Few people realize how largely their health depends upon the saneness of their thinking. You cannot hold ill-health thoughts, disease thoughts, in the mind without having them outpictured in the body. The thought will appear in the body somewhere, and its quality will determine the results—sound or unsound, healthful or unhealthful. As it is impossible for a person to remain absolutely pure who habitually holds pictures of impurity in the imagination, so it is just as impossible to be healthy while holding the disease thought. There cannot be harmony in the body with disease in the mind.The health stream, if polluted at all, is polluted at the fountain-head—in the thought, in the ideal.
The different organs seem to be especially susceptible to certain kinds of mental influence. Excessive selfishness, covetousness, envy, especially affect the liver and the spleen. Hatred and anger have a very aggravating influence upon some diseases of the kidneys. Jealousy seriously affects both the liver and the heart.
If there is fear, worry, anxiety in the mind, the heart's action indicates it quickly. There is no doubt that where mental discord, such as worry, anxiety and jealousy, have become chronic, the heart suffers accordingly. Thousands of people have died from heart troubles which have been induced by mental discord.
Dr. Snow in the London Lancet asserts his conviction that the vast majority of cases of cancer, especially of breast and uterine cancer, are due to mental anxiety and worry. Jaundice from anxiety is reported by Dr. Churton in the British Medical Journal. The liver is affected very materially by discordant thought. Jaundice often follows great mental shocks, especially frequent great and prolonged outbursts of temper.It is well known that many people are made bilious by long-continued despondency and worry.
Dr. Murchison, an eminent authority, says :
"I have been surprised how often patients with primary cancer of the liver have traced the cause of this ill-health to protracted grief or anxiety. The cases have been far too numerous to be accounted for as mere coincidences."
The functions of the skin are seriously affected by the emotions. Sir B. W. Richardson, in his work " The Field of Disease," says :
"Eruptions on the skin will follow excessive mental strain. In all these, and in cancer, epilepsy, and mania from mental causes, there is a predisposition. It is remarkable," he adds, " how little the question of the origin of physical disease from mental influences has been studied."
We can never gain health by contemplating disease, any more than we can reach perfection by dwelling upon imperfection, or harmony by dwelling upon discord. We should keep a high ideal of health and harmony constantly before the mind ; and we should fight every discordant thought and every enemy of harmony as we would fight a temptation to crime. Never affirm or repeat about your health what you do not wish to be true. Do not dwell upon your ailments nor study your symptoms. Physicians tell us that perfect health is impossible to the self-dissector,who is constantly thinking of himself,studying himself, and forever on the alert for the least symptom of disease.
Orison Swett Marden
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