DOCTORS AND SPIRITUAL HEALING

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22201, 18 September 1937, Page 20

DOCTORS AND SPIRITUAL HEALING

TO THK EDITOtt OF THE PRESS. Sir,—lf, instead of matter and spirit, one would think in terms of physics and metaphysics, many things which are at present obscure in relation to the action between the mind and the body would be made plain. The physician deals with the body only. The metaphysician can conceive of something above the physical, and works.with the mind. I have already explained how the body is acted upon by the mind in response to thought, or the mind in action. The strong suggestion of health, given by the metaphysician, is more potent than the physical remedy of the physician. The latter is beneficial according to the amount of faith (acceptance of suggestion), which the patient has in the physician. When once a patient can be made hopeful, this change of mind effects a corresponding change in the body. If the thoughts can be lifted up. the whole organism is raised to a higher rate of vibration. Scientists are beginning to discover that matter has different rates of vibration. Raise the rate of vibration, then, and it is plain that congested areas will respond and the normal function can be restored. Right diet plays its part, as the body is made up of certain elements and cannot function healthfully without them. There are many who cannot be helped in this mode of treatment Long, continued thinking on certain lines becomes habit, and then definite i grooves are formed in brain substance. I Nervous impulse will continue to operate through these tracts until new ones have been constructed. If the patient will not make the effort to alter the way of thinking, or has no faith (hope), then the metaphysician cannot help very much. There must be some degree of co-operation between the healer and the one to be < healed. The secret of this method of treatment lies in the fact that the subconscious mind acts on suggestions from the conscious mind. It can be made suggestible to whatever is vividly suggested to it. It contacts the body through the medium of the solar plexus and the sympathetic nervous system, explaining the overcoming of congestion, etc., through the change in the calibre of blood vessels. The calibre of the vessels is controlled by the sympathetic nerves, as is well known. Regarding the tendency of many to reject all but material things, I can sympathise with them, having been through this stage myself. In many cases it is rebellion against churchianity, i.e., creed, dogma and ritual. When they learn that so-called religion is what is in the mind, they will alter their way of thinking.—Yours, etc., M. G. DAVIES. September 17, 1937. [This correspondence is now closed.—Ed., "The Press."!