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Appendix 4 - The Laws of Health

William A Alcott

What 171 – Emotions and Health

(W 77) (C 71) (J 95)

All emotions of any type damage the health.

 

Page 197-1023 - "Now, it should not be forgotten, that if the larger measures of grief, fear, anger, joy, devotion to reading and study, etc., exert their larger measure of influence, smaller measures ...

can not be wholly inert."

Comment – It is not the intensity of the emotion that is important, but the type of emotion.

Score – Unverified

Why 182 – Emotions 1 (What 171)

Cheerfulness warms us and excess of joy and love cool us. The elevating passions bring blood to the surface and the depressing passions throw the blood on the internal organs which causes ill health.

Page 213-1109 - "Cheerfulness, and all the elevated passions and affections, warm us initially, and thus favor the healthful circulation of the blood and all the other fluids. But excess of these, especially of joy, love, etc., have the contrary effect."

Page 217-1126 - "But, as the elevating passions and affections promote the circulation and give a centrifugal tendency to fluids generally, so the depressing passions and affections (fear, grief, hatred and anger) have the contrary effect. The blood, instead of tending to the surface, expanding the body and lightening and cheering the heart, abandons the surface; and being thrown, in undue quantity, upon the internal organs, a painful sensation of stricture and suffocation is apt to follow, and the health must ultimately suffer."

Page 324-1699 - "All the pressing passions and affections tend to cause retrograde or centripetal tendency of the general mass of the human fluids and forces, especially of those on the surface, or in the skin; while it is equally true that the elevating passions and affections have the opposite tendency. In the former case the skin is pale, shrunk, and flabby; in the latter, it is plump, warm, glowing, and energetic."

Score – Unverified

Why 183 – Emotions 2 (What 171)

The mind can draw the vital energies away from other organs.

Page 214-1113 - "For, as the mind cannot act without a due degree of vital energy imparted to it through the brain, it follows that the energy may be so largely applied to this particular organ as to leave an insufficient supply for the stimulation of other organs, and the circulatory organs among the rest."

Score – Unverified

What 172 – Boredom

W 81

Boredom causes ill health.

 

Page 395-2069 - "Mankind, for the most part, have no high, commanding object before them. They have nothing of a worthy character to live for. And not a few have nothing at all before them. They doze away life, as it were, with no aims of any kind.”

Score – Significant

Why 184 – Boredom (What 172)

Many mental illnesses are caused by boredom

Page 395-2069 - "A large proportion of human disease and suffering has its origins in the very source here alluded to. (2074) - "they fall into hysteria or hypochondria; and thence pass, .... into insanity."

Don S McMahon

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Appendix 4 - The Laws of Health

William A Alcott

Score – Verified

 

What 173 – Chicken Hearted

(W 82) (K 101)

Physical courage fosters health.

 

Page 227-1177 - "(healthy man) will be a man of physical courage: the (unhealthy) man …. will be, in very deed and truth, chicken hearted."

Page 228-1181 - "the enfeebling tendency of saying "I can't."

Comment – It is of value having a positive outlook, but not in taking physical risks.

Score – Minor

Why 185 – Chicken Hearted (What 173)

Being chicken hearted weakens the heart and the nerves.

Page 227-1177 - "It is very well known that certain moral qualities have much to do with the size and strength of the heart and arteries. The man with large heart and high bouncing arteries will be a man of physical courage; while the man of feeble circulation will be the reverse. He will be, in very deed and truth, chicken hearted."

Page 228-1181 - "The great idea to which I wish to draw your attention by this anecdote is enfeebling tendency of saying "I can't" especially on the nerves and on the heart."

Score – Unverified

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