Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1885 — Practical Metaphysics. [ARTICLE]

Practical Metaphysics.

Don’t dram on the desk with yonr fingers or “joggle" your foot by the hour while sitting down. In so doing yon are expending strength for nothing —strength to get which you have eaten and slept—strength yon need to use to beet advantage in baying, selling and getting a living. Every movement of muscle, whether it accomplishes anything or not, whether voluntary or involuntary, costa an outlay of bodily strength. Every thought also involves an expenditure of strength. Therefore all thonght involving fret, worry, fear, or borrowed trouble is so much strength unprofitably expended. It will waste yon away mind and body. Yon tell a man or woman whose existence has been a life-long fret by their careworn, hollow, emaciated faces. They are never healthy. Fret kills more people than the cholera. It leaks away strength constantly. At last the weakest organ or function gives way. This we call disease. The doctor comes and gives the disease a Latin name. The disease may attack heart, liver, lung, stomach, kidney. But the real and underlying cause had been at work for years in the patient’s mind. Yon can’t help fretting, worrying, borrowing trouble. That makes no difference as to result. Merciless nature takes no account of what yon can't help. Years of habit may have made worrying “second nature" for you. It may be a habit as hard to break as the “joggle" of your heel while sitting at the desk. Both movements—the physical one of your foot and the mental one of your mind—may have become involuntary. Yon might call it automatic mind or body action or automatic exhaustion.— Few York Graphic.