Show W Why t the e Cultivation of Poise e Brings Health I ri c o YU want to run upstairs or up KP X use It makes you tired to walk wal i t. t slowly lowly I IS so It t. t Is because you do not j not balance your effect with the need Do you race ahead when walking with I You I friends and find no pleasure in strolling leisurely It Is because yo you yoi lack repose Are you Irritable and ner ner- r vo s and feet feel Impelled to continual t even even irrational r action It is because j you d do not relax Does effort work or oi- oi pleasure exhaust you readily It may be be because ause have force E. E you no re reserve e v on n account of the continual strain you S i cultivate S The remedy for all this In the opinion J of Joseph Stewart LL M. M in Real St 1 is repose and the cultivation I 6 o poise in all you do Repose and re relaxation relaxation rett re- re tt as understood here do o no not mean nean quiescence during merely some 1 fi particular hour half but between every very p jY f Ii effort that has no necessary sar 4 connection with another Poise means L a a perfect balance of effort to the reI re- re I I of the moment i 4 The next time you go out for a pleasT pleas- pleas 5 1 5 T ure Ue valk walk take each step stepas as though i- i A yoUr pleasure were summed up in that i Ione when r ready ady for or the tho next step call callS callI I S i. i requisition just enough power to I J Accomplish c it Walk V for half an hour F i and note how restful It is t c This ls habitual lack of poise comes f. f i 1 s J tension of the mind 11 if S from flom kee keeping i ng the consciousness on the J t alert wit when wien en there is no call for It The result is that the habit is not riot only fostered fos- fos as a state of the normal orma mind but it affects the deeper being and molds the state tate of ot the subliminal l mind whence i it is ever seeking expression The first effect is an unnatural and usually an unconscious tension of the m muscles which prompts to o irrational nervous and unnecessary movements Action when it comes js is overcharged with effort and there is no nice and exact adjustment of the same which makes perfect expression This ten ten- sion slon becomes a fixed habit a fixed Idea of self It exhausts the en energies and vital depletion n is the result Practice relaxation at t particular S times b but t do not neglect to extend poise Into all action This mistake is often made one sine sets apart a hour half-hour for meditation or relaxation and takes no tb thought for the rem remaining w walking hours Grace Is' Is only another term for this poise poite this this' perfect ct adjustment of power to the desired end no more nor less than the perfect economy of vital express expression on This Is not only the basis of grace graced but is essential to per pr- feet fed health and serenity J Adjust yourself to this la law of si sion sian n. n Use only enough power to accomplish accomplish accomplish the end When the thought or actis actis act actis is finished let it be bc a finality do not hold the effort continually Dismiss it and repose in its sufficiency |