The Untroubled Mind E-Book

Herbert J. Hall

• Herausgeber: Youcanprint
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

The place of God in healing. Expressed in the most elegant language. “I know of no bodily ill or handicap which we may not eventually rise above and beyond by means of brave spiritual progress.” The state of mind plays a vital role in one's health and happiness. Many troubles in life stem from one's untrained, undisciplined mind causing mental unrest and worry. One remedy is to know life in its farther reaches and better applications and to obtain an untroubled mind through spiritual hygiene and growth. With an untroubled mind, one can smoothly cope with the life's ups and downs, fears and regrets. This book discusses the importance and the guidance of having an untroubled mind, including mind practice and cultivation by faith, prayer, self-control, rest, lighter touch, and virtues. How are we to live the larger life? Partly through uninspired struggle and through the brave meeting of adversity, but partly, also, in a way that may be described as out of hand, by intuition, by exercise of the quality of mind. "A very wise physician has said that “every illness has two parts—what it is, and what the patient thinks about it.” What the patient thinks about it is often more important and more troublesome than the real disease. What the patient thinks of life, what life means to him is also of great importance and may be the bar that shuts out all real health and happiness.  The following pages are devoted to certain ideals of life which I would like to give to my patients, the long-time patients who have especially fallen to my lot."

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

‌I - THE UNTROUBLED MIND

‌II - RELIGIO MEDICI

‌III - THOUGHT AND WORK

‌IV - IDLENESS

‌V - RULES OF THE GAME

‌VI - THE NERVOUS TEMPERAMENT

‌VIII - THE LIGHTER TOUCH

‌IX - REGRETS AND FOREBODINGS

‌X - THE VIRTUES

‌XI - THE CURE BY FAITH

The Untroubled Mind

Herbert J. Hall

First digital edition 2018 by Anna Ruggieri

‌PREFACE

A verywise physician has said that “every illness has two parts—what it is, and what the patient thinks about it.” What the patient thinks about it is often more important and more troublesome than the real disease. What the patient thinks of life, what life means to him is also of great importance and may be the bar that shuts out all real health and happiness. The following pages are devoted to certain ideals of life which I would like to give to my patients, the long-time patients who have especially fallen to my lot.

They are not all here, the steps to health and happiness. The reader may even be annoyed and baffled by my indirectness and unwillingness to be specific. That I cannot help—it is a personal peculiarity; I cannot ask any one to live by rule, because I do not believe‌that rules are binding and final. There must be character behind the rule and then the rule is unnecessary.

All that I have written has doubtless been presented before, in better ways, by wiser men, but I believe that each writer may expect to find his small public, his own particular public who can understand and profit by his teachings, having partly or wholly failed with the others. For that reason I am encouraged to write upon a subject usually shunned by medical men, being assuredof at least a small company of friendly readers.

I am grateful to a number of friends and patients who have read the manuscript of the following chapters. These reviewers have been frank and kind and very helpful. I am particularly indebted to Dr. RichardC. Cabot, who has given me much valuable assistance.‌

‌I - THE UNTROUBLED MIND

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas’d,

Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,

Raze out the written troubles of the brain,

And with some sweet oblivious antidote

Cleanse the stuff’d bosom of that perilous stuff