A course of practical psychic instruction.

  • Psychic Research Co.
Date:
1901,
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: A course of practical psychic instruction. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PART V. Absent Treatments-The Power of Thought-The Purpose of This Chapter—The Force of Good-will—Avoid Self-distrust—The Law of Living—Natural Aids to Cure—Breathing for Health- Form of Breathing—Expressing Suggestions—Increasing Chest Expansion—Solvent Properties of Fluids—How to Drink Water— a'Caution—A New System of Exercise— Stretching—First Exer- cise on Waking—The System of Muscular Contraction—The Proper Method—When to Use It—How Often to Do This—Corre- sponding With Patients—Write Personal Letters Always—How to Give These Treatments—The Reaction for Good Upon the Healer—A Final Word of Advice. Absent Treatments.—In the course of a long life devoted to the cultivation of what is now known as the thought-force, I have had many opportunities of proving alike to the satisfaction of myself and of my patients that it is not only possible to project Healing Thought, which is the fundamental energy of life, to any distance, but that it is also possible to teach to others the secret of the power, if you please to call it so, which I have made my own. I know quite well that many of the readers of this present Course of Instruction have been led to believe that there is no other power at work in performing these cures by distant healing but the Imagi- nation of the patient, or, the Expectant Attention of the patient. I will give due credit to 'the Imagination and to the Attention, but I must be allowed to retain my earnest belief that there is a force at work which is as much superior to the force of what is called Suggestion, or Imagination, or Attention, as the telegraph is superior to the mail service. The Power of Thought.—I believe that Thought is Energy; that it is dynamic; that it is transferable; that it contains within itself potencies of good and potencies of evil; that I can injure by my thought as certainly as that I can cure by my thought. After eliminating all examples of cure which have occurred within my own practice which might be traced possibly to the use of the Imagination, or of Expectant Attention, or of simple Suggestion, I find an enormous number of cases which cannot be explained
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