People
form the habits which cause nervous strain. When these habits have fixed
themselves for long enough upon their victims, the nervous give way and severe
depression or some other form of nervous prostration is the result. If such an
illness turns the attention to its cause and so starts the sufferer towards a
radical change from habits which cause nervous strain to habits which bring
nervous strength, then the illness can be the beginning of better and permanent
health.
People
must find themselves out to get well from nervous suffering. The cause of
nervous strain is so often in the character and in the way we meet
circumstances and people that it seems essential to recognize our mistakes in
that direction, and to face them squarely before we can do our part toward
removing the causes of any nervous illness.
There
is no trust without obedience and intelligent obedience begin trust.
Just
as natural tends towards health, nature tends towards the right kind of rest;
and if we have lost the true knack of resting we can just as surely find it asa
sunflower can find the sun. it is not something artificial that we are trying
to learn-it is something natural and alive. Something that belongs to us. And
again I repeat, the rushed feeling has nothing whatever to do the work before
us.
It
is the habit of resistance and resentment back of the surface annoyance which
is the serious cause of many a woman’s attack of nerves. Every woman is a slave
to every woman who annoys her.
People
in the world cannot get on our nerves unless we allow them to do so.
Plain
common sense seems to be the first and the simplest need.
It
is the intelligent master, who is a true disciple of plain common sense, who
will train his servant, the body, in the way of resting, eating and breathing,
in order to fit it for the maximum of work at the minimum of energy.
It
is the self that raises the dust. If one wishes to learn the standards of
living according to plain common sense, for body, mind and spirit, and to apply
the principles of such standards practically to their every day life, the first
absolute necessity is to get quiet and to stay quiet long enough to lay the
dust.
Very
often it is the strain of unpleasant emotions that keeps women nervous. When
she woke with burglar fright it was at once a reminder to relax.
Our
stomachs are all right if we will but fulfill their most simple conditions and
leave them alone.
Nervous
talking is a disease.
