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Chapter XII: Suggestive Healing.2043
suggestions passed on to it, and they “take form in action.” The very cells of
the body respond to Suggestion through the Instinctive Mind. And every
part, organ, nerve, and cell may be strengthened and stimulated into proper
action in this way.
The practice of Suggestive Therapeutics has proven quite popular among
physicians of late years, and is destined under one form or another to
rapidly increase in popular favor in the future. Many physicians give what
are called “masked suggestions,” by which is meant Suggestions given in
connection with some material remedy, the patient being told positively
that the drug or treatment will do “thus and so,” and the suggestion being
repeated in different forms, until the mind of the patient confidently expects
the stated results, and the “Thought takes form in action.” No matter how the
Suggestion is given—it is still Suggestion.
In the succeeding chapters we shall give special directions regarding this
form of treatment, which will give one a better working knowledge than a
bookfull of mere general remarks. Study them carefully.