When a person says “No” and really means it, he is doing far more than saying a word of two letters. His entire organism—glandular, nervous, muscular—gathers itself together into a condition of rejection. There is, usually in minute but sometimes in observable degree, a physical withdrawal, or readiness for withdrawal. The whole neuromuscular system, in short, sets itself on guard against acceptance. Where, on the contrary, a person says “Yes,” none of the withdrawing activities takes place. The organism is in a forward-moving, accepting, open attitude. Hence the more “Yesses” we can, at the
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