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