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Chapter XIII: Practice of Suggestive Healing.2045
Chapter XIII: Practice of Suggestive Healing.
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n our last chapter we showed how the Body might be affected by Mental
States—how the Mind affected the physical being, through the medium of
the Instinctive Mind. And, we have called your attention to the fact that just
as the physical condition might be adversely affected by mental conditions,
so might it be favorably affected in the same way. Health is contagious as
well as Disease, and “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he,” applies as well
to Right-thinking as to Wrong-thinking. And upon this theory or fact, is
based the practice of Suggestive Therapeutics.
The task before the practitioner of Suggestive Therapeutics is that of
restoring normal mental conditions to those who have dropped into the
habit of abnormal thinking about their bodies; and also to bring about
normal conditions by means of the influence of the mind over the cells
and parts composing the body. As we have stated, the principal difference
between the practice of Mental Healing, and Suggestive Therapeutics
consists in the manner of applying the treatment. In Mental Healing, there is
little or no verbal suggestions, the healing work being done along the lines
of Thought-transference or Telepathy. But in Suggestive Therapeutics, the
treatment is given to the mind of the patient by means of verbal suggestions
or words of the healer. Of course, even in Suggestive treatment the Thought