Treating Children ~ Ernest Holmes
"In the case of an infant - who is subjective to the conscious thought of the people around it - it may be necessary to teach the parents how to think about the child, else one might heal the infant and have the parents' thought make it sick again. Explain to them the result of entertaining fears for the health of their children. Remember that the thought of the parents influences the child.
We will suppose the mother is constantly saying: "The poor thing; the poor, little sick thing." From the human standpoint, this is natural, but it does not help the child, no matter how loving the thought may be. This is called unconscious, or innocent, malpractice. It is malpractice because it is the wrong use of thought; innocent because it is not intended to harm; unconscious because the mother does not know the result of such mental action. In such a case, it is the business of the practitioner to realize that there is no mental influence operating through the child except a belief in perfection.
At first, children are happy, free, spontaneous. That is why we like them, they live instinctively. As they grow older and their emotions become more complex, and they hear people talk about death, trouble, divorce, love and marriage and everything else, good, bad and indifferent, they begin to react to these emotions subjectively. Everything that opposes harmony and spontaneous unity, will prove disastrous to the child's health, sooner or later. After a certain age, children have to be re-educated, just as do adults, that their subjective mind may not reproduce false impressions."
"In the case of an infant - who is subjective to the conscious thought of the people around it - it may be necessary to teach the parents how to think about the child, else one might heal the infant and have the parents' thought make it sick again. Explain to them the result of entertaining fears for the health of their children. Remember that the thought of the parents influences the child.
We will suppose the mother is constantly saying: "The poor thing; the poor, little sick thing." From the human standpoint, this is natural, but it does not help the child, no matter how loving the thought may be. This is called unconscious, or innocent, malpractice. It is malpractice because it is the wrong use of thought; innocent because it is not intended to harm; unconscious because the mother does not know the result of such mental action. In such a case, it is the business of the practitioner to realize that there is no mental influence operating through the child except a belief in perfection.
At first, children are happy, free, spontaneous. That is why we like them, they live instinctively. As they grow older and their emotions become more complex, and they hear people talk about death, trouble, divorce, love and marriage and everything else, good, bad and indifferent, they begin to react to these emotions subjectively. Everything that opposes harmony and spontaneous unity, will prove disastrous to the child's health, sooner or later. After a certain age, children have to be re-educated, just as do adults, that their subjective mind may not reproduce false impressions."
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