item: #1 of 9 id: 14196 author: Myerson, Abraham title: The Nervous Housewife date: None words: 51259 flesch: 66 summary: To-day desires are awakened that cannot be fulfilled; she sees other women buying what she can only long for, and an active discontent with her lot appears. At least for many women it gets to be a habit to stay in. keywords: cases; children; course; day; desire; emotion; fact; family; fear; feeling; good; home; household; housewife; human; husband; importance; law; life; love; marriage; married; matter; men; mind; mother; nature; need; nervousness; new; people; place; power; purpose; sex; situation; social; symptoms; things; time; type; way; woman; work; world cache: 14196.txt plain text: 14196.txt item: #2 of 9 id: 22108 author: Hall, Herbert J. (Herbert James) title: The Untroubled Mind date: None words: 15680 flesch: 72 summary: No doubt the adult judgment of childish follies is a direct means of disposing of their harmful influence in life, the surest way of losing the conscious or unconscious regrets that sadden many lives. What the patient thinks of life, what life means to him is also of great importance and may be the bar that shuts out all real health and happiness. keywords: cure; god; good; life; lives; man; matter; mind; need; thing; time; way; work; world; worry cache: 22108.txt plain text: 22108.txt item: #3 of 9 id: 31747 author: Haslam, John title: Sound Mind Or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect date: None words: 24763 flesch: 41 summary: When, however, the importance of speech is adequately considered, it will, I think, be detected, that the terms which we employ as the representatives of the perceptions of touch, smell, and taste, are the only media by which they can be voluntarily recollected or communicated to others; and, as signs of such perceptions, are equivalent to the representations by the hand of those which have been perceived by the organ of vision. _Works by the same Author._ I. Observations on Madness and Melancholy. II. keywords: animals; attention; hand; human; knowledge; language; man; meaning; means; memory; mind; nature; objects; order; organs; perceptions; process; reason; recollection; sense; state; subject; terms; touch cache: 31747.txt plain text: 31747.txt item: #4 of 9 id: 36849 author: Hunter, William Crosbie title: Think: A Book for To-day date: None words: 37073 flesch: 78 summary: Many men--hitherto straight, moral men--go to the bad at this time, and per contra, many men quit their immoral and health-hurting habits and change to moral men. Great man by his own measure--minute man by the great measure of time. keywords: body; book; brain; cheer; day; exercise; fear; good; habit; happiness; health; heart; help; home; human; life; love; makes; man; men; mind; mother; nature; nerves; people; pleasures; rest; right; sidenote; sleep; things; think; thought; time; truth; way; work; world; worry; worth; years cache: 36849.txt plain text: 36849.txt item: #5 of 9 id: 37109 author: Walsh, James J. (James Joseph) title: Health Through Will Power date: None words: 60817 flesch: 58 summary: He assured his patients that the breathing in of this medicated vapor would surely cure their pulmonary disease, and because others were intent on going they went; many of them were greatly benefited for a time and these so-called cures proved a bait for many other patients. During the fall and winter, however, many patients become tired out trying to react to these variations of temperature and want to seek other climates where they will not have to submit to the discomfort and the chilly feelings. keywords: air; attention; cases; condition; course; cure; day; disease; dread; effect; exercise; fact; food; good; habits; health; heart; human; life; long; man; matter; men; mind; nature; number; pain; patient; people; physical; power; result; suffering; symptoms; things; time; treatment; tuberculosis; use; war; way; women; work; years cache: 37109.txt plain text: 37109.txt item: #6 of 9 id: 4337 author: Call, Annie Payson title: Power Through Repose date: None words: 41082 flesch: 67 summary: For this reason it is never advisable for one who feels the need of gaining a more natural control of nervous power to undertake the training without a teacher. To one who is interested to study the possible results of misdirected nervous power, nothing could illustrate it with more painful force than the story by Rudyard Kipling, In the Matter of a Private. keywords: arm; body; care; effort; force; freedom; laws; life; man; mind; muscles; nature; nerves; power; quiet; rest; strain; tension; time; training; use; way; work cache: 4337.txt plain text: 4337.txt item: #7 of 9 id: 4338 author: Call, Annie Payson title: The Freedom of Life date: None words: 32430 flesch: 64 summary: With a real love for human nature, if a man has a clear, high standard of his own,--a standard which he does not attribute to his own intelligence--his understanding of the lower standards of other men will also be very clear, and he will take all sorts and conditions of men into the region within the horizon of his mind. I am going to live my own life, in my own way, as I expect other men to live theirs. keywords: control; freedom; good; life; man; mind; people; power; quiet; resistance; right; self; sleep; time; use; way; work cache: 4338.txt plain text: 4338.txt item: #8 of 9 id: 4339 author: Call, Annie Payson title: Nerves and Common Sense date: None words: 55607 flesch: 74 summary: And yet I have heard good women speak in that way over and over again. Especially if the quiet mind were the mind of a woman, for, at the present day, think what a contrast she would be to other women! keywords: body; course; day; food; good; habit; illness; life; mind; mother; nerves; people; quiet; resistance; rest; right; sense; strain; time; use; way; woman; work cache: 4339.txt plain text: 4339.txt item: #9 of 9 id: 4385 author: Call, Annie Payson title: As a Matter of Course date: None words: 23704 flesch: 69 summary: If they were met normally, many nervous men and women might be entirely saved from even a bowing acquaintance with nervous prostration. To keep an anxious person, whether he be sick or well, watching the mails, is a want of sympathy which is also shown in many other ways, unimportant, perhaps, to us, but important if we are broad enough to take the other's point of view. keywords: brain; child; course; freedom; good; impression; intolerance; life; man; matter; nature; self; sense; time; way; work cache: 4385.txt plain text: 4385.txt