Effects Of Thoughts On Health And Body

Effects Of Thoughts On Health And Body
by James A Allen

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 sooner shatter the nervous system.

Strong pure, and happy thoughts build up the body in vigor 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.
If you would perfect your body, guard your mind. If you would renew
your body, beautify your mind. Thoughts of malice, envy, and
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, 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 in
harmonious 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 death-bed. 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.
 
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