Making friends with our nerves / by Orison Swett Marden.

  • Marden, Orison Swett, 1848-1924
Date:
1926
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Making friends with our nerves / by Orison Swett Marden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ize it by mental chemistry, by substituting the opposite belief, the opposite conviction. If you are convinced that sitting in a draft is dangerous, it will be so to you; although the great Chemist has mixed the air in the draft with the ingredients which will induce health and strength. There is nothing in the air that can hurt one except through his belief and ex¬ pectation of harm! There are many things that injure us be¬ cause we expect they will injure us. Other people do not get harm from them because they do not expect it; so that it can not be from the nature of the thing itself that harm comes. We are not injured while out in a wind that blows a gale, and why should we be injured by being in a little draft? The scientific explan¬ ation is that a draft cools only a certain part of the body, causing local suggestion; whereas if the same draft blew upon us from all sides it would not injure us, even if we were almost entirely unclothed. In defying the old race thought regarding injury which comes from wet feet and from being in a draft, we must, of course, use our