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Title: Power Through Repose

Author: Annie Payson Call

Posting Date: July 25, 2009 [EBook #4337]
Release Date: August, 2003
First Posted: January 11, 2002

Language: English

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POWER THROUGH REPOSE

BY

ANNIE PAYSON CALL

New Edition with Additions

_Personality binds--universality expands._

FRANCOISE DELSARTE.

When the body is perfectly adjusted, perfectly supplied with force,
perfectly free and works with the greatest economy of expenditure, it
is fitted to be a perfect instrument alike of impression, experience,
and expression.

W. R. ALGER.

CONTENTS

I. THE GUIDANCE OF THE BODY
II. PERVERSIONS IN THE GUIDANCE OF THE BODY
III. REST IN SLEEP
IV. OTHER FORMS OF REST
V. THE USE OF THE BRAIN
VI. THE BRAIN IN ITS DIRECTION OF THE BODY
VII. THE DIRECTION OF THE BODY IN LOCOMOTION
VIII. NERVOUS STRAIN IN PAIN AND SICKNESS
IX. NERVOUS STRAIN IN THE EMOTIONS
X. NATURE'S TEACHING
XI. THE CHILD AS AN IDEAL
XII. TRAINING FOR REST
XIII. TRAINING FOR MOTION
XIV. MIND TRAINING
XV. ARTISTIC CONSIDERATIONS
XVI. TESTS
XVII. THE RATIONAL CARE OF SELF
XVIII. OUR RELATIONS WITH OTHERS
XIX. THE USE OF THE WILL

I.

THE GUIDANCE OF THE BODY

THE literature relating to the care of the human body is already very
extensive. Much has been written about the body's proper food, the air
it should breathe, the clothing by which it should be protected, the
best methods of its development. That literature needs but little added
to it, until we, as rational beings, come nearer to obeying the laws
which it discloses, and to feeling daily the help which comes from that
obedience.

It is of the better use, the truer guidance of this machine, that I
wish especially to write. Although attention is constantly called to
the fact of its misuse,--as in neglected rest and in over-strain,--in
all the unlimited vari