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The Untroubled Mind
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First published January 1, 1915
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January 17, 2018
Written by a physician in 1915 who apparently treated many workaholics. He's correct that rest is needed for health and a fruitful life; he omits that a certain wealth is needed to create space for restoration, reflection, beauty, and creativity.
Notable quotes :
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"Every illness has two parts : what it is, and what the patient thinks about it. What the patient thinks about it is often more important and more troublesome than the real disease."
"All that I have written has doubtless been presented before, in better ways, by wiser men."
"The remedy for the mental unrest is... the living of a life so full and good that worry cannot find place in it. "
"The larger life is to be pursued for its own glorious self and not for the sake of peace."
"Better to go on with pain and distress than cheapen religion by making it a remedy."
"What he does in the future, not what he has failed to do in the past, will determine the quality of his life. "
"The man whom we look upon as well, and who has never known physical illness, is not well in the larger sense until he knows why he is working, why he is living, why he is filling his life with activity."
"If medicine devotes itself altogether to the cure and prevention of physical disease, it will miss half of its possibilities."
"The greatest progress and development in mind often comes when the thinker is virtually at rest, when his mind is to all intents and purposes blank."
"The greatest conceptions do not come to the untrained and undisciplined mind."
"The interest of the patient was always fresh, he was eager for more, and he did not taste the dregs of fatigue."
"In handling the iron patiently and consistently until he could do it without too much conscious thinking, and so without effort, he had also learned to handle himself naturally, more simply and easily."
"It is the honest and the conscientious people who make the greatest effort. It is very hard for them to realize that they must stop thinking, stop trying..."
"Look upon rest as a preparation for service."
"The sense of effort and the feeling of our own inadequacy damage the nervous system quite as much as the actual physical effort."
"We may trust our decisions to be fair and true if our life’ s ideals are beautiful and true. "
"If we are to possess the untroubled mind we must make our lives larger than the field of dollars and cents."
"It must be the ideal of moral teaching to make clear and pure the source of action. "
"The great refinement of many poetical gentlemen has rendered them practically unfit for the jostling and ugliness of life." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"The cure, as I see it, is to be found in the cultivation of the faculty that finds some good in everything and everybody. This is the saving grace."
"The great human virtues will become easy and natural, the untroubled mind, or as much of it as is good to possess, will be ours, not because we have escaped trouble, but because we have disarmed it, have welcomed it even, so long as it has served to strengthen and ennoble our lives."
"The Christian Scientist, honest and sincere as he may be, is not qualified to say what is true disease and what is not."
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Notable quotes :
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"Every illness has two parts : what it is, and what the patient thinks about it. What the patient thinks about it is often more important and more troublesome than the real disease."
"All that I have written has doubtless been presented before, in better ways, by wiser men."
"The remedy for the mental unrest is... the living of a life so full and good that worry cannot find place in it. "
"The larger life is to be pursued for its own glorious self and not for the sake of peace."
"Better to go on with pain and distress than cheapen religion by making it a remedy."
"What he does in the future, not what he has failed to do in the past, will determine the quality of his life. "
"The man whom we look upon as well, and who has never known physical illness, is not well in the larger sense until he knows why he is working, why he is living, why he is filling his life with activity."
"If medicine devotes itself altogether to the cure and prevention of physical disease, it will miss half of its possibilities."
"The greatest progress and development in mind often comes when the thinker is virtually at rest, when his mind is to all intents and purposes blank."
"The greatest conceptions do not come to the untrained and undisciplined mind."
"The interest of the patient was always fresh, he was eager for more, and he did not taste the dregs of fatigue."
"In handling the iron patiently and consistently until he could do it without too much conscious thinking, and so without effort, he had also learned to handle himself naturally, more simply and easily."
"It is the honest and the conscientious people who make the greatest effort. It is very hard for them to realize that they must stop thinking, stop trying..."
"Look upon rest as a preparation for service."
"The sense of effort and the feeling of our own inadequacy damage the nervous system quite as much as the actual physical effort."
"We may trust our decisions to be fair and true if our life’ s ideals are beautiful and true. "
"If we are to possess the untroubled mind we must make our lives larger than the field of dollars and cents."
"It must be the ideal of moral teaching to make clear and pure the source of action. "
"The great refinement of many poetical gentlemen has rendered them practically unfit for the jostling and ugliness of life." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"The cure, as I see it, is to be found in the cultivation of the faculty that finds some good in everything and everybody. This is the saving grace."
"The great human virtues will become easy and natural, the untroubled mind, or as much of it as is good to possess, will be ours, not because we have escaped trouble, but because we have disarmed it, have welcomed it even, so long as it has served to strengthen and ennoble our lives."
"The Christian Scientist, honest and sincere as he may be, is not qualified to say what is true disease and what is not."
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August 29, 2020
100 years did not fundamentally change our views on worry and how to obtain a peace of mind. Some truths are absolute like the one that worrying about worrying cannot solve your worrying. You cannot think yourself out of anxiety, in fact the harder you try to outthink your worrying the more persistent it will be and the more lasting the negative effects of it. Lightheartedness and humour are sometimes more important for our survival than we think. This is a book about the humble beginnings of a science called psychology and psychiatry. Written at a time when Freud and his ideas were fresh and new. The writer is a doctor who foresaw that sometimes it is our spirit that is sick and it makes our bodies sick too. He articulated his views very clearly and profoundly. A very nice reading.
August 2, 2020
Marvelous !
March 18, 2023
He only earns his freedom and existenceWho daily conquers them anew.
Goethe.
Self-control, at its best, is not a conscious thing. It is not well that we should try to be good, but that we should so dignify our lives with the spirit of good that evil becomes well-nigh impossible to us.
There is a natural gayety in most of us which helps more than we realize to keep us sound. The pity is that when responsibilities come and hardships come, we repress our lighter selves sternly, as though such repression were a duty. Better let us guard the springs of happiness very, very jealously. The whistling boy in the dark street does more than cheer himself on the way. He actually protects himself from evil, and brings courage not only to himself, but to those who hear him. I do not hold for false cheerfulness that is sometimes affected, but a brave show of courage in a forlorn hope will sometimes win the day. It is infinitely more likely to win than a too serious realization of the danger of defeat. The show of courage is often not a pretense at all, but victory itself.
The need of the world is very great and its human destiny is in our hands. Half of those who could help to right the wrongs are asleep or too selfishly immersed in their own affairs. We need more helpers like my friend of the skylights. Most of us are far too serious. The slumberers will slumber on, and the worriers will worry, the serious people will go ponderously about until some one shows them how ridiculous they are and how pitiful.
Instead of going into further analysis with him, I assured him that, while it was undoubtedly his duty to regret all the evil of his life, it was a still greater duty to go on and live the rest of it well, and that he could do so if he would open his eyes to the possibilities of unselfish service.
I am very much inclined to preach against self-analysis and the almost inevitable regret and despair that accompany it.
One of my patients decided some time ago that her life was wasted, that she had accomplished nothing. It was true that she had not the endurance to meet the usual demands of social or even family life, and that for long periods she had to give up altogether. But it happened that she had the gift of musical understanding, that she had studied hard in younger days. With a little urging the gift was made to grow again and to serve not only the patient’s own needs, but to bring very great pleasure to every one who listened to her playing. That rare, true ability was worth everything, and she came to realize it in time. The gift of musical expression is a very great thing, and I succeeded in making this woman understand that she should be happy in that ability even if nothing else should be possible.
It is never time to regret—and never time to despair. The less analysis the better. When it comes to character, live, grow, and get a deeper and deeper understanding of life—of life that is near to God and so capable of wrong only as we turn away from Him. “Do not say things; what you are stands over you and thunders so, I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.” We shall do well not to forget that, whatever failures or mistakes we have made, there is infinite possibility ahead of us, that character is the greatest thing in the world, and that most good character has been built upon mistakes and failures. I believe there is no sin which may not make up the fabric of its own forgiveness in the living of a free, self-sacrificing life. I know of no bodily ill nor handicap which we may not eventually rise above and beyond by means of brave spiritual progress. The body may fail us, but the spirit reaches on and into the great world of God.
The practice of good living will never be easy in its details, but if it is sure in its inspiration there will be no question of the final triumph. We shall have to fight blindly sometimes and with all the strength and persistence of animals at bay. We shall fail sometimes, too, and that is not always the worst thing that can happen. It is the glory of life that we shall slowly triumph over ourselves and the world. It is the glory of life that out of sore trouble, in the midst of poverty and human injustice, may rise, spontaneous and serene, the spirit of self-sacrifice, the unconquerable spirit of service that does not question, that expresses the divine tenderness in terms of human love. Through the times of darkness and doubt which must inevitably come, there will be for those who cherish such a vision, and who come back to it again and again, no utter darkness, no trouble that wholly crushes, no loss that wholly destroys.
The great human virtues will become easy and natural, the untroubled mind, or as much of it as is good to possess, will be ours, not because we have escaped trouble, but because we have disarmed it, have welcomed it even, so long as it has served to strengthen and ennoble our lives.
man grows better, more human, more intelligent, as he practices the virtues. He is safer, no doubt, and the world is better. It is even true that, by the constant practice of virtues, he may come finally to espouse goodness and become thoroughly good. That is the hopeful thing about it and the reason why we may consistently ask or demand the routine practice of the virtues. But let us hold up all the time in our teaching and in our lives the other course, the development of the inspiration that includes all virtues and that makes all our way easy and plain in a world where confusion reigns, because men are going at the problem of right living the wrong way around.
Goethe.
Self-control, at its best, is not a conscious thing. It is not well that we should try to be good, but that we should so dignify our lives with the spirit of good that evil becomes well-nigh impossible to us.
There is a natural gayety in most of us which helps more than we realize to keep us sound. The pity is that when responsibilities come and hardships come, we repress our lighter selves sternly, as though such repression were a duty. Better let us guard the springs of happiness very, very jealously. The whistling boy in the dark street does more than cheer himself on the way. He actually protects himself from evil, and brings courage not only to himself, but to those who hear him. I do not hold for false cheerfulness that is sometimes affected, but a brave show of courage in a forlorn hope will sometimes win the day. It is infinitely more likely to win than a too serious realization of the danger of defeat. The show of courage is often not a pretense at all, but victory itself.
The need of the world is very great and its human destiny is in our hands. Half of those who could help to right the wrongs are asleep or too selfishly immersed in their own affairs. We need more helpers like my friend of the skylights. Most of us are far too serious. The slumberers will slumber on, and the worriers will worry, the serious people will go ponderously about until some one shows them how ridiculous they are and how pitiful.
Instead of going into further analysis with him, I assured him that, while it was undoubtedly his duty to regret all the evil of his life, it was a still greater duty to go on and live the rest of it well, and that he could do so if he would open his eyes to the possibilities of unselfish service.
I am very much inclined to preach against self-analysis and the almost inevitable regret and despair that accompany it.
One of my patients decided some time ago that her life was wasted, that she had accomplished nothing. It was true that she had not the endurance to meet the usual demands of social or even family life, and that for long periods she had to give up altogether. But it happened that she had the gift of musical understanding, that she had studied hard in younger days. With a little urging the gift was made to grow again and to serve not only the patient’s own needs, but to bring very great pleasure to every one who listened to her playing. That rare, true ability was worth everything, and she came to realize it in time. The gift of musical expression is a very great thing, and I succeeded in making this woman understand that she should be happy in that ability even if nothing else should be possible.
It is never time to regret—and never time to despair. The less analysis the better. When it comes to character, live, grow, and get a deeper and deeper understanding of life—of life that is near to God and so capable of wrong only as we turn away from Him. “Do not say things; what you are stands over you and thunders so, I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.” We shall do well not to forget that, whatever failures or mistakes we have made, there is infinite possibility ahead of us, that character is the greatest thing in the world, and that most good character has been built upon mistakes and failures. I believe there is no sin which may not make up the fabric of its own forgiveness in the living of a free, self-sacrificing life. I know of no bodily ill nor handicap which we may not eventually rise above and beyond by means of brave spiritual progress. The body may fail us, but the spirit reaches on and into the great world of God.
The practice of good living will never be easy in its details, but if it is sure in its inspiration there will be no question of the final triumph. We shall have to fight blindly sometimes and with all the strength and persistence of animals at bay. We shall fail sometimes, too, and that is not always the worst thing that can happen. It is the glory of life that we shall slowly triumph over ourselves and the world. It is the glory of life that out of sore trouble, in the midst of poverty and human injustice, may rise, spontaneous and serene, the spirit of self-sacrifice, the unconquerable spirit of service that does not question, that expresses the divine tenderness in terms of human love. Through the times of darkness and doubt which must inevitably come, there will be for those who cherish such a vision, and who come back to it again and again, no utter darkness, no trouble that wholly crushes, no loss that wholly destroys.
The great human virtues will become easy and natural, the untroubled mind, or as much of it as is good to possess, will be ours, not because we have escaped trouble, but because we have disarmed it, have welcomed it even, so long as it has served to strengthen and ennoble our lives.
man grows better, more human, more intelligent, as he practices the virtues. He is safer, no doubt, and the world is better. It is even true that, by the constant practice of virtues, he may come finally to espouse goodness and become thoroughly good. That is the hopeful thing about it and the reason why we may consistently ask or demand the routine practice of the virtues. But let us hold up all the time in our teaching and in our lives the other course, the development of the inspiration that includes all virtues and that makes all our way easy and plain in a world where confusion reigns, because men are going at the problem of right living the wrong way around.
January 28, 2015
Interesting look at the spiritual aspect of well being from the lens of a physician. Nothing new or ground breaking, but a good recap of how "pretending to be happy" like many new age philosophies teach is just that "pretending".
The true way to joy is through our spiritual connection to God. Being tuned into the creator's spiritual vibe allows you to be more grateful for the good things and less focused on the bad things.
The true way to joy is through our spiritual connection to God. Being tuned into the creator's spiritual vibe allows you to be more grateful for the good things and less focused on the bad things.
October 3, 2017
My mind still troubled after finishing this book
September 29, 2024
A good first choice to get back in the rhythm of reading. I feel like I’ve been blowing in the wind for years because of my lack of commitment to myself and I’m confronting it. I found myself not being bothered by anything I didn’t agree with and just giving the text a full read in a sitting. It really captured me and then I absorbed (hopefully) the lessons within. I really needed to see these words, especially now. Some below.
“He may worry because of the things he cannot altogether understand, and because he falls so far short of the implied ideal. But he will have enlarged his life so much that the common worries will find little room—he will be too full of the joy of living to spend much conscious thought in worry.”
“When you have tried your best to get back to your work and have failed, when you have done this not once but many times, it is inevitable that misunderstanding should creep in, inevitable that you should question very deeply and doubt not infrequently. Yet the chances are that one of the reasons for your failure is that you have tried too hard, that you have not known how to rest.”
“The nervous temperament under irritation is very prone to become selfish—and very likely to hide behind this selfishness, calling it temperament. The man who flies into a passion when he is disturbed… these unfortunates have virtually built a wall about their lives, a wall which shuts out the world of life and happiness. From the walls of this prison the sounds of discord and annoyance are thrown back upon the prisoner intensified and multiplied.”
“We shall give and serve in secret places with our hearts in our deeds. Then we may possess the untroubled mind, a treasure too rich to be computed. We shall not have it for the seeking; it may exist in the midst of what men may call privations and sorrows; but it will exist in a very large sense and it will be ours.”
“I would make my little world more blessedly careless—with an abandon that loves life too much to spoil it with worry. I would cherish so great a desire for my child’s good that I could not scold and bear down upon him for every little fault, making him a worrier too, but, instead, I would guide him along the right path with pleasant words and brave encouragement. The condemnation of faults is rarely constructive.”
I hope it’s true that it’s never too late to learn.
“He may worry because of the things he cannot altogether understand, and because he falls so far short of the implied ideal. But he will have enlarged his life so much that the common worries will find little room—he will be too full of the joy of living to spend much conscious thought in worry.”
“When you have tried your best to get back to your work and have failed, when you have done this not once but many times, it is inevitable that misunderstanding should creep in, inevitable that you should question very deeply and doubt not infrequently. Yet the chances are that one of the reasons for your failure is that you have tried too hard, that you have not known how to rest.”
“The nervous temperament under irritation is very prone to become selfish—and very likely to hide behind this selfishness, calling it temperament. The man who flies into a passion when he is disturbed… these unfortunates have virtually built a wall about their lives, a wall which shuts out the world of life and happiness. From the walls of this prison the sounds of discord and annoyance are thrown back upon the prisoner intensified and multiplied.”
“We shall give and serve in secret places with our hearts in our deeds. Then we may possess the untroubled mind, a treasure too rich to be computed. We shall not have it for the seeking; it may exist in the midst of what men may call privations and sorrows; but it will exist in a very large sense and it will be ours.”
“I would make my little world more blessedly careless—with an abandon that loves life too much to spoil it with worry. I would cherish so great a desire for my child’s good that I could not scold and bear down upon him for every little fault, making him a worrier too, but, instead, I would guide him along the right path with pleasant words and brave encouragement. The condemnation of faults is rarely constructive.”
I hope it’s true that it’s never too late to learn.
October 8, 2022
I probably have read at least 30 self-improvement books. I can confidently tell that the new ones, those published in the last 20 years, are not worth the effort to read. With minor exceptions, a chapter here and there, a reference to ancient wisdom and perhaps the 20 bucks invested in a self-improvement book may be worth your time reading.
On the other hand, those written 100 years ago, like this one, are much r structured, use the power of suggestion, and are kind of hypnotic. They insert keywords into your head by using well-structured sentences or paragraphs.
They use God a lot; they require the reader to have a God belief system and not be a nihilist. Why not? To self-improve starts with Faith, Faith that you can improve, Faith that you can change, and Faith in yourself.
They probably use God as a reflection, a mirror of our souls, to look up and reflect Him that supposedly we are made according to His image and compare. Do we like what we see in ourselves? Is it fitting to be a copy of God's image? Maybe that is why they use God a lot, not for proselytizing to any Christian version of God.
Another thing that I realize is that when copyrights expire after 100 years, many modern writers that have read those old self-improvement works will copy them.
So if you are searching to self-improve, forget the latest versions in this genre and go 100 years back. Back then, the "law of attraction" had a different name than a book title. Still, Im not sure who has copied this one recently. But that is not that important for me; I enjoyed listening to the Librivox version of this book; the chapters contain excellent and valid points for anyone to consider if they want an untroubled mind.
On the other hand, those written 100 years ago, like this one, are much r structured, use the power of suggestion, and are kind of hypnotic. They insert keywords into your head by using well-structured sentences or paragraphs.
They use God a lot; they require the reader to have a God belief system and not be a nihilist. Why not? To self-improve starts with Faith, Faith that you can improve, Faith that you can change, and Faith in yourself.
They probably use God as a reflection, a mirror of our souls, to look up and reflect Him that supposedly we are made according to His image and compare. Do we like what we see in ourselves? Is it fitting to be a copy of God's image? Maybe that is why they use God a lot, not for proselytizing to any Christian version of God.
Another thing that I realize is that when copyrights expire after 100 years, many modern writers that have read those old self-improvement works will copy them.
So if you are searching to self-improve, forget the latest versions in this genre and go 100 years back. Back then, the "law of attraction" had a different name than a book title. Still, Im not sure who has copied this one recently. But that is not that important for me; I enjoyed listening to the Librivox version of this book; the chapters contain excellent and valid points for anyone to consider if they want an untroubled mind.
December 1, 2021
Dr. Hall, in eleven brief chapters, provides remedies for some of the most common mental illnesses like overthinking, burnout, anxiety, to name a few.
When one comes upon a book that deals with the affairs of the mind, one hopes it to have a mention of the affliction one is supposedly affected by. If a remedy for the same is found in the book, there's nothing more one could have asked for from it. However, more often than not, the author's idea of a remedy does not align with that of the expectant reader.
Dr. Hall suggests that sincere prayer, in conjunction with medical treatment, is the best way to tackle an affliction. That employing just one of the two is not always sufficient.
Considering the fact that the book was written over a hundred years ago, Dr. Hall's views seem to be far ahead of his time, something which he alludes to at the beginning of the book. His views on subjects like worrying too much (worrying about worrying), feeling the need to think something all the time, not only convey his understanding of the common mental issues, but also the fact that even a hundred years later, these issues remain largely prevalent.
The book should be read to gain an understanding of the underlying causes of mental afflictions, instead of attempting to look for a 'panacea' that will un-trouble one's mind forever.
When one comes upon a book that deals with the affairs of the mind, one hopes it to have a mention of the affliction one is supposedly affected by. If a remedy for the same is found in the book, there's nothing more one could have asked for from it. However, more often than not, the author's idea of a remedy does not align with that of the expectant reader.
Dr. Hall suggests that sincere prayer, in conjunction with medical treatment, is the best way to tackle an affliction. That employing just one of the two is not always sufficient.
Considering the fact that the book was written over a hundred years ago, Dr. Hall's views seem to be far ahead of his time, something which he alludes to at the beginning of the book. His views on subjects like worrying too much (worrying about worrying), feeling the need to think something all the time, not only convey his understanding of the common mental issues, but also the fact that even a hundred years later, these issues remain largely prevalent.
The book should be read to gain an understanding of the underlying causes of mental afflictions, instead of attempting to look for a 'panacea' that will un-trouble one's mind forever.
February 9, 2024
This is a book that try to heal common problems like worrying, overthinking, how to deal with idliness and other mental problems. It is a short and light book that does nit require a lot of concentration. I am familiar with most of the concepts in the book but it is good to remind your self from time to time. I highlighted few passages that I liked. Here are some:
A very wise physician has said that “every illness has two parts—what it is, and what the patient thinks about it.”
When a man tells me he never worries, I am inclined to think that he is either deceiving himself or trying to deceive me.
To put it another way, if we would have the untroubled mind, we must transfer our conscientious efforts from the small details of life—from the worry and fret of common things—into another and a higher atmosphere.
It is work above all else that saves us from the disasters of conflicting thought.
Life is serious—alas, too serious—and full enough of pathos. We cannot joke about its troubles; they are real. But, at least, we need not magnify them.
A very wise physician has said that “every illness has two parts—what it is, and what the patient thinks about it.”
When a man tells me he never worries, I am inclined to think that he is either deceiving himself or trying to deceive me.
To put it another way, if we would have the untroubled mind, we must transfer our conscientious efforts from the small details of life—from the worry and fret of common things—into another and a higher atmosphere.
It is work above all else that saves us from the disasters of conflicting thought.
Life is serious—alas, too serious—and full enough of pathos. We cannot joke about its troubles; they are real. But, at least, we need not magnify them.
May 1, 2020
Phenomenal in the ways of how so many of us feel, but are too afraid to voice. To identify with the complexities of life and accept yourself with all the struggles and demands. I found it so honest and thought... finally a great and profound discovery that helps to concur fear, pressure and self doubt. Of course, what many of us feel. That it isn't something to be ashamed of but to embrace. I highly recommend it. I will read it many, many times. To bring out and reiterate the strength I have often at times that becomes buried inside.
June 14, 2019
It's difficult to rate this in this Era as it was written in 1910. However I found it patriarchal and very Christian centric. He refers to people, with depression/anxiety I assume, as nervous invalids with anxious disposition. It's just difficult to hear. It wasn't particularly helpful to me. Basically telling to not to think about your worries and just do good work and charity and all will be well.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 23, 2018
Herbert's suggestion is you have to put down the baseball bat and stop beating yourself up with your past. Then put your hands to work. You can not think yourself out of your troubled mind. Since uncontrolled thinking is what got you to that spot in the first place.
Like all good direction you need to put it into action and not quit till it works.
Like all good direction you need to put it into action and not quit till it works.
March 27, 2019
This short book (which I listened to on Librivox) had the infuriating ability to say something insightful in one sentence, only to say something asinine in the next. It reads in the style of the self-help era it comes from (Gilded Age). Probably not worth the read if you've explored that genre before.
October 5, 2019
Anyone suffering from anxiety should listen to this book. (I listened to it on LibriVox). I have never heard such sound and profound advice on how to deal with anxiety. After so many books read on the topic, I am shocked that a book written so long ago has been lost on recommended reading on dealing with living with anxiety.
November 16, 2024
Do I recommend this book? Not even a little. But if you are trying to get closer to your goal for the year it is a book and it is short. I don't know.
A physician that treated I guess a lot of people with some anxiety and other issues. Trying to provide his rules or maybe just recommendations for life. I guess a version the self book of the early 20th century. EH.
A physician that treated I guess a lot of people with some anxiety and other issues. Trying to provide his rules or maybe just recommendations for life. I guess a version the self book of the early 20th century. EH.
June 9, 2019
Hall's hypotheses cause you to think more deeply about what causes - and heals - those things that trouble the mind. It's an interesting alternative approach from traditional psychological and medicinal practices.
June 28, 2019
Life changing! I’ve read this little book probably half a dozen times this year highlighting different passages each time. Writing down thoughts to remember throughout the day. I wish I would have found this book when I was younger, but it’s never too late to expand peace of mind!
January 13, 2022
If there is not enough significance in it, life seems hollow and unsatisfying.
Pain itself is based on metaphysician judgement. This book is all about how to heal your mind and body through ancient and modern ways. A very interesting read.
Pain itself is based on metaphysician judgement. This book is all about how to heal your mind and body through ancient and modern ways. A very interesting read.
August 22, 2017
Simply, amazing and timeless in its philosophy and application of.
January 6, 2018
Not the most exciting or inspirational read, but there were a few interesting passages.
March 29, 2018
An agnostic physician argues for the necessity of religion in treating psychological issues. Interesting if nothing else.
June 28, 2019
This was a quick read. Finished in half a day. Excellent advice and insight that is not added to a bunch of unnecessary opinion. The message is clear and simple. Helped me when I needed it.
April 9, 2020
Eloquently frames the importance of coupling the science of healing (medicine) with the spirituality of healing (faith). Beautiful book.
August 7, 2020
1.5/5
I didn't learn anything and I found it boring :/
I didn't learn anything and I found it boring :/
May 24, 2023
Not the most in depth or mind blowing stuff, but some decent lines are found throughout the book.
September 5, 2025
another audiobook yay kinda old school ngl but good listen
March 4, 2017
This book has blown my mind, and was exactly what I needed to read. I am buried in thoughts, worried about all the things I need to do, and have a problem when some moralist is dogmatic in their approach as saying, "Just do it! Why are you sitting there in analysis paralysis? Just get to work. Just do it and stop worrying"
For me, it all starts with God and the Spirit, and then every falls into place and flows properly.
For me, it all starts with God and the Spirit, and then every falls into place and flows properly.
September 30, 2016
Please understand, I give very few five stars. I believe this is my second. This book is so well-written, easily understood, and an extremely interesting read. Although it was written in a time with different dialect and words that may seem uncommon or rude, by no means does this impede the quality of the manuscript.. No matter what your religious views or scientific views are, if you suffer from something that you feel is incurable this book can help change your perspective. This fellow looks at the world and the way we interact with it quite interestingly, I am glad that I read the book.
August 18, 2016
I've been given the description of having a "Type A++" personality, and often find it difficult to turn off the constant thoughts in my head. I always read books like these to gain further insight on how to cope with the racing thoughts and persistent anxiety of always feeling the need to "think". This book seemed a little dated, but I found the information very useful. I listened to it on Librivox and would recommend that anyone else that's interested, to give it a quick listen as well.
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