Let me cite the case a man who was chased by a ball and only succeeded in escaping escaping injuries. Shortly after this frightening experience he developed a form of dysentery which failed to yield to medical treatment. He finally consulted a metaphysical healer, who inquired into hip past history and was told of the aforementioned incident. The healer then set to work to eradicate the impression left on the subconscious mind, his modus operandi being silently to deny that the man had ever been frightened by bull. The result was a complete cure.
Many years ago I myself treated a somewhat similar case. A middle-aged lady suffered from severe functional heart attacks. It transpired that in her teens she had been frightened by an over-severe governess, her fear of this woman having been so pronounced that it induced palpitation.
By dint of sitting with the” patient” while she read a book, and silently concentrating on the idea that she had never been frightened in this way, her heart complaint was cured. A case of severe neuralgia of the throat and also one of neuralgia of the face yielded to similar treatment. In both cases the patient had been sceptical, so that one cannot ascribe the cures to faith.
Sometimes a disease may be cases by grief. I may mention the case of a man suffered from diabetes for about thirty years. He finally consulted a homoeopath, who tried various remedies but with little result. One day the patient admitted that thirty years previously he had suffered a great loss which occasioned him profound grief. The homoeopath then prescribed Ignatia–a corrective to grief, and the man was cured.
