Body Intelligence

Body Intelligence

Orison Swett Marden 

The author of that marvelously interesting book, "Cell Intelligence" says: "The cell is a conscious intelligent being, and by reason thereof plans and builds all plants and animals in the same manner as man constructs houses, railroads, and other structures."

Scientists now believe that the cells which constitute the various organs of the body,—the brain, the heart, the liver, the kidneys, the lungs, etc.,—have what is called "organ intelligence," and that these cells are susceptible to mental suggestion for the health or disease of their particular organ.

If, for instance, there should be a disease tendency lurking in any part of your body; if your digestive organs, your heart, your kidneys, your liver, or some other organ, should not be functioning normally, by sending encouraging, energizing, uplifting thoughts, the suggestion of health and wholeness, to the community cells, and by living rightly, you can neutralize the disease tendency and bring the organ back to normalcy.

The real basis of all forms of mental healing is the fact that the cells of the body are all alive and intelligent; that they respond to our thought, to our intelligence, to our suggestions to them. 

It makes a great difference to the mental healer to know that instead of sending his thought into a mass of dead cells, every one is not only alive, but is just as responsive to his mental attitude as an intelligent child would be.

Your discouraged, pessimistic thoughts have robbed you of energy and pep; demagnetized you for the very things you are trying to attract,—health and prosperity.

Mental healers simply changed the trend of the patient's mind, turned his thought from abnormal, diseased conditions to healthful, wholesome conditions.

The important thing is to keep out of the mind all enemy thoughts. The moment any of these gain entrance, and are permitted to remain, they begin to tear down and destroy. 

They play havoc with your efficiency, with your health and happiness. If anything occurs during the day to disturb your poise or your self-control, if you feel angry impulses rising within you, recollect yourself as quickly as possible and get control again, for nothing is more hurtful to the whole man or woman than mental inharmony of any nature.

Never allow yourself to think weakness, poverty or poverty-stricken conditions into them or want or limitation of any kind. You are God's child; think accordingly. 

Think in keeping with your immortal inheritance. Think big, because you are big. Think generously, because you are made to express generosity. You are not made for a tiny economy, but for largeness of living; you were made for the life abundant, not for the pinched, stunted, starved life.

Thinking health, thinking happiness, thinking truth, thinking power and perfection, prosperity, success, into the little cell minds of the body will, in the future, be a very important part of every child's training.

Right thinking, making the cells work in the right way, of construction instead of destruction, will banish from the earth two of the greatest handicaps of the race—disease and poverty.