Mind and Body; or, Mental States and Physical Conditions

MIND AND BODY

"...like a pair of horses; not until these two mental factors can be trained together can there be harmony and efficiency."

In order to understand the important part played in the body's functioning original: "physical economy" by the Subconscious Mind, it is only necessary to understand the various processes of the human system which are outside the ordinary field of the voluntary or conscious mind. We then realize that the entire process of nutrition—including digestion, assimilation, and so on—the processes of elimination, the processes of circulation, the processes of growth, and in fact the entire processes manifested in the work of the cells, cell-groups, nerve clusters original: "ganglia", physical organs, and more, are in the charge of and controlled by the Subconscious Mind.

Our food is digested and transformed into the nourishing substances of the blood. It is then carried through the arteries to all parts of the body, where it is absorbed by the cells and used to replace worn-out material. This old material is then carried back through the veins to the lungs, where the waste matter is burned up, and the remainder is again sent on its journey through the arteries, recharged with life-giving oxy- The text continues as "oxygen" on the following page.