Self Help

ons, cannot hope for success in the activities of life. The changing substances of life with which we are obliged to cope make it impossible to intelligently direct our plane unless we have taught ourselves that fine balance which cannot be altered by external conditions. Sickness, old age, poverty and death are only examples of loss of poise; it begins with weakness of the will and ends with atrophy. Sickness and poverty are inherited and acquired, and one of our safe-guards against them is to poise ourselves in a positive physical and mental attitude and thus control our own being by refusing to be made the host for a crowd of emotions we do not enjoy. Inherited disease can never manifest in us unless we recognize the legacies which dead men have left us and accept them; they are negative conditions and can have no power over us except that which we give them. Acquired sickness is a condition purely of our own making. Even accidents cannot happen for those who are poised in the Infinite vibration of truth, since those only who are poised for just those things which they choose and want, can come to them. 60 In our will lies the power to create the diseases or to destroy them; there are only two important points through which disease gains entrance to our bodies, and these points are our emotions and our minds. Our emotions sense a purely imaginary condition, and our wills send these imagings through our bodies in thought currents until the minute cell-brain of our bodies receive them and register them in their consciousness until they can reproduce them in form. Just here is where our poise comes into action; it is time for us to recognize that we are masters of communications which our minds will telegraph to our cells; our wills inhabit degenerative thoughts, and whatever our minds receive may be distributed evenly among the receiving stations of our nervous systems and no one center paralyzed by shock. There are those who are so separated from this will power and control that a sudden surprise or shocking news will render them unconscious, and in others reason has gone out, and even life itself. All these grades of emotion are rates of vibration and poise is one of the highest rates of vibration known. The soul that has found its poise and its true power and position toward the changing conditions of life, has stood face to face with that supreme poise which masters all, and it has faith to say "though I walk through the valley of the shadow o