Self Control
In the little town where I was raised, there lived an old lady
who constantly complained that she feared death from cancer. During her
childhood she had seen a woman who had cancer and the sight had so impressed
itself upon her mind that she began to look for the symptoms of cancer in her
own body.
She was sure that every little ache and pain was the beginning of her long-looked-for symptom of cancer. I have seen her place her hand on her breast and have heard her exclaim,
"Oh, I am sure I have a cancer growing here. I can feel it."
When complaining of this imaginary disease, she always placed her hand on her left breast, where she believed the cancer was attacking her. For more than twenty years she kept this up. A few weeks ago she died - with cancer on her left breast! If suggestion will actually turn the edge of a plank into a guillotine blade and transform healthy body cells into parasites out of which cancer will develop, can you not imagine what it will do in destroying disease germs, if properly directed?
Suggestion is the law through which mental healers work what appear to be miracles. I have personally witnessed the removal of parasitical growths known as warts, through the aid of suggestion, within forty-eight hours. Half the wrecks that strew life's ocean
If some star had been their guide, Might in safety now be riding,
But they drifted with the Tide. You - the reader of this lesson - can be sent to
bed with imaginary sickness of the worst sort, in two hours' time or less,
through the use of suggestion.
If you should start down the street and three or four people in whom you had confidence should meet you and each exclaim that you look ill you would be ready for a doctor. This brings to mind an experience that I once had with a life insurance salesman. I had made application for a policy, but was undecided as to whether I would take ten or twenty thousand dollars.
Meanwhile, the agent had sent me to the life insurance company's doctor to be examined. The following day I was called back for another examination. The second time the examination was more searching, and the doctor carried a worried look on his face.