If our entire attention is given to yielding and we give no attention whatever to the pain, except as a reminder to yield, the result seems wonderful.

It seems wonderful because so few of us have the habit of giving our entire attention to gaining our real freedom.
With most of us, the disease or discomfort is positive, and our effort against it is negative or no effort at all.

A negative effort probably protects us from worse evil, but that is all; it does not seem to me that it can ever take us ahead, whereas a positive effort, while sometimes we seem to move upward in very slow stages, often takes us in great strides out of the enemy's country.
If we have the measles, the whooping cough, scarlet fever--even more serious diseases--and make the disease negative and our effort to free ourselves from it positive, the result is one thousand times worth while.

And where the children have the measles and the whooping cough, and do not know how to help nature, the mothers can be positive for the children and make their measles and whooping cough negative.

The positive attitude of a mother toward her sick child puts impatience or despair out of the question.
Do not think that I believe one can be positive all at once.