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Chapter XIV: Suggestive Treatments.2057
what you want. Suggest that the pain will leave, and that normal conditions
will begin to reassert themselves.
You will find that the General Treatment given above will work a great
improvement in those treated by it, irrespective of the local nature of their
trouble. Their secret is that if you manage to restore proper and normal
conditions of nutrition, assimilation and elimination, the rest takes care of
itself. A man or woman with perfect digestion, assimilation and elimination—
that is with proper nutrition and proper clearing away of the “Ashes of the
System,” can not help being a well person. We urge you to carefully read our
book “Hatha Yoga,” and acquaint yourselves with the importance of these
things. You may “work in” the teachings of “Hatha Yoga” in your suggestions
and the advice thus given will be of the greatest value and importance to
the patient.
Acquaint yourself with the rules of right living, as given in our book
“Hatha Yoga,” and you will have the secret of health in your own hands. By
suggesting these things to patients you will fix the ideas in their minds by
suggestion, and change their habits of living from imperfect to perfect, so
that when you get them well they will stay well. Suggestion along these lines
will prove a God-send to the people you treat, if you will but fix the idea
firmly in your own mind, so that you may be able to pass it on to them in the
same way.
You will find that imperfect nutrition and constipation are the principal
things to be overcome, no matter what is the nature of the complaint.
Explain this to your patient and tell him that by suggestion you will restore
the normal conditions, which you will be able to do.
In cases of female troubles, such as imperfect menstruation, etc., the above
treatment will work wonders. Give the suggestions of regular menstruation,
just as you gave the suggestion of normal action of the bowels—the
principle is the same. Tell the patient to look forward to the time for the
regular menstrual period, with confidence, and let her fix her mind on the