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The Science of Psychic Healing2046
of the healer operates directly upon the mind of the patient, along the lines
of Mental Healing, as well as by means of the verbal suggestion. The average
Suggestionist will not admit this fact, but it is true nevertheless, and in fact it
has very much to do with the cure. The verbal suggestion is often necessary
in order to make the deep impression upon the minds of some patients, but
the healing mental force goes along with the suggestions, whether or not
the healer is conscious of it. The fact that there is a great difference in the
work of several suggestionists, in spite of the fact that they are all following
the same method and even using the same words, will go toward proving
this idea.
Now, right here at the beginning, in order that there may be no
misunderstanding, let us say that Suggestive Therapeutics, pure and simple,
has no connection with Hypnotic Suggestion or Hypnotism. Of course,
there are suggestionists who combine the two, but there is no use in it, and
much to be urged against it. Hypnotism plays no real part in the practice of
Suggestive Therapeutics. Hypnotists have found that when they obtained the
hypnotic condition, they could suggest Health to their patients with effect,
and they naturally supposed that hypnosis was a necessary precedent to
the treatment and cure. But investigators have proven that the suggestions
are just as effective when given to the patient when he is wide awake and
conscious, and when there is no attempt to produce a condition of hypnosis.
We urge upon our readers to divorce the idea of Hypnosis from that of
Suggestive Therapeutics, in their minds. There is no real connection between
them, and there are many reasons why they should not be confounded with
each other.
And, now that we have formed an idea of what Suggestive Therapeutics
may do, and what it is, let us turn our attention to the methods of applying
the treatment.
Receptivity of the Patient. The best results in giving Suggestive treatments,
are obtained when the patient is induced to manifest a receptive attitude
of condition of mind. Just as when one wishes to talk earnestly to another