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of the brain that a little more power and nourishment be sent to the weak part. That is the way to exercise scientifically for curative effect. Ask, and keep on asking, and ye shall receive.
That is you will receive if you put your mind into the demand. And now we erree at the crux of this whole healing business. Neither medicine, massage nor exercise can produce effect if opposed by the mind of the patient I hope you will read and consider carefully what follows. It is the most important of all, so far.
Let a person be laid on his back on a bed, accurately balanced so that the bead and foot may swing up and down; now let him be asked to perform severe mental labor, and the bed's head will tip down, because of an increased flow of blood to his head. Let him go through a series of leg exercises and the foot of the bed will tip down, because of the increased now of blood to the legs, and mark! Let him think out the leg exercises, without moving a muscle, and the foot will go down., showing that it is the intention to move which sends the blood to the legs; and if the intention is formed in the mind, the power goes whether the movement is really executed or not. It is the thought of exercise, and not really the exercise whkh. sends the blood to the muscle; and if the thought be withheld the exercise accomplishes next to nothing as a building process. That is why exercise
