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Н аtі  \n一  \nTHE UNTROUBLED MIND  \nBY  \nHERBERT J.HALL,M.D.  \nBOSTON AND NEWYORK  \nHOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANYThe Riverside Press Cambridge  \nOriginally published May 1915.  \n1  \nPREFACE  \nA very wise physician has said that \"every illness has twoparts--what it is,and what the patient thinks about it.\"Whatthe patient thinks about it is often more important and moretroublesome than the real disease.What the patient thinksof life,what life means to him is also of great importanceand may be the bar that shuts out all real health andhappiness.The following pages are devoted to certainideals of life which I would like to give to my patients,thelong-time patients who have especially fallen to my lot.They are not all here,the steps to health and happiness.Thereader may even be annoyed and baffled by my indirectnessand unwillingness to be specific.That I cannot help--it is apersonal peculiarity;I cannot ask any one to live by rule,because I do not believe that rules are binding and final.There must be character behind the rule and then the rule isunnecessary.  \nAll that I have written has doubtless been presented before,in better ways,by wiser men,but I believe that each writermay expect to find his small public,his own particularpublic who can understand and profit by his teachings,having partly or wholly failed with the others.For thatreason I am encouraged to write upon a subject usuallyshunned by medical men,being assured of at least a smallcompany of friendly readers.  \nI am grateful to a number of friends and patients who haveread the manuscript of the following chapters.Thesereviewers have been frank and kind and very helpful.I amparticularly indebted to Dr.Richard C.Cabot,who hasgiven me much valuable assistance.  \nCONTENTS  \nI.THE UNTROUBLED MIND  \nII.RELIGIO MEDICI  \nIII.THOUGHT AND WORK  \nIV.IDLENESS  \nV.RULES OF THE GAME  \nVI.THE NERVOUS TEMPERAMENT  \nVII.SELF-CONTROL  \nVIII.THE LIGHTER TOUCH  \nIX.REGRETS AND FOREBODINGS  \nX.THE VIRTUES  \nXI.THE CURE BY FAITH  \n# THE UNTROUBLED MIND\n\nCanst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd,Pluck from thememory a rooted sorrow,Raze out the written troubles ofthe brain,And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleansethe stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs uponthe heart?MACBETH.  \nWhen a man tells me he never worries,I am inclined tothink that he is either deceiving himself or trying to deceiveme.The great roots of worry are conscience,fear,andregret.Undoubtedly we ought to be conscientious and weought to fear and regret evil.But if it is to be better than animpediment and a harm,our worry must be largelyunconscious,and intuitive.The moment we becomeconscious of worry we are undone.Fortunately,orunfortunately,we cannot leave conscience to its owndevices unless our lives are big enough and fine enough towarrant such a course.The remedy for the mental unrest,which is in itself an illness,lies not in an enlightened  \nknowledge of the harmfulness and ineffectiveness of worry,not even in the acquirement of an unconscious conscience,but in the living of a life so full and good that worry cannotfind place in it.That idea of worry and conscience,thatdefinition of serenity,simplifies life immensely Toovercome worry by substituting development and growthneed never be dull work.To know life in its farther  \nreaches,life in its better applications,is the final remedy--the great undertaking--it is life.We must warn ourselves,not infrequently,that the larger life is to be pursued for itsown glorious self and not for the sake of peace.Peace maycome,a peace so sure that death itself cannot shake it,butwe must not expect all our affairs to run smoothly.As a  \n米  \n¥.  \nmatter of fact they may run badly enough;we shall haveour ups and downs,we shall sin and repent,and sin again,but if in the end we live according to our best intuitions,weshall be justified,and we need not worry about theoutcome.To put it another way,if we would have the  \nuntroubled mind,we must transfer our c","cbCaij2UxK57EgoE","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaij2UxK57EgoE","pdf",3105225,56,"English","# Preface\n# I. 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