ther hand, a
weak, vacillating, one-sided, unsteady, and ignorant mind will
ultimately bring the body into sympathy with it. Every pure and
uplifting thought, every noble aspiration for the good and the true,
every longing of the heart for a higher and better life, every lofty
purpose and unselfish endeavor, reacts upon the body, makes it
stronger, more harmonious, and more beautiful.

"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." The body is molded and
fashioned by the thought. If a young woman were to try to make herself
beautiful, she would not begin by contemplating ugliness, or dwelling
upon the monstrosities of vice, for their hideous images would be
reproduced in her own face and manners. Nor would she try to make
herself graceful by practising awkwardness. We can never gain health
by contemplating disease any more than we can reach perfection by
dwelling upon imperfection, or harmony through discord.

We should _keep a high ideal of health and harmony constantly before
the mind_; and we should fight every discordant thought and every enemy
of harmony as we would fight a temptation to crime. _Never affirm or
repeat about your health what you do not wish to be true_. Do not
dwell upon your ailments nor study your symptoms. Never allow yourself
to think that you are not complete master of yourself. Stoutly affirm
your own superiority over bodily ills, and do not acknowledge yourself
the slave of an inferior power.

The mind has undoubted power to preserve and sustain physical youth and
beauty, to keep the body strong and healthy, to renew life, and to
preserve it from decay, many years longer than it does now. The
longest lived men and women have, as a rule, been those who have
attained great mental and moral development. They have lived in the
upper region of a higher life, beyond the reach of much of the jar, the
friction, and the discords which weaken and shatter most lives.

Many nervous diseases have been cured by music, while others have been
greatly retarded in their development by it. Anything which keeps the
mind off our troubles tends to restore harmony throughout the body.

It is a great thing to form a habit, acquire a reputation, of always
talking up and never down, of seeing good things and never bad, of
encouraging and never discouraging, and of always being optimistic
about everything.

"Send forth loving, stainless, and happy thoughts, and blessings will
flow into your hands; send