Self Help explains the cause of your present character, your present environment, your present ability, your present physical condition, and tells how you can make your future what you wish it to be.
Self Help explains how the vast panorama of nature is being constantly changed by simply changing the rate of vibration.
Self Help tells how the rate of vibration is being constantly changed in your body, usually unconsciously and often with detrimental and disastrous results.
Self Help tells how you may effect this change consciously and thus bring about only harmonious and salutary conditions.
Self Help explains that the law of health is based on the law of vibration, and that with a proper knowledge of this law you may externalize health conditions.
Self Help explains the operation of this law and how it is being more generally understood and appreciated, and how many physicians are now giving the matter their earnest attention.
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You will find that thoughts are spiritual seeds, which, when planted in the subconscious mind, have a tendency to sprout and grow, but unfortunately the fruit is frequently not to your liking.
The various forms of inflammation, paralysis, nervousness and diseased conditions generally, are the manifestation of fear, worry, care, anxiety, jealousy, hatred and similar thoughts.
The life processes are carried on by two distinct methods; firstly, the taking up and making use of nutritive material necessary for constructing cells; secondly, the secretion and excretion of the waste material.
All life is based upon these constructive and destructive activities, and as food, water and air are the only requisites necessary for the construction of cells, it would seem that the problem of prolonging life indefinitely would not be a very difficult one.
However strange it may seem, it is the second or destructive activity that is, with rare exception, the cause of all disease. The waste material accumulates and saturates the tissues, which causes auto-intoxication. This may be partial or general. In the first case the disturbance will be local; in the second place it will affect the whole system.
The problem, then, before you is in the healing of disease and is to increase the inflow and distribution of vital power throughout the mental system, and this can only be done by eliminating thoughts of fear, worry, care, anxiety, jealousy, hatred and every other destructive thought, which tend to tear down and destroy the nerves and glands which control the excretion and elimination of poisonous and waste matter.
" Nourishing foods and strengthening tonics" cannot bestow life, because these are but secondary manifestations of life. The primary manifestation of life and how you may get in touch with it is a matter of your own thought.
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1. Knowledge is of priceless value, because by applying knowledge you can make your future what you wish it to be. When you realize that your present character, your present environment, your present ability, your present physical condition are all the result of past methods of thinking, you shall begin to have some conception of the value of knowledge.
2. If the state of your health is not all that could be desired, then examine your method of thinking; remember that every thought produces an impression on the mind; every impression is a seed which will sink into the subconscious and form a tendency; the tendency will be to attract other similar thoughts and before you know it you shall have a crop which must be the harvest.
3. If these thoughts contain disease germs, the harvest will be sickness, decay, weakness and failure; the question is, what are you thinking, what are you mentally creating, what will the harvest to be?
4. If there is any physical condition which it is necessary to change, the law governing visualization will be found effective. Make a mental image of physical perfection, hold it in the mind until it is absorbed by the consciousness. Many have eliminated chronic ailments in a few weeks by this method, and thousands have overcome and destroyed all manner of ordinary physical disturbances by this method in a few days, sometimes in a few hours.
5. It is through the Law of Vibration that the mind exercises this control over your body. You know that every mental action is a vibration, and you know that all form is simply a mode of motion, a rate of vibration. Therefore, any given vibration immediately modifies every atom in the body, every life cell is affected and an entire chemical change is made in every group of life cells.
6. Everything in the universe is what it is by virtue of its rate of vibration. Change the rate of vibration and you change the nature, quality and form. The vast panorama of nature, both visible and invisible, is being constantly changed by simply changing the rate of vibration, and as thought is vibration you can also exercise this energy, force and power. You can change the vibration and thus produce any condition which you desire to manifest in your body.
7. You are using this energy, force and power every minute. The trouble is most of you are using it unconsciously and thus producing only undesirable results. The problem is to use it intelligently and produce only desirable results. This should not be difficult, because you all have had sufficient experience to know what produces pleasant vibrations in your body, and you also know the causes which produce the unpleasant and disagreeable sensations.
8. All that is necessary is to consult your own experience. When your thought has been uplifted, progressive, constructive, courageous, noble, kind or in any other way desirable, you have set in motion, vibrations which brought about certain results. When your thought has been filled with envy, hatred, jealousy, criticism or any of the other thousand and one forms of discord, certain vibrations were set in motion which brought about certain other results of a different nature, and each of these rates of vibration, if kept up, crystalized in form. In the first case the result was mental, moral and physical health, and in the second discord, disharmony and disease.
9. You can understand, then, something of the power which the mind possesses over the body.
10. The objective mind has certain effects on the body which are readily reconized. Someone says something to you which strikes you as ludicrous and you laugh, possibly until your whole body shakes, which shows that thought has control over the muscles of your body; or someone says something which excites your sympathy and your eyes fill with tears, which shows that thought controls the glands of your body; or someone says something which makes you angry and your blood mounts to your head, which shows that thought controls the circulation of your blood. But as these experiences are all the results of the action of your objective mind over the body, the results are of a temporary nature; they soon pass away and leave the situation as it was before.
11. Let's see how the action of the subconscious mind over the body differs. You receive a wound; thousands of cells begin the work of healing at once; in a few days or a few weeks or months, the work is complete. You may even break a bone. No surgeon on Earth can weld the parts together. The Doctor may set the bone for you, and the subjective mind will immediately begin the process of welding the parts together, and in a short time the bone is as solid as it ever was. You may swallow poison; the subjective mind will immediately discover the danger and make violent efforts to eliminate it. You may become infected with a dangerous germ; the subjective mind will at once commence to build a wall around the infected area and destroy the infection by absorbing it in the white blood corpuscles which it supplies for the purpose and plans to cure.
12. These processes of the subconscious mind usually proceed without your personal knowledge or direction, and so long as you do not interfere, the results is perfect, but, as these millions of repair cells are all intelligent and respond to your thought, they are often paralysed and rendered impotent by your thoughts of fear, doubt and anxiety. They are like an army of workmen, ready to start an important piece of work, but everytime they get fairly started on the undertaking a strike is called or plans changed, until they finally get discouraged and give up.
13. The way to health is founded on the Law of Vibration, which is the basis of all science, and this law is brought into operation by the mind, the "world within". It is a matter of individual effort and practice. Your world of power is within; if you are wise, you shall not waste your time and effort in trying to deal with effects as you find them in the "world without", which is only an external, a reflection.
14. You shall always find the cause in the "world within"; by changing the cause, you change the effect.
15. Every cell in your body is intelligent and will respond to your direction. The cells are all creators and will create the exact pattern which you give them.
16. Therefore, when perfect images are placed before the subjective mind, the creative energies, forces and powers will build a perfect body.
17. Brain cells are constructed in the same way. The quality of the brain is governed by the state of mind or mental attitude, so that if undesirable mental attitudes are conveyed to the subjective they will in turn be transformed to the body; you can therefore readily see if you wish the body to manifest health, strength, and vitality this must be the predominant thought.
18. You know then that every element of the human body is the result of a rate of vibration.
19. You know that mental action is a rate of vibration.
20. You know that a higher rate of vibration governs, modifies, controls, changes or destroys a lower rate of vibration.
21. You know that the rate of vibration is governed by the character of brain cells.
22. Finally, you know how to create these brain cells.
23. Therefore, you know how to make any physical change in the body you desire, and having secured a working knowledge of the energy, force and power of mind to this extent, you have come to know that there is practically no limitation which can be placed upon your ability to place yourself in harmony with Natural Law, which is omnipotent.
24. This influence or control over the body by the mind is coming to be more and more generally understood, and more and more physicians are now giving the matter their earnest attention. The subject of mental therapeutics is still ignored in medical works generally. In your physiologies no reference is made to the central controlling power that rules the body for its good, and the unity of the mind over the body is seldom spoken of.
25. This is not and never as it should be. The power of mental therapeutics should be the subject of careful, special and scientific teaching in every medical school. You might pursue the subject of maltreatment or want of treatment, further in detail and describe the disasterous results of neglected cases; but the task is an invidious one.
26. There can be no doubt that few patients are aware how much they can do for themselves; the energy, force and powers they can set in motion; you are inclined to believe that they are far greater than most imagine, and will undoubtedly be used more and more. Mental Therapeutics may be directed by the patient themself to calming the mind in excitement, by arousing feelings of joy, hope, faith, and love; by suggesting motive for exertion, by regular mental work, by diverting the thoughts from the malady.
QUOTE : " Silent thought is, after all, the mightiest agent in human affairs. Opportunity follows perception, action follows inspiration, growth follows knowledge, eminence follows progress. Always the spiritual first, then the transformation into the infinite and illimitable possibilities of achievement. All are but parts of one stupendous whole, whose body nature is, and god the soul."
GodScope Meditations # 22.
For your next exercise concentrate on these beautiful lines: "Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and spirit with spirit can meet, closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet." Then try to realize that when you do "Speak to Him", you are in touch with omnipotence. This realization and recognition of this omnipresent power will quickly destroy any and every form of sickness or suffering and substitute harmony and perfection. Then remember there are those who seem to think that sickness and suffering are sent by God; if so, every physician, every surgeon and every Red Cross Nurse is defying the will of God, and hospitals and sanatoria are places of rebellion instead of houses of mercy. Let your thought rest on the fact that until recently Theology has been trying to teach an impossible creator, one who created beings capable of sinning and then allowed them to be eternally punished of such sins. Of course, the necessary outcome of such extrordinary ignorance was to create fear instead of love, and so, after three thousand years of this propaganda, Theology is now busily engaged in apologizing for Christendom. You will then the more readily appreciate the ideal person, the human made in the image and likeness of God, and you will the more readily appreciate the all-originating mind that forms, upholds, sustains, originates and creates all there is.
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