How To Live 100 Years And Retain, Youth, Health And Beauty | by A. Victor Segno
Having thoroughly tested the truth of the system I advocate, I offer it to all noble minded men and women desiring to lengthen their lives that they may be of greater use to their fellow men and to future generations. By conscientiously following these instructions you can, I assure you, reach at least one hundred years of age in the enjoyment of youth, health and beauty.
| Title | How To Live 100 Years And Retain, Youth, Health And Beauty |
| Author | A. Victor Segno |
| Publisher | The Chronicle Press |
| Year | 1903 |
| Copyright | 1903, A. Victor Segno |
| Amazon | How to live 100 years and retain youth, health and beauty; a course of practical lessons in life culture |
Preface To How To Live 100 Years And Retain, Youth, Health And Beauty- Man's ambition having increased out of proportion to the number of years of his physical life, he necessarily failed to complete his undertakings before the destruction of his body took place. To me i...
- Lesson 1. How To Lengthen Life, A Noble Ambition
- The desire to live is the most natural and logical ambition of the human race. Nature created us with a desire to live, and it is through this desire that we have prolonged our lives. Perfect physical...
- Lesson 1. How To Lengthen Life, A Noble Ambition. Continued
- Nature cures, and not medicines. The drug theory is a fallacy. God never made his work for man to mend. It is necessary that this fact should be empha sized in order that all false dependence be laid ...
- Lesson 2. How To Renew Your Body - Nature's Method
- That all who so desire may understand how the life of the body can be regained and retained, I will explain what has heretofore been a mystery - Nature's process of construction and destruction as car...
- Lesson 3. How To Have Or Attain A Long Life
- Many systems of training have been devised to aid man in bettering his physical and mental condition, but, with few exceptions, they aim at some special development and therefore lack the complete and...
- Lesson 3. How To Have Or Attain A Long Life. Continued
- I ask you if you think it possible that a drug which, if administered to a well man will make him sick, if given to a sick man will make him well? I again state that drugs do not cure disease. Nature ...
- Lesson 4. How Your Mental Attitude Affects Your Health
- It is no exaggeration to say that not one person in a thousand fully appreciates the marvelous power that exists in thought to aid in building up a strong, healthy, enduring body. Within the last ten ...
- Lesson 4. How Your Mental Attitude Affects Your Health. Continued
- A fact which you cannot afford to ignore is that every thought you send out or attract to you lends its influence either toward the prolongation or limitation of your life. Cheerfulness is a potent fa...
- Lesson 5. How To Focus Your Thoughts
- Before we can carry any plan to a successful issue, we must concentrate our thoughts and energies upon it. We must picture out the result we want to obtain and then aim to reach it. That you may culti...
- Lesson 5. How To Focus Your Thoughts. Continued
- The conditions you rebuild in your body will be those you most systematically concentrate on. Your every thought produces a chemical change in the blood which is carrying nourishment to every part of ...
- Lesson 6. How To Breathe Correctly For Health
- It is a general statement that excessive eating and drinking are the cause of almost all the illness experienced by the human race. While there is much truth in this, yet I am convinced that incorre...
- Lesson 6. How To Breathe Correctly For Health. Continued
- This is the only correct, natural, healthy way of breathing, for, by this method, the entire lungs are used and ventilated and thus kept healthy. It also has another advantage. It prevents one from st...
- Lesson 7. What Is Natural Exercise
- Every man or woman who desires to be strong and healthy, to cultivate grace and beauty and to preserve these desirable conditions for one hundred years or longer, must not neglect to exercise naturall...
- Lesson 7. What Is Natural Exercise. Continued
- If you have long neglected to exercise properly, you may, at first, find it a little hard to adjust yourself to the duty, but a little perseverance and practice will soon make it easy for you. The har...
- Exercises For Increasing Your Height
- Exercise No. 1 - Exercises For Increasing Your Height Stand before a door the top of which should be beyond your reach. Inhale a full breath and then reach up toward the top with both hands evenly as...
- Exercises For The Cure Of Constipation
- As so many people suffer from constipation, which is the cause of much disease through preventing the normal elimination of waste matter, which, when retained, re-enters the blood and poisons the enti...
- Lesson 8. What Is The Purpose of Relaxation and Sleep
- While exercise is necessary for the preservation of youth and health, still Nature did not intend that man should work continuously. In the great scheme of physical construction, rest and sleep play j...
- Lesson 8. What Is The Purpose of Relaxation and Sleep. Continued
- Sleep cannot act as a restorer if you retire to sleep in a state of mental or bodily tension. The nerves and muscles of the body must be entirely relaxed. Some people scarcely ever completely relax th...
- Relaxation Exercises
- I will give you a few physical exercises that have the effect of withdrawing from the muscles the nervous tension which causes a constant expenditure and leakage of vital energy. These exercises may b...
- Lesson 9. How To Eat For Health And A Long Life
- The human body is merely a machine - a mechanism for converting latent energy into the active state. It takes the force latent or potential in food, water and air and transforms it into the energy whi...
- When To Eat For Health And A Long Life
- When to eat is equally as important as what to eat. The digestive organs must be ready to receive and digest the food or it will poison the blood instead of creating new vitality. People follow habits...
- What To Eat For Health And A Long Life
- The articles of food which contain the greatest nutrition - phosphates, nitrates and carbonates. The phosphates restore the nerves, brain and bones. The nitrates rebuild the muscles and sinews. The ca...
- Lesson 10. How To Bath For Health And A Long Life
- As a part of this system of life culture, I must draw your attention to the value and purpose of bathing the body. The bath has a double purpose - to cleanse the skin of the impurities excreted by the...
- Lesson 11. How Clothing Affects Your Health
- While treating on a subject of such vital importance as retaining and regaining physical youth, attention must be given to everything that bears upon the subject, and the merits or demerits must be po...
- Lesson 11. How Clothing Affects Your Health. Continued
- In the selection of the outer clothing individual taste should be used, for that which gives pleasure to the eye is an aid to health. It is preferable, however, to wear the lighter colors in the summe...
- Lesson 12. How to Regain Your Lost Youth
- This lesson is written especially for people who have passed the age of thirty-five and have begun to show signs of approaching age; people who have begun to lose strength and vigor and those who feel...
- Lesson 12. How to Regain Your Lost Youth. Continued
- Used as a drink, distilled water is absorbed directly into the blood, the solvent properties of which it increases to such an extent that it will keep in solution salts already existing in the blood, ...
- Lesson 13. How To Attain And Have Enduring Beauty
- Physical beauty is a perfectly natural condition, for Nature made all things beautiful. Physical ugliness is a sure indication of present or past violation of Nature's laws. To formulate a standard of...
- Lesson 13. How To Attain And Have Enduring Beauty. Continued
- As you behold beauty around you, mentally affirm that you will be as beautiful or more so, for beauty is your natural birthright. Claim the beauty of Nature as your own. Try to feel that you are a par...
- Lesson 14. What Is The Influence of Love and Marriage On Longevity
- The relation of love to life is so intimately associated that these instructions would be incomplete if I neglected to call your attention to this important subject. The romantic side of existence pla...
- Lesson 14. What Is The Influence of Love and Marriage On Longevity. Continued
- There are other people who believe that the sex force should be entirely and exclusively devoted to begetting offspring. In their opinion the sex functions have no legitimate sphere other than to perp...
- Lesson 15. Protection Against Accidents And Having A Long Life
- No doubt the thought has occurred to you several times since beginning the study of these lessons that even should you attain perfect health, youth and beauty, yet you might not be able to live one hu...
- Lesson 16. Points To Be Remembered If You Want To Live A Long Life
- In the previous lessons I explained in detail all the separate subjects which constitute complete life culture. In this lesson it is my intention to sum up the essentials and place them before you in ...
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