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The Science of Psychic Healing2084
a person through whom the Spirit is flowing, that carries with it a certain
undefinable healing power. Remember that Jesus and his apostles healed
by Spiritual Power, usually through the “laying on of the hands.” So do not
hesitate to place your hands upon the patient, if you feel moved to do so. In
giving the treatment, cast off all responsibility or feeling that You are giving
the treatment, and keep the idea constantly before you that you are but the
channel for the inflow of the Spirit Power. The moment you begin to think
that You are doing the work, just that moment do you begin to obstruct
the source of the Power, and to shut it off. Many good Spiritual Healers
have destroyed the efficiency of their work in this way, and by their growing
egotism and sense of self-importance have lost entirely the great power
that they have had in the beginning, before they were spoiled by success
and plaudits of the crowd. We have known several striking instances of this
in our own experience, and the readers may know of other cases which they
will now understand more fully. Beware of this fatal error in Spiritual Healing.
You do not heal—but Spirit does. Remember this always.
The best way to make yourself a proper channel for the inflow of the
Spiritual Healing Power, is to fix in the mind the thought that you are a
“channel” through which the healing power flows, and endeavor to mentally
“see” or “feel” the inflow and outpouring of Spirit during the entire treatment.
The treatment should not last very long—the intuition of the Healer being
the best guide. Very often, after practicing this form of healing for a time,
such proficiency is acquired that both the healer and the patient can actually
“feel” the inflow of Spirit during the treatment. In such cases rest assured that
the best conditions have been acquired or found.
Both the healer and the patient should be in the proper state of mind
during Spiritual treatment, for in this way the minds of both are rendered
proper instruments or channels for the inflow of Spirit. To acquire this
mutual mental condition, it is well for the healer to read to the patient a few
lines or paragraphs from some writer upon spiritual subjects—being sure
to select some writing harmonious to the patient. By this means the minds