METHODIST CHURCH NIGERIA - Online Study Bible

her clothes and dashed out for the party and danced till 3am and returned
home. She was not the slightest bit exhausted. The question is, was she
actually tired at the end of her work day? The answer is that she was tired.
She was tired because she was bored with her work and perhaps bored with
life. It is a well known fact that your emotional attitude usually has far more
to do with producing fatigue than physical exertion.
Experiment was conducted on some students who were given tasks that they
have little interest in. The students felt tired and sleepy, complained of
headaches and eyestrain, felt irritable. In some cases even their stomach was
upset. Were all these imagination, the answer is no. Metabolism tests
conducted on students showed that the blood of the body and the
consumption of oxygen actually decrease when a person is bored and the
whole metabolism picks up immediately as soon as he begins to feel interest
and pleasure in the work.
The lesson to be learnt is that our fatigue is caused not by work but by
worry, frustration, and resentment. If you tend to act as if you are interested
in your job, it will tend to decrease your fatigue, tensions and worries.
Ways to conquer Worry
A man is what he thinks all day long. I know with conviction that the greatest
problem you and I have is choosing the right thoughts. If we can choose the
right thought, we will be highroad to solving all our problems. Our life is
what our thought makes it. If we think happy thoughts we will be happy. If
we think miserable thoughts we will be miserable. If we think fearful
thoughts we will be fearful. If we think sickly thoughts we will be sickly. If we
think failure we shall surely fail. If we wallow in self pity, everyone will avoid
us and shun us.
Men and women can banish worry, fear and various kinds of illnesses and
transform their lives by changing their thought pattern. There is nothing
wrong with your body or your mind. It is not the situations you have met
that have thrown you; it is what you make out of these situations. As a man
thinketh in his heart so he is. 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 on our mental attitude. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
If your cheerfulness is lost, sit up cheerfully act and speak as if cheerfulness
is already there. It is physically impossible to remain depressed while you
are acting out the symptoms of being radiantly happy. Let a man radically
alter his thoughts and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it
will affect in the material conditions of his life. Men do not attract that which
they want but that which they are.
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