精神決定健康
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心靈瑜珈課 (22)
心靈瑜珈課(22)——精神決定健康
生活中常常會出現不盡如人意的局麵，我們不可避免地會麵臨許多精神困擾，這些困擾雖然表現形式各不相同，但歸結其原因，無一不是由於人類自身消極的負麵情緒所致，例如恐懼、憂愁、焦慮、苦惱、嫉妒、憎恨等等。
生命係統同時存在著兩種基本功能，一是吸引、利用養分，製造細胞；二為分解、轉化並排出廢物與毒素。
生命體都在生命過程中不斷進行著這兩種活動。第一種功能為我們的生命提供足夠的活力，使我們身體健康、延年益壽；第二種功能卻可以使體內的垃圾累積起來，破壞了整個身體或身體中某個部位的平衡，因而我們感到不適或病痛。如果我們希望自己能夠保持健康而不被疾病所累，那麽最好的方式莫過於在增加機體的能量的同時，減少體內毒素的累積。
要做到這一點並不難，當我們將意念中的消極因素逐步減輕直至消除，就可以大大降低疾患的可能。當我們體內用於消除毒素和排泄垃圾的細胞和組織不再為恐懼、憂愁、焦慮、苦惱、嫉妒等消極情緒所破壞，延年益壽將不再是難題。
任何輔助性的保健食品或營養品都隻是在次要的層麵上給機體以補充，那麽生命的和諧健康最主要的依賴是什麽呢？
- 借助於知識控製我們的情緒
知識在我們的生活中起到至關重要的作用。我們不僅可以依賴知識獲得生存的力量，還可以利用知識更有效地控製和調節我們的情緒、觀念與思想，使我們獲得更加積極、更加健康的性格與心態。
- 反思自己
當我們對負麵觀念的作用還一無所知的時候，負麵觀念自身所產生的破壞性作用可能已經在我們的身體中集結了龐大的敵對力量。它植根於我們的潛意識當中，並幸災樂禍地準備著收獲它所希望看到的結果。因此，我們應該不斷反思自己的思維方式是否存在著問題，把不良的觀念消解在萌芽狀態。
- 有因必有果
如果我們的思維中存在著過多的消極因素，那麽根據因果相循的原理，我們就必將為病痛、失敗、頹廢、沮喪所累。歸根結底，我們在思考著什麽，我們就將獲得什麽。什麽樣的“因”必將產生什麽樣的“果”。
- 一切都為時不晚
如若我已身陷病痛的困擾，那麽也不要灰心喪氣，請借助於我們前麵所提到的在大腦中構造美好願景的方式，來嚐試更新和消解體內消極的敵對力量。你會發現當你持續不斷地將自身體魄雄健的圖影烙印在大腦中，並反複將它顯現時，各種不適與痛苦就會很快地消失殆盡，即使是長年的慢性病痛也完全可以改變，而且所需要時間隻需數周而已。
- 精神的共振
物質正是通過無休止的振動來達到自身的不斷改變與更新。精神同樣也可以通過共振的原理改變我們體內的原子運動的形式，從而帶來細胞內部結構和生理狀態，隨後機體的麵貌也會煥然一新。我們因此可以借助改變思維的振動方式而改變機體，使其調整至最理想的狀態。
- 驅除負麵的思想
我們總是不自覺地將負麵的思想根植於頭腦中，從而招致惡果。但如果下定決心，通過訓練，把正確、智慧的信念植根於我們的大腦，就可以利用它的有益的振動，使身體狀態朝著我們希望的方向發展。
- 積極的思想導致積極的結果
當我們的思想更加積極、樂觀、自信時，它就會擁有更強大的活力和更高的創造性，我們的身體也因此會得到更為和諧的振動。但如果我們的思想始終充滿著憤慨、仇恨、嘲諷、嫉妒，則會導致破壞性的振動形式，使我們意誌消沉，疾病纏身。
- 精神指引身體
- 外界的影響隻是暫時的
生活中的許多事情可以控製我們的身體。當你聽到滑稽可笑的事情，臉部的肌肉會做出笑的表情；當你為電影中的劇情感動得流淚，或困緊張的情節而手心出汗時，說明你體內的腺體正在與思想共振。當你感到憤怒的時候，會感覺到全身的血液仿佛在一瞬間全部充盈到你的頭部，這些都是外界的事情影響我們的身體的結果。但不要擔心，所有這種客觀事物對身體的控製或影響都是暫時的，並不會長外地存在。
- 潛意識的作用是持久永恒的
潛意識則用另一種完全不同的方式控製我們的身體，當我們出血或受傷，便有無數的血小板立刻開始工作，幫助傷口愈合；又如一個人不小心因外傷而骨折，雖然他要接受醫生的治療，但真正讓他的骨頭重新長合在一起的仍然是他自己……
- 必須持有正確的信念與想法
可以想象，一旦在我們的思想中出現了一些消極負麵的想法，或者一些讓我們失望沮喪的畫麵，我們的身體細胞們就會對這樣的指令不知所措，會被這樣的不明確的指令攪擾得心煩意亂，難以抉擇，最終使我們的身體陷入到疲憊、乏力、遲鈍之中。
- 要領悟共振法則
一旦我們懂得：借由思想與身體的共振可以順利地走上身心健康之路，共振法則就會通過我們的精神世界發揮巨大的作用。擁有了這種智慧、了解了這個基本原理，當我們發現自己生活之中存在的問題時，就可以立即行動起來去努力改變自身的內在世界與思想，然後在我們的外部世界中就可以獲得相同的反映。
- 因果相循之自然法則
對客觀世界問題答案的求解，總是會在內部的精神世界中找到它的答案，當“因”被改變時，“果”也必將發生相應的改變。
- 宇宙精神隱匿於最細微之處
我們身體內的每一個細胞都是一個個智慧的小精靈，充盈著宇宙之精神。每一個細胞都具有非凡的創造力，它們會按照最理想的圖景構築你希望看到的現實。
- 懷有積極的願景
當你將完美、理想的圖畫貯存進你的大腦中時，你的身體細胞就會聽命於它，它的天才的創造力會將一個真實而健康的體魄完美地打造給你。
- 腦細胞也是如此
我們大腦中的細胞也在遵循同樣的法則而工作。大腦受控於我們的心態與思想。不時地將健康、樂觀、積極的觀念導入大腦中才可以確保我們擁有健康強健的體魄。
- 精神也是一種共振
- 精神與身體的共振
積極、樂觀的精神振動會帶來健康、強壯、有力的身體的振動。
- 讓精神引導自己的身體
我們完全可以控製並引領我們的身體向著我們希望的方向發展和變化，通過了解精神的力量我們就可以做到這一點。
- 健康的心態導致健康的身體
- 精神療法
醫生往往隻對看得見、摸得著的醫療手段加以利用，卻忽略了精神療法的強大力量。
- 自我喚醒
精神治療就本質來說，是一種自我喚醒或自我暗示，患者本人就可以獨立完成。病人可以將自己的情緒和思想從不利、消極的狀態中解脫出來，以快樂、充滿希望的、平靜的心緒替代，然後就可以改變他們的病情，乃至獲得快樂健康的生活。
- 命運隻在自己手中
太多人持有著這種荒謬的信念：即人類的一切不幸皆來源於上帝的安排。但如果這真的是正確的，為什麽又有那麽多的人取得了快樂、健康、富足、成功的生活？一切命運皆由自己把握，前提是你能夠認識到你自己內心深處的巨大潛能。
- “原罪”未必存在
神學家一直在鼓吹我們生來即有“原罪”，使我們自出生起便沒有一天可以逃離自責和心靈的處罰。但造物者果真愛人，又為何讓我們以有罪之身活在世間，通過一生的自責與悔悟去得到不可知的來世的清白？所以人們不斷地懺悔並非是出於對全能上帝的愛，而是“懼怕”。這種恐懼是由於他們不懂得自己內心深處即有無限潛能所造成的。
- 無限潛能終將轉變為現實
本課重點
１、怎樣才能使人類擺脫疾病的負累？
——讓自己與這全知全能的自然法則協調統一。
２、如何才能保持這種完全的高度統一？
——去體驗你的內心深處，把你的思想打造得像寶石一樣完美，然後你的肉體也會自然地完美起來。
３、為什麽要反思自己？
——通過不斷反思自己的思想方式是否存在問題，把不良的觀念消解在萌芽狀態。
４、精神是怎樣作用於身體的？
——精神借助共振法則對身體中的每一個細胞，進而對身體產生影響。
５、為什麽振動法則會適用於此？
——振動法則是萬事萬物的普適法則。它充分體現著精神與物質的交互作用。
６、精神治療的本質是什麽？
——精神治療就本質來說，是一種自我喚醒或自我暗示。將自己的情緒和思想從不利、消極的狀態中解脫胎出來，以快樂的、充滿希望的、平靜的心緒替代，然後就可以獲得快樂健康的生活。
７、精神治療的方法是否已得到眾多人群的認同？
——世界各地的人們在應用它時所采取的形式不盡相同，但已有數以千萬計的人們通過應用此法獲得了積極健康的生活。
８、把握自己命運的前提是什麽？
——前提是你能夠認識到你自己內心深處的巨大潛能。
９、無限潛能怎樣才能轉變為現實？
——去領悟和掌握宇宙精神，對知識的掌握和對未知事物的探索會使我們不斷進步、成長，直至達到卓越，無限潛能就會變成現實。
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Part Twenty-Two
In Part Twenty-two you will find that thoughts are spiritual seeds, which, when planted in the subconscious mind, have a tendency to sprout and grow, but unfortunately the fruit is frequently not to our liking.
The various forms of inflammation, paralysis, nervousness and diseased conditions generally, are the manifestation of fear, worry, care, anxiety, jealousy, hatred and similar thought.
The life processes are carried on by two distinct methods; first, the taking up and making use of nutritive material necessary for constructing cells; second, breaking down and excreting the waste material.
All life is based upon these constructive and destructive activities, and as food, water and air are the only requisites necessary for the construction of cells, it would seem that the problem of prolonging life indefinitely would not be a very difficult one.
However strange it may seem, it is the second or destructive activity that is, with rare exception, the cause of all disease. The waste material accumulates and saturates the tissues, which causes autointoxication. This may be partial or general. In the first case the disturbance will be local; in the second place it will affect the whole system.
The problem, then, before us in the healing of disease is to increase the inflow and distribution of vital energy throughout the system, and this can only be done by eliminating thoughts of fear, worry, care, anxiety, jealousy, hatred, and every other destructive thought, which tend to tear down and destroy the nerves and glands which control the excretion and elimination of poisonous and waste matter.
"Nourishing foods and strengthening tonics" cannot bestow life, because these are but secondary manifestations to life. The primary manifestation of life and how you may get in touch with it is explained in the Part which I have the privilege of enclosing herewith.
PART TWENTY-TWO
1. Knowledge is of priceless value, because by applying knowledge we can make our future what we wish it to be. When we realize that our present character, our present environment, our present ability, our present physical condition are all the result of past methods of thinking, we shall begin to have some conception of the value of knowledge.
2. If the state of our health is not all that could be desired, let us examine our method of thinking; let us remember that every thought produces an impression on the mind; every impression is a seed which will sink into the subconscious and form a tendency; the tendency will be to attract other similar thoughts and before we know it we shall have a crop which must be harvested.
3. If these thoughts contain disease germs, the harvest will be sickness, decay, weakness, and failure; the question is, what are we thinking, what are we creating, what is the harvest to be?
4. If there is any physical condition which it is necessary to change, the law governing visualization will be found effective. Make a mental image of physical perfection, hold it in the mind until it is absorbed by the consciousness. Many have eliminated chronic ailments in a few weeks by this method, and thousands have overcome and destroyed all manner of ordinary physical disturbances by this method in a few days, sometimes in a few minutes.
5. It is through the law of vibration that the mind exercises this control over the body. We know that every mental action is a vibration, and we know that all form is simply a mode of motion, a rate of vibration. Therefore, any given vibration immediately modifies every atom in the body, every life cell is affected and an entire chemical change is made in every group of life cells.
6. Everything in the Universe is what it is by virtue of its rate of vibration. Change the rate of vibration and you change the nature, quality and form. The vast panorama of nature, both visible and invisible, is being constantly changed by simply changing the rate of vibration, and as thought is a vibration we can also exercise this power. We can change the vibration and thus produce any condition which we desire to manifest in our bodies.
7. We are all using this power every minute. The trouble is most of us are using it unconsciously and thus producing undesirable results. The problem is to use it intelligently and produce only desirable results. This should not be difficult, because we all have had sufficient experience to know what produces pleasant vibration in the body, and we also know the causes which produce the unpleasant and disagreeable sensations.
8. All that is necessary is to consult our own experience. When our thought has been uplifted, progressive, constructive, courageous, noble, kind or in any other way desirable, we have set in motion vibrations which brought about certain results. When our thought has been filled with envy, hatred, jealousy, criticism or any of the other thousand and one forms of discord, certain vibrations were set in motion which brought about certain other results of a different nature, and each of these rates of vibration, if kept up, crystallized in form. In the first case the result was mental, moral and physical health, and in the second case discord, inharmony and disease.
9. We can understand, then, something of the power which the mind possesses over the body.
10. The objective mind has certain effects on the body which are readily recognized. Someone says something to you which strikes you as ludicrous and you laugh, possibly until your whole body shakes, which shows that thought has control over the muscles of your body; or someone says something which excites your sympathy and your eyes fill with tears, which shows that thought controls the glands of your body; or someone says something which makes you angry and the blood mounts to your cheek, which shows that thought controls the circulation of your blood. But as these experiences are all the results of the action of your objective mind over the body, the results are of a temporary nature; they soon pass away and leave the situation as it was before.
11. Let us see how the action of the subconscious mind over the body differs. You receive a wound; thousands of cells being the work of healing at once; in a few days or a few weeks the work is complete. You may even break a bone. No surgeon on earth can weld the parts together (I am not referring to the insertion of rods or other devices to strengthen or replace bones). He may set the bone for you, and the subjective mind will immediately begin the process of welding the parts together, and in a short time the bone is as solid as it ever was. You may swallow poison; the subjective mind will immediately discover the danger and make violent efforts to eliminate it. You may become infected with a dangerous germ; the subjective will at once commence to build a wall around the infected area and destroy the infection by absorbing it in the white blood corpuscles which it supplies for the purpose.
12. These processes of the subconscious mind usually proceed without our personal knowledge or direction, and so long as we do not interfere the result is perfect, but, as these millions of repair cells are all intelligent and respond to our thought, they are often paralyzed and rendered impotent by our thoughts of fear, doubt, and anxiety. They are like an army of workmen, ready to start an important piece of work, but every time they get started on the undertaking a strike is called, or plans changed, until they finally get discouraged and give up.
13. The way to health is founded on the law of vibration, which is the basis of all science, and this law is brought into operation by the mind, the "world within." It is a matter of individual effort and practice. Our world of power is within; if we are wise we shall not waste time and effort in trying to deal with effects as we find them in the "world without," which is only an external, a reflection.
14. We shall always find the cause in the "world within"; by changing the cause, we change the effect.
15. Every cell in your body is intelligent and will respond to your direction. The cells are all creators and will create the exact pattern which you give them.
16. Therefore, when perfect images are placed before the subjective, the creative energies will build a perfect body.
17. Brain cells are constructed in the same way. The quality of the brain is governed by the state of mind, or mental attitude, so that if undesirable mental attitudes are conveyed to the subjective they will in turn be transferred to the body; we can therefore readily see that if we wish the body to manifest health, strength and vitality this must be the predominant thought.
18. We know then that every element of the human body is the result of a rate of vibration.
19. We know that mental action is a rate of vibration.
20. We know that a higher rate of vibration governs, modifies, controls, changes, or destroys a lower rate of vibration.
21. We know that the rate of vibration is governed by the character of brain cells, and finally,
22. We know how to create these brain cells; therefore,
23. We know how to make any physical change in the body we desire, and having secured a working knowledge of the power of mind to this extent, we have come to know that there is practically no limitation which can be placed upon our ability to place ourselves in harmony with natural law, which is omnipotent.
24. This influence or control over the body by mind is coming to be more and more generally understood, and many physicians are now giving the matter their earnest attention. Dr. Albert T. Shofield, who has written several important books on the subject, say, "The subject of mental therapeutics is still ignored in medical works generally. In our physiologies no references is made to the central controlling power that rules the body for its good, and the power of the mind over the body is seldom spoken of".
25. No doubt many physicians treat nervous diseases of functional origin wisely and well, but what we contend is that the knowledge they display was taught at no school, was learned from no book, but it is intuitive and empirical.
26. This is not as it should be. The power of mental therapeutics should be the subject of careful, special and scientific teaching in every medical school. We might pursue the subject of maltreatment, or want of treatment, further in detail and describe the disastrous results of neglected cases; but the task is an invidious one.
27. There can be no doubt that few patients are aware how much they can do for themselves. What the patient can do for himself, the forces he can set in motion are as yet unknown. We are inclined to believe that they are far greater than most imagine, and will undoubtedly be used more and more. Mental therapeutics may be directed by the patient himself to calming the mind in excitement, by arousing feelings of joy, hope, faith, and love; by suggesting motives for exertion, by regular mental work, by diverting the thoughts from the malady.
28. For your exercise this week concentrate on Tennyson's beautiful lines "Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and spirit with spirit can meet, Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet." Then try to realize that when you do "Speak to Him" you are in touch with Omnipotence.
29. This realization and recognition of this Omnipresent power will quickly destroy any and every form of sickness or suffering and substitute harmony and perfection. Then remember there are those who seem to think that sickness and suffering are sent by God; if so, every physician, every surgeon and every Red Cross nurse is defying the will of God and hospitals and sanitariums are places of rebellion instead of houses of mercy. Of course, this quickly reasons itself into an absurdity, but there are many; who still cherish the idea.
30. Then let the thought rest on the fact that until recently theology has been trying to teach an impossible Creator, one who created beings capable of sinning and then allowed them to be eternally punished for such sins. Of course the necessary outcome of such extraordinary ignorance was to create fear instead of love, and so, after two thousand years of this kind of propaganda, Theology is now busily engaged in apologizing for Christendom.
31. You will then more readily appreciate the ideal man, the man made in the image and likeness of God, and you will more readily appreciate the all originating Mind that forms, upholds, sustains, originates, and creates all there is.
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body nature is, and God the soul.
Opportunity follows perception, action follows inspiration, growth follows knowledge, eminence flows progress. Always the spiritual first, then the transformation into the infinite and illimitable possibilities of achievement.
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Study Questions with Answers
211. How may sickness be eliminated?
By placing ourselves in harmony with Natural Law which is Omnipotent.
212. What is the process?
A realization that man is a spiritual being and that this spirit must necessarily be perfect.
213. What is the result?
A conscious recognition of this perfection - first intellectually, then emotionally - brings about a manifestation of this perfection.
214. Why is this so?
Because thought is spiritual and therefore creative and correlates with its object and brings it into manifestation.
215. What Natural Law is brought into operation?
The Law of Vibration.
216. Why does this govern?
Because a higher rate of vibration governs, modifies, controls, changes, or destroys a lower rate of vibration.
217. Is this system of mental therapeutics generally recognized?
Yes, there are literally millions of people in this country who make use of it in one form or another (and obviously many more world-wide).
218. What is the result of this system of thought?
For the first time in the world's history every man's highest reasoning faculty can be satisfied by a demonstrable truth which is now fast flooding the world.
219. Is this system applicable to other forms of supply?
It will meet every human requirement or necessity.
220. Is this system scientific or religious?
Both. True science and true religion are twin sisters, where one goes, the other necessarily follows.
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Part Twenty-Two
In Part Twenty-two you will find that thoughts are spiritual seeds, which, when planted in the subconscious mind, have a tendency to sprout and grow, but unfortunately the fruit is frequently not to our liking.
The various forms of inflammation, paralysis, nervousness and diseased conditions generally, are the manifestation of fear, worry, care, anxiety, jealousy, hatred and similar thought.
The life processes are carried on by two distinct methods; first, the taking up and making use of nutritive material necessary for constructing cells; second, breaking down and excreting the waste material.
All life is based upon these constructive and destructive activities, and as food, water and air are the only requisites necessary for the construction of cells, it would seem that the problem of prolonging life indefinitely would not be a very difficult one.
However strange it may seem, it is the second or destructive activity that is, with rare exception, the cause of all disease. The waste material accumulates and saturates the tissues, which causes autointoxication. This may be partial or general. In the first case the disturbance will be local; in the second place it will affect the whole system.
The problem, then, before us in the healing of disease is to increase the inflow and distribution of vital energy throughout the system, and this can only be done by eliminating thoughts of fear, worry, care, anxiety, jealousy, hatred, and every other destructive thought, which tend to tear down and destroy the nerves and glands which control the excretion and elimination of poisonous and waste matter.
"Nourishing foods and strengthening tonics" cannot bestow life, because these are but secondary manifestations to life. The primary manifestation of life and how you may get in touch with it is explained in the Part which I have the privilege of enclosing herewith.
PART TWENTY-TWO
1. Knowledge is of priceless value, because by applying knowledge we can make our future what we wish it to be. When we realize that our present character, our present environment, our present ability, our present physical condition are all the result of past methods of thinking, we shall begin to have some conception of the value of knowledge.
2. If the state of our health is not all that could be desired, let us examine our method of thinking; let us remember that every thought produces an impression on the mind; every impression is a seed which will sink into the subconscious and form a tendency; the tendency will be to attract other similar thoughts and before we know it we shall have a crop which must be harvested.
3. If these thoughts contain disease germs, the harvest will be sickness, decay, weakness, and failure; the question is, what are we thinking, what are we creating, what is the harvest to be?
4. If there is any physical condition which it is necessary to change, the law governing visualization will be found effective. Make a mental image of physical perfection, hold it in the mind until it is absorbed by the consciousness. Many have eliminated chronic ailments in a few weeks by this method, and thousands have overcome and destroyed all manner of ordinary physical disturbances by this method in a few days, sometimes in a few minutes.
5. It is through the law of vibration that the mind exercises this control over the body. We know that every mental action is a vibration, and we know that all form is simply a mode of motion, a rate of vibration. Therefore, any given vibration immediately modifies every atom in the body, every life cell is affected and an entire chemical change is made in every group of life cells.
6. Everything in the Universe is what it is by virtue of its rate of vibration. Change the rate of vibration and you change the nature, quality and form. The vast panorama of nature, both visible and invisible, is being constantly changed by simply changing the rate of vibration, and as thought is a vibration we can also exercise this power. We can change the vibration and thus produce any condition which we desire to manifest in our bodies.
7. We are all using this power every minute. The trouble is most of us are using it unconsciously and thus producing undesirable results. The problem is to use it intelligently and produce only desirable results. This should not be difficult, because we all have had sufficient experience to know what produces pleasant vibration in the body, and we also know the causes which produce the unpleasant and disagreeable sensations.
8. All that is necessary is to consult our own experience. When our thought has been uplifted, progressive, constructive, courageous, noble, kind or in any other way desirable, we have set in motion vibrations which brought about certain results. When our thought has been filled with envy, hatred, jealousy, criticism or any of the other thousand and one forms of discord, certain vibrations were set in motion which brought about certain other results of a different nature, and each of these rates of vibration, if kept up, crystallized in form. In the first case the result was mental, moral and physical health, and in the second case discord, inharmony and disease.
9. We can understand, then, something of the power which the mind possesses over the body.
10. The objective mind has certain effects on the body which are readily recognized. Someone says something to you which strikes you as ludicrous and you laugh, possibly until your whole body shakes, which shows that thought has control over the muscles of your body; or someone says something which excites your sympathy and your eyes fill with tears, which shows that thought controls the glands of your body; or someone says something which makes you angry and the blood mounts to your cheek, which shows that thought controls the circulation of your blood. But as these experiences are all the results of the action of your objective mind over the body, the results are of a temporary nature; they soon pass away and leave the situation as it was before.
11. Let us see how the action of the subconscious mind over the body differs. You receive a wound; thousands of cells being the work of healing at once; in a few days or a few weeks the work is complete. You may even break a bone. No surgeon on earth can weld the parts together (I am not referring to the insertion of rods or other devices to strengthen or replace bones). He may set the bone for you, and the subjective mind will immediately begin the process of welding the parts together, and in a short time the bone is as solid as it ever was. You may swallow poison; the subjective mind will immediately discover the danger and make violent efforts to eliminate it. You may become infected with a dangerous germ; the subjective will at once commence to build a wall around the infected area and destroy the infection by absorbing it in the white blood corpuscles which it supplies for the purpose.
12. These processes of the subconscious mind usually proceed without our personal knowledge or direction, and so long as we do not interfere the result is perfect, but, as these millions of repair cells are all intelligent and respond to our thought, they are often paralyzed and rendered impotent by our thoughts of fear, doubt, and anxiety. They are like an army of workmen, ready to start an important piece of work, but every time they get started on the undertaking a strike is called, or plans changed, until they finally get discouraged and give up.
13. The way to health is founded on the law of vibration, which is the basis of all science, and this law is brought into operation by the mind, the "world within." It is a matter of individual effort and practice. Our world of power is within; if we are wise we shall not waste time and effort in trying to deal with effects as we find them in the "world without," which is only an external, a reflection.
14. We shall always find the cause in the "world within"; by changing the cause, we change the effect.
15. Every cell in your body is intelligent and will respond to your direction. The cells are all creators and will create the exact pattern which you give them.
16. Therefore, when perfect images are placed before the subjective, the creative energies will build a perfect body.
17. Brain cells are constructed in the same way. The quality of the brain is governed by the state of mind, or mental attitude, so that if undesirable mental attitudes are conveyed to the subjective they will in turn be transferred to the body; we can therefore readily see that if we wish the body to manifest health, strength and vitality this must be the predominant thought.
18. We know then that every element of the human body is the result of a rate of vibration.
19. We know that mental action is a rate of vibration.
20. We know that a higher rate of vibration governs, modifies, controls, changes, or destroys a lower rate of vibration.
21. We know that the rate of vibration is governed by the character of brain cells, and finally,
22. We know how to create these brain cells; therefore,
23. We know how to make any physical change in the body we desire, and having secured a working knowledge of the power of mind to this extent, we have come to know that there is practically no limitation which can be placed upon our ability to place ourselves in harmony with natural law, which is omnipotent.
24. This influence or control over the body by mind is coming to be more and more generally understood, and many physicians are now giving the matter their earnest attention. Dr. Albert T. Shofield, who has written several important books on the subject, say, "The subject of mental therapeutics is still ignored in medical works generally. In our physiologies no references is made to the central controlling power that rules the body for its good, and the power of the mind over the body is seldom spoken of".
25. No doubt many physicians treat nervous diseases of functional origin wisely and well, but what we contend is that the knowledge they display was taught at no school, was learned from no book, but it is intuitive and empirical.
26. This is not as it should be. The power of mental therapeutics should be the subject of careful, special and scientific teaching in every medical school. We might pursue the subject of maltreatment, or want of treatment, further in detail and describe the disastrous results of neglected cases; but the task is an invidious one.
27. There can be no doubt that few patients are aware how much they can do for themselves. What the patient can do for himself, the forces he can set in motion are as yet unknown. We are inclined to believe that they are far greater than most imagine, and will undoubtedly be used more and more. Mental therapeutics may be directed by the patient himself to calming the mind in excitement, by arousing feelings of joy, hope, faith, and love; by suggesting motives for exertion, by regular mental work, by diverting the thoughts from the malady.
28. For your exercise this week concentrate on Tennyson's beautiful lines "Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and spirit with spirit can meet, Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet." Then try to realize that when you do "Speak to Him" you are in touch with Omnipotence.
29. This realization and recognition of this Omnipresent power will quickly destroy any and every form of sickness or suffering and substitute harmony and perfection. Then remember there are those who seem to think that sickness and suffering are sent by God; if so, every physician, every surgeon and every Red Cross nurse is defying the will of God and hospitals and sanitariums are places of rebellion instead of houses of mercy. Of course, this quickly reasons itself into an absurdity, but there are many; who still cherish the idea.
30. Then let the thought rest on the fact that until recently theology has been trying to teach an impossible Creator, one who created beings capable of sinning and then allowed them to be eternally punished for such sins. Of course the necessary outcome of such extraordinary ignorance was to create fear instead of love, and so, after two thousand years of this kind of propaganda, Theology is now busily engaged in apologizing for Christendom.
31. You will then more readily appreciate the ideal man, the man made in the image and likeness of God, and you will more readily appreciate the all originating Mind that forms, upholds, sustains, originates, and creates all there is.
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body nature is, and God the soul.
Opportunity follows perception, action follows inspiration, growth follows knowledge, eminence flows progress. Always the spiritual first, then the transformation into the infinite and illimitable possibilities of achievement.
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Study Questions with Answers
211. How may sickness be eliminated?
By placing ourselves in harmony with Natural Law which is Omnipotent.
212. What is the process?
A realization that man is a spiritual being and that this spirit must necessarily be perfect.
213. What is the result?
A conscious recognition of this perfection - first intellectually, then emotionally - brings about a manifestation of this perfection.
214. Why is this so?
Because thought is spiritual and therefore creative and correlates with its object and brings it into manifestation.
215. What Natural Law is brought into operation?
The Law of Vibration.
216. Why does this govern?
Because a higher rate of vibration governs, modifies, controls, changes, or destroys a lower rate of vibration.
217. Is this system of mental therapeutics generally recognized?
Yes, there are literally millions of people in this country who make use of it in one form or another (and obviously many more world-wide).
218. What is the result of this system of thought?
For the first time in the world's history every man's highest reasoning faculty can be satisfied by a demonstrable truth which is now fast flooding the world.
219. Is this system applicable to other forms of supply?
It will meet every human requirement or necessity.
220. Is this system scientific or religious?
Both. True science and true religion are twin sisters, where one goes, the other necessarily follows.
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