The healer who wishes to give absent treatments should study carefully the portions of this work relating to telementative induction, the currents, thought-forms, etc. Remember, please, that all the work of mental healing is done along the lines of □tentative induction, just as is the work of all forms of mentative influence. There is but one great law underlying all of these forms of manifestation, and if you understand the fundamental principle you will be able to reproduce any or all of the manifestations of it. The instruction regarding mental healing is not confined to this chapter alone - it must be gained from a study of all these chapters, for the reasons just stated. Strive always to acquire a clear knowledge of the underlying principles, and you need not worry about the details of operation or manifestation.

And, now, just a word about self-healing, along these lines. There is no difference between self-healing, and the healing of others. Here is a good method - simple and efficacious. All that is neces-sary for you to do is to imagine yourself as a patient coming to yourself for treatment. Suppose your name is "John Smith," and you wish to treat yourself along the lines of the general treatment. All you have to do is to let the central mind part of you (or the "I") proceed to treat the body of "John Smith." Talk to "John Smith" just as if he were an entirely separate individual. Tell him what he should do, and what he should know, and what you expect to do for him. Give him the same suggestions that you would give another patient. Talk up to him, and jell him just what you mean to do for him, and what be has got to do himself. Then give him the Silent Treatment just as you would another patient. Even give him the parting words, just as you would a patient. In short, treat him first, last, and all the time as you would another patient. You will be surprised to note how efficacious this plan is. This method is original with myself, so far as I know. There is a good, strong psychological and occult reason for this plan of self-treatment, which is not necessary to go into here - the principal thing is that it "will do the work." Try it. The ordinary method of self-treatment is to say, "I am well" and so on, giving the suggestions in the first person. I consider that my own plan gives better results, but you may try both, and decide for yourself.

And now for the "local treatment" methods of mental healing. These are very simple also - so simple that I fear some of yon will undervalue them. But do not deceive yourselves, good friends, the "simplicity" represents years of hard work along experimental lines, and is really the "boiling down" of many methods far more complicated and technical. It is the "essence" of the thing, again. I wish that I could have obtained this information as easily as you are doing - but I couldn't, for I had to work it out for myself, in connection with other experimenters and investigators. The underlying theory of this local treatment in mental healing is (1) that there is mind in every cell; cell-group; organ; and part, of the body; and (2) that the mentatwe energy in such mind is negative to that in the central mind of ihe individual, and consequently, yields to its positivity when properly applied. That is the whole story in a nut-shell. Now see if you can grasp its importance.

The above principle of the "local treatment" is really also employed in the general treatment, because the central mind of the patient is stirred into induced activity and positivity by the suggestion, or mentative currents of the healer, or both. The cen-tral mind of the patient, so stirred up by induction, :hen acts upon the mind in the cells, organs, etc., unconsciously, and the cure results. Do you see just what I mean? Well, then in the local treatment, instead of going about it in this way, the healer brings lis mentative energy to bear right directly upon the mind in cells, and organs themselves. So you see the process is really the same at the last, that is, it is the application of the positive central mind upon the negative mind of the cells, organs and parts.

Now, then, how may one treat the cells and organs of another person, in this way? The process is very simple, when you once learn it. All that is necessary is for you to "treat" the organ, or part, just as you did the patient, in several forms of general treatment, as stated a little while ago. You must learn to "talk to" the organ or part affected, and to give it suggestions and mental treatment just as you did your personal patient. In short, the the nearer you can come to considering, and treat teacher, And I am inclined to think that she is right, and has made an improvement on my original idea. For these "cell-minds," or "organ-minds" closely resemhle the minds of undeveloped children, and are often unreasonably stubborn, although if they are reached the right way, by a firm though kindly tone, in most cases they "will obey orders, and mend their ways.

It is well to use the hands at the beginning of this form of treatment, in the direction of tapping or patting the part of the body directly over the organ. This seems to have the effect of awakening the attention of the organ-mind, so that it becomes more receptive. It is akin to tapping the shoulder of a man on the street, to whom you wish to speak. In such cases, it is well to send the mental command: "Here! Listen to me!" The hands of the healer may also be passed over the body as the mental commands are given, and they serve to give an additional and strengthened suggestion when properly used.

A plain, simple way of giving this treatment is to awaken the attention of the mind in the organ or part, as above stated, and then proceed to mentally lecture it calling it by name, as for instance. "Here, stomach!" or "Now, you liver," etc. Don't smile at this advice - just try it on yourself and you will stop smiling. Then go on and tell the organ-mind just what you would tell it if it were an actual personality - a childish mind, for instance. You will soon find how quick the organ-mind is to awaken to your words, and to act upon your suggestions or orders. Follow the laws of suggestion in giving these treatments to the organ-minds - that is, remember the suggestive phases of repetition, authoritative demand or command, etc. Don't be afraid, but start in to give the organ-mind "a piece of your mind," and it will obey you.