NUGGETS OF THE NEW THOUGHT/PART 27
MENTAL TOXIN AND
ANTI-TOXIN.
A new toxin—The microbes in the thoughts we think—The new
anti-toxin—Thoughts may poison—Fear causes paralysis—Hate causes insanity — Fear
and Hate have killed their thousands — Gates' experiments — How to overcome the
poison of bad-thinking.
In these
days of toxin and anti-toxin—of poison in sausages, oysters, canned beef, ice
cream—of anti-toxin serums (that often are more deadly than the original toxin)
for the prevention and cure of tuberculosis, leprosy, pneumonia, typhoid fever,
tetanus, bubonic plague, diphtheria, and the rest of the list, it requires
courage to call the attention of the public to a new "toxin," even if
at the same time we furnish an anti-toxin that "anti-toxicates."
We shudder
at the thought of microbes and bacilli—and thereby attract them to us; we
filter our drinking water, after boiling all the life out of it; we develop
into microbe hunters, and see poison in everything we wear, eat, drink or
breathe. But we overlook the microbes in the thoughts we think. We encourage
the enterprising doctor in his giddy chase after the nimble dollar, as he
produces anti-toxin serums to order. The poor, broken-down cart horse is worked
overtime in producing filthy pus and serum for the serum-maniac to inject into
our circulation. But we overlook the pure, harmless, powerful anti-toxin
obtained fresh from the cells of the brain—Right Thinking.
That
Thoughts may poison, is a well-proven fact. Depressing thoughts interfere with
the cerebral circulation, impairing the nutrition of the cells and nerve
centers. The result is that the organs and tissues manifest lost or impaired
function—loss of general nutrition follows—and a break-down is inevitable.
Fear, worry, anger, envy, jealousy, and other negative thoughts, reflect
themselves most disastrously in the human system. Fear has paralyzed nerve
centers, and turned the hair white over night. A mother's milk has been
poisoned by a fit of anger. Fear and Hate—father and son—have produced
insanity, idiocy, paralysis, cholerina, jaundice, sudden decay of teeth, fatal
anaemia, skin diseases, erysipelas, and eczema. Epidemics owe their rapid
spread and heavy death rate to Fear and Ignorance. Epidemics may kill their
dozens—Fear kills its thousands. All the brood of negative, fearful, selfish,
hateful thoughts manifest themselves in physical conditions. Stigmata or marks
upon the body, caused by fear or desire, are quite common in the annals of
medical science and psychology.
Professor
Gates, of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., in his investigation
of the effect of mental states upon the body, found that irascible, malevolent
and depressing emotions generated in the system injurious compounds, some of
which were extremely poisonous; he also found that agreeable, happy emotions,
generated chemical compounds of nutritious value, which stimulated the cells to
manufacture energy. He says: "Bad and unpleasant feelings create harmful
chemical products in the body which are physically injurious. Good, pleasant,
benevolent feelings create beneficial chemical products which are physically
healthful. These products may be detected by chemical analysis in
the perspiration and secretions of the individual. More than forty of the good,
and as many of the bad, have been detected. Suppose half a dozen men in a room.
One feels depressed, another remorseful, another ill-tempered, another jealous,
another cheerful, another benevolent. Samples of their perspiration are placed
in the hands of the psycho-physicist. Under his examination they reveal all
these emotional conditions distinctly and unmistakably." Remember, this is
not "the airy fancy of some enthusiastic Mental Scientist," but is
the testimony of a leading scientific investigator in the laboratories of the
Smithsonian Institution, one of the best known scientific institutions of the
world. "Chemical analysis," mind you — not "transcendental imaginings."
Now I have
said enough about the toxin and some little about the anti-toxin of the Mind. I
might go on for hours, stating example after example; illustration after
illustration, but the tale would be just the same. Now what are you going to do
about it? Are you going to keep on poisoning yourself and those around you with
vile, malignant thoughts reeking with the miasmatic effluvia of Hate—emitting
the noxious exhalation of Fear and Worry? Or will you cease being a psychic
pest-house, and begin to fumigate and disinfect your Mind? And after getting
rid of all the microbes of Fear and Worry and the bacilli of Hate, Jealousy and
Envy, open wide the windows of the Mind and admit the bright Sunshine of Love,
and the bracing air of Confidence and Fearlessness.
Come,
friends, let us get out of this habit of poisoning the air with Fear, Worry and
Hate Thought. Let us join the ranks of the Don't Worry company—the Fearless
brigade—the invincible, conquering army of Love. Let us be bright, cheerful and
happy—the other things are not worth while. Let us be Confident, Expectant,
Hopeful and Fearless—these things are winners. Let us be filled with Love for
all men—and we will find that Life is one sweet song. Love, Faith and
Fearlessness, are the ingredients of Life's great Anti-Toxin. Try it and be
blessed.
END OF THIS BOOK.
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