CHAPTER 17. A SUMMARY OF THE SCIENCE OF BEING WELL Health is perfectly natural functioning, normal living. There is a Principle ofHealth in the universe; it is the Living substance, from which all things aremade.This Living Substance perme…

CHAPTER 16. SUPPLEMENTARY INSTRUCTIONS In forming a conception of health, it is necessary to think of the manner inwhich you would live and work if you were perfectly well and very strong; toimagine yourself doing things in the way of a pe…

CHAPTER 15. SLEEP Vital power is renewed in sleep. Every living thing sleeps; men, animals,reptiles, fish, and insects sleep, and even plants have regular periods ofslumber. And this is because it is in sleep that we come into such contact…

CHAPTER 14. BREATHING The function of breathing is a vital one, and it is immediately concerns thecontinuance of life. We can live many hours without sleeping, and manydays without eating or drinking, but only a few minutes without breathi…

CHAPTER 13.IN A NUTSHELL There is a Cosmic Life which permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspacesof the universe, being in and through all things. This Life is not merely avibration, or form of energy; it is a Living Substance. All th…

CHAPTER 12. HUNGER AND APPETITES It is very easy to find the correct answer to the question, How much shall Ieat? You are never to eat until you have an earned hunger, and you are tostop eating the instant you BEGIN to feel that your hunge…

CHAPTER 11. HOW TO EAT It is a settled fact that man naturally chews his food. The few faddists whomaintain that we should bolt our nourishment, after the manner of the dogand others of the lower animals, can no longer get a hearing; we kn…

CHAPTER 10. WHAT TO EAT The current sciences of medicine and hygiene have made no progresstoward answering the question, What shall I eat? The contests between thevegetarians and the meat eaters, the cooked food advocates, raw foodadvocate…

CHAPTER 9. WHEN TO EAT You cannot build and maintain a perfectly healthy body by mental actionalone, or by the performance of the unconscious or involuntary functionsalone. There are certain actions, more or less voluntary, which have a di…

CHAPTER 8. SUMMARY OF THE MENTAL ACTIONS Let me now summarize the mental actions and attitudes necessary to thepractice of the Science of Being Well; first, you believe that there is aThinking Substance, from which all things are made, and…

CHAPTER 7. HEALTH FROM GOD I will give a chapter here to explaining how man may receive health from theSupreme. By the Supreme I mean the Thinking Substance from which allthings are made, and which is in all and through all, seeking more c…

CHAPTER 6. USE OF THE WILL In the practice of the Science of Being Well the will is not used to compelyourself to go when you are not really able to go, or to do things when youare not physically strong enough to do them. You do not direct…

CHAPTER 5. FAITH The Principle of Health is moved by Faith; nothing else can call it into action,and only Faith can enable you to relate yourself to health, and sever yourrelation with disease, in your thoughts.You will continue to think o…

CHAPTER 4. WHAT TO THINK In order to sever all mental relations with disease, you must enter intomental relations with health, making the process positive not negative; oneof assumption, not of rejection. You are to receive or appropriate …

CHAPTER 3. LIFE AND ITS ORGANISMS The human body is the abiding place of an energy which renews it whenworn; which eliminates waste or poisonous matter, and which repairs thebody when broken or injured. This energy we call life. Life is no…

CHAPTER 2. THE FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH Before a man can think in the Certain Way which will cause his disease to behealed, he must believe in certain truths which are here stated:All things are made from one Living Substance, which, in its or…

CHAPTER 1 - THE PRINCIPLE OF HEALTH In the personal application of the Science of Being Well, as in that of theScience of Getting Rich, certain fundamental truths must be known in thebeginning, and accepted without question. Some of these …

CONTENTS PrefaceChapter 1 - The Principle of HealthChapter 2. The Foundations Of FaithChapter 3. Life And Its OrganismsChapter 4. What To ThinkChapter 5. FaithChapter 6. Use Of The WillChapter 7. Health From GodChapter 8. Summary Of The Me…

THE SCIENCE OF BEING WELL BY WALLACE D. WATTLES Author of "The Science of Getting Rich," etc. PRICE, $1.00 PUBLISHED BY ELIZABETH TOWNE HOLYOKE, MASS. 1910 COPYRIGHT, SEPTEMBER, 1910 BY WALLACE D. WATTLES CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE 5 I. THE PRI…