When we hold the vision of ourselves being perfect, it unleashes a restorative healing force neutralising any tendency to disease.

The body is a mass of billions of cells that are closely joined together and interrelated that they are instantly affected by every vicious thought, mood, or unfortunate conviction.

New thought builds new cells, life cells, youth cells in the body, just as the old style of thinking, the worry thought, builds cells which correspond. The time will come when we shall listen to the cry of the cells suffering from disease and discord, just as we now listen to the cry of a child, and shall antidote the discord with the soothing, healing thought balm. We shall speak harmony, peace, health to the discordant cells until the disease is neutralized and harmony reigns.

The time will come when we shall be ashamed to refer to our ailments, our physical weaknesses, because it will be regarded as evidence that, at least in thought, we have sinned, an evidence that we have been holding unkind, unjust, vicious thoughts towards others, thoughts of revenge or hatred, a desire to "get square" for some facied injury and evidence that we have been selfish, jealous, or that we have been dishonest, have been taking unfair advantage of others in some way, or that through fear or worry or some other form of mental discord, we have been the victims of self-thought poisoning. It will be considered evidence that we are not living properly, that we are breaking some of nature's laws, or that our ancestors have done so, evidence that our body has been poisoned by vicious or impure thoughts, that we have in some way lost control of ourselves.

To be healthy, happy and successful we must be good. There is no other road to true happiness and real prosperity. Few people realize that they are constantly running thoughts through their minds and indulging in emotions and passions which are disease producers. Every evil feeling towards another is a little disease producer. Every discordant thought, feeling, or emotion must pay the penalty in the physical manifestation of some discord.

Since we know that whatever we hold in the mental attitude will be reproduced in the body, how comparitively easy and scientific character-building and man-building should become. This is especially true, as we know that even thoughts, ideals, sentiments, and emotions which are only mechanically assumed are still the pattern for reproduction and become faithfully outpicture in the life.

Whatever we think about a great deal, we tend to become like. If we keep the mind concentrated much upon divine things, upon spiritual qualities, we not only tend to become spirtually minded, but the quality also is out-pictured in our face and manner. The dominant thought, whatever has been uppermost in their minds, whatever their minds have been habitually long concentrated upon, becomes outpictured in the face, manner, and conversation, so that we can read the signs.

Did you ever realise that it is possible to read in your face and manner the record of your thoughts, that your face is a bulletin board upon which is advertised what has been going on in your mind for years? There is a picture of your greed, revenge, selfishness, jealousy, a record of your dominant passion, which the world can read. You may have supposed that your thoughts were secret but the fact is that they are all displayed upon your face.

In reality we can hide nothing, for we radiated the truth of ourselves. What we think is written on the counterance. Our faces are covered with the scars, the wounds, which our boomerange thoughts have made, for every vicious thought is a boomerang. If we throw a jealous or an envious or revengeful thought to another, it by inexorable law comes back and wounds the thrower.

It is just as possible to establish health on a solid, substantial, permanent basis as it is to establish a business. Right thinking and right living made a right life. The body, being a product of the mind, must necessarily be like it.

If we think truth and harmony, if we carry the beauty thought, the love thought, these principles will be outpictured in the body. A discordant body can not come from harmonious thinking.

The only way to attain perfect health is to grow into the complete realization of more health, greater vigor. We can not be physically vigorous until we hold the vigorous thought.

Many people make robust health impossible by holding the sickly thought, the thought of their weakness, the picture of diseased tissues somewhere in the body, and of course, their general health corresponds with this diseased model, for the thought furnishes the pattern which is reproduced in the body.

Always try to realise that truth, health and harmony are not something far away from you, but are always with you, in you. Realising their presence as an actual present fact will help you wonderfully.

A healthy body is composed of healthy thought externalized.

Just try the experiment of thinking of yourself as an absolutely perfect being, possessing superb health, a magnificient body, a vigorous constitution, a sublime mind and capable of standing any amount of strain.

Never allow yourself to have a defective ideal of yourself, never entertain an imperfect health model for an instant, for these mental patterns of yourself will gradually begin to be reproduced in your physical condition. Your ideal, your conviction of your health, is the pattern which the life processes are constantly weaving into your body.

Our ideas, ideals, thoughts, emotions, moods our mental attitude, send a constant succession or vibrations through every cell, every organ, and through all the fuctions of the body.

O.S. Marden