If you cannot realize your ideal, idealize your real.

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Sleep is one of Nature’s sanctuaries; an alarm-clock has no more right to disturb it than a fog-horn has to blow off in a prayer-meeting.

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Be glad when you meet “A Crank,” he may give you a suggestion that will make you “A Self-Starter.”

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Very few men are smart enough to fill five reels with genuine dare-devil acts of villainy, and get away with it, by coming out an angel at the end of the film.

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Heart failure is largely acute indigestion from selfishness.  Sunstroke is quite likely brought on by anger and anxiety “het-up” by relatives.  Apoplexy is hate breaking up housekeeping.  Paresis is free-love embellished with champagne.  Appendicitis is a six-cylinder appetite hitched to a half horse power ambition.  Nervous prostration is a self-love “Movie” trying to cover the earth in a single-reel.  Pneumonia is vanity over-heated in seal skin.

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=Lesson Seventh=

=Supreme mental healing=

=The supreme mind:= The previous lessons give you the key to Supreme Mental Healing.  Your mind is limitless.  Begin where you may, conditions do not count.  No matter how weak, how isolated, how deep in the mire of trouble, you can rise, you can be free, you can be renewed.  You may have a whole library of all sorts of books and treatises on healing.  You may have a library of biology and pathology, but you can never read yourself well.  What you need is what I have sought to give you, positive working plans.  It takes some work to build a hut, more to build a comfortable home, still more to build a palace of luxury.  How much mind and will work are you willing to devote to build your body into a Temple of the living God?

=Mental confusion:= Make an easy plan for each day.  Relax your mind tension, let down your body tension, eat less, drink water, walk in the open air.  Change your thought to new plans, new work.  Let go of the past. Have nothing to do with the future.  Sweep aside the odds and ends that litter your mind.  Let go by denying them any place in your mind.  Talk with strong people.  Leave weak, useless people alone.  Take a salt bath, by going into the ocean, or in your own tub, using a full pint of common salt.  Do not tell your troubles to another, help another in trouble to get out, and you will get out yourself.  Make new plans.