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Show CONTROL I OF EMOTION I ftTjjilO you rave? Do you cry? BJ They arc comforts at times. There arc occasions when the human soul feels that it will go mad if it can not find relief for pent-up feelings. The boiler needs a safety valve to prevent a catastrophe when the steam reaches a pressure too high for the metal walls. Excitement, grief, nervous agitation threaten physical comfort and peace of mind You need a safety valve. Swearing, crying, shrieking arc primi-tivc primi-tivc forms of relief, but they divert your accumulated energy and distress into safer channels. Sleeping and dreaming relax your -muscular system and permit the tension to subside -without damage. What a sense of rcstfulncss and quiet 'H follows a heart-to-heart talk with a iH friend or confidante with sympathetic 11 understanding. You may plunge into art or music to forget yourself and develop a new state of being through cheering emotional ex-pcricnccs. ex-pcricnccs. Your work calls you you slave in an occupation and find satisfaction unbe-licvablc unbe-licvablc in your toil or task. You ride a hobby for etching, bot- any, stamp collection, chicken farming, astronomy, old books, Shakcspcariana, jH joining lodges. jJ What arc you trying to do? jH You are resting your body and mind. You arc using 'a safety valve. A vocation is recreation. Recreation is safety. jH Many a nerve-destroying sorrow has been lost in philanthropic effort. Many a soul has found itself by losing You can find your normal self by losing yourself in another form of liv- You can short circuit your painful emotions by securing more pleasurable sensations. Self pity, anger, disgust, unhappincss lower your vitality and resistance. Do 'H not yield to these destructive emotions. Excitement increases the pressure of life to the danger point. Cool off re-lax re-lax permit the excess strain to escape The more you think of yourself, the more acute your position becomes the greater tension your body must bear, Use a safety valve. Pull a cord that will liberate your struggling emotions that will free the muscles of their tightness the heart of its pressure, the blood of its poisons. Exhaustion or extreme fatigue, ncrv-ousncss ncrv-ousncss or irritability demonstrate that such muscular excesses have failed as practical safety valves. Don't sit down with your troubles leave them. Don't be lost in. your feelings lose IH them. Control your emotional life. Use a safety valve. |