Living Without Strain

By Dr. Joseph Murphy

Living Without Strain in the Dr. Joseph Murphy Live! series is the only authorized edition in print. Dr. Joseph Murphy has been acclaimed as a major figure in the human potential movement, the spiritual heir to writers like James Allen, Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, and Norman Vincent Peale, and a precursor and inspirer of contemporary motivational writers and speakers like Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar, and Earl Nightingale. He changed the lives of people all over the world and was one of the best-selling authors of the mid-20th century.

Dr. Murphy wrote, taught, counseled, and lectured to thousands every Sunday as Minister-Director of the Church of Divine Science in Los Angeles. Over the years, Dr. Murphy has given lectures and radio talks to audiences all over the world. Millions of people tuned in his daily radio program and have read the over 30 books that he has written. His books have sold over 15 million copies. In his lectures he points out how real people have radically improved their lives by applying specific aspects of his concepts, and gives the listener guidelines on how they too can enrich their lives. Never say, "I can't." Overcome that fear by substituting the following, "I can do all things through the power of my own subconscious mind.
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• Language: English
• Publisher: G&D Media
• Release date: Jan 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781722526443

Dr. Joseph Murphy

Dr. Murphy wrote, taught, counseled, and lectured to thousands of people all over the world, as Minister-Director of the Church of Divine Science in Los Angeles. His lectures and sermons were attended by thousands of people every Sunday. Millions of people tuned in his daily radio program and have read the over 30 books that he has written. Dr. Joseph Murphy has been acclaimed as a major figure in the human potential movement, the spiritual heir to writers like James Allen, Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, and Norman Vincent Peale and a precursor and inspirer of contemporary motivational writers and speakers like Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar and Earl Nightingale. He was one of the best selling authors in the mid-twentieth century. His book THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND has sold millions of copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. This book has never been out of print and is still one of the best sellers in the self-help genre. Over the years Dr. Murphy has given lectures and radio talks to audiences all over the world. In his lectures he points out how real people have radically improved their lives by applying specific aspects of his concepts, and gives the listener guidelines on how they too can enrich their lives.

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Dr. Hans Selye at the University of Montreal’s Institute of Experimental Medicine and Surgery has demonstrated the destructive effects of stress and strain, worry, and anxiety on the general defense system of the body. He says, if the mental stress that set the general defense system in motion is not of a temporary and passing nature, but persists week after week:

The adrenal glands first attempt to adapt to the situation by increasing their output of hormones, but this plays havoc with various other processes not related to defense. The individual may develop arthritis or diabetes or any of the other so-called psychosomatic diseases.

Inevitably, if the stress is continued beyond this general adaptation stage, the adrenal glands become exhausted. They change in color from yellow to brown. The stomach becomes spotted with ulcers. The resistance to cold and heat and to every kind of disease and injury collapses. If the unfortunate individual does not fall victim to some infection, he will probably succumb to one of the heart, circulatory, or kidney diseases which are today’s greatest killers.

Dr. Selye’s work demonstrates the defense system can only effectively fight one thing at a time. If in response to a mental tension caused by pain from a broken limb, it quickly organizes a hundred specialized activities in addition to its general work to repair the fracture. But if in the middle of this repair work another stress is introduced, say, one caused by fear, we either quickly succumb to the first injury, or to shock resulting from the second stress. Or the broken limb simply does not mend and has to be amputated.

In the case of other diseases other than fractures, healing is suspended and the diseases become chronic. Thus if our general defense system is mobilized by mental tensions of a nonphysical origin, the extra stresses imposed by such things as pneumonia, influenza, colds, our resistance is decreased proportionately.

What he’s saying is that if you begin to imagine a sense of loss, fear that you’re going to lose your job or mortgage, or some imaginary fear when you’re going on an airplane, the subconscious does not differentiate between an imaginary fear and a real fear. "That which I fear most has come upon me."

You can see the havoc that is played by stress, strain, and anxiety when a person begins to worry. They become anxious over circumstances and events which are not happening at all, but in their mind may happen, or they imagine they are going to happen.

If you’re imagining the loss of your home or the loss of your job, these imaginary fears set your pituitary and adrenal glands into action, and they secrete hormones which play havoc with your system. There is no sickness, you have no fever, you’ve had no accident, no lesion, you don’t have pneumonia, there’s nothing for them to do, but they affect the chemistry of your body.

It’s an entirely different thing if you’re sick, if you have a fever, or you get operated on. Then the defense mechanism tries to repair your body, but there’s nothing to repair. This why Dr. Selye says you get all these diseases, because of your imaginary fears which bring on stress and strain.

A young intern consistently worried about his future. He was a nervous wreck full of stress and strain. But he learned to paint a picture of himself