ourse, at once arise in response to all
that seemed to go against him.

He had, of course, to work at intervals for long afterward to keep free
from the resistance; but the habit is getting more and more established
as life goes on with him, and the result is a brain clearer than ever
before in his life, a power of nerve which is a surprise to every one
about him, and a most successful business career.

The success in business is, however, a minor matter. His brain would
have cleared and his nerve strengthened just the same if what might be
called the business luck had continued to go against him, as it seemed
to do for the first few months after his recovery. That everything did
go against him for some time was the greatest blessing he could have
had. The way he met all the reverses increased his nerve power steadily
and consistently.

These two men are fair examples of two extremes. The first one did not
know how to meet life. If he had had the opportunity to learn he might
have done as well as the other. The second had worked and studied to
help himself out of nerves, and had found the true secret of doing it.

Some men, however, and, I regret to say, more women, have the weakening
habit so strong upon them that they are unwilling to learn how to get
well, even when they have the opportunity. It seems so strange to see
people suffer intensely--and be unwilling to face and follow the only
way that will lead them out of their torture.

The trouble is we want our own way and nervous health, too, and with
those who have once broken down nervously the only chance of permanent
health is through learning to drop the strain of resistance when things
do not go their way. This is proved over and over by the constant
relapse into "nerves" which comes to those who have simply been healed
over. Even with those who appear to have been well for some time, if
they have not acquired the habit of dropping their mental and physical
tension you can always detect an overcare for themselves which means
dormant fear--or even active fear in the background.

There are some wounds which the surgeons keep open, even though the
process is most painful, because they know that to heal really they
must heal from the inside. Healing over on the outside only means decay
underneath, and eventual death. This is in most cases exactly
synonymous with the healing of broken-down nerves. They must be healed
in causes to be permanently cured. Sometime