March 17, 2008

Excerpt from Bragg’s Nerve Force Book — Chap­ter 9
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Relax­ation is a spe­cial feel­ing. There is no other way to express it. This feel­ing is not some­thing you can turn off and on at will. It is some­thing that must be built up in the con­scious and the sub­con­scious mind, some­thing you build up in every one of the bil­lions of cells in your body, in your entire ner­vous sys­tem, in your vital organs and in your muscles.

There have been times — yes, many times — when you have cor­rectly let your feel­ings direct your life. Haven’t you said to your­self more than once, “I have a feel­ing I should not go on that trip as I planned to do?” Let’s say it was to be a plane trip. So you lis­tened to the inner voice of your feel­ings and did not go. Then some­thing came up in your life that made you glad you didn’t go. You relied upon your feel­ings. We have often said, “I have a feel­ing that per­son doesn’t like me.” Sure enough, we find that per­son try­ing to under­mine our char­ac­ter to oth­ers. Or, some­one hurts you dread­fully and you say to them, “You have hurt my feel­ings.” You feel the hurt deep inside. Yes, we do have feel­ings and we do feel things. Relax­ation is a feel­ing. Your feel­ings allow your nerves to relax. Your feel­ings can ban­ish stress, strain and ten­sions to bring calm, inner peace and seren­ity. Feel­ing is the life force within you that is always work­ing for you. All it needs is a chance. It is aston­ish­ing how few peo­ple get their phys­i­cal, men­tal and emo­tional debris out of the way and let feel­ing work for them. habits. Feel­ing fol­lows the law of cause and effect. Every effect in life is pro­duced by a cause. You get out of life just what you put into it. It is one of the great and inflex­i­ble laws of life. Most peo­ple are plagued with stress, strains and ten­sions. These con­di­tions do not just appear out of a blue sky! They are moti­vated by a cause. Relax­ation is a feel­ing pro­duced by one’s actions, atti­tude and envi­ron­ment. If you fol­low a defined pro­gram of build­ing Nerve Force, you can pro­duce the feel­ing of com­plete relax­ation! How­ever, you must earn this feel­ing. There is no use try­ing to get it with a cig­a­rette, cup of cof­fee, tea, cola or an alco­holic drink.

Every­one knows what it is to feel mis­er­able … just as every­one knows how it feels to be tired, exhausted, weak, sad or depressed. All peo­ple know what pain feels like. Our feel­ings do not deceive us. We all know how we feel when we get up in the morn­ing. We know how we feel dur­ing the day. Feel­ing is a vital part of our lives!