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.
