重新开始，重拾天真！

《健康之道》1984.6.3

正如本书前面提到的，我们想要重新唤起的思想和信念往往是那些在童年时期占主导地位的思想信念。它们是每一个生物与生俱来的心灵的、精神的、情感的，以及生物性的信念。孩子们不仅相信会有一个明天，有很多个明天，而且他们还相信每一个明天都是值得的，充满了发现。

The thoughts and beliefs that we want to rearouse are those that were often predominant in childhood, as mentioned earlier in this book. They are spiritual, mental, emotional and biological beliefs that are innately present in the birth of each creature. Children believe not only that there will be a tomorrow, and many tomorrows, but they also believe that each tomorrow will be rewarding and filled with discovery.

即使面对不愉快的环境或情况，他们也会感到自己处于一种整体的安全感中。他们会被其他人和其他生物所吸引，而顺其自然时，他们信任自己与他人的接触。他们天生就有一种自我满足和自我欣赏感，他们本能地觉得，探索和发展自己的能力是自然和有益的。

They feel themselves couched in an overall feeling of security and safety, even in the face of an unpleasant environment or situation. They feel drawn to other people and to other creatures, and left alone they trust their contacts with others. They have an inbred sense of self-satisfaction and self-appreciation, and they instinctively feel that it is natural and good for them to explore and develop their capabilities.

他们期望关系是有益的、持续的，并期望每一件事都有可能的最好结果。他们喜欢交流，追求知识，充满好奇心。

They expect relationships to be rewarding and continuing, and expect each event will have the best possible results. They enjoy communication, the pursuit of knowledge, and they are filled with curiosity.

所有这些态度提供了力量和心理健康，促进了他们身体的成长和发育。不管这些想法对成年人来说听起来多么简单，它们都蕴含着必需的力量和动力，充满了生命的所有部分。后来，相互矛盾的信念往往扼杀了这些早期的态度，所以当孩子们长大成人时，他们实际上持有一套几乎相反的假设。这些假设理所当然地认为，任何紧张形势都会恶化，与他人交流是危险的，自我实现会带来他人的嫉妒和报复，而作为个体，他们生活在一个不安全的社会中，那个社会被放在一个本就野蛮、残酷，不计代价只顾自己存活的自然界中间。

All of those attitudes provide the strength and mental health that promotes their physical growth and development. However simple those ideas may sound to the adult, still they carry within them the needed power and impetus that fill all of life’s parts. Later, conflicting beliefs often smother such earlier attitudes, so that by the time children have grown into adults they actually hold almost an opposite set of hypotheses. These take it for granted that any stressful situation will worsen, that communication with others is dangerous, that self-fulfillment brings about the envy and vengeance of others, and that as individuals they live in an unsafe society, set down in the middle of a natural world that is itself savage, cruel, and caring only for its own survival at any cost.

你的身体实际上靠大量快乐的期待活着。

Your body actually lives on large quantities of joyful expectation.

对未来生长发育的期待推动着胎儿。预测大多数不幸的情况将会恶化而不是改善，这已经够糟了，但相信人类注定会毁灭自己，或者认为核毁灭几乎是不可避免的，这就真的是鲁莽了。

The fetus is propelled by the expectation of future growth and development. It is bad enough to anticipate that most unfortunate situations will worsen rather than improve, but it is foolhardy indeed to believe that mankind is bound to destroy itself, or that nuclear destruction is nearly inevitable.

许多人不再相信死后的生命，因此众多的人口在哲学上被剥夺了心灵上和身体上的未来。

Many people no longer believe in life after death, and so large numbers of the population are philosophically denied a spiritual or a physical future.

这剥夺了身心享受任何追求或活动所需的热情和目的。这种信念使任何人类的努力都显得徒劳。对于核能的危害，有远为健康、有益的应对方法，我们将在本书后面讨论这些方法。

This deprives body and mind of the zest and purpose needed in order to enjoy any pursuits or activities. Such beliefs make any human endeavor appear futile. There are ways of reacting to the dangers of nuclear energy that are far more healthy and beneficial, and we will discuss these later in the book.

现在，我只想建议，所有这类信念都应该尽快被了解和摒弃。我们希望展示，大多数自然促进健康的信念如何能被运用于所有精神的、身体的或情绪的疾病或困难。我想向你保证，不管你的境况、年龄或性别如何，你确实可以重新开始，由你之内重新唤起那些更早、更天真的期望、感觉和信念。事实上，如果你能更多地从儿童游戏的角度来想象这一努力，而不是把它看作一个极其严肃的成人追求，那样会好很多。

For now, I simply want to suggest that all such beliefs should be understood and dismissed as soon as possible. We hope to show how most natural health-promoting beliefs can be applied to all mental, physical, or emotional illnesses or difficulties. I want to assure you that regardless of your circumstances, age, or sex, you can indeed start over, rearousing from within yourself those earlier, more innocent expectations, feelings and beliefs. It is much better if you can imagine this endeavor more in the light of children’s play, in fact, rather than think of it as a deadly serious adult pursuit.

换句话说，我们将试着灌输一种多少游戏性的态度，即使是面对最严重的问题，因为游戏这一概念本身就能鼓励想象力和创造能力的运用。

In other words, we will try to instill a somewhat playful attitude, even toward the most severe problems, for the very idea of play encourages the use of the imagination and the creative abilities.

重新开始——再则，因为时间的同时性，信念可以在当下这一刻改变。

This starting over—again, because of the simultaneous nature of time, beliefs can be changed in the present moment.

没有必要为了寻找信念的“初始”原因而无休止地探寻今生或任何一生的过去。在当下做出某种改变，就会自动地、可说是“全面”地改变所有的信念。然而，重要的是，你不要太过努力去达成结果，而是要给自己一些回旋的余地。你习惯性地、经常是不假思索地对自己的信念做出反应，而在通常的时间观念中，在你的经验中——你必须给自己“一些时间”来改变这种习惯行为。

There is no need to search endlessly into the past of this life or any other, for the “original” causes for beliefs. Making a change in the present of a certain kind will automatically alter all beliefs “across the board,” so to speak. It is important, however, that you do not strain too hard to achieve results, but allow yourself some leeway. You react to your beliefs habitually, often unthinkingly, and in usual ideas of time, and in your experience of it — you must allow yourself “some time” to change that habitual behavior.

当你这样做时，你会发现自己对想要的信念做出反应，就像你过去对不想要的信念做出反应一样容易和自动。不过，当你这样做的时候，请记住儿童的游戏概念。这将允许你让整个事件保持在一种悬而未决的状态。

As you do, you will discover yourself reacting to the desired beliefs as easily and automatically as you did to the undesirable ones. As you do, keep the idea of child’s play in mind, however.

孩子在成年之前就已经在玩扮演成人的游戏了，所以当你仍在朝那个更有利的画面成长时，你可以游戏性地设想你更想要的信念。

The child plays at being an adult long before he is one, and so you can play with more desirable beliefs while you are still growing into that more beneficial picture.