THE ENERGY OF YOUR MIND

 

                            

                             WHAT MAKES YOU TIRED

              HERE IS AN ASTOUNDING AND SIGNIFICANT FACT. MENTAL WORK ALONE CAN'S MAKE YOU TIRED. SOUNDS ABSURD. BUT A FEW YEARS AGO, SCIENTISTS TIRED TO FIND OUT HOW LONG THE HUMAN BRAIN COULD LABOR WITHOUT REACHING "A DIMINISHED CAPACITY FOR WORK", THE SCIENTIFIC DEFINITION OF FATIGUE. TO THE AMAZEMENT OF THESE SCIENTISTS, THEY DISCOVERED THAT BLOOD PASSING THROUGH THE BRAIN, WHEN IT IS ACTIVE, SHOWS TO FATIGUE AT ALL! IF YOU TOOK BLOOD FROM THE VEINS OF A DAY LABORER WHILE HE WAS WORKING, YOU WOULD FIND IT FULL OF "FATIGUE TOXINS" AND FATIGUE PRODUCTS. BUT IF YOU TOOK A DROP OF BLOOD FROM THE BRAIN OF AN ALBERT EINSTEIN, IT WOULD SHOW NO FATIGUE WHATEVER AT THE END OF THE DAY.

               SO FAR AS THE BRAIN IS CONCERNED, IT CAN WORK "AS WELL AND AS SWIFTLY AT THE END OF EIGHT OR EVEN TWELVE HOURS OF EFFORT AS AT THE BEGINNING". THE BRAIN IS UTTERLY TIRELESS.. SO WHAT MAKES YOU TIRED?

                PSYCHIATRISTS DECLARE THAT MOST OF OUR FATIGUE DERIVES FROM OUR MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL ATTITUDES. ONE OF ENGLAND'S  MOST DISTINGUISHED PSYCHIATRISTS. J.A.HADFIELD SAYS IN HIS BOOK THE PSYCHOLOGY OF POWER "THE GREATER PART OF THE FATIGUE FROM WHICH WE SUFFER IS OF MENTAL ORIGIN, INFACT EXHAUTION OF PURELY PHYSICAL ORIGIN IS RARE". ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST DISTINGUISHED PSYCHIATRISTS, DR.A.A. BRILL, GOES EVEN FURTHER. HE DECLARES, "ONE HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE FATIGUE OF THE SEDENTARY WORKER IN GOOD HEALTH IN DUE TO PSYCHOLOGIAL FACTORS, BY WHICH WE MEAN EMOTIONAL FACTORS".

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                  WHAT KINDS OF EMOTIONAL FACTORS TIRE THE SEDENTARY (OR SITTING) WORKER? JOY? CONTENTMENT? NO! NEVER ! BOREDOM, RESENTMENT, A FEELING OF NOT BEING APPRECIATED, A FEELING OF FUTILY, HURRY, ANXIETY, WORRY - THOSE ARE THE EMOTIONAL FACTORS THAT EXHAUST THE SITTING WORKER, MAKE HIM SUSCEPTIBLE TO COLDS, REDUCE HIS OUTPUT, AN SEND HIM HOME WITH A NERVOUS HEADACHE. YES, WE GET TIRED BECAUSE OUT EMOTIONS PRODUCE NERVOUS TENSIONS IN THE BODY.

                    THE METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY POINTED THAT OU IN A LEAFLET ON FATIGUE. "HARD WORK BY ITSELF" SAYS THIS GREAT LIFE-INSURANCE COMPANY, "SELDOM CAUSES FATIGUE WHICH CANNOT BE CURED BY A GOOD SLEEP OR REST... WORRY, TENSENESS, AND EMOTIONAL UPSETS ARE THREE OF THE BIGGEST CAUSES OF FATIGUE. OFTEN THEY ARE ARE TO BLAME WHEN PHYSICAL OR MENTAL WORK SEEMS TO BE THE CAUSE.. REMEMBER THAT A TENSE MUSCLE IS A WORKING MUSCLE . EASE UP! SAVE ENERGY FOR IMPORTANT DUTIES".

                 "  SOMETIMES PEOPLE LET THE SAME PROBLEM MAKE THEM

                   MISERABLE FOR YEARS WHEN THEY COULD JUST SAY, SO WHAT,

                   THAT'S ONE OF MY FAVORITETHINGS TO SAY. SO WHAT".

                                                                               ---- ANDY WARHOL

                   DONT WORRY ABOUT THE HORSE BEING BLIND, JUST LOAD

                   THE WAGON.

                                                            ----- JOHN MADDEN