From:
Notes from the Dresser Class - 1887
NOTES ON CLASS LECTURES OF JULIUS DRESSER and ANNETTE
DRESSER
Taken by:
Mrs. Harriett Hemmenway
Boston, Mass. January, 1887
In treating another the patient
should seem to you all mental - or nothing but thoughts & their sickness
the result of their bad thoughts - if you can turn them to see their true self
& have the right thought the error will vanish.
Parts of Abby Perry's notes taken at the Dresser Lectures
- in 1887
Mrs. Dresser spoke of there
being nothing of themselves in their treatments - that they made themselves
mediums to the Healing Power - or rather it was as if she & her patients
were both in a room, bright with sun-light & the patient had a thick
bandage over her eyes - her work was to remove the bandage & let her see
that the light was all around her - that she had only thought, it
was dark.
Our attitude of mind towards
those about us influences them to correspond to our idea of them, so that we
have much power in the direction of health or sickness, by our unconscious
thought even of those about us.
Mrs. Dresser said in treating, she did not
think of the patient's body in any way. She simply tried to impress the truth
on their understanding.
From:
by Genevieve Behrend
The practitioner should have firmly fixed in mind the fact that there is
but one mind and but one expression of this one mind although it fills all
space with its numberless manifestations.
This awareness removes the line of demarcation between patient and healer.
Another vital essential is this: If one hopes to be of any help to a
patient one must not give treatment for disease. That would surely intensify
the disease!
In giving a spiritual treatment the practitioner should utterly dismiss
all thoughts of disease and of personality from the mind.
To hold the thought on disease would mean MORE disease.
Rather the healer should mentally see Life whole, free, at peace and in
harmony through the power of the Radiant Christ within.
The practitioner should have firmly fixed in mind the fact that there is
but one mind and but one expression of this one mind although it fills all
space with its numberless manifestations.
This awareness removes the line of demarcation between patient and healer.
Another vital essential is this: If one hopes to be of any help to a
patient one must not give treatment for disease. That would surely intensify
the disease!
In giving a spiritual treatment the practitioner should utterly dismiss
all thoughts of disease and of personality from the mind.
To hold the thought on disease would mean MORE disease.
Rather the healer should mentally see Life whole, free, at peace and in
harmony through the power of the Radiant Christ within.
How can the practitioner avoid seeing the ill condition?
If one is not sufficiently disciplined in mind to see through, or beyond,
the condition one should not attempt to be a healer; or else such a one should
confine his efforts exclusively to absent mental treatments.
To see, or to believe in, any condition that a patient may seem to have
disarms a practitioner immediately and renders his efforts impotent in behalf
of the patient.
A well trained and experienced practitioner is able to treat just as
effectively absently as presently; and there are some who do better work
absently. In Spirit there is neither time nor space, and the distance of the
patient from the healer makes no difference at all. you see the first mental
step that the practitioner takes is that of clearing his or her mind of the
presence of anything except the one god-spirit. Thought is unbelievably fast in
its transmission and can span the earth instantly; and it does not lose any of
its power in the transmission! In giving an absent treatment the healer should
be positive that the thought sent forth reaches the recipient now and with
infinite power.
In the Absolute the ONLY time there is the eternal now. To it there is no past;
nor is there any future. To it there is only the present.
if the practitioner holds the thought that the patient "will be all
right," it will always be "will be" for the patient because the
healer is postponing the healing until some future time, and there is no future
known to the Spirit, as I have said.
Did Jesus ever say to any of those who were healed by Him: "You will
be healed. Arise and go"?
No, not ever.
Always He spoke to them in the present tense; always He told them
something to this effect: "You ARE WHOLE! Go in Peace!"
The steps in giving a successful treatment for one who is present
personally with the practitioner are these:
(1) Have the patient RELAX
physically as completely as possible, all over, toes, ankles, knees, spine, shoulders,
arms, hands and even the eye-lids (for the eyes should be closed in the
silence). The whole body of the patient should be as limp as possible. The
greater the physical relaxation you may induce on the part of the patient the
greater his RECEPTIVITY to the mental treatment will be.
(2) Have the patient "empty" his conscious mind as completely as
is possible, trying to think of nothing at all insofar as this can be done;
have him try to make a vacuum of his mind, as it were. This complete relaxation
of the conscious mind also induces a much greater receptivity.
(3) The healer must completely remove the line of demarcation between the
patient and self. There are not two persons present, not really, not patient
and practitioner. The two are one, and the establishment of this fact firmly in
the mind of the healer is of untold importance. Remember that Mrs. Jones,
practitioner, is not giving Mrs. Smith, patient, a mental treatment. As long as
the one treating is aware of any sense of separation, or distinction, between
patient and self there will be little if any results achieved.
(4) Once all sense of separation is really removed from the practitioner's
consciousness, the actual treatment is given. The patient is now in a passive,
or receptive attitude, both mentally and physically. The healer is in an
active, or generating, position. Yet the "two" are one, the one
person being the negative pole, the other the positive, and between them the
healing current of Life may now freely pass. Into the Absolute the practitioner
now projects a steady stream of positive, constructive, powerful
thought-energy, at the beginning of which process the patient's name is either
silently or audibly called in order that the flow of
Spirit may be given definite direction. The receptive attitude
of the patient picks up the flow of power and so it is made his own. The
affirmation the healer uses at the beginning of the silence may be said aloud
once or twice although this is not necessary. Into the Bosom of the Spirit,
into the Fruitful Silence, the practitioner thinks and dwells with intense
concentration and feeling, yet without any sense of strain whatsoever.
From:
The Philosophy of P. P. Quimby
by Annetta Gertrude Dresser
1899
Dedicated To the sick everywhere
1.
In one of his articles, written in 1861, Dr.
Quimby thus describes his method of cure: -- "A patient comes to see Dr.
Quimby. He renders himself absent to everything but the impression of the
person's feelings. These are quickly daguerreotyped on him. They contain no
intelligence, but shadow forth a reflection of themselves which he looks at.
This contains the disease as it appears to the patient. Being confidant that it
is the shadow of a false idea, he is not afraid of it. . . . . Then his
feelings in regard to the disease, which are health and strength, are
daguerreotyped on the receptive plate of the patient, which also throws forth a
shadow. The patient, seeing this shadow of the disease in a new light, gains
confidence. This change of feeling is daguerreotyped on the doctor again. This
also throws forth a shadow; and he sees the change, and continues to treat it
in the same way. So the patient's feelings sympathize with his, the shadow
changes and grows dim, and finally disappears, the light takes its place, and
there is nothing left of the disease."
2.
Mr. Quimby's
idea of happiness was to benefit mankind, especially the sick and suffering;
and to that end he labored and gave his life and strength. His patients not
only found in him a doctor, but a sympathizing friend; and he took the same
interest in treating a charity patient that he did a wealthy one. Until the
writer went with him as secretary, he kept no accounts and made no charges. He
left the keeping of books entirely with his patients; and, although he
pretended to have a regular price for visits and attendance, he took at
settlement whatever the patient chose to pay him.
Healers should watch out for
themselves. She also wrote:
- The last five years of his life were exceptionally hard. He was overcrowded with patients and greatly overworked, and could not seem to find an opportunity for relaxation. At last nature could no longer bear up under the strain; and, completely tired out, he took to his bed, from which he never rose again. While strong, he had always been able to ward off any disease that would have affected another person; but, when tired out and weak, he no longer had the strength of will nor the reasoning powers to combat the sickness which terminated his life.
"Mind affects mind."~P.P.Quimby
"Minds are joined;
bodies are not."~ACIM
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