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seen to be allies and not enemies and that ,
come what may , we are never alone when
we are with Thee .
To others , the long hours of the night bring
only a disturbed tossing and turning
which causes them to wake feeling worse
than when they went to bed . We may begin
to understand this a little better when we
realize that tiredness itself is largely in
the mind . Very few people , under normal
conditions , work themselves to a standstill .
The mind tires first and conveys the impression
of tiredness to the body . This can be proved by
noting the effect of a new stimulus on some-
body who feels thoroughly tired . Suppose
a mother has news late at night that her
child is in danger . She will undertake a
journey which , an hour before , she would
have declared impossible .
Even more simply , test your own reactions
to different situations . There are some which
bring on an almost immediate feeling of
tiredness - such as when your wife mentions
the washing-up - while others , if they
refer to something you like doing , bring a
veritable surge of energy . Many a girl who
is ' too tired to help mum ' will later jump
up with no apparent tiredness at all when
her boy friend calls and go for a long walk .
They drag themselves around and can become
a burden to their families and their friends .
Any mental confusion can cause this and
the best way is probably to seek advice .
As we are unable to cure our own bodies
if the cause of our pain is too deep seated ,
so we are unable to cure our own minds ,
if the trouble is a complicated one
involving careful and patient treatment .
One of the greatest steps forward that has been
made this century is the way in which illness
of the mind is no longer feared or shunned ,
and is in fact no differently regarded than
physical illness . There is , nevertheless , a
great deal of tiredness which comes from
no major complication but results from an
inability to deal with life , especially under
the diverse pattern which is the twentieth
century .
In the days when most people were born ,
lived and died within the boundaries of
the village , it was not difficult for anybody
to live a day at a time . Even those who
held a high and responsible office lived in
far greater simplicity than their successors .
When news from the Continent took days ,
from America weeks , from the Far East ,
months , even a Prime Minister could go to
sleep in blissful ignorance of what might
be happening at the other end of England ,
In other ways , too , life for the ordinary
individual has become so complex
that it taxes the mind . Two hundred
years ago , men lived and worked
in one place , their lives were of one
piece . Now a man may live twenty ,
thirty even sixty miles from his
work . The only connexion is the
pipeline of the railway on which they
travel day by day .
In many cases , their homes know little of
their place of work and their associates at
the office or works wonder what they
are possibly like in the surroundings of their
homes . It is easy , desperately easy , to lead
a ' double ' life without ever deliberately
planning to do so or in fact being conscious
of what is going on . It is easier to live life in
compartments but over the years it builds up ,
and to do so inevitably builds up tensions which
need to be handled correctly .
Can we then frame some ' rules ' which may enable us to live life
as fully as possible , without having our energy sapped by un-
necessary weariness . ( a ) Order makes for a decrease in tiredness .
We have a saying ' My head will never save my feet ' . Time
after time we forget something and have to go back
upstairs or down to the shops .
The housewife would find life far less tiring
if she made a list , followed a routine of work
rather than getting from one thing to the next .
The business man would find that he reached
the end of the day with far less strain if
he was a little more systematic . To drift
aimlessly along is more wearying than any-
thing else . If we would only sit down and
write out all the necessary jobs waiting to
be done and then work quietly through them ,
we would find life considerably less exhausting
I am more than conscious of this . How anybody
can go through the same routine day in and day
out for forty years I find difficult to understand .