Auto-Suggestion; What It Is and How to Use It for Health, Happiness and Success (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER in Auto-Suggestions How to Employ It to Overcome Mental Troubles IN MY practice of suggestive therapeutics I am consulted almost daily by patients who tell me that they are suffering from mental troubles in one or more of the following forms?worry, grief, fear, insomnia, timidity, nervousness, melancholia, loss of memory or lack of concentration; that they have practiced auto-suggestion faithfully, taken Christian Science treatment and used the affirmations conscientiously without obtaining relief, and that they have come to the conclusion they require the assistance of a stronger mind to enable them to overcome their mental troubles. After listening to their tales of woe I invariably question this class of patients carefully about their physical condition. Frequently my questions are answered impatiently and before I have finished the examination the patient may say: "Doctor, I don't care about any physical trouble I may have. I have consulted other physicians about them and can keep myself in fairly good condition by taking a little medicine occasionally, but I have come to you to be relieved of my mental troubles, and if you can alleviate these I can stand the physical inconveniences: in fact, if my mental condition be improved I believe my physical symptoms will disappear." It is curious how many persons overlook the fact that the mind and body are interdependent. Occasionally we find a person in perfect physical health suffering from a mental trouble, and sometimes we find a patient with a physical trouble whose mental condition seems perfect. But these cases are exceptions to the rule and a careful analysis of even these exceptions might show that they are more apparent than real, especially if the mental or physical trouble be chronic. Not one pers...