Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1909 — Repose Is More Needed Than Energy. [ARTICLE]

Repose Is More Needed Than Energy.

By Dr. JAMES J. PUTNAM

of tha Harvard University Medical SchooL

IN this country, where hurry and worry go together, I feel that REPOSE IS MORE NEEDED. WHAT WE BHOULD LEARN 18 HOW TO RELAX. The nervous energy that never abates except in sleep, and even then not entirely, is abnormal. The people in whom this habit of living is most pronounced seem to live more fully than their more phlegmatic fellows, but in reality they CANNOT GET AS MUCH OUT OF LIFE. For, even if they live equally long, they acquire no perspective. WE ARE TRYING TO LEARN THE BODILY LANGUAGE OF THE EMOTIONB. THE BODY 18 AFFECTED BY THE EMOTIONB. THOUGH THE MIND IS MORE IMPORTANT TO US THAN THE BODY, IT 18 ONLY BY KEEPING OUR WHOLE PHYSICAL ORGANISM RIGHTLY ATTUNED THAT WE CAN GET THE MOST OUT OF LIFE.