Annie Payson Call - As A Matter Of Course (2/14) Amusements

Описание: AS A MATTER OF COURSE.....
The aim of this book is to assist towards the removal of nervous irritants, which are not only the cause of much physical disease, but materially interfere with the best possibilities of usefulness and pleasure in everyday life.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY.....
Annie Payson Call (1853–1940) was an American author of advice literature on nervous health and mind–body composure. Based in Waltham, Massachusetts, she wrote for Ladies' Home Journal and published widely read books from the 1890s to the 1910s. Call grew up in New England in an intellectual environment shaped by liberal Protestant and Swedenborgian currents. Religious-studies scholar Catherine L. Albanese places her among late-nineteenth-century American “harmonial” writers influenced, directly or indirectly, by Emanuel Swedenborg’s doctrine of correspondence between spirit, mind, and body. This metaphysical background framed her concern with nervous health and repose as part of moral and spiritual discipline rather than medical treatment.

Her early works—Regeneration of the Body (1888) and Power Through Repose (1891)—offer practical counsel on muscular and mental relaxation, conscious breathing, and the quieting of will, addressed to readers struggling with overstrain and anxiety. According to historian of yoga Mark Singleton, Call’s writings exemplify a form of “proprioceptive therapy” that sought harmony between body and mind through awareness and suggestion, anticipating later twentieth-century methods of guided relaxation and “meditative movement.” Singleton argues that this popular pedagogy of relaxation anticipated or paralleled later twentieth-century techniques such as guided imagery and progressive relaxation which was presented as “yogic relaxation”.

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