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This is a Rare Old Book with a Radical Message: To Improve Your Health–You Must Change The Way You Think. And You Can.....! This book is intended solely for those who want be Healthy, and who want a practical guided and handbook, not a philosophical treatise. Whatever thoughts we \'put out there\' we back (The Law of Attraction teachers us that). This applies to your health too, of course. So if you are not in tip-top physical shape, whatever your age, you must not be thinking \'right\' about your body. Wallace Wattles says with total confidence: \'The Science of Being Well is an exact science, like arithmetic. Nothing can be added to the fundamental principles, and if anything be t aken from them, a failure will result. If you will be well. And you certainly CAN follow this way, both in thought and action”. He declares that you can achieve peak health and fitness by thinking and acting in a Certain Way. First you need to creative a very clear picture of yourself as perfectly healthy. If a person is sick and begins to think and act the way he describes in this book, he will “attain perfect health”. About the Author Wallace Delois Wattles (1860-1911) was an American author. A pioneer success writer, he remains personally some obscure, but his writing has been widely quoted and remains in print in the New Thought and self-help movements. Wallace Delois Wattles wrote a number of books including Through New Thought and Fasting, The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Great, The Science of Being Well, and a novel, Hellfire Harrison, but it is for his prosperity classic, The Science of Getting Rich that he is best known. Little is known about Wattles\' life. He was born in the USA shortly after the civil war, and experienced much failure in his earlier years. Later in his life he took to studying the various religious beliefs and philosophies of the world including those of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Swedenborg, Emerson, and others. It was through his truth of New Thought principles and put them into practice in his own life. He began to write books outlining these principles. As a Midwesterner, Wattles travelled to Chicago, where several leading New Thought leaders were located, among them the religiously-based Emma Curtis Hopkins and the secular William Walker Atkinson, and he gave “Sunday night lectures” in Indiana; however, his primary publisher was Massachusetts-based Elizabeth Towne.