Poise: How to Attain It

-power for the acquisition of poise, it is vitally necessary t

with this funda

ne must treat it just as o

sure to be the cause of loss of socia

any other infirmity of long standing that

ly a mental ailment that can be alleviate

plays a very large part

bolish a condition of affairs that has been engendered by physical weakness and that will be fostered by it unless

tise of which, while firmly establishing the health, has at the same time an undoubted reflex action upon the mind. It is a well-known fact that energy is never found in a weakened body, and that people

nervous diseases and finally become classed in the category of phobias, of which the starting-point is always a habit of fear due to

nable to cross an open space unless he is s

have a horror of close quarters from whi

the world but one of these

nopportune and constant blushing, is another

e of poise do not experience, except in those ca

adies attack

, hypochondria. All of these should be ruthlessly supprest the moment we become aware of them, for they are one and all

ity to be in a condition of perfect health. It would be a misfortune, indeed, for them to find themselves b

ion actual diseases, has a ten

elf the attention of the person who is attacked by it, prevents him fro

ake the exercises that would enable him to alter his conditio

well-being has an undeniable in

owed with great force of character lose, under the burden of their suff

cularly recommended. Excessive measures of

to the maintenance of a pe

tably grow to domin

ose undertaken in the way of work no less than tho

to add that these last are

stance, from a man who has p

nothing, and incapable of making the

have no disastrous results that will

gross pleasures soon begins to haunt him and to usurp i

y for us to insist upon the disorder th

is a profound lassitude and a desire for r

the table. The work of digestion leaves him in an exhausted condition and with

tance, it will be easily understood that the man who loads down his stomach with such a large amount o

ithout attempting to think, is the sole desire of th

to the lazy, who suffer in health fr

cise is the cause of ailments that have

apathy, it follows that a dread of exerting oneself is alwa

physical weaknesses which, by undermining his will-power, will soon furnish him with the most plausi

al exercises, practised every day, and vigorously

e will consider in turn the series of exercises that must be performed each day in order to keep o