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The mesmerism of years does more to shorten life
than all the so-called disease germs of the earth. It robs
man of the needed life-giving, life-sustaining atmosphere on which
the mortal body lives. It takes from man the youth tints and
colors that are necessary to produce youth and maintain it in all
its freshness.
Rise above the mesmerism of years if you would
retain youth. Then the lines of age will not be manifest in
your face. You will stand erect at 100 or more and your step
will have the elasticity of youth, for your thoughts and your
viewpoint are building your atmosphere and will be reflected in
your body. After 50 the mesmerism of age slowly comes into
your thought consciously or unconsciously; you remember your
father's hair was gray at 55 and your grandfather's at 50, so you
accept it as inevitable and do not attempt to resist it. At
60 you daily think of the friends who are passing away and wonder
how much longer you may last. Pains come in your
joints. You accept them as an indication of years. You
give your system just the atmosphere needed to produce more
pains. There is no resistance.
Were you to find a burglar in your room attempting
to steal you would resist him with all your power, but the
greatest burglar of all --Age -- is not resisted. Though
fearing and hating it, you encourage it. At 70 you daily
think you are within five years of the so-called allotted span of
human life and wonder if you will reach it. One-half your
time you consciously or unconsciously wonder how near the end you
are. You are weakening each hour the life atmosphere on
which the body lives. Could you see your atmosphere you
would understand how weak it was becoming and how necessary it was
to arouse yourself to a realization of the youth consciousness to
combat this mesmerism of years. At 80 you figure you have
perhaps lived longer than any relative you can remember. You
expect weakness and accept decrepitude as your lot. You
accept the admonition of those near you that you are not as young
as you once were and that you must be very careful; your
atmosphere is depleted each day until there remains no life force
to sustain the mortal body, and that which you greatly feared has
come upon you. Why not resist this the mesmerism of
age? It is not an impossible thing to do. Think youth
thoughts and age will lose its power.
Understand that Moses at 120 had perfect eyes and
his natural force was not abated; that Isaac did not give up until
180 years of age; that Job lived to 140 years of age. Smash
the belief of three-score-years-and-ten. Get in the Job
consciousness. If you cannot grasp that, fall back on the
Moses consciousness and reach out for 120. You are the
master of years. It is your inheritance to have and to hold
life and you can do it just as long as your vision will allow you
to build the needed atmosphere on which to feed your mortal
machine or body --the atmosphere that allows it to function life.
If you cannot look in the mirror without seeing
the marks of years, do not look until you have acquired the youth
consciousness and allowed it to fill your mind and thought
brimful. Make a practice of smiling and your reflection in
the glass. It will make you look and feel younger and have a
tremendous influence on your atmosphere. Affirm youth before
you go to sleep. Affirm it when you awake. Walk the
streets full of the conscious conviction that you are young --that
you are youth. Feel life vibrating through you with each
step. Affirm youth and all it represents --bright eyes and
glowing cheeks, elastic step and graceful bearing, and you will
develop an atmosphere that will enable you to retain the natural
color of your hair, your eyes will not grow dim, and you may as
Moses did, reach the age of 120 with your natural forces not
abated.
The late Dr. Metchnikoff of the Pasteur Institute
of Paris said that men should live to at least 120 years of
age, so you see that Moses did the proper thing and while he led
the children of Israel out of the wilderness, he also brought
himself out of the old age thought which is indeed a wilderness
for the majority of men.
There resides in New York a gentleman 78 years of
age. His hair has retained its natural color; there are no
lines of age on his face and you would not consider he was over
45. A friend asked him and his answer was --"I never
allow age to enter my mind; I always think youth." If
this gentleman could do this, you can. He understood How to
Live and Grow Young.
The London Lancet a number of years ago
stated a case where a woman went insane at the age of 20 and never
realized the passing of years, always believing herself to be
20. At the age of 79 she still retained the appearance of
youth.
The above two cases prove age can be defeated by
changing your belief and breaking the mesmerism of years. If
you feel any force or power is growing weaker or that you have
lost it, run after it and command it to come back. If your
hand begins to tremble, do not accept it as a necessary affliction
and expect it to grow worse and perhaps develop into palsy, for
this picture has creative power and if your fear is strong enough
your body will produce it. Know that it is only the false
mesmerism of years that has brought about this condition and break
the mesmerism. You can talk to your hand. Command it
to be still and assure it that it is just as steady as it ever
was. Tell it that you will not allow it to manifest anything
but youth and command and demand it to gracefully perform its
proper functions, and it will obey you, for you are the master of
your body if you will assume the mastery.
Stand before the window each morning and for five
minutes think of the sun kissing and gladdening the earth, just as
vital and life-sustaining as it was ten years ago. See all
your faculties and the organs of your body just as vigorous as
they were ten years ago. Say a dozen times --I am strength,
I am power. Affirm this with feeling nad know that your word
is law which cannot be broken by the false belief of the world and
you will break the mesmerism of years and Live and Grow Young.
Emerson says, "We do not count a man's years
until he has nothing else to count," so keep on moving, keep
on achieving and give the world something else to count in your
case.
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