ETERNAL YOUTH by Dr Harry Gaze

ETERNAL YOUTH by Dr Harry Gaze 

Under present conditions of life, just when a man should be ready because of his experience and developed judgment to live the most efficient and enjoyable life, he finds his mental and physical powers declining. In the past, we have regarded this situation as inevitable, and submitted to it with as much grace as possible. It is my purpose to endeavor to logically demonstrate that this decay of mind and body is not the inevitable result of advancing years. 

Old age and death are due to causes which may be averted. Man has within him the mental and physical equipment for eternal youth. 

The fact of a universal law of change is usually considered sufficient to refute the possibility of perpetual rejuvenation of the body. 

As a matter of fact, man, is constantly surviving the changes of his body. 

Man does not become old merely because of change, but mainly because he fails to change enough. In the same way, man does not grow old, he manifests age by failure to grow. 

The secret of eternal youth is conscious co-operation with the law of change and growth. 

We are constantly building new bodies, and the flesh of a man of seventy is as new as the flesh of a child. A realization of the intimate relation of mind and body should lead us to realize the newness of the body. It is contrary to the laws of good suggestion to think of one's body as old, and that it is constantly growing older. Realize that it is being built over and over again through molecular renewal. 

One great secret of enduring youth is that we must avoid maturity or prime of life. If the mind is filled with a sufficiently strong purpose to unfold new power of mentality and body, the vitality for this development will be engendered. 

The law of change really demonstrates that man is a self-born being. 

The body that one possesses to-day is one that has come into form during the last few months of his life, cell by cell, molecule by molecule, and atom by atom. 

The new psychology demonstrates that persistent suggestions dominate the sub-conscious mind that has charge of the so-called involuntary activities of the body. The conventional mental attitude of the race is directly opposed to the perpetual preservation of youth. We constantly suggest approaching age, and live in the anticipation of senility and death. Anticipation of death is psychological suicide. 

The mental attitude which must be adopted in order to attain eternal youth is one in which there is a recognition of the constant renewal of the body; a determination to avoid being "grown up" by persistent efforts at mental and physical development; a constant looking forward to life more abundant with the conviction that one's best days are yet to come, and an unflagging optimism to the exclusion of worry, fear, and violent emotions. 

Man's body is not merely a machine; the machine has no intelligent principle of repair within itself. No art can replace the worn-out atoms of the most perfect mechanism as they are replaced in the human body. 

Of the machine it may be said that the most perfect use of it wears it out, while non-use preserves it. On the other hand, proper use of the body preserves it while non-use destroys it. 

The problem is to be able to reach the mind with sufficient mental force to replace negative tendencies and habits with positive, constructive thoughts and suggestions.

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“Eternal Youth.” A paper delivered by Dr Harry Gaze before the Medico-Legal Society of New York, of which Gaze was a member, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, on May 18, 1910. Read by Dr Ian Ellis-Jones. 

Dr Harry Gaze (1878–1959) was an Anglo-American New Thought author and minister in the Divine Science denomination. He was one of the pioneers who helped shape and influence the New Thought Movement. He succeeded Dr Emmet Fox (1886–1951) as the pastor of the Church of the Healing Christ in New York City and was Fox's friend, teacher and biographer. 

Gaze taught the much respected and highly influential New Thoughter Judge Thomas Troward (1847–1916), who had retired from his duties in India, and Gaze imparted to Troward his understanding of mental science. Troward is the celebrated author of The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science, The Dore Lectures on Mental Science, The Creative Process in the Individual, Bible Mystery and Bible Meaning, The Law and the Word, and The Hidden Power and Other Papers on Mental Science. 

Gaze was very influential not only in Troward's development as a metaphysician but also Dr Emmet Fox's as well. Gaze first met Emmet Fox in 1914 when the latter was attending Gaze's lectures and classes in metaphysics and metaphysical healing. 

Harry Gaze was the author of several books. 

For more information on Dr Harry Gaze, here is a link to a fulsome biographical profile of the man on the site Find a Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1....

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