THOUGHT, THE SUPREME REMEDY Mental Science has been scorned and ridiculed for many years, but it has gained adherents by demonstrating the power of thought to cure disease. It has been discovered that bad and unpleasant feelings create harmful metabolic products in the body, which are physically injurious. Good, pleasant, benevolent, and cheerful feelings create beneficial chemical products which are physically healthful. It has been found that, for each bad emotion, there is a corresponding chemical change in the tissues of the body which is life-depressing or debilitating. Conversely, every
good
emotion
makes
a
life-promoting
change.
Consequently, a noble and generous action blesses the doer as well as the beneficiary. Every thought which enters the mind is registered in the brain by a specific change in the activity of its cells.
Experiments have proven that mere thought or favorable feelings of any sort concerning a food eaten not only assisted the digestion but partly caused it to occur. When people’s minds are busy with things far removed from their food while they are eating, it can impair the digestive process.
One who considers the matter thoughtfully will soon realize that 16
