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If we wish to change our lives and succeed in business we have to understand that grief, anxiety, and fear are great enemies of our human life. A depressed, sour, melancholy soul, a life which has ceased to believe in its own sacredness, its own power, its own mission, a life which sinks into querulous egotism or vegetating aimlessness, has become crippled and useless. We should fight against every influence which tends to depress the mind, as we would against a temptation to crime. It is undoubtedly true that, as a rule, the mind has power to lengthen the period of youthful and mature strength and beauty, preserving and renewing physical life by a stalwart mental health. A man in a neighboring city was told he was going to die; so he sent for all his relatives and friends. Most of them sat at his bedside waiting for him to die and they believed it was inevitable. However, one friend refused to believe that he was going to loose his friend old and he assured the sick man over and over again that he was all right and would soon be well. They talked about all the fun times they had shared and the old friend embellished every story so much that the ill friend could help but laugh and laugh deeply. Do you know, the man rallied, and he was soon well again! So literally true is the old Hebrew proverb that, " A cheerful heart is good medicine” and "Mirth is God's medicine," said Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes; "everybody ought to bathe in it. Fear, resentment, anxiety,—all the rust of life,—ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth." Elsewhere he says: "If you are making choice of a physician be sure you get one with a cheerful and serene countenance." Is not a jolly physician of greater service than his pills? Dr. Marshall Hall frequently prescribed "cheerfulness" for his patients, saying that it is better than anything to be obtained at the drug store. In Western New York, Dr. Burdick was known as the "Laughing Doctor." He always presented the happiest kind of a face; and his good humor was contagious. He dealt sparingly in drugs, yet was very successful. The power of happiness and laughter, to the sick and weakly, is imperative. It may offer one the means and the ability to sustain the possibility of outliving, or living in spite of, a disease. It is, therefore, of the greatest importance to cultivate the highest and most lighthearted frame of mind which the conditions will admit. The same energy which takes the form of mental activity is vital to the work of the human body. Mental influences affect the system; and a joyous spirit not only relieves pain, but increases the momentum of life in the body. If not for laughter we can get caught up in “stinking thinking” and become our own worst enemy. This obviously affects us physically and mentally. How can we expect to be successful in changing our lives around and creating an income from a home based business with out a steadfast expression of gratitude and happiness for that which we are able to obtain and create? To prevent falling into “stinking thinking” one must keep a positive attitude, especially in the home based business arena.
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