Scientific Healing Affirmations. Paramahansa Yogananda

for a month going to Japan, and twenty-six days from Seattle to Alaska and back, I was never sea-sick again, in spite of a very rough sea which caused almost everyone else on board to be sick.

      Will, or imagination, or reason, or feeling, cannot of themselves effect a physical cure.

      They only act as different agents which, according to the different temperaments of different individuals, can stimulate the life energy to awaken and cure a certain ailment. In a case of paralysis of the arm, if the will or imagination is continuously stimulated, then the life energy will suddenly rush to the diseased nervous channels, curing the tissues and the paralyzed arm. The repetition of affirmations ought to be firm and continuous so that the strength of the will and imagination might be sufficient to stimulate the uncontrolled or inactive life energy.

      Yogoda teaches by its art of concentration and meditation, and control of will, how to use this Life Current directly for healing one’s self and others. No one should ever minimize the importance of repeated, ever deeper efforts of will or imagination affirmations as given in this book to effect the cure of bad habits, or mental or bodily troubles.

      Two Factors in Healing

      In planting a tree two things are to be considered—the proper seed, and good ground. So also in healing diseases, two factors are to be taken into account—the power of the healer and the receptivity of the patient, who must respond to the healer’s vibrations.

      “Virtue (i.e., healing power) has gone out of me,” and “Thy faith has made the whole”—such sayings of Jesus show that in healing both the power of the healer and the faith of the person to be healed are required.