Brain culture through scientific body building / by Mrs. Theodore Parsons.

  • Parsons, Matilda I. Cruice, 1878-
Date:
1912
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Credit: Brain culture through scientific body building / by Mrs. Theodore Parsons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    power. We know that exposure, exertion and conflict with difficulties do much to give tone to the body, and so they do to the mind. Fight physical inertia with mental energy. In this way the superb science of Self Mas- tery grows until one attains a degree of com- mand over mind and body which wiU make the pleadings of self-indulgence fall upon deaf ears. Be careful not to overexercise, as it may cause a pihng up of poisons which occur from a monotonous series of movements, involving only a single group of muscles, or a single hmb, especially if these are carried out in a cramped and an unnatural position. Such movements, as the incessant use of the pen, of certain tools, etc., are far more fa- tiguing and injurious than generaflzed, S5un- metrical swaying movements of the whole body and hmbs, and which involve the ex- penditure of from two to ten times as much actual strength. The reason is, that the former fatigues to the torture point one