RELAX AND THINK.
Of all the factors conducive to health, probably the most important is routine (writes the wellknown dramatist and medical authority, Dr. Harold Dearden, in the London “Daily Mail”). Before going to bed, there is one exercise which, in this nerve-shattering world of noise and bustle, is of such supreme value that 1 cannot too strongly urge you to adopt it. J refer to the exercise of relaxation, winch, from the point of view of the nervous system and your own continued inetlieiency, is the most valuable exercise of all. There is mulling in Lhe least complicated or mysterious about it, for it consists merely in lying on your hack in a room by .yourself and striving for a period of ten minutes to let yourself go limp, if at the same time you ca.n force yourself to lake a
.steady look at your life as a whole and -bluff yourself that you like it, you will Had when you open your eyes again that it is not merely Mulling, but true. This has nothing to do with Christian Science or any miier Now Thought. It is simply an exercise good for your nerves, just as golf is good for your muscles.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3990, 29 August 1929, Page 1
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204RELAX AND THINK. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3990, 29 August 1929, Page 1
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