Welcome to the Inspirational Living Podcast.

Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the book How to Get What You Want by Orison Sweat Martin, published in 1917.

Modern science has proven that intelligence is not confined to the brain cells,

but that we think as a whole, that all cell life takes part in the thinking process.

Scientists tell us that the individual cells in a piece of flesh and placed near a drug that is harmful to cell life

will draw away as far as they can from this harmful substance.

On the other hand, when a substance friendly to cell

life is placed near, the cells will draw as close as possible to this friendly substance,

and apparently try to absorb it. In other words, these cells manifest the power of

intelligent selection or choice.

One reason why our mental attitudes, our hopes, our fears, our joys, and our sorrows have such

a tremendous influence upon our body and our lives is because, as Thomas Edison said,

every cell in us thinks. And since this is true, we know that every thought, every

impression made on the mind, every mental attitude, affects all the cells of the body,

affects the whole organism. We have been so accustomed to confining intelligence to the brain alone, that it is difficult

to think of it as a product of the cellular activity of the entire body, brain, muscles,

bones, tissues and all. In fact, we think all over. The mind is the product of activity in all the cells of the body.

The latest scientific investigations seem to show that each one of the tiny microscopic

cells of a body contains in itself creative, reproducing, repairing, recreating qualities,

thus determining the entire future of the body

in guiding the plan, the development, and the limitation of growth that is physically considered.

Each cell is endowed with intelligence and has a consciousness of its own.

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