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THE SCIENCE OF PSYCHIC HEALING
BY YOGI RAMACHARAKA
CHAPTER XV SELF-SUGGESTION
“As a man thinketh in his heart so is he,” is an old saying the truth of
which becomes more and more apparent to us each year. In the chapter in
which we showed the effect of the mind on the body you will notice that the
majority of the physical troubles brought about by thought-influence were
brought about by the thought of the person themselves by self-suggestion, so
to speak. A man's physical health is largely a matter of his
self-suggestion. If he maintains a mental attitude of health, strength and
fearlessness, he manifests accordingly. And if he goes about with a mind
filled with ideas and thoughts of a depressing nature his body will likewise
respond.
Fear is the great cause of disease. Fear acts as a poison upon the physical
system, and its effects are manifest in many directions. Remove fear and you
have removed the cause of the trouble, and the symptoms will gradually
disappear.
But all this we have stated elsewhere and this book must be a book of
practice, rather than of theory. The question is how may one treat himself,
or herself, by self-suggestion.
The answer is quite simple it is that the person may give himself just the
suggestions that he would give a patient, following the advice and
instructions given in the last chapter. The “I” part of you may give
suggestions to that part of the mind that runs the physical organism and
manages the body from cell to organ. These suggestions will be taken and
acted upon if given with sufficient earnestness. Just as people may make
themselves sick by improper self-suggestions, so may they restore themselves
to health by the proper suggestions given in the same manner.
There is no mystery about this it is in accordance with a well established
psychological law.
The best way for you to start in a course of self-suggestion for yourself,
presuming that you need the same, is to read carefully our book “Hatha Yoga”
which contains practical instruction and information about “Right Living.”
Then after having acquired the plan of right living start in to practice
right thinking. Right thinking consists in maintaining the proper mental
attitude of cheerfulness and fearlessness. These two things are a battery of
force.
If you have imperfect health rest assured that it is caused by the violation
of some natural law. You may discover what this violated natural law is by
reference to “Hatha Yoga,” and then it becomes your duty to correct the
habit and restore natural functioning by self-suggestions of right thinking.
In nine cases out of ten you will find that the root of the trouble lies in
improper nutrition and imperfect elimination. You don't believe this, you
say! Well, then, let us tell you your symptoms and see if they do not come
out about right to fit your case
First, you have a poor appetite and imperfect digestion dyspepsia or
indigestion. Then you are constipated, and if a woman you have scanty and
irregular menstruation. Then your hands and feet are cold, denoting
imperfect circulation. Then your eyesight and hearing is affected you have
ringing in the ears and cloudy vision. Your taste is affected your smell is
also poor and you are liable to have symptoms of catarrh. But your sense of
feeling is not poor - it is abnormally sensitive, and you are called
“nervous.” You do not get a good night's sleep and you feel used up all the
time. Your skin is colorless and your cheeks pale. Your lips and finger
nails lack the rosy color of health. And so on.
Now does this not fit your case? Isn't it queer how we have diagnosed your
complaint without having ever seen you, or known of you? But this is no
miracle, we assure you we have merely recited the symptoms arising from what
may be called a typical case of malnutrition and imperfect elimination. And
the cause of these symptoms lies in the two things named. Then the removal
of the cause lies in a correction of bad habits of living and bad habits of
thinking. And “Hatha Yoga” will give you the habits of right living, and
self-suggestion will aid you in right thinking and the speedy removal of the
trouble.
Treat yourself according to the lines of the General Treatment given under
the head of Suggestive Treatments in the last chapter. Make the treatments
vigorous just as earnestly as if you were treating somebody else instead of
yourself. And you will get wonderful results.
See yourself in your “mind's eye” as you wish yourself to be. Then start in
to think of yourself as being that, and then live as the healthy man or
woman should do. Then talk up to yourself and tell your instinctive mind
what you expect it to do for you and insist upon it taking hold of the
physical body and building up new cells and tissue and discarding the old
worn out and diseased material. And it will obey you like a well trained
assistant or helper and you will begin to manifest health and strength.
There is no special mystery about this self-suggestion. It is merely your
“I” telling your instinctive mind to get to work and attend to its affairs
properly. And by right living you give the instinctive mind the material
with which to work and the conditions conducive to success.
We could fill page after page of this book with “Suggestions” and
“Affirmations” for you to use in different complaints. But this is useless.
You can make up your own suggestions and affirmations, which will answer
just as well as would ours. Just speak up to the instinctive mind just as if
it were another person who had charge of your body and tell it what you
expect it to do. Do not hesitate about being in earnest about it put some
life into your commands. Talk to it in earnest. Say to it “Here, you
instinctive mind, I want you to get down to work and manage things better
for me. I am tired of this old trouble and I intend to get rid of it. I am
eating nourishing food, and my stomach is strong enough to digest it
properly, and I insist upon your attending to it right away, now. I am
drinking sufficient water to carry off the waste matter from the system and
I insist seeing that my bowels move regularly every day. I insist upon your
seeing that my circulation is equalized and made normal. I am breathing
properly and burning up the waste matter and properly oxygenizing the blood
and you must do the rest Get to work get to work.” Add to this any
instructions that you think well and then see how the instinctive mind will
“get down to business.” See what we have said on this subject in the chapter
on “Thought-Force Healing.” Then maintain the proper mental attitude,
bracing yourself with strong affirmations until you get things going right.
Say to yourself “I am getting strong and well I am manifesting health,”
etc. etc. Now we have told you how to do it then GET TO WORK AND DO IT!
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