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Chapter XV: Self-Suggestion.2061
skin is colorless and your cheeks pale. Your lips and finger nails lack the rosy
color of health. And so on.
Now does this not fit your case? Isn’t it queer how we have diagnosed
your complaint without having ever seen you, or known of you? But this is
no miracle, we assure you—we have merely recited the symptoms arising
from what may be called a typical case of mal-nutrition and imperfect
elimination. And the cause of these symptoms lies in the two things named.
Then the removal of the cause lies in a correction of bad habits of living
and bad habits of thinking. And “Hatha Yoga” will give you the habits of
right living, and self-suggestion will aid you in right thinking and the speedy
removal of the trouble.
Treat yourself according to the lines of the General Treatment given under
the head of Suggestive Treatments in the last chapter. Make the treatments
vigorous—just as earnest as if you were treating somebody else instead of
yourself. And you will get wonderful results.
See yourself in your “mind’s eye” as you wish yourself to be. Then start in
to think of yourself as being that, and then live as the healthy man or woman
should do. Then talk up to yourself and tell your instinctive mind what you
expect it to do for you—and insist upon it taking hold of the physical body
and building up new cells and tissue and discarding the old worn out and
diseased material. And it will obey you like a well trained assistant or helper
and you will begin to manifest health and strength.
There is no special mystery about this self-suggestion. It is merely your “I”
telling your instinctive mind to get to work and attend to its affairs properly.
And by right living you give the instinctive mind the material with which to
work and the conditions conducive to success.
We could fill page after page of this book with “Suggestions” and
“Affirmations” for you to use in different complaints. But this is useless. You
can make up your own suggestions and affirmations, which will answer just
as well as would ours. Just speak up to the instinctive mind just as if it were
another person who had charge of your body and tell it what you expect it