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advantage to them in their work to imagine that they could see
the thought actua y leave their brain; actua y travel through
space; and actua y be received by the mind of the patient. This
plan certainly will aid the mind in holding :firm to the mental
image until it takes effect.
In treating a patient who is present you should first tell him
to quiet and calm himself in short, you should endeavor to
get him to go into the Silence as much as possible. We do not
mean by this that he should go to sleep, or slumber, but merely
that he should calm his mind, and withdraw his thoughts from
the things and scenes of the outer life, so far as is possible. In
order to aid in bringing about this effect, you should endeavor
to have the room made quiet and still, and should also avoid
bright lights which are apt to distract the a ention.
The proper condition once e ablished you should sit quietly
until you feel that your own mental state is right for the
treatment that your vibrations are raised to the proper
degree (your own feelings must decide this for you), then you
may begin the treatment proper. From a mental image of the
patient re ored to health form a mental ideal of the proper
conditions and then think of that condition transferred to the
mind of the patient a transferal of the mental photograph as
it were. You may use words in forming the mental conditions
you wish silently, of course. The main thing is to form the
mental picture of the ideal condition that you wish to bring
about. Remember this always. Try to mentally visualize your
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patient as re ored to perfect health and endeavor to hold that
picture constantly before the mind during the treatment.
It may be well to supplement the treatment by words of advice
and encouragement for the patient, and a li le instruction in
the power of his own mind in the direction of co-operation
with your thought.
In absent treatment, or distant healing, as it is called, the
healer should proceed in exactly the same way as if the patient
were present. He should imagine that the patient is right in the
room before him and then he should address the treatment
just as if he were addressing it to the patient in person. The
thoughts should be seen mentally to leave, travel and reach
the patient. Many healers in giving absent treatment eak
mentally to the patient (as if he were present) telling him the
things that should be told him, just as if he were present in
person to hear them. This distant talk may consist merely
of suggestions of health, strength and re ored vitality, or, on
the other hand, of statements of truth and being, such as are
used by the metaphysical healers. It should be unnecessary to
add that the healing thought of Love is a most powerful aid
to the re oration of Health. Let your thought of Love· sweep
through the mind of the patient, driving out all adverse and
negative thoughts that have been lodging there.
In giving absent treatments it will be helpful if the patient will
place himself in a quiet, receptive a itude during the time of
treatment, this result being accomplished by yourself and the
patient agreeing upon the hour or time of treatment. However,
this is not imperative or absolutely essential, as many healers
do not treat their patients at any particular time, but give the
treatment when the conditions seem best to them.
Now, any a empt to give fuller and more detailed instructions
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in the ma er of giving this form of treatment would be
useless, and mere repetition. We have given you in a few words
the master key to the treatment the very essence of the
teachings. If you· will impress these instructions upon your
mind, in connection with what we have given you under the
head of Suggestive Treatments, Thought-Force Treatments
and Absent Pranic Treatments, you will be able to give most
powerful and effective mental treatments. We might make
a book out of this one phase of the subject alone, by merely
padding out the subject and repeating what we have already
told you in other parts of the book. But this is unnecessary and
foreign to the purpose of this book, which aims to be a simple,
plain, concise teacher of the methods of psychic healing in its
various forms.
The book must be read, studied and considered as a whole, for
the instructions given in one method have a bearing upon those
given under another head. To give full detailed instructions
under each head would make three or four books instead of
one. So kindly remember that you should acquaint yourselves
with all of the methods given in order to obtain the full benefit
of the instructions imparted.
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Chapter XVIII.
Metaphysical Healing.
he term which is used as a title for this chapter is a much
Tabused one, and is employed by different people to describe
nearly all the forms of healing mentioned in this book.
Of course, everyone using any form of psychic healing has a
certain right to call his healing Metaphysical, for the word
metaphysical means beyond the physical, but the generally
accepted sense of the term Metaphysics means The Science
of Being. And according to the strict interpretation of the
term metaphysical healing should be applied only to that
form of healing arising only from the actual realization on the
part of the patient of the reality behind appearances of real
being of the real self of the universe. To one who is able to
unfold into an actual realization of that-which-is, there is at
his disposal a wonderful healing power, both for himself and
others, if he knows how to apply the same. But this knowledge
is not always evidenced by those who unfold into the higher
consciousness, and, in fact, there is a decided tendency on the
part of some of these people to neglect the physical altogether
as unworthy of thought, the a ention being turned entirely
upon the higher planes of being. This position is wrong, for the
physical plays a needed part in the unfoldment of the Ego, and
to neglect it is to run contrary to the law of life.
The actual process of this form of metaphysical healing may
be spoken of as a control of the lower by the power coming
from the higher consciousness. The higher consciousness so
manifests its power that it controls the lower. But, after all, it
would appear that the real cause of the cure actually is found
in the fact that the mind, being occupied in a contemplation of
its higher planes of manife ation, ceases to concern itself with
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the workings of the lower planes, and consequently the la er
operates according to the well e ablished laws of the universe
without interference, and without the constant injection of
negative thought which produces abnormal conditions in so
many people.
A realization of the higher nature and being of one, has a
tendency to uplift one above the thoughts of fear and worry,
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