which has taken form in his body. This wrong belief in some
external power and external causes has now externalized itself
as sickness, and can be changed by changing the thought pat-
terns.
You explain
to the sick person
that the basis of all healing
is a change of belief. You also point out that the subconscious
mind created the body and all its organs; therefore, it knows
how to heal it, can heal it, and is doing so now as you speak.
You argue in the courtroom of your mind that the disease is a
shadow of the mind based on disease-soaked, morbid thought-
imagery. You continue to build up all the evidence you can
muster on behalf of the healing power within, which created all
the organs in the first place, and which has a perfect pattern of
every cell, nerve, and tissue within it Then, you render a verdict
in the courthouse of your mind in favor of yourself or your
patient. You liberate the sick one by faith and spiritual under 86 Practical Techniques in Mental Healings
standing. Your mental and spiritual evidence is overwhelming;
there being but one mind, what you feel as true will be resur-
rected in the experience
of the.
: patient This procedure
is essen-
tially the argumentative method used by Dr. Quimby of Maine
from 1849 to 1869,
The absolute method Is like -modern sound
wave therapy
" Many people throughout the world practice
this form of
prayer treatment with wonderful results. The person using the
absolute method mentions the name of the patient, such as John
Jones, then quietly and silently thinks of God and His qualities
and attributes, such as, God is all bliss, boundless love, infinite
intelligence, all-powerful, boundless wisdom, absolute harmony,
indescribable beauty, and perfection. As he quietly thinks along
these lines he is lifted up in consciousness into a new spiritual
wave length, at which times he feels the infinite ocean of God's
love is now dissolving everything unlike itself in the mind and
body of John Jones for whom he is praying. He feels all the
power and love of God are now focused on John Jones, and
whatever is bothering or vexing him is now completely neutral-
ized in the presence
of the infinite ocean of life and love.
The absolute method of prayer might be likened to the
sound wave or sonic therapy recently shown me by a distin-
guished physician in Los Angeles. He has an ultra sound wave
machine which oscillates at a tremendous speed and sends sound
waves to any area of the body to which it is directed. These
sound waves can be controlled, and he told me of achieving re-
markable results in dissolving
arthritic calcareous deposits, as
well as the healing and removal of other disturbing conditions.
To the degree that we rise in consciousness by contemplat-
ing qualities and attributes of God, do we generate spiritual
electronic waves of harmony, health, and peace. Many remark-
able healings follow this technique
of prayer.
A cripple walks
Dr. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, of whom we spoke previ-
ously in this chapter, used the absolute method in the latter years Practical Techniques in Mental Healings 87
of Ms healing career. He was really the father of psychosomatic
medicine and the first psychoanalyst. He had the capacity to
diagnose clairvoyantly the cause of the patient's trouble, pains,
and aches.
The following is a condensed account of the healing of a
cripple as recorded in Quimby's Manuscripts:
Quimby was called on to visit a woman who was lame,
aged, and bedridden. He states that her ailment was due to the
fact that she was imprisoned by a creed so small and contracted
that she could not stand upright and move about. She was living
in the tomb of fear and ignorance; furthermore, she was talcing
the Bible literally, and it frightened her. "In this tomb," Quimby

said, "was the presence and power of God trying to burst the
bands, break through the bonds, and rise from the dead." When
she would ask others for an explanation of some passage of the
Bible, the answer would be a stone; then she would hunger for
the bread of life. Dr. Quimby diagnosed her case as a mind
cloudy and stagnated, due to excitation and fear, caused by the
inability to see clearly the meaning of the passage of the Bible
which she had been reading. This showed itself in the body by
her heavy and sluggish feeling which would terminate as paral-
ysis.
At this point Quimby asked her what was meant in the Bible
verses: Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto Him
that sent me. Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where
I am, thither ye cannot come. JOHN 7:33-34. She replied
that it
meant Jesus went to heaven. Quimby explained what it really
meant by telling her that being with her a little while meant his
explanation of her symptoms, feelings, and their causes; i.e., he
had compassion and sympathy for her momentarily, but he could
not remain in that mental state. The next step was to go to Him
that sent us which, as Quimby pointed out, was the creative
power of God in all of us.
Quimby immediately traveled in his mind and contem-
plated the divine ideal; i.e., the vitality, intelligence, harmony,
and power of God functioning in the sick person. This is why
lie said to the woman, "Therefore, where I go you cannot couae, gg Practical Techniques in Mental Healings
for you are in your narrow, restricted belief, and I am in health."
This prayer and explanation produced an instantaneous sensa-
tion, and a change came over her mind. She walked without
her crutches! Quimby said it was one of the most singular of
all his healings. She was, as it were, dead to error, and to bring
her to life or truth was to raise her from the dead. Quimby
quoted the resurrection of Christ and applied
it to her own Christ
or health; this produced
a powerful
effect on her. He also ex-
plained to her that the truth which she accepted was the angel
or idea which rolled away the stone of fear, ignorance, and
superstition, thereby, releasing the healing power of God which
made her whole.
* The decree method
Power goes into our word according to the feeling and faith
behind it. When we realize the power that moves the world is
moving on our behalf and is backing up our word, our confidence
and assurance grow. You do not try and add power to power;
therefore, there must be no mental striving, coercion, force, or
mental wrestling. A young girl used the decree method on a young man who
was constantly phoning her, pressing her for dates, and meeting
her at her place of business; she found it very
difficult to get rid
of him. She decreed as follows: "I release ......... unto God.
He is in his true place
at all times. I am free, and he is free.
I now decree that my words go forth into infinite mind and it
brings it to pass.
It is so." She said he vanished and she has
never seen him since, adding, "It was as though the ground
swallowed him up."
Thou shall decree a thing, and it shall be established unto
thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways. JOB 22:28.
Serve yourself with scientific truth
1. Be a mental engineer and use tried and proven techniques
desire is ypraJicture the fulfillment of your
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desire now and feel its reality, and you wiH experience the
joy of the answered prayer,
3. Desire to accomplish things the easy way with the sure
aid of mental science.
4. You can build radiant health, success, and happiness by the
thoughts you think in the hidden studio of your mind.
5. Experiment scientifically until you personally prove that

there is always a direct response from the infinite intelli-
gence of your subconscious mind to your conscious think-
ing.
6. Feel the joy and restfulness in foreseeing the certain accom-
plishment of your desire. Any mental picture which you
have in your mind is the substance of things hoped for and
the evidence of things not seen.
7. A mental picture
is worth a thousand words. Your subcon-
scious will bring to pass any picture held in the mind backed
by faith.
8. Avoid all effort or mental coercion in prayer. Get into a
sleepy, drowsy state and lull yourself to sleep feeling and
knowing that your prayer is answered.
9. Remember that the thankful heart is always close to the
10. To affirm is to state that it is so, and as you maintain this
attitude of mind as true, regardless of all evidence to the
contrary, you will receive an answer to your prayer,
11. Generate electronic waves of harmony, health, and peace
by thinking of the love and the glory of God.
12. What you decree and feel as true will come to pass. Decree
harmony, health, peace, and abundance. 7
The Tendency of the
Subconscious Is Lifewari
Over 90 percent of your mental life is subconscious, so
men and women who fail to make use of this marvelous power
live within very narrow limits.
Your subconscious processes are always Bfeward and con-
structive. Your subconscious is
' the builder of your body and
maintains all its vital functions. It is on the job 24 hours a day
and never sleeps.
It is always trying to help and preserve you
from harm.
Your subconscious mind is in touch with infinite life and
boundless wisdom, and its impulses and ideas are always life-
ward. The great aspirations, inspirations, and visions for a
grander and nobler life spring from the subconscious. Your pro-
foundest convictions are those you cannot argue about rationally
because they do not come from your conscious mind; they come
from your subconscious mind. Your subconscious speaks to you
in intuitions, impulses, hunches, intimations, urges, and ideas,
and it is always telling you to rise, transcend, grow, advance,
adventure, and move forward to greater heights. The urge to
love, to save the lives of others comes from the depths of your
subconscious. For example, during the great San Francisco
earthquake and fire of April 18, 1906, invalids and cripples who had been confined to bed for long periods of time, rose up
and performed some of the most amazing feats of bravery and
endurance. The intense desire welled up within them to save
others at all costs, and their subconscious responded accord-
ingly. The Tendency of the Subconscious Is Lifeward 9 1
Great artists, musicians, poets, speakers, and writers tune
in with their subconscious powers and become animated and
inspired. For example, Robert Louis Stevenson, before he went
to sleep, used to charge Ms subconscious with the task of evolv-
ing stories for him while he slept. He was accustomed to ask
his subconscious to give him a good, marketable thriller when his
bank account was low. Stevenson said the intelligence of his
deeper mind gave him the story piece by piece,
like a serial
This shows how your subconscious will speak lofty and wise
sayings through you which your conscious mind knows nothing
about
Mark Twain confided to the world on many occasions that
he never worked in his life. All his humor and all his great writ-
ings were due to the fact that he tapped the inexhaustible reser-
voir of his subconscious mind.
How the body portrays the workings of the mind
The interaction of your conscious and subconscious mind
requires a similar interaction between the corresponding system
of nerves. The cerebrospinal system is the organ of the conscious
mind, and the sympathetic system is the organ of the subcon-

scious mind. The cerebrospinal system is the channel through
which you receive conscious perception by means of your five
physical senses and exercise control over the movement of your
body. This system has its nerves in the brain, and it is the chan-
nel of your volitional and conscious mental action.
The sympathetic system, sometimes referred to as the in-
voluntary nervous system, has its center in a ganglionic mass at
the back of the stomach known as the solar plexus, and is some-
times spoken of as the abdominal brain. It is the channel of
that mental action which unconsciously supports the vital func-
tions of the body.
The two systems may work separately or synchronously.
Judge Thomas Troward
*
says, "The vagus nerve passes out of
the cerebral region as a portion
of the voluntary system, and
* The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science (New York: Robert McBride
& Co., 92 The Tendency oj the Subconscious Is Lifeward
through it we control the vocal organs; then it passes onward to
the thorax sending out branches to the heart and lungs; finally,
passing through the diaphragm,
it loses the outer coating which
distinguishes the nerves of the voluntary system and becomes
identified with those of the sympathetic system, so forming a
connecting link between the two and making the man physically
a single entity.
"Similarly different areas of the brain indicate their con-
nection with the objective and subjective
activities of the mind
respectively, and speaking
in a general way we may assign the
frontal portion of the brain to the former and the posterior
portion to the latter, while the intermediate portion partakes of
the character of both."
A rather simple way of looking
at the mental and physical
interaction is to realize that your conscious mind grasps an idea
which induces a corresponding
vibration in your voluntary sys-
tem of nerves. This in turn causes a similar current to be gen-
erated in your involuntary system of nerves, thus handling the
idea over to your subconscious mind which is the creative me-
dium. This is how your thoughts become things.
Every thought entertained by your conscious mind and ac-
cepted as true is sent by your brain to your solar plexus, the
brain of your subconscious mind, to be made into your flesh,
and to be brought forth into your world as a reality.
There is an intelligence which fakes care of the body
When you study
the cellular system and the structure of the
organs, such as eyes, ears, heart, liver, bladder, etc., you learn
they consist of groups of cells which form a group intelligence
whereby they function together and are able to take orders

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