Practical Healing for Mind and Body

Ignorance of truth is the cause of all misery. –Buddha

The blessings and benefits of understanding these principles are threefold:
* Healing all our infirmities. * Correcting all immoralities. * Brightening our intellectual faculties.
And the result is peace of mind, knowledge of truth and health of body.

STATEMENT OF BEING
There is but one God, one Life, one Truth, one Love, one Substance,
and one Power, divinely Good, Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent.

What are the seven errors so common to mankind that must be erased before perfect peace can be established?
1. First, The belief in an angry God, and the fear that attends the belief. 2. Second, The belief in a burning hell, and the fear that attends the belief. 3. Third, The belief in a personal devil, and the fear that goes with it. 4. Fourth, The belief in hereditary taint in the flesh, and the fear that goes with it. 5. Fifth, The belief in sensuality of all kinds, and the fear that goes with it. 6. Sixth, The belief in deceit, with its fears. 7. Seventh, The belief in all secret sins that take root in selfishness.
This covers the whole ground.
This practice of denials is only the first step. It is simply the beginning of discipline. We have to tear down the false and remove the rubbish of false beliefs, before we can build truly upon the rock which is truth (Christ), and this is the discipline that every student of truth must practice before the mind is cleansed of error. We must erase every picture of error from the body, by this treatment of the mind, before the harmonious conditions will show forth.

Every child of God shows forth three phases of enlightenment to the conscious mind; the religious, the philosophical, the scientific.

The religious is the ultimate, the highest, because it is that which binds us to the great First Cause, the Father, God. It is an interior perception of truth, or knowledge of true principles, and a willing obedience to their promptings.

The phase of the mind we call philosophical is simply the point where the conscious mind reasons from an intellectual standpoint only, and before it reaches the interior perception or spiritual illumination, and yet has a clear intellectual perception as to how principles work; and by a close adherence to the philosophical reasoning we find we can prove things in such a manner as to call it as science.

A scientific truth is the same as Divine Law reduced to the understanding of the human intellect; for a thing cannot be scientific unless it is based upon a true foundation. Truth is God, and Divine Law is the law of God. True science points the way to true philosophy, and philosophy according to true science, leads to religion, and religion to God.

Each is necessary to the other.

“After preaching or hearing a good sermon we all go home and act all the week as if we did not believe a word of it.”

Something over three years ago a Baptist clergyman, aged 65 years, who had been a victim of consumption (so called) for many years, at times very low and again able to preach occasionally, was finally reduced to a condition considered absolutely hopeless by his family and by physicians. He became interested in this true science, and consulted Dr. Yarnall regarding his chances for a longer lease on life than what the doctors and his family considered possible. He said he was not at all afraid to die, but he felt that it was very unbecoming in one who professed godliness to carry such a miserable body. The principles of science were briefly explained, and all the help we could give was tendered him. He had a few treatments, and then entered a class, attending every lesson promptly. Before the close of the course of twelve lessons he declared himself perfectly healed.

His testimony before the class at the close of the lessons was to the effect that although he had been a preacher of the gospel of Christ (as he had formerly understood it) for many years, he, like the majority of Christians, had virtually denied the practical part of the gospel by living contrary to what he preached. As he expressed it: “After preaching or hearing a good sermon we all go home and act all the week as if we did not believe a word of it.”

A large cavity in his lung, from which he was expectorating most freely and offensively, was perfectly healed in a few days, and in five weeks from the time he entered the class he was installed as pastor of a new church, and is still preaching and in good health. When asked if he should preach these principles, he answered that he should preach Christ as he now understood Christianity from the teaching he had listened to in this class, and if people did not like his preaching the whole gospel as he now understood it, they would have to listen to some one else. He has since then taught many classes, and being a highly educated theologian, his Bible lessons, taught in the light of the new Science, have been very uplifting and enlightening.

A religious statement is often very obscure until philosophy reduces it to the comprehension of the intellect, and then science steps in and proves it by demonstration.
Thus we see how religion, philosophy and science strengthen each other. How each one is dependent upon the others, and neither is complete and perfect without the others.
There is a true and philosophical reason for all the statements of the Christ Science, else it would not be scientific; and as the statements prove true, they must finally be known and acknowledged of all men as the only rational way of proving our sonship; the re and ligo that binds us to God and makes us conscious of our divine inheritance.
Why are so many suicides recorded in every morning paper?
Why do so many succumb to the fatal belief in softening of the brain?
And of paralysis, and apoplexy?
All because of false education in one way or another.

Many of the physical troubles so prevalent in this age are super-induced by the great competition, or by an unlawful ambition to excel in whatever is undertaken, even to the disadvantage and destruction of others.

In politics, and in seeking power and place in government affairs, a man scarcely considers the position worth having unless it is gained by the complete ruin and overthrow of his opponent, who may be more worthy than himself.

In business matters it is very little better, and in the profession, especially with the medical profession, all is confusion and discord in the struggle for supremacy. Even with clergymen this ambition is often deplorably manifest. It really begins with children in the schoolroom, and grows more intense with each year, and is so often encouraged by the parents that many have been called upon to mourn the untimely death of the promising son or daughter.

This destroying ambition is not confined to the male portion of mankind, by any means.
It permeates every phase and grade of society. It is the bane of fashionable life. It creates jealousies and animosities, and engenders so much strife over the non-essentials of life, that its degrading influence morally can scarcely be estimated, to say nothing of its destructive influence upon the physical.

When people are stricken with physical maladies they never dream that it is due to such false ideas of life; and hundreds may sicken and die from such causes, and the world jogs on as before, enacting the same foolish drama year after year, creating more lunatics and providing more convicts for the prisons, and more sorrow for the honest and level-headed that escape such influences.
The world has never till now been awake to the fact that all the prevailing diseases of the world may be traced to such causes, and in every case has its origin in the false influences exerted over the people - beginning with the young minds that are so plastic to every strong wave of thought, and extending through every community and to every individual in the community.
If any one presumes to set up an opinion not in harmony with the popular beliefs, he is set aside as a little strange, or a little off; consequently truth has to wait patiently for the recognition that has to be made before it will serve us.

CASE OF ASTHMA.
A middle aged lady who had suffered from childhood with asthma in its most distressing form, with most exhausting and frequent paroxysms of coughing, in addition to which was a palsied condition of the hands, arms and head, by which she was deprived of using a pen or pencil, was cured by these lessons and a few treatments. Of course she had been through the usual experience with physicians all to no purpose, as after years of experimenting all agreed that nothing could be done for her.

After the first treatment she sat through the lesson with only two slight paroxysms of coughing, and went home very much cheered. After the second treatment she sat through the lesson without coughing at all. After the third treatment and lesson she declared she was healed, and from that time on she walked several blocks to the class and home again after the lesson, while at first she had to be assisted from the carriage to the class room.

About the sixth lesson she brought pencil and book and astonished her friends by taking notes and writing nearly as steadily and rapidly as other students.
Her cough was gone. She breathed like other people, and her hands had ceased to tremble.
Never was more grateful joy expressed by a healed patient than by her. Even her looks proclaimed the praise that was in her heart.

Excerpted from:
Practical Healing for Mind and Body
A Course of Twelve Lessons
A Complete Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Healing
by a Knowledge of Divine Law
by
Jane W. Yarnall
[1891]

Historically, Divine Science was founded in 1885 by Malinda Elliott Cramer of San Francisco, who later opened a school, Home College of Divine Science, in 1887. As Mrs Yarnall’s lessons were first published in 1891, and noting that her name is mentioned in the founder’s Divine Science magazine in 1894, it seems that Mrs Yarnall was likely a former student of Mrs Cramer.

Although Mrs Yarnall also refers to her teaching as “Science of Mind,” this should not be confused with the teachings of Dr Ernest Holmes, founder of Religious Science, whose textbook is also of that name. Dr Holmes was four years old when these lessons were written.

Flesch–Kincaid: 9.7

Tergiversate

The word of the year for 2011 and it is a verb meaning "to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc." or to turn renegade. Basically it means you like to change your mind a lot.


Pronounced "ter-jiv-er-sate", it's associated with rapidly changing situations and is fitting to our political and economic times.
The word dates back to 1645 and is derived for the Latin term Tergiversor, meaning to turn one's back or make excuses.

The politicians vowed not to tergiversate but that was all they did, so nothing was accomplished.

Politicians often tergiversate on important issues and principles.

People no longer wished to vote for the girl who constantly tergiversated in order to gain the favor of the class.

While tergiversate may not be common place it has been used in the press before.

"The tergiversations of stock markets are often puzzling from the outside,"

wrote Oliver Kamm of The Times of London.
Flesch–Kincaid: 10.5

"Be still, and know that I am God" ~ II

Spiritual Healing
Quimby's intuitive method differed from the affirmative method now employed by those who use suggestion as the chief agency in healing.
The first dependence was put upon intuitive impressions gained by sitting silently by the sick, and rendering the mind (the spiritual senses) inwardly open to discern the inner conditions and causes.

The process included

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Claude M. Bristol (1891-1951) served as a soldier in WW1 in France and Germany. He worked on the army newspaper, Stars and Stripes until 1919. His best known book is The Magic of Believing, published in 1948, which has sold well over a million copies, and is widely regarded as a prosperity classic.

Claude Bristol was a hard-headed journalist for several years, including stints as a police reporter and as church editor of a large city newspaper. In this post he met people from every denomination and sect, and later read hundreds of books on psychology, religion, science, metaphysics and ancient magic. Gradually, Bristol began to see the 'golden thread' which runs through all religions and esoteric teachings: that belief itself has amazing powers.

“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice … it is conformity.”

Rollo May (1909 –1994) was an American existential psychologist. He authored the influential book Love and Will during 1969. He is often associated with both humanistic psychology and existentialist philosophy. May was a close friend of the theologian Paul Tillich[1]. His works include Love and Will and The Courage to Create, the latter title honoring Tillich's The Courage to Be.


May was influenced by American humanism, and interested in reconciling existential psychology with other philosophies, especially Freud's.

May considered Otto Rank (1884-1939)[2] to be the most important precursor of existential therapy. Shortly before his death, May wrote in the foreword to Robert Kramer's edited collection of Rank’s American lectures:

“I have long considered Otto Rank to be the great unacknowledged genius in Freud’s circle”.

May used some traditional existential terms in a slightly different fashion than others, and he invented new words for traditional existentialist concepts. Destiny, for example, could be "thrownness" combined with "fallenness"— the part of our lives that is determined for us, for the purpose of creating our lives. He also used the word "courage" to signify resisting anxiety.

He defined certain "stages" of development:
Innocence – the pre-egoic, pre-self-conscious stage of the infant. An innocent is only doing what he or she must do. However, an innocent does have a degree of will in the sense of a drive to fulfill needs.
Rebellion – the rebellious person wants freedom, but does not yet have a good understanding of the responsibility that goes with it.
Decision – The person is in a transition stage in their life such that they need to be more independent from their parents and settle into the "ordinary stage". In this stage they must decide what to do with their life, and fulfilling rebellious needs from the rebellious stage.
Ordinary – the normal adult ego learned responsibility, but finds it too demanding, and so seeks refuge in conformity and traditional values.
Creative – the authentic adult, the existential stage, self-actualizing and transcending simple egocentrism.

These are not "stages" in the traditional sense. A child may certainly be innocent, ordinary or creative at times; an adult may be rebellious. The only association with certain ages is in terms of importance: rebelliousness is more important for a two year old or a teenager.

May perceived the sexual mores of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as commercialization of sex and pornography, as having influenced society such that people believed that love and sex are no longer associated directly. According to May, emotion has become separated from reason, making it acceptable socially to seek sexual relationships and avoid the natural drive to relate to another person and create new life. May believed that sexual freedom can cause modern society to neglect more important psychological developments. May suggests that the only way to remedy the cynical ideas that characterize our times is to rediscover the importance of caring for another, which May describes as the opposite of apathy.

His first book, The Meaning of Anxiety, was based on his doctoral dissertation, which in turn was based on his reading of the 19th century philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. His definition of anxiety is "the apprehension cued off by a threat to some value which the individual holds essential to his existence as a self". He also quotes Kierkegaard: "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom". In 1956, he edited the book Existence with Ernst Angel and Henri Ellenberger. Existence helped introduce existential psychology to the US.

[1] Paul Johannes Tillich (1886 –1965) was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher. Tillich was one of the most influential Protestant theologians of the 20th century. Among the general populace, he is best known for his works The Courage to Be (1952) and Dynamics of Faith (1957), which introduced issues of theology and modern culture to a general readership. Theologically, he is best known for his major three-volume work Systematic Theology (1951–63), in which he developed his "method of correlation": an approach of exploring the symbols of Christian revelation as answers to the problems of human existence raised by contemporary existential philosophical analysis.

Two of Tillich's works, The Courage to Be (1952) and Dynamics of Faith (1957), were read widely, even by people who do not normally read religious books. In The Courage to Be, he lists three basic anxieties: anxiety about our biological finitude, i.e. that arising from the knowledge that we will eventually die; anxiety about our moral finitude, linked to guilt; and anxiety about our existential finitude, a sense of aimlessness in life. Tillich related these to three different historical eras: the early centuries of the Christian era; the Reformation; and the 20th century. Tillich's popular works have influenced psychology as well as theology, having had an influence on Rollo May, whose "The Courage to Create" was inspired by "The Courage to Be".

[2] Otto Rank (1884 – 1939) was an Austrian psychoanalyst, writer, teacher and therapist. Born in Vienna as Otto Rosenfeld, he was one of Sigmund Freud's closest colleagues for 20 years, a prolific writer on psychoanalytic themes, an editor of the two most important analytic journals, managing director of Freud's publishing house and a creative theorist and therapist.

In 1926, Otto Rank left Vienna for Paris. For the remaining 14 years of his life, Rank had an exceptionally successful career as a lecturer, writer and therapist in France and the U.S.

A lifetime spent in service to his fellowman.

Earl Nightingale (1921 –1989) was an American motivational speaker and author, known as the "Dean of Personal Development." He was the voice in the early 1950s of Sky King, the hero of a radio adventure series [1], and was a WGN radio show host from 1950 to 1956. Nightingale was the author of the Strangest Secret.

Even as a small boy, Earl wondered why his family lived as they did, in a tent in Tent City with poverty all around them, while others lived so much better than they, and not finding answers to his questioning mind, he went to the Public library to search for the answers - - this search would continue for many years as he studied the world’s great religions, philosophy and psychology.

When Nightingale was seventeen he joined the United States Marines. He was on the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor and was one of twelve surviving Marines on board that day. Before being mustered, Nightingale was an instructor at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

After the war Nightingale began work in the radio industry, which eventually led to work as a motivational speaker. In the fall of 1949, Nightingale was inspired while reading Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Quoting from the Earl Nightingale official website:

When he was 29, Earl's enlightenment had come to him as a bolt out of the blue while reading, "Think and Grow Rich". It came when he realized that the six words he read were the answer to the question he had been looking for! That, “we become what we think about”. He he realized that he had been reading the same truth over and over again, from the New Testament, in the sayings of Buddha, in the writings of Lao Tse, to the works of Emerson. “We become what we think about.” “As ye sow, so shall ye reap.”"As the horse goes, so follows the cart."

In 1956 he produced a spoken word record, The Strangest Secret, which sold over a million copies, making it the first spoken-word recording to achieve Gold Record status.

Nightingale’s radio program, Our Changing World, became the most highly syndicated radio program ever, and was heard across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, South Africa, the Bahamas, 23 countries overseas, as well as the Armed Forces Network.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Nightingale
http://www.earlnightingale.com/Home_Page.html
[1] Sky King is a 1940s and 1950s American radio and television adventure series. The title character is Arizona rancher and aircraft pilot Schuyler (or Skyler) "Sky" King. The series was likely based on a true-life person, Jack Cones, the Flying Constable of Twentynine Palms during the 1930s.
Although it had strong cowboy show elements, King always captured criminals and even spies and found lost hikers using his plane.

King's personal plane was called the Songbird. Though he changed from one plane to another over the course of the series, the later plane was not given a number (i.e., Songbird II), but was simply known as Songbird. [Songbird III a 1960 Cessna 310-D shown]

He and his niece, Penny (and sometimes Clipper, his nephew) lived on the Flying Crown Ranch, near the (fictitious) town of Grover, Arizona. Penny and Clipper were also pilots, though still relatively inexperienced and looking to their uncle for guidance and mentoring. Penny was an accomplished air racer and rated multi-engine pilot, who Sky trusted to fly the Songbird.


Taken in 1952 on the set of Sky King, with actors Gloria Winters(Penny), Kirby Grant (Sky King) and Ron Hagerthy( Clipper King).

"Be still, and know that I am God,"

THE SECRET PLACE
It is never given us in our imperfect human speech to say precisely where God in wise and loving presence with us ceases, where man in his uplift of heart and will begins. But what language cannot directly say a scriptural passage may impressively suggest. Hence we say to ourselves, as if speaking for that Presence: "Be still, and know that I am God," endeavoring to be genuinely still as we repeat the passage: "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee, because he trusteth in Thee." "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.''[1] These sayings bring us into the secret place as an experience, and that is what we need.

HOW TO DEMONSTRATE
Let us make the matter simple. Here is a day when one feels an inward need. There is a difficulty to be overcome, a problem to be solved, or someone to be helped. Let me then go apart by myself and seek the quiet sanctuary of the Spirit once more. "Be still, and know that I am God," I say to myself, with the realization that God is present like an Over-soul to guide and illumine me. May I trust in Him so that my mind shall be "stayed" upon His wisdom. May I be at
peace so that some measure of His peace shall touch my spirit with tranquillity. Then may I see the way in the special direction in which I need light.

What I affirm as true, now, is the God-ward part of my life, the perfect peace in which the Father can keep me, the infinite wisdom adequate to meet all occasions, the perfect love which casts out all fear. If I did not lack this peace there would be no reason for seeking it. If I realized all wisdom I should have no problem to bring forward for solution. If perfect love controlled my heart I should not have "one fear to conquer each day." Inevitably then I must take an attitude in my quest for help which admits a lack, with humility or readiness enough to make me receptive. Since the Father already knows the way whereon I should walk, since He has provided for every need, my part is to listen and make myself ready in the secret place that I may receive what the Father has provided.

What I must do, therefore, in order to demonstrate is to put out of the way whatever thought, attitude of will, emotion, habit, deed or mode of conduct there may be that interferes with the coming of what the Father has provided. Then when my thinking, my willing and my conduct follow the spiritual order, I may indeed make use of my imaging power, my affirmations and all the rest of my psychological equipment, to foster the things of the Spirit.

Excerpts from:
SPIRITUAL HEALTH AND HEALING
By

HORATIO W. DRESSER. Ph.D.
1922

[1]
King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Peshitta
Cease striving and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.
The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace, Because he trusts in You.
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High Will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.