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or crawled into its shell and 'pulled in the lid' after it, suggestion takes effect and materializes the suggested condition in the body of the patient. The subjective mind does not reason; it accepts the suggestion as true and performs its functions accordingly. It is perfectly obvious, therefore, that any wrong suggestion given to the subjective mind will produce evil effect, which will continue to exist, so long as it is not removed. The immunity of animals and idiots, many of whom eat enormously of whatever they can get, from the diseases of the digestive organs is due to the fact that they are beyond the reach of suggestions adverse to health. Some one has well said that if the current dietetic suggestions could reach the mind of an ostrich, he would soon be unable to eat a boiled potato. Such is the conclusion drawn by the modern Science of new Psychology. The cure of ills and ailments, therefore, most obviously, lies in a reversal of the wrong process. Two things have to be done to counteract the evil effects of the wrongful, harmful suggestion, and these are: (1) the removal of the existing evil, and (2) the prevention of its recurrence. The first requires the removal of the suggestion which is the cause of trouble, and the second necessitates our being on guard against all possible evil and harmful suggestions in the future. The task of removing the existing trouble is, however, enormous, as it cannot be accomplished till we know what is the wrongful, harmful suggestion which is its cause. The difficulty lies in the diagnosis, but when it is got over once the rest is easy enough; for the evil can be speedily got rid of by giving the opposite kind of healthy sugges
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