Self Help
Financial difficulties and
unrequited love affairs head the list of causes of such mind
disturbances.
A negative environment such as that existing where some member of
the family is constantly "nagging," will interfere with the chemistry of
the mind to such an extent that the individual will lose ambition and
gradually sink into oblivion.
It is because of this fact that the old saying that a man's wife may
either "make" or "break" him is literally true.
In a subsequent lesson a whole chapter on this subject is addressed to the wives of men. Any high-school student knows that certain food combinations will, if taken into the stomach, result in indigestion, violent pain and even death. Good health depends, in part at least, upon a food combination that "harmonizes." But harmony of food combinations is not sufficient to insure good health; there must be harmony, also, between the units of energy known as the mind. A man is half whipped the minute he begins to feel sorry for himself, or to spin an alibi with which he would explain away his defects. "Harmony" seems to be one of Nature's laws, without which there can be no such thing as ORGANIZED ENERGY, or life in any form whatsoever.
The health of the body as well as the mind is literally built around, out
of and upon the principle of HARMONY! The energy known as life
begins to disintegrate and death approaches when the organs of the
body stop working in harmony.
The moment harmony ceases at the source of any form of organized
energy (power) the units of that energy are thrown into a chaotic state
of disorder and the power is rendered neutral or passive.
Harmony is also the nucleus around which the principle of mind chemistry known as a Master Mind develops power. Destroy this harmony and you destroy the power growing out of the co-ordinated effort of a group of individual minds. This truth has been stated, re-stated and presented in every manner which the author could conceive, with unending repetition, for the reason that unless the student grasps this principle and learns to apply it this lesson is useless.
Success in life, no matter what one may call success, is very largely a matter of adaptation to environment in such a manner that there is harmony between the individual and his environment. The palace of a king becomes as a hovel of a peasant if harmony does not abound within its walls. Conversely stated, the hut of a peasant may be made to yield more happiness than that of the mansion of the rich man, if harmony obtains in the former and not in the latter.