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Nor is it essential to employ hypnosis. What is important in promoting health, is not suggestion coming from other but auto- suggestion. In other words, the healing power lies wholly within the patient's own orgainsm. The healer or the hypnotist is merely an agent helping to stimulate it. This hypothesis has received ample confirmation from countless experiments. Autosuggestion is a simple explanation of the centuries old faith-healing. The trouble is, that it is too simple. It does not exhibit any apparently miraculous element.
Anuprekṣā---Contemplation--is an important exercise in the system of preksā. In this, auto-suggestion plays a very significant role.
By use of auto-suggestion and intense willing, the practitioner can modify his psychological distortions, change his attitude and behavioural patterns and generally develop his personality.
Faith-healing is a System of Psycho-therapy
In the western countries, a system of therapy called autogenic therapy is recently developing. In this system, the patient himself reaches his subconscious mind and effects the cure by developing the inherent immunological forces. First he visualises the desired state of health, sustains the visualisation, repeatedly recites the desired change and finally experiences it.
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