I have written articles, too numerous to count, on how we should take care of ourselves physically, and I have always stressed the holistic or total person approach to good health. But because holistic health is more than just the body or the physical, it is time for me to address the mental and spiritual aspect of better health.

Clinical studies show how important the mind is in the process of recovery from disease. Just as we must exercise our body to be fit, so must we exercise our mind to keep alert and awake. Someone once said that the greatest instruments for the mind's stimulation are wonder and curiosity. Boredom is a major disease, eroding the health of many adults who, over time, narrow their spheres of interest.

Wonder and curiosity are the tools that all young children carry with them in their interactions with the world. As a matter of fact, wonder and curiosity are what make kids seem so alive. It seems as we adults grow older we look at life's pace as too hectic, and we make a big deal about watching sunsets. But I am here to tell you that you can recapture that wonder and curiosity. There are no greater stimulants than new interests and/or a consuming ongoing exploration to begin to awaken a person. So the next time you see a person excited about something, instead of turning it off, jump right into it and share in their interest. If you will carry your wonder and curiosity into your older years, you will take your youth with you. Often, having such a vibrant interest becomes a major force and motivation for staying healthy, so that the exploration goes unobstructed.

Of the many people I am associated with, it is with great respect that I look upon those of you affiliated with the metaphysical world. Be assured that you are fortunate in having joined yourself to this enlightening movement. The dawn of a new era is here, and you are selected as one of the crusaders that shall bear the flag of truth on to victory.

It has been shown in clinical studies that people can prevent and overcome disease more rapidly by using visualization. It is the process of making mental images, and the image is the mold or model that will serve as a pattern from which our future will emerge.

People in clinics with tumors have been recorded as diminishing and even eliminating their tumors by using visualization methods. They are taught to focus on the area of the growth and to visualize white blood cells attacking the tumor, until they recover. This process, when used with proper feeding habits, is highly successful.

Your thought contains a vital principle, because it is the constructive power of the universe, and by its nature will combine with other similar thoughts. What is the purpose of life but for growth and development? All principles underlying our existence must contribute to that end. Thought, therefore takes form, and the law of growth eventually brings it into manifestation.

The mind is part of the body. Each acts on the other. One of the two cannot be ill without affecting the other. Hence, "A sound mind in a sound body," is the ideal. Not only are you what you eat, you eat because of how you think. Therefore you become what you think. We must be before we can do, and we can do only to the extent that we are, and what we are depends on what we think. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he!"

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