Understanding yourself : the mental hygiene of personality / by Ernest R. Groves.

  • Ernest R. Groves
Date:
[1935]
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Credit: Understanding yourself : the mental hygiene of personality / by Ernest R. Groves. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sary, however, in a well-regulated life than merely to gain this insight. There is need, also, of controlling and correct¬ ing, if necessary, that over which one has power and of accepting that which even though undesirable cannot be changed. The development of a realization of this ought to be one of the chief motives of an educational preparation for life. The lack of interest that parents and educators often show in this problem reveals how little even well-meaning people appreciate the importance of giving attention to the skeletal development of the little child. Once the vital or¬ gans are permitted to sag or the spinal column to become crooked, the body is hampered in its functioning. In so far as respiration and digestion are affected and fatigue en¬ couraged, unfavorable conditions arise that increase fur¬ ther the trend toward bad posture. Once habit becomes firmly fixed and corded into the bony structure of the body, the organism as a whole suffers, and this in turn affects the mind’s life and lessens its efficiency. Without doubt the architectural trend in the bodies of some makes it easy for bad posture to develop unless genuine effort be made to build a correct carriage. •Some years ago I had a vivid illustration of the unhappi¬ ness that comes to those who have a real or imagined handicap of the skeleton. I had written a feature article for a chain of newspapers, discussing the dangers of having face-lifting and the like performed by quacks. Nothing was said, purposely, in the article concerning the feeling that [33]