Psychic
Healing
CHAPTER XV SELF-SUGGESTION
"As
a
man
thinketh
in
Ms
heart
so is he," is an old saying the truth of which
becomes more and more apparent to us each year. In the chapter in
which we showed the effect of the mind on the
body you will notice that the
majority of the physical
troubles brought about by thought-influence
were brought about by the thought of
the person themselves by
self-suggestion, so to speak. A man's physical
health is largely a matter of his
self-suggestion. If he
maintains a mental attitude of health,
strength and fearlessness, he manifests
accordingly. And if he goes
about with a mind filled with ideas and
thoughts of a depressing nature his body
will likewise respond.
Fear is the great cause of
disease. Fear acts as a poison upon the
physical system, and its effects are manifest
in many directions. Remove
fear and you have removed the cause of the
trouble, and the symptoms will gradually disappear.
But all this we have stated
elsewhere and this book must be a book of
practice, rather than of theory* The
question is how may one
treat himself, or herself, by self-suggestion.
The answer is quite simple
it is that the person may give himself just
the suggestions that he would give a
patient, following the
advice and instructions given in the last
chapter. The
"I" part of you may give suggestions to that
part of the mind that runs the physical
organism and manages the body from cell to organ.
These suggestions will be taken and acted upon
if given with sufficient earnestness. Just as people may make
themselves sick by improper self-suggestions,
so may they restore themselves to health by the proper suggestions given
in the same manner.
There is no mystery about
this it is in accordance with a well
established psychological law.
The best way for you to
start in a course of self-suggestion for
yourself, presuming that you need the same, is
to read carefully our book
"Hatha Yoga" which contains practical
instruction and information about "Right
Living." Then after having
acquired the plan of right living start in to
practice right thinking.
Right thinking consists in
maintaining the proper mental attitude of
cheerfulness and fearlessness. These two
things are a battery of
force.
If you have imperfect
health rest assured that it is caused by the
violation of some natural law. You may
discover what this violated
natural law is by reference to "Hatha Yoga,"
and then it becomes your duty to
correct the habit and
restore natural functioning by
self-suggestions ox right thinking.
In nine cases out of ten
you will find that the root of the trouble
lies in improper nutrition and imperfect
elimination. You don't
believe this, you say! Well, then, let us tell
you your symptoms and see if they do not
come out about right to fit
your case
First, you have a poor
appetite and imperfect digestion dyspepsia or
indigestion. Then you are constipated, and
if a woman yon have scanty
and irregular menstruation. Then your hands
and feet are cold, denoting imperfect
circulation. Then your
eyesight and hearing is affected you have
ringing in the ears and cloudy vision. Your
taste is affected your
smell is also poor and you are liable to have
symptoms of catarrh. But your sense of
feeling is not poor - it is
abnormally sensitive, and you are called
"nervous." You do not get a good night's
sleep and you feel used up
all the time. Your skin is colorless and your
cheeks pale. Your lips and finger nails
lack the rosy color of
health. And so on.
Now does this not fit your
case? Isn't it queer how we have diagnosed
your complaint without having ever seen
you, or known of you? But this is no miracle, we
assure you we have merely recited the symptoms
arising from what may be called a typical case of malnutrition
and imperfect elimination. And the cause of
these symptoms lies in the two things named. Then the removal of the cause
lies in a correction of bad habits of living
and bad habits of thinking. And "Hatha Yoga" will give you the
habits of right living, and self-suggestion
will aid you in right thinking and the speedy removal of the
trouble.
Treat yourself According to
the lines of the General Treatment given under
the head of Suggestive Treatments in the last chapter. Make the treatments vigorous
just as earnest as if you were treating
somebody else instead of yourself. And you will get wonderful results.
See yourself in your
"mind's eye" as you wish, yourself to be. Then
start in to think of yourself as being that,
and then live as the
healthy man or woman should do. Then talk up
to yourself and tell your instinctive mind
what you expect it to do
for you and insist upon it taking hold of the
physical body and building up new cells
and tissue and discarding
the old worn out and diseased material. And it
will obey you like a well trained
assistant or helper and you
will begin to manifest health and strength.
There is no special mystery
about this self-suggestion. It is merely your
"I" telling your instinctive mind to
get to work and attend to
its affairs properly. And by right living you
give the instinctive mind the material
with which to work and the
conditions conducive to success.
We could fill page after
page of this book with "Suggestions" and
"Affirmations" for you to use in different
complaints. But this is
useless. You can make up your own suggestions
and affirmations, which will answer just
as well as would ours. Just
speak up to the instinctive mind just as if it
were another person who had charge of
your body and tell it what
you expect it to do. Do not hesitate about
being in earnest about it put some life
into your commands. Talk to
it in earnest. Say to it "Here, you
instinctive mind, I want you to get down to
work
and manage things better
for me. I am tired of this old trouble and I
intend to get rid of it. I am eating
nourishing food, and my
stomach is strong enough to digest it
properly, and I insist upon your attending to
it
right away, now. I am
drinking sufficient water to carry off the
waste matter from the system and I insist
seeing that my bowels move
regularly every day. I insist upon your seeing
that my circulation is equalized and
made normal. I am breathing
properly and burning up the waste matter and
properly oxygenizing the blood and you must do the rest Get to work
get to work. Add to this any instructions that
you think well and then see how the instinctive mind will "get down
to business." See what we have said on this
subject in the chapter on
"Thought-Force Healing."
Then maintain the proper mental attitude,
bracing yourself with strong affirmations
until you get things going
right. Say to yourself "I am getting strong
and well I am manifesting health," etc.,
etc. Now we have told you
how to do it then GET TO WORK AND DO IT!
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