,transcriber's ,notes ,obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected4 ,footnotes are located at the end of the relevant chapter4 ,italics are represented thus italic4 ,by ,,lyman ,p4 ,,powell ,the ,art of ,natural ,sleep ,with ,definite ,directions for the ,wholesome ,cure of ,sleeplessness4 ,illustrated by ,cases from the ,emanuel ,clinics in ,boston and ,northampton ,christian ,science ,the ,faith and ,its ,founder ,,the ,,art ,,of ,,natural ,,sleep ,,with ,,definite ,,directions ,,for ,,the ,,wholesome ,,cure ,,of ,,sleeplessness1 ,,illustrated ,,by ,,cases ,,treated ,,in ,,northampton ,,and ,,elsewhere ,,by ,,lyman ,p4 ,,powell ,rector of ,st4 ,john's ,church1 ,northampton1 ,mass4 ,author of 8,christian ,science3 ,its ,faith and ,its ,founder02 ,editor of 8,historic ,towns of the ,united ,states0 ,g4 ,p4 ,,putnam',s ,,sons ,,new ,,york ,,and ,,london ,the ,knickerbocker ,press #aijh ,,copyright1 #aijh ,,by ,,lyman ,p4 ,,powell ,the ,knickerbocker ,press1 ,new ,york ,to ,,my ,,wife ,,who ,,first ,,taught ,,me ,,by ,,example ,,the ,,moral ,,value ,,of ,,serenity ,,preface ,this little book1 like my book on ,christian ,science which appeared a year ago1 is the evolution of a pamphlet4 ,the first half of the pamphlet was written in the middle of a sleepless night some years ago4 ,the last half was written about two years ago1 after ,i had found relief by auto-suggestion from the lifelong bondage of insomnia and had thereby doubled my capacity both for work and play4 ,first published in the spring of #aijg as my weekly message under the heading of 8,the ,parson's ,outlook0 to the #ejjj readers of ,the ,hampshire ,gazette in and about ,northampton1 the article on sleeplessness was republished by request in the same paper some months later2 then1 as the demand increased for it1 in pamphlet form4 ,this year past it has been used in the ,emmanuel ,clinic1 both in ,boston and ,northampton1 with such gratifying results that more than #cjj sufferers from insomnia in one part of the country or another have testified by letter or by word of mouth to the benefit they have received from it4 ,at the suggestion of the ,rev4 ,elwood ,worcester1 ,ph4,d41 ,d4,d41 two magazine editors1 and two publishing houses1 the pamphlet is now enlarged into a book with the earnest hope that the suggestions it contains may be of service to many whom the pamphlet1 privately printed and gratuitously distributed1 could not reach at all4 ,there are books enough1 perhaps1 on the theory of sleep4 ,the volume by ,marie de ,manacene on ,sleep--,its ,physiology1 ,pathology1 ,hygiene1 and ,psychology will surely long remain the standard work4 ,dr4 ,upson's ,insomnia and ,nerve ,strain is based on the author's discovery of the vaso-neural circuit and will not be neglected by those who wish to understand certain physical obstacles to sleep which have hitherto been largely overlooked4 ,religion and ,medicine1 the official book of the ,emmanuel ,movement1 is indispensable to any knowledge of the drugless cure of sleeplessness and other nervous functional disorders4 ,and the writings of ,dr4 ,s4 ,weir ,mitchell1 ,dr4 ,woods ,hutchinson1 and ,dr4 ,j4 ,madison ,taylor are1 of course1 of lasting value on this subject4 ,the purpose of this little book is very simple4 ,it is designed to help physicians1 ,emmanuel workers1 and others who believe in the art of natural sleep to aid those committed to their care4 ,it is designed1 also1 to be of service to the thousands who never go to anyone for aid in learning how to sleep1 and to this end is kept as free as possible from all technical terms and all theoretical discussions4 ,to ,dr4 ,worcester ,i owe the title of the book2 to ,rev4 ,h4 ,l4 ,taylor of the ,emmanuel ,church staff certain of the illustrative cases from the ,emmanuel ,clinic in ,boston2 to ,mr4 ,w4 ,p4 ,cutter1 ,librarian of the ,forbes ,library in ,northampton1 many special courtesies2 and to ,dr4 ,francis ,s4 ,wilson1 expert diagnostician and experienced practitioner1 goodly counsel in the preparation of the book4 ,trusting that directly or indirectly this little book may set many an unhappy victim of insomnia free from his hard bondage1 ,i send it forth in faith4 ,l4 ,p4 ,p4 ,,st4 ,,john',s ,,rectory1 ,,northampton1 ,,mass4 ,september #ae1 #aijh4 ,,contents ,,page ,,our ,,national ,,disease #a ,,theories ,,of ,,sleep #e ,,what ,,sleep ,,really ,,is #h ,,the ,,necessity ,,of ,,sleep #ab ,,insomnia ,,and ,,its ,,causes #ae ,,the ,,value ,,of ,,drugs #ah ,,the ,,removal ,,of ,,all ,,physical ,,causes #be ,,general ,,directions #bi ,,secondary ,,aids ,,to ,,sleep #cc ,,dr4 ,,learned',s ,,plan #ce ,,relaxation ,,and ,,rhythmic ,,breathing #ch ,,the ,,emmanuel ,,method #dc ,,faith ,,required ,,in ,,god ,,and ,,man #dg ,,the ,,specific ,,treatment #ec ,,some ,,immediate ,,results #fd ,,the ,,co-,,operation ,,of ,,the ,,patient #fg ,,the ,,ultimate ,,effect #gb ,,illustrative ,,cases #gd ,the ,art of ,natural ,sleep ,,our ,,national ,,disease ,neurasthenia is now our national disease4 ,nervousness1 nervous exhaustion1 nervous prostration1 and kindred names are given to it by the doctors4 ,whatever they may chance to call it1 the doctors usually agree as to its causes1 symptoms1 consequences4 ,even the laity are now thoroughly informed as to the effect of neurasthenia on the nerves and on the mind4 ,it wears the nerves threadbare and robs the mind of all serenity4 ,it steals the zest from work1 the joy from play4 ,it frequently reduces its unhappy victim to the single occupation of worrying by day because he fears he will not sleep at night1 of worrying at night because he knows that worn and haggard he will have no buoyancy and poise to play a man's part in the day to come4 ,the day's work is done1 when done at all1 with the feverish inquietude of the unrested brain4 ,the evening's pleasures1 when infrequently he ventures to take part in them1 are clouded by the listlessness the lack of sleep invariably brings4 ,the silent night1 when by any reach of the imagination it can be thus described1 ,of fret1 of dark1 of thorn1 of chill1 is rendered hideous by the flitting of attention like a bird from bough to bough1 by the random running of the memory down each unhappy recollection of the past1 by the deflection of the mental vision till it loses all perspective and disqualifies the sufferer to think straight concerning even the trivial occurrences of everyday existence4 ,no wonder that in ,kipling's story ,at the ,end of the ,passage1 when ,spurstow finds his sleepless friend in the last stage of insomnia1 he sadly but severely says1 8,sleeplessness of your kind being very apt to relax the moral fibre in little matters of life and death1 ,i'll just take the liberty of spiking your guns20 and then as a safeguard1 robs ,hummil of his rifle and revolver4 ,,theories ,,of ,,sleep ,various theories have at one time or another been suggested to account for sleep4 ,some are both bewildering and absurd4 ,there was a time when it was seriously urged that sleep has in the thyroid gland its special organ1 but when someone in the interest of the theory excised the thyroid gland1 only to increase in certain instances the tendency to go to sleep and stay asleep1 the theory was at once abandoned even by its staunchest advocates4 ,finding that sleep usually follows fatigue1 and that fatigue is a chemical phenomenon1 the so-called chemical theory was next set up1 and ,sommer was quite sure that sleep comes as a consequence of the exhaustion of the reserve of oxygen in the tissues and the blood1 and its replacement by carbonic acid during sleep4 ,but here1 too1 experimentation has been both inadequate and inconclusive4 ,the vaso-motor theory1 as modified by ,howell1 that sleep is due to the anmia of the cortical layer of the brain1 which invariably takes place when the blood pressure in the arteries at the base of the brain falls1 has had a larger and a longer following4 ,but convincing proof is yet to be secured1 and ,dr4 ,percy ,g4 ,stiles of the ,bellevue ,hospital ends his discussion of the subject with a guarded inference that there may be truth in both the theories1 and that eclecticism is in consequence the wisest policy for the histologist4#a ,footnotes #a ,popular ,science ,monthly1 ,september1 #aijc4 ,,what ,,sleep ,,really ,,is ,sleep1 however we account for it1 is 8the resting time of consciousness40#b ,to be sure1 there is no absolute arrest of brain activity4 ,there is always1 even in the soundest sleep1 some cerebral activity4#c ,we dream4 ,we have nightmares4 ,we sometimes work out problems in our sleep which have defied our every waking effort4 ,there is on record one instance of a college student who got up at three o'clock to solve successfully1 while sound asleep1 a problem he could not work out at all before he went to bed4 ,there is another instance well attested of a ,british consul in ,syria who1 after tearing up letter after letter which he wrote to a ,lebanon emir1 went to sleep in sheer despair1 only to find when he awoke in the morning1 that he had written an elaborate letter which in every way satisfied the multitudinous demands of ,arabic diplomacy insistent to the last on all the niceties of ,oriental etiquette4#d ,byron was right4 ,sleep is neither life nor death4 ,it is a world apart4 ,sleep has its own world1 ,a boundary between the things misnamed ,death and ,existence2 sleep has its own world4 ,consciousness may be suspended4 ,but the cortical centres are frequently as active when we are asleep as when awake4 ,the attention can be maintained with such unbroken steadiness as to awake some persons with the exactness of an alarm clock on the very minute1 even though for purposes of deception the hands of the clock may have been set back without their knowledge4 ,the motor centres can be counted on so confidently that they will drive the somnambulist with the accuracy of a trained chauffeur to his appointed destination4 ,sleep is1 therefore1 nothing more than a temporary suspension of a portion of the brain's activity4 ,,footnotes #b ,manacene1 #fb1 #fi1 #gj4 #c ,dr4 ,j4 ,madison ,taylor in the ,popular ,science ,monthly1 ,september1 #aije4 #d ,thomson's ,brain and ,personality1 #cad4 ,,the ,,necessity ,,of ,,sleep ,but that suspension is an absolute necessity to health of mind and body4 ,men have been known to go for forty days without nourishment and retain unimpaired all the mental faculties4 ,no man goes for even three days and nights without sleep except he pay a penalty in mental equipoise1 and death itself is apt to bring his misery to an end1 it is claimed1 in five sleepless nights and days4 ,professors ,patrick and ,gilbert of the ,university of ,iowa found1 some years ago1 that in certain cases there were after two nights of complete wakefulness hallucinations1 loss of attention1 inability to remember1 and unmistakable evidences both of mental disorganisation and physical depression4#e ,in ,kipling's story1 tragically true to life1 ,hummil died after eighty-four hours of unrelieved insomnia1 and the author's closing words would seem to indicate that madness overtook him at the last3 8,in the staring eyes was written terror beyond expression of any pain40 ,the occasional genius like ,napoleon may perhaps get on habitually with four hours of sleep each night1 and the mother watching by the sick-bed of her child may go for weeks in an emergency with but an hour or two of sleep at intervals1 infrequent and irregular4 ,but the sensible division made by ,alfred the ,great into eight hours for sleep1 eight hours for work1 eight hours for play1 will be as far as possible observed by the right-minded and far-seeing everywhere4 ,,footnotes #e ,psychological ,review1 ,september1 #ahif4 ,,insomnia ,,and ,,its ,,causes ,insomnia reduced to simplest terms is nothing but the inability to sleep4 ,while the causes of insomnia may sometimes be exceedingly complex1 ordinarily they are evident both to us and those we love the best4 ,anything1 as we all learn by experience1 which accelerates the activity of the mind and increases the congestion of the brain is likely to induce insomnia4 ,worry1 fear1 grief1 prolonged mental effort1 any sort of emotional excitement1 social dissipation1 the intemperate use of coffee1 tea1 or alcohol are among the most familiar causes of insomnia4 ,disturbances of digestion1 neuralgic pains1 arterial disease1 eye-strain1 and dental lesions are the hidden causes1 oftener than we imagine1 of protracted wakefulness4 ,many of the more obstinate cases of insomnia are due1 we know at last through ,dr4 ,upson's remarkable book1#f to some dental lesion unsuspected because1 as is not uncommon1 it is unaccompanied by the ache habitually associated with all the ills to which the teeth are heirs4 ,in my ,emmanuel clinic ,i have had one case of insomnia which1 in spite of all an efficient doctor could do for the body and the ,emmanuel worker for the mind1 persisted until ,i at last discovered that the sufferer was in immediate need of a dentist1 whose threshold1 through a morbid fear1 he had not crossed in many years4 ,,footnotes #f ,insomnia and ,nerve ,strain1 #ab4 ,,the ,,value ,,of ,,drugs ,for insomnia there is no specific known to medicine4 ,while the good family doctor may correct digestive disturbances1 banish for the time neuralgic pains1 modify arterial disease1 relieve with the oculist's assistance eye-strain1 and through the dentist remove the cause of dental lesions1 sometimes insomnia persists long after the physical cause has disappeared4 ,i have had in my clinic one case of chronic sleeplessness caused by a headache which appeared incurable though the cause of the headache and insomnia alike had vanished years before4 ,drugs which induce sleep induce it merely for the time4 ,doctor ,caill in his large experience has found morphia invaluable for the inhibiting of pain or of severe dyspna1 chloral and the bromides useful in cases of visceral neuralgia1 codein and urethan in arteriosclerosis1 and in pulmonary tuberculosis1 where beer and porter failed to bring the longed-for sleep1 dionin1 trional1 and hyoscin4 ,but in ordinary cases of insomnia1 where the cause is evidently more psychical than physical1 he is inclined to turn rather to suggestion in one form or another4#g ,drugs are sure to make a difference in the morning4 ,the dulness and depression which they leave behind1 in spite of all the claims of those who put on the market their proprietary hypnotics1 offset to some extent the artificial sleep they have the night before produced4 ,sometimes they fill the mind for days with morbid fancies and with dangerous obsessions4 ,dr4 ,j4 ,madison ,taylor describes in some detail the case of a lunatic under his care who developed homicidal tendencies as a consequence of the administration of large doses of bromide1 and who lost the same the moment the bromide was withdrawn from him4#h ,on credible authority ,i am informed that there is among the alienists a growing disposition1 on this account1 to give no drugs at all to induce sleep in patients in the higher class of hospitals for the insane4 ,morphia is not only no specific2 it sometimes causes both a mental and a physical depression worse than the insomnia it would relieve4 ,in my clinic ,i have one woman from whom morphia1 administered to relieve acute pain1 took away the power to sleep at all1 and for years she stoically bore her pain rather than resort to morphia1 until last winter she found in the ,emmanuel treatment immediate and unfailing relief from pain1 followed by sound sleep1 which has only at rare intervals been interrupted in months past4 ,powerful as chloral is and useful in the thoughtful doctor's hands in various emergencies1 especially in fevers where there is cerebral excitement1 it is a depressant1 and he who contracts the chloral habit invariably wishes at the last that he had waited for damnation till after he was dead4 ,sulphonal1 trional1 veronal1 paraldehyde1 and those proprietary hypnotics whose composition is withheld from the public appear to be least harmful of all sleeping drugs4 ,but they all inebriate or stupefy the fragile cells of the brain1 none too solid in the best of us2 and in the psychically weak or emotionally excitable they may even put the delicately constructed thinking organ altogether out of commission4 ,,footnotes #g ,differential ,diagnosis and ,treatment of ,disease1 #gh1 #cee1 #cfa1 #deg1 #gca4 #h ,popular ,science ,monthly1 ,september1 #aije4 ,,the ,,removal ,,of ,,all ,,physical ,,causes ,though there may be no specific for insomnia in the drug store1 the complaint can often be relieved when the cause is wholly physical by striking at its root4 ,if the general practitioner fails to relieve disturbances of the digestion1 the stomach specialist should be consulted4 ,one of my patients1 who had for two years suffered both from insomnia and other troubles which had exhausted the ingenuity and the resources of the local doctors he consulted1 began to improve as soon as a stomach specialist of national repute to whom ,i sent him discovered by chemical analysis of the contents of his stomach an incredibly excessive acidity1 for which the proper prescription and diet were at once suggested4#i ,in cases where insomnia is evidently due to some physical ailment which cannot be at once located1 a visit to the oculist1 the dentist1 and even the throat and nose specialist should as a matter of course be paid even if the patient has no conscious need of them4 ,in at least two instances which have come under my observation1 the insomnia disappeared after proper treatment of the eyes and teeth and throat1 though two general practitioners had suspected nothing wrong in one case with the eyes1 and in the other a visit to the throat specialist was never once suggested by the doctor who sent the case to me for the ,emmanuel treatment4 ,,footnotes #i ,as the proof comes1 the patient in question writes me that his insomnia was of the fitful type4 ,he had so much trouble in going to sleep promptly that he formed the habit of sitting up late and inducing the sleep mood by reading4 ,since his treatment ended1 he writes me 7,sept4 #abth71 8,this summer ,i have retired at nine o'clock with few exceptions1 gone to sleep immediately1 and risen at half past six in the morning thoroughly refreshed40 ,,general ,,directions ,in many cases no local ailment would appear to be responsible for the insomnia1 and yet in every instance attention must be given to the body's entire needs4 ,the habit of deep breathing from the diaphragm must be developed and be regularly practised both indoors and out4 ,this alone sufficed in one complicated case to bring sleep every night4 ,the diet must be carefully chosen and followed in the face of every importunity of a silly and capricious appetite4 ,tea and coffee1 save at the morning meal1 must be in almost every case eliminated from the menu4 ,constipation1 which is responsible far oftener than we think for sleeplessness1 must be1 whenever possible1 at once corrected without resort to purgatives and enemas4#aj ,the hot bath sometimes brings sleep by relieving the congestion of the brain1 but contraction of the blood-vessels often follows with such promptness that the hot-water bottle applied to the feet or the back of the neck or both is likely to be of more service4 ,if running up and down stairs or exercise in that wood-pile now imaginary in the average home leaves the sufferer as wide awake as ever1 ,doctor ,j4 ,b4 ,learned's provision for taking exercise in bed without displacement of the covering will sometimes relieve both the cerebral congestion and the psychical exhilaration and let the wakeful one drop off to sleep at the drowsy moment1 which is apt to pass if the exercise is taken out of bed and even scanty preparations have in consequence to be made for retiring4 ,,footnotes #aj ,see ,dubois's ,psychical ,treatment of ,nervous ,disorders1 ch4 xxiii1 for the drugless cure of constipation4 ,,secondary ,,aids ,,to ,,sleep ,when the sleeplessness is due to mental strain alone the cure can be effected through the quiet mind4 ,this is1 ,i know1 not always easy to obtain4 ,conditions do not always favour it4 ,economic pressure does not disappear at will with prices rising and with factories operating on half-time4 ,when the heart aches for the touch of a vanish'd hand1 ,and the sound of a voice that is still1 grief is scarcely to be put away without some seeming hurt to the best in us4 ,for many a subject to insomnia the most that can apparently be done is to stand cheerfully and confidently between him and the temptation to grow morbid and melancholy1 to keep the house as quiet as circumstances will allow1 to provide for the bedtime hour a glass of hot milk with its pinch of salt in it1 the hot malted milk unsweetened1 the clam bouillon1 the beef extract1 or a cup of cocoa which every insomniast should take before he goes to bed1 and by day and night to soothe1 sustain1 and cheer the troubled spirit4 ,,dr4 ,,learned',s ,,plan ,the physiological problem is uncomplicated4 ,as ,dr4 ,learned1 who more than a quarter of a century ago cured himself of habitual insomnia by getting control of the respiratory and circulatory functions in the sleeping posture1 has made clear1 the problem is simply to shift the belt of attention from the wildly whirling wheel of introspection to the steadier wheel the will revolves4 ,by deep regular respirations1 accompanied by rhythmical movements of the head and hands and feet1 ,dr4 ,learned has frequently brought the wandering attention back from some side track it sought in fitfulness to the main line of the controlled consciousness4 ,so surely has he in recent years become convinced that the problem is usually psychical that he no longer emphasises physical exercises in or out of bed4 ,instead he provides an ingenious little tablet on which the wakeful one with unlifted pencil steadily records in waving lines his inhalations and his exhalations until at last1 fatigued by the long exercise1 the brain becomes anmic and sleep overtakes the drowsy mind4 ,,relaxation ,,and ,,rhythmic ,,breathing ,to ,mrs4 ,annie ,payson ,call#aa and ,dr4 ,emily ,noble we owe of late the stress we lay on muscular relaxation and rhythmic breathing1 which practised faithfully will now and then bring sleep where drugs are worse than useless4 ,muscular relaxation can be learned by any who will take the trouble4 ,the ,delsarteans are already adepts at it4 ,the letting of the arms drop limp by the side as one sits in an easy chair1 the letting of the trunk sink unsupported against the easy chair as though it were sinking into a yielding bank of snow1 the letting of the head fall forward or sideways without resistance will furnish even to the slow of wits a visual image which will serve as a sufficient pattern in the relaxation of the whole body4 ,dr4 ,emily ,noble1 who has seen ,oriental soldiers at the end of a long march throw themselves in complete relaxation on their backs1 gives in her ,rhythmic ,breathing plus ,olfactory ,nerve ,influence on ,respiration possibly the most practical of all directions for the mature in the important art of relaxation4 ,she bids him lie upon his back on a hard surface1 with head turned to one side in order to relieve the tension on the muscles of the neck1 with arms extended at right angles1 with the palms turned up1 with feet turned out and spread for comfort at least a foot apart4 ,the lungs are then to be cleared of their static air by a few deep inhalations1 made through the left nostril because in the average man it seems to furnish a freer channel for the air than the right nostril4 ,next the insomniast settles down to lighter rhythmic breathing1 which is nothing but the consequence of the conscious effort to make each exhalation equal to each inhalation4 ,he should take the 8breath in as gently as the fog creeps in from the sea40 ,he should let it out 8as the air goes out of little children's balloons when it is allowed to escape40 ,as with experience all feeling of conscious effort passes1 he will have a sense of letting go1 the muscles will of their own accord relax1 the quiet mind will come1 especially if a pleasant thought be held steadily before it1 the insomniast will stretch and yawn1 take instinctively if he be in bed the sleep position1 and pass off into a dreamless sleep which will indeed knit up 8the ravell'd sleave of care10 and make him ready for a day of effective thinking and efficient action4 ,,footnotes #aa ,the ,heart of ,good ,health4 ,,the ,,emmanuel ,,method ,when sleeplessness can be directly traced to mental causes1 the ,emmanuel treatment1 if experiments made both in ,boston and ,northampton are to be trusted1 is as surely a specific as quinine for malaria4 ,if in any instance medical diagnosis can find no physical reason for the sleeplessness1 ,emmanuel treatment is at once in order4 ,the sufferer is admitted to the ,rector's study4 ,the very atmosphere encourages frank speaking4 ,concealment of any fact or circumstance which bears upon the case is prejudicial to improvement4 ,i have once after three treatments refused again to see a patient who had failed to give me her whole confidence1 until she was willing to speak out with greater freedom4 ,the physical habits are invariably considered and corrected whenever there is need4 ,deep breathing is prescribed4 ,dr4 ,learned's method is sometimes suggested1 and always ,dr4 ,noble's4 ,drugs are from the first withheld4 ,tea1 coffee1 and all other stimulants which act directly on the brain are banished from the evening meal4 ,the sufferer is encouraged as the bedtime hour draws near to give himself to such interests as scatter the cares and worries and obsessions which are then wont to gather like a cloud around the patient's head4 ,for some a social evening is suggested1 provided it be not too exciting4 ,for others the theatre1 the symphony1 or other form of public entertainment serves the same purpose4 ,for perhaps a larger number1 especially the preacher1 or the teacher1 or the literary worker1 a magazine1 a novel with no miserable modern problem in it1 or a standard history will in a half-hour let down the mind to the sleep level4 ,i know one man who found ,parkman's histories a soporific boon2 another whom ,green's longer ,history of the ,english ,people led on each night to wholesome sleep2 another1 the head of a large sanitarium1 who sometimes saves himself from sleeplessness by reading after he has gone to bed as dull a book as he can find1 and recommends the same plan with some profit to his patients4 ,,faith ,,required ,,in ,,god ,,and ,,man ,the main reliance1 however1 in the ,emmanuel treatment is on faith1 reinforced first by hetero-suggestion and then by patient and persistent auto-suggestion4 ,the man who would be permanently free from insomnia must be an optimist4 ,he must have a philosophy of life wholesome enough to keep him buoyant1 cheerful1 and serene amid all the changes and the chances of this mortal life4 ,with the ,persian he may hold that 8,he's a ,good ,fellow1 and 'twill all be well20 with ,socrates that 8,to the good man no evil thing can happen20 or with ,st4 ,paul that 8,all things work together for good to them that love the ,lord40 ,whatever language he may use in the formulation of his life philosophy1 he must believe with all his heart and soul that life in spite of all appearances is worth living1 that there is love and goodness at the heart of things1 that the word ,god1 whatever be its content1 does stand for a concept indispensable in our everyday existence1 and that there is somewhere1 everywhere1 ,one who1 by a paradox as strange as it is true1 is both the centre and circumference of all that has been1 is1 and ever is to be--,the ,absolute and ,unconditioned wherever we may chance to be in time or space4 8,if ,i climb up into heaven1 ,thou art there3 if ,i go down to hell1 ,thou art there also4 ,if ,i take the wings of the morning3 and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea2 even there also shall ,thy hand lead me3 and ,thy right hand shall hold me40#ab ,a man who wants that serenity of mind on which the soundest sleep invariably depends must get right and keep right with ,god1 whether he defines ,him in the terms of ,persia1 ,greece1 or ,christianity4 ,but this is not enough4 ,a man must be right also with his fellow-men4 ,he must love his neighbour as he loves his ,god4 8,he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen1 how can he love ,god whom he hath not seen80 ,he must have more than a languid interest in his brother4 ,he must wish him better than well4 ,he must have done forever with sharp practice1 hard bargaining1 ungracious criticism1 and that subtle disloyalty which often through sheer cowardice stands mute while slander wags its tongue or envy shoots its ,parthian arrows back as it retreats4 ,with the spirit's eye he must see even in the poorest and the meanest of his fellows some charm which others have not found4 ,he must with the ,christ insight pierce to the heart of the roughest boulder that was ever hewn from the hard mountain-side of seamy human nature and let loose the imbedded angel always there and always struggling to be free4 ,no man has any right to sleep1 in fact to any of ,god's better gifts1 who goes through life with slanting eye and lowering brow sullenly protesting to himself3 ,as ,i walked by myself1 ,i talked to myself1 ,and thus myself did say to me3 ,look to thyself1 ,and take care of thyself1 ,for nobody cares for thee4 ,,footnotes #ab ,psalm cxxxix41 #g-i4 ,,the ,,specific ,,treatment ,when the insomniast is ready to pay this double price of love to ,god and love to man for the peace that passeth understanding and that also bringeth sleep1 he is ready for ,emmanuel treatment4 ,seated in the ,morris chair before the smouldering fire with curtains drawn1 he is taught to relax his muscles1 the cortical layer of the brain is quieted by soothing suggestions1 and then standing behind the chair the ,emmanuel worker begins the treatment somewhat thus in a low monotone3 ,you are now relaxed in body and quieted in mind4 ,you are to let your thoughts languidly follow mine expressed in words4 ,do not offer any mental opposition4 ,i shall say nothing which your mind will not instinctively accept and cherish4 ,fix your thoughts on ,god4 ,think of ,him not alone as the ,all-,father but also as the ,universal ,mind in which your mind exists exactly as each individual thought floats in your mind4 ,think of ,him not merely as your ,heavenly ,father but also as the ,universal ,spirit on which your soul depends for every breath of spiritual life1 just as your body is dependent for its every breath of physical existence on the air you breathe4 ,believe that in this larger1 higher1 truer sense1 8,in ,him we live and move and have our being40 ,now ,universal ,mind or ,universal ,spirit is wholesomeness and love1 harmony and power4 ,realise that when your soul breathes in the atmosphere in which it lives it breathes in wholesomeness and love1 harmony and power4 ,but it is possible1 in the exercise of the free will with which you are in the nature of the case endowed1 to fill up the soul with morbidness and selfishness1 disunity and weakness1 so that there is no room in it for ,god's wholesomeness and love1 ,his harmony and power4 ,if thou couldst empty all thyself of self1 ,like to a shell dishabited1 ,then might ,he find thee on the ,ocean shelf1 ,and say1 8,this is not dead10 ,and fill thee with ,himself instead4 ,but thou art all replete with very ,thou1 ,and hast such shrewd activity1 ,that1 when ,he comes1 ,he says3 8,this is enow ,unto itself--'t were better let it be3 ,it is so small and full1 there is no room for ,me40#ac ,you do not sleep because you are 8all replete with very ,thou40 ,you have filled up your soul with thoughts of self1 or thoughts of others from the point of view of self4 ,you have worried when you should have cast your care on ,him2 8for ,he careth for you40 ,you have yielded to all sorts of foolish fears1 forgetful that 8perfect love casteth out fear40 ,you have been self-centred1 though ,god ,himself was so far centred out of self that 8,he gave ,his only begotten ,son1 that whosoever believeth in ,him should not perish1 but have everlasting life40 ,in the silence of this quiet hour put your worries and your fears away and swing your centre out of self4 ,open wide the windows of your soul and let the ,spirit in of wholesomeness and love1 of harmony and power4 ,believe the ,spirit will come in4 ,interpret in the terms of ,spirit those veracious words of ,revelation3 8,behold1 ,i stand at the door1 and knock2 if any man hear my voice1 and open the door1 ,i will come in to him1 and will sup with him1 and he with me40 ,wait for the incoming ,spirit4 ,wait in faith and confidence4 ,remember that 8,they that wait upon the ,lord shall renew their strength2 they shall mount up with wings as eagles2 they shall run1 and not be weary2 they shall walk1 and not faint40 ,with your mind filled with the ,spirit of wholesomeness and love1 of harmony and power1 it will be at rest2 it will know the peace that passeth understanding4 ,all nerve-strain will go4 ,sleep will come to-night4 ,sleep will come to-morrow night4 ,sleep will come every night4 ,sound sleep1 re-creating sleep so long denied you1 will be yours at last4 ,the day will never know again its feverish inquietude4 ,work will have its zest1 and play its joy4 ,the silent night will lose its morbid fancies and its horrid nightmares1 and you will each morning wake with the song upon your lips3 ,the dark hath many dear avails3 ,the dark distils divinest dews2 ,the dark is rich with nightingales1 ,with dreams1 and with the heavenly muse4 ,you have done with sleeplessness forever4 ,you go out from this room beneath the rooftree of ,god's sanctuary1 a new creature in ,christ ,jesus4 ,claim your new privilege in ,jesus' name4 ,act henceforth on the comforting assurance that you are to go to sleep as soon as you have gone to bed1 and sleep the whole night through4 ,keep by day as well as night the serenity you here have found4 ,awake with the morning light into the thoughts of this first treatment4 ,keep them in the background of your consciousness the whole day through4 ,take a few minutes every day to go into the silence as you now are1 and think these thoughts again in proper sequence4 ,take them up into your heart and brood upon them all the day4 ,work them into the warp and woof of your inmost soul so that 8neither death1 nor life1 nor angels1 nor principalities1 nor powers1 nor things present1 nor things to come1 nor height1 nor depth1 nor any other creature0 shall be able to separate you from them4 ,make them yours and keep them yours forever and forever4 ,and you shall sleep the sleep of the quiet mind and the ,god-filled soul in all the years to come4#ad ,,footnotes #ac ,thomas ,e4 ,brown4 #ad ,subsequent treatments are usually a logical development of this4 ,see also ,henry ,wood's ,new ,thought ,simplified4 ,in the author's next volume to appear in #aiji1 he expects to publish a complete series of suggestive treatments for nervous functional disorders4 ,,some ,,immediate ,,results ,again and again one treatment of this sort--faith reinforced by reiterated suggestion--has sufficed to break up the most obstinate insomnia4 ,one man on the verge of suicide from hitherto incurable insomnia went home from this first treatment to sleep soundly for several nights thereafter4 ,another man on whom a heart-breaking disappointment had swept down without a word of warning went home to sleep eight hours and a half for the first time in many nights4 ,a trained nurse so long on night duty that she had slipped her sleep cog to the demoralisation of her entire nervous system slept normally again after but one visit to me4 ,a college instructor sleepless on the verge of a new year of academic strain thus secured the long night's sleep she coveted the day before the opening of college4 ,a wife and mother overwhelmed by a domestic tragedy after six weeks of drugged sleep went home from her first treatment with a shining face to sleep ever after without taking any drugs4 ,a college girl worn sleepless by the heat and burden of earning her own living while she kept up her standing in the college1 reported marked improvement after her first treatment4 ,and a neurasthenic who had lost all hope of ever sleeping better slept so much better after a single treatment that she insists in spite of all my protests in placing her experience among the modern miracles4 ,,the ,,co-,,operation ,,of ,,the ,,patient ,in most cases1 of course1 more is necessary than one treatment4#ae ,sometimes a dozen treatments are required4 ,and at every stage the patient's close co-operation is of utmost consequence4 ,in fact1 the cure can never be effected without it4 ,to faith reinforced by the ,emmanuel worker's suggestions must be added the auto-suggestions of the patient4 ,he must will to keep the loving attitude toward ,god and man4 ,he must cease to worry about sleep4 ,he must never mention his symptoms to anyone except the ,emmanuel worker who is treating him4 ,he must cultivate a heavenly unconcern about himself4 ,he must keep saying to himself the whole day through3 ,it does not matter anyway4 ,if ,i sleep1 well and good4 ,if ,i do not sleep ,i will not worry over it4 ,to lie awake at night is not so terrible as ,i once thought4 ,bed is for rest as well as sleep4 ,the worry over lack of sleep hurts more than sleeplessness itself4 ,rest is possible even when ,i can not sleep4 ,happy thoughts will rob the darkness of its gloom and minimise nerve-strain4 ,if ,i keep still in my normal sleep position eight hours every night in bed1 if ,i relax every muscle and let it stay relaxed2 if ,i breathe lightly1 regularly1 rhythmically in a well-ventilated room1 making sure the early morning light will not strike across my face and wake me up2 if ,i simulate sleep in every way ,i can2 if ,i shut out all preoccupation1 expect each night to go to sleep1 and steadily hour after hour suggest sleep to myself in words like these ,i shall surely go to sleep3 ,i am going to sleep4 ,i shall not lie awake4 ,i cannot lie awake4 ,i am going to sleep4 ,the tired eyes are closing4 ,the blood is flowing from my brain to my extremities4 ,there is no longer any pressure on the brain4 ,the muscles are relaxing4 ,sleep is stealing over all my senses4 ,they are growing numb4 ,i am getting drowsy1 drowsy4 ,i am softly sinking into sleep1 dreamless sleep4 ,i am sinking deeper1 deeper1 deeper4 ,i am almost asleep4 ,i am asleep1 asleep1 asleep4 ,i am asleep4 ,,footnotes #ae ,it is perhaps unnecessary to explain that no charge is ever made for the ,emmanuel treatment1 though grateful patients sometimes make a thank offering to the church of which the ,emmanuel worker is the ,rector4 ,,the ,,ultimate ,,effect ,even if1 in spite of this1 one sometimes fails to sleep1 one will at least be free from the nerve-strain which a night of worry about sleep invariably brings4 ,and if1 in the face of every discouragement and every temptation to lapse from this wholesome attitude toward sleep1 one habitually practises each night some such auto-suggestions1 he has forever turned his face away from chronic sleeplessness4 ,he may not always sleep at will4 ,he may not always live up to the light vouchsafed to him4 ,but he will sleep much better than he slept before4 ,he will be free from the morbidness and worry of insomnia4 ,he will have faith where he had fear1 peace where he had the troubled mind1 and the light at eventide of a night which is not dark with griefs and graves4 ,more than this1 he will sleep4 ,he will sleep habitually--to his body's health1 his mind's contentment1 and his soul's supreme delight4 ,,illustrative ,,cases ,i4 ,,cured ,,by ,,suggestion ,,alone ,a4--,waking ,suggestion #a4 ,the ,emmanuel ,clinic in ,boston reports the case of a distinguished lawyer who after nine months of insomnia came to ,emmanuel ,church for counsel4 ,he was on the verge of a nervous breakdown4 ,his habit was to take his work and worries every night to bed with him4 ,he was advised to submit to the rest cure under a good neurologist4 ,he replied that1 with important cases coming up at once for trial1 rest was impossible4 ,in fact1 he could at most spend a few hours in ,boston4 ,the causes of insomnia were then explained to him4 ,suggestions were given looking toward self-help4 ,the importance of cheerful and uplifting thoughts was emphasised4 ,he went away an hour later to report in a few weeks that he was entirely cured and had not felt so well since he was a boy4 #b4 ,dubois 7p4 #cdj7 speaks of a physician twenty-three years of age who had suffered for nine months from persistent insomnia4 ,by bromides1 bathing1 travel1 and the cessation of all work1 he had obtained only transient results4 ,dubois drew his attention to the psychic causes of insomnia1 counselled the immediate abandonment both of the treatment he had been giving himself and of all apprehension of insomnia4 ,in a few days sleep returned1 the convalescent resumed his customary duties1 and was soon completely well again4 ,b4--,profound ,suggestion ,forel 7p4 #beb7 describes the case of a working-girl who suffered for a year and a half from extreme sleeplessness4 ,all means for her relief failed4 ,forel induced profound suggestion1 let her sleep about an hour every day while she was still in his clinic room1 and after three weeks discharged her completely cured and able regularly to sleep nine hours out of every twenty-four4 #b4 ,,cured ,,by ,,faith ,,reinforced ,,by ,,suggestion ,a4--,inability to go to sleep on going to bed ,a clergyman forty years of age had inherited a tendency to sleeplessness4 ,even as a child it was not uncommon for him to lie awake an hour or two after getting into bed4 ,as he passed into his teens the presence of his brother or a boy friend in the same bed would invariably keep him wide awake the whole night through4 ,at college the unusual strain of extra work or of examinations was likely to drive sleep entirely away1 and only with the help of bromides at special seasons was he able to get through his studies and take his place at last among the honour men4 ,his first years out of college were spent in graduate study and educational work1 and were made miserable by the gradual increase of insomnia1 which shut him out of many social pleasures and impaired his efficiency4 ,his first ten years in the ministry were checkered by so many stubborn attacks of insomnia that he was more than once on the verge of a complete breakdown1 from which the drugs the doctors gave him furnished only temporary relief4 ,two years ago1 after six weeks of sleeplessness during which he had at his doctor's orders taken a hypnotic every night1 he was able to sleep at most three hours out of every twenty-four and was haunted by obsessions and pervasive fears4 ,when even morphia failed to induce anything more than extreme drowsiness and the heart's action was so weak that strychnine was prescribed to make it function properly1 one sleepless night a physician peremptorily bade him keep in the sleep position and never move1 breathe regularly1 keep his eyes closed as in sleep1 and in every way imaginable to simulate sleep4 ,this proved to be the turning point in his experience4 ,sleep came night after night in consequence of his unvarying obedience to the doctor's orders4 ,from one source or another he discovered how to relax and to suggest sleep to himself4 ,within a month he had learned to sleep at will1 and only once in two years1 when for some weeks there was continuous local pain1 has his sleep been interrupted4 ,the average both of physical and of mental health has been at least doubled1 and these two years past he has done1 without fatigue of mind or body1 at least twice as much work as in any two years of his life before4 ,b4--,waking in the middle of the night ,a widow1 seventy-three years of age1 suffering for twelve years from neurasthenia1 was apt to wake about the middle of every night and to go to sleep no more4 ,the loss of sleep was bad enough1 but the morbid fancies which invariably came in swarms sometimes all but drove her to distraction4 ,there was such a bad family history as to sleep and such poor circulation with its inevitable cold feet1 that the physician gave me little hope of relieving her insomnia4 ,during the first month of her treatment ,i1 therefore1 confined myself almost entirely to the upbuilding of her faith by a course of optimistic reading and by suggestion4 ,i seldom spoke about her sleeplessness at all4 ,to her surprise and mine in a few weeks her sleep began to improve4 ,at the end of two months1 though she still awoke two or three nights every week1 no morbid fancies came4 ,she filled up her mind with wholesome thoughts1 repeated again and again the auto-suggestions on page #fh1 and usually awoke almost as much refreshed as though she had slept the whole night through4 ,now after almost a year she reports what used to be one bad night out of every four or five1 but as compared with the bad nights--four or five a week--of former years it were better called1 she thinks1 a good night than a bad one4 ,c4--,waking early in the morning #a4 ,a college girl of unusual ability and character had practically all her life been inclined to wake at two or three o'clock in the morning and often go to sleep no more2 or if she went to sleep1 to sleep badly and be subject to hideous dreams and horrible nightmares4 ,after one treatment1 ,june #aeth1 she began at once to sleep much better4 ,though she sometimes woke as formerly at two or three1 she at once by relaxation and auto-suggestion usually went off to sleep again and suffered little from dreams and nightmares4 ,she has had two treatments since1 and is not only much improved in body but is happier and more serene in mind4 #b4 ,the ,emmanuel ,clinic in ,boston reports the case of an unmarried woman1 fifty-two years old1 who usually slept four hours a night1 awaking at #b4cj and never sleeping more4 ,her treatment was begun ,june #bj1 #aijg1 and was followed by immediate improvement4 ,by ,july #a1 #aijg1 she was sleeping without waking eight hours every night1 and reported ,august1 #aijh1 that the improvement had become permanent4 ,d4--,semi-sleep #a4 ,a college girl had never had the feeling of being sound asleep4 ,she thought she was half conscious the night through4 ,what sleep she got never seemed to refresh her4 ,she came to me for treatment1 ,february #g1 #aijh1 slept somewhat better for a night or two1 and came back1 ,february #adth1 #ahth1 #beth1 for other treatments4 ,on ,march #acth she reported that though she was not completely cured she was sleeping more soundly and felt better in every way4 ,there was in this case the unhappy complication of organic heart trouble4 #b4 ,to the ,emmanuel ,clinic in ,boston came1 ,january #b1 #aijh1 a clergyman forty-nine years old who reported that for years he had never slept1 but merely dozed4 ,he gave up preaching in #aijc2 then resumed it only to abandon it again in ,april1 #aijg4 ,after treatment from ,january #bnd to ,march #ith he was discharged1 much improved1 and on ,may #dth he reported that he was still improving1 and is now sleeping well from six and a half to seven hours every night4 ,e4--,insomnia from psychical shock ,a woman thirty-four years old was plunged into insomnia six years ago by the psychical shock which followed a violent attack made on her by an insane woman4 ,her habit afterwards was to lie awake for three or four hours after retiring1 and then to sleep about two hours every night4 ,whenever she lay down to sleep1 whether her eyes were open or closed1 she felt herself surrounded by people1 some of whom had been dead for several years1 and one of whom she fancied wished to kill her4 ,to the hallucinations dizziness was often added4 ,bromides which she had long been taking began at last to lose their effect4 ,treatment of her was begun at the ,emmanuel ,clinic in ,boston on ,february #be1 #aijh4 ,by ,march #ajth she was sleeping better1 though not soundly1 and for thirteen nights the hallucinations had been absent4 ,april #hth she reported that the visions still came now and then but were fewer and less terrifying4 ,by ,may #bast the dizziness had disappeared1 the hallucinations had not come for several weeks1 her mind was clear1 her sleep was much improved1 and she was sure that she was getting well4 ,f4--,insomnia from family trouble ,a mother forty-one years of age had suffered several family bereavements4 ,her children had been sick more than is common4 ,her brother had been burned to death4 ,she herself had undergone a surgical operation4 ,for seven years she had suffered from insomnia1 never even temporarily relieved except by taking sulphonal1 trional1 etc4 ,it seemed to be the fear of sleeplessness that usually kept her from her sleep4 ,under treatment at the ,emmanuel ,clinic in ,boston from ,september #ba1 #aijg1 to ,january #bg1 #aijh1 she steadily improved1 and is now in every way much better4 ,,the ,,end ,a ,selection from the ,catalogue of ,g4 ,p4 ,,putnam',s ,,sons ,complete ,catalogues sent on application ,a marshalling of the evidence pro and con4 ,a summing up and an impartial judgment ,christian ,science ,the ,faith and ,its ,founder ,by ,rev4 ,lyman ,p4 ,powell ,crown #hvo4 #a4be net4 ,postage1 #aj cents 8,i sat up one night reading this book as one reads a novel1 which in the popular phrase1 8cannot be put down40 ,i have rarely read so interesting a volume of any kind4 ,it is scientific1 accurate1 clear1 cogent1 unanswerable1 and satisfying to the last degree4 ,i am delighted with it4 ,the whole ,christian world will thank you for it4 ,i am going to use it unblushingly in a course of sermons later on40--,cyrus ,townsend ,brady4 8,a volume which is not the less destructive for its moderation1 and its fairness4 ,mr4 ,powell's discussion of his subject is sane1 temperate1 and judicious1 and his book merits the careful attention of all who are interested either from within or without in the all-important subject of ,christian ,science40--,springfield ,republican4 8,a fine piece of work4444 ,i can but feel that in your book you have a little of the swing of ,carlyle and the trust of ,newman4 ,i cannot1 for the life of me1 see what you have left for anyone else to say on the subject40--,rev4 ,nathaniel ,s4 ,thomas1 ,church of the ,holy ,apostles1 ,philadelphia4 ,send for descriptive circular ,g4 ,p4 ,,putnam',s ,,sons ,,new ,,york ,,london 8,a unique little volume1 one which deserves the thoughtful consideration of every practitioner40--,sajou's ,monthly ,cyclopedia and ,medical ,bulletin1 ,philadelphia4 ,insomnia and ,nerve ,strain ,by ,henry ,f4 ,upson1 ,m4,d4 ,professor of ,diseases of the ,nervous ,system in ,western ,reserve ,university1 ,attending ,neurologist at the ,lakeside ,hospital1 ,cleveland1 ,ohio ,crown #hvo4 ,with ,skiagraphic ,illustrations #a4ej net ,an interesting theory in explanation of many cases of insomnia and insanity is brought forth and illustrated by ,dr4 ,henry ,s4 ,upson of ,cleveland1 in his book on #8,insomnia and ,nerve ,strain4' ,dr4 ,upson believes that very many cases of mania1 melancholia1 and dementia are caused by defective teeth4 8,the work is technical1 and for the profession rather than the lay reader4 ,it will doubtless prove of great value as a contribution to the warfare being waged against the mental scourges that fill our asylums with young people on the threshold of productive activity40--,cleveland ,plain ,dealer4 8,dr4 ,upson is1 we believe1 the first medical practitioner to write extensively on this topic and the first to accompany his writing with skiagraphs relating to his cases4 ,his enthusiasm in this matter may be the means of arousing a greater interest in it than hitherto has been manifested by physicians40--,new ,york ,times4 8,the author has presented his conceptions in a most attractive and entertaining manner and time alone will say whether his deductions will rest on true scientific ground4 ,the treatment of insomnia if carried out along the lines suggested will not only benefit a great number of distressing conditions but will undoubtedly curtail the indiscriminate use of hypnotics at present prevailing4 8,the closing chapter by ,lodge on the technic of dental skiagraphy will prove valuable to many engaged in this branch of practice4 ,the excellence of the reproductions is a pleasing feature of the work40--,cleveland ,medical ,journal4 ,g4 ,p4 ,,putnam',s ,,sons ,,new ,,york ,,london