THE PRACTICE of SPIRITUAL MIND HEALING
Ernest Holmes
"Does it make any difference whether or not the patient is taking medicine? Not at all. If it gives him any relief, he should have it. We need all the relief we can get. The patient is healed when he no longer needs medicine. Some think they dishonor God when they take a pill. This is superstition. Discard these thoughts and give your entire attention to realizing perfection for your patient.
Healing is not accomplished through will power but by knowing the Truth. This Truth is that the Spiritual Man is already Perfect, no matter what the appearance may be. "Holding thoughts" has nothing to do with this form of treatment. If you find when you begin to give a treatment that the process gives you a headache, know that you are doing your work on the mental plane and not through spiritual realization. A treatment should leave the practitioner in better condition than before he gave it; otherwise, it is not a good treatment.
One might ask: "Is all mental disease a thought held in the conscious mind of the patient?" No, not necessarily. It may be a subconscious thought, or it may be the result of many thoughts, which brought together produce a definite result. Combinations of thought unite to produce definite effects.
Limitation and poverty are not things, but are the results of restricted ways of thinking. We are surrounded by a Subjective Intelligence, which receives the impress of our thought and acts upon it. This natural Law in the Mental World is neither good nor bad. It can only be said of It that IT IS, and that we may consciously use It. The Law is a law of reflection; for Life is a mirror, reflecting to us as conditions the images of our thinking. Whatever one thinks tends to take form and become a part of his experience. The Medium of all thought is the Universal Mind, acting as Law. Law is always impersonal, neutral, receptive and reactive."
Ernest Holmes
"Does it make any difference whether or not the patient is taking medicine? Not at all. If it gives him any relief, he should have it. We need all the relief we can get. The patient is healed when he no longer needs medicine. Some think they dishonor God when they take a pill. This is superstition. Discard these thoughts and give your entire attention to realizing perfection for your patient.
Healing is not accomplished through will power but by knowing the Truth. This Truth is that the Spiritual Man is already Perfect, no matter what the appearance may be. "Holding thoughts" has nothing to do with this form of treatment. If you find when you begin to give a treatment that the process gives you a headache, know that you are doing your work on the mental plane and not through spiritual realization. A treatment should leave the practitioner in better condition than before he gave it; otherwise, it is not a good treatment.
One might ask: "Is all mental disease a thought held in the conscious mind of the patient?" No, not necessarily. It may be a subconscious thought, or it may be the result of many thoughts, which brought together produce a definite result. Combinations of thought unite to produce definite effects.
Limitation and poverty are not things, but are the results of restricted ways of thinking. We are surrounded by a Subjective Intelligence, which receives the impress of our thought and acts upon it. This natural Law in the Mental World is neither good nor bad. It can only be said of It that IT IS, and that we may consciously use It. The Law is a law of reflection; for Life is a mirror, reflecting to us as conditions the images of our thinking. Whatever one thinks tends to take form and become a part of his experience. The Medium of all thought is the Universal Mind, acting as Law. Law is always impersonal, neutral, receptive and reactive."
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