METHODIST CHURCH NIGERIA - Online Study Bible

and disfigured by resentment. All the cosmetic Christendom won’t improve
their looks half so much as would a heart full of forgiveness, tenderness, and
love.
Hatred destroys our ability to enjoy even our food. The bible puts it this way,
“Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred
therewith”. Wouldn’t our enemies rub their hands with glee if they knew
that our hatred for them was exhausting us, making us tired and nervous,
ruining our looks, giving us heart trouble and probably shortening our lives.
Even if we can’t love our enemies, let us at least love ourselves. Let us love
ourselves so much that we won’t permit our enemies to control our
happiness, our health and our looks.
What makes you tired? Worry
I am deeply convinced that our peace of mind and the joy we get out of living
depends not on where we are or what we have, or who we are, but solely
upon our mental attitude. Nothing can give you peace but yourself.
Here is an outstanding and significant fact, mental work alone can’t make
you tired. This sounds absurd. Scientists have found out that blood passing
through the brain when it is active shows no fatigue at all. If you look from
the veins of a day labourer while he is working you will find it full of fatigue
toxins and fatigue products. If you take a drop of blood from a mental worker
it would show no fatigue toxins whatsoever at the end of the day. The brain
can work as well as swiftly at the end of eight hours or twelve hours of effort
as at the beginning. The brain is tireless.
Psychiatrists say that most of our fatigues are derived from our mental and
emotional attitudes. In fact exhaustion of purely physical origin is rare. Dr
A.A Bills says that Hundred percent of the fatigue of sedentary worker in
good health is due to psychological factors that is emotional factors.
Emotional factors as boredom, resentment, a feeling of not been appreciated,
hurry, anxiety, worry are what exhausts the sitting worker. These make him
susceptible to cold, reduce his output, and send him home.
We get tired and stressed because our emotions produce nervous tensions in
the body. Worry, tension, and emotional upsets are three of the biggest
causes of fatigue. The answer to the nervous fatigue is to relax while doing
your job. Tension is a habit, relaxation is a habit. Bad habits can be broken
and good ones formed. At the end of the days work if you are tired not
because of the work you have done but because of the way you did it.
An executive came back from work one evening utterly exhausted. She was
fatigued and had a headache so much that she wanted to go to bed without
dinner. Suddenly the telephone rang; it was her boy friend an invitation for a
party. Immediately her eyes sparkled and spirit soared. She rushed put on
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