Making friends with our nerves / by Orison Swett Marden.

  • Marden, Orison Swett, 1848-1924
Date:
1926
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Credit: Making friends with our nerves / by Orison Swett Marden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    worry, every time we are anxious. Every bit of fear that gains entrance to our mind means a loss of nervous force; every fit of anger, jealousy or selfishness means the giving up of nervous energy, of life force which might be worked up into things worth while. Unhappiness means leakage of nervous force; disagreeable experiences, loss of self- control, lack of poise, twitching, hitching about and nervous movements of all kinds, mean leaks of nervous force; and this lost force is precious energy, and you need every bit of it in your career. You can’t afford to leave these leaks of power open. When the proprietor is not sawing lumber or grinding grain in the factory he closes the water gates and shuts off his power. But multitudes of people never shut off their power at all; and then they wonder why they are nervous, why they feel exhausted all the time; they wonder why they* are so tired at night. It is not the work they do, so much as all these leaks, the stewing and fault-finding; for all these things mean leakage of nervous energy. Does it pay? Have you ever gained any¬ thing by it? Aren’t you about tired of losing