The Science of Psychic Healing (Unabridged): From the American pioneer of the New Thought movement, known for The Secret of Success, The Arcane Teachings, ... & Reincarnation and the Law of Karma by Atkinson William Walker & Ramacharaka Yogi

Author:Atkinson, William Walker & Ramacharaka, Yogi [Atkinson, William Walker]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9788026848752
Publisher: e-artnow
Published: 2016-01-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter XII.

Suggestive Healing.

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SUGGESTIVE HEALING is based upon the effect of Mental Influence upon the Instinctive Mind. It holds that just as the adverse suggestion of another, or of one's self, may produce abnormal conditions of the body, through the Instinctive Mind, so may the good suggestions of another, or one's self restore normal conditions.

The effect of the mental states upon the body is well known to those who have examined into the matter, as well among physical scientists as among occultists. We cite or quote a few instances here, in order to call your attention to the facts underlying Suggestive Healing.

Prof. James, the eminent psychologist, has said: "The fact is that there is no sort of consciousness whatever, be it sensation, feeling or idea, which does not directly and of itself tend to discharge into some motor effect. The motor effect need not always be an outer stroke of behavior. It may be only an alteration of the heartbeats or breathing, or a modification in the distribution of the blood, such as blushing or turning pale; or what not. But in any case it is there in some shape when any consciousness is there; and a belief as fundamental as any in modern psychology, is the belief at last attained, that conscious processes of any sort, conscious processes merely as such, must pass over into motion open or concealed."

Bain says: "There have occurred many instances of death, or mental derangement, from a shock of grief, pain, or calamity; this is in accordance with the general law."

Darwin says: "In protracted grief the circulation becomes languid; the face pale; the muscles flaccid; the eyelids droop; the head hangs on the contracted chest; the lips, cheeks, and lower jaw all sink downward from their own weight. The whole expression of a man in good spirits is exactly opposite of the one suffering from sorrow."

Olston says: "If the general law of the body be that of cheer, hope, joy, love, and desire for health and happiness give growth to tissue, strong and normal action to the organs of the body, and thereby health in general; while fear, melancholy, malice, hatred, dejection, loss of confidence and all other morbid states of mind tend to the lassitude of the functions and the depletion of the organs—I feel that too much enthusiasm cannot be raised in the reader's mind upon these all important facts."

Flammarion says: "An idea, an impression, a mental commotion, while entirely internal, can produce in another direction physiological effects more or less intense, and is even capable of causing death. Examples are not wanting of persons dying suddenly in consequence of emotion. The power which imagination is capable of exercising over life has long been established. The experiment performed in the last century of a man condemned to death, who was made the subject of a study by medical men, is well known. The subject of the experiment was fastened securely to a table with strong straps, his eyes were bandaged, and

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