I read this in the book “The Magic of Believing” by Claude M. Bristol (pgs. 127 & 128), and thought it was really interesting. So I’m retyping it here for my benefit and for yours.

“…those who are fairly well agreed that a cure does not come through treatment on the part of the healer nearly so much as it does from the patient him or herself. I other words, the suggestion, no matter in what form it is given by the healer (whether in accordance with the principles of psychotherapeutics or in conjunction with some special religious belief), is in turn transmitted by auto suggestion to the patient’s own subconscious mind where it becomes effective. The author realizes that the following statement may invite criticism, but the fact remains that if a patient refuses to believe in the suggestive appeals of the healer, the purpose is never accomplished..

The two, the healer and the patient, have to be en rapport to get results, and it the author’s theory of the that any person who possesses an understanding of the use of the power of suggestion could get the same results without the aid of a healer, provided he or she were sufficiently strong and constant, in his own convictions and suggestions. The same technique, the cards and the mirror, with suitable affirmations, can be used to great advantage.”

(I added all the bolding and underlining.)

I know in my case that it was an indelible fact in my mind, that I wasn’t supposed to be in the hospital bed and I needed to get back home again. My religious belief is Christianity, so I happen to believe that God, who has the ultimate say in this whole life/death matter, put the ambition in me to get out of that hospital and continue living.

He is the one who does the ultimate healing, I am supposed to believe it and move ahead.

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