be helpful to staying healthy and getting healthier. The literature below describes how you might use your mind to help you stay healthy.

Thanks,

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You might find this very interesting. While we, weather ourselves or our employees, often must see the medical doctors and follow treatment, how we think, what thoughts individually we have can be helpful to staying healthy and getting healthier just as they have the ability to be harmful which has the negative impact of rising health insurance costs and perhaps workers compensation, too. The literature below describes how you might use them to stay healthy. Maybe we ought to train our own employees in the thought process to recovery from worker’s compensation claims.

Sincerely,

Rom Antony Day, B.A. Industrial and Organizational Psychology with Marketing Minor, 1994, San Francisco State University (SFSU), San Francisco, California, U S A

An Individual American (Citizen of The United States of America), Thinker, doer and Founder of PAC BAC

PAC BAC is A Volunteer Club of Career Minded SFSU Alumni from the Psychology and Business programs

“Effect Of Thought On Health And The Body

The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the

mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed. At the bidding of unlawful thoughts the body sinks rapidly into disease and decay; at the command of glad and beautiful thoughts it becomes clothed with youthfulness and beauty.

Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought.

Sickly thoughts will express themselves through a sickly body. Thoughts of fear have been known to kill a man as speedily as a bullet, and they are continually killing thousands of people just as surely though less rapidly. The people who live in fear of disease are the people who get it. Anxiety quickly demoralizes the whole body, and lays it open to the, entrance of disease; while impure thoughts, even if not physically indulged, will soon shatter the nervous system.

Strong, pure, and happy thoughts build up the body in vigour and

grace. The body is a delicate and plastic instrument, which responds readily to the thoughts by which it is impressed, and habits of thought will produce their own effects, good or bad, upon it.

Men will continue to have impure and poisoned blood, so long as they

propagate unclean thoughts. Out of a clean heart comes a clean life and a clean body. Out of a defiled mind proceeds a defiled life and a corrupt body. Thought is the fount of action, life, and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.

Change of diet will not help a man who will not change his thoughts.

When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food.

Clean thoughts make clean habits. The so-called saint who does not

wash his body is not a saint. He who has strengthened and purified his thoughts does not need to consider the malevolent microbe.

If you would protect your body, guard your mind. If you would renew

your body, beautify your mind. Thoughts of malice, envy, disappointment, despondency, rob the body of its health and grace. A sour face does not come by chance; it is made by sour thoughts. Wrinkles that mar are drawn by folly, passion, and pride.

I know a woman of ninety-six who has the bright, innocent face of a

girl. I know a man well under middle age whose face is drawn into inharmonious contours. The one is the result of a sweet and sunny disposition; the other is the outcome of passion and discontent.

As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you admit the

air and sunshine freely into your rooms, so a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and goodwill and serenity.

On the faces of the aged there are wrinkles made by sympathy,

others by strong and pure thought, and others are carved by passion: who cannot distinguish them? With those who have lived righteously, age is calm, peaceful, and softly mellowed, like the setting sun. I have recently seen a philosopher on his deathbed. He was not old except

in years. He died as sweetly and peacefully as he had lived.

There is no physician like cheerful thought for dissipating the ills

of the body; there is no comforter to compare with goodwill for dispersing the shadows of grief and sorrow. To live continually in thoughts of ill will, cynicism, suspicion, and envy, is to be confined in a self made prison-hole. But to think well of all, to be cheerful with all, to patiently learn to find the good in all--such

unselfish thoughts are the very portals of heaven; and to dwell day by day

in thoughts of peace toward every creature will bring abounding peace to their possessor” (As A Man Thinketh by James Allen

Broad Park Avenue, IIfracombe, England; Printed in the United States of

America).