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The Science of Psychic Healing2060
instructions given in the last chapter. The “I” part of you may give suggestions
to that part of the mind that runs the physical organism and manages the
body from cell to organ. These suggestions will be taken and acted upon if
given with sufficient earnestness. Just as people may make themselves sick
by improper self-suggestions, so may they restore themselves to health by
the proper suggestions given in the same manner.
There is no mystery about this—it is in accordance with a well established
psychological law.
The best way for you to start in a course of self-suggestion for yourself,
presuming that you need the same, is to read carefully our book “Hatha
Yoga,” which contains practical instruction and information about “Right
Living.” Then after having acquired this plan of right living start in to practice
right thinking. Right thinking consists in maintaining the proper mental
attitude of cheerfulness and fearlessness. These two things are a battery of
force.
If you have imperfect health rest assured that it is caused by the violation
of some natural law. You may discover what this violated natural law is by
reference to “Hatha Yoga,” and then it becomes your duty to correct the
habit and restore natural functioning by self-suggestions or right thinking.
In nine cases out of ten you will find that the root of the trouble lies in
improper nutrition and imperfect elimination. You don’t believe this, you
say! Well, then, let us tell you your symptoms and see if they do not come
out about right to fit your case.
First, you have a poor appetite and imperfect digestion—dyspepsia or
indigestion. Then you are constipated, and if a woman you have scanty
and irregular menstruation. Then your hands and feet are cold, denoting
imperfect circulation. Then your eyesight and hearing is affected—you have
ringing in the ears and cloudy vision. Your taste is affected—your smell is
also poor and you are liable to have symptoms of catarrh. But your sense of
feeling is not poor—it is abnormally sensitive, and you are called “nervous.”
You do not get a good night’s sleep and you feel used up all the time. Your