accept adverse suggestions from ignorant people and keep telling yourself that such and such a disease has taken shelter in you and your body as its “fixed abode” you simply hasten your own end.  The body and mind are interrelated.  Thoughts materialize themselves in your body.  You should get as far away from the idea of disease and old age and weaknesses as possible and hold the health-thoughts steadily before your mind.  The only way in which to be quite immune from Disease is to Deny the Power of Disease on yourself.  Say “I cannot be ill,” “I will not admit disease.”  Health and strength are in the unyielding will.  De-hypnotise yourself of that superstition that God sends disease.  Your body is yours to control and keep healthy.  God will give you—­(He has already given you rather)—­the Power to control your body.  Remember always; you alone can save yourself.  All Power and Wisdom are potentially resident in you.  Have confidence and set that thing in motion, exercise it constantly and persistently and it shall grow and unfold.  God is in you and you are in God.  When you pray you are simply, although often unconsciously, helping that Latent Power to uncoil itself.  Remember again:  God will grant you the opportunity, the means, the wisdom, the ability to accomplish a thing, but You Shall Have to do the work yourself.  Hence, you see, the illumined mind is quite necessary for perfect health.  Get rid of all weak thoughts.  Have a strong mind.  Remember lastly: 

MIND ACTS UPON BODY IN ALL WAYS.

Make your mind positive to your body.  I have told you how to do so.  Physical exercise plus Mental Exercise will put you on the road to Power and Poise.  And side by side with this follow health-laws.  But bear in mind that if you assert your power on your mind and body confidentially, they cannot but obey your commands.  The body has an intelligence of its own.  This intelligence knows its work perfectly.  It is what you call Instinct.  It digests your meals; assimilates and eliminates; repairs wastes; works the heart and controls the circulation; heals wounds and presides over all other natural and involuntary processes in the body.  This Instinctive mind knows its work perfectly.  But, mark you, this intelligence in the cells and nerve-centres of your body is negative to the Central Intelligence in the brain—­the controlling centre—­the “I Am” and is affected by suggestions, beliefs and thoughts in your brain.  All you have got to do is to avoid projecting negative thoughts from your mind and let it alone.  But suppose you have by violation of the Laws of Nature disturbed the action of the Instinctive Mind, disease results.  Disease is simply the effect of nature to throw off unnatural conditions and re-assert natural conditions.  In such a case all you have got to do is to re-establish natural states.  You can do so by simply increasing the general vitality of the body and by changing your Mental Attitude.