James J. Walsh
Health Through Will Power
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Table of contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
PREFACE
A
French surgeon to whom the remark was made in the third year of the
War that France was losing an immense number of men replied: "Yes,
we are losing enormously, but for every man that we lose we are
making two men." What he meant, of course, was that the War was
bringing out the latent powers of men to such an extent that every
one of those who were left now counted for two. The expression is
much more than a mere figure of speech. It is quite literally true
that a man who has had the profound experience of a war like this
becomes capable of doing ever so much more than he could before. He
has discovered his own power. He has tapped layers of energy that he
did not know he possessed. Above all, he has learned that his will is
capable of enabling him to do things that he would have hesitated
about and probably thought quite impossible before this revelation of
himself to himself had been made.In
a word, the War has proved a revival of appreciation of the place of
the human will in life. Marshal Foch, the greatest character of the
War, did not hesitate even to declare that "A battle is the
struggle of two wills. It is never lost until defeat is accepted.
They only are vanquished who confess themselves to be."Our
generation has been intent on the development of the intellect. We
have been neglecting the will. "Shell shock" experiences
have shown us that the intellect is largely the source of unfavorable
suggestion. The will is the controlling factor in the disease. Many
another demonstration of the power of will has been furnished by the
War. This volume is meant to help in the restoration of the will to
its place as the supreme faculty in life, above all the one on whose
exercise, more than any other single factor, depends health and
recovery from disease. The time seems opportune for its appearance
and it is commended to the attention of those who have recognized how
much the modern cult of intellect left man unprepared for the ruder
trails of life yet could not see clearly what the remedy might be.
CHAPTER I
THE
WILL IN LIFE"What
he will he does and does so muchThat
proof is called impossibility."Troilus
and Cressida.The
place of the will in its influence upon health and vitality has long
been recognized, not only by psychologists and those who pay special
attention to problems of mental healing, but also, as a rule, by
physicians and even by the general public. It is, for instance, a
well-established practice, when two older folk, near relatives, are
ill at the same time, or even when two younger persons are injured
together and one of them dies, or perhaps has a serious turn for the
worse, carefully to keep all knowledge of it from the other one. The
reason is a very definite conviction that in the revulsion of feeling
caused by learning of the fatality, or as {2} a result of the
solicitude consequent upon hearing that there has been a turn for the
worse, the other patient's chances for recovery would probably be
seriously impaired. The will to get better, even to live on, is
weakened, with grave consequences. This is no mere popular impression
due to an exaggeration of sympathetic feeling for the patient. It has
been noted over and over again, so often that it evidently represents
some rule of life, that whenever by inadvertence the serious
condition or death of the other was made known, there was an
immediate unfavorable development in the case which sometimes ended
fatally, though all had been going well up to that time. This was due
not merely to the shock, but largely to the "giving up", as
it is called, which left the surviving patient without that stimulus
from the will to get well which means so much.
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!