July 16, 2007

Excerpt from Bragg’s Build Pow­er­ful Nerve Force Book — Chap­ter 5
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There is noth­ing bet­ter to build pow­er­ful Nerve Force than a brisk two to five mile hike every­day. You’re too old and flabby? Non­sense! Dad’s a great great grand­fa­ther and he loves to hike, jog, run, swim, ride his bicy­cle, climb moun­tains, play ten­nis and enjoys play­ing many other ath­letic sports. You’re never too old to start! Of course, we don’t expect you to plunge right in and become an ath­lete overnight! Do it grad­u­ally. Start out with a one mile hike every day for a week. Then increase it to two miles. As you exer­cise your mus­cles, your blood starts cir­cu­lat­ing briskly through your body. Breathe deeply and fill your lungs with oxy­gen. You will feel new vigor and vital­ity surg­ing through you! You will eat with a good appetite and you will sleep like a baby. Your Nerve Force reser­voirs will soon be filled with energy, go-power and you will have a new zest for living!

The more time you spend in the fresh air and gen­tle sun­shine doing phys­i­cal activ­ity, the greater your reserves of Nerve Force will be! In our long expe­ri­ence as teach­ers of health, fit­ness and longevity, we found those who exer­cise reg­u­larly have greater poise and a more bal­anced per­son­al­ity. They are also gen­er­ally free from ner­vous and emo­tional stress that plague the typ­i­cally inac­tive person.

This is appar­ent among chil­dren. The inac­tive child who refuses to join his play­mates in play, games and sports is gen­er­ally the “odd” child, ner­vous and emo­tion­ally unsta­ble. The active child who loves play­ing games and sports is almost always bet­ter bal­anced emo­tion­ally because their ener­gies are directed along con­struc­tive lines of action. The same holds true with teenagers. When their ener­gies are chan­neled into games, sports and out­door activ­i­ties, they don’t have idle time or energy to get into trou­ble. They enjoy bet­ter grades and health. In the Hawai­ian Islands, the swim­ming is so ideal that we have great fun host­ing swim­ming con­tests with young­sters of all ages. They splash and dive in the water, and their merry laugh­ter rings in the clear, trop­i­cal air! When we talk to the par­ents of these active chil­dren, we find they have absolutely no emo­tional or social prob­lems with them. No mat­ter what your age, exer­cise can do won­ders for you. It is never too late to start tap­ping the rich veins of vital­ity lying dor­mant within every per­son! If you want to be well-balanced emo­tion­ally and free of stresses, strains and ten­sions — make it a habit to get out­doors for phys­i­cal activ­ity at least once every day.