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Every cell in us thinks. -Thomas A. Edison.

Each cell in the body is a conscious intelligent being. -Professor Nels Quevil.

Modern science has proved that intelligence is not confined to the brain cells, but that we think as a whole, that all the cell life takes part in the thinking process.

Scientists tell us that the individual cells in a piece of flesh taken from any part of the body and placed near a certain drug which is injurious to cell life will draw away as far as they can from this injurious substance. On the other hand, when a substance friendly to cell life is placed near it the cells will draw as close as possible to this friendly substance and apparently try to absorb it. In other words, these cells manifest the power of intelligent selection, or choice.

One reason why our mental attitudes, our hopes, our fears, our joys, our sorrows, have such a tremendous influence upon our bodies, our lives, is because, as Edison says, every cell in us thinks. And since this is true, we know that every thought, every impression made on the mind, every mental attitude, affects all of the cells of the body, affects the whole organism.

We have been so accustomed to confining intelligence to the brain alone that it is difficult to think it is a product of the cellular activity of the entire body,—brain, muscles, bones, tissues, and all. In fact, we think all over. The mind is the product of activity in all the cells of the body.

The latest scientific investigations seem to show that each one of the tiny microscopical cells of a body, invisible to the naked eye, contains in itself the creative, reproducing, repairing, recreating qualities, determining the entire future of the body which these cells compose; containing the plan, the development, the limitation of growth, that is, physically considered.

Each cell is endowed with intelligence and has a consciousness of its own, and, although each one of these cells has a separate consciousness, the communal, or community cells all work together for the federation of the whole in a most orderly, scientific manner. They build, repair, renew, and maintain the entire organism of the body.

Professor Nels Quevli in his latest book, “Cell Intelligence,” says, “The cell is a conscious intelligent being, and by reason thereof plans and builds all plants and animals in the same manner as man constructs houses, railroads and other structures.” He believes that the individual cells of any animal, acting harmoniously with the entire organism, alter the plan of the animal to meet any new demand caused by the changes of habitat of the animal, such as environment, or the changes made in response to the demand for the creature’s protection, as in the case of the animals which change their colors to correspond to the coloring of the trees or the rocks upon which they live so as to make them invisible to their enemies.

Referring to the modification of the cells in the organism to meet the new demand of the animals, Professor Quevli says of the giraffe’s neck, that the primitive giraffe was forced to rely less and less upon grass and more on the leaves of trees for his food. The intelligent cells of his body began (by means of the sub-division of the cells) to lift him up on his four legs, and to stretch out his neck.

To a similar necessity the cells of the elephant species threw out his snout into a long tree trunk with a pair of handy fingers at the tip.

This scientist believes that the cells in any part of the body contain a property of memory reaching back through the ages to the primordial cells, to the beginning of life itself, and that this, with other characteristics have been passed along by the divisions of the cells. These qualities are preserved when the cells divide. All the qualities which were in the original cell before the division are passed along to each of the new halves. The new cells formed are really a part of the old one; contain everything which the original cell contained.

The cells do not increase in size with the growth of the animal which they build. The growth comes from the division of the cells, thus multiplying them. This process keeps up, for example, in the infant, until it has attained its full growth, that is, until it has filled out the plan in the individual cells themselves.

“You can clearly see,” says the professor, “the skill and experience possessed by the cells, or, more correctly speaking, by the individuals composing the cells, and which they have accumulated through the vast ages of experience and handed on to posterity and preserved.”

We are apt to think of the body as a collection of different organs and that these organs are in a way separate, of different material or construction. But we are simply one enormous mass of tiny cells closely related to one another. Because the bones, for example, are harder than the brain, we think there can be little affinity between them, but, as a matter of fact, all the twelve different tissues of the body are made up of cells of varying consistency, all of which have come from one primordial cell— and what affects one cell anywhere in the body affects all. Each cell is an entity or little self, and we are made up of these billions of our little selves or cells.

These tiny selves are like members of a great orchestra which instantly respond to the keynote given them by their leader. Whatever tune our mentality plays they play. They become like our thought. Every suggestion, every motive that moves the individual, is reflected in these cells. Every cell in the body vibrates in unison with every thought, every emotion, every passion that sways us, and the result on the cell life corresponds with the character of the thought, the emotion or passion.

The ego is the master spirit, the leader of all the little self or cell communities. All the cells of the body will do its bidding. The ego can think health into the cells or it can think disease. It can think discord or harmony into them. It can think efficiency or inefficiency into them. It can send a success thrill or a failure thrill through all of the cells, a thrill of masterfulness or of weakness. It can send through them a vibration of fear or of courage, of selfishness or of generosity. It can send vibrating through all the cells of the body a thrill of hope or of despair, a thrill of love or of hate; a triumphant vibration or a vibration of defeat, of failure, of disgrace. In short, whatever thought the ego, or I, sends out will stamp itself on every cell in the body, will make it like itself.

Surgeons report that after a great victory, for instance, the wounds of the soldiers, as has been noticed in many similar instances, heal much more rapidly than the wounds of the soldiers in the defeated army, showing that the mental exhilaration, which accompanies the consciousness of victory, is a stimulant, a tonic, while conversely the despondency, which accompanies defeat, is also a physical depressant.

The cells are practically an extension of the brain. Each is a sub-station connected with the central station of the brain. Anger, hatred, jealousy or malice in the brain means anger, hatred, jealousy or malice in every cell in the body. Trouble in the brain means trouble everywhere. Happiness in the brain means happiness everywhere. When the mind is full of hope, bright prospects, the body is full of hope, alert, efficient, eager to work. When there is discouragement in the mind there is discouragement, despondency everywhere in the body. Ambition is paralyzed, enthusiasm blighted, efficiency strangled.

For a long time surgeons have known that certain kinds of cancer are produced by mental influences; that not only cancerous tendencies latent in the system are thus aroused and their development encouraged, but that some kinds of cancers, even when there is no previous hereditary tendency or taint may be absolutely originated in this way. This scientific conclusion has been tremendously emphasized by the great increase in the development of cancer in those who have been hard hit by the war, especially those who have lost relatives or dear friends, or whose loved ones have been frightfully mangled, maimed for life. Their peculiar mental suffering, the mingled worry, grief and anxiety of these people has aggravated cancerous tendencies and originated many new cases of cancer where no previous tendencies to that dread disease existed.

A great Paris specialist, Dr. Theodore Truffler, cites a case where a patient who showed no predisposition whatever to cancer developed it after much mourning for the loss of his two sons in battle. This grief had simulated into a real cancer eruption which before had been apparently unimportant.

Not only do worry, fear, and anxiety and great grief induce cancer, but hatred, grudges, chronic jealousy, also originate several different kinds of cancer, and very materially hasten the development of cancerous tendencies which they do not originate.

Many kinds of skin disease, kidney trouble, dyspepsia, liver trouble, brain and heart trouble, are now known to result from mental causes, such as chronic hatred and jealousy. These keep the blood and other secretions in a state of chronic poisoning, which devitalizes the whole body and encourages the development of latent disease tendencies or of disease germs.

Every physician knows that discouragement is a depressant, that melancholia will greatly increase the activity and hasten the development of physical diseases. We little realize what we are doing when we are constantly sending messages of discouragement, of fear, of worry through all the billions of cells in the body. We little realize what it means when we talk discouragement, when we give up to the “blues,” when we lose courage, faith, hope, and confidence in ourselves. It really means panic, disorganization, all through the cell life of the body. Mental depression is felt in every remotest cell. It unnerves every organ, and reduces the entire organism to a state of weakness and inefficiency, if not to utter collapse.

This is the reason why people sometimes fall in a faint from the shock of bad news, when sudden death or a frightful accident comes to those dear to them. The painful sensation it causes is not all in the head; it is not all in the brain. The effect of the shock visits every cell in the body. They are depressed all over. The whole cell life feels the shock. Every bit of bad, discouraging news, depression, fear, worry, anxiety, jealousy, hatred,—these send their disintegrating messages through all the cell colonies, all the dependencies in the body.

On the other hand, good news, the expectation of better things, the renewal of hope, confidence, the upbuilding of faith in glorious things that are coming in the near future—these act like a tonic on those who are “down and out.” They refresh and renew the entire being.

The trouble is we have been so in the habit of thinking of the body outside of the brain itself as a sort of unintelligent matter, absolutely dependent upon the control of the brain, that it is very difficult for us to grasp the truth that the intelligence, the planner, the builder, the repairer, is in each cell.

When we are wounded, for instance, we do not deliberately with our brain send a message to the cells to repair and rebuild where the damage has been done, where the tissues have been lacerated or cut away. The cells themselves do that, they are the builders. They built the body originally; and they maintain and repair it.

Professor Quevli says that in each division of the cell, or nucleus, a crowd of skilled workers, intelligent builders, exist. He believes in the interesting theory that the planner of the cell, the planner of the individual, is in the microscopical cell itself. How could we imagine a force molding, fashioning, creating, modifying, changing, nourishing, to exist outside of the cell life! The only sound theory is that this force or intelligence is an indestructible part of the cell life itself, that it is the great cosmic intelligence everywhere present. It is life itself; we cannot image it absent from any atom, molecule, or electron in existence, any more than we can image a spot where the mathematical law does not apply, or that two and two do not make four.

Some of our most advanced scientists believe that the cells of the different organs of the body constitute what we may term a community, mind or brain, which presides over the life and functions of each particular organ. These community brains, such as the stomach, the liver, the kidneys, the heart, get their instructions from the great central station of intelligence,—the brain.

Every cell in the body is an energetic little worker, incessantly laboring for the community to which it belongs. Take, for example, the group of cells which form the liver. The office of this organ is to secrete bile, manufacture sugar, and eliminate poisons which might be fatal to other organs, such as the kidneys. Every cell is occupied in this important work.

Another group of these tiny cell workers, that which forms the heart, are continually busy in the service of this great central organ. Its duty is to keep the blood in circulation, never to let it stop an instant, day or night.

A third group of these wonder workers form the stomach. The office of the stomach is to begin the process of digestion, to manufacture from the blood the acid which helps to disintegrate the food. It also does much of the work which the teeth were intended to do, but which we usually neglect.

Another community of cells constitutes the kidneys. Their office is to strain out of the blood the poisons which the other organs have not eliminated, and which if allowed to remain would injure the more vital organs.

Here is a group which forms the thyroid gland, whose work is to store up certain salts and other substances for future use, and to assist in regulating the nutrition and the heat of the body.

And here is another group, perhaps the most important, which forms the leader of all the other community centers—the brain. This thinking organ is the seat of distribution of all orders through the marvelous system of nerves, which run from the great central station to every corner of the body, communicating instantly with every one of the billions of the cell citizens in the whole system.

Like those in all the other organs, each cell of the brain is constantly at work. Now, these billions of workers, all specialists in their line, no cell doing the work delegated to another, are dependent on the nourishment which they get from the blood. If the blood is poor, thin, deteriorated by imperfect or insufficient food, or if it is poisoned by dissipation or by wrong thinking, then their work as builders suffers accordingly.

When the blood for any reason is thus impoverished the cells of the stomach and other digestive organs are too feeble to do their work properly. And when the food is not properly digested, it putrefies and the poisons it generates are absorbed by the body, causing trouble everywhere throughout the system. The heart action is impaired. The circulation of the blood is poor, and all the tissues suffer from lack of nutrition. The vigor of the body is depreciated, because the digestive organs cannot manufacture force, robustness, out of vitiated blood. The billions of cells suffer from malnutrition, or semi-starvation, and your powers begin to wane. There is a lack of vim and force and fire in your efforts. The cry for food, for nutrition, from the suffering cells goes to the brain. It convinces you that something is the matter, and you say you are sick, you are down and out, you don’t feel like anything. Your ambition sags, and off you go to a drug store or a doctor for a tonic, a stimulant, something which will brace you up, make you feel better. Perhaps you go to a saloon and get one bracer after another, with nothing but feeble, temporary results. Then you begin to fear you are going to be laid up, that you are developing some disease. The terrors of a possible breakdown add its poisoned burden to the already poor, vitiated blood, and matters grow worse.

Instead of radically remedying such an unfortunate condition by satisfying the intelligent cry of the cells, most people begin to add the whip to the tired horse as a stimulant, a tonic, when the horse needs nothing but good wholesome food and rest, harmony in the mental kingdom.

Everywhere in the body Nature tries to save us from our ignorance, our mistakes, our animal appetites, our dissipations, our wrong thinking. Every cell in the body is constantly on guard, trying to help us, trying to save us from our own ignorance and sins.

Much of what we call intuitive perception is due to the cell intelligence in the various parts of the body. What is it, for instance, that tells us when we have eaten enough to supply the bodily needs? The brain does not know it, because none of the food which we eat at an ordinary meal has had time to affect the brain before the appetite has been satisfied. What is the appetite? It is the demand for nourishment from the different cells of the body. It is not located in any one place. The cells call for food, and it is their intelligence that makes this call. We say we instinctively feel when we have eaten enough. We do not want any more and our appetite declines. But this knowledge does not come from the brain alone. It is a feeling of all the cells of the body, that there is sufficient in the stomach to supply its needs. The appetite wanes accordingly, but it must be intelligence back of this which makes this decision. The brain cells simply make a call for their own needs; they do not make calls for the liver, the heart, the kidneys, the muscles.

The mental healing of disease rests upon the fact that intelligence is not confined to the brain, but that there is intelligence in the cells of the body generally, as has been proved in the case of the deaf, dumb and blind. In their efforts at self-expression these people have developed the intelligence of the finger tips to such an extent that actual gray matter cells, similar to those in the brain, have been found there. In other words, gray brain cells are developed in the finger tips of the blind.

It is well known that this gray brain matter found in the finger tips of the blind is also found in other parts of the system, especially in many ramifications of the spinal nerves. It is found everywhere along the tract of the nervous system.

Walking and all of the involuntary movements of the body are controlled by the intelligence of the local cells. ‘We do not stop and premeditate, or will, every step. We take each one automatically, without any exercise of the will. An intelligence outside the brain must also keep up the heart beats and the breathing while the brain is unconscious during sleep, and even while we are awake, for we make no conscious effort at any time to keep up these functions.

Nor does the expert pianist think of the movements of his fingers when he is playing. In fact, he may all the time be thinking of something else. His mind may be wandering, and yet he plays intelligently because intelligent cells are distributed throughout his muscular nervous system.

To say that the brain educates the spinal column and the nervous branches to perform this piano miracle is no scientific explanation. The only satisfactory explanation is that all the cells of the body are intelligent, that we think as a whole. We have inherited the race belief that thinking is confined to the brain. But the fact is the difference between the brain cells and the cells in other parts of the body is not nearly so great as we once thought. Many brain accidents have shown that the destruction of large portions of the brain tissue does not materially affect the power of thought, any more than the destruction of tissue in other parts of the body affects it. Not only this, but large portions of the brain have been removed, and yet the individual has gone on with his work apparently as before. Here is an interesting experiment performed by a noted scientist which gives a striking proof of cell intelligence outside of the brain. This experiment has been tried again and again.

“If a drop of acid is placed on the lower surface of the thigh of a frog after its head has been cut off, the decapitated frog will rub off the drop of acid with the upper surface of the foot on the same leg. Scientists have cut off this foot after the head was cut off, and the headless animal, after trying time and again to rub off the acid with the same foot as before, will finally use the foot on the other leg and continue until it succeeds in rubbing off the acid.”

Here we certainly have proof of intelligence combined with harmonious contractions in order to bring about certain definite results. It is a proof that an intelligent mind acts without a brain.

We know that the brain carries on but a small part of the work of the bodily organism. All of our involuntary movements, the manufacture of the fluids of the body, of the bodily secretions, the changing of foods into tissues, are not affected by the voluntary brain. The work of the chemical laboratory in the body, which is simply beyond human comprehension, is all carried on by intelligent organ cells outside of the brain. The brain cells, it is true, are more highly sensitized, more responsive, than the cells of some other parts of the body. They form, so to speak, a sort of mouthpiece for the other cells, and this is where they find their outward expression.

There is no doubt that the billions of cells composing the body all belong to one intelligent whole. What affects one cell affects all, so that whatever passes through the brain cells passes through every other cell in the body. We know how instantaneously news, a sudden shock of any sort, received at the central brain station is sent to all the organs. The heart, the kidneys, the liver, all of them are at once affected by it. This shows how intimately they must be tied together. The entire body is evidently a sort of an extended brain.

If someone should scratch one end of a piece of timber a hundred feet long with a nail, and your ear were at the other end of the timber, you could hear the scratch instantly. The distance does not seem to make any difference in the transmission of the sound. In a similar way, every thought, every mood, every emotion goes instantly to every part of the body. For example, you may have just sat down to your Thanksgiving dinner with a ravenous appetite, when the gastric juice is trickling from every gastric follicle in your stomach, and you suddenly receive a telegram announcing a terrible catastrophe, in which some of those dearest to you have been mutilated or killed. Instantly the gastric follicles cease to generate the gastric juice and become dry and parched, as does the tongue in a fever. The heart and the other organs feel the shock at the same time and are equally distressed, and their action inhibited. In short, the different organs and functions respond instantly to the painful news, showing that whatever enters the mind goes immediately to the entire cell life of the body.

The condition of your cells, of your tissues, of your organs, will depend upon the message which you send to them through your thought, through your convictions regarding them, whether of strength or weakness, of health or disease. You think clear through every cell to the farthest extremities of your body. And as you think regarding your cells so they are. Their fate is largely in your hands. They will obey whatever orders you give them. By your mental attitude toward the cells of the various organ communities you can make your physical organs perform their functions normally or abnormally; you can insure health or bring about disease; you can prolong your life or you can shorten it.

We know that by concentrating our thought intensely upon any part of the body the blood vessels in that organ or locality expand, and an extra supply of blood is sent there. In other words, the blood follows the thought. Professor Alexander Graham Bell told me that when on long riding trips in Halifax, in severe weather, he could warm his feet by concentrating his thought upon them, so that in a short time they would be all aglow. This method of quickening the circulation of the blood has been tried so often that scientists no longer question it.

Elmer Gates has often tried the following experiment as a proof of the power of mind in this direction. Immersing his hands in two separate vessels of water just even full, he would first concentrate his thought on the right hand until the water in the vessel would overflow; then reversing, he would concentrate on the left until that vessel would overflow.

These experiments give a little idea of what thought can do in stimulating or depressing the blood, on which the life of the body depends—“for the blood is the life.”

It is well known that the fear thought, the thought, for example, that you have Bright’s disease, or that you have inherited, and are developing, tuberculosis, causes congestion in that part of your anatomy on which it is fixed. And if the fear thought becomes chronic you will have chronic congestion there, which will aid in developing the thing you fear.

Take the case of a young girl who is told by her friends that she has probably inherited tuberculosis, because one or both of her parents died of that disease. If every time she is exposed to inclement weather, gets her feet wet, or gets in a draft, she is reminded that she is taking great chances, she develops a fear thought. She concentrates this fear upon her lungs, causing congestion there, irritation, coughing. This increases her fear and causes loss of appetite.

Then, of course, she loses nourishment, and there is a general decline in her physical condition. Naturally a loss in weight follows. This symptom frightens her still more, because victims of tuberculosis are always weighing themselves, imagining they are shrinking. Her fears cause imperfect digestion, imperfect assimilation, and hence imperfect repair and renewal of lost tissue. She begins to lose color and then everybody tells her that she is not looking well. This loss of color is another dread symptom, and so it goes on until the fear, the conviction that she is developing the fateful disease, cuts down the last remnant of her disease-resisting power, and she falls a victim to any latent tubercular germs in her system. She stamps her fear thought on the cell life of her lungs and other organs until they respond to it, become like it. Multitudes of people have tubercular germs in their system which never develop if they hold the health thought and build up a strong disease-resisting power.

Disease germs feed upon the debris or broken-down tissue in the body. They are scavengers and do not feed upon healthy tissue, healthy food. But when the tissues begin to break down through fear, the disease-resisting power deteriorates rapidly, until the body gets below what we may call the health line. Then all sorts of scavengers or enemy germs, waiting for their opportunity, begin to feed upon the broken-down tissue; the blood becomes impoverished, and the disease gets a hold on its victim.

There is no doubt that disease in the various organs is often due to utter discouragement which the organ cells have received from the central station—the brain. The cells of the whole body often give up their struggle for life because of the discouragement of the master cells. Time and again when the heart had ceased to beat, and apparently the last breath had been taken, life has been called back to a seemingly dead body just by strong reassuring words, by arousing and restoring the lost confidence of the cells. When there is supreme confidence of victory in all of the cells of the body, life will not depart. But when the cells in the different organ communities get from the brain the message that the death sentence has been pronounced by the physician, or when the patient gives this fatal prognosis as his own conviction, then there is no hope for the dependent communities to try to save the situation.

Is it strange that the cells of the diseased organs should give up the struggle and cease to fight for life when the brain has given up hope and sent a message of despair through the whole system? These impaired cells were having a hard time of it before. There was probably a panic in the little cell community, and now, when the grand commander of all of the cells of the body gives up, the depending organ communities also naturally give up.

On the other hand, when the cells all through the body get the thrill of confidence, of hope, of faith in their strength, from the center of intelligence, then they are comparatively free from danger of death. There is enough vitality, enough latent energy in many a body which has just breathed its last to re-energize and bring it back to life again if such confidence could be restored to the mind that it would utilize the latent force in the apparently dead cells.

Since thought has such a tremendous influence upon the cell life of the body, how important it is that our thoughts and images and emotions should be friendly and not hostile, should be helpful and not injurious! How imperative that we hold only those images in the mind, visualize only those things which are beneficial, kindly, uplifting to the body, not those things which tend to devitalize, to dwarf and ruin it!

The essential thing is to keep the cells in all of the organs happy, contented, encouraged, and harmonious. If we do this, we shall be happy, contented, and harmonious ourselves. That is, the resultant of the harmonious action of the entire cell life of the body must be efficiency, harmony and happiness for the whole man.

Every time you allow a vicious thought, a despondent thought, a thought of failure, of fear, of poverty to enter your mind, every time you allow a foreboding of some threatening event to take hold of you, every time you indulge in jealousy, in envy, in hatred, in revenge, in any evil emotion, every cell in your body is correspondingly affected. So, too, they take on your enthusiasm, your zest, your cheer, your courage, your faith. They are encouraged or discouraged; they expand or contract their possibilities at your suggestion.

What you think about the cells of any organ they will return to you in kind. You can no more get the best from the cells of your stomach, and your other digestive organs, for instance, when you are all the time saying uncomplimentary things about them, always discouraging them, abusing them, than you can get the best out of your employees or your children by the same methods. When you treat them in this way, talk against them, antagonize them, they become depressed, and express resentment in non-performance of their functions.

If we treated our children or our employees as many of us treat the millions of tiny cells in our stomach, our liver, our kidneys, or other organs; if we were constantly complaining of them, condemning them for not doing their work better, if we were suspicious of them, watching them and always fearing they would play us false, we certainly would not get the best out of them.

Imagine what a pessimistic, dyspeptic grumbler will do to the cells during a life time of fault-finding, of discouraging suggestions! Think what a man does to his digestive organs who is always saying they are no good, that they have gone back on him, that they cannot digest anything which he likes, and that he can only eat the things which he despises! Is it any wonder that he has chronic dyspepsia when he swallows a mouthful of dyspepsia with every mouthful of food, and then continually hammers away and denounces his digestive organs between meals? Think of what this mental attitude means not only to his digestive organs but to the other organs of his body!

If you suffer from indigestion, it is because you don’t believe that your digestive organs can take proper care of your food. You suffer because you expect to suffer. You get what you expect. There is everything in expecting your body to perform all its functions normally, healthfully. Think of your human machine as perfect; treat your organs as though they were normal. Expect your body, all the cell communities, to express harmony, not discord. Don’t harbor a suspicious attitude toward any of your physical organs. Believe that they are going to do the work which they were intended to do, and to do it properly. Trust them just as you would trust your children, your employees. Believe in them, and treat them kindly. Instead of blaming and abusing, encourage and praise them, and they will perform their functions normally and give you robust health.

If the cells in any organ are diseased, the health suggestion, the health affirmation, the holding of the health ideal in the brain will tend to heal them. To send life currents of healing thought sweeping through any defective or diseased organ tends to stimulate the cell life, to encourage the cell organization,— the stomach, the kidneys, the heart, the liver, the lungs, etc.— to respond to the optimistic suggestion. In other words, thinking health, thinking life and truth into a diseased organ, tends to destroy the disease infection, to arouse latent life force in the cells, and to bring about normal health conditions.

We know that we get out of the various organs about what we expect. The brain is no exception. Expect nothing, get nothing. If you have no confidence in your brain it will return only weakness or mediocrity to you. On the other hand, if you have a firm, vigorous faith in it, if you expect great things from it, it will match your expectation.

The same is true of the muscles of every part of the body. Believe in your muscles, trust them, believe they are strong and vigorous, have faith that you can lift an enormous weight or can perform great feats as an athlete, and your five hundred muscles will come to your rescue and redeem your faith.

This is true even of animals. When the race horse has lost confidence in its speed it never regains it. As long as the animal believes he can beat the others in the race he wins. But when it has been beaten a few times it gets the habit of being beaten, and cannot regain its confidence. It believes it is going to be beaten, and it is.

The art of radiating health thoughts through and through the whole system until every nerve and fiber, every cell in the body, feels the electric thrill of the health force, is the art of arts. It means the achievement of perfect health, of perfect efficiency and of perfect happiness.

Just as we can antidote disease in the cell life by health thoughts, in a similar way we can send out from the central brain station thoughts of prosperity, of opulence, thoughts of success, affirmations of power, that will antidote the poverty disease.

By constantly affirming your divinity, the truth of your being, the reality of you, as one with God, holding the thought that God is your health, that He is in every atom, in every electron, that He is in every cell in your body, and that His presence excludes all sickness, disease and weakness, all lack and unhappiness, you will impress the consciousness of God’s presence on every cell of your being, and then you cannot be anything but well, happy and prosperous.

No colds, no rheumatism, no cancerous poisons, no tubercular germs, no fear, no unhappiness, no discord of any kind, can exist in you when you are vitally conscious of God’s presence in every cell in your body. While you feel conscious of your oneness with the One, that every cell in you is one with Him, because all life is the one life, the expression of the one vitality which pervades the universe, you can not suffer in any part of your being.

The consciousness of God, the consciousness that He fills every cell in our body, that there can be no discord, no disease, no weakness where God is; that where God is, all is health, all is beauty, that God is truth and the truth makes you free, because it is the truth of your being,—this consciousness of your oneness with God makes you free from the enemies of your health, your success and your happiness.

Stamp this God-consciousness on every cell in your body. Cling to this one thought of God’s allness and everywhereness, that there can be nothing but God, that wherever you look, wherever you go, all is God, and that because there is nothing but God, all is good and there is nothing but good, everything which does not seem to be good, having no reality, being but the absence of good. Hold this thought constantly, and you will be free from all the enemies of your being.

If we would triumph over all our limitations, we must impress the triumphant thought on every cell. We must radiate through the body not only thoughts of health and strength, but also of courage, hope, confidence, expectation of better conditions. Instead of radiating through our system, as most of us do, the poverty thought, the lack thought, the conviction that we are the slaves of social and economic systems above which we cannot rise, we must radiate the abundance thought, the freedom thought, the expectation of prosperity, of opulence. Instead of stamping the failure thought, the thought of mediocrity, or incompetence upon our cells, we must stamp upon them the conviction of superb ability, of confidence that we can accomplish what we undertake, because we are in partnership with God, and in close touch with divine supply. We must constantly cultivate the habit of radiating the thought triumphant, the habit of radiating masterfulness instead of weakness.

After a little practice in the cultivation of upbuilding thought, the health thought, the success thought, the happy thought, the vibrations will reach every remotest cell in our bodies, and we shall feel the thrill of health, of hopefulness, of expectancy of better things animating and energizing our whole being.

What we think and believe we create. Hence, if we would always hold the ideal suggestion of everything in life, the ideal suggestion of health, the ideal suggestion of our ability, of our efficiency, the ideal suggestion regarding our career, our success, our happiness, the ideal suggestion of our destiny, it would transform our lives, it would lift us from the common to the uncommon. It would make us artists in life instead of mere artisans.