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SYSTEM OF PHYSICAL CULTURE--with Two Charts of Exercises.\n  HEALTH AND COUNSEL BUREAU.\n  CURATIVE EXERCISES.\n  LET\u2019S PLAY THE GAME.\n  A WEEK\u2019S PROTEID DIET.\n  QUICK AND EASY RECIPES.\n  FIRST RECIPES.\n  HOW TO BEGIN A CHANGE OF DIET.\n\n\n\n\n  KEEP HAPPY\n\n  BY\n  EUSTACE MILES, M.A.\n\n  [Illustration]\n\n  NEW YORK\n  FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY\n  PUBLISHERS\n\n\n\n\n  _Copyright, 1920, by_\n  FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY\n\n\n\n\nFOREWORD\n\n\nOn my Fiftieth Birthday (Sunday, September 22, 1918), after a good\nday\u2019s work, I start, in the afternoon, to spend the few hours before\nour evening meal in writing down some ideas that may help others\n(besides myself, who need them as much as anyone, since I am beginning\nmy second half-century), to indulge less in that habit of fear, worry,\nresentment, and hurry, which must be regarded as a form of suicide,\nslow indeed, but working in a vicious circle and with self-increasing\nforce, and poisoning and paralysing others besides the respectable\noffenders themselves.\n\nThe chief remedy is--keep happy.\n\nWe have had our attention so fixed on prohibitions--the \u201cThou shalt\nnot\u201d Commandments--that we have, as a Nation, ignored the positive\ncommandments of the Old and New Testaments; among which a very\nfrequently repeated one was \u201cRejoice\u201d or \u201cKeep Happy.\u201d Others, besides\nthe Master, told us not to worry, not to be afraid, not to be angry,\nnot to be bitter; but to be glad and happy. The orthodox should\nremember that Happiness is a virtue, however unusual, and Non-Happiness\na sin, however common and respectable.\n\nI give one quotation alone--though the usual translation does not\nconvey the real force of the Greek words of Philippians iv. 4-7:--\n\n\u201c_Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.... The Lord is\nat hand. Be careful (anxious) for nothing; but in everything by prayer\nand supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto\nGod._\u201d\n\nC. D. Larson\u2019s book, \u201cJust be Glad,\u201d was on my table, and gave me the\nthought of writing on this subject. Larson offers capital ideas on\nthe mental side, but he does not tell people _how_ to be glad; and,\nespecially, he leaves out all the Physical Helps.\n\nIn this little Birthday offering, I shall include a few Physical as\nwell as Mental Helps--a few out of many, since space is limited--so\nthat readers may be able to keep happy easily.\n\nThe art is not new, but--like the habit of deep, full, rhythmical\nbreathing--is always needed.\n\nThere are millions who have scarcely begun to recognise, at least to\nthe extent of acting upon the facts, that, while their Happiness\nitself depends largely upon their digestion, their elimination of waste\nmatter, their circulation, etc., these influences themselves depend\nlargely on (1) the choice of foods and drinks, the way of eating and\ndrinking, the breathing and other exercises, and so forth--and on (2)\nthe maintenance of Happiness itself, or at least the avoidance of worry\nand resentment, etc., and the expression of Happiness, until Happiness\nactually is attracted and comes into a prepared nest.\n\n\n\n\nKEEP HAPPY\n\n\n\n\nKEEP HAPPY\n\n\nWhy Keep Happy? A Contrast\n\nFirst work out the contrast. Before reading further, think what\nhappens when one keeps the opposite of happy, whatever be the actual\nstage between the extreme homicidal or suicidal violence or suicidal\nmelancholia on the one hand, and, on the other hand, ordinary fear,\nworry, resentment, depression, grumpiness, and so on.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThose who wish to study the effects of these states of mind more\nfully, can consult Elmer Gates\u2019 \u201cThe Mind and the Brain,\u201d or William\nS. Sadler\u2019s \u201cPhysiology of Faith and Fear,\u201d both quoted in my book.[A]\nProfessor Elmer Gates, of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington,\nsays:--\n\n\u201c_My experiments show that irascible, malevolent, and depressing\nemotions generate in the system injurious compounds, some of which\nare extremely poisonous; also that agreeable, happy emotions generate\nchemical compounds of nutritious value, which stimulate the cells to\nmanufacture energy...._\n\n\u201c_If an evil emotion is dominant, then during that period the\nrespiration contains volatile poisons, which are expelled through the\nbreath and are characteristic of these emotions._\n\n\u201c_Wearisome, unpleasant memories weaken health, and do not generate\nthought energy. Cure is accomplished in expelling these by another crop\nof wholly pleasant memories, which put the necessary structures of the\nmind in systematic order and teach the patient how to use the mental\nfaculties._\u201d\n\nTherefore, keep happy.\n\nOn page 40 of \u201cEconomy of Energy\u201d will be found a summary of some\nresults of states of mind:--\n\n\u201c_They affect_:--\n\n\u201c_The heart, and the circulation--both its rate, and its distribution\nof blood; (unfavourable states of mind tend to anaemia or dysxmia, or\nto congestion, etc.)._\n\n\u201c_The actual chemical condition of the blood and the lymph._\n\n\u201c_The lungs, and the rhythm and the fulness of the breathing, and the\namount of oxygen inhaled, and of carbonic acid gas, etc., exhaled._\n\n\u201c_The digestive and \u2018assimilative\u2019 organs and functions._\n\n\u201c_The curative energies of the body; which include:--_\n\n\u201c_The excretory organs--the bowels, kidneys, skin, etc. (Thus fear may\nact as a diuretic.)_\n\n\u201c_The muscular system in general (as when it is paralysed by fear--for\ninstance, when one feels \u2018all of a tremble\u2019)._\n\n\u201c_The appearance--the attitude, the position of the organs, the\nexpression of the face, etc._\n\n\u201c_The voice--its tone and timbre, and the words used or repressed._\n\n\u201c_The nervous system--partly influenced indirectly by the altered\nbreathing, and by the blood, and by the effects of the state of mind\nupon the Solar Plexus._\n\n\u201c_The energy and endurance._\n\n\u201c_The poise, and ease of self-mastery, self-recovery, and\nself-direction._\n\n\u201c_The brain--the clearness of thought, etc._\n\n\u201c_The influence of the person on others--especially in the immediate\nneighbourhood._\n\n\u201c_The direction and bias of the mind in the future, states of mind\ntending to become habitual apart from the active will._\u201d\n\nTherefore, keep happy.\n\n\u201cAnxiety (which includes fear) saps more life in a day than work does\nin a week.\u201d Anxiety is unnecessary, unproductive, destructive work. It\nis hard work. It is sinful work.\n\nWe must remember how prevalent are the states of mind in which fear is\none of the factors. For fear is a factor in worry, and usually even in\nanger, and in depression. These words from M. J. M. Hickson\u2019s \u201cHealer\u201d\nare worth reading:--\n\n\u201c_We have very seldom reflected upon the fact that fear runs like a\nbaleful thread through the whole web of our life from beginning to end.\nWe are born into the atmosphere of fear and dread, and the mother who\nbore us had lived in the same atmosphere for weeks and months before we\nwere born. We are surrounded in infancy and childhood by clouds of fear\nand apprehension on the part of our parents, nurses, and friends. As\nwe advance in life, we become instinctively, or by experience, afraid\nof almost everything. We are afraid of our parents, afraid of our\nteachers, afraid of our playmates, afraid of ghosts, afraid of rules\nand regulations and punishments, afraid of the doctor, the dentist,\nthe surgeon. Our adult life is a state of chronic anxiety, which is\nfear in a milder form. We are afraid of failure in business, afraid of\ndisappointments and mistakes, afraid of enemies, open or concealed;\nafraid of poverty, afraid of public opinion, afraid of accidents, of\nsickness, of death, and unhappiness after death. Man is like a haunted\nanimal, from the cradle to the grave, the victim of real or imaginary\nfears, not only his own, but those reflected upon him from the\nsuperstitions, self-deceptions, sensory illusions, false beliefs, and\nconcrete errors of the whole human race, past and present._\n\n\u201c_Fear not only affects the mind and the nervous and muscular tissues,\nbut the molecular chemical transformations of the organic network,\neven to the skin, the hair, and the teeth. This might be expected\nof a passion that disturbs the whole mind, which is represented or\nexternalised in the whole body._\n\n\u201c_How does fear operate upon the body to produce sickness? By\nparalysing the nerve centres, especially those of the vasomotor nerves,\nthus producing not only muscular relaxation, but capillary congestions\nof all kinds. This condition of the system invites attack, and there\nis no resilience or power of resistance. The gates of the citadel have\nbeen opened from within, and the enemy may enter at any point._\u201d\n\nTherefore keep happy.\n\nFirst because, once again, non-happiness is a mistake. It acts, as I\nsaid just now, in a vicious circle, increasing itself. It poisons the\nblood, and this very poisoning tends to produce more non-happiness. It\nradiates itself, and is infectious. It inclines to become a fixed and\nsub-conscious habit. It sinks down into the sub-conscious self, and\nafterwards expresses itself in various ways which (as Psychoanalysts\nshow) are not usually associated with their true mental cause. It\nis toxic, and produces non-health and non-efficiency, by wasting\npower and force; by bringing fatigue; by encouraging bad sleep; by\ninjuring the whole body; by cramping the energies; by \u201cdistracting\u201d\nthe body and mind, and thus hindering concentration; by impeding the\ncirculation, and the elimination of waste-matters; and by upsetting the\nrhythm and the deepness and thoroughness of the breathing, and all the\nvibrations of the physical system. Besides, it is ugly. It militates\nagainst financial success, and against social success--for who wants a\nnon-happy acquaintance?--and against intellectual success.\n\nConsider this. Non-happiness is liable to make one\u2019s work poor\nand inferior, difficult, tiring, and wanting in foresight and in\nperspective.\n\nIt does not help. As Ian Maclaren said:\n\n\u201c_What does your anxiety do? It does not empty to-morrow, brother, of\nits sorrow; but ah! it empties to-day of its strength. It does not make\nyou escape the evil; it makes you unfit to cope with it if it comes._\u201d\n\nTherefore, keep happy.\n\nOn the moral and ethical side, non-happiness, especially in the form\nof worry, is cowardly, unbalanced, against moral consistency and\npersistency, against self-control and self-mastery, and very unkind to\nothers.\n\nTherefore, keep happy.\n\nNon-happiness shortens life, and brings premature, incompetent,\nburdensome old age.\n\nIt is selfish, in the worst sense of the word; for there is a\nselfishness that is altruistic.\n\nIt harms posterity, as--among other proofs--we see from the influence\nof a mother upon her babe before as well as after birth.\n\nIt makes us less independent and less free. Therefore, keep happy.\n\n\nHow Happiness Helps\n\nHappiness, by the \u201cexpulsive power\u201d of a positive state of mind, drives\nout or neutralises or cancels non-happiness, instead of the mind being\nleft open to the seven other devils, as it may be when we merely try\nnot to be non-happy. The happy heart is too full for non-happiness,\nas the light room is too light for darkness. As Mr. A. Knight says,\nHappiness fills the heart with its three companions, Health, Harmony,\nand Helpfulness.\n\nTherefore, keep happy.\n\nHappiness works in the opposite of the vicious circle. It makes for\ngreater happiness. It is self-increasing. Among other reasons, it\npurifies and invigorates the blood, and this in itself inclines the\nmind towards further and greater Happiness. It creates the habit of\nHappiness, the bias towards Happiness. It stores the memory with\nHappiness, for future use. Prospectively, Happiness must be valued as a\ngreat asset.\n\nTherefore, keep happy.\n\nHappiness does not merely aid in removing mental and physical\nNon-Health, in such forms as depression and fear, \u201cnerves\u201d and their\ntroubles, fatigue, sleeplessness or bad sleep, bad circulation,\ncongestion, and so on. It actually produces positive Health,\nWell-being, and Fitness, as well as increased Self-Healing and\n\u201cPreventive\u201d Power.\n\nTherefore, keep happy.\n\nThink of the letter E alone. Happiness tends to Health, in its various\naspects:--\n\nEnjoyment of life and of all that life brings us;\n\nEnergy--for Health gives a tonic without reaction;\n\nEconomy--for, when we are happy, we need neither drugs nor stimulants\nnor narcotics nor holidays; Happiness saves vast stores of precious\npower, both physical and mental;\n\nEndurance--what long hours we can work when we are happy;\n\nEase;\n\nEfficiency;\n\nTherefore, keep happy.\n\nHappiness brings the right vibrations throughout the mind and body,\npartly through the Solar Plexus and the Sympathetic Nervous System.\nOnly lately have we begun to realise the importance of the rate and\ncharacter of vibrations. Let the same elements vibrate differently, and\nwe have ice or water or steam. We know the full and elastic firmness\nand resilience of faith, the shrunken and paralysed trembling of fear.\nIt is largely a difference of vibrations. Happiness has the most\ndesirable vibrations.\n\nHappiness means that we inhale more life-giving and cleansing oxygen,\nand exhale more carbonic acid and other waste matter.\n\nHappiness means that we have better sleep, and can do with less sleep.\n\nHappiness means improved circulation. It keeps the body warm in winter\nand cool in summer. It relieves the physical heart.\n\nTherefore, keep happy.\n\nHappiness gives better looks. It makes the eyes brighter, the\ncomplexion clearer, the step more vigorous, the carriage more upright.\n\nAnd, generally, Happiness makes people more attractive. It has a marked\nsocial value.\n\nTherefore, keep happy.\n\nFinancially, Happiness pays. The happy salesman or saleswoman is more\npersuasive. The happy person gets and keeps more friends, who will like\nto help him, if only because his Happiness helps them. James Coates\nsays:\n\n\u201c_Smile at your business, and it will smile back. Follow the light of\nthat smile._\u201d\n\nTherefore, keep happy.\n\nIntellectually, Happiness helps us to see with surer clearness and\nforesight. Happiness helps us to solve our problems rightly. Happiness\ngives us more understanding and more intuition. Happiness makes us more\nreceptive to the best ideas. Happiness puts us in better perspective.\nHappiness, once again, increases our mental energy, endurance, ease,\nand effectiveness.\n\nThese quotations from C. D. Larson are excellent. He says:--\n\n\u201c_Just be glad, and you always will be glad. You will have better\nreasons to be glad. You will have more and more things to make you\nglad._\n\n\u201c_When you are tempted to feel discouraged or disappointed, be glad\ninstead. Just be glad, and your fate will change. Know that you can be\nglad, say that you will, and stand uncompromisingly upon your resolve.\nWhen things are not to your liking, be glad nevertheless, for the glad\nheart can cause all things to be as we wish them to be. When things do\nnot give you pleasure, proceed instead to create pleasure in your own\nheart and soul._\n\n\u201c_It is the law that all good things will sooner or later come and be\nwhere the greatest happiness is to be found. Therefore, be happiness in\nyourself, regardless of times, seasons, or circumstances._\n\n\u201c_It is the man who blends rejoicing with his work who does the best\nwork. It is profitable in every way to learn to be glad._\n\n\u201c_The happier you are over what has come to you, the more and the more\nwill come to you in the future. The glad heart and the cheerful soul\nalways make things better._\n\n\u201c_Give gladness to your mind, and you give clearness to your mind; and\na clear mind can see how to evolve better plans._\u201d\n\nIn the moral and ethical and spiritual, as in the intellectual and\nfinancial and social spheres, Happiness is a precious and integral\nfactor in success and progress. We might almost say that Happiness\nincludes the much-praised virtues of Courage, Persistence, and Poise,\nand goes far towards Self-Control and Self-Mastery.\n\nTherefore, keep happy.\n\nIt is kind to others to keep happy. Happiness tends to Forgiveness (not\nof the usual perfunctory and \u201cI-forgive-but-I-can\u2019t-forget\u201d type),\nGoodwill, and pleasant Warmth as of the sunshine.\n\nTherefore, keep happy.\n\nHappiness tends to the right sort of Youthfulness--the Youthfulness in\nwhich we have all the merits of \u201clittle children,\u201d together with the\nwisdom of elders.\n\nTherefore, keep happy.\n\nHappiness makes our life longer--not like the life of an aged person\nwho may be a burden upon the earth, living in name only, and almost as\na vampire lives, but a life of increasingly-useful length.\n\nTherefore, keep happy.\n\nFor Happiness is non-selfish.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nBut non-selfishness, after all, is a negative.\n\nHappiness does indeed include negative merits, but it is also positive\nand radiating and infectious. When we ask what we can do for others,\none answer is, we can keep happy. Here, again, Larson\u2019s words are to\nthe point:--\n\n\u201c_He who is always glad is always adding to the welfare of every member\nof the race. The great soul is always in search of ways and means\nfor adding to the welfare of others. But no way is better, greater,\nor more far reaching than this. To be glad at all times is to be of\ngreater service to mankind than any other thing we can do. Consider how\nall things change when the glad soul arrives, and how all work becomes\nlighter when the spirit of joy is abroad. And every man has the power\nto dispense the spirit of joy wherever he may work or live._\n\n\u201c_Work in the spirit of joy, and your work will be the product of\njoy--a rare product--the best of its kind._\u201d\n\nTherefore, keep happy.\n\nTo help all those with whom you live, and many beyond this narrow\ncircle, keep happy.\n\nTo help your children and posterity, whether you already are or are\ngoing to be a father or mother, keep happy.\n\nThe relation of a parent (or of any one who has charge of children)\nto children, illustrates well how our states of mind react upon\nourselves. Be happy with children, and you make them happier,\nhealthier, pleasanter to be with, easier to train. When they are in\nthis favourable condition, you yourself, in turn, have more Happiness\nand health, partly because your work is more delightful and more\nsuccessful. And so your Happiness is self-increasing as well as\nself-radiating.\n\nC. D. Larson, from whose book I have already quoted, says, in another\nbook:--\n\n\u201c_Make it a point to be happy, just as you make it a point to be\nclean, to be presentable, to be properly dressed, to work well, to be\nefficient. Make the attainment of continuous happiness and greater\nhappiness a permanent part of your strongest ambition._\u201d\n\nReal Happiness is a power within oneself, not dependent on\ncircumstances; at least not dependent when it has become a habit.\nHe who has Happiness is like a magic plant that bears beautiful and\nshade-giving and health-giving leaves, beautiful and sweet-smelling\nflowers, beautiful and refreshing and cleansing fruit, wherever it is,\nand without the aid of special soil, air, light, warmth, and rain. For\nit has, as it were, its own subtle, ethereal, and eternal soil and air\nand light and warmth and rain within itself.\n\nTherefore, keep happy.\n\nThe Gospel of Happiness--the word \u201cGospel\u201d once meant \u201cgood news,\u201d\nbut now has lost much of its gladdening vitality--is, when we examine\ndeeply and widely, \u201cperspectively\u201d and prospectively, sound Philosophy\nand sound Religion. To the devout Hindu, God is not only \u201cWisdom, Love,\nMight,\u201d but also Bliss. Sat Chit Ananda meant Lasting Reality, True\nKnowledge, and Blissful Happiness. A Perfect God--and this applies\nwhether we believe in a Personal Being or not, for an Impersonal Being\ncannot easily be imagined as sad!--cannot surely be sad; and we are\ntold to become perfect as God is Perfect.\n\nWe are often recommended to fill the mind with healthy, invigorating,\npurifying thoughts. This, again, is a New Testament Commandment. The\nwords in the ordinary rendering of Philippians, iv. 8, do not bring out\nthe vitality and force and verve of the Greek words, but they give the\ngeneral idea:--\n\n\u201c_Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, just, pure,\nlovely, of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any\npraise, think of these things._\u201d\n\nIt is a Commandment to attend to--to fill the mind by repetition\nwith--eternally true ideas, ideas that command respect, ideas that are\nright, ideas that are clean and pure, ideas that are welcome and sweet;\nideas that have words of good omen, ideas of manliness and womanliness,\nideas of praise and appreciation.\n\nTherefore, think of Happiness: keep happy.\n\nIn keeping happy, we obey the frequently reiterated Commandment to\n\u201cRejoice,\u201d and, without any special attention to the negative and\nprohibitive Commandments not to worry, and not to be angry, and not\nto be unkind, and not to criticise unkindly, and so forth, we, _ipso\nfacto_, obey these Commandments as well, just as the person who is\nencouraged and inspired does not need to be comforted in so-called\n\u201cmisfortune.\u201d\n\nTherefore, keep happy.\n\nHappiness helps you. \u201cIt is profitable in every way to learn to be\nglad.\u201d\n\nHappiness helps yourself and others, and hurts none.\n\n\u201c_No selfish heart can really be glad._\u201d\n\nHappiness is the right thing to keep. Happiness is our duty, and is\n\u201cgood form.\u201d\n\nHappiness increases itself.\n\n\u201c_The more things you are glad for, the more things you will have to be\nglad for. Gladness is a magnet. Because you were glad, even when there\nwas nothing to make you glad, you proved that you deserved everything\nthat has the power to make you glad. And that which we truly deserve\nmust come to remain as our own. Possess gladness, and you will soon\npossess those things that produce gladness._\u201d\n\nBut how?\n\n\nHow to Keep Happy\n\nIt is so easy to say to others, or to ourselves, Keep happy. But _how_\nkeep happy?\n\nHere are a few out of many helps.\n\nPeople will ask, \u201cWhat about trying circumstances? How can we keep\nhappy under, or in them, whether they be past or present or future?\u201d\n\nI was much struck by a phrase in a little book I read some time ago. It\ndescribed how someone, who was going to an unpleasant interview, was\ntold:--\u201cGo to the man, taking God with you.\u201d A good piece of general\nadvice is to welcome the circumstances as one would welcome either a\nstrong opponent or a severe handicap at a game--namely, as a privilege\nand an occasion for bringing out (as a great player said) \u201cone\u2019s best\ngame.\u201d I think a \u201chandicap\u201d is an excellent description. For what true\nsportsman resents a handicap?\n\n\nTurn the Mind to Blessings,\n\nor think of your own blessings, not only in the past, but also in the\npresent. Think of all the conveniences of civilisation. Then, if you\nlike, contrast the hardships of primitive times--with no books, no\ntravelling facilities, no sanitation!\n\nThink of blessings, and keep happy.\n\nThink of the blessings of others. Anything is better than giving\nattention to supposed injuries and hardships, and to sorrows, and\nresenting or bemoaning them.\n\n\nor to Reasoning\n\nWhen things seem amiss, then is _the_ time to give all your thoughts\nthe upward direction. Keep happy. Hold on to Happiness, not like grim\ndeath but like irrepressible life.\n\nRemember that \u201ceverything serves _some_ useful purpose.\u201d If you refuse\nto keep happy, at least determine to find out the useful purpose. But,\nas soon as you can, come back to yourself, and keep happy.\n\n\nHelp Others\n\nHelp others. This is the old and ever new way. As Maeterlinck says:\n\n\u201c_Before we can bring happiness to others, we must first be happy\nourselves. Nor will happiness abide within us unless we confer it on\nothers. If there be a smile upon our lips, those around us will soon\nsmile too; and our happiness will become the truer and deeper as we see\nthat these others are happy._\u201d\n\nTherefore, keep happy by helping others. We can help others by our\nthoughts--by wishing them to be well and happy and successful, or by\nimagining them to be well and happy and successful. We can help them by\nall our expressions--our words, our looks, our acts--and by our very\nabstinence from non-happiness.\n\n\nAbstain from Thoughts against Others and against Self\n\nMerely to send out no thoughts and to harbour no thoughts against\nother persons or things, or against ourselves, is a step in the right\ndirection. I once saw hornets destroyed by a man who stood over the\nnest and, as each hornet came out, knocked it down and killed it by\na blow from a little wooden bat. So we can beat down any undesirable\nthought--of worry or failure or resentment, etc.--so that it ceases to\nlive and poison us or others.\n\nBut still this is negative. It is not positive and constructive.\nTo keep happy, we must fill the glass, drop by drop, with the\nsparkling and fresh water of Happiness; and then the dirty water will\nautomatically trickle away, and--who knows?--somehow become a kind of\nmental manure and fertiliser.\n\n\n\u201cSelf-Suggestion\u201d\n\nSelf-Suggestion is a great help, if we would keep happy. We can tell\nourselves to keep happy, in the same way as Peter Latham, at a hard and\ncritical point in one of his Professional Championship Matches, kept\nnot only happy but also plucky by telling himself to \u201cbuck up,\u201d as\nthis was _the_ chance to bring out his best game!\n\nSelf-Suggestion has many forms and varieties. Henry Wood, in his \u201cIdeal\nSuggestion Through Mental Photography,\u201d advises us to write down\ninspiring \u201cSelf-Suggestions,\u201d and to look at them often. Leland, in his\n\u201cHave You a Strong Will?\u201d advises us to determine, the last thing at\nnight, that the next day we will, for example, work calmly and easily\nand successfully. I myself find that now one form of Self-Suggestion is\nmost effective, now another. It may be Imagination or Realisation or\nAssertion, or it may be a quiet order to the Servant Mind or Manager\nMind, or it may be a strongly-felt and repeated Desire, or it may be\nnearer to Silence and Receptivity, together with \u201cthe attitude of\nexpectancy.\u201d\n\nSelf-suggestion is feasible at all times and in all places. It is\nunobtrusive. It is \u201cwithout money and without price.\u201d It is effective.\nIt tends to become a sub-conscious habit, and, as it were, to \u201cdo\nitself\u201d without our attention.\n\nTo keep happy, we can use happy words. Words have vast and little\nappreciated power. Think how useless we should be as regards our power\nof controlling ourselves and helping ourselves and helping others, if\nwe had no words! It would be easy to write a long book on this aspect\nof the Art of Happiness, alone. But I must be content with just one\nidea.\n\nWe should speak with a cheerful voice and tone, as well as with a\ncheerful face; and we should prefer, to such words of ill omen as\n\u201cmiserable\u201d and \u201ccruel,\u201d words that end rightly, such as un-happy\nand un-kind--words that leave us with the right and happy notion.\nConversely, however, when we are--or think that we are--absolutely\nobliged to mention some unpleasant episode, in order to get others to\nhelp to put it right, we must _not_ use such vivid expressions--we must\nnot speak whiningly nor even keenly. This is preeminently the occasion\nfor such a monotonous and expressionless voice, as is unusually put on\nby a Secretary when reading the minutes of any previous meeting!\n\nCan we not speak of pleasant things with the excitedness of the French,\nif indeed we wish to be excited at all; but speak of unpleasant things,\nif we feel we must speak of them, with the apathy of the Hindu?\n\nWhen you have finished any Self-Suggestion, be sure to keep happy.\n\nTo keep happy, we must use Repetitions of Self-Suggestions and of\nHappy Words, and we must use them long before we seem to need them.\nIn place of the old adage, \u201cIn time of peace prepare for war,\u201d one can\nsubstitute, \u201cIn time of peace prepare for victory\u201d--and then there will\nbe no real war.\n\n\nPersistent Repetitions\n\nThe persistent Repetitions may be in the form of sheer repetitions;\nor in the form of Synonyms--such as Happiness, Gladness, Enjoyment,\nJoy, Welcome; or in the form of cognate words, words that suggest not\nso much Happiness itself, as the father and mother, the brothers and\nsisters, the sons and daughters, of Happiness. Thus, to take the letter\nP alone, it has a decided effect upon our feelings of Happiness to\nrepeat, with as much attention to and realization of the idea and the\ninner spirit and soul of each word, as possible, the words Purity,\nPoise, Peace, Plenty, Power, Pluck, Pleasantness.\n\nAs to the influence of Repetition, we must remember that we are mainly\nwhat our sub-conscious mind is; and our sub-conscious mind is largely\nwhat our conscious mind has chosen or allowed itself to think, and what\nour conscious mind every moment--every now--is choosing or allowing\nitself to think.\n\nOr, instead of repeating the ideas themselves or the words that can\nconvey them, we can keep happy by Reason and Argumentation. While an\nAssertion like Robert Browning\u2019s,\n\n    \u201cGod\u2019s in His Heaven,\n    All\u2019s right with the world,\u201d\n\nwill help some, a recalling of the advantages of Happiness--or of the\ndisadvantages of Non-Happiness--and a working out of the ways in which\nthe past \u201cfailures\u201d of ourselves and others turned into blessings, will\nhelp others. I remember how disappointed I was when I did not get a\nFellowship at Cambridge. I am now very glad that I did not. What seemed\na calamity led to my present work, which enables me to keep happy. As a\nfossilised Don I should not have kept happy!\n\n\nAppreciation and Welcome\n\nWe should go far towards keeping happy, also, if we practised\nAppreciation. We breathe fresh air, drink pure water, see glorious\nscenery, or architecture, and so forth, without a tithe of the proper\nenjoyment which would come from the proper valuation--for instance, of\nthe water as refreshing us, satisfying us, helping our assimilation\nof nourishing food, helping our elimination of toxic waste matter, and\nsymbolising much besides.\n\nIt is far better to approach any persons or things or circumstances\nthat are ours--they would not come to us, or we to them, unless they\nwere ours!--in the spirit of Welcome, and in the true and sporting Play\nSpirit, than in the spirit of discontent.\n\nSo keep happy by Appreciation.\n\n\nLaugh\n\nSome people have a genius for seeing the funny side of so-called\n\u201cmisfortunes,\u201d like the Chinaman who could not control his laughter,\njust before his execution, because they were going to hang the wrong\nman. In a little booklet called \u201cFifty Years not Old,\u201d I wrote:--\n\n\u201c_Laughing is a capital relief for unpleasant mental states, as well\nas fine exercise for the stomach and liver! Democritus, the laughing\nand smiling philosopher, may have carried his excellent principle\nto excess; but he was a safer guide than the weeping and moaning\nphilosopher._\n\n\u201c_It is worth while to collect cartoons and cuttings from the \u2018Daily\nMirror,\u2019 \u2018Punch,\u2019 and other papers, and to look through them when the\ndumps try to dominate._\u201d\n\nLaughing and smiling can come under muscular control, no less than\nwalking and sitting--no less than frowning and grumbling. We can tense\nor relax muscles. We can equally easily laugh or smile. And the mere\nmuscular action will help the mind and the feelings to be free from\nnon-happiness.\n\nThere are, of course, wrong kinds of laughter and smiling. I read a\nbook devoted almost entirely to the abuse of laughter and smiling. But\nthe right kinds are as valuable as they are rare.\n\nSeveral people that I know have the supreme art of making troubles\nalmost blessings by catching at once the ludicrous aspect--going round\nto the other side and seeing things from a different approach. And\nsometimes, entering into the trouble by the Gate of Humour, they find\nthat the trouble is not a torture-chamber but a factory of Success and\nHappiness.\n\nThe right laugh and smile is an expression of real Faith; and, as\nwe have seen, the expression, if persevered in, tends to bring the\nreality.\n\n\nThe Power of Imagination\n\nAnd keep happy by Imagination. How exhilarating it is to imagine\noneself succeeding in one\u2019s favourite game, or in one\u2019s business or art\nor hobby. Such imagination is far better than the memory of defeats,\nexcept in so far as the latter helps us to correct our faults.\n\n\nThe Power of Expression\n\nThen there is the Art of Expression, advocated by Delsarte and William\nJames. The latter, in his \u201cTalks on Psychology,\u201d may not be strictly\naccurate and scientific, but at any rate he is practically useful, when\nhe says:\n\n\u201c_If we only check a cowardly impulse in time--for example, or if\nwe only don\u2019t strike the blow or rip out with the complaining or\ninsulting word that we shall regret as long as we live--our feelings\nthemselves will presently be the calmer and better, with no particular\nguidance from us on their own account. Action seems to follow feeling,\nbut really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the\naction, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can\nindirectly regulate the feeling, which is not._\n\n\u201c_Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous\ncheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round\ncheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.\nIf such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on\nthat occasion can. So, to feel brave, act as if we_ were _brave, use\nall our will to that end, and a courage-fit will very likely replace\nthe fit of fear. Again, in order to feel kindly toward a person to\nwhom we have been inimical, the only way is more or less deliberately\nto smile, to make sympathetic inquiries, and to force ourselves to\nsay genial things. One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into\na closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward\nwrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling. To wrestle\nwith a bad feeling only pins our attention on it, and keeps it still\nfastened in the mind: whereas, if we act as if from some better\nfeeling, the old bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab, and\nsilently steals away._\u201d\n\nAn equally good quotation (from Luther Gulick\u2019s \u201cMind and Work\u201d) will\nbe found on pages 26-27 of \u201cEconomy of Energy.\u201d\n\nHe says:\n\n\u201c_Assume the bodily positions and movements and manners and tones of\nvoice that belong to the emotional state you desire._\u201d\n\nNow the Expression--as the smile that is the expression of\nHappiness--may not be the cause of Happiness, but at least it is the\nusual accompaniment, if not the essential accompaniment, of ordinary\nHappiness.\n\nThe eyes are among the most obvious means of Expression, as is\nillustrated in the well-known lines:--\n\n      \u201c_Smile, once in a while,\n    \u2019Twill make your heart seem lighter;\n      Smile, once in a while,\n    \u2019Twill make your pathway brighter.\n    Life\u2019s a mirror: if we smile,\n      Smiles come back to greet us;\n    If we\u2019re frowning all the while,\n      Frowns forever meet us._\u201d\n\nThe whole face is a part of our Expression--not only the eyes, but\nalso the mouth, and the lines, which are largely under the ultimate\ncontrol of the will, through the control of the muscles.\n\nAnd there is the whole attitude of the body, the up-holding of the\nchest and the head, the correct curve of the spine (so as to bring the\nposition of \u201cmechanical advantage\u201d and physical and nervous economy),\nthe deepness and fulness and rhythm of the breathing, the laugh, the\nsong (sung aloud or \u201csung silently\u201d), and the tone and the \u201ctune\u201d and\nthe timbre of the voice.\n\n\nUses of Odd Moments\n\nWhat we seldom realise is that, no less than we can move our biceps,\nwe can move our muscles that regulate our Expression. If people can\nspend 15 minutes daily over a dull--and often almost useless, if\nnot actually stiffening and harmful--grinding series of spring-grip\ndumb-bell exercises, why will they not spend a few moments at some one\ntime daily, or many (otherwise wasted or misused) moments at frequent\nintervals throughout the day, in exercising the muscles that regulate\ntheir Expression--in lifting up their heart (and chest and head) and in\nlaughing or smiling, so as to keep happy?\n\nBesides the Expression, as an easy avenue to Happiness, there is\nanother--rather less easy--avenue in the improvement of the state\nof the Health in general, and the state of the Blood in particular,\nthrough more sensible Foods and Feeding, Drinks, Water-treatments, and\nExercise and Exercises--especially Breathing.\n\n\nVarious Avenues to Better Health\n\nSome principles and details will be found in various books.[B] There is\nno space here for more than a few suggestions.\n\n\nBetter Foods and Drinks\n\nYears ago, the late Dr. Forbes Ross told me that, when he was medical\nsuperintendent of a certain Asylum, he found that the patients were\nvery violent on Thursday afternoons. On Thursdays, at the mid-day\nmeal, they had Beef-Extract. He forbade this, and at once the Thursday\nafternoon violence ceased. In my own case, the depression of years\nceased when I gave up flesh-foods and meat-extracts more than 23 years\nago.\n\nThis does not mean that such foods are a cause of non-happiness in all\ncases. Still less does it mean that they are the sole cause, or even\nthe main cause, in all cases. Many haphazard \u201cvegetarians\u201d have been\nmiserable.\n\nIt rather means that some better Diet may be an important factor in\nHappiness.\n\nThe general idea of Diet, for producing or increasing mental and\nphysical Well-Being, which includes Happiness, would surely be to get\nfirst such a r\u00e9gime as shall clear out the clogging and depressing or\nirritating toxins and waste-matters, and shall not add to them, but\nshall re-build a clean and healthy body and mind by a better _Balance_\nof the various Food Elements.\n\nThe Drinks, in order to increase the Well-Being and the subsequent\nHappiness, should be cleansing, and should include the minimum of\nundesirable elements (whether overstimulating, or narcotic).\n\nThere is no need here to explain how Food and Drink affect the mind.\nWe all know some of the depressing effects of \u201cLiver,\u201d Indigestion,\nConstipation, etc., and the partial dependence of these troubles on the\nFood and Drinks. But few who have not studied the subject as I have\nbeen enabled to do, thanks partly to my work with the leading Clinical\nAnalytical Expert, Mr. C. H. Collings,[C] could guess how some of the\nmost common and respectable errors of Food and Drink--such as excess\nof starchy and sugary stuff, of fruit, of tea or coffee or cocoa, and\nso on--can produce non-Health and consequent Non-Happiness, partly\nby affecting the Brain and the Solar Plexus through tissue-storage of\ntoxins and Tox\u0153mia or an acid and poisoned bloodstream.\n\nThere are thousands who imagine that, because most of their \u201ccivilised\u201d\nacquaintances regularly take certain meals as a matter of course,\ntherefore these meals must of necessity be \u201call right\u201d; not knowing\nthat Nature does not withhold from us her results according to\nLaw--often called her \u201cpunishments\u201d--merely because large numbers of\nother individuals are making similar mistakes! To be orthodox in life\nis not the same thing as to be immune from the effects of orthodox\nmistakes.\n\nI could show letter after letter that tells how, beside better Foods\nand Drinks, simple Water-treatments, and various Exercises have tended\nto Health and Happiness. There are Exercises (like those in \u201cEconomy\nof Energy,\u201d pp. 79, 83, 86, 87, 90, 94, 97) which help improve the\nPosition of the body, the fulness and the rhythm of the Breathing, the\neconomy of the muscles, by Relaxing and so forth. There are Stretching\nExercises, Foot-Exercises, Trunk-Exercises, Athletic Exercises, and so\non.\n\nBut one or two items must suffice here, as mere examples of how\nattention to physical acts may influence the state of the mind.\n\n\nBetter Position; Better Breathing; Less Muscular Tension\n\n1. When the heart and lungs and stomach are sunk and sagged down, there\nis a tendency to mental as well as to physical \u201cdepression.\u201d The right\nExercises[D]--quite simple and easy--will draw the organs up into their\nnormal place again, and thus will help to remove \u201cthe dumps\u201d and bring\nHappiness.\n\n2. Happiness has its own type of Breathing (as shown by the Pneumograph\nand the registering cylinder-drum) quite different from the type when\nthere is fear or anger. If we establish as a habit the deepness and\nfulness and rhythm of the Breathing that goes with Happiness, we are\nhalf way towards removing Non-Happiness and getting Happiness itself.\n\n3. When there is anger or restless worry, there is, regularly, some\nmuscular tension. Do away with this, and relax the muscles--the Art[E]\ncan be taught and learnt--and the tendency is for the unsatisfactory\nfeelings themselves to disappear.\n\n\nA Warning about Stimulants with Re-action\n\nBut, in physical \u201ccures,\u201d we often have to distinguish carefully\nbetween the temporary effects and the ultimate effects. Too often\nthere is recommended some way which produces almost immediate\nexhilaration--or at least freedom from the sensation of worry or\ndepression--by driving toxins etc., which had been in the blood and had\nthus tended towards depression, etc., not out of the body altogether,\nbut only out of the blood and into the tissues, where, as Mr. Collings\nhas been able to prove, they remain stored,[F] to work mischief in the\nbody and blood and mind in the future.\n\nThe passing sensations of ease, if not of positive satisfaction, may be\nbrought by such means as a cup of tea or coffee, some aspirin, a smoke,\na cold bath, and so on. But this is not an avenue to Happiness. It is,\nrather, a patch that crosses the avenue to Happiness at one point, and\nthen leaves it again.\n\n\nWe Want the Habit of Happiness\n\nWhat we want is not the flash of Happiness at heavy expense of future\nWell-Being and Happiness, but the habit of Happiness. We want to keep\nhappy. We want to sacrifice, if need be, the immediate present for the\nlasting future. As the author of \u201cThe Way of the Servant\u201d says:\n\n\u201c_I do ask Renunciation of My children--Renunciation of the less._\u201d\n\nIt is not every avenue to Happiness that is unpleasant at the start.\nBut it is quite likely that certain treatments--especially abstinence\nfrom or moderation in various stimulants and narcotics--may be, for a\ntime, far from producing any Happiness.\n\n\nWhen You are Happy, be Really Happy\n\nIt is well known (see \u201cAlison\u2019s History of Europe\u201d) that those who have\nlived for many years in hot climates are so saturated with warmth that\nthey keep warm for some time after they have come into a cooler climate\nlike ours. Somewhat similarly, whenever we _are_ happy, if we let our\nwhole self--every cell and atom within our body from tip to toe--become\nsaturated with Happiness whenever we feel happy, we should be able\nto carry on the habit when the conditions seem less satisfactory; we\nshould still feel the glow. But we simply _must_ be and feel happy\n\u201cwith all our mind and with all our soul and with all our strength,\u201d\nat the happy times. Without feverish excitement, we should thrill\nthroughout with Happiness, and be happy \u201call over,\u201d as someone was said\nto smile all over! It is a good phrase.\n\nFor why not let all the cells and fibres enjoy themselves with us? Why\nkeep the Happiness--as if we were autocratic and despotic Monarchs,\ninstead of Representatives of a Democratic Community--to ourselves? Why\nnot let the cells all \u201crejoice with us that rejoice\u201d?\n\nThey will repay us a hundredfold in times of trouble and trial. They\nwill then thrust back Happiness to us, as the roots of a plant thrust\nup stems and leaves and flowers in return for the warmth and light and\nair and moisture and chemicals that they have absorbed.\n\nIf--as Virchow and many others hold--cells have some individuality and\nsome intelligence, will they not respond to our Happiness, at least as\nmuch as you and I respond to the Happiness of our Nation and Empire\nwhen there is good news and success of the whole of which we form a\nparticle?\n\nTo enjoy an Environment, or the memory of it, is a pleasant Avenue. If,\ninstead of rushing through our sweet holidays and hours of peace and\npleasantness, we \u201cpause on every charm,\u201d and concentrate our attention\non the Pleasantness, we can make the Environment, on which so many\npeople depend for their Health and Happiness, our own possession,\nwithin our minds, by means of picture-memories, or sound-memories, or\neven word-memories. Here is one, from J. Beattie:--\n\n    \u201c_But who the melodies of morn can tell?\n      The wild brook babbling down the mountain-side;\n      The lowing herd, the sheepfold\u2019s simple bell;\n      The pipe of early shepherd dim descried\n      In the low valley; echoing far and wide\n      The clamorous horn along the cliffs above;\n      The hollow murmur of the ocean-tide;\n      The hum of bees, the linnet\u2019s lay of love,\n      And the full choir that wakes the universal grove._\u201d\n\nAfter all, what is our real Environment? Most people would say, at\nonce--the air, the building, the scenery, in which, and the people and\nparaphernalia among which, we happen to be at any time. And these are\nindeed part of our Environment.\n\nBut our true Environment is, first of all, the contents of our\nmind, and especially that part of the contents--whether memories or\nimaginations--to which we give most attention and interest; secondly,\nthe Divine influence in which, whether we recognise it or not, we \u201clive\nand move and have our being.\u201d\n\nAnd, chiefly, we live in whatever we think of or allow ourselves not to\nrefuse as residents in our mind.\n\nI have said little, in these few pages, about what are ordinarily\nregarded as Environmental helps. I rather wished to emphasise the\nimportance of keeping happy, and of using such means as we had always\nor often with us. I could have written much about colours, music,\nbooks, friendship, and so on. But I had to leave unwritten far more\nthan I have written here.\n\nIf these ideas help the reader to keep happy more consistently, less\nspasmodically, and more independently of outside conditions, they will\nhave served their purpose.\n\nPerhaps even the mere titles of some books may be of use towards this\nend--\u201cAll\u2019s Right with the World,\u201d \u201cJust Be Glad,\u201d and \u201cKeep Happy.\u201d\n\nTo keep happy means enjoyment and ease, peace and poise, health and\nfitness, during work-times and non-work times; it means more work\nand better work; it means better opportunities and openings for our\nactivities in the future; it means better rest and sleep after work;\nit means constant, all-round improvement for oneself and others. It\nis, like Health, part of our duty towards God, our neighbour, and our\nself, and the myriads of cell-lives working within us.\n\n\nA Concluding Suggestion\n\nIt is not a bad plan to make a point of writing down every day (in a\nnote-book, or on slips of paper) some special reason why we should\nkeep happy. Mr. Arthur Knight and I have done this regularly for many\nmonths, and have exchanged our records from time to time. The following\nare a few out of many of our reasons. They are not arranged in any\nparticular order, but are put down just as we wrote them, from day to\nday. We recommend every reader to try the practice.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nKEEP HAPPY. When happiness is present, the petty things of life fail to\ndisturb and poison us.\n\nKEEP HAPPY. This means living in the higher part of the mind, where\nthe air and light and warmth are greater, and where all good things\noriginate. Keep your thoughts in this happy region of yourself, and you\nwill not only get the right ideas--the ideas that you really need--but\nyou will draw other minds up to the same level.\n\nKEEP HAPPY. The more you insist on--and persist in--keeping happy, the\nmore you will realise and be convinced how absolutely and progressively\nbeneficial Happiness is.\n\nKEEP HAPPY, and the things that would, in the ordinary way, loom\nlarge and important, and upset our peace and poise, either fade into\nnothingness or else become obviously useful as training us to play the\ngame of life.\n\nIf we would be at our best, in body, mind, and spirit, we must keep\nhappy. Gloom and sorrow lessen our power to be our best and to do our\nbest.\n\nKEEP HAPPY. There is nothing to be said against it. There is everything\nto be said in favour of it.\n\nKEEP HAPPY. Happiness is as much a duty towards God, our \u201cNeighbours,\u201d\nand ourselves, as is Purity or Kindness or any other Virtue, and\nHappiness makes every other Virtue easier and pleasanter.\n\nHowever good a physical or mental \u201csystem\u201d you may follow, and however\nmany excellent rules you may obey as to diet or exercise, and so on,\nthe rule \u201cKeep Happy\u201d is found to be a good addition to your daily\nr\u00e9gime.\n\nKEEP HAPPY. The happy spirit is a magnet, and draws all that is most\npleasant and profitable from all sources to seek you and to become\nyours.\n\nKEEP HAPPY when you are inclined to be ill-tempered or depressed or\nanxious. Then your sight and your perspective will change, and you will\nsee the good in every one and every thing.\n\nKEEP HAPPY, and give out Happiness. When we give out Happiness, we\nalways receive more blessings than we give to others.\n\nKEEP HAPPY. Difficulties and troubles enlarge through unhappiness,\nwhich is their fertilising manure.\n\nKEEP HAPPY. To keep happy is good and God-like.\n\nKEEP HAPPY. Whoever is happy, longs and tends to make all others\nhappier and happier.\n\nKEEP HAPPY. To keep happy is true heroism--no less so than any\nspasmodic act of courage.\n\nKEEP HAPPY. Then every good quality within you will grow and flourish\nand multiply and radiate.\n\n\nTHE END\n\n\nFOOTNOTES:\n\n[A] \u201cEconomy of Energy.\u201d\n\n[B] For instance--\u201cEconomy of Energy,\u201d \u201cHow to Begin a Change of Diet,\u201d\n\u201cFirst Recipes,\u201d \u201cHealth without Meat,\u201d \u201cThe E.M. System of Physical\nCulture.\u201d\n\n[C] See \u201cThe Uric Acid Fetish,\u201d \u201cHow Food Poisons Us.\u201d\n\n[D] See \u201cCurative Exercises.\u201d\n\n[E] See \u201cCurative Exercises,\u201d p. 46.\n\n[F] See \u201cThe Uric Acid Fetish\u201d and \u201cHow Food Poisons Us.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber\u2019s note\n\nSpelling has been retained as published. Inconsistencies in hyphenation\nhave been standardized.\n\nThe following printer errors have been changed.\n\n  =CHANGED    FROM                         TO=\n  Page 33:    \u201cWhatsover things are\u201d       \u201cWhatsoever things are\u201d\n  Page 45:    \u201cor if the disadvantages\u201d    \u201cor of the disadvantages\u201d","title":"Keep Happy","tradition":"philosophy-ethics","translated_text":null,"word_count":8437}