"In the healthy body every cell is polarized in subjection to the
Central Will. Perfect health, therefore, is orderly obedience,
government and harmony. Every cell is a living entity, whether of
vegetable or animal potency, and wherever disease is, there are
disunion, error, rebellion and insubordination; and the deeper the seat
of the confusion, the more dangerous the malady and the harder to quell
it." J. C. Street.
The thought of the above quotation does not
mean that the insubordination is necessarily conscious to the diseased
individual, but that it surely obtains within the physical arena of his
life. Because it is not the outcome of his deliberate choice, the case
is not hopeless in the nature of things, but is open to better
conditions. The deeper self which has intended no rebellion against the
laws of bodily well-being may now distinctly intend harmony, and so lift
the body to a higher plane.
And the last sentence in the
quotation does not mean that you are to undertake a vast amount of hard
work, assuming that you are not in perfect physical condition. You are,
rather, just to begin and go on thinking yourself in a real way as in
harmony with the Central Will, which is our White Life, and to hold
steadfastly in the deeper self the ideas, Affirmation and Realization of
Splendid Personal Tone.
Some of the meanings of these powerful
words will be unfolded later, In the meantime, as all things are subject
to law, let us observe a number of the general conditions to three-fold
health, that of body, mind and the inner self, regarding their totality
as the atmosphere, so to speak, in which courage most easily and
perfectly thrives.
Fear in man is a result of repeated suggestion,
to which low health-tone is a natural invitation. Health is the primary
tonic against fear. Perfect physical health is mere strength. Perfect
mental health is mere brain sanity. Perfect soul-health is the whole of
the man at his best. When the body is buoyant, the mind clear and
inspired, the soul harmonic with all existence rightly in the universe,
then is the impulse of fear easily mastered and the habit of fear finds
no encouragement. There are, indeed, courageous invalids who have not
come into the secret of right thought so far as health is concerned, and
fearing atheltes and scholars who have neglected the secret of courage,
and timorous saints who have failed to possess themselves of the
confidence of goodness. Nevertheless, the eternal law is evident that
the one great enemy of fear is The White Life in Harmonic Mind in
Buoyant Body.
A person who affirms and realizes these conditions
must, in the nature of things, be possessed of perfect health. In the
tone of such health courage is inevitable.
That you may come to
this ideal, you are invited to observe the following instructions.
Health is a trinity, and we may begin our studies with its natural
basis:
The general tone op health.
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The
word "tone" means, "sound in relation to volume, quality, duration and
pitch," then, "peculiar characteristic sound as of a voice or
instrument," then, "characteristic style or tendency, predominating aim
or character, tenor, strain, spirit."
Hence, in the sense of
health, tone signifies "the state of tension or firmness proper to the
tissues of the body; the state in which all the parts and organs have
due tension or are well strung; the strength and activity of the organs
on which healthy functions depend; that state of the body in which all
the normal functions are performed with healthy vigor".
We thus see that health-tone involves the whole personality, physical, mental and moral.
But
the truth of the matter hides in a deeper region than that of mere
material flesh or organ. Matter is a form of the Universal Ether, so far
as science seems to declare, or, at least, matter presupposes the ether
in a state of vibration. Your body is a "field" in which etheric
vibrations are constantly taking place. All its reality and all its
activities involve such vibrations. The brain, regarded as the organ of
conscious life, of thought and feeling, and the entire nervous system,
involve such vibrations. And as your thought and feeling constitute the
foundation of your moral character, the latter also becomes a matter of
movements in the ether.
In the case of heat, light, electricity,
etc., differing kinds of such vibrations determine the kinds of
phenomena. We may say, then, that there is one general kind of
ether-movement for matter, and another for thought and feeling, and
another for the moral life. Each individual, however, presents
variations of these general kinds of vibrations, a particular variation
for his body, and for his mental person, and for his right or wrong
self-spirit. We individualize the ether, Or, we are individualized as we
use the ether.
The tone of a person's health is determined by the state of the etheric movements characteristic to himself.
If
the vibrations underlying the body life are full and harmonious
according to their individual character for a person, his organs are all
sound and active. He possesses physical tone. If there is a similar
fullness and harmony within his mental life, he must exhibit health of
mind. If a corresponding condition obtains in the moral personality, the
highest health of the deeper self prevails.
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