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Healing by Nonmaterial Means
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Pages 107-108
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Healing by Nonmaterial Means
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He teaches that there are also many methods of healing
without material means. There is a "contagion of health," as
well as a contagion of disease, although the former is very slow
and has a small effect, while the latter is often violent and
rapid in its action.
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Much more powerful effects result from the patient's own
mental states, and "suggestion" may play an important part in
determining these states. Fear, anger, worry, et cetera, are very
prejudicial to health, while hope, love, joy, et cetera, are
correspondingly beneficial.
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Thus Bahá'u'lláh says: --
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Verily the most necessary thing is contentment under
all circumstances; by this one is preserved from morbid
conditions and lassitude. Yield not to grief and sorrow:
they cause the greatest misery. Jealousy consumeth
the body and anger doth burn the liver: avoid these two as
you would a lion. -- Tablet to a Physician.
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And `Abdu'l-Bahá says: -- "Joy gives us wings. In times of
joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener. ... But
when sadness visits us our strength leaves us."
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Of another form of mental healing `Abdu'l-Bahá writes that
it results: --
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from the entire concentration of the mind of a strong person
upon a sick person, when the latter expects with all
his concentrated faith that a cure will be effected from the
spiritual power of the strong person, to such an extent
that there will be a cordial connection between the strong
person and the invalid. The strong person makes every
effort to cure the sick patient, and the sick patient is then
sure of receiving a cure. From the effect of these mental
impressions an excitement of the nerves is produced, and
this impression and this excitement of the nerves will become
the cause of the recovery of the sick person. -- Some
Answered Questions, p. 294.
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All these methods of healing, however, are limited in their
effects, and may fail to effect a cure in severe maladies.
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