The Untroubled Mind
The Untroubled Mind, written by Herbert J. Hall in the early 20th century, is a philosophical self-help book focused on mental health and personal growth. Hall explores the impact of mindset on well-being, arguing that excessive worry is a root cause of mental unrest. He offers insights into achieving inner peace through work, creativity, spiritual insight, and self-discipline, supported by anecdotal evidence from his medical practice. This work emphasizes the importance of shifting perspective to cultivate resilience and contentment in life.
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“The remedy for the mental unrest, which is in itself an illness, lies not in an enlightened knowledge of the harmfulness and ineffectiveness of worry, not even in the acquirement of an unconscious conscience, but in the living of a life so full and good that worry cannot find place in it. That””
— Herbert J. Hall
“When I go about among my patients, most of them, as it happens, “nervously” sick, I sometimes stop to consider why it is they are ill. I know that some are so because of physical weakness over which they have no control, that some are suffering from the effects of carelessness, some from wilfulness, and more from simple ignorance of the rules of the game. There are so many rules that no one will ever know them all, but it seems that we live in a world of laws, and that if we transgress those laws by ever so little, we must suffer equally, whether our transgression is a mistake or not, and whether we happen to be saints or sinners. There are laws also which have to do with the recovery of poise and balance when these have been lost. These laws are less well observed and understood than those which determine our downfall.””
— Herbert J. Hall
