The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-03-05
SUGGESTION.

not necessarily verbal, but is some
thing you can see, smell, hear, touch.
or taste. The mind can be stuffed,
starved or poisoned as truly as the
body.
have every reason to believe that
there is not disease known to man
which cannot be remedied If the mind
of the patient were prevented from
retarding the recovery of health.
Friends and sympathetic relatives
also have. unintentionally, of course,
killed many persons by misdrected
kindness and over.anxiety.
Suggestive therapeutics is an es-
tablished fact. 1t is rapidly taking its
place as a remedial agent. Wherever
we go, and in every case of sickness,
we witness the power of suggestion.
Suggestive therapeutics is more
than christian Science" more than
faith cure" more than divine heal
ing" more than any "pathy' or ism"
| Suggestive therapeutics, however, is
not infallible, says Bernheim, al
| though it gives good results in very
| large number of cases. 1t may fail
even when it is intelligently and per-
sistently managed. The cause of the
failure is inherent; sometimes in the
! disease. sometimes in the subject
| One who uses suggestion never has
need to deny the existence of disease
but positively and truthfully asserts
that the disease is amenable to cure
and that recovery will follow as the
| result of the treatment.
| That there is inherent in all man
kind psychic power presiding over
the functions, conditions and sensa-
tions of the body, and that the power
can be invoked and controlled at will,
under proper conditions, is no longer
a matter of doubt by reasonable inves-
| tigators.
This inherent power, known as the
subjective mind, runs the entire hui
man machinery when the objective
mind is either asleep or in abeyance
in fact, it runs the machinery of life
all the time, but runs 1t better when
not interfered with by the objective
mind in the form of adverse sugges-
tions. 1t has absolute control over all
the unctions-nutrition, waste, all Sc
cretions and excretions, the action of
the heart in the circulation of the
blood, the lungs in respiration, and in
all cell life, cell changes and develop
ment.
/ do not pretend, says Bernheim
that suggestion" acts directly upon
the diseased organ. Diseases are
cured, when they can be cured, by
their natural biological evolution. Or
binary therapeutic methods consist In
putting the organism in a condition
such that the restitutio ad integrin
may take place. We suppress, says
Bernheim, the pain, we modify func
lions. we let the organ rest, we calm
the fever, we retard the pulse, we in
duce sleep, we encourage secretion
and excretion; and, acting thus, we
permit nature (the healer), or, tc
speak in modern language, we permit
the activity of the forces and the
properties inherent in the biological
elements to accomplish their work.
Every element of the organism has
so to speak, it's center of action Dor
dering upon the brain. Sensibility
movement, nutrition. secretion, excre
ton and calorification are governed
or at least influenced, by this centra
organism which presides over the
complex mechanism of animal physi
ology.
Suggestion" is of special value t.
physicians. | think DR.. Parkyn Il
quite right in declaring that physi
clans study the anatomy and physi
ology of the brain, but they sadly neg
lect the study of its functions.
The chief and greatest function o
the brain is to receive, associate ant
store away all impressions received
through the senses and to reproduc
these Impressions when necessary
Through the mind every organ of tn
body may be assisted, and it is through
unconscious action of the mind upol
the body that so many diseases ar
produced and so many cured.
A study of psychology and sugge:
ton will enable physician, when
patient first consuts him, to ascel
tain the part imagination plays in tn
complaint. Imaginary or not, 1t /
real to the patient.
Every careful observer knows ia
the functions of the human body M
be greatly disturbed through ment;
influences, and that such disturbance
If prolonged. result in fixed, function
al or nervous diseases, and that thes
functional arrangements often termiI
ate in organic disease and sometime
in death.
That mental activities are capabl
Of producing chemical and anatomici
changes in our bodies Is a demonstri
BILE fact. 1t is also true that Will
properly directed thoughts are alway
conducive to conditions of health, pc
verified mental conditions as certainl
! produce functional and organic d
ease.
Alcoholism is now justly regarde
as a peryerted mental condition