Children are particularly open to suggestion because they have not had the experiences which develop reason, make them skeptical and cautious.
The secret power within the child is that this spirit of healing meets with little or no resistance. If medicine is kept away and no disturbing influence or fear be allowed to interfere with the natural process and the mother has the faith and the confidence she can better fill the office of health restorer than anyone else.
We can successfully treat children, youths or adults by oral suggestion if we can get their attention long enough. The difficulty with children is that they are so active we find it difficult to get their attention for any length of time. The older children may offer objections because of their being at that particular age when they "know everything." They may not agree with mental treatment, especially if they are being treated for perversion, correction of bad habits or undeveloped character. They may not only demur mentally but outright which opposition would make a strong counter suggestion.
In healing children we are not constrained by the same limitations of doubt and questioning as with the adult.
Children are much more sensitive to the thought forces of those about them than are grown ups.
The chief difficulty in dealing with children lies too often in the faulty attitude of the parent, for a highly organized child is easily affected by the false beliefs and nerves of his elders, so the healer must always endeavor to get the co-operation of the father and mother or other near relative. If this co-operation can be secured, healing a child is easy, otherwise it is hard, unless the child throws himself upon the "mercy" of God and you, which is rarely the case if there is a strong opposition manifested by the parents. Fortunate the practitioner who has to deal only with parents not skeptical about mental healing.
In any event, do not argue, merely present your case giving the same reasons for healing as you give your patient, then draw attention to the greater sensitiveness of the child. If the doctors have failed most parents will yield at least a negative co-operation in healing their children by mind.
Sometimes the parent by scolding, nagging, lack of self control, worrying, etc., not only makes the child sick, but continues the vibration which prevents the child from being healed.
The only thing to do in a case like this is to tell the parent to play on his own cellar door and keep away from the child as much as possible--to dig up the weeds in his own soul garden.
It is either the case of a parent staying on his own side of the fence, and giving the practitioner and the child a chance to help nature, or surrendering to the negative forces that be.
The secret power within the child is that this spirit of healing meets with little or no resistance. If medicine is kept away and no disturbing influence or fear be allowed to interfere with the natural process and the mother has the faith and the confidence she can better fill the office of health restorer than anyone else.
We can successfully treat children, youths or adults by oral suggestion if we can get their attention long enough. The difficulty with children is that they are so active we find it difficult to get their attention for any length of time. The older children may offer objections because of their being at that particular age when they "know everything." They may not agree with mental treatment, especially if they are being treated for perversion, correction of bad habits or undeveloped character. They may not only demur mentally but outright which opposition would make a strong counter suggestion.
In healing children we are not constrained by the same limitations of doubt and questioning as with the adult.
Children are much more sensitive to the thought forces of those about them than are grown ups.
The chief difficulty in dealing with children lies too often in the faulty attitude of the parent, for a highly organized child is easily affected by the false beliefs and nerves of his elders, so the healer must always endeavor to get the co-operation of the father and mother or other near relative. If this co-operation can be secured, healing a child is easy, otherwise it is hard, unless the child throws himself upon the "mercy" of God and you, which is rarely the case if there is a strong opposition manifested by the parents. Fortunate the practitioner who has to deal only with parents not skeptical about mental healing.
In any event, do not argue, merely present your case giving the same reasons for healing as you give your patient, then draw attention to the greater sensitiveness of the child. If the doctors have failed most parents will yield at least a negative co-operation in healing their children by mind.
Sometimes the parent by scolding, nagging, lack of self control, worrying, etc., not only makes the child sick, but continues the vibration which prevents the child from being healed.
The only thing to do in a case like this is to tell the parent to play on his own cellar door and keep away from the child as much as possible--to dig up the weeds in his own soul garden.
It is either the case of a parent staying on his own side of the fence, and giving the practitioner and the child a chance to help nature, or surrendering to the negative forces that be.
