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KEEP HAPPY 
 
SOME OTHER BOOKS 
 
 By EUSTACE MILES, M.A. 
 
 Economy of Energy, and How to Secure It. 
 
 How to Prepare Essays, Articles, Lectures, 
 Speeches, Etc. 
 
 The Power of Concentration: and How to 
 Acquire It. 
 
 Prevention and Cure. 
 
 Life after Life. 
 
 How to Remember; without and with Mem- 
 ory Systems. 
 
 The Uric Acid Fetish. With C. H. Collings. 
 
 Quickness. 
 
 The E.M. System of Physical Culture — 
 with Two Charts of Exercises. 
 
 Health and Counsel Bureau. 
 
 Curative Exercises. 
 
 Let's Play the Game. 
 
 A Week's Proteid Diet. 
 
 Quick and Easy Recipes. 
 
 First Recipes. 
 
 How to Begin a Change of Diet. 
 
KEEP HAPPY 
 
 BY 
 
 EUSTACE MILES, M.A. 
 
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 NEW YORK 
 
 FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY 
 
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 Copyright, IQ20, by 
 Frederick A. Stokes Company 
 
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FOREWORD 
 
 On my Fiftieth Birthday (Sunday, 
 September 22, 1918), after a good day's 
 work, I start, in the afternoon, to spend 
 the few hours before our evening meal 
 in writing down some ideas that may help 
 others (besides myself, who need them as 
 much as anyone, since I am beginning my 
 second half -century) , to indulge less in 
 that habit of fear, worry, resentment, and 
 hurry, which must be regarded as a form 
 of suicide, slow indeed, but working in 
 a vicious circle and with self increasing 
 force, and poisoning and paralysing others 
 besides the respectable offenders them- 
 selves. 
 
 The chief remedy is — keep happy. 
 
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FOREWORD 
 
 We have had our attention so fixed on 
 prohibitions — the "Thou shalt not" Com- 
 mandments — that we have, as a Nation, 
 ignored the positive commandments of 
 the Old and New Testaments; among 
 which a very frequently repeated one was 
 "Rejoice" or "Keep Happy." Others, 
 besides the Master, told us not to worry, 
 not to be afraid, not to be angry, not to be 
 bitter; but to be glad and happy. The 
 orthodox should remember that Happi- 
 ness is a virtue, however unusual, and 
 Non-Happiness a sin, however common 
 and respectable. 
 
 I give one quotation alone — though the 
 usual translation does not convey the real 
 force of the Greek words of Philippians iv. 
 4-7:— 
 
 "Rejoice in the Lord always: and again 
 I say, Rejoice . . . The Lord is at hand. 
 Be careful (anxious) for nothing; but in 
 
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 everything by prayer and supplication 
 with thanksgiving let your requests be 
 made known unto God" 
 
 C. D. Larson's book, "Just be Glad," 
 was on my table, and gave me the thought 
 of writing on this subject. Larson offers 
 capital ideas on the mental side, but he 
 does not tell people how to be glad; and, 
 especially, he leaves out all the Physical 
 Helps. 
 
 In this little Birthday offering, I shall 
 include a few Physical as well as Mental 
 Helps — a few out of many, since space is 
 limited — so that readers may be able to 
 keep happy easily. 
 
 The art is not new, but — like the habit 
 of deep, full, rhythmical breathing — is 
 always needed. 
 
 There are millions who have scarcely 
 begun to recognise, ait least to the extent 
 of acting upon the facts, that, while their 
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 Happiness itself depends largely upon 
 their digestion, their elimination of waste 
 matter, their circulation, etc., these in- 
 fluences themselves depend largely on ( 1 ) 
 the choice of foods and drinks, the way of 
 eating and drinking, the breathing and 
 other exercises, and so forth — and on (2) 
 the maintenance of Happiness itself, or 
 at least the avoidance of worry and resent- 
 ment, etc., and the expression of Happi- 
 ness, until Happiness actually is attracted 
 and comes into a prepared nest. 
 
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 Why Keep Happy? A Contrast 
 
 First work out the contrast. Before 
 reading further, think what happens when 
 one keeps the opposite of happy, whatever 
 be the actual stage between the extreme 
 homicidal or suicidal violence or suicidal 
 melancholia on the one hand, and, on the 
 other hand, ordinary fear, worry, resent- 
 ment, depression, grumpiness, and so on. 
 * * * * 
 
 Those who wish to study the effects of 
 these states of mind more fully, can con- 
 sult Elmer Gates' "The Mind and the 
 Brain," or William S. Sadler's "Phy- 
 siology of Faith and Fear," both quoted 
 in my book.* Professor Elmer Gates, of 
 
 * "Economy of Energy." 
 
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 the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, 
 says : — 
 
 "My experiments show that irascible, 
 malevolent, and depressing emotions gen- 
 erate in the system injurious compounds, 
 some of which are extremely poisonous; 
 also that agreeable, happy emotions gen- 
 erate chemical compounds of nutritious 
 value, which stimulate the cells to manu- 
 facture energy. . . . 
 
 "If an evil emotion is dominant, then 
 during that period the respiration contains 
 volatile poisons, which are expelled 
 through the breath and are characteristic 
 of these emotions. 
 
 "Wearisome, unpleasant memories 
 weaken health, and do not generate 
 thought energy. Cure is accomplished in 
 expelling these by another crop of wholly 
 pleasant memories, which put the neces- 
 
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 sary structures of the mind in systematic 
 order and teach the patient how to use the 
 mental faculties" 
 
 Therefore, keep happy. 
 
 On page 40 of "Economy of Energy" 
 will be found a summary of some results of 
 states of mind : — 
 
 "They affect:— 
 
 "The heart, and the circulation — both 
 its rate , and its distribution of blood; (un- 
 favourable states of mind tend to anaemia 
 or dysxmia, or to congestion, etc.). 
 
 "The actual chemical condition of the 
 blood and the lymph. 
 
 "The lungs, and the rhythm and the ful- 
 ness of the breathing, and the amount of 
 oxygen inhaled, and of carbonic acid gas, 
 etc., exhaled. 
 
 "The digestive and 'assimilative' organs 
 and functions. 
 
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 "The curative energies of the body; 
 which include: — 
 
 "The excretory organs — the bowels, 
 kidneys, skin, etc. (Thus fear may act 
 as a diuretic.) 
 
 "The muscular system in general (as 
 when it is paralysed by fear — for instance, 
 when one feels 'all of a tremble'). 
 
 "The appearance — the attitude, the 
 position of the organs, the expression of 
 the face, etc. 
 
 "The voice — its tone and timbre, and 
 the words used or repressed. 
 
 "The nervous system — partly in- 
 fluenced indirectly by the altered breath- 
 ing, and by the blood, and by the effects of 
 the state of mind upon the Solar Plexus. 
 
 "The energy and endurance. 
 
 "The poise, and ease of self-mastery, 
 self -recovery, and self-direction. 
 
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 "The brain — the clearness of thought, 
 etc. 
 
 "The influence of the person on others 
 — especially in the immediate neighbour- 
 hood. 
 
 "The direction and bias of the mind in 
 the future,, states of mind tending to be- 
 come habitual apart from the active will" 
 
 Therefore, keep happy. 
 
 "Anxiety (which includes fear) saps 
 more life in a day than work does in a 
 week." Anxiety is unnecessary, unpro- 
 ductive, destructive work. It is hard 
 work. It is sinful work. 
 
 We must remember how prevalent are 
 the states of mind in which fear is one of 
 the factors. For fear is a factor in worry, 
 and usually even in anger, and in depres- 
 sion. These words from M. J. M. Hick- 
 son's "Healer" are worth reading: — 
 
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 "We have very seldom reflected upon 
 the fact that fear runs like a baleful thread 
 through the whole web of our life from be- 
 ginning to end. We are born into the 
 atmosphere of fear and dread, and the 
 mother who bore us had lived in the same 
 atmosphere for weeks and months before 
 we were born. We are surrounded in in- 
 fancy and childhood by clouds of fear and 
 apprehension on the part of our parents, 
 nurses, and friends. As we advance in 
 life, we become instinctively, or by ex- 
 perience, afraid of almost everything. 
 We are afraid of our parents, afraid of 
 our teachers, afraid of our playmates, 
 afraid of ghosts, afraid of rules and regu- 
 lations and punishments, afraid of the 
 doctor, the dentist, the surgeon. Our 
 adult life is a state of chronic anxiety, 
 which is fear in a milder form. We are 
 afraid of failure in business, afraid of dis- 
 
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 appointments and mistakes, afraid of 
 enemies, open or concealed; afraid of 
 poverty, afraid of public opinion, afraid 
 of accidents, of sickness, of death, and un- 
 happiness after death. Man is like a 
 haunted animal, from the cradle to the 
 grave, the victim of real or imaginary 
 fears, not only his own, but those reflected 
 upon him from the superstitions, self-de- 
 ceptions, sensory illusions, false beliefs, 
 and concrete errors of the whole human 
 race, past and present. 
 
 "Fear not only affects the mind and the 
 nervous and muscular tissues, but the 
 molecular chemical transformations of the 
 organic network, even to the skin, the hair, 
 and the teeth. This might be expected of 
 a passion that disturbs the whole mind, 
 which is represented or externalised in the 
 whole body. 
 
 "How does fear operate upon the body 
 
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 to produce sickness? By paralysing the 
 nerve centres, especially those of the vaso- 
 motor nerves, thus producing not only 
 muscular relaxation, but capillary con- 
 gestions of all hinds. This condition of 
 the system invites attach, and there is no 
 resilience or power of resistance. The 
 gates of the citadel have been opened from 
 within, and the enemy may enter at any 
 point" 
 
 Therefore keep happy. 
 
 First because, once again, non-happi- 
 ness is a mistake. It acts, as I said just 
 now, in a vicious circle, increasing itself. 
 It poisons the blood, and this very poison- 
 ing tends to produce more non-happiness. 
 It radiates itself, and is infectious. It 
 inclines to become a fixed and subcon- 
 scious habit. It sinks down into the sub- 
 conscious self, and afterwards expresses 
 
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 itself in various ways which (as Psycho- 
 analysts show) are not usually associated 
 with their true mental cause. It is toxic, 
 and produces non-health and non-effi- 
 ciency, by wasting power and force; by 
 bringing fatigue; by encouraging bad 
 sleep; by injuring the whole body; by 
 cramping the energies; by "distracting" 
 the body and mind, and thus hindering 
 concentration; by impeding the circula- 
 tion, and the elimination of waste-matters; 
 and by upsetting the rhythm and the deep- 
 ness and thoroughness of the breathing, 
 and all the vibrations of the physical sys- 
 tem. Besides, it is ugly. It militates 
 against financial success, and against 
 social success — for who wants a non- 
 happy acquaintance? — and against intel- 
 lectual success. 
 
 Consider this. Non-happiness is liable 
 
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 to make one's work poor and inferior, dif- 
 ficult, tiring, and wanting in foresight and 
 in perspective. 
 
 It does not help. As Ian Maclaren 
 said: 
 
 "What does your anxiety do? It does 
 not empty to-morrow, brother, of its sor- 
 row; but ah! it empties to-day of its 
 strength. It does not make you escape 
 the evil; it makes you unfit to cope with it 
 if it comes/' 
 
 Therefore, keep happy. 
 
 On the moral and ethical side, non-hap- 
 piness, especially in the form of worry, is 
 cowardly, unbalanced, against moral con- 
 sistency and persistency, against self-con- 
 trol and self-mastery, and very unkind to 
 others. 
 
 Therefore, keep happy. 
 
 Non-happiness shortens life, and brings 
 
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 premature, incompetent, burdensome old 
 age. 
 
 It is selfish, in the worst sense of the 
 word ; for there is a selfishness that is 
 altruistic. 
 
 It harms posterity, as — among other 
 proofs — we see from the influence of a 
 mother upon her babe before as well as 
 after birth. 
 
 It makes us less independent and less 
 free. Therefore, keep happy. 
 
 How Happiness Helps 
 
 Happiness, by the "expulsive power" of 
 a positive state of mind, drives .out or 
 neutralises or cancels non-happiness, in- 
 stead of the mind being left open to the 
 seven other devils, as it may be when we 
 merely try not to be non-happy. The 
 happy heart is too full for non-happiness, 
 
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 as the light room is too light for darkness. 
 As Mr. A. Knight says, Happiness fills 
 the heart with its three companions, 
 Health, Harmony, and Helpfulness. 
 
 Therefore, keep happy. 
 
 Happiness works in the opposite of the 
 vicious circle. It makes for greater hap- 
 piness. It is self-increasing. Among 
 other reasons, it purifies and invigorates 
 the blood, and this in itself inclines the 
 mind towards further and greater Happi- 
 ness. It creates the habit of Happiness, 
 the bias towards Happiness. It stores 
 the memory with Happiness, for future 
 use. Prospectively, Happiness must be 
 valued as a great asset. 
 
 Therefore, keep happy. 
 
 Happiness does not merely aid in re- 
 moving mental and physical Non-Health, 
 in such forms as depression and fear, 
 "nerves" and their troubles, fatigue, sleep- 
 
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 lessness or bad sleep, bad circulation, con- 
 gestion, and so on. It actually produces 
 positive Health, Well-being, and Fitness, 
 as well as increased Self-Healing and 
 "Preventive" Power. 
 
 Therefore, keep happy. 
 
 Think of the letter E alone. Hap- 
 piness tends to Health, in its various as- 
 pects : — 
 
 Enjoyment of life and of all that life 
 brings us ; 
 
 Energy — for Health gives a tonic with- 
 out reaction ; 
 
 Economy — for, when we are happy, we 
 need neither drugs nor stimulants nor 
 narcotics nor holidays; Happiness saves 
 vast stores of precious power, both physi- 
 cal and mental ; 
 
 Endurance — what long hours we can 
 work when we are happy ; 
 
 Ease; 
 
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 Efficiency ; 
 
 Therefore, keep happy. 
 
 Happiness brings the right vibrations 
 throughout the mind and body, partly 
 through the Solar Plexus and the Sym- 
 pathetic Nervous System. Only lately 
 have we begun to realise the importance 
 of the rate and character of vibrations. 
 Let the same elements vibrate differently, 
 and we have ice or water or steam. We 
 know the full and elastic firmness and re- 
 silience of faith, the shrunken and para- 
 lysed trembling of fear. It is largely a 
 difference of vibrations. Happiness has 
 the most desirable vibrations. 
 
 Happiness means that we inhale more 
 life-giving and cleansing oxygen, and ex- 
 hale more carbonic acid and other waste 
 matter. 
 
 Happiness means that we have better 
 sleep, and can do with less sleep. 
 
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 Happiness means improved circulation. 
 It keeps the body warm in winter and cool 
 in summer. It relieves the physical heart. 
 
 Therefore, keep happy. 
 
 Happiness gives better looks. It 
 makes the eyes brighter, the complexion 
 clearer, the step more vigorous, the car- 
 riage more upright. 
 
 And, generally, Happiness makes 
 people more attractive. It has a marked 
 social value. 
 
 Therefore, keep happy. 
 
 Financially, . Happiness pays. The 
 happy salesman or saleswoman is more 
 persuasive. The happy person gets and 
 keeps more friends, who will like to help 
 him, if only because his Happiness helps 
 them. James Coates says: 
 
 "Smile at your business, and it will 
 smile back. Follow the light of that 
 smile." 
 
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 Therefore, keep happy. 
 
 Intellectually, Happiness helps us to 
 see with surer clearness and foresight. 
 Happiness helps us to solve our problems 
 rightly. Happiness gives us more under- 
 standing and more intuition. Happiness 
 makes us more receptive to the best ideas. 
 Happiness puts us in better perspective. 
 Happiness, once again, increases our 
 mental energy, endurance, ease, and 
 effectiveness. 
 
 These quotations from C. D. Larson are 
 excellent. He says: — 
 
 "Just be glad, and you always will be 
 glad. You will have better reasons to be 
 glad. You will have more and more 
 things to make you glad. 
 
 "When you are tempted to feel dis- 
 couraged or disappointed, be glad instead. 
 Just be glad, and your fate will change. 
 Know that you can be glad, say that you 
 
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 will, and stand uncompromisingly upon 
 your resolve. When things are not to 
 your liking, be glad nevertheless, for the 
 glad heart can cause all things to be as we 
 wish them to be. When things do not 
 give you pleasure, proceed instead to 
 create pleasure in your own heart and soul. 
 
 "It is the law that all good things will 
 sooner or later come and be where the 
 greatest happiness is to be found. There- 
 fore, be happiness in yourself, regardless 
 of times, seasons, or circumstances. 
 
 "It is the man who blends rejoicing with 
 his work who does the best work. It is 
 profitable in every way to learn to be glad. 
 
 "The happier you are over what has 
 come to you, the more and the more will 
 come to you in the future. The glad heart 
 and the cheerful soul always make things 
 better. 
 
 "Give gladness to your mind, and you 
 
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 give clearness to your mind; and a clear 
 mind can see how to evolve better plans" 
 
 In the moral and ethical and spiritual, 
 as in the intellectual and financial and 
 social spheres, Happiness is a precious and 
 integral factor in success and progress. 
 We might almost say that Happiness in- 
 cludes the much-praised virtues of Cour- 
 age, Persistence, and Poise, and goes far 
 towards Self-Control and Self-Mastery. 
 
 Therefore, keep happy. 
 
 It is kind to others to keep happy. 
 Happiness tends to Forgiveness (not of 
 the usual perfunctory and "I-forgive-but- 
 I-can't-forget" type), Goodwill, and 
 pleasant Warmth as of the sunshine. 
 
 Therefore, keep happy. 
 
 Happiness tends to the right sort of 
 Youthf ulness — the Youthf ulness in which 
 we have all the merits of "little children," 
 together with the wisdom of elders. 
 
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 Therefore, keep happy. 
 
 Happiness makes our life longer — not 
 like the life of an aged person who may 
 be a burden upon the earth, living in name 
 only, and almost as a vampire lives, but a 
 life of increasingly-useful length. 
 
 Therefore, keep happy. 
 
 For Happiness is non-selfish. 
 
 But non-selfishness, after all, is a nega- 
 tive. 
 
 Happiness doe's indeed include negative 
 merits, but it is also positive and radiating 
 and infectious. When we ask what we 
 can do for others, one answer is, we 
 can keep happy. Here, again, Larson's 
 words are to the point: — 
 
 "He who is always glad is always 
 adding to the welfare of every member of 
 the race. The great soul is always in 
 search of ways and means for adding to 
 
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 the welfare of others. But no way is 
 better, greater, or more far reaching than 
 this. To be glad at all times is to be of 
 greater service to mankind than any other 
 thing we can do. Consider how all things 
 change when the glad soul arrives, and 
 how all work becomes lighter when the 
 spirit of joy is abroad. And every man 
 has the power to dispense the spirit of joy 
 wherever he may work or live. 
 
 "Work in the spirit of joy, and your 
 work will be the product of joy — a rare 
 product — the best of its kind. 33 
 
 Therefore, keep happy. 
 
 To help all those with whom you live, 
 \and many beyond this narrow circle, keep 
 happy. 
 
 To help your children and posterity, 
 whether you already are or are going to be 
 a father or mother, keep happy. 
 
 The relation of a parent (or of any one 
 
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 who has charge of children) to children, 
 illustrates well how our states of mind re- 
 act upon ourselves. Be happy with chil- 
 dren, and you make them happier, 
 healthier, pleasanter to be with, easier to 
 train. When they are in this favourable 
 condition, you yourself, in turn, have more 
 Happiness and health, partly because 
 your work is more delightful and more 
 successful. And so your Happiness is 
 self -increasing as well as self -radiating. 
 
 CD. Larson, from whose book I have 
 already quoted, says, in another book : — 
 
 "Make it a point to be happy, just as 
 you make it a point to be clean, to be pre- 
 sentable, to be properly dressed, to work 
 well, to be efficient. Make the attainment 
 of continuous happiness and greater hap- 
 piness a permanent part of your strongest 
 ambition/* 
 
 Real Happiness is a power within one- 
 
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 self, not dependent on circumstances; at 
 least not dependent when it has become 
 a habit. He who has Happiness is like 
 a magic plant that bears beautiful and 
 shade -giving and health -giving leaves, 
 beautiful and sweet-smelling flowers, 
 beautiful and refreshing and cleansing 
 fruit, wherever it is, and without the aid 
 of special soil, air, light, warmth, and rain. 
 For it has, as it were, its own subtle, 
 ethereal, and eternal soil and air and light 
 and warmth and rain within itself. 
 
 Therefore, keep happy. 
 
 The Gospel of Happiness — the word 
 "Gospel" once meant "good news," but 
 now has lost much of its gladdening vital- 
 ity — is, when we examine deeply and 
 widely, "perspectively" and prospectively, 
 sound Philosophy and sound Religion. 
 To the devout Hindu, God is not only 
 "Wisdom, Love, Might," but also Bliss. 
 
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 Sat Ohit Ananda meant Lasting Reality, 
 True Knowledge, and Blissful Happi- 
 ness. A Perfect God — and this applies 
 whether we believe in a Personal Being or 
 not, for an Impersonal Being cannot 
 easily be imagined as sad! — cannot surely 
 be sad; and we are told to become perfect 
 as God is Perfect. 
 
 We are often recommended to fill the 
 mind with healthy, invigorating, purifying 
 thoughts. This, again, is a New Testa- 
 ment Commandment. The words in the 
 ordinary rendering of Philippians, iv. 8, 
 do not bring out the vitality and force and 
 verve of the Greek words, but they give 
 the general idea : — 
 
 "Whatsover things are true, whatsoever 
 things are honest, just, pure, lovely, of 
 good report; if there be any virtue, and if 
 there be any praise, think of these things." 
 
 It is a Commandment to attend to — to 
 
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 fill the mind by repetition with — eternally 
 true ideas, ideas that command respect, 
 ideas that are right, ideas that are clean 
 and pure, ideas that are welcome and 
 sweet; ideas that have words of good 
 omen, ideas of manliness and womanli- 
 ness, ideas of praise and appreciation. 
 
 Therefore, think of Happiness: keep 
 happy. 
 
 In keeping happy, we obey the fre- 
 quently reiterated Commandment to "Re- 
 joice," and, without any special attention 
 to the negative and prohibitive Command- 
 ments not to worry, and not to be angry, 
 and not to be unkind, and not to criticise 
 unkindly, and so forth, we, ipso facto, 
 obey these Commandments as well, just 
 as the person who is encouraged and in- 
 spired does not need to be comforted in 
 so-called "misfortune." 
 
 Therefore, keep happy. 
 
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 Happiness helps you. "It is profitable 
 in every way to learn to be glad." 
 
 Happiness helps yourself and others, 
 and hurts none. 
 
 "No selfish heart can really be glad/ 3 
 
 Happiness is the right thing to keep. 
 Happiness is our duty, and is "good 
 form." 
 
 Happiness increases itself. 
 
 "The more things you are glad for, the 
 more things you will have to be glad for. 
 Gladness is a magnet. Because you were 
 glad, even when there was nothing to make 
 you glad, you proved that you deserved 
 everything that has the power to make you 
 glad. And that which we truly deserve 
 must come to remain as our own. Possess 
 gladness, and you will soon possess those 
 things that produce gladness/ 3 
 
 But how? 
 
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 How to Keep Happy 
 
 It is so easy to say to others, or to our- 
 selves, Keep happy. But how keep 
 happy? 
 
 Here are a few out of many helps. 
 
 People will ask, "What about trying 
 eircumstances ? How can we keep happy 
 under, or in them, whether they be past or 
 present or future?" 
 
 I was much struck by a phrase in a little 
 book I read some time ago. It described 
 how someone, who was going to an un- 
 pleasant interview, was told: — "Go to the 
 man, taking God with you." A good 
 piece of general advice is to welcome the 
 circumstances as one would welcome either 
 a strong opponent or a severe handicap at 
 a game — namely, as a privilege and an oc- 
 casion for bringing out (as a great player 
 said) "one's best game." I think a 
 
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 "handicap" is an excellent description. 
 For what true sportsman resents a handi- 
 cap? 
 
 Turn the Mind to Blessings, 
 
 or think of your own blessings, not only in 
 the past, but also in the present. Think 
 of tall the conveniences of civilisation. 
 Then, if you like, contrast the hardships of 
 primitive times — with no books, no travel- 
 ling facilities, no sanitation! 
 
 Think of blessings, and keep happy. 
 
 Think of the blessings of others. Any- 
 thing is better than giving attention to 
 supposed injuries and hardships, and to 
 sorrows, and resenting or bemoaning 
 them. 
 
 or to Reasoning 
 
 When things seem amiss, then is the 
 time to give all your thoughts the upward 
 
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 direction. Keep happy. Hold on to 
 Happiness, not like grim death but like 
 irrepressible life. 
 
 Remember that "everything serves 
 some useful purpose." If you refuse to 
 keep happy, at least determine to find out 
 the useful purpose. But, as soon as you 
 can, come back to yourself, and keep 
 happy. 
 
 Help Others 
 
 Help others. This is the old and ever 
 new way. As Maeterlinck says : 
 
 "Before we can bring happiness to 
 others, we must first be happy ourselves. 
 Nor will happiness abide within us unless 
 we confer it on others. If there be a smile 
 upon our lips, those around us will soon 
 smile too; and our happiness will become 
 the truer and deeper as we see that these 
 others are happy" 
 
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 Therefore, keep happy by helping oth- 
 ers. We can help others by our thoughts 
 — by wishing them to be well and happy 
 and successful, or by imagining them to be 
 well and happy and successful. We can 
 help them by all our expressions — our 
 words, our looks, our acts — and by our 
 very abstinence from non-happiness. 
 
 Abstain from Thoughts against Others 
 and against Self 
 
 Merely to send out no thoughts and to 
 harbour no thoughts against other per- 
 sons or things, or against ourselves, is a 
 step in the right direction. I once saw 
 hornets destroyed by a man who stood 
 over the nest and, as each hornet came 
 out, knocked it down and killed it by 
 a blow from a little wooden bat. So we 
 can beat down any undesirable thought — 
 
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 of worry or failure or resentment, etc. — 
 so that it ceases to live and poison us or 
 others. 
 
 But still this is negative. It is not 
 positive and constructive. To keep 
 happy, we must fill the glass, drop by 
 drop, with the sparkling and fresh water 
 of Happiness; and then the dirty water 
 will automatically trickle away, and — who 
 knows? — somehow become a kind of 
 mental manure and fertiliser. 
 
 "Self-Suggestion" 
 
 Self- Suggestion is a great help, if we 
 would keep happy. We can tell ourselves 
 to keep happy, in the same way as Peter 
 Latham, at a hard and critical point in 
 one of his Professional Championship 
 Matches, kept not only happy but also 
 plucky by telling himself to "buck up," 
 
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 as this was the chance to bring out his 
 best game ! 
 
 Self- Suggestion has many forms and 
 varieties. Henry Wood, in his "Ideal 
 Suggestion Through Mental Photog- 
 raphy," advises us to write down in- 
 spiring "Self- Suggestions," and to look at 
 them often. Leland, in his "Have You a 
 Strong Will?" advises us to determine, the 
 last thing at night, that the next day we 
 will, for example, work calmly and easily 
 and successfully. I myself find that now 
 one form of Self-Suggestion is most 
 effective, now another. It may be Imagi- 
 nation or Realisation or Assertion, or it 
 may be a quiet order to the Servant Mind 
 or Manager Mind, or it may be a strongly- 
 felt and repeated Desire, or it may be 
 nearer to Silence and Receptivity, to- 
 gether with "the attitude of expectancy." 
 
 Self -suggestion is feasible at all times 
 
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 and in all places. It is unobtrusive. It 
 is "without money and without price." 
 It is effective. It tends to become a sub- 
 conscious habit, and, as it were, to "do 
 itself" without our attention. 
 
 To keep happy, we can use happy 
 words. Words have vast and little ap- 
 preciated power. Think how useless we 
 should be as regards our power of con- 
 trolling ourselves and helping ourselves 
 and helping others, if we had no words! 
 It would be easy to write a long book on 
 this aspect of the Art of Happiness, alone. 
 But I must be content with just one idea. 
 
 We should speak with a cheerful voice 
 and tone, as well as with a cheerful face; 
 and we should prefer, to such words of ill 
 omen as "miserable" and "cruel," words 
 that end rightly, such as un-happy and un- 
 kind — words that leave us with the right 
 and happy notion. Conversely, however, 
 
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 when we are — or think that we are — ab- 
 solutely obliged to mention some un- 
 pleasant episode, in order to get others to 
 help to put it right, we must not use such 
 vivid expressions — we must not speak 
 whiningly nor even keenly. This is pre- 
 eminently the occasion for such a monoto- 
 nous and expressionless voice, as is un- 
 usually put on by a Secretary when read- 
 ing the minutes of any previous meeting! 
 
 Can we not speak of pleasant things 
 with the excitedness of the French, if in- 
 deed we wish to be excited at all ; but speak 
 of unpleasant things, if we feel we must 
 speak of them, with the apathy of the 
 Hindu? 
 
 When you have finished any Self-Sug- 
 gestion, be sure to keep happy. 
 
 To keep happy, we must use Repeti- 
 tions of Self- Suggestions and of Happy 
 Words, and we must use them long before 
 
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 we seem to need them. In place of the old 
 adage, "In time of peace prepare for 
 war," one can substitute, "In time of peace 
 prepare for victory" — and then there will 
 be no real war. 
 
 Persistent Repetitions 
 
 The persistent Repetitions may be in 
 the form of sheer repetitions; or in the 
 form of Synonyms — such as Happiness, 
 Gladness, Enjoyment, Joy, Welcome; or 
 in the form of cognate words, words that 
 suggest not so much Happiness itself, as 
 the father and mother, the brothers and 
 sisters, the sons and daughters, of Happi- 
 ness. Thus, to take the letter P alone, it 
 has a decided effect upon our feelings of 
 Happiness to repeat, with as much atten- 
 tion to and realization of the idea and the 
 inner spirit and soul of each word, as pos- 
 
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 sible, the words Purity, Poise, Peace, 
 Plenty, Power, Pluck, Pleasantness. 
 
 As to the influence of Repetition, we 
 must remember that we are mainly what 
 our sub-conscious mind is; and our sub- 
 conscious mind is largely what our con- 
 scious mind has chosen or allowed itself to 
 think, and what our conscious mind every 
 moment — every now — is choosing or al- 
 lowing itself to think. 
 
 Or, instead of repeating the ideas them- 
 selves or the words that can convey them, 
 we can keep happy by Reason and Argu- 
 mentation. While an Assertion like 
 Robert Browning's, 
 
 "God's in His Heaven, 
 All's right with the world," 
 
 will help some, a recalling of the advan- 
 tages of Happiness — or if the disadvan- 
 tages of Non-Happiness — and a working 
 
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 out of the ways in which the past 
 "failures" of ourselves and others turned 
 into blessings, will help others. I remem- 
 ber how disappointed I was when I did not 
 get a Fellowship at Cambridge. I am 
 now very glad that I did not. What 
 seemed a calamity led to my present work, 
 which enables me to keep happy. As a 
 fossilised Don I should not have kept 
 happy! 
 
 Appreciation and Welcome 
 
 We should go far towards keeping 
 happy, also, if we practised Appreciation. 
 We breathe fresh air, drink pure water, 
 see glorious scenery, or architecture, and 
 so forth, without a tithe of the proper en- 
 joyment which would come from the 
 proper valuation — for instance, of the 
 water as refreshing us, satisfying us, help- 
 
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 ing our assimilation of nourishing food, 
 helping our elimination of toxic waste 
 matter, and symbolising much besides. 
 
 It is far better to approach any persons 
 or things or circumstances that are ours — 
 they would not come to us, or we to them, 
 unless they were ours! — in the spirit of 
 Welcome, and in the true and sporting 
 Play Spirit, than in the spirit of discon- 
 tent. 
 
 So keep happy by Appreciation. 
 
 Laugh 
 
 Some people have a genius for seeing 
 the funny side of so-called "misfortunes," 
 like the Chinaman who could not control 
 his laughter, just before his execution, be- 
 cause they were going to hang the wrong 
 man. In a little booklet called "Fifty 
 Years not Old," I wrote: — 
 
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 "Laughing is a capital relief for un- 
 pleasant mental states, as well as fine ex- 
 ercise for the stomach and liver! Democ- 
 ritus, the laughing and smiling philoso- 
 pher, may have carried his excellent prin- 
 ciple to excess; but he was a safer guide 
 than the weeping and moaning philoso- 
 pher. 
 
 "It is worth while to collect cartoons 
 and cuttings from the 'Daily Mirror' 
 'Punch/ and other papers, and to look 
 through them when the dumps try to dom- 
 inate/' 
 
 Laughing and smiling can come under 
 muscular control, no less than walking and 
 sitting — no less than frowning and 
 grumbling. We can tense or relax 
 muscles. We can equally easily laugh or 
 smile. And the mere muscular action will 
 help the mind and the feelings to be free 
 from non-happiness. 
 
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 There are, of course, wrong kinds of 
 laughter and smiling. I read a book de- 
 voted almost entirely to the abuse of 
 laughter and smiling. But the right 
 kinds are as valuable as they are rare. 
 
 Several people that I know have the 
 supreme art of making troubles almost 
 blessings by catching at once the ludicrous 
 aspect — going round to the other side and 
 seeing things from a different approach. 
 And sometimes, entering into the trou- 
 ble by the Gate of Humour, they find 
 that the trouble is not a torture-cham- 
 ber but a factory of Success and Happi- 
 ness. 
 
 The right laugh and smile is an expres^ 
 sion of real Faith; and, as we have seen, 
 the expression, if persevered in, tends to 
 bring the reality. 
 
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 The Power of Imagination 
 
 And keep happy by Imagination. 
 How exhilarating it is to imagine oneself 
 succeeding in one's favourite game, or in 
 one's business or art or hobby. Such 
 imagination is far better than the memory 
 of defeats, except in so far as the latter 
 helps us to correct our faults. 
 
 The Power of Expression 
 
 Then there is the Art of Expression, 
 advocated by Delsarte and William 
 James. The latter, in his "Talks on 
 Psychology," may not be strictly accurate 
 and scientific, but at any rate he is prac- 
 tically useful, when he says : 
 
 "If we only check a cowardly impulse in 
 time — for example, or if we only don't 
 strike the blow or rip out with the com- 
 
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 plaining or insulting word that we shall 
 regret as long as we live — our feelings 
 themselves will presently be the calmer 
 and better, with no particular guidance 
 from us on their own account. Action 
 seems to follow feeling, but really action 
 and feeling go together; and by regulating 
 the action, which is under the more direct 
 control of the will, we can indirectly regu- 
 late the feeling, which is not. 
 
 "Thus the sovereign voluntary path to 
 cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerful- 
 ness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look 
 round cheerfully, and to act and speak as 
 if cheerfulness were already there. If 
 such conduct does not make you soon feel 
 cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can. 
 So, to feel brave, act as if we were brave, 
 use all our will to that end, and a courage- 
 fit will very likely replace the fit of fear. 
 Again, in order to feel kindly toward a 
 
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 person to whom we have been inimical, the 
 only way is more or less deliberately to 
 smile, to make sympathetic inquiries, and 
 to force ourselves to say genial things. 
 One hearty laugh together will bring 
 enemies into a closer communion of heart 
 than hours spent on both sides in inward 
 wrestling with the mental demon of un- 
 charitable feeling. To wrestle with a bad 
 feeling only pins our attention on it, and 
 keeps it still fastened in the mind: whereas, 
 if we act as if from some better feeling, the 
 old bad feeling soon folds its tent like an 
 Arab, and silently steals away." 
 
 An equally good quotation (from 
 Luther Gulick's "Mind and Work") will 
 be found on pages 26-27 of "Economy of 
 Energy." 
 
 He says : 
 
 "Assume the bodily positions and move- 
 ments and manners and tones of voice that 
 
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 belong to the emotional state you desire/' 
 Now the Expression — as the smile that 
 is the expression of Happiness — may not 
 be the cause of Happiness, but at least it 
 is the usual accompaniment, if not the 
 essential accompaniment, of ordinary 
 Happiness. 
 
 The eyes are among the most obvious 
 means of Expression, as is illustrated in 
 the well-known lines: — 
 
 "Smile j once in a while, 
 'Twill make your heart seem lighter; 
 
 Smile, once in a while, 
 J Twill make your pathway brighter. 
 Life's a mirror: if we smile, 
 
 Smiles come back to greet us; 
 If we're frowning all the while, 
 
 Frowns forever meet us." 
 
 The whole face is a part of our Expres- 
 
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 sion — not only the eyes, but also the 
 mouth, and the lines, which are largely 
 under the ultimate control of the will, 
 through the control of the muscles. 
 
 And there is the whole attitude of the 
 body, the up-holding of the chest and the 
 head, the correct curve of the spine (so as 
 to bring the position of "mechanical ad- 
 vantage" and physical and nervous econ- 
 omy), the deepness and fulness and 
 rhythm of the breathing, the laugh, the 
 song (sung aloud or "sung silently"), 
 and the tone and the "tune" and the timbre 
 of the voice. 
 
 Uses of Odd Moments 
 
 What we seldom realise is that, no less 
 than we can move our biceps, we can move 
 our muscles that regulate our Expression. 
 If people can spend 15 minutes daily over 
 
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 a dull — and often almost useless, if not 
 actually stiffening and harmful — grinding 
 series of spring-grip dumb-bell exercises, 
 why will they not spend a few moments 
 at some one time daily, or many (other- 
 wise wasted or misused) moments at fre- 
 quent intervals throughout the day, in 
 exercising the muscles that regulate their 
 Expression — in lifting up their heart (and 
 chest and head) and in laughing or smil- 
 ing, so as to keep happy? 
 
 Besides the Expression, as an easy ave- 
 nue to Happiness, there is another — 
 rather less easy — avenue in the improve- 
 ment of the state of the Health in general, 
 and the state of the Blood in particular, 
 through more sensible Foods and Feeding, 
 Drinks, Water-treatments, and Exercise 
 and Exercises — especially Breathing. 
 
KEEP HAPPY 
 
 Various Avenues to Better Health 
 
 Some principles and details will be 
 found in various books.* There is no 
 space here for more than a few sug- 
 gestions. 
 
 Better Foods and Drinks 
 
 Years ago, the late Dr. Forbes Ross 
 told me that, when he was medical superin- 
 tendent of a certain Asylum, he found 
 that the patients were very violent on 
 Thursday afternoons. On Thursdays, at 
 the mid-day meal, they had Beef -Extract. 
 He forbade this, and at once the Thursday 
 afternoon violence ceased. In my own 
 case, the depression of years ceased when 
 I gave up flesh-foods and meat-extracts 
 more than 23 years ago. 
 
 * For instance — "Economy of Energy," "How to Be- 
 gin a Change of Diet," "First Recipes," "Health with- 
 out Meat," "The E.M. System of Physical Culture." 
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 This does not mean that such foods are 
 a cause of non-happiness in all cases. 
 Still less does it mean that they are the sole 
 cause, or even the main cause, in all cases. 
 Many haphazard 'Vegetarians" have been 
 miserable. 
 
 It rather means that some better Diet 
 may be an important factor in Happi- 
 ness. 
 
 The general idea of Diet, for producing 
 or increasing mental and physical Well- 
 Being, which includes Happiness, would 
 surely be to get first such a regime as shall 
 clear out the clogging and depressing or 
 irritating toxins and waste-matters, and 
 shall not add to them, but shall re-build 
 a clean and healthy body and mind by a 
 better Balance of the various Food Ele- 
 ments. 
 
 The Drinks, in order to increase the 
 Weil-Being and the subsequent Happi- 
 
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 ness, should be cleansing, and should in- 
 clude the minimum of undesirable ele- 
 ments (whether overstimulating, or nar- 
 cotic). 
 
 There is no need here to explain how 
 Food and Drink affect the mind. We all 
 know some of the depressing effects of 
 "Liver," Indigestion, Constipation, etc., 
 and the partial dependence of these 
 troubles on the Food and Drinks. But 
 few who have not studied the subject as 
 I have been enabled to do, thanks partly 
 to my work with the leading Clinical 
 Analytical Expert, Mr. C. H. Collings,* 
 could guess how some of the most common 
 and respectable errors of Food and Drink 
 — such as excess of starchy and sugary 
 stuff, of fruit, of tea or coffee or cocoa, and 
 so on — can produce non-Health and con- 
 
 *See "The Uric Acid Fetish," "How Food Poisons 
 Us. M 
 
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 sequent Non-Happiness, partly by affect- 
 ing the Brain and the Solar Plexus 
 through tissue-storage of toxins and 
 Toxcemia or an acid and poisoned blood- 
 stream. 
 
 There are thousands who imagine that, 
 because most of their "civilised" acquaint- 
 ances regularly take certain meals as a 
 matter of course, therefore these meals 
 must of necessity be "all right" ; not know- 
 ing that Nature does not withhold from 
 us her results according to Law — often 
 called her "punishments" — -merely be- 
 cause large numbers of other individuals 
 are making similar mistakes! To be 
 orthodox in life is not the same thing as to 
 be immune from the effects of orthodox 
 mistakes. 
 
 I could show letter after letter that tells 
 how, beside better Foods and Drinks, 
 simple Water-treatments, and various 
 
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 Exercises have tended to Health and 
 Happiness. There are Exercises (like 
 those in "Economy of Energy," pp. 79, 
 83, 86, 87, 90, 94, 97) which help improve 
 the Position of the body, the fulness and 
 the rhythm of the Breathing, the economy 
 of the muscles, by Relaxing and so forth. 
 There are Stretching Exercises, Foot- 
 Exercises, Trunk-Exercises, Athletic Ex- 
 ercises, and so on. 
 
 But one or two items must suffice here, 
 as mere examples of how attention to 
 physical acts may influence the state of the 
 mind. 
 
 Better Position; Better Breathing; Less 
 Muscular Tension 
 
 1. When the heart and lungs and 
 stomach are sunk and sagged down, there 
 is a tendency to mental as well as to phy- 
 
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 sical "depression." The right Exercises* 
 — quite simple and easy — will draw the 
 organs up into their normal place again, 
 and thus will help to remove "the dumps" 
 and bring Happiness. 
 
 2. Happiness has its own type of 
 Breathing ( as shown by the Pneumograph 
 and the registering cylinder-drum) quite 
 different from the type when there is fear 
 or anger. If we establish as a habit the 
 deepness and fulness and rhythm of the 
 Breathing that goes with Happiness, we 
 are half way towards removing Non-Hap- 
 piness and getting Happiness itself. 
 
 3. When there is anger or restless 
 worry, there is, regularly, some muscular 
 tension. Do away with this, and relax the 
 muscles — the Art t can be taught and 
 learnt — and the tendency is for the un- 
 
 * See "Curative Exercises." 
 
 t See "Curative Exercises," p. 46. 
 
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 satisfactory feelings themselves to dis- 
 appear. 
 
 A Warning about Stimulants with 
 Re-action 
 
 But, in physical "cures," we often have 
 to distinguish carefully between the tem- 
 porary effects and the ultimate effects. 
 Too often there is recommended some way 
 which produces almost immediate exhila- 
 ration — or at least freedom from the sen- 
 sation of worry or depression — by driving 
 toxins etc., which had been in the blood 
 and had thus tended towards depression, 
 etc., not out of the body altogether, but 
 only out of the blood and into the tissues, 
 where, as Mr. Collings has been able to 
 prove, they remain stored,* to work mis- 
 
 * See "The Uric Acid Fetish" and "How Food Poisons 
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 chief in the body and blood and mind in 
 the future. 
 
 The passing sensations of ease, if not of 
 positive -satisfaction, may be brought by 
 such means as a cup of tea or coffee, some 
 aspirin, a smoke, a cold bath, and so on. 
 But this is not an avenue to Happiness. 
 It is, rather, a patch that crosses the ave- 
 nue to Happiness at one point, and then 
 leaves it again. 
 
 We Want the Habit of Happiness 
 
 What we want is not the flash of Hap- 
 piness at heavy expense of future Well- 
 Being and Happiness, but the habit of 
 Happiness. We want to keep happy. 
 We want to sacrifice, if need be, the im- 
 mediate present for the lasting future. 
 As the author of "The Way of the 
 Servant" says: 
 
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 fC I do ash Renunciation of My children 
 — Renunciation of the less" 
 
 It is not every avenue to Happiness that 
 is unpleasant at the start. But it is quite 
 likely that certain treatments — especially 
 abstinence from or moderation in various 
 stimulants and narcotics — may be, for a 
 time, far from producing any Happiness. 
 
 When You are Happy, be Really Happy 
 
 It is well known (see "Alison's History 
 of Europe") that those who have lived for 
 many years in hot climates are so satu- 
 rated with warmth that they keep warm 
 for some time after they have come into 
 a cooler climate like ours. Somewhat 
 similarly, whenever we are happy, if we 
 let our whole self — every cell and atom 
 within our body from tip to toe — become 
 saturated with Happiness whenever we 
 
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 feel happy, we should be able to carry on 
 the habit when the conditions seem less 
 satisfactory ; we should still feel the glow. 
 But we simply must be and feel happy 
 "with all our mind and with all our soul 
 and with all our strength," at the happy 
 times. Without feverish excitement, we 
 should thrill throughout with Happiness, 
 and be happy "all over," as someone was 
 said to smile all over ! It is a good phrase. 
 
 For why not let all the cells and fibres 
 enjoy themselves with us ? Why keep the 
 Happiness — as if we were autocratic and 
 despotic Monarchs, instead of Representa- 
 tives of a Democratic Community — to 
 ourselves? Why not let the cells all "re- 
 joice with us that rejoice"? 
 
 They will repay us a hundredfold in 
 times of trouble and trial. They will 
 then thrust back Happiness to us, as the 
 roots of a plant thrust up stems and leaves 
 
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 and flowers in return for the warmth and 
 light and air and moisture and chemicals 
 that they have absorbed. 
 
 If — as Virchow and many others hold — 
 cells have some individuality and some 
 intelligence, will they not respond to our 
 Happiness, at least as much as you and I 
 respond to the Happiness of our Nation 
 and Empire when there is good news and 
 success of the whole of which we form a 
 particle? 
 
 To enjoy an Environment, or the 
 memory of it, is a pleasant Avenue. If, 
 instead of rushing through our sweet holi- 
 days and hours of peace and pleasantness, 
 we "pause on every charm," and concen- 
 trate our attention on the Pleasantness, 
 we can make the Environment, on which 
 so many people depend for their Health 
 and Happiness, our own possession, 
 within our minds, by means of picture- 
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 memories, or sound-memories, or even 
 word-memories. Here is one, from J. 
 Beattie: — 
 
 "But who the melodies of mom can tell? 
 The wild brook babbling down the 
 
 mountain-side; 
 The lowing herd, the sheepf old's simple 
 
 bell; 
 The pipe of early shepherd dim descried 
 In the low valley; echoing far and wide 
 The clamorous horn along the cliffs 
 
 above; 
 The hollow murmur of the ocean-tide; 
 The hum of bees, the linnet's lay of love, 
 And the full choir that wakes the uni- 
 versal grove" 
 
 After all, what is our real Environ- 
 ment? Most people would say, at once — 
 the air, the building, the scenery, in which, 
 and the people and paraphernalia among 
 
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 which, we happen to be at any time. And 
 these are indeed part of our Environment. 
 
 But our true Environment is, first of 
 all, the contents of our mind, and especially 
 that part of the contents — whether mem- 
 ories or imaginations — to which we give 
 most attention and interest; secondly, the 
 Divine influence in which, whether we 
 recognise it or not, we "live and move and 
 have our being." 
 
 And, chiefly, we live in whatever we 
 think of or allow ourselves not to refuse as 
 residents in our mind. 
 
 I have said little, in these few pages, 
 about what are ordinarily regarded as En- 
 vironmental helps. I rather wished to 
 emphasise the importance of keeping 
 happy, and of using such means as we had 
 always or often with us. I could have 
 written much about colours, music, books, 
 friendship, and so on. But I had to leave 
 
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 unwritten far more than I have written 
 here. 
 
 If these ideas help the reader to keep 
 happy more consistently, less spasmodic- 
 ally, and more independently of outside 
 conditions, they will have served their pur- 
 pose. 
 
 Perhaps even the mere titles of some 
 books may be of use towards this end — 
 "All's Right with the World," "Just Be 
 Glad," and "Keep Happy." 
 
 To keep happy means enjoyment and 
 ease, peace and poise, health and fitness, 
 during work-times and non-work times; 
 it means more work and better work; it 
 means better opportunities and openings 
 for our activities in the future; it means 
 better rest and sleep after work ; it means 
 constant, all-round improvement for one- 
 self and others. It is, like Health, part of 
 our duty towards God, our neighbour, and 
 
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 our self, and the myriads of cell-lives 
 working within us. 
 
 A Concluding Suggestion 
 
 It is not a bad plan to make a point of 
 writing down every day (in a note-book, 
 or on slips of paper) some special reason 
 why we should keep happy. Mr. Arthur 
 Knight and I have done this regularly for 
 many months, and have exchanged our 
 records from time to time. The following 
 are a. few out of many of our reasons. 
 They are not arranged in any particular 
 order, but are put down just as we wrote 
 them, from day to day. We recommend 
 every reader to try the practice. 
 
 Keep Happy. When happiness is 
 present, the petty things of life fail to dis- 
 turb and poison us. 
 
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 Keep Happy. This means living in 
 the higher part of the mind, where the 
 air and light and warmth are greater, and 
 where all good things originate. Keep 
 your thoughts in this happy region of 
 yourself, and you will not only get the 
 right ideas — the ideas that you really 
 need — but you will draw other minds up 
 to the same level. 
 
 Keep Happy. The more you insist on 
 — and persist in — keeping happy, the 
 more you will realise and be convinced 
 how absolutely and progressively bene- 
 ficial Happiness is. 
 
 Keep Happy, and the things that 
 would, in the ordinary way, loom large 
 and important, and upset our peace and 
 poise, either fade into nothingness or else 
 become obviously useful as training us to 
 play the game of life. 
 
 If we would be at our best, in body, 
 
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 mind, and spirit, we must keep happy. 
 Gloom and sorrow lessen our power to be 
 our best and to do our best. 
 
 Keep Happy. There is nothing to be 
 said against it. There is everything to be 
 said in favour of it. 
 
 Keep Happy. Happiness is as much a 
 duty towards God, our "Neighbours," and 
 ourselves, as is Purity or Kindness or any 
 other Virtue, and Happiness makes every 
 other Virtue easier and pleasanter. 
 
 However good a physical or mental 
 "system" you may follow, and however 
 many excellent rules you may obey as to 
 diet or exercise, and so on, the rule "Keep 
 Happy" is found to be a good addition to 
 your daily regime. 
 
 Keep Happy. The happy spirit is a 
 magnet, and draws all that is most pleas- 
 ant and profitable from all sources to seek 
 you and to become yours. 
 
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 Keep Happy when you are inclined to 
 be ill-tempered or depressed or anxious. 
 Then your sight and your perspective will 
 change, and you will see the good in every 
 one and every thing. 
 
 Keep Happy, and give out Happiness. 
 When we give out Happiness, we always 
 receive more blessings than we give to 
 others. 
 
 Keep Happy. Difficulties and troubles 
 enlarge through unhappiness, which is 
 their fertilising manure. 
 
 Keep Happy. To keep happy is good 
 and God-like. 
 
 Keep Happy. Whoever is happy, 
 longs and tends to make all others happier 
 and happier. 
 
 Keep Happy. To keep happy is true 
 heroism — no less so than any spasmodic 
 act of courage. 
 
 Keep Happy. Then every good 
 
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 quality within you will grow and flourish 
 and multiply and radiate. 
 
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