A Happy Mind is a Healthy Mind

© Excerpt from The Right Way to Health by Alfred J. Parker

I cannot stress too deeply the importance of one's constructive mental attitude toward life. One gets out of life what one puts into it; everything must be seeded in different degrees. Always express happy thoughts and keep an uncomplaining mind. A complaining mind is a destructive one—destructive to health and happiness. How easily we may be made unhappy depends upon the weakness and ignorance of our own minds. Happy thoughts expressed are like the sunbeams that create warmth—that stimulate one's sense of well being and make us feel happy. Give happiness and you will receive it in return: it is a natural phenomenon of a balanced and well-ordered mind. Do not complain; instead seek the solution to the problem, and then you can do something constructive about it. This can best be accomplished by forgetting self; too much false value is placed upon self and personality, thus developing an overrated and inflated ego that see all things in proportion to its own ignorance.

There is no greater gift we can bestow upon others than a happy smile and a constructive thought of well being. To be happy means that one must first have happiness within, and this comes only through a balanced mind and wisdom. "Seek ye first the kingdom of God (understanding) and all these things shall be added upon you." St. Matthew 6:33

The greatest word in all languages is understanding. Learn to think about life: the part we are intended to play in the scheme of things. Learn to value the principle of relationship: i.e., we are all One Life, One Breath, and One God. Therefore, there is good and God in all things. Look always for the good and you will find it along with wisdom.

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Thought for the Day

  • The doctors of the future will give no medicine but will interest patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. –Thomas A. Edison

  • To live is to give. –Alfred J. Parker

  • If you are depressed, you are living in the past.
    If you are anxious, you are living in the future.
    If you are at peace, you are living in the present. –Unknown

  • One of the greatest obstacles to mental progress is a lack of specific goals which are established in such a manner that they become a regular stairway of effort where one easy activity leads to another easy effort which, when continued over a period of time, allows the ascension of the mind from the simple to the complex and from the physical through the mental to the spiritual. –Kabalarian Teachings

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