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To Live and Grow Young, to build a strong body in
a vital life-producing atmosphere, you must understand the power
of the sub-conscious mind; you must understand the action
and duty of the cell life that builds and rebuilds your body which
is working at all times and never slumbers or sleeps. All of
your thoughts, hopes and ambitions are daily registered on this
sub-conscious mind, even more readily than conversation and music
is registered on the disc of the phonograph; therefore, you must
guard with great care the impression that is registered on your
sub-conscious mind, for that which is registered the cells will
take up and reproduce in your body. The cell life receives
its orders from the sub-conscious mind. Consider that each
cell of your body has ears and be careful what is whispered into
these ears, what you tell your sub-conscious mind, for whatever it
is the cells will consider as orders and build accordingly.
They have no other source of information. If you tell your
sub-conscious mind you have a weak body, this mind will pass the
orders on to the billions of cells at work and they will build you
a weak body. If you inform the sub-conscious mind that you
are growing old, your body will manifest age. This cell life
is impartial and faithfully carries out your orders. The
cell life will dance to the tune your sub-conscious mind sings to
it, so consider how important it is to make good records for your
sub-conscious mind to sing. In the material phonograph, if
you do not like a disc, you need not use it, but the sub-conscious
phonograph will play the ones your mood calls for, be they
favorable or unfavorable.
You are the architect of your body --the master
builder. Your sub-conscious mind is the superintendent; the
cells are the workmen and will carry out the orders the
superintendent gives them. Few men realize that they have
the power to build or rebuild themselves as they desire. If
a man really desires to do so, he can rebuild himself in such wise
that practically nothing but his name will remain. If
gloomy, he can make himself happy; if lazy, he can make himself
alert and active. It's all in the orders given to the
sub-conscious mind.
If you own a lot with an old three-story building
on it, you can tear it down and have just the kind of a building
you wish constructed. You go to the architect and say:
"Draw me plans for a six-story building, granite front,
terra-cotta trimmings, steel-construction." After the
architect has the order for that kind of building, he does not sit
down on the street and wait for the material to come by --not by
any means. First he draws the plans; then eh orders the kind
and amount of material he needs to construct the building a, and,
as it progresses, he keeps his eyes on the plans and
specifications and carefully watches the material that goes into
the building to see that it conforms to the specifications.
Body building is the same. Draw up
specifications for the kind of a body you want, order from the
Quarry of Thought the kind of material you desire, then watch
these thoughts as they go into action and are recorded on the
sub-conscious mind. See if they are what you ordered.
If not, reject them. Draw also specifications for the ideals
you wish to express. Don't embalm these ideals. Use
them, for, as muscles in constant use grow stronger, so will these
ideals grow stronger. Record them in the sub-conscious mind,
irrigate and cultivate them, and soon you will live in an ideal
atmosphere that will attract the best to you; that will enable you
to weather the storm of adversity. Your sub-conscious
phonograph will play only songs of rejoicing and you will Live and
Grow Young, for, "All things respond to the call of
rejoicing, all things gather where life is a song."
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