Life Supreme — Page 103
106. LIFE SUPREME (b) Emotional thoughts cause physiological changes to take place in the body. Embarrassment causes blood to rush to the cheeks. Fear causes trembling and tension of the muscles. Anger and mental excitement increases heart beats and the output of adrenalin from the glands as well as other disturbances of the body. (c) Worry quickly devitalises the body of energy and lowers the respiration. It increases blood pressure, upsets digestion, causes sleeplessness, irritability, and headaches. . All negative thoughts involving depression, worry, anger, resentment, jealousy, hatred, etc. , influence the body and affect health. . These emotions cause glands to excrete poisons into the bloodstream. . Man's general health depends not only on what he eats and does in the way of execise but also largely on how he thinks. . In his book "Life Understood" F. L. Rawson mentions some interesting experiments of Professor Gates. The professor discovered that the change of mental state changed the chemical character of the perspiration which varied each time with the change of the mental state of the person. When the breath of a person was first tested by a certain procedure involving blowing through a cooled test tube, a colourless liquid resulted; but when he was made angry then his breath caused a sediment of brownish material to appear in the tube. . Sorrow produced a grey material, remorse pink, etc. As with the experiment of the perspiration, each kind of thinking caused the system to expel its own kind of material. Later he collected sufficient of the brownish material to administer as a medicine and each time it created nervous excitability or irritability in the person. Another instance is mentioned of a strong healthy mother who had a baby which was also in perfect health. Something occured which caused the mother to become violently angry which produced a poison in the system that found its way to the mother's milk and killed the infant. . The bedside manner of a doctor plays an important part in the reaction of his patients. His pleasant demeanour and confident attitude can charge the patient with recuperative energy and ultimate recovery without the aid of medicine. Patients have been given coloured water and sugar pills under the belief that they were receiving a wonder drug; as a result they have speedily recovered and credited the 'wonder drug' as the cause of their cure, whereas the