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Release from Nervous Tension
Book in details about nervous tension
276 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1901
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February 12, 2020
"In this book you will find no discussion of instinct. Human beings have no instincts. Their bodily activities are infinitely plastic. Social situations are the forces that give human activities their direction and drive" (vii).
"Emotional tensions can strain your muscles to produce symptoms such as backache, and nervous strains can lead to permanent changes in muscle tissue. You know that emotion is behavior, something that you do with your entire body. Tensing your muscles is part of emotional behavior" (24).
"The play spirit can be carried over into everything you do, yet there still remains a difference between work and play. Work involves some external compulsion, such as is implied in the earning f one's daily bread. We must work and so we must restrain our wayward impulses in order to stay with the job. Play is anything you do that you can drop as soon as it ceases to amuse. It is something you can take or let alone" (62).
"This brings us to our third method of preventing psycho-allergy: Charity. By charity I do not mean the giving of alms. I use the word rather in the biblical sense as it is found in I. Cor. 13:4 'Charity suffereth long and is kind; charity envieth not...
Sociologists have used the word 'empathy' in this sense; but for general understanding, the word 'charity' conveys the meaning. 'Charity,' as used here, means a friendly, sympathetic, unselfish understanding.
Charity means that you drop your personal feelings and substitute comprehension and understanding. Doctors who specialize in nervousness are not irritated by their patients. They try to understand them. Such patients arouse no hostility, no anxiety neurosis, in the psychiatrist" (108).
"Your attitudes are the habits that control your lesser habit patterns" (110).
"Emotional tensions can strain your muscles to produce symptoms such as backache, and nervous strains can lead to permanent changes in muscle tissue. You know that emotion is behavior, something that you do with your entire body. Tensing your muscles is part of emotional behavior" (24).
"The play spirit can be carried over into everything you do, yet there still remains a difference between work and play. Work involves some external compulsion, such as is implied in the earning f one's daily bread. We must work and so we must restrain our wayward impulses in order to stay with the job. Play is anything you do that you can drop as soon as it ceases to amuse. It is something you can take or let alone" (62).
"This brings us to our third method of preventing psycho-allergy: Charity. By charity I do not mean the giving of alms. I use the word rather in the biblical sense as it is found in I. Cor. 13:4 'Charity suffereth long and is kind; charity envieth not...
Sociologists have used the word 'empathy' in this sense; but for general understanding, the word 'charity' conveys the meaning. 'Charity,' as used here, means a friendly, sympathetic, unselfish understanding.
Charity means that you drop your personal feelings and substitute comprehension and understanding. Doctors who specialize in nervousness are not irritated by their patients. They try to understand them. Such patients arouse no hostility, no anxiety neurosis, in the psychiatrist" (108).
"Your attitudes are the habits that control your lesser habit patterns" (110).
October 5, 2022
Haddinden fazla imla hataları vardı. Okuma yazma bilmeyen biri bile bu kadar yazım hatası yapmazdı...
April 7, 2017
Quite clearly a piece of the puzzle to live your life in peace
Well writen and impressive for the life wisdom by such as skilled doctor of medicine to understand the needs of mind and body.
I sense he joins western and eastern philosophy and teaching withour having studied the eastern at all.
Well writen and impressive for the life wisdom by such as skilled doctor of medicine to understand the needs of mind and body.
I sense he joins western and eastern philosophy and teaching withour having studied the eastern at all.
August 20, 2018
For being written in 1947 it’s unbelievable how pertinent it is to today and I think if practiced would do wonders for everyone.
December 9, 2019
best book for tension release
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