PHYSICAL PERFECTION
~ Ernest Holmes
Why People Become Fatigued
"Let a person say to himself, "I am overworked," and at once there will come up through his consciousness a belief in weariness. People who are constantly complaining of being tired are hypnotized into this belief through the law of race suggestion. An instance of this is the belief that one more than forty years of age is easily fatigued, cannot engage in strenuous exercise of any kind, and must work fewer hours each day. This race suggestion has hypnotized the entire world. Only a few people past forty dare to undertake new endeavors and engage in activities with the same enthusiasm they did at twenty-five. At what we term middle-age, all too many complain of habitual fatigue. Usually this is attributed to over-exertion, or general dissipation of the reserves, but frequently, when analyzed, the mental cause will be discovered as a deep-seated resistance to conditions which the patient has found himself unable to change.
Suppose someone had been bound by mental confusion, that desires had torn him and conflicts had entered into his life, what would have occurred? He would have been continually dropping opposing thoughts into his mentality; and as the mental action - the friction - took place, it might produce a very tired body; and if over-chaotic, it might produce what is known as nervous prostration. It would not, however, be the body that was sick, but a condition brought about through wrong thought.
Now, if subjective thought were a thing apart from us, if we did not have conscious access to it, we could not change it; but being the result of the way thought has worked, we can consciously change it. If this were not true, mental healing would be impossible.
We can free ourselves from a feeling of approaching fatigue, by knowing that we have within us - always immediately available - an Infinite Strength. As we allow the thought of this to enter our inner consciousness, we feel strong, vital, and equal to any emergency. "Know ye not that ye are the temple of the living God?" This power within you is the same that holds the planets in space. The power back of your word is perfect law and is fulfilled and returned to you as your perfect strength."
~ Ernest Holmes
Why People Become Fatigued
"Let a person say to himself, "I am overworked," and at once there will come up through his consciousness a belief in weariness. People who are constantly complaining of being tired are hypnotized into this belief through the law of race suggestion. An instance of this is the belief that one more than forty years of age is easily fatigued, cannot engage in strenuous exercise of any kind, and must work fewer hours each day. This race suggestion has hypnotized the entire world. Only a few people past forty dare to undertake new endeavors and engage in activities with the same enthusiasm they did at twenty-five. At what we term middle-age, all too many complain of habitual fatigue. Usually this is attributed to over-exertion, or general dissipation of the reserves, but frequently, when analyzed, the mental cause will be discovered as a deep-seated resistance to conditions which the patient has found himself unable to change.
Suppose someone had been bound by mental confusion, that desires had torn him and conflicts had entered into his life, what would have occurred? He would have been continually dropping opposing thoughts into his mentality; and as the mental action - the friction - took place, it might produce a very tired body; and if over-chaotic, it might produce what is known as nervous prostration. It would not, however, be the body that was sick, but a condition brought about through wrong thought.
Now, if subjective thought were a thing apart from us, if we did not have conscious access to it, we could not change it; but being the result of the way thought has worked, we can consciously change it. If this were not true, mental healing would be impossible.
We can free ourselves from a feeling of approaching fatigue, by knowing that we have within us - always immediately available - an Infinite Strength. As we allow the thought of this to enter our inner consciousness, we feel strong, vital, and equal to any emergency. "Know ye not that ye are the temple of the living God?" This power within you is the same that holds the planets in space. The power back of your word is perfect law and is fulfilled and returned to you as your perfect strength."
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