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from another's aura touch his, he will call up the mood of friendliness, initiate corresponding vibrations in his own aura, impose them strongly on the other's, and produce the mood of friendliness in the other's mind in place of anger.
"It would be possible to put the how of this* in terms of physical matter also, if there were more knowledge extant on the subject. But the experiments now being made with reference to the ptomaines, toxins, antitoxins, lysines, antilexines, perspirations, etc., or secretions generally, produced in the human body under various conditions and emotions-these experiments seem likely to show, later on, that the poisonous tamasa secretions, for instance, which cause a headache after a fit of anger suppressed by fear, etc., are counteracted and neutralized by the antitoxic sattvika secretions produced by the generous and beneficent emotions called up by reading a book of high and holy thoughts and deeds."-(The Science of Emotions, by Bhagwan Das, M. A., pages 155-6).
There can be no doubt whatever that emotions affect the physical body and, ultimately, tho health of the individual, for good or bad. Protracted grief effects. perceptible changes in one's looks. "In grief the circulation becomes languid, the face pale, the muscle flaccid, the eyelids droop, the head hangs on the contracted chest, the lips, cheeks and lower jaw all sink downward from their own weight. The whole expression of a man in good spirits is exactly the opposite of the one suffering from sorrow (Darwin). Blushing and pallor are usually caused by the dilation or contraction of the vessels supplying blood to the head, and it is our daily experience that blushing and pallor are caused by strong mental emotions. Commenting on the emotion of fear, Professor Metchnikoff maintains:
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"Fear and cold alike cause contraction of the superficial bloodvessels, and, in man, excite the contraction of the minute rudiment
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