How to Assure Physical Health
By Anne-Marie RONSEN
It is a simple process to charge up an electric battery, but
in the case of the individual it is necessary to follow a cer-
tain formula. Therefore, the purpose of this articol is to
offer a few suggestions that will help you to get charged up
and go ahead.
The house in which you live is what is called the physical
body. It is the seat of the mental faculties. It is the temple
of the spirit. It is the electric battery that creates the positive
power of creative selling. It stands to reason that you should
use extra care to maintain this body in good condition in
order to generate more energy for your activities.
Physiology teaches that the creation of energy is the func-
tion of the vital organs within the body. Energy is created
through a process of these organs' making and distributing
blood. Blood is life. In the blood lies your strength and en-
ergy. As a self-propelling, self-sustaining and self-acting
organism, the body lives and thrives on blood. Blood is the
source of energy.
God created everything, and God is good. The infinite
variety of things expressed in nature proves that you are sur-
rounded with an infinite intelligence and power that estab-
lish law and order in the universe and supply all the essential
material elements necessary for our well-being. As an indi-
vidual, you enjoy the right to draw on these elements, and
God has endowed you with the ability to think and to make
a wise use of them to meet our personal needs.
The four best known elements used by the body to make
blood are air, food, water, and sunshine. The wisdom used
to assemble these four elements determines the quality of
blood needed to make the body rich and to make it glow
with energy.
I shall analyze and discuss the value of these four elements
that make pure blood.
1. Breathe in Plenty of Air
The blood needs oxygen, and the one way to obtain it is
through breathing in plenty of air. The function of the lungs
is to supply this need, so use them. Expand them, and by all
means breathe deeply. Respiration is the act of breathing,
and it consists of both inhaling and exhaling. This act
should be reduced to 12 times per minute in order to get
the full effect of deep breathing. Time yourself and see how
fast you are breathing. A quick breather is a shallow
breather. A slow breather is a deep breather. Train yourself
to breathe deeply and fully many, many times during the
day. Deep breathing exercises the lungs, purifies the blood,
strengthens the diaphragm, and helps you to relax. The ele-
ments of the air are vital; they help nourish and sustain
every form of life. The blood needs them, and the body
will suffocate without them. Air is free. Breathe it. It will
re-energize the entire body.
2. Discipline Yourself to Masticate Your Food Thoroughly
The other day, while I was having a soda, a young man
came in and sat across from me. He was pale and emaciated,
and from his appearance I knew he was suffering from stom-
ach trouble. He ordered two large hamburger sandwiches
and a milk shake. I timed him, and in one minute and 45
seconds he had eaten the entire meal. I could not refrain
from asking him if he suffered from indigestion, and he ad-
mitted that he suffered incessantly from stomach distress and
a lack of energy. I also asked him if he made it a habit to
eat his meals quickly and bolt his food. He replied that he
had never even thought of it. I suggested that, for his own
comfort, health, happiness, and peace of mind, he should
practice the principle of thoroughly masticating his food.
You should see him today. He is a new man. Search for the
source of the ailment, and you will discover the remedy.
Food is the different things you eat. It is filled with vita-
mins found in the natural state of foods. They are essential
for proper nutrition.
There is only one conscious act on your part in the process
of converting food into blood. That act is mastication, which
is chewing, crushing and grinding food with the teeth and
mixing it with the saliva until it becomes a liquid pulp. It
is one of the most important acts connected with proper
nourishment. Thorough mastication increases the flow of
saliva, and stimulates the constant outpouring of the en-
zymes which help to turn starch into sugar. If you have
masticated your food properly it will enter the stomach in
the partially digested state, which enables the stomach to
complete the process of digestion more effectively. The con-
scious preparation of food through mastication means less
work and less wear and tear on all the other internal organs,
which manufacture blood. It frees you from indigestion and
other distressed feelings and supplies you with richer blood.
This means better health and more energy.
Take plenty of time to eat your meals, practice mastica-
tion, and you will eat less, but you will digest more. Remem-
ber that the time saved bolting food is lost a hundred ways
in health, energy, enjoyment, and peace of mind.
3. Drink Plenty of Water
Three-fourths of the earth's surface is water. More than
three-fourths of your body is water. This reveals another
clue: furnish the body with plenty of water. The body de-
mands water at all times. The atmosphere around is contin-
ually absorbing water from the body. It must be replenished;
otherwise, the body suffers from the lack of it. Water is es-
sential to furnish the body with sufficient moisture to keep
the pores of the skin open. This helps the body to get rid of
toxins and other waste matter. The only way to have plenty
of moisture in the body is to keep it well supplied with
water.
Don't wilt up, and don't dry up. Keep your skin young
and glowing with health. Water helps. Train yourself to
drink two tumblers of water on rising in the morning. Drink
at least one tumbler every two hours all through the day.
It is nature's tonic. Drink it.
4. Take Walks in the Sunshine
The rays of the sun are "vita-rays," which heat and charge
the cells with vitamins. These vitamins are loaded with en-
ergy, and the body absorbs this energy from the sun just as
a blotter absorbs ink. Therefore, by all means train yourself
to walk in the sun. It invigorates the body, stimulates the
flow of blood, and provokes many brilliant ideas. Try it.
Here is another suggestion that will accelerate your en-
ergy. It is stretching. Most animals follow their natural in-
stincts and stretch as means of taking their "daily dozen."
Stretching is nothing more than conscious tension. It is
tensing the muscles of the body by an act of thought. When
the cells are crying for blood, the body feels tired; by stretch-
ing at intervals, you furnish the cells with nutrition, and
this replaces tiredness with energy. You will have more ca-
pacity to do things. In brief, stretching gives the body a
blood bath. If you make it a practice to stretch consciously
for 10 to 20 seconds, you will increase your energy and pep.
Make it a habit to stretch your arm muscles, leg muscles,
back muscles, abdominal muscles, hand muscles, neck mus-
cles, and shoulder muscles. Try stretching every muscle in
your body from head to toe. Let common sense tell you when
you have stretched enough.
There is no particular way to stretch. Each individual can
work this out to suit his own disposition, time, and conven-
ience. The main thing is to do it. This is the way I do it. I
take a deep gulp of air—all my lungs can hold. I tense the
body, stretch all parts, raise the diaphragm, and press down.
This draws blood to my head, face, shoulders, back, legs,
abdomen, and neck. Then I exhale through the nose. This
takes 15 seconds, and does it relax and revitalize me! You
try it.
Disobey a natural law and you pay a penalty. Obey it,
and you receive a blessing. All these suggestions are based
on natural laws. Practice these principles every day reli-
giously; they will increase your energy, give you more power
to act, and help you to make more sales.
Now that you have your house in order, turn your atten-
tion to the mental faculties and the spiritual attributes that
have their home in the house.
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