“If an evil emotion is dominant, then during that period the respiration contains volatile poisons, which are expelled through the breath and are characteristic of these emotions.
“Wearisome, unpleasant memories weaken health, and do not generate thought energy. Cure is accomplished in expelling these by another crop of wholly pleasant memories, which put the necessary structures of the mind in systematic order and teach the patient how to use the mental faculties.”
Therefore, keep happy.
On page 40 of “Economy of Energy” will be found a summary of some results of states of mind:—
“They affect:—
“The heart, and the circulation—both its rate, and its distribution of blood; (unfavourable states of mind tend to anaemia or dysxmia, or to congestion, etc.).
“The actual chemical condition of the blood and the lymph.
“The lungs, and the rhythm and the fulness of the breathing, and the amount of oxygen inhaled, and of carbonic acid gas, etc., exhaled.
“The digestive and ‘assimilative’ organs and functions.
“The curative energies of the body; which include:—