Learn to pray for your loved ones who may be ill. Quiet your 
mind, and your thoughts of health, vitality, and per-fection operati ng 
through the one universal subjective mind will be felt and re surrected 
in the mind of your loved one. 71  6 
Practical Techniques in Mental  
Healings 
An engineer has a technique and a process for building a bridg e or 
an engine. Like the engineer, your mind also has a technique for 
governing, controlling, and directing your life. You must realize that 
methods and techniques are primary. In building the Golden Gate Bridge, the chief engineer understood 
mathematical principles, stresses and strains. Sec-ondly, he had  a 
picture of the ideal bridge across the bay. The third step was his 
application of tried and proven methods by which the principle s were 
implemented until the bridge took form and we drive on it. There  also 
are techniques and methods by which your prayers are answered. If 
your prayer is answered, there is a way in which it is answ ered, and 
this is a scientific way. Nothing happens by chance. This is a world of 
law and order. In this chapter you will find practical technique s for the 
unfolding and nurture of your spiritual life. Your prayers must not  
remain up in the air like a balloon. They must go somewhere  and 
accomplish something in your life. When we come to analyze prayer we discover there are many 
different approaches and methods. We will not consider in this book 
the formal, ritual prayers used in religious services. These have 
important place in-group worship. We are imme-diately conce rned 
with the methods of personal prayer as it is applied in your daily life 
and as it is used to help others. Prayer is the formulation of an idea concerning something we wish 
to accomplish. Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire. Your  desire is your 
prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it reveals the  things 
you want in life. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after 
righteousness: for they shall be filled. That is really prayer, life’s  
 72  hunger and thirst for peace, harmony, health, joy, and all the other 
blessings of life. • The passing-over technique for impregnating the subconscious 
This consists essentially in inducing the subconscious mind to ta ke 
over your request as handed it by the conscious mind. This passing  
over is best accomplished in the reverie-like state. Kn ow that in your 
deeper mind are Infinite Intelligence and In-finite Power. Ju st calmly 
think over what you want; see it com-ing into fuller fruition from  this 
moment forward. Be like the little girl who had a very bad coug h and 
a sore throat. She de-clared firmly and repeatedly, “It is  passing away 
now. It is pass-ing away now.” It passed away in about an hour. Use 
this tech-nique with complete simplicity and naïveté. • Your subconscious will accept your blueprint 
If you were building a new home for yourself and family, you know 
that- you would be intensely interested in regard to the bluepr int for 
your home; you would see to it that the builders conformed to the 
blueprint. You would watch the material and select only the best  
wood, steel, in fact, the best of everything. What about your mental  
home and your mental blueprint for happiness and abundance? All 
your experiences and everything that enters into your life depend up on  
the nature of the mental building blocks, which you use in the 
construction of your mental home. If your blueprint is full of mental patterns of fear, worry , anxiety, or 
lack, and if you are despondent, doubtful, and cyni-cal, then the 
texture of the mental material you are weaving into your mind will 
come forth as more toil, care, tension, anxiety, and limitation of a ll 
kinds. The most fundamental and the most far-reaching activity in life  is 
that which you build into your mentality every waking hour. Your 
word is silent and invisible; nevertheless, it is real. You are building your mental home all the time, and your thought 
and mental imagery represent your blueprint. Hour by hour, moment   
 73  by moment, you can build radiant health, success, and happines s by 
the thoughts you think, the ideas which you harbor, the beliefs th at 
you accept, and the scenes that you re-hearse in the hidden studio of 
your mind. This stately mansion, upon the construction of which y ou 
are perpetually engaged, is your personality, your identity in t his 
plane, your whole life story on this earth. Get a new blueprint; build silently by realizing peace, h ar-mony, 
joy, and good will in the present moment. By dwelling upon these 
things and claiming them, your subconscious will accept your 
blueprint and bring all these things to pass. By their fruits ye shall 
know them. • The science and art of true prayer 
The term “science” means knowledge, which is co-ordi-nated, 
arranged, and systematized. Let us think of the science and a rt of true 
prayer as it deals with the fundamental principles of life and the 
techniques and processes by which they can be demonstrated in your 
life, as well as in the life of every human being when he appl ies them 
faithfully. The art is your technique or process, and the sci ence behind 
it is the definite response of creative mind to your mental picture or 
thought. Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and  it 
shall be opened unto you. MATTHEW 7:7. Here you are told you shall receive that for which you ask. It shall 
be opened to you when you knock, and you shall find that for which 
you are searching. This teaching implies the definiteness of  mental 
and spiritual laws. There is always a direct response from  the Infinite 
Intelligence of your subconscious mind to your conscious thinking. If  
you ask for bread, you will not receive a stone. You must ask 
believing, if you are to receive. Your mind moves from the thought to  
the thing. Unless there is first an image in the mind, it cannot move, 
for there would be nothing for it to move toward. Your prayer, which is your men-tal act must be accepted as an 
image in your mind before the power from your subconscious will  
 74  play upon it and make it productive. You must reach a point of 
acceptance in your mind, an unqualified and undisputed state of 
agreement. This contemplation should be accompanied by a feeling of joy a nd 
restfulness in foreseeing the certain accomplishment of your de sire. The sound basis for the art and science of true prayer is your  
knowledge and complete confidence that the movement of your 
conscious mind will gain a definite response from your subconsciou s 
mind, which is one with boundless wis-dom and infinite power. By 
following this procedure, your pray-ers will be answered. • The visualization technique 
The easiest and most obvious way to formulate an idea is to 
visualize it, to see it in your mind’s eye as vividly as if  it were alive. You can see with the naked eye only what already exists in the  
external world; in a similar way, that which you can visualize in your 
mind’s eye already exists in the invisible realms of your mi nd. Any 
picture, which you have in your mind, is the substance of things hoped 
for and the evidence of things not seen. What you form in your 
imagination is as real as any part of your body. The idea and the  
thought are real and will one day appear in your objective world if you 
are faithful to your mental image. This process of thinking forms impressions in your mind; these  
impressions in turn become manifested as facts and ex-peri ences in 
your life. The builder visualizes the type of build-ing he wants; he s ees it as 
he desires it to be completed. His imagery and thought-process es 
become a plastic mold from which the building will emerge—a 
beautiful or an ugly one, a skyscraper or a very low one. His ment al 
imagery is projected as it is drawn on paper. Eventually, the contractor 
and his  work-ers gather the essential materials, and the b uilding 
progresses until it stands finished, conforming perfectly to the mental 
pat-terns of the architect. 75  I use the visualization technique prior to speaking from the 
platform. I quiet the wheels of my mind in order that I may pres ent to 
the subconscious mind my images of thought. Then, I picture the 
entire auditorium and the seats filled with men and women, and each  
one of them illumined and inspired by the in-finite healing presence 
within each one. I see them as radiant, happy, and free. Having first built up the idea in my imagination, I quietly sustain it 
there as a mental picture while I imagine I hear men and wome n 
saying, “I am healed,” “I feel wonderful,” “I’ve had an instanta neous 
healing,” “I’m transformed.” I keep this up for about ten minute s or 
more, knowing and feeling that each per-son’s mind and body are 
saturated with love, wholeness, beauty, and perfection. My aw areness 
grows to the point where in my mind I can actually hear the voic es of 
the multitude proclaim-ing their health and happiness; then I rele ase 
the whole picture and go onto the platform. Almost every Sunday  
some people stop and say that their prayers were answered. • Mental movie method 
The Chinese say, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Willia m 
James, the father of American psychology, stressed the fact th at the 
subconscious mind will bring to pass any pic-ture held in the mind and 
backed by faith. Act as though I am, and I will be. A number of years ago I was in the Middle West lecturing in se veral 
states, and I desired to have a permanent location in the general  area 
from which I could serve those who desired help. I traveled far , but 
the desire did not leave my mind. One evening, while in a hotel i n 
Spokane, Washington, I relaxed completely on a couch, immobilized 
my attention, and in a quiet, passive manner imagined that I w as 
talking to a large audience, saying in effect, “I am glad t o be here; I 
have prayed for the ideal opportunity.” I saw in my mind’s ey e the 
imaginary audience, and I felt the reality of it all. I playe d the role of 
the actor, dramatized this mental movie, and felt satisfied that this 
picture was being conveyed to my subconscious mind, which would 
bring it to pass in its own way. The next morning, on awakening, I  felt  
 76  a great sense of peace and satisfaction, and in a few days ’ time I 
received a telegram asking me to take over an organization in the 
Midwest, which I did, and I enjoyed it immensely for several years. The method outlined here appeals to many who have de-scribed it as 
“the mental movie method.” I have received nu-merous letters f rom 
people who listen to my radio talks and weekly public lectu res, telling 
me of the wonderful results they get using this technique in  the sale of 
their property. I suggest to those who have homes or property fo r sale 
that they satisfy themselves in their own mind that their pr ice is right. Then, I claim that the Infinite Intelligence is attracting to them the 
buyer who really wants to have the property and who will love i t and  
prosper in it. After having done this I suggest that they quiet t heir 
mind, relax, let go, and get into a drowsy, sleepy state, which reduce s 
all mental effort to a minimum. Then, they are to picture t he check in 
their hands, rejoice in the check, give thanks for the check, and g o off 
to sleep feeling the naturalness of the whole mental movie c reated in 
their own mind. They must act as though it were an objective rea lity, 
and the subconscious mind will take it as an impression, and thro ugh 
the deeper currents of the mind the buyer and the seller are brought 
together. A mental picture held in the mind, backed by faith, wi ll 
come to pass. • The Baudoin technique 
Charles Baudoin was a professor at the Rousseau Institute in France. He was a brilliant psychotherapist and a research direct or of the New 
Nancy School of Healing, who in 1910 taught that the best way to 
impress the subconscious mind was to enter into a drowsy, sle epy 
state, or a state akin to sleep in which all effort was r educed to a 
minimum. Then in a quiet, passive, receptive way, by reflec tion, he 
would convey the idea to the subconscious. The following is his formula: “A very sim-ple way of securi ng this 
(impregnation of the subconscious mind) is to condense the idea 
which is to be the object of sug-gestion, to sum it up in a b rief phrase  
 77  which can be readily graven on the memory, and to repeat it over  and 
over again as a lullaby.” 
Some years ago, a young lady in Los Angeles was engaged in a 
prolonged bitter family lawsuit over a will. Her husband had  
bequeathed his entire estate to her, and his sons and daugh-ters  by a 
previous marriage were bitterly fighting to break the wil l. The 
Baudoin technique was outlined to her, and this is what she did: She 
relaxed her body in an armchair, entered into the sleepy stat e and, as 
suggested, condensed the idea of her need into a phrase consist ing of 
six words easily graven on the memory. “It is finished in Divi ne 
Order.” The significance to her of these words meant that Inf inite 
Intelligence operating through the laws of her subconscious mind 
would bring about a harmonious adjustment through the principle o f 
harmony. She continued this procedure every night for about ten 
nights. After she got into a sleepy state, she would affirm s lowly, 
quietly, and feelingly the statement: “It is finished in Divine  Order,” 
over and over again, feeling a sense of inner peace and an al l-per-
vading tranquility; then she went off into her deep, normal sleep. On the morning of the eleventh day, following the use of the above 
technique, she awakened with a sense of well-being, a conviction that 
it was finished. Her attorney called her the same day, saying that the 
opposing attorney and his clients were willing to settle. A har monious 
agreement was reached, and litigation was discontinued. • The sleeping technique 
By entering into a sleepy, drowsy state, effort is reduced to a  
minimum. The conscious mind is submerged to a great extent w hen in 
a sleepy state. The reason for this is that the highest degree of outcropping  of the 
subconscious occurs prior to sleep and just after we awaken. I n this 
state the negative thoughts, which tend to neutralize your desire and so 
prevent acceptance by your subconscious mind, are no longer present. Suppose you want to get rid of a destructive habit. Assume a 
comfortable posture, relax your body, and be still. Get into a sleepy  
 78  state, and in that sleepy state, say quietly, over and over ag ain as a 
lullaby, “I am completely free from this habit; harmony and pe ace of 
mind reign supreme.” Repeat the above slowly, quietly, and lovingl y 
for five or ten minute’s night and morning. Each time you repeat t he 
words the emotional value becomes greater. When the urge comes t o 
repeat the negative habit, repeat the above formula out loud by 
yourself. By this means you induce the subconscious to accept th e 
idea, and a healing follows. • The thank-you  technique 
In the Bible, Paul recommends that we make known our requests 
with praise and thanksgiving. Some extraordinary re-sults fo llow this 
simple method of prayer. The thankful heart is always close to the 
creative forces of the universe, causing count-less blessings  to flow 
toward it by the law of reciprocal relation-ship, based on a  cosmic law 
of action and reaction. For instance, a father promises his son a car for gradua-tion; the  boy 
has not yet received the car, but he is very thank-ful and happy, a nd is 
as joyous as though he had actually re-ceived the car. He knows hi s 
father will fulfill his promise, and he is full of grati tude and joy even 
though he has not yet received the car, objectively speaking. He has, 
however, received it with joy and thankfulness in his mind. I shall illustrate how Mr. Broke applied this technique with 
excellent results. He said, “Bills are piling up, I am out of work, I have 
three children and no money. What shall I do?” Regularly every nig ht 
and morning, for a period of about three weeks, he repeated the words, 
“Thank you, Father, for my wealth,” in a relaxed, peaceful manne r 
until the feeling or mood of thankful-ness dominated his mind. He 
imagined he was addressing the infinite power and intelligence within 
him knowing, of course, that he could not see the creative inte lligence 
or infinite mind. He was seeing with the inner eye of spiri tual 
perception, realiz-ing that his thought-image of wealth was t he first 
cause, relative to the money, position, and food he needed. His 
thought feeling was the substance of wealth untrammeled by  
 79 antecedent conditions of any kind. By repeating, “Thank you, Father,” 
over and over again, his mind and heart were lifted up to the poi nt of 
acceptance, and when fear, thoughts of lack, poverty, and dis-tress  
came into his mind, he would say, “Thank you, Father,” as often as 
necessary. He knew that as he kept up the thankful attitude h e would 
recondition his mind to the idea of wealth, which is what happened. The sequel to his prayer is very interesting. After prayi ng in the 
abovementioned manner, he met a former employer of his on the 
street whom he had not seen for twenty years. The man offered him a 
very lucrative position and advanced him $500 on a temporary loan. Today, Mr. Broke is vicepresident of the company for which he  
works. His recent remark to me was, “I shall never forget  the wonders 
of ‘Thank you, Father.’ It has worked wonders for me.” 
• The affirmative method 
The effectiveness of an affirmation is determined largely by  your 
understanding of the truth and the meaning back of the words, ³In 
praying use not vain repetition.´ Therefore, the power of your 
affirmation lies in the intelligent application of defin ite and specific 
positives. For example, a boy adds three and three and puts down 
seven on the blackboard. The teacher affirms with mathematic al 
certainty that three and three are six; there-fore, the boy changes his 
figures accordingly. The teacher’s statement did not make thre e and 
three equal six because the latter was already a mathemati cal truth. The mathematical truth caused the boy to rearrange the figures  on the 
blackboard. It is abnormal to be sick; it is normal to be healthy. Health  
is the truth of your being. When you affirm health, harmony, and 
peace for yourself or another, and when you realize these are unive rsal 
principles of your own being, you will rearrange the negative patterns 
of your subconscious mind based on your faith and understanding of 
that which you affirm. The result of the affirmative process of prayer depends on y our 
conforming to the principles of life, regardless of appear-a nces. 80  Consider for a moment that there is a principle of mathem atics and 
none of error; there is a principle of truth but none of dishonesty. There is a principle of intelligence but none of ignorance; there is a 
principle of harmony and none of discord. There is a principle o f 
health but none of disease, and there is a principle of abundance  but 
none of poverty. The affirmative method was chosen by the author for use on his 
sister who was to be operated on for the removal of gall-stone s in a 
hospital in England. The condition described was based on the 
diagnosis of hospital tests and the usual X-ray pro-cedures. She asked 
me to pray for her. We were separated geographically about  6,500 
miles, but there is no time or space in the mind principle. Infinite mind 
or intelligence is present in its entirety at every point simulta neously. I    
withdrew all thought from the contemplation of symptoms and from  
the corporeal personality altogether. I affirmed as follows : “This 
prayer is for my sister Catherine. She is relaxed and at p eace, poised, 
balanced, serene, and calm. The healing intelligence of her sub -
conscious mind, which created her body, is now transforming every 
cell, nerve, tissue, muscle, and bone of her being according to t he 
perfect pattern of all organs lodged in her subconscious mind. Silently, 
quietly, all distorted thought patterns in her sub-conscious mind ar e 
removed and dissolved, and the vitality, wholeness, and beauty of th e 
life principle are made manifest in every atom of her being . She is 
now open and receptive to the healing currents, which are flowing  
through her like a river, restoring her to perfect health, harm ony, and 
peace. All dis-tortions and ugly images are now washed away b y the 
infinite ocean of love and peace flowing through her, and it is so.” 
I affirmed the above several times a day, and at the end of  two 
weeks my sister had an examination, which showed a re-markabl e 
healing, and the X ray, proved negative. To affirm is to state that it is so, and as you maintain this attitude of 
mind as true, regardless of all evidence to the con-trary, you will 
receive an answer to your prayer. Your thought can only affirm , for  
 81  even if you deny something, you are actually affirming the presence of 
what you deny. Repeating an affirma-tion, knowing what you are saying and why 
you are saying it, leads the mind to that state of consciousness where it 
accepts that which you state as true. Keep on affirming t he truths of 
life until you get the subconscious reaction, which satisfies. • The argumentative method 
This method is just what the word implies. It stems from the  
procedure of Dr. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby of Maine. Dr. Quimby, a  
pioneer in mental and spiritual healing, lived and practiced in B elfast, 
Maine, about one hundred years ago. A book called The Quimby 
Manuscripts, published in 1921 by Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 
New York City, and edited by Horatio Dresser, is available i n your 
library. This book gives newspaper accounts of this man’s remarkable 
results in prayer treatment of the sick. Quimby duplicated many of the healing miracles recorded in the 
Bible. In brief, the argumentative method employed according  to 
Quimby consists of spiritual reasoning where you convince the patie nt 
and yourself that his sickness is due to his false belief, ground less 
fears, and negative patterns lodged in his subconscious mind. You 
reason it out clearly in your mind and convince your patient tha t the 
disease or ailment is due only to a distorted, twisted patte rn of 
thought, which has taken form in his body. This wrong belief in some 
external power and external causes has now externalized itself  as 
sickness, and can be changed by changing the thought patterns. You explain to the sick person that the basis of all heali ng is a 
change of belief. You also point out that the subconscious mind 
created the body and all its organs; therefore, it knows how t o heal it, 
can heal it, and is doing so now as you speak. You argue in the 
courtroom of your mind that the disease is a shadow of the mind based 
on disease-soaked, morbid thought-imagery. You continue to build up all the evidence you can muster on behal f 
of the healing power within, which created all the organs in the  first  
 82  place, and which has a perfect pattern of every cell, nerve , and tissue 
within it. Then, you render a verdict in the courthouse of your mind i n 
favor of yourself or your patient. You liberate the sick one by faith 
and spiritual understanding. Your mental and spiritual evidence is  
overwhelming; they’re being but one mind, what you feel as true w ill 
be resurrected in the experience of the patient. This pro cedure is 
essentially the argumentative method used by Dr. Quimby of Main e 
from 1849 to 1869. • The absolute method is like modern sound wave therapy 
Many people throughout the world practice this form of prayer 
treatment with wonderful results. The person using the absolute 
method mentions the name of the patient, such as John Jones, then  
quietly and silently thinks of God and His qualities and attrib utes, 
such as, God is all bliss, boundless love, infinite intelligence, all-
powerful, boundless wisdom, absolute harmony, indescribable beauty, 
and perfection. As he quietly thinks along these lines he is li fted up in 
consciousness into a new spiritual wave length, at which times he 
feels the infinite ocean of God’s love is now dissolving ever ything 
unlike itself in the mind and body of John Jones for whom he is 
praying. He feels all the power and love of God are now focused o n 
John Jones, and whatever is bothering or vexing him is now 
completely neutralized in the presence of the infinite ocean of life and 
love. The absolute method of prayer might be likened to the sound wave  
or sonic therapy recently shown me by a distin-guished physic ian in 
Los Angeles. He has an ultra sound wave machine, which oscillate s at 
a tremendous speed and sends sound waves to any area of the body to   
which it is directed. These sound waves can be controlled, and he  told 
me of achieving re-markable results in dissolving arthr itic calcareous 
deposits, as well as the healing and removal of other disturbing  
conditions. To the degree that we rise in consciousness by contemplat-ing  
qualities and attributes of God, do we generate spiritual electronic  
 83  waves of harmony, health, and peace. Many remark-able healings 
follow this technique of prayer. •A cripple walks 
Dr. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, of whom we spoke previ-ously in 
this 
chapter, used the absolute method in the latter years of his h ealing 
career. He was really the father of psychosomatic medici ne and the 
first psychoanalyst. He had the capacity to diagnose clairv oyantly the 
cause of the patient’s trouble, pains, and aches. The following is a condensed account of the healing of a cripple as 
recorded in Quimby’s Manuscripts: 
Quimby was called on to visit a woman who was lame, aged, and 
bedridden. He states that her ailment was due to the fact tha t she was 
imprisoned by a creed so small and contracted that she could not stand 
upright and move about. She was living in the tomb of fear and 
ignorance; furthermore, she was taking the Bible literally, and it 
frightened her. “In this tomb,” Quimby said, “was the presence and 
power of God trying to burst the bands, break through the bonds, a nd 
rise from the dead.” When she would ask others for an explanation o f 
some passage of the Bible, the answer would be a stone; then she 
would hunger for the bread of life. Dr. Quimby diagnosed her case as 
a mind cloudy and stagnated, due to excitation and fear, caused by the 
inability to see clearly the meaning of the passage of t he Bible, which 
she had been reading. This showed itself in the body by her hea vy and 
sluggish feeling, which would terminate as paralysis. At this point Quimby asked her what was meant in the Bibl e verses: 
Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto Him that sent  me. Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither y e 
cannot come. JOHN 7:33-34. She replied that it meant Jesus went to heaven. Quimby explained what it really meant by telling her that being with 
her a little while meant his explanation of her symptoms, feelings, and  
 84  their causes; i.e., he had compassion and sympathy for her 
momentarily, but he could not remain in that mental state. The  next 
step was to go to Him that sent us, which, as Quimby pointed out, was 
the creative power of God in all of us. Quimby immediately traveled in his mind and contem-plated the 
divine ideal; i.e., the vitality, intelligence, harmony, and power of God 
functioning in the sick person. This is why he said to the woman, 
“Therefore, where I go you cannot come, for you are in your na rrow, 
restricted belief, and I am in health.” This prayer and explana tion 
produced an instantaneous sensa-tion, and a change came over her 
mind. She walked without her crutches! Quimby said it was one of the 
most singular of all his healings. She was, as it were, dead to error, 
and to bring her to life or truth was to raise her from the dead. Quimby 
quoted the resurrection of Christ and applied it to her own Christ  or 
health; this produced a powerful effect on her. He also ex-p lained to 
her that the truth, which she accepted, was the angel or idea, which 
rolled away the stone of fear, ignorance, and superstition, thereb y, 
releasing the healing power of God, which made her whole. • The decree method 
Power goes into our word according to the feeling and faith beh ind 
it. When we realize the power that moves the world is mov ing on our 
behalf and is backing up our word, our confidence and assurance 
grow. You do not try and add power to power; therefore, there must 
be no mental striving, coercion, force, or mental wrestling. A young girl used the decree method on a young man who was 
constantly phoning her, pressing her for dates, and meeting her at he r 
place of business; she found it very difficult to get rid o f him. She 
decreed as follows: “I release………unto God. He is in his true pla ce 
at all times. I am free, and he is free. I now decree that my words go 
forth into infinite mind and it brings it to pass. It is so.” She said he 
vanished and she has never seen him since, adding, “It was as tho ugh 
the ground swallowed him up.”  
 85  Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and 
the light shall shine upon thy ways. JOB 22:28. • Serve yourself with scientific truth 
1. Be a mental engineer and use tried and proven techniques in 
building a grander and greater life. 2. Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your des ire 
now and feel its reality, and you will experience the joy of the  
answered prayer. 3. Desire to accomplish things the easy way—with the sure aid of  
mental science. 4. You can build radiant health, success, and happiness by the 
thoughts you think in the hidden studio of your mind. 5. Experiment scientifically until you personally prove that there is 
always a direct response from the infinite intelli-gence of your 
subconscious mind to your conscious think-ing. 6. Feel the joy and restfulness in foreseeing the certain 
accomplishment of your desire. Any mental picture, which you have 
in your mind, is the substance of things hoped for and the evidenc e of 
things not seen. 7. A mental picture is worth a thousand words. Your subcon-scious 
will bring to pass any picture held in the mind backed by faith. 8. Avoid all effort or mental coercion in prayer. Get into a sle epy, 
drowsy state and lull yourself to sleep feeling and knowing that y our 
prayer is answered. 9. Remember that the thankful heart is always close to the ri ches of 
the universe. 10. To affirm is to state that it is so, and as you maintain this attitude 
of mind as true, regardless of all evidence to the contrary, y ou will 
receive an answer to your prayer. 86  11. Generate electronic waves of harmony, health, and peace by 
thinking of the love and the glory of God. 12. What you decree and feel as true will come to pass. Dec ree 
harmony, health, peace, and abundance. 87  7 
The Tendency of the Subconscious Is 
Lifeward 
Over 90 percent of your mental life is subconscious, so men a nd 
women who fail to make use of this marvelous power live withi n very 
narrow limits. Your subconscious processes are always lifeward and con-st ructive. Your subconscious is the builder of your body and maintains all its  
vital functions. It is on the job 24 hours a day and never sleeps . It is 
always trying to help and preserve you from harm. Your subconscious mind is in touch with infinite life and boundless 
wisdom, and its impulses and ideas are always life-ward. The gr eat 
aspirations, inspirations, and visions for a grander and nobler life, 
spring from the subconscious. Your profoundest convictions are those  
you cannot argue about rationally because they do not come from your 
conscious mind; they come from your subconscious mind. Your 
subconscious speaks to you in intuitions, impulses, hunches, 
intimations, urges, and ideas, and it is always telling you to ris e, 
transcend, grow, advance, adventure, and move forward to greater 
heights. The urge to love, to save the lives of others comes from the 
depths of your subconscious. For example, during the great San 
Francisco earthquake and fire of April 18, 1906, invalids and cripples 
who had been confined to bed for long periods of time, rose up and 
performed some of the most amazing feats of bravery and enduranc e. 
The intense desire welled up within them to save others at all  costs, 
and their subconscious responded accordingly. Great artists, musicians, poets, speakers, and writers tune in with 
their subconscious powers and become animated and inspired. For 
example, Robert Louis Stevenson, before he went to sleep, us ed to 
charge his subconscious with the task of evolv-ing stories for  him 
while he slept. He was accustomed to ask his subconscious to g ive  
 88  him a good, marketable thriller when his bank account was low. Stevenson said the intelligence of his deeper mind gave him the  story 
piece by piece, like a serial. This shows how your subconsci ous will 
speak lofty and wise sayings through you, which your conscious mind 
knows nothing about. Mark Twain confided to the world on many occasions that he never 
worked in his life. All his humor and all his great writ-ings were due 
to the fact that he tapped the inexhaustible reser-voir of h is 
subconscious mind. • How the body portrays the workings of the mind 
The interaction of your conscious and subconscious mind requires a 
similar interaction between the corresponding system of nerve s. The 
cerebrospinal system is the organ of the conscious mind, and th e 
sympathetic systemis the organ of the subcon-scious mind. The 
cerebrospinal system is the channel through which you receive  
conscious perception by means of your five physical senses and 
exercise control over the movement of your body. This system ha s its 
nerves in the brain, and it is the chan-nel of your volitional and 
conscious mental action. The sympathetic system, sometimes referred to as the in-v oluntary 
nervous system, has its center in a ganglionic mass at the ba ck of the 
stomach known as the solar plexus, and is some-times spoken of as  
the abdominal brain. It is the channel of that mental action whic h 
unconsciously supports the vital func-tions of the body. The two systems may work separately or synchronously. Judge 
Thomas Troward says, “The vaguest nerve passes out of the cere bral 
region as a portion of the voluntary system, and through it we c ontrol 
the vocal organs; then it passes onward to the thorax sending out 
branches to the heart and lungs; finally, passing through the 
diaphragm, it loses the outer coating which distinguishes the ner ves of 
the voluntary system and becomes identified with those of the 
sympathetic system, so forming a connecting link between the two  
and making the man physically a single entity. 89  “Similarly different areas of the brain indicate their con-nection 
with the objective and subjective activities of the mind respectively, 
and speaking in a general way we may assign the frontal portion of the 
brain to the former and the posterior portion to the latter, wh ile the 
intermediate portion partakes of the character of both.” 
A rather simple way of looking at the mental and physical 
interaction is to realize that your conscious mind grasps an idea, which 
induces a corresponding vibration in your voluntary sys-tem of nerves. This in turn causes a similar current to be gen-erated i n your 
involuntary system of nerves, thus handling the idea over to your 
subconscious mind, which is the creative me-dium. This is how your  
thoughts become things. Every thought entertained by your conscious mind and ac-cepted as 
true is sent by your brain to your solar plexus, the brain of your  
subconscious mind, to be made into your flesh, and to be brought forth 
into your world as a reality. • There is an intelligence which takes care of the body 
When you study the cellular system and the structure of the organs,  
such as eyes, ears, heart, liver, bladder, etc., you learn they c onsist of 
groups of cells which form a group intelligence whereby they  function 
together and are able to take orders and carry them out in deduct ive 
function at the suggestion of the master mind (conscious mind). A careful study of the single-celled organism shows you what goes 
on in your complex body. Though the mono-cellular organism has no 
organs, it still gives evidence of mind action and reaction per forming 
the basic functions of movement, ali-mentation, assimilation, and  
elimination. Many say there is an intelligence, which will take care of your body 
if you let it alone. That is true, but the difficulty is that the conscious 
mind always interferes with its five-sense evi-dence based on outer 
appearances, leading to the sway of false beliefs, fears , and mere 
opinion. When fear, false beliefs, and negative patterns ar e made to 
register in your subconscious mind through psychological, emotional   
 90  conditioning, there is no other course open to the subconscious mind 
except to act on the blue-print specifications offered it. • The subconscious mind works continually for the common good 
The subjective self within you works continuously for the genera l 
good, reflecting an innate principle of harmony behind all things . Your subconscious mind has its own will, and it is a very real 
something in itself. It acts night and day whether you act upon it or not. It is the b uilder 
of your body, but you cannot see, hear, or feel it building, as all this is 
a silent process. Your subconscious has a life of its own whic h is 
always moving toward harmony, health, and peace. This is the divin e 
norm within it seeking expression through you at all times. • How man interferes with the innate principle of harmony 
To think correctly, scientifically, we must know the “Truth. ” To 
know the truth is to be in harmony with the infinite intelli-ge nce and 
power  of your subconscious mind, which is always moving lifeward. Every thought or action, which is not harmonious, whether through 
ignorance or design, will result in discord and limitation of all kinds. Scientists inform us that you build a new body every eleven m onths; 
so you are really only eleven months old from a physical standpoint. If 
you build defects back into your body by thoughts of fear, anger, 
jealousy, and ill will, you have no one to blame but yourself. You are the sum total of your own thoughts. You can keep from 
entertaining negative thought and imagery. The way to get rid o f 
darkness is with light; the way to overcome cold is with heat ; the way 
to overcome the negative thought is to substitute the good thought . Affirm the good, and the bad will vanish. • Why it ’s normal to be healthy, vital, and strong it ’s abnormal to 
be sick 
The average child born into the world is perfectly healthy with all 
its organs functioning perfectly. This is the normal state, and w e  
 91  should remain healthy, vital, and strong. The instinct of self-
preservation is the strongest instinct of your nature, and it constitutes a  
most potent, ever-present, and constantly opera-tive truth, inhe rent in 
your nature. It is, therefore, obvious that all your thoughts, i deas, and 
beliefs must operate with greater potentiality when they  are in 
harmony with the innate life-principle in you, which is forever seeking 
to preserve and protect you along all lines. It follows from thi s that 
normal conditions can be restored with greater ease and certai nty than 
abnormal conditions can be induced. It is abnormal to be sick; it simply means you are going a gainst the 
stream of life and thinking negatively. The law of life is the  law of 
growth; all nature testifies to the operation of this law  by silently, 
constantly expressing itself in the law of growth. Where there  is 
growth and expression, there must be life; where there is l ife there 
must be harmony, and where there is harmony, there is perfect health. If your thought is in harmony with the creative principle of y our 
subconscious mind, you are in tune with the innate prin-ciple of 
harmony. If you entertain thoughts which are not in accordance with 
the principle of harmony, these thoughts cling to you, harass you, 
worry you, and finally bring about disease, and if persisted in, 
possibly death. In the healing of disease, you must increase the inflow and 
distribution of the vital forces of your subconscious mind throug hout 
your system. This can be done by eliminating thoughts of fear, worry , 
anxiety, jealousy, hatred, and every other destructive thought w hich 
tends to tear down and destroy your nerves and glands—body tissue 
which controls the elimina-tion of all waste material. • Pott’s disease cured 
In the Nautilus magazine of March, 1917, there appears an article 
about a boy suffering from Pott’s disease, or tuber-culosis of the 
spine, who had a remarkable healing. His name was Frederick El ias 
Andrews of Indianapolis, now minister of Unity School of 
Christianity, Kansas City, Missouri. His physician pronounced h im  
 92  incurable. He began to pray, and from a crooked, twisted cripple going 
about on hands and knees, he be-came a strong, straight, well-forme d 
man. He created his own affirmation, mentally absorbing the quali ties 
he needed. He affirmed over and over again many times a day, “I am whole,  
perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious, and happy.” He 
persevered and said that this prayer was the last utterance on his li ps at 
night and the first in the morning. He prayed for others also by 
sending out thoughts of love and health. This attitude of mind and way 
of prayer returned to him multiplied many times. His faith a nd 
perseverance paid off with big dividends. When thoughts of fea r, 
anger, jealousy, or envy drew his attention, he would immediately 
start his counteracting force of affirmation going in his mi nd. His 
subconscious mind responded according to the nature of his habitual 
thinking. This is the meaning of the statement in the Bible, Go thy 
way, thy faith hath made thee whole. MARK 10:52. • How faith in your subconscious powers makes you whole 
A young man, who came to my lectures on the healing power of the 
subconscious mind, had severe eye trouble, which his doctor said 
necessitated an operation. He said to himself, “My subconscious  made 
my eyes, and it can heal me.” 
Each night, as he went to sleep, he entered into a drowsy, meditati ve 
state, the condition akin to sleep. His attention was immobili zed and 
focused on the eye doctor. He imagined the doctor was in front of  
him, and he plainly heard, or imagined he heard, the doctor saying to  
him, “A miracle has happened!” He heard this over and over agai n 
every night for perhaps five minutes or so before going to sle ep. At 
the end of three weeks he again went to the ophthalmologist who had 
previously examined his eyes, and the physician said to this man, 
“This is a miracle!”  
What happened? This man impressed his subconscious mind using 
the doctor as an instrument or a means of convincing it or conveying 
the idea. 93  Through repetition, faith, and expect-ancy he impregnated his 
subconscious mind. His subconscious mind made his eye; within it 
was the perfect pattern, and imme-diately it proceeded to heal the eye. This is another example of how faith in the healing power of your 
subconscious can make you whole. • Pointers to review 
1. Your subconscious is the builder of your body and is on the job 
24 hours a day. You interfere with its life-giving patterns by negative 
thinking. 2. Charge your subconscious with the task of evolving an an-swer t o 
any problem, prior to sleep and it will answer you. 3. Watch your thoughts. Every thought accepted as true is sent by 
your brain to your solar plexus—your abdominal brain—and is 
brought into your world as a reality. 4. Know that you can remake yourself by giving a new blue-print  to 
your subconscious mind. 5. The tendency of your subconscious is always lifeward. Your job  
is with your conscious mind. Feed your subconscious mind with 
premises, which are true. Your subconscious is always repr oducing 
according to your habitual mental pat-terns. 6. You build a new body every eleven months. Change your body 
by changing your thoughts and keeping them changed. 7. It is normal to be healthy. It is abnormal to be ill. There is within 
the innate principle of harmony. 8. Thoughts of jealousy, fear, worry, and anxiety tear down and 
destroy your nerves and glands bringing about mental and physical 
diseases of all kinds. 9. What you affirm consciously and feel as true will be made 
manifest in your mind, body and affairs. Affirm the good and enter  
into the joy of living. 94  8 
How to Get the Results You Want 
The principle reasons for failure are: Lack of confidence and too 
much effort. Many people block answers to their pray-ers by  failing to 
fully comprehend the workings of their subcon-scious mind. When 
you know how your mind functions, you gain a measure of 
confidence. You must remember whenever your subconscious mind 
accepts an idea; it immediately begins to execute it. It uses all its 
mighty resources to that end and mobilizes all the mental and s piritual 
laws of your deeper mind. This law is true for good or bad idea s. 
Consequently, if you use it negatively, it brings trouble, failure , and 
confusion. When you use it constructively, it brings guidance,  
freedom, and peace of mind. The right answer is inevitable when your thoughts are posi-ti ve, 
constructive, and loving. From this it is perfectly obvious that  the only 
thing you have to do in order to overcome failure is to get your 
subconscious to accept your idea or request by feeling it s reality now, 
and the law of your mind will do the rest. Turn over your request w ith 
faith and confidence, and your subconscious will take over and answer 
for you. You will always fail to get results by trying to use ment al 
coercion— your subconscious mind does not respond to coer-cion, it 
responds to your faith or conscious mind acceptance. Your failure to get results may also arise from such state-m ents as: 
“Things are getting worse.” “I will never get an an-swe r.” “I see no 
way out.” “It is hopeless.” “I don’t know what to do.” “I’m all mi xed 
up.” When you use such statements, you get no response or co-
operation from your subconscious mind. Like a soldier marking tim e, 
you neither go forward nor back-ward; in other words, you don’t get  
anywhere. 95  If you get into a taxi and give half dozen different direc-t ions to the 
driver in five minutes, he would become hopelessly confused and 
probably would refuse to take you anywhere. It is the same whe n 
working with your subconscious mind. There must be a clear-cut idea  
in your mind. You must arrive at the definite decision that ther e is a 
way out, a solution to the vexing problem in sickness. Only the 
infinite intelligence within your subconscious knows the answer. When you come to that clear-cut conclusion in your conscious mind, 
your mind is then made up, and according to your belief is it done 
unto you. • Easy does it 
A house owner once remonstrated with a furnace repairman for 
charging two hundred dollars for fixing the boiler. The me-chanic 
said, “I charged five cents for the missing bolt and one hund red 
ninety-nine dollars and ninety-five cents for knowing what was 
wrong.” 
Similarly, your subconscious mind is the master mechanic, the al l-
wise one, who knows ways and means of healing any or-gan of your 
body, as well as your affairs. Decree health, and your subconsciou s 
will establish it, but relaxation is the key. “Easy does it .” Do not be 
concerned with details and means, but know the end result. Get th e 
feel of the happy solution to your problem whether it is health , 
finances, or employment. Remember how you felt after you had 
recovered from a severe state of illness. Bear in mind that your  feeling 
is the touchstone of all subconscious demonstration. Your new idea 
must be felt subjectively in a finished state, not the futur e, but as 
coming about now. • Infer no opponent, use imagination and not will power 
In using your subconscious mind you infer no opponent, you use no 
will power. You imagine the end and the freedom state. You will fin d 
your intellect trying to get in the way, but persist in maint aining a 
simple, childlike, miracle-making faith. Picture yourself without the 
ailment or problem. Imagine the emotional accompaniment of the   
 96  freedom state you crave. Cut out all red tape from the process . The 
simple way is the best. • How disciplined imagination works wonders 
A wonderful way to get a response from your subconscious mind is 
through disciplined or scientific imagination. As previ-ously p ointed 
out, your subconscious mind is the builder of the body and control s all 
its vital functions. The Bible says, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believ-ing, ye 
shall receive. To believe is to accept something as true, or to live in 
the state of being it. As you sustain this mood, you shall experienc e 
the joy of the answered prayer! • The three steps to success in prayer 
The usual procedure is as follows: 
1. Take a look at the problem. 2. Turn to the solution or way out known only to the subconscious 
mind. 3. Rest in a sense of deep conviction that it is done. Do not weaken your prayer by saying, “I wish I might be healed.”  “I 
hope so.” Your feeling about the work to be done is “the boss.”  
Harmony is yours. Know that health is yours. Be-come intelligent  by 
becoming a vehicle for the infinite healing power of the s ubconscious 
mind. Pass on the idea of health Jo your subconscious mind to the 
point of conviction; then relax. Get yourself off your hands. Say to t he 
condition and circum-stance, “This, too, shall pass.” Through 
relaxation you impress your subconscious mind enabling the ki netic 
energy behind the idea to take over and bring it into concrete 
realization. 97  • The law of reversed effort and why you get the opposite o f what 
you pray for 
Coué, the famous psychologist from France who visited America 
about forty years ago, defined the law of reversed effort as follows: 
“When your desires and imagination are in conflict your imaginat ion 
invariably gains the day.” 
If, for example, you were asked to walk a plank on the floor, you 
would do so without question. Now suppose the same plank were 
placed twenty feet up in the air between two walls, would you walk it? Your desire to walk it would be counter-acted by your imaginati on or 
fear of falling. Your dominant idea, which would be the picture  of 
falling, would conquer. Your desire, will, or effort to walk on the 
plank would be reversed, and the dominant idea of failure would be 
reinforced. Mental effort is invariably self-defeated, eventuating alw ays in the 
opposite of what is desired. The suggestions of powerless-ness to  
overcome the condition dominate the mind; your sub-conscious is 
always controlled by the dominant idea. Your subconscious will 
accept the stronger of two contradictory propositions. The e ffortless 
way is the better. If you say, “I want a healing, but I can’t get it;” “I try s o hard;” “I 
force myself to pray;” “I use all the will power I have,” you must 
realize that your error lies in your effort. Never try to compel the 
subconscious mind to accept your idea by exercising will power . Such 
attempts are doomed to failure, and you get the opposite of what  you 
prayed for. The following is a rather common experience. Students, when 
taking examinations and reading through their papers, find that all  
their knowledge has suddenly deserted them. Their minds become 
appalling blanks, and they are unable to recall one relevant thought . The more they grit their teeth and sum-mon the powers of the wi ll, the 
further the answers seem to flee. But, when they have left the  
 98  examination room and the mental pressure relaxes, the answers the y 
were seeking flow tantalizingly back into their minds. Trying to force themselves to remember was the cause of  their 
failure. This is an example of the law of reversed effort wher eby you 
get the opposite of what you asked or prayed for. • The conflict of desire and imagination must be reconciled 
To use mental force is to presuppose that there is opposi-t ion. When 
your mind is concentrated on the means to overcome a problem, it is  
no longer concerned with the obstacle. MATT. 18:19 says, If two of 
you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask , it 
shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. Who are these 
two? It means the harmonious union or agreement between your 
conscious and subconscious on any idea, desire, or mental imag e. 
When there is no longer any quarrel in either part of your m ind, your 
prayer will be answered. The two agreeing may also be rep resented as 
you and your de-sire, your thought and feeling, your idea and emotion, 
your desire and imagination. You avoid all conflict between your desires and imagina-tion by  
entering into a drowsy, sleepy state which brings all effort to a 
minimum. The conscious mind is submerged to a great extent when in a sl eepy 
state. The best time to impregnate your subconscious is prior to sle ep. The 
reason for this is that the highest degree of outcropping of th e 
subconscious occurs prior to sleep and just after we awaken. I n this 
state the nega-tive thoughts and imagery, which tend to neutrali ze 
your desire and so prevent acceptance by your subconscious mi nd no 
longer present themselves. When you imagine the reality of th e ful-
filled desire and feel the thrill of accomplishment, your subcon -scious 
brings about the realization of your desire. 99  A great many people solve all their dilemmas and prob-l ems by the 
play of their controlled, directed, and disciplined imagination, 
knowing that whatever they imagine and feel as true will and must 
come to pass. The following will clearly illustrate how a young girl over-c ame the 
conflict between her desire and her imagination. She desired a 
harmonious solution to her legal problem, yet her mental imager y was 
constantly on failure, loss, bankruptcy, and poverty. It was a 
complicated lawsuit and there was one post-ponement after anoth er 
with no solution in sight. At my suggestion, she got into a sleepy, drowsy state each night 
prior to sleep, and she began to imagine the happy ending, feel ing it to 
the best of her ability. She knew that the image in her mind had to 
agree with her heart’s desire. Prior to sleep she began to dra matize as 
vividly as possible her lawyer having an animated discussion with her 
regarding the outcome. She would ask him questions, and he would 
answer her appropriately. He would say to her over and over agai n, 
“There has been a per-fect, harmonious solution. The case has bee n 
settled out of court.” During the day when fear thoughts came into  her 
mind, she would run her mental movie with gestures, voice, and sound 
equipment. She could easily imagine the sound of his voice, smile , 
and mannerism. She ran this mental picture so often; it became  a 
subjective pattern, a regular train track. At the end of a  few weeks her 
attorney called her and confirmed objec-tively what she had been  
imagining and feeling as true sub-jectively. This is really what the Psalmist meant when he wrote, Let the words 
of my mouth [your thoughts, mental images, good] and the meditations 
of my heart [your feeling, nature, emotion] be acceptable in thy sight, 
O Lord [the law of your subconscious mind], my strength, and my 
redeemer [the power and wisdom of your subconscious mind can 
redeem you from sickness, bond-age, and misery]. PSALM 19:14. 100  • Ideas worth recalling 
1. Mental coercion or too much effort shows anxiety and fear, which 
block your answer. Easy does it. 2. When your mind is relaxed and you accept an idea, your 
subconscious goes to work to execute the idea. 3. Think and plan independently of traditional methods. Know that 
there is always an answer and a solution to every prob-lem. 4. Do not be overly concerned with the beating of your heart, wi th 
the breathing of your lungs, or the functions of any part of your  
anatomy. Lean heavily upon your subconscious and proclaim 
frequently that Divine right action is taking place. 5. The feeling of health produces health; the feeling of wealth  
produces wealth. How do you feel? 6. Imagination is your most powerful faculty. Imagine what is 
lovely and of good report. You are what you imagine yourself to be. 7. You avoid conflict between your conscious and subconscious in 
the sleepy state. Imagine the fulfillment of your desire over and over 
again prior to sleep. Sleep in peace and wake in joy. 101  9 
How to Use the Power of Your  
Subconscious for Wealth 
If you are having financial difficulties, if you are trying to make 
ends meet, it means you have not convinced your subcon-scious mind 
that you will always have plenty and some to spare. You know me n 
and women who work a few hours a week and make fabulous sums of 
money. They do not strive or slave hard. Do not believe the story t hat 
the only way you can become wealthy is by the sweat of your brow 
and hard labor. It is not so; the effortless way of life is the best . Do the 
thing you love to do, and do it for the joy and thrill of it. I know an executive in Los Angeles who receives a salary of 
$75,000 yearly. Last year he went on a nine-month cruise seeing th e 
world and its beauty spots. He said to me that he had succeeded i n 
convincing his subconscious mind that he is worth that much money. He told me that many men in his organiza-tion getting about one 
hundred dollars a week knew more about the business than he did, and  
could manage it better, but they had no ambition, no creative ide as, 
and were not interested in the wonders of their subconscious mind. • Wealth is of the mind 
Wealth is simply a subconscious conviction on the part of the 
individual. You will not become a millionaire by saying, “I am a milli onaire, I 
am a millionaire.” You will grow into a wealth consciousness by  
building into your mentality the idea of wealth and abundance. • Your invisible means of support 
The trouble with most people is that they have no invisible means  of 
support. When business falls away, the stock market drops, or they 
lose their investments, they seem helpless. The reason fo r such  
 102  insecurity is that they do not know how to tap the subconscious mind. They are unacquainted with the in-exhaustible storehouse within. A man with a poverty type mind finds himself in poverty-stri cken 
conditions. Another man with a mind filled with ideas of wealth is  
surrounded with everything he needs. It was never intended that man 
should lead a life of indigence. You can have wealth, everything you 
need, and plenty to spare. Your words have power to cleanse your 
mind of wrong ideas and to instill right ideas in their place. • The ideal method for building a wealth consciousness 
Perhaps you are saying as you read this chapter, “I need wealth and 
success.” This is what you do: Repeat for about five minutes to  
yourself three or four times a day, “Wealth—Suc-cess.” These  words 
have tremendous power. They represent the inner power of the 
subconscious mind. Anchor your mind on this substantial power 
within you; then conditions and circum-stances corresponding to their  
nature and quality will be mani-fested in your life. You are not say ing, 
“I am wealthy,” you are dwelling on real powers within you. There is 
no conflict in the mind when you say, “Wealth.” Furthermore, the 
feeling of wealth will well up within you as you dwell on the idea of 
wealth. The feeling of wealth produces wealth; keep this in mind at all 
times. Your subconscious mind is like a bank, a sort of universa l 
financial institution. It magnifies whatever you deposit or i mpress 
upon it whether it is the idea of wealth or of poverty. Choose wealth. • Why your affirmations for wealth fail 
I have talked to many people during the past thirty-five ye ars whose 
usual complaint is, “I have said for weeks and months, ‘I am w ealthy, 
I am prosperous,’ and nothing has hap-pened.” I discovered that w hen 
they said, “I am prosperous, I am wealthy,” they felt withi n that they 
were lying to themselves. One man told me, “I have affirmed that I am prosperous until I a m 
tired. Things are now worse. I knew when I made the statement t hat it  
 103  was obviously not true.” His statements were rejected by t he 
conscious mind, and the very opposite of what he outwardly affirmed 
and claimed was made manifest. Your affirmation succeeds best when it is specific and when it  does 
not produce a mental conflict or argument; hence the statement s made 
by this man made matters worse because they suggested his lack. Your subconscious accepts what you really feel to be true, not just idl e 
words or statements. The dominant idea or belief is always acc epted 
by the subconscious mind. • How to avoid mental conflict 
The following is the ideal way to overcome this conflict for  those 
who have this difficulty. Make this practical statement fr equently, 
particularly prior to sleep: “By day and by night I am bei ng prospered 
in all of my interests.” This affirmation will not arouse a ny argument 
because it does not contradict your subconscious mind’s impress ion of 
financial lack. I suggested to one businessman whose sales and finances were very  
low and who was greatly worried, that he sit down in his offic e, 
become quiet, and repeat this statement over and over again: “ My 
sales are improving every day.” This statement en-gaged t he co-
operation of the conscious and subconscious mind; results followed. • Don’t sign blank checks 
You sign blank checks when you make such statements as, “There 
is not enough to go around.” “There is a shortage.” “I will lose the 
house because of the mortgage,” etc. If you are full of fear ab out the 
future, you are also writing a blank check and attracting neg ative 
conditions to you. Your subconscious mind takes your fear and 
negative statement as your request and proceeds in its own way to 
bring obstacles, delays, lack, and limitation into your life. • Your subconscious gives you compound interest 
To him that hath the feeling of wealth, more wealth shall be adde d; 
to him that hath the feeling of lack, more lack shall be  added. Your  
 104  subconscious multiplies and magnifies whatever you deposit in i t. 
Every morning as you awaken deposit thoughts of prosperity, succ ess, 
wealth, and peace. Dwell upon these con-cepts. Busy your mind w ith 
them as often as possible. These constructive thoughts will f ind their 
way as deposits in your subconscious mind, and bring forth abundance 
and prosperity. • Why nothing happened 
I can hear you saying, “Oh, I did that and nothing hap-pened.” You 
did not get results because you indulged in fear thoughts perha ps ten 
minutes later and neutralized the good you had affirmed. When you 
place a seed in the ground, you do not dig it up. You let it ta ke root 
and grow. Suppose, for example, you are going to say, “I shall not be abl e to 
make that payment.” Before you get further than, “I shall—” sto p the 
sentence and dwell on a constructive state-ment, such as, “By da y and 
by night I am prospered in all my ways.” 
• True source of wealth 
Your subconscious mind is never short of ideas. There are with in it 
an infinite number of ideas ready to flow into your conscious mind  
and appear as cash in your pocketbook in countless ways. This process 
will continue to go on in your mind regardless of whether the stock  
market goes up or down, or whether the pound sterling or dollar d rops 
in value. Your wealth is never truly dependent on bonds, stocks, or  
money in the bank; these are really only symbols necessary and  
useful, of course, but only symbols. The point I wish to emphasize is that if you convince your 
subconscious mind that wealth is yours, and that it is always 
circulating in your life, you will always and inevitably have it, 
regardless of the form it takes. • Trying to make ends meet and the real cause 
There are people who claim that they are always trying t o make 
ends meet. They seem to have a great struggle to meet their  
 105  obligations. Have you listened to their conversation? In many 
instances their conversation runs along this vein. They are cons tantly 
condemning those who have succeeded in life and who have raised 
their heads above the crowd. Perhaps they are saying, “Oh, that fe llow 
has a racket; he is ruthless; he is a crook.” This is why  they lack; they 
are condemning the thing they desire and want. The reason they speak  
critically of their more prosperous associates is because they are 
envious and covetous of the others prosperity. The quickest way to 
cause wealth to take wings and fly away is to criticize and condemn 
others who have more wealth than you.
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        Learn to pray for your loved ones who may be ill. Quiet your 
mind, and your thoughts of health, vitality, and per-fection operati ng 
through the one universal subjective mind will be felt and re surrected 
in the mind of your loved one. 71  6 
Practical Techniques in Mental  
Healings 
An engineer has a technique and a process for building a bridg e or 
an engine. Like the engineer, your mind also has a technique for 
governing, controlling, and directing your life. You must realize that 
methods and techniques are primary. In building the Golden Gate Bridge, the chief engineer understood 
mathematical principles, stresses and strains. Sec-ondly, he had  a 
picture of the ideal bridge across the bay. The third step was his 
application of tried and proven methods by which the principle s were 
implemented until the bridge took form and we drive on it. There  also 
are techniques and methods by which your prayers are answered. If 
your prayer is answered, there is a way in which it is answ ered, and 
this is a scientific way. Nothing happens by chance. This is a world of 
law and order. In this chapter you will find practical technique s for the 
unfolding and nurture of your spiritual life. Your prayers must not  
remain up in the air like a balloon. They must go somewhere  and 
accomplish something in your life. When we come to analyze prayer we discover there are many 
different approaches and methods. We will not consider in this book 
the formal, ritual prayers used in religious services. These have 
important place in-group worship. We are imme-diately conce rned 
with the methods of personal prayer as it is applied in your daily life 
and as it is used to help others. Prayer is the formulation of an idea concerning something we wish 
to accomplish. Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire. Your  desire is your 
prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it reveals the  things 
you want in life. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after 
righteousness: for they shall be filled. That is really prayer, life’s  
 72  hunger and thirst for peace, harmony, health, joy, and all the other 
blessings of life. • The passing-over technique for impregnating the subconscious 
This consists essentially in inducing the subconscious mind to ta ke 
over your request as handed it by the conscious mind. This passing  
over is best accomplished in the reverie-like state. Kn ow that in your 
deeper mind are Infinite Intelligence and In-finite Power. Ju st calmly 
think over what you want; see it com-ing into fuller fruition from  this 
moment forward. Be like the little girl who had a very bad coug h and 
a sore throat. She de-clared firmly and repeatedly, “It is  passing away 
now. It is pass-ing away now. ” It passed away in about an hour. Use 
this tech-nique with complete simplicity and naïveté. • Your subconscious will accept your blueprint 
If you were building a new home for yourself and family, you know 
that- you would be intensely interested in regard to the bluepr int for 
your home; you would see to it that the builders conformed to the 
blueprint. You would watch the material and select only the best  
wood, steel, in fact, the best of everything. What about your mental  
home and your mental blueprint for happiness and abundance. All 
your experiences and everything that enters into your life depend up on  
the nature of the mental building blocks, which you use in the 
construction of your mental home. If your blueprint is full of mental patterns of fear, worry, anxiety, or 
lack, and if you are despondent, doubtful, and cyni-cal, then the 
texture of the mental material you are weaving into your mind will 
come forth as more toil, care, tension, anxiety, and limitation of a ll 
kinds. The most fundamental and the most far-reaching activity in life  is 
that which you build into your mentality every waking hour. Your 
word is silent and invisible; nevertheless, it is real. You are building your mental home all the time, and your thought 
and mental imagery represent your blueprint. Hour by hour, moment   
 73  by moment, you can build radiant health, success, and happines s by 
the thoughts you think, the ideas which you harbor, the beliefs th at 
you accept, and the scenes that you re-hearse in the hidden studio of 
your mind. This stately mansion, upon the construction of which y ou 
are perpetually engaged, is your personality, your identity in t his 
plane, your whole life story on this earth. Get a new blueprint; build silently by realizing peace, h ar-mony, 
joy, and good will in the present moment. By dwelling upon these 
things and claiming them, your subconscious will accept your 
blueprint and bring all these things to pass. By their fruits ye shall 
know them. • The science and art of true prayer 
The term “science” means knowledge, which is co-ordi-nated, 
arranged, and systematized. Let us think of the science and a rt of true 
prayer as it deals with the fundamental principles of life and the 
techniques and processes by which they can be demonstrated in your 
life, as well as in the life of every human being when he appl ies them 
faithfully. The art is your technique or process, and the sci ence behind 
it is the definite response of creative mind to your mental picture or 
thought. Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and  it 
shall be opened unto you. MATTHEW 7:7. Here you are told you shall receive that for which you ask. It shall 
be opened to you when you knock, and you shall find that for which 
you are searching. This teaching implies the definiteness of  mental 
and spiritual laws. There is always a direct response from  the Infinite 
Intelligence of your subconscious mind to your conscious thinking. If  
you ask for bread, you will not receive a stone. You must ask 
believing, if you are to receive. Your mind moves from the thought to  
the thing. Unless there is first an image in the mind, it cannot move, 
for there would be nothing for it to move toward. Your prayer, which is your men-tal act must be accepted as an 
image in your mind before the power from your subconscious will  
 74  play upon it and make it productive. You must reach a point of 
acceptance in your mind, an unqualified and undisputed state of 
agreement. This contemplation should be accompanied by a feeling of joy a nd 
restfulness in foreseeing the certain accomplishment of your de sire. The sound basis for the art and science of true prayer is your  
knowledge and complete confidence that the movement of your 
conscious mind will gain a definite response from your subconsciou s 
mind, which is one with boundless wis-dom and infinite power. By 
following this procedure, your pray-ers will be answered. • The visualization technique 
The easiest and most obvious way to formulate an idea is to 
visualize it, to see it in your mind’s eye as vividly as if  it were alive. You can see with the naked eye only what already exists in the  
external world; in a similar way, that which you can visualize in your 
mind’s eye already exists in the invisible realms of your mi nd. Any 
picture, which you have in your mind, is the substance of things hoped 
for and the evidence of things not seen. What you form in your 
imagination is as real as any part of your body. The idea and the  
thought are real and will one day appear in your objective world if you 
are faithful to your mental image. This process of thinking forms impressions in your mind; these  
impressions in turn become manifested as facts and ex-peri ences in 
your life. The builder visualizes the type of build-ing he wants; he s ees it as 
he desires it to be completed. His imagery and thought-process es 
become a plastic mold from which the building will emerge—a 
beautiful or an ugly one, a skyscraper or a very low one. His ment al 
imagery is projected as it is drawn on paper. Eventually, the contractor 
and his  work-ers gather the essential materials, and the b uilding 
progresses until it stands finished, conforming perfectly to the mental 
pat-terns of the architect. 75  I use the visualization technique prior to speaking from the 
platform. I quiet the wheels of my mind in order that I may pres ent to 
the subconscious mind my images of thought. Then, I picture the 
entire auditorium and the seats filled with men and women, and each  
one of them illumined and inspired by the in-finite healing presence 
within each one. I see them as radiant, happy, and free. Having first built up the idea in my imagination, I quietly sustain it 
there as a mental picture while I imagine I hear men and wome n 
saying, “I am healed,” “I feel wonderful,” “I’ve had an instanta neous 
healing,” “I’m transformed. ” I keep this up for about ten minute s or 
more, knowing and feeling that each per-son’s mind and body are 
saturated with love, wholeness, beauty, and perfection. My aw areness 
grows to the point where in my mind I can actually hear the voic es of 
the multitude proclaim-ing their health and happiness; then I rele ase 
the whole picture and go onto the platform. Almost every Sunday  
some people stop and say that their prayers were answered. • Mental movie method 
The Chinese say, “A picture is worth a thousand words. ” Willia m 
James, the father of American psychology, stressed the fact th at the 
subconscious mind will bring to pass any pic-ture held in the mind and 
backed by faith. Act as though I am, and I will be. A number of years ago I was in the Middle West lecturing in se veral 
states, and I desired to have a permanent location in the general  area 
from which I could serve those who desired help. I traveled far, but 
the desire did not leave my mind. One evening, while in a hotel i n 
Spokane, Washington, I relaxed completely on a couch, immobilized 
my attention, and in a quiet, passive manner imagined that I w as 
talking to a large audience, saying in effect, “I am glad t o be here; I 
have prayed for the ideal opportunity. ” I saw in my mind’s ey e the 
imaginary audience, and I felt the reality of it all. I playe d the role of 
the actor, dramatized this mental movie, and felt satisfied that this 
picture was being conveyed to my subconscious mind, which would 
bring it to pass in its own way. The next morning, on awakening, I  felt  
 76  a great sense of peace and satisfaction, and in a few days ’ time I 
received a telegram asking me to take over an organization in the 
Midwest, which I did, and I enjoyed it immensely for several years. The method outlined here appeals to many who have de-scribed it as 
“the mental movie method. ” I have received nu-merous letters f rom 
people who listen to my radio talks and weekly public lectu res, telling 
me of the wonderful results they get using this technique in  the sale of 
their property. I suggest to those who have homes or property fo r sale 
that they satisfy themselves in their own mind that their pr ice is right. Then, I claim that the Infinite Intelligence is attracting to them the 
buyer who really wants to have the property and who will love i t and  
prosper in it. After having done this I suggest that they quiet t heir 
mind, relax, let go, and get into a drowsy, sleepy state, which reduce s 
all mental effort to a minimum. Then, they are to picture t he check in 
their hands, rejoice in the check, give thanks for the check, and g o off 
to sleep feeling the naturalness of the whole mental movie c reated in 
their own mind. They must act as though it were an objective rea lity, 
and the subconscious mind will take it as an impression, and thro ugh 
the deeper currents of the mind the buyer and the seller are brought 
together. A mental picture held in the mind, backed by faith, wi ll 
come to pass. • The Baudoin technique 
Charles Baudoin was a professor at the Rousseau Institute in France. He was a brilliant psychotherapist and a research direct or of the New 
Nancy School of Healing, who in 1910 taught that the best way to 
impress the subconscious mind was to enter into a drowsy, sle epy 
state, or a state akin to sleep in which all effort was r educed to a 
minimum. Then in a quiet, passive, receptive way, by reflec tion, he 
would convey the idea to the subconscious. The following is his formula: “A very sim-ple way of securi ng this 
(impregnation of the subconscious mind) is to condense the idea 
which is to be the object of sug-gestion, to sum it up in a b rief phrase  
 77  which can be readily graven on the memory, and to repeat it over  and 
over again as a lullaby. ” 
Some years ago, a young lady in Los Angeles was engaged in a 
prolonged bitter family lawsuit over a will. Her husband had  
bequeathed his entire estate to her, and his sons and daugh-ters  by a 
previous marriage were bitterly fighting to break the wil l. The 
Baudoin technique was outlined to her, and this is what she did: She 
relaxed her body in an armchair, entered into the sleepy stat e and, as 
suggested, condensed the idea of her need into a phrase consist ing of 
six words easily graven on the memory. “It is finished in Divi ne 
Order. ” The significance to her of these words meant that Inf inite 
Intelligence operating through the laws of her subconscious mind 
would bring about a harmonious adjustment through the principle o f 
harmony. She continued this procedure every night for about ten 
nights. After she got into a sleepy state, she would affirm s lowly, 
quietly, and feelingly the statement: “It is finished in Divine  Order,” 
over and over again, feeling a sense of inner peace and an al l-per-
vading tranquility; then she went off into her deep, normal sleep. On the morning of the eleventh day, following the use of the above 
technique, she awakened with a sense of well-being, a conviction that 
it was finished. Her attorney called her the same day, saying that the 
opposing attorney and his clients were willing to settle. A har monious 
agreement was reached, and litigation was discontinued. • The sleeping technique 
By entering into a sleepy, drowsy state, effort is reduced to a  
minimum. The conscious mind is submerged to a great extent w hen in 
a sleepy state. The reason for this is that the highest degree of outcropping  of the 
subconscious occurs prior to sleep and just after we awaken. I n this 
state the negative thoughts, which tend to neutralize your desire and so 
prevent acceptance by your subconscious mind, are no longer present. Suppose you want to get rid of a destructive habit. Assume a 
comfortable posture, relax your body, and be still. Get into a sleepy  
 78  state, and in that sleepy state, say quietly, over and over ag ain as a 
lullaby, “I am completely free from this habit; harmony and pe ace of 
mind reign supreme. ” Repeat the above slowly, quietly, and lovingl y 
for five or ten minute’s night and morning. Each time you repeat t he 
words the emotional value becomes greater. When the urge comes t o 
repeat the negative habit, repeat the above formula out loud by 
yourself. By this means you induce the subconscious to accept th e 
idea, and a healing follows. • The thank-you  technique 
In the Bible, Paul recommends that we make known our requests 
with praise and thanksgiving. Some extraordinary re-sults fo llow this 
simple method of prayer. The thankful heart is always close to the 
creative forces of the universe, causing count-less blessings  to flow 
toward it by the law of reciprocal relation-ship, based on a  cosmic law 
of action and reaction. For instance, a father promises his son a car for gradua-tion; the  boy 
has not yet received the car, but he is very thank-ful and happy, a nd is 
as joyous as though he had actually re-ceived the car. He knows hi s 
father will fulfill his promise, and he is full of grati tude and joy even 
though he has not yet received the car, objectively speaking. He has, 
however, received it with joy and thankfulness in his mind. I shall illustrate how Mr. Broke applied this technique with 
excellent results. He said, “Bills are piling up, I am out of work, I have 
three children and no money. What shall I do. ” Regularly every nig ht 
and morning, for a period of about three weeks, he repeated the words, 
“Thank you, Father, for my wealth,” in a relaxed, peaceful manne r 
until the feeling or mood of thankful-ness dominated his mind. He 
imagined he was addressing the infinite power and intelligence within 
him knowing, of course, that he could not see the creative inte lligence 
or infinite mind. He was seeing with the inner eye of spiri tual 
perception, realiz-ing that his thought-image of wealth was t he first 
cause, relative to the money, position, and food he needed. His 
thought feeling was the substance of wealth untrammeled by  
 79 antecedent conditions of any kind. By repeating, “Thank you, Father,” 
over and over again, his mind and heart were lifted up to the poi nt of 
acceptance, and when fear, thoughts of lack, poverty, and dis-tress  
came into his mind, he would say, “Thank you, Father,” as often as 
necessary. He knew that as he kept up the thankful attitude h e would 
recondition his mind to the idea of wealth, which is what happened. The sequel to his prayer is very interesting. After prayi ng in the 
abovementioned manner, he met a former employer of his on the 
street whom he had not seen for twenty years. The man offered him a 
very lucrative position and advanced him $500 on a temporary loan. Today, Mr. Broke is vicepresident of the company for which he  
works. His recent remark to me was, “I shall never forget  the wonders 
of ‘Thank you, Father. ’ It has worked wonders for me. ” 
• The affirmative method 
The effectiveness of an affirmation is determined largely by  your 
understanding of the truth and the meaning back of the words, ³In 
praying use not vain repetition. ´ Therefore, the power of your 
affirmation lies in the intelligent application of defin ite and specific 
positives. For example, a boy adds three and three and puts down 
seven on the blackboard. The teacher affirms with mathematic al 
certainty that three and three are six; there-fore, the boy changes his 
figures accordingly. The teacher’s statement did not make thre e and 
three equal six because the latter was already a mathemati cal truth. The mathematical truth caused the boy to rearrange the figures  on the 
blackboard. It is abnormal to be sick; it is normal to be healthy. Health  
is the truth of your being. When you affirm health, harmony, and 
peace for yourself or another, and when you realize these are unive rsal 
principles of your own being, you will rearrange the negative patterns 
of your subconscious mind based on your faith and understanding of 
that which you affirm. The result of the affirmative process of prayer depends on y our 
conforming to the principles of life, regardless of appear-a nces. 80  Consider for a moment that there is a principle of mathem atics and 
none of error; there is a principle of truth but none of dishonesty. There is a principle of intelligence but none of ignorance; there is a 
principle of harmony and none of discord. There is a principle o f 
health but none of disease, and there is a principle of abundance  but 
none of poverty. The affirmative method was chosen by the author for use on his 
sister who was to be operated on for the removal of gall-stone s in a 
hospital in England. The condition described was based on the 
diagnosis of hospital tests and the usual X-ray pro-cedures. She asked 
me to pray for her. We were separated geographically about  6,500 
miles, but there is no time or space in the mind principle. Infinite mind 
or intelligence is present in its entirety at every point simulta neously. I    
withdrew all thought from the contemplation of symptoms and from  
the corporeal personality altogether. I affirmed as follows : “This 
prayer is for my sister Catherine. She is relaxed and at p eace, poised, 
balanced, serene, and calm. The healing intelligence of her sub -
conscious mind, which created her body, is now transforming every 
cell, nerve, tissue, muscle, and bone of her being according to t he 
perfect pattern of all organs lodged in her subconscious mind. Silently, 
quietly, all distorted thought patterns in her sub-conscious mind ar e 
removed and dissolved, and the vitality, wholeness, and beauty of th e 
life principle are made manifest in every atom of her being. She is 
now open and receptive to the healing currents, which are flowing  
through her like a river, restoring her to perfect health, harm ony, and 
peace. All dis-tortions and ugly images are now washed away b y the 
infinite ocean of love and peace flowing through her, and it is so. ” 
I affirmed the above several times a day, and at the end of  two 
weeks my sister had an examination, which showed a re-markabl e 
healing, and the X ray, proved negative. To affirm is to state that it is so, and as you maintain this attitude of 
mind as true, regardless of all evidence to the con-trary, you will 
receive an answer to your prayer. Your thought can only affirm, for  
 81  even if you deny something, you are actually affirming the presence of 
what you deny. Repeating an affirma-tion, knowing what you are saying and why 
you are saying it, leads the mind to that state of consciousness where it 
accepts that which you state as true. Keep on affirming t he truths of 
life until you get the subconscious reaction, which satisfies. • The argumentative method 
This method is just what the word implies. It stems from the  
procedure of Dr. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby of Maine. Dr. Quimby, a  
pioneer in mental and spiritual healing, lived and practiced in B elfast, 
Maine, about one hundred years ago. A book called The Quimby 
Manuscripts, published in 1921 by Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 
New York City, and edited by Horatio Dresser, is available i n your 
library. This book gives newspaper accounts of this man’s remarkable 
results in prayer treatment of the sick. Quimby duplicated many of the healing miracles recorded in the 
Bible. In brief, the argumentative method employed according  to 
Quimby consists of spiritual reasoning where you convince the patie nt 
and yourself that his sickness is due to his false belief, ground less 
fears, and negative patterns lodged in his subconscious mind. You 
reason it out clearly in your mind and convince your patient tha t the 
disease or ailment is due only to a distorted, twisted patte rn of 
thought, which has taken form in his body. This wrong belief in some 
external power and external causes has now externalized itself  as 
sickness, and can be changed by changing the thought patterns. You explain to the sick person that the basis of all heali ng is a 
change of belief. You also point out that the subconscious mind 
created the body and all its organs; therefore, it knows how t o heal it, 
can heal it, and is doing so now as you speak. You argue in the 
courtroom of your mind that the disease is a shadow of the mind based 
on disease-soaked, morbid thought-imagery. You continue to build up all the evidence you can muster on behal f 
of the healing power within, which created all the organs in the  first  
 82  place, and which has a perfect pattern of every cell, nerve, and tissue 
within it. Then, you render a verdict in the courthouse of your mind i n 
favor of yourself or your patient. You liberate the sick one by faith 
and spiritual understanding. Your mental and spiritual evidence is  
overwhelming; they’re being but one mind, what you feel as true w ill 
be resurrected in the experience of the patient. This pro cedure is 
essentially the argumentative method used by Dr. Quimby of Main e 
from 1849 to 1869. • The absolute method is like modern sound wave therapy 
Many people throughout the world practice this form of prayer 
treatment with wonderful results. The person using the absolute 
method mentions the name of the patient, such as John Jones, then  
quietly and silently thinks of God and His qualities and attrib utes, 
such as, God is all bliss, boundless love, infinite intelligence, all-
powerful, boundless wisdom, absolute harmony, indescribable beauty, 
and perfection. As he quietly thinks along these lines he is li fted up in 
consciousness into a new spiritual wave length, at which times he 
feels the infinite ocean of God’s love is now dissolving ever ything 
unlike itself in the mind and body of John Jones for whom he is 
praying. He feels all the power and love of God are now focused o n 
John Jones, and whatever is bothering or vexing him is now 
completely neutralized in the presence of the infinite ocean of life and 
love. The absolute method of prayer might be likened to the sound wave  
or sonic therapy recently shown me by a distin-guished physic ian in 
Los Angeles. He has an ultra sound wave machine, which oscillate s at 
a tremendous speed and sends sound waves to any area of the body to   
which it is directed. These sound waves can be controlled, and he  told 
me of achieving re-markable results in dissolving arthr itic calcareous 
deposits, as well as the healing and removal of other disturbing  
conditions. To the degree that we rise in consciousness by contemplat-ing  
qualities and attributes of God, do we generate spiritual electronic  
 83  waves of harmony, health, and peace. Many remark-able healings 
follow this technique of prayer. •A cripple walks 
Dr. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, of whom we spoke previ-ously in 
this 
chapter, used the absolute method in the latter years of his h ealing 
career. He was really the father of psychosomatic medici ne and the 
first psychoanalyst. He had the capacity to diagnose clairv oyantly the 
cause of the patient’s trouble, pains, and aches. The following is a condensed account of the healing of a cripple as 
recorded in Quimby’s Manuscripts: 
Quimby was called on to visit a woman who was lame, aged, and 
bedridden. He states that her ailment was due to the fact tha t she was 
imprisoned by a creed so small and contracted that she could not stand 
upright and move about. She was living in the tomb of fear and 
ignorance; furthermore, she was taking the Bible literally, and it 
frightened her. “In this tomb,” Quimby said, “was the presence and 
power of God trying to burst the bands, break through the bonds, a nd 
rise from the dead. ” When she would ask others for an explanation o f 
some passage of the Bible, the answer would be a stone; then she 
would hunger for the bread of life.
The key is to quiet your mind, and your thoughts of health, vitality, and perfection operating through the one universal subjective mind will be felt and resurrected in the mind of your loved one.
What is the key to making your prayers effective?
The author does not explicitly describe a visualization technique in the passage, but the text mentions the importance of quieting the mind and focusing on the desired outcome. The passage does, however, mention the example of a girl who declared "It is passing away now" to cure her cough and throat pain.
What is the visualization technique used by the author?
The Baudoin technique involves entering a sleepy, drowsy state and repeating a phrase to yourself, such as "Thank you, Father" or "It is finished in Divine Order."
What is the Baudoin technique?
The decree method involves affirming a statement as true, regardless of evidence to the contrary, and feeling the reality of the desired outcome.
What is the decree method?
The key is to convince your subconscious mind that you are already wealthy and deserving of abundance, and to focus on the feeling of wealth and abundance.
What is the key to using your subconscious mind to achieve wealth?