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Wallace Wattles

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Wallace D. Wattles's

The Science of Being Well

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Preface - The Principle of Health - The Foundation of Faith - Life and Its Organisms - What to Think - Faith - Use of the Will - Health from God - Summary of the Mental Actions - When to Eat - What to Eat - How to Eat - Hunger and Appetites - In a Nutshell - Breathing - Sleep - Supplementary Instructions - A Summary of the Science of Being Well - Contents -


are to come for dessert, and the consequent desire to get at them as quickly as possible; and there is mental abstraction, or thinking of other matters while eating. All these must be overcome.

When you find that your mind is wandering, call a halt; think for a moment of the food, and of how good it tastes; of the perfect digestion and assimilation that are going to follow the meal, and begin again. Begin again and again, though you must do so twenty times in the course of a single meal; and again and again, though you must do so every meal for weeks and months. It is perfectly certain that you CAN form the "Fletcher habit" if you persevere; and when you have formed it, you will experience a healthful pleasure you have never known.

This is a vital point, and I must not leave it until I have thoroughly impressed it upon your mind. Given the right materials, perfectly prepared, the Principle of Health will positively build

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