Habit causes disease

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.