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PSYCHIC HEALING
CHAPTER II NATURAL LAWS OF THE BODY.
As we have stated
in our last chapter, we believe that the true secret
of Health lies in the observance of the
Natural Laws of the Body. These Laws may be
summed up as Eight Living and Eight Thinking. In our
book,
"Hatha Yoga," we have explained our
conceptions of these laws at considerable length and
detail. We do not hesitate to state positively that
every healer, or searcher for health,
should acquaint himself withthe instructions given
in that book.
Without an understanding of these fundamental
laws any and all forms of healing are but temporary
makeshifts,
and the patient, if he pursues the former
improper modes of Living and Thinking, will relapse
into his old
condition when the treatments are discontinued.
There can be no successful defiance of Natural Laws.
In this chapter we will run briefly over the
principal laws described in "Hatha Yoga' for the
benefit of those
readers who have not acquainted themselves with
the contents of that book. But this chapter cannot
begin to
give the "Hatha Yoga" instruction fully for that
fills a good-sized book of itself.
In the first place, there can be no Health
without proper nutrition. And there can be no proper
nutrition
without proper assimilation. This being granted,
it may be seen that one of the first things for a
healer to do is to
re-establish normal conditions in this respect,
and build up proper assimilation. This is why we
have urged the healer to begin all
treatments of or all kinds of complaints with a
treatment of the stomach, to restore normal
conditions there.
The stomach should be treated first, last and
always, for there lies the secret of the first step
toward
recovery. In fact, the majority of diseases may
be traced directly to the stomach, and to imperfect
nutrition
and assimilation. A man can no more thrive on
non-nutritious food, or food imperfectly
assimilated, than can
a tree or plant or animal. Imperfect nutrition
causes the blood to become poor and weak, and
consequently every cell in the body
becomes weakened and starved, and even the brain
cells suffer with the rest, and are unable to
send the proper currents of vital force and energy
to the other parts of the body.
Always begin treatments by treating the stomach
thoroughly, by whatever method you use. Insist that
it take
care of the food given it, and that it
assimilates the food and converts it into good rich
nourishing blood,
which will flow to all parts of the body, giving
health and strength. And insist upon your patient
partaking
of nourishing food in sufficient quantities.
One of the best ways to get the full nourishment
of the food partaken of is by perfect Mastication.
Food
perfectly masticated gives the full amount of
nourishment contained within it, which food,
half-chewed and
"bolted," wastes the greater part of its
nourishment. We urge the importance of this matter
upon the
healer. We have seen cases of ill-nourished
people restored to health in a very short time,
merely from the
change in the manner of masticating the food. All
food should be chewed until it becomes soft, pulpy
and pasty.
The second important point is the Irrigation of
the body, as we have called it in "Hatha Yoga" we
mean the
proper use of Water. The physical system requires
a certain amount of fluids daily, in order to do its
work properly. About two quarts of fluid
in twenty-four hours is the normal amount for an
adult. Without the proper amount of water
the body is unable to do its work properly and the
system suffers.
Perfect secretion and excretion requires the
normal amount of fluids. Otherwise the secreting
glands are unable
to manufacture the juices and fluids needed in
digestion, absorption and assimilation, and the
excreting glands
are unable to provide for the excretion or
throwing out of the waste products of the system
through the kidneys
and bowels. The liver is unable to act without
sufficient fluids, and the other organs likewise
suffer.
The third requisite for health is correct
breathing. "When you realize that unless correct
breathing is
performed by the patient the blood is imperfectly
oxygenated, and is therefore unable to perform its
functions,
you will begin to see why a person breathing
improperly is unable to have health. Practice deep
breathing
yourself until you understand it perfectly and
then instruct your patient in the art. Our little
book, "The
Science of Breath," gives full and complete
direction for correct "breathing.
We advise you to acquaint yourself with its
contents.
Exercise, Bathing, etc., are important things to
be observed. The healer should inform the patient as
to this
fact. Sleep is a needed something that Nature
insists upon. Without a sufficient degree of rest
the brain
becomes over-worked and complications set in.
In short, the patient should be instructed to
become a normal, sane, natural being. Stick as
closely as
possible to Nature, and she will do the rest. The
Natural Laws are designed for the furtherance of
Health, and
if not interfered with will produce and maintain
normal conditions. The trouble with us is that
modern
"civilization" has drawn us so far away from
Nature, that our natural impulses and tendencies
have been
smothered and stifled, and we have ceased to
listen to Nature's voice until she has become
disheartened and
has ceased to call us. The only sane plan is to
get back to Nature as near to her as possible. Live
as natural
a life as possible and you will have the reward
that Nature bestows upon those who are true to her.
Our book, "Hatha Yoga" is the Yogi conception of
the natural life. Natural life is taught on every
page. It
holds that there Is a great Intelligence
permeating all Life, and that every natural law is a
Divine Law, and
should be so regarded and observed.
We urge upon every healer the duty and privilege
that is his to educate and inform the patients to
whose aid
he is called in these laws of Right Living and
Right Thinking. This particular book is not designed
to repeat
the instruction contained in "Hatha Yoga," but
instead is designed to supplement it to the end that
those who
have violated Nature's Laws and who are suffering
therefrom may be speedily brought back to normal
conditions the condition of Health and
again started on the road of Life.
The healer should be more than a healer. He
should be an instructor and educator of the people.
In this way he
makes his calling a divine and sacred one,
instead of that of a mere tinkerer of bodies. Keep
this ideal ever
before you, and your work will be one of the
greatest pleasure as well as of the greatest
success. Remember the
Brotherhood of Man, and realize that your work in
the world is to spread the glad tidings of Health
and
Strength, and lead your brothers back to Mother
Nature, from whose bosom they have strayed.
Human
Spirit
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