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Kate Atkinson Boehme's

Mental Healing Made Plain

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What is Thought - A Silent Force - Involuntary Action - Mental Activities - Modes of Action - Knowledge preceeds Experience - Revolutionizing My Ideas - New Thought Atmosphere - Something better Than Fear - Mental Healing is an Art - Hope for Humanity - Contents -


LESSON VII.

When I began the study of mental healing, I imagined it was something to be acquired after the manner of arithmetic, geography, chemistry or any other of the studies which we pursue in the ordinary course of education. I expected to get hold of rules such as one finds in grammar or mathematics. I procured course after course of instruction in order to discover these rules or some exact method by which healing was to be accomplished. Of course I was disappointed. The secret might be an open one, but nowhere did it seem revealed to my waiting eyes. Each writer in his or her fashion seemed bent on revolutionizing my ideas instead of giving me anything practical. This made me impatient, for I wanted to get hold of something as definite as a mathematical statement, which I could work out and prove as I would a sum.

I expect you are all seeking the same thing, friends, and I want to tell you right now that you will not find it. No one can tell you how to do mental healing by rule, as you would make a cake or put up a doctor's prescription, for it is something which can not be done in purely mechanical fashion. In this sense it is more of an art than a science. To be sure,

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