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Language: English
NEW YORK
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1920, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company
FOREWORD
On my Fiftieth Birthday (Sunday, September 22, 1918), after a good
day’s work, I start, in the afternoon, to spend the few hours before
our evening meal in writing down some ideas that may help others
(besides myself, who need them as much as anyone, since I am
beginning my second half-century), to indulge less in that habit of
fear, worry, resentment, and hurry, which must be regarded as a
form of suicide, slow indeed, but working in a vicious circle and with
self-increasing force, and poisoning and paralysing others besides
the respectable offenders themselves.
The chief remedy is—keep happy.
We have had our attention so fixed on prohibitions—the “Thou shalt
not” Commandments—that we have, as a Nation, ignored the
positive commandments of the Old and New Testaments; among
which a very frequently repeated one was “Rejoice” or “Keep Happy.”
Others, besides the Master, told us not to worry, not to be afraid, not
to be angry, not to be bitter; but to be glad and happy. The orthodox
should remember that Happiness is a virtue, however unusual, and
Non-Happiness a sin, however common and respectable.
I give one quotation alone—though the usual translation does not
convey the real force of the Greek words of Philippians iv. 4-7:—
“Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.... The Lord is
at hand. Be careful (anxious) for nothing; but in everything by
prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made
known unto God.”
C. D. Larson’s book, “Just be Glad,” was on my table, and gave me
the thought of writing on this subject. Larson offers capital ideas on
the mental side, but he does not tell people how to be glad; and,
especially, he leaves out all the Physical Helps.
In this little Birthday offering, I shall include a few Physical as well as
Mental Helps—a few out of many, since space is limited—so that
readers may be able to keep happy easily.
The art is not new, but—like the habit of deep, full, rhythmical
breathing—is always needed.
There are millions who have scarcely begun to recognise, at least to
the extent of acting upon the facts, that, while their Happiness itself
depends largely upon their digestion, their elimination of waste
matter, their circulation, etc., these influences themselves depend
largely on (1) the choice of foods and drinks, the way of eating and
drinking, the breathing and other exercises, and so forth—and on (2)
the maintenance of Happiness itself, or at least the avoidance of
worry and resentment, etc., and the expression of Happiness, until
Happiness actually is attracted and comes into a prepared nest.
KEEP HAPPY
KEEP HAPPY
Why Keep Happy? A Contrast
First work out the contrast. Before reading further, think what
happens when one keeps the opposite of happy, whatever be the
actual stage between the extreme homicidal or suicidal violence or
suicidal melancholia on the one hand, and, on the other hand,
ordinary fear, worry, resentment, depression, grumpiness, and so on.
Those who wish to study the effects of these states of mind more
fully, can consult Elmer Gates’ “The Mind and the Brain,” or William
S. Sadler’s “Physiology of Faith and Fear,” both quoted in my book.[A]
Professor Elmer Gates, of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington,
says:—
“My experiments show that irascible, malevolent, and depressing
emotions generate in the system injurious compounds, some of
which are extremely poisonous; also that agreeable, happy emotions
generate chemical compounds of nutritious value, which stimulate
the cells to manufacture energy....
“If an evil emotion is dominant, then during that period the
respiration contains volatile poisons, which are expelled through the
breath and are characteristic of these emotions.
“Wearisome, unpleasant memories weaken health, and do not
generate thought energy. Cure is accomplished in expelling these by
another crop of wholly pleasant memories, which put the necessary
structures of the mind in systematic order and teach the patient how
to use the mental faculties.”
Therefore, keep happy.
On page 40 of “Economy of Energy” will be found a summary of
some results of states of mind:—
“They affect:—
“The heart, and the circulation—both its rate, and its distribution of
blood; (unfavourable states of mind tend to anaemia or dysxmia, or
to congestion, etc.).
“The actual chemical condition of the blood and the lymph.
“The lungs, and the rhythm and the fulness of the breathing, and
the amount of oxygen inhaled, and of carbonic acid gas, etc.,
exhaled.
“The digestive and ‘assimilative’ organs and functions.
“The curative energies of the body; which include:—
“The excretory organs—the bowels, kidneys, skin, etc. (Thus fear
may act as a diuretic.)
“The muscular system in general (as when it is paralysed by fear—
for instance, when one feels ‘all of a tremble’).
“The appearance—the attitude, the position of the organs, the
expression of the face, etc.
“The voice—its tone and timbre, and the words used or repressed.
“The nervous system—partly influenced indirectly by the altered
breathing, and by the blood, and by the effects of the state of mind
upon the Solar Plexus.
“The energy and endurance.
“The poise, and ease of self-mastery, self-recovery, and self-
direction.
“The brain—the clearness of thought, etc.
“The influence of the person on others—especially in the immediate
neighbourhood.
“The direction and bias of the mind in the future, states of mind
tending to become habitual apart from the active will.”
Therefore, keep happy.
“Anxiety (which includes fear) saps more life in a day than work does
in a week.” Anxiety is unnecessary, unproductive, destructive work.
It is hard work. It is sinful work.
We must remember how prevalent are the states of mind in which
fear is one of the factors. For fear is a factor in worry, and usually
even in anger, and in depression. These words from M. J. M.
Hickson’s “Healer” are worth reading:—
“We have very seldom reflected upon the fact that fear runs like a
baleful thread through the whole web of our life from beginning to
end. We are born into the atmosphere of fear and dread, and the
mother who bore us had lived in the same atmosphere for weeks
and months before we were born. We are surrounded in infancy and
childhood by clouds of fear and apprehension on the part of our
parents, nurses, and friends. As we advance in life, we become
instinctively, or by experience, afraid of almost everything. We are
afraid of our parents, afraid of our teachers, afraid of our playmates,
afraid of ghosts, afraid of rules and regulations and punishments,
afraid of the doctor, the dentist, the surgeon. Our adult life is a state
of chronic anxiety, which is fear in a milder form. We are afraid of
failure in business, afraid of disappointments and mistakes, afraid of
enemies, open or concealed; afraid of poverty, afraid of public
opinion, afraid of accidents, of sickness, of death, and unhappiness
after death. Man is like a haunted animal, from the cradle to the
grave, the victim of real or imaginary fears, not only his own, but
those reflected upon him from the superstitions, self-deceptions,
sensory illusions, false beliefs, and concrete errors of the whole
human race, past and present.
“Fear not only affects the mind and the nervous and muscular
tissues, but the molecular chemical transformations of the organic
network, even to the skin, the hair, and the teeth. This might be
expected of a passion that disturbs the whole mind, which is
represented or externalised in the whole body.
“How does fear operate upon the body to produce sickness? By
paralysing the nerve centres, especially those of the vasomotor
nerves, thus producing not only muscular relaxation, but capillary
congestions of all kinds. This condition of the system invites attack,
and there is no resilience or power of resistance. The gates of the
citadel have been opened from within, and the enemy may enter at
any point.”
Therefore keep happy.
First because, once again, non-happiness is a mistake. It acts, as I
said just now, in a vicious circle, increasing itself. It poisons the
blood, and this very poisoning tends to produce more non-
happiness. It radiates itself, and is infectious. It inclines to become a
fixed and sub-conscious habit. It sinks down into the sub-conscious
self, and afterwards expresses itself in various ways which (as
Psychoanalysts show) are not usually associated with their true
mental cause. It is toxic, and produces non-health and non-
efficiency, by wasting power and force; by bringing fatigue; by
encouraging bad sleep; by injuring the whole body; by cramping the
energies; by “distracting” the body and mind, and thus hindering
concentration; by impeding the circulation, and the elimination of
waste-matters; and by upsetting the rhythm and the deepness and
thoroughness of the breathing, and all the vibrations of the physical
system. Besides, it is ugly. It militates against financial success, and
against social success—for who wants a non-happy acquaintance?—
and against intellectual success.
Consider this. Non-happiness is liable to make one’s work poor and
inferior, difficult, tiring, and wanting in foresight and in perspective.
It does not help. As Ian Maclaren said:
“What does your anxiety do? It does not empty to-morrow, brother,
of its sorrow; but ah! it empties to-day of its strength. It does not
make you escape the evil; it makes you unfit to cope with it if it
comes.”
Therefore, keep happy.
On the moral and ethical side, non-happiness, especially in the form
of worry, is cowardly, unbalanced, against moral consistency and
persistency, against self-control and self-mastery, and very unkind to
others.
Therefore, keep happy.
Non-happiness shortens life, and brings premature, incompetent,
burdensome old age.
It is selfish, in the worst sense of the word; for there is a selfishness
that is altruistic.
It harms posterity, as—among other proofs—we see from the
influence of a mother upon her babe before as well as after birth.
It makes us less independent and less free. Therefore, keep happy.
or to Reasoning
When things seem amiss, then is the time to give all your thoughts
the upward direction. Keep happy. Hold on to Happiness, not like
grim death but like irrepressible life.
Remember that “everything serves some useful purpose.” If you
refuse to keep happy, at least determine to find out the useful
purpose. But, as soon as you can, come back to yourself, and keep
happy.
Help Others
Help others. This is the old and ever new way. As Maeterlinck says:
“Before we can bring happiness to others, we must first be happy
ourselves. Nor will happiness abide within us unless we confer it on
others. If there be a smile upon our lips, those around us will soon
smile too; and our happiness will become the truer and deeper as
we see that these others are happy.”
Therefore, keep happy by helping others. We can help others by our
thoughts—by wishing them to be well and happy and successful, or
by imagining them to be well and happy and successful. We can help
them by all our expressions—our words, our looks, our acts—and by
our very abstinence from non-happiness.
“Self-Suggestion”
Self-Suggestion is a great help, if we would keep happy. We can tell
ourselves to keep happy, in the same way as Peter Latham, at a
hard and critical point in one of his Professional Championship
Matches, kept not only happy but also plucky by telling himself to
“buck up,” as this was the chance to bring out his best game!
Self-Suggestion has many forms and varieties. Henry Wood, in his
“Ideal Suggestion Through Mental Photography,” advises us to write
down inspiring “Self-Suggestions,” and to look at them often. Leland,
in his “Have You a Strong Will?” advises us to determine, the last
thing at night, that the next day we will, for example, work calmly
and easily and successfully. I myself find that now one form of Self-
Suggestion is most effective, now another. It may be Imagination or
Realisation or Assertion, or it may be a quiet order to the Servant
Mind or Manager Mind, or it may be a strongly-felt and repeated
Desire, or it may be nearer to Silence and Receptivity, together with
“the attitude of expectancy.”
Self-suggestion is feasible at all times and in all places. It is
unobtrusive. It is “without money and without price.” It is effective.
It tends to become a sub-conscious habit, and, as it were, to “do
itself” without our attention.
To keep happy, we can use happy words. Words have vast and little
appreciated power. Think how useless we should be as regards our
power of controlling ourselves and helping ourselves and helping
others, if we had no words! It would be easy to write a long book on
this aspect of the Art of Happiness, alone. But I must be content
with just one idea.
We should speak with a cheerful voice and tone, as well as with a
cheerful face; and we should prefer, to such words of ill omen as
“miserable” and “cruel,” words that end rightly, such as un-happy
and un-kind—words that leave us with the right and happy notion.
Conversely, however, when we are—or think that we are—absolutely
obliged to mention some unpleasant episode, in order to get others
to help to put it right, we must not use such vivid expressions—we
must not speak whiningly nor even keenly. This is preeminently the
occasion for such a monotonous and expressionless voice, as is
unusually put on by a Secretary when reading the minutes of any
previous meeting!
Can we not speak of pleasant things with the excitedness of the
French, if indeed we wish to be excited at all; but speak of
unpleasant things, if we feel we must speak of them, with the
apathy of the Hindu?
When you have finished any Self-Suggestion, be sure to keep happy.
To keep happy, we must use Repetitions of Self-Suggestions and of
Happy Words, and we must use them long before we seem to need
them. In place of the old adage, “In time of peace prepare for war,”
one can substitute, “In time of peace prepare for victory”—and then
there will be no real war.
Persistent Repetitions
The persistent Repetitions may be in the form of sheer repetitions;
or in the form of Synonyms—such as Happiness, Gladness,
Enjoyment, Joy, Welcome; or in the form of cognate words, words
that suggest not so much Happiness itself, as the father and mother,
the brothers and sisters, the sons and daughters, of Happiness.
Thus, to take the letter P alone, it has a decided effect upon our
feelings of Happiness to repeat, with as much attention to and
realization of the idea and the inner spirit and soul of each word, as
possible, the words Purity, Poise, Peace, Plenty, Power, Pluck,
Pleasantness.
As to the influence of Repetition, we must remember that we are
mainly what our sub-conscious mind is; and our sub-conscious mind
is largely what our conscious mind has chosen or allowed itself to
think, and what our conscious mind every moment—every now—is
choosing or allowing itself to think.
Or, instead of repeating the ideas themselves or the words that can
convey them, we can keep happy by Reason and Argumentation.
While an Assertion like Robert Browning’s,
Laugh
Some people have a genius for seeing the funny side of so-called
“misfortunes,” like the Chinaman who could not control his laughter,
just before his execution, because they were going to hang the
wrong man. In a little booklet called “Fifty Years not Old,” I wrote:—
“Laughing is a capital relief for unpleasant mental states, as well as
fine exercise for the stomach and liver! Democritus, the laughing
and smiling philosopher, may have carried his excellent principle to
excess; but he was a safer guide than the weeping and moaning
philosopher.
“It is worth while to collect cartoons and cuttings from the ‘Daily
Mirror,’ ‘Punch,’ and other papers, and to look through them when
the dumps try to dominate.”
Laughing and smiling can come under muscular control, no less than
walking and sitting—no less than frowning and grumbling. We can
tense or relax muscles. We can equally easily laugh or smile. And the
mere muscular action will help the mind and the feelings to be free
from non-happiness.
There are, of course, wrong kinds of laughter and smiling. I read a
book devoted almost entirely to the abuse of laughter and smiling.
But the right kinds are as valuable as they are rare.
Several people that I know have the supreme art of making troubles
almost blessings by catching at once the ludicrous aspect—going
round to the other side and seeing things from a different approach.
And sometimes, entering into the trouble by the Gate of Humour,
they find that the trouble is not a torture-chamber but a factory of
Success and Happiness.
The right laugh and smile is an expression of real Faith; and, as we
have seen, the expression, if persevered in, tends to bring the
reality.