Read free. Seventy Years Young – Or The Unhabitual Way, by Emily M. Bishop, 1907.
Excerpt
Psychology teaches that “the antecedent step to getting a thing done is to suggest it forcibly, or, in everyday parlance, to ‘put it into his head.'” The purpose of this book is “to put it into the heads” of its readers that they can add (1) life to their years and (2) years to their life.
The suggestions given herein are addressed quite as much to those who are still young in years as to those who have lived two or more score of years. There inevitably comes a time, sooner or later, when every one is personally interested in not growing old; and the earlier in life that one’s attention is directed to rational ways of postponing oldness, the better for the individual.
The idea that the writer has tried to present, simply and practically, is that man’s responses and reactions to life are virtually within his own control; that the quality and number of his responses and reactions determine, to a large degree, his oldness or youngness.
Frequent references to the interrelation of mind and body have been made. It is earnestly hoped that no one may confound the statements regarding this interrelation with transcendental theories or unsubstantiated metaphysical dogmas. Care has been exercised that only such statements should be made as are warranted by recent physiological and psychological research and demonstration.
Introductory Pages
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