BahÃĄâ•Žuâ•ŽllÃĄh and the New Era - Knowledge Rush

Healing by Nonmaterial MeansHe teaches that there are also many methods of healing withoutmaterial means. There is a “contagion of health,” as well as acontagion of disease, although the former is very slow and hasa small effect, while the latter is often violent and rapid in itsaction.Much more powerful effects result from the patient’s ownmental states, and “suggestion” may play an important part indetermining these states. Fear, anger, worry, et cetera, arevery prejudicial to health, while hope, love, joy, et cetera, arecorrespondingly beneficial.Thus Bahá’u’lláh says:—Verily the most necessary thing is contentment under allcircumstances; by this one is preserved from morbid conditionsand lassitude. Yield not to grief and sorrow: theycause the greatest misery. Jealousy consumeth the body andanger doth burn the liver: avoid these two as you would alion.—Tablet to a Physician.And ‘Abdu’l-Bahá says:—“Joy gives us wings. In times ofjoy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener.... But whensadness visits us our strength leaves us.”Of another form of mental healing ‘Abdu’l-Bahá writes that itresults:—from the entire concentration of the mind of a strongperson upon a sick person, when the latter expects with allhis concentrated faith that a cure will be effected from thespiritual power of the strong person, to such an extent thatthere will be a cordial connection between the strong personand the invalid. The strong person makes every effort tocure the sick patient, and the sick patient is then sure ofreceiving a cure. From the effect of these mental impressions