Adding Years to Your Life

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...them to select vocations, when the time comes for that, consider their traits of mentality, their innate capacities, rather than your own predilections, and be governed accordingly. Eemember that the square peg in the round hole is at best a slipshod contrivance. Better a good artisan than a poor artist is a very wholesome motto. As to yourself, you should be able to make an analysis of your own mentality, based on comparison with the persons with whom you come in contact, that will be of inestimable value to you. Test yourself by wholesome introspection--never, however, carried to the stage of morbid brooding--day by day, and determine to better your quality of brain action, however good it was in the beginning. Eemember that the all-important thing is brain control--capacity to restrain irrational responses, to turn the mind into normal channels, to bar out excessive action along one line, which constitutes worriment; to rest the mind by diverting it into new channels; to gain new and better habits of seeing, feeling, thinking, and acting. Your Brain as a Phonograph We have likened the brain system to a telephone system. From another viewpoint it is even more closely comparable to a phonograph. But the brain is a far more sensitive and universal recorder of impressions than the phonograph, because the latter takes note only of the sound waves, whereas the brain makes permanent record of every sensation that comes to it, --not alone of sound waves, but of the impressions that are registered as sensations of touch, of taste, of smell, and of sight. Each individual cell is a tiny storage battery that accumulates energy, and the cells are grouped together by connecting fibrils. From earliest infancy, vibrations of various kinds are being sent into...