The Osceola times., 1886-05-15

"How do you cure your own sick
nessp"
I'VE hold that all disease is caused
hv sintes of mind. To remove the dis
ease we endeavor to change tie state Of
mind. II one state of mind causes
weakness, why should not the coutrary
state bring healthP That is, simply BY
thinking health you can bring it. Force
such imagination on yourself. Never
mind if il is what you call imagination.
IL imagination can cure you 1t is cheaper
than pills. 1t is certain that imagina-
ton does almost kill many people. We
reverse the law. 1t does work and
proves itself by results. Hundreds are
trying it and so curing themselves of
simple and even serious ailments"
How, then, should | work TO cure n
coldp"
Deny to yourself that you have q
cold. Deny the power of a cold to
affect you. Resist in mind the cold
Try not to think of it. Hold Yourself in
mind as having nc cold. Does that
sound to you like nonsenseP"
"!t does to most people, ~ replied.
"Well, try it, and keep on trying the
next time you have a cold, bid You
ever study the action aud state of YOUR
mind when you have a cold? Are YOU
not quite nnconsciously saving, or
rather feeling, thoughts like these: oh,
dear, I've caught cold feel so un.
pleasant. I'm all stuffed up, I've no
energy Then you cough. Your very
cough begs fer sympathy. You're say.
ing IN thought. I'm SO afflicted Now
that the very state of mind to keep the
cold hanging on. 1t is an actual nurs-
ing of the cold and not yourself. IL
anybody condoles with YOU. they're
helping the cold to stay. II you're sick
abed and friends come TO see you, and
they hear your long story about your
illness and then say: I'm so sorry for
you, they y're hard at work without know
Ing it to keep you sick. They're keep
ing your illness all the time before you
in mind"
"What should they doPn
"They should say openly or in silent
thought to you; You must get well.
refuse to see you in mind as sick. You
are in my thought well, strong, cheer
ful and hearty. Such outspoken thought
of theirs is a help TO you, because all
thought il force and element. 1t goes
from mind to mind, whether spoken or
unspoken. The cheerful, hopeful per-
son will leave force in the sick room
though he does not say word. The
gloomy evil, forboding person will
leave force in the sick room to hurt
you, though he does not speak word.
This law is working all the time with
people. Minds are so affecting other
minds unconscously for good or ill, and
as so affecting minds, affecting also
bodies. You can not remain with an
other person in the same room without
being affected in some way by his un-
spoken thought II in any way hostile
to you il will injure you physically un-
less, aware of the same, you throw 1t
off,
"How should throw il ofpn
"By opposing it in mind. If you feel
unpleasant with person be sure there
is something in that persons thought
opposed to you. You may destroy the
evil in his thought by opposing to it
silent conciliatory thought. You should
say to him in thought: Il refuse to be
your enemy. don't want to think un-
pleasantly of YOU. 2he most stubborn
nature will in time soften under the in
fluence of this silent mental treat
ment
''But is it ones duty so to remain
constantly with such stubborn nature?"
mo. There is limit to all resist
ance. The best disposed nature must in
time suffer if compelled to remain and
find peace on no other terms than the
constant sending out of conciliatory
thoughts. Such interviews should be
short"
"Can one person influence another in
any way by what you call silent
thoughte'"
'You may in this way effect more
with another in two minutes than if YOU
argue with him for an hour. If you
argue you arouse his combativeness.
That throws off your thought. He does
not hear YOU. He hears only himself
II YOU are silent and have a persistent
purpose in view, and keep up think
ing on that purpose, and in thought
present the reasons for it as you would
in conversation, and your thought is in
its character persuasive and concilia-
tory, il will pass from your mind to his
and effect lodgment within him with
out his knowing it. In effect it will
graft itself on and become part of his
mind. He may be totally unaware of
it at the time. Yet on leaving You after
a certain period of time he will uncon-
sciously find himself thinking your way
thinking the matter over as you in
mind presented it to him--being entire
ly ignorant that he may be thinking
your thought; that. in effect, you are
then arguing with him, he will be dis
posed to entertain favorably the views
which he supposcs to be his own.
Thousands are unconsciously exercising
this power, or having it exercised on
them, without being aware of it..
Don't forget" said the theosophist
on parting with me, "that thoughts are
things, and represent force, and that
they are at work for good or i'll, as sent
from mind to mind, all the time ~