Wallace Delois Wattles
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…
CHAPTER 17. SUMMARY OF THE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH THERE is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, inits original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of theuniverse. A thought in this substance prod…
CHAPTER 16. SOME CAUTIONS, AND CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS MANY people will scoff at the idea that there is an exact science ofgetting rich; holding the impression that the supply of wealth is limited,they will insist that social and governmen…
CHAPTER 15. THE ADVANCING MAN WHAT I have said in the last chapter applies as well to the professionalman and the wage-earner as to the man who is engaged in mercantilebusiness.No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergym…
CHAPTER 14. THE IMPRESSION OF INCREASE WHETHER you change your vocation or not, your actions for thepresent must be those pertaining to the business in which you are nowengaged.You can get into the business you want by making constructive …
CHAPTER 13. GETTING INTO THE RIGHT BUSINESS SUCCESS, in any particular business, depends for one thing upon yourpossessing in a well-developed state the faculties required in thatbusiness.Without good musical faculty no one can succeed as …
CHAPTER 12. EFFICIENT ACTION YOU must use your thought as directed in previous chapters, and beginto do what you can do where you are; and you must do ALL that you cando where you are.You can advance only be being larger than your present …
CHAPTER 11. ACTING IN THE CERTAIN WAY THOUGHT is the creative power, or the impelling force which causes thecreative power to act; thinking in a Certain Way will bring riches to you,but you must not rely upon thought alone, paying no atten…
CHAPTER 10. FURTHER USE OF THE WILL YOU cannot retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantlyturning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external orimaginary.Do not tell of your past troubles of a financial…
CHAPTER 9. HOW TO USE THE WILL TO set about getting rich in a scientific way, you do not try to apply yourwill power to anything outside of yourself.Your have no right to do so, anyway.It is wrong to apply your will to other men and women,…
CHAPTER 8. THINKING IN THE CERTAIN WAY TURN back to chapter 6 and read again the story of the man who formeda mental image of his house, and you will get a fair idea of the initial steptoward getting rich. You must form a clear and definit…
CHAPTER 8. THINKING IN THE CERTAIN WAY TURN back to chapter 6 and read again the story of the man who formeda mental image of his house, and you will get a fair idea of the initial steptoward getting rich. You must form a clear and definit…
CHAPTER 7. GRATITUDE THE illustrations given in the last chapter will have conveyed to thereader the fact that the first step toward getting rich is to convey the ideaof your wants to the Formless Substance.This is true, and you will see t…
