simply making certain physical adjustments in the body, which enables nature to take its own course and restore us to health. If we were to go to a psychiatrist, he would tell us that he is merely making certain adjustments in our thinking and in our emotional reactions to life, which would enable nature to restore a normal balance. And should we go to a personal relations adviser, all that he could do is to help us to readjust our thinking so that we will get along better with other people.

In other words, all of these people, as good and necessary as they are and as much as we need them, will concur in this: “We are helping you to heal yourself,” or, “We are helping you to get in a position so that nature, or the Power greater than you are, can flow through your thought and body and actions in an unobstructed manner.” They are really giving us instructions reading: “Physician, heal thyself. We will do everything we can to help you. Out of our experience, we will show you what is wrong and how you can adjust yourself to a better way of living. But of ourselves, we do not have the power of life. We cannot give life to you; we cannot give happiness to you; we cannot present you with success, for the simple reason that Life has already made you these gifts. You have already inherited the power to live, but you have not adjusted yourself to it.”

If then, every evidence of science and common sense and human experience points to the fact that we must each become our own physician, we had better accept the fact and see what we can do about it. For no one really wants to be poor or unhappy or sick. There is not a normal person living who does not wish to get along with others and have them like him, and I have never yet met anyone who does not wish to be happy.

In certain experiments which a group of psychologist tried with pigs, they placed the feed trough just outside a heavy wire fence so the pigs could see it and smell it and almost get their noses into it, but not quite. In a short time, the pigs became