Preksha Dhyana Contemplation and Auto Suggestion

Author(s): Mahapragna Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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he made the patient to relax and gave suggestions. In all cultures for centuries, faith-healing followed a pattern, but later on faithhealing tended to be left to sorcerers and quacks.
With further progress of civilization, belief in the effectiveness of faith-healing began to dwindle and vanish except among the very credulous and very poor.
Franz Mesmer provides the link between the ancient healing techniques with faith-healing in its various manifestations today.
The simplest from of faith healing, however, dispensed with techniques, apparatuses and even with healers, and let the healing force come through the individual's own internal powers.
Sigmund Freud, the founder of Psychoanalysis, and later still Jung found that a patient could fall straight into a hypnotic sleep without any action on his part. This implies the process of auto-suggestion which was made the basis of later clinics where cures depended entirely on suggestion administered by the patient himself.
Healing and Suggestion
Faith-healing, in fact, is nothing else but applied suggestion. In 1953, Professor H.J. Eysenck described a scientific experiment in which a group of children with warts-virus induced tumours - was treated by suggestion; while another, the controulled group, was given the then orthodox medicaltreatment which was shown to be far less effective. It must be remembered that the warts are organic.
That suggestion given to patients under deep relaxation can produce striking and significant alterations in their bodily behaviour is proved by ample evidence.!
In other words, it is possible to use suggestion to effect a wide range of orgainc changes for treatment of the sick.
1. Dr. Stephen Black, Mind and Body, Kimber, London, 1969.
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