The Importance of Right Mental and Emotional

Attitude on the Part of Friends and Relatives

What has just been said about the patient is true also of his friends and relatives.  Disease is negative.  The sick person is exceedingly sensitive to his surroundings.  He is easily influenced by all depressing, discordant and jarring conditions.  He catches the expressions of fear and anxiety in the looks, the words, gestures and actions of his attendants, relatives and friends and these intensify his own depression and gloomy forebodings.

This applies especially to the influence exerted by the mother upon her ailing infant.  There exists a most intimate sympathetic and telepathic connection between mother and child.  The child is affected not only by the outward expression of the mother’s fear and anxiety, but likewise by the hidden doubt and despair in the mother’s mind and soul.

Usually, the first thing that confronts me when I am called to the sickbed of a child is the frantic and almost hysterical mental condition of the mother, and to begin with, I have to explain to her the destructive influence of her behavior.  I ask her: 

“Would you willingly give some deadly poison to your child?” “Certainly not,” she says, to which I reply: 

“Do you realize that you are doing this very thing?  That your fear and worry vibrations actually poison and paralyze the vital energies in the body of your child and most seriously interfere with Nature’s healing processes?

“Instead of helping the disease forces to destroy your child, assist the healing forces to save it by maintaining an attitude of absolute faith, serenity, calmness and cheerfulness.  Then your looks, your voice, your touch will convey to your child the positive, magnetic vibrations of health and of strength.  Your very presence will radiate healing power.”

Then I explain how faith, calmness and cheerfulness on her part will soothe and harmonize the discordant disease vibrations in the child’s body.

Herein lies the modus operandi or working basis of all successful mental and metaphysical treatment.

Summary

Natural Methods in the Treatment of Acute Disease

I.  Fresh Air

A plentiful supply of pure air in the sickroom.  Frequent exposure of the nude body to air and sun light.  Patient must not be kept too warm.

II.  Natural Diet

The minimum amount of light food, chiefly fruit and vegetable salads, no condiments.  Only enough water to quench thirst, preferably mixed with acid fruit juices.  In serious acute febrile conditions and during healing crises no food whatever.  In diseases affecting the digestive organs fasting must be prolonged several days beyond cessation of febrile symptoms.  Great care must be observed when breaking fast.

III.  Water Treatment