Making friends with our nerves / by Orison Swett Marden.

  • Marden, Orison Swett, 1848-1924
Date:
1926
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Making friends with our nerves / by Orison Swett Marden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    your career and your achievement, whether facts warrant it or not, to you it will be a fact, for your achievement cannot rise higher than your belief in it, your conviction of it. You cannot have perfect health as long as you are convinced that you cannot. It does not depend so much upon the actual condition of your physical body, that is, whether or not there is really any trouble with you. So long as you are convinced of it, it is real to you, so far as your achievement is concerned. And another thing, the conditions in which you be¬ lieve tend to become true. In other words, although you may not have the disease, the weakness, or the physical disability you firmly believe you have, yet it will tend to become a reality to match your belief and conviction. For example, if you are convinced that you are developing tuberculosis because your an¬ cestors went that way, this will tend to develop those tendencies; your fear, your worry, your apprehension, your horror of the disease, devi¬ talizes you, cuts off nutrition, and tends to bring about very favorable conditions for tubercular development. A vigorous mentality will prevent the hold-