Achieving Peace of Heart

Description

Reverend Irala here addresses ways to promote mental and emotional well-being to help increase one's health, efficiency and happiness. He speaks on topics such as how to rest, think, use the will, control feelings, train the sexual instinct, be happy, and choose an ideal. Included are also many practical instructions on dealing with mental struggles of all kinds. This book is most useful in our present times of worldly confusion.* * *Recommended by Fr. Kopec, SSPX, in the first episode of the [*Digital Dangers* series](https://sspxpodcast.com/digital-dangers/) @[42:34](https://youtu.be/gubBIYhXsrQ?t=2556): "There was a Jesuit priest in the 50s named Fr. Irala who spent a lot of time writing about the mental fatigue as a result of our technological life, and he's writing in 1950s and 60s"!A sort of prolonged meditation and practical application of the [principle](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=9124) " *age quod agis* " ("do what you do"—viz., focus on the single task at hand). Another [principle / axiom](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=9124) (p. 15, PDF p. 31): "Our axiom is that we cannot be fully both receiving and producing at the same time." (also: p. 38, PDF p. 54: "you do not produce and receive simultaneously"), a variant of "one cannot give what he doesn't have" (cf. 1 Cor. 4:7: "what hast thou that thou hast not received"?), "so learn to rest and control yourself".