You begin to be healed from the moment you see the sources of trouble in yourself, your attitude and the mode of conduct springing from it;

for you then cease to blame your neighbors and your God, and begin with yourself.

HEALING in the spiritual sense of the word begins with the discovery of our inner powers as children of God, made in His image and likeness. ... it is never a mere question of illnesses and external obstacles to be surmounted, but of the attitudes, beliefs, habits, which underlie external conditions and give them their power over us.


While few of us may have been so illumined and quickened as to become vividly aware of this influx, able to distinguish by actual perception between life coming from the spiritual world, in contrast with influences coming from the natural world through the body or from the minds of people round about us, everyone may attain an ideal of this conscious relationship with the divine presence by noting the elements of it and letting them grow into a clear idea.

This realization of the divine influx becomes most effective when one sits down in a quiet place alone, or with someone who needs help.

We attain a similar attitude in prayer for the sake of worship when prayer is really effective; for in true prayer there is an upliftment of heart and will, an opening out to receive with the conviction that it is man, not God, who needs to change. True prayer, the Gospels tell us, is to the Father who already knows what needs we have and has provided for them through the orderly incoming of life. If to such a prayer one adds the realization that the Father is as surely present as of old, present in all detail and minuteness, in the relation of Heart to heart, through the divine in the human, one may make the prayer as vivid as the experience which the spiritual healer calls "realization."

Thought by thought one can build up a habit, an attitude that is favorable to the spiritual will. It is will or love which accomplishes the greater work.

The true test of relationship to the divine influx is not in mere receptivity or meditation for our own benefit, but in helping others into freedom.

... One who truly understands the connection between the spirit and the flesh... should be able to overcome every obstacle in his nature which impedes the inflow of the divine life. This would mean active co-operation with that life all along the line of existence, spiritually, morally, socially, physically, in accordance with one standard.

To desire to help another is to be with him in spirit, adding one's might in favor of the best that is in him, seeing him in spirit from the viewpoint of the ideal.
Spiritual Health and Healing
edited by Horatio W. Dresser Ph.D. - 1922
Horatio Dresser, the son of Julius and Annetta Dresser (patients and students of P.P.Quimby, was probably the 1st child of New Thought.

ACIM students may notice similar notions.