CRY, BABY, CRY CHAPTERS 1, 2, 3,510

WE ARE LEARNING TO TAKE BACK OUR POWER AND HEAL OUR OWN BODIES AND HELP PEOPLE HELP THEMSELVES TO HEAL. THE BOOK "CRY, BABY, CRY" WAS PRINTED IN 1974 AND IS NOW OUT OF PRINT. IT IS ONE OF THE BEST, BASIC AND SIMPLEST BOOKS FOR HELPING US UNDERSTAND HOW OUR MINDS, BELIEFS, THOUGHTS, ATTITUDES, AND WORDS EFFECT OUR BODIES, HEALTH AND LIFE. IT HELPS EXPLAIN HOW AND WHY WE GET SICK AND HURT OURSELVES, AND HOW TO HELP HEAL OURSELVES.

THROUGHOUT THE MANY YEARS OF DOING SPIRITUAL HEALING, COUNSELING AND HYPNOTHERAPY I HAVE GIVEN AWAY AND SOLD A LARGE NUMBER OF THE "CRY, BABY, CRY" BOOKS TO GIVE PEOPLE THE BASIC UNDERSTANDS AND KNOWLEDGE THAT HELPED THEIR HEALINGS COME EASIER.

THE MAIN PART OF THIS BOOK IS PRESENTED ON THE NEXT FOUR WEB PAGES FOR YOU TO THINK ABOUT.

Cry, Baby, Cry

Create a New You

by Pat H. Hadsell

This book gives some of you a new and different way of looking at yourself and the every day situations which confront you. It offers a chance to get rid of your superstitions and idols and transfer the responsibilities for causes and effects to the true creator, yourself.

It is possible to solve problems only after we determine the true cause of the problem. In spite of the fact that you yourself cause your own problems, you should be gentle and forgiving with yourself. Guilt only causes more problems.

It costs you not a thing to try this new approach and the results will be a longer, healthier and happier life. You may get some instant results, but don't always expect it. You have been a long time with your present thinking and some of the effects of your new thinking will only be manifested gradually over several days, weeks or months.

The store was crowded with people. A woman screamed. A workman had fallen from a scaffold. I was standing talking to one of the world's greatest medical doctor hypnotists when it happened. I followed him through the crowd of people to where the workman was lying on the floor, moaning. The great doctor knelt down and started examining the man to determine the extent of his -injuries. He asked the man if he had ever been hypnotized. The man said that he had. The doctor easily put the man into a light state of hypnosis and suggested to him that he would feel no more pain. The injured man opened his eyes, smiled and started to get up. But the doctor asked him to lie quietly and requested that he go to the hospital for a check up. Although the doctor had satisfied himself that the man had no broken bones or other serious injuries, he requested the check up for his own legal protection as well as for further assurance for the patient.

The ambulance arrived. I was telling myself how fortunate I was to have been able to watch this great doctor in action. I was totally unprepared for what happened next. As the ambulance attendants were placing the workman on the stretcher, the doctor's parting words to the workman were, "That shoulder will give you trouble for the next three or four days."

At first I couldn't believe that I had heard correctly. Here was this great doctor who had cured thousands of patients with the use of suggestion, who was an authority on the power of suggestion who had, in fact, just moments before demonstrated its power, was now giving the patient a negative suggestion. Instead of suggesting to the man that his shoulder would heal quickly and that he would have no discomfort with it, he had planted the suggestion that the man would have trouble with it.

I asked myself how such a thing could happen. Since I had been questioning similar situations for some time, I wasn't long in finding the answer. The doctor had, for just a second, reverted to past training and experience. Since we are the sum total of all our training, experience and environments, we never know when something from the past is going to pop in from our subconscious and cause us to do something totally unexpected.

It is quite common for doctors to give their patients negative suggestions. Most of them know better, but what are they to do. They administer to all types of people, a great majority of them negative people who revel in their sickness and injuries, people who wear an appendectomy like a crown, people who are not happy unless they are miserable, and people like one person I know who is the acme of negativity, who says, "I am entitled to know the worst." In addition, there are people who would sue a doctor for negligence if a family member should die after the doctor had told them he would live, but would think nothing more about it if the doctor had told them the patient didn't have much chance for survival. So, what else can the doctor do? He has to protect himself so he can go on helping as many people as possible. So people go on suffering from their own ignorance. Somehow the chain must be broken. The only way to break this chain is through general public education. When the public becomes aware of the power of the mind, the power of suggestion, then it will be no problem getting affirmative suggestions from the doctors.

Of course, when this knowledge of the power of the mind becomes generally accepted by the public, there will be fewer people needing doctors.

At this time, however, doctors perform a very necessary function. Even people who are very aware of the power the mind has over the physical body sometime allow their thinking to be diverted into negative paths and, since they have a lifetime of programming that the doctor can heal them, that is the best place to go for healing.

I don't remember which doctor it was who said, "I could heal all my patients easily if I could just cut off their heads and put their heads on a shelf." What he was saying was that their thoughts had made them ill and their thoughts were keeping them ill.

It is not at all unusual for a doctor who works with the mind to find that he can't help himself. Take Sigmund Freud for instance, one of the great explorers of the mind. He blamed his own attacks of intestinal malfunction on something he had eaten while visiting the United States, even though he had these attacks only when he was under great mental stress. And, the cancer he suffered with during the last years of his life, he apparently never once considered that he had brought it on with his thinking. If this man, who was able to look at himself so objectively that he was able to put himself through psychoanalysis, could not look inward and see that he was responsible for his own illnesses, what chance have the rest of us. We have plenty of chance. We can keep ourselves healthy by controlling our thoughts. But if we slip up and get ourselves in trouble, it is a lot easier for someone to help us if we have already accepted the fact that we caused the problem with our wrong thinking.

Why can a person heal others and not be able to heal himself? I have heard this question asked by other people as many times as I have asked the question myself. Why can some people not practice what they preach? Why do some people need to have outside help to solve their own problems when they are thoroughly competent in solving similar problems for others? Why does a person find it so difficult to interpret his own dreams? We know that everyone has his own answers within. Why can't he bring them forth for his own benefit?

EGO. The answer is Ego (or superego if you prefer). We can't look at ourselves objectively. Each person has his own self image. Quite often the image he has of himself is quite distorted, but it is his own image and he is very careful not to let anything destroy this image. Sometimes he can be reasoned with by someone he respects, but apparently he finds it extremely difficult to reason with himself.

I haven't had a sick day since I started studying the power of the mind, but several times I have caught myself just in time and been able to talk myself out of it. I am learning more and more how to look at myself objectively and determine just what thoughts set up any uncomfortable feeling I might develop.

You see, I am perfect, but I haven't yet accepted it. Some day I will be that confident. I don't believe, like one of my fundamentalist friends, that man is basically sinful and can't expect perfection while in the physical body. I think that is a cop out, an excuse for not trying.

I would rather believe that Jesus was telling the truth when he said, "He that believeth in me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do."

One thing that concerns many people who have discovered a great truth is whether or not they should pass it on before they have mastered it themselves. Should they teach others before they have reached perfection? It concerned me too until I started thinking of all the people I know of who have been willing to share their knowledge and research even in its earliest stages of development. If Freud had not shared his theories, think what the world would have lost. Certainly, he never reached perfection in applying his techniques to himself. We are all teachers whether or not we call ourselves by that title. No matter how low we consider our station in life or how ignorant we might be, there is always someone learning from each of us. Other than my experiences, I have found that some of my most profound lessons come from the conversation of the people I associate with day after day. Everyone has his own personal philosophies; and when I hear them, they always start me to thinking. Whether I ultimately decide that they are true or false, the very process of evaluation has some impact on my life.

Yes, it is always hard to look at ourselves objectively, to be truthful with ourselves. Sometimes it is as hard for a person to admit that he is great, as it is for another to admit that he is a slob. It is particularly hard for a person to interpret his own dreams, especially if some defect in his character is revealed. For this reason, I always interpret my wife's dreams and she interprets my dreams. I remember one dream in particular. I had a problem and asked for a solution in a dream. The next morning I told my wife that I had dreamed I was in a rodeo chute with a young steer who was trying to butt the gate open. I couldn't figure out what this had to do with my problem. She laughed and said, "Don't you see? You are being bull headed about the situation. Give in a little and the situation will work itself out." So, I quit being so bull headed and sure enough, everything turned out just as I had hoped. It is pretty hard to admit that we are not just taking a firm stand when in reality we are being bull headed. Of course, it isn't so hard to detect this bull headedness in others.

All diseases and injuries are psychosomatic. Before I explain that statement, let's make sure you know what psychosomatic means. Webster says that it is a bodily disorder caused by mental and emotional disturbances. Put more simply, it is a disease or injury created by your mind. When a doctor says you have a psychosomatic disease, he doesn't mean "it is all in your mind and you aren't really sick." You are sick. He means that your thinking has caused the sickness.

Doctors differentiate between psychosomatic illness (illness caused by your mind and emotions) and organic illness (illness caused by bacteria or virus). This works fine for healing. When you get sick, you can decide which type you will accept and the doctor can cure you on that basis. You and the doctor have fun kidding each other.

There is another reason for labeling some diseases as organic. Finding the cause sometimes requires a considerable amount of time. The doctor can go ahead and treat the symptom and hope that the cause no longer exists. Quite often the cause has disappeared before we go to the doctor for treatment.

There is no such thing as an organic disease. All diseases are psychosomatic. All diseases and injuries are caused by your mind and emotions.

Why can't the doctors admit this? Quite obvious. If they did, they couldn't cure those patients who insist that their disease is organic. The patient would shop from doctor to doctor until he found one who would tell him his disease was caused by virus X. It is a rather common occurrence for a doctor to tell a patient that he doesn't need surgery, then have the patient shop around until he finds a doctor who will remove something.

I can easily relate to those of you who doubt this. I recall many years ago when my eyes started failing. I went to a doctor and told him my problem. After talking about 15 or 20 minutes he simply asked, "How long has it been since you went to church?" He didn't even examine my eyes. I got up and walked out. When I got home I told my wife that the doctor was a nut.

I went to another doctor. He told me that it was quite natural for a person's eyes to go bad between the ages of 35 and 40. He recommended that I go to an optometrist.

While I was waiting for the optometrist to see me I asked his assistant whether the doctor was an eye doctor or merely sold eyeglasses. I thought it was a perfectly legitimate question. I was thinking there might be some treatment to correct my vision. But the doctor got mad as hell. He examined my eyes, said that the only thing wrong was a slight astigmatism which I had had all my life. He told me I didn't need glasses and charged me $25.00 for the examination which, at that time, was the normal price for an examination and a pair of glasses.

A friend recommended another optometrist who was supposed to be the best. He was great, just what I had been looking for. He performed all kinds of tests on my eyes (very impressive equipment too) and fitted me with glasses. I felt great about the whole thing. Since I didn't like bifocals I got one pair for close reading and one pair for distance. I carried a pair in each of my inside coat pockets. Like Don Quixote, I was fully protected. I even got myself a pair of prescription sun glasses to wear while driving.

After about 10 years with my trusty glasses, I discovered that all disease and injury is psychosomatic. I threw all the pairs of glasses into the bottom of the dresser drawer. They are still there.

The first doctor had told me the truth, but I just couldn't "see" it. I wasn't ready. Just as deafness is caused by a determination not to hear, failing eyesight is caused by something we can't see, something that is in conflict with strong previous programming. Whether my problem was caused by my thinking about church teachings or something else I couldn't "see," I don't know. I do know now that it was caused by some mental conflict just as the good doctor knew it then. Perhaps he was just starting to probe for the cause when he asked me how long it had been since I had been to church. If so, it didn't take him long to discover that I would accept no psychosomatic cause for my eye problem. Oh well, we live and learn.

It was about 8 years ago that I discarded my glasses. Last week when I was out at my lake cabin I walked out the back door and found my son setting up a gun rest on the back porch. He had a regulation target tacked to a board about 75 feet out from the porch. He said that he had dropped his .22 rifle and was getting ready to check it to see if he disturbed the sight.

I said, "You don't need that gun rest to zero a rifle. Let me show you how to do it." I stood erect, drew a fine bead on the target and put a shot into the lower right part of the bulls-eye. The next shot was in the upper left corner of the bulls-eye. The next shot was dead center. I don't anticipate that I will ever need those glasses again.

Now do you understand why doctors can't tell their patients that 100% of the diseases and injuries are psychosomatic? Some people are not ready to accept it. People are in all stages of development. Stating here that all physical problems are psychosomatic gives you the chance to accept or reject what I have said. I don't want to destroy anyone's idols. I want those who are ready, to give them up willingly and gladly. If you are happy with your aches and pains, by all means, keep them.

Summer before last I woke up one morning and couldn't walk. My right knee kept buckling and hurt something fierce. I hobbled around the room and finally got dressed. Hunting up an old cane my brother had used when he got his foot mangled by a land mine, I went on to work. My desk job didn't require that I move around much, but limping in from the parking lot and back again was something else.

I didn't think much about my problem because I had had this same trouble with my knee several years before. It lasted two or three days and went away as suddenly as it had appeared.

That night while watching T.V. it suddenly dawned on me that I had a new way of looking at aches, pains, diseases, and injuries. Why was my knee hurting? Obviously I wanted to kick someone and since it was my right knee that someone must be a male. Conflicts with a male manifest in the right side of the body, whereas conflicts with a female manifest in the left side. But who was the male I was mad at?

I first considered my boss. No, I wasn't sore at him about anything. Next I considered everyone I work with, one at a time. Nothing there. Then I got closer to home, where I knew in the beginning I would find the answer. When I am looking for suspects I always consider the least likely ones first to make sure I don't overlook anyone.

I was almost certain to find that it was someone in the family because nearly all our psychosomatic problems are caused by conflicts with someone most close to us, someone we love the most.

The only males in my family, besides myself, are my two sons. When it finally came to me what I was mad about I decided it wasn't just one of them I wanted to kick. I wanted to kick both of them.

I had recently bought a cabin on a lake so the family would have a place to spend the weekends. My wife was doing the interior decorating on the cottage and I was doing the landscaping. What were my sons doing? Fishing.

When did my knee start hurting? On Friday, when I knew that the next day I would go out to the cabin and shovel dirt, and when I needed help my sons would be nowhere to be found. Once I had the cause all figured out I started evaluating the situation in a more rational way.

I said to myself, "I bought the place. The boys didn't ask me to buy it. I am the one who wants it to look pretty. The boys don't care how it looks.

It is my place so why should the boys be eager to plant grass and shrubs and move dirt? Then came the clincher, "The boys are doing exactly as I would have done, and did, at their age, so what excuse do I have to get all upset?"

I must have found the solution to my problem. Instead of hobbling around on my cane all that weekend, I woke up the next morning with my knee feeling fine. So what did I do the next day? I went fishing with my sons. I had also remembered that I bought the cabin so I could enjoy my weekends.

You think I took the easy way out? Every one has to decide for himself what he thinks is important.

A month or so later, one of the men I work with came to work on crutches. His left knee had given out on him the same way my right knee had. He had a big sheepish grin on his face when he crutched in. Everyone I work with knows I am going to delve into all their sicknesses and injuries to find out the cause. They are a great bunch of people. They put up with my inquiries and good natured kidding. Some of them half believe I am right and some of them think I am a nut, but we have fun with it anyhow.

I didn't even have to ask the man on crutches any questions to find his problem. I asked, "Do you want me to tell you what your trouble is and how you can get rid of it?" He said, "I know who' my trouble is. Just tell me how to get rid of this bum knee." I sat down and wrote it out for him on a piece of paper.

The next morning he showed up late for work, but without his crutches. His knee was no longer hurting but his wife had insisted that she take him to the doctor. The doctor told him that it was probably just a touch of rheumatism. Now isn't that marvelous?

This man is one of my favorite subjects. He is almost as good a guinea pig as I am myself.

One morning he came in with his back hurting. I asked, "Ron, what is your wife on your back about this time?" "Why nothing, she is not on my back about anything." I just laughed and let it go at that. About 10 o'clock he went over to the plant hospital to get a massage and heat treatment. He came gimping back with his back hurting just as much as ever. Soon after lunch Ron was at his desk talking to another man. I wasn't listening to the conversation but it came through loud and clear when he said, "My wife is on my back to get that lawn put in." The instant he said it we both looked up. He gave me a sickly grin. I smiled and went back to work. I knew that Ron had moved into a new house about two months before this and still hadn't planted his lawn. As we started to leave for home that evening I said, "Ron, I guess you had better plant that lawn this weekend." He grinned and answered, "Yea, I guess I had better." The next day his back was OK.

The sooner you can discover and admit the cause of these discomforts the less time you have to suffer with them. Sometimes it is an almost instant healing.

One case which won't get a fast healing happened just today. The man who lives around the corner from me stopped to talk while he was walking his dog. The middle finger of his left hand was bandaged. He told me how he had mangled it terribly. The doctor told him it would take two or three weeks to heal. I told him I could lend him a book to read which would make it heal much faster. He said, "Naw, I've got too many books to read now." I said, "Whatever you say, just thought I would offer." The book I was going to give him is "Variations in Lovemaking" by Frank S. Caprio, M.D.

As I said before, when something goes wrong with the right side of your body or extremities it is because you are in conflict with a male. The left side indicates conflict with a female. Why this is, I don't know, but so far I haven't been able to discover an exception.

Not long ago a girl I know showed up with a sprained left ankle. I asked her if her mother-in-law were visiting or living with her. She said, "No." I asked if her mother or sisters were living close by. Another "no," and since she doesn't know me very well she asked me, "Why are you asking me these questions?" "I just wanted to know why you sprained your ankle," I replied. "Why I sprained it chasing my stupid dog," she said.

I asked, "When is your dog going to have puppies?" She said, "Oh, she is too young to have puppies. Why? Do you want one?"

I said, "No, I was just asking." She looked puzzled as I turned around and walked away. Heavens-to-Betsy! The left side female theory even works with dogs.

The other day I heard someone mention that Pete's son had hurt his knee while playing football. As usual I started speculating about the cause. Did he dislike football and want to get out of playing? Not likely. Was he mad at the coach? Not likely.

I couldn't come up with an answer that I felt comfortable with until Pete showed up late getting back from lunch. Someone told me that he was talking his son to the doctor to have his knee treated. I had my answer.

When Pete finally returned to work, I went over and asked him how his son's right knee was feeling. He apparently didn't catch the word "right" because he replied, "Oh, it is going to be all right." So I said, "It was his right knee wasn't it?" He looked surprised and asked, "Yes, how did you know?" I said, "Thanks, I have ways of knowing such things."

Reaching the proper conclusion was really quite simple. It is well known among analysts that in most cases the person who accompanies a patient to the doctor is the very person that patient has his conflict with. Most analysts have a blank space for this information on their admission questionnaire. This saves them a lot of time in discovering what the patient's problem is.

When I learned that Pete had left work to take his son to the doctor I simply concluded that Pete's son was mad enough at his dad to want to kick him and since Pete was a male the injured knee must be the right one.

It is often comical when you try to explain this to someone who is involved. They come up with all kinds of reasons why someone else couldn't take the patient to the doctor. Such as, my wife had to go to the beauty parlor or my husband was out playing golf. But whatever the reason they give, it generally works out that way.

Why do we manifest our thoughts (and thus, our emotions) in body discomforts? It might at first appear that it is a primitive body trying to perform in a civilized society. But I rather tend to think that it is a primitive mind which needs to adapt to civilization.

When primitive man was faced with danger he had two choices, to stand and fight or run away. If he decided to run, certain physiological processes immediately took place in his body to enable him to run as fast as possible. If he decided to fight, different processes took place in his body to assure maximum strength and agility. He either fought or ran.

Today man is faced with these same fearful situations. But he can't run away and he can't fight. The emotion prepares the body for action; nothing happens, no action. There is no way to expend this tremendous force the body has built up. And when there is no release we manifest these stiff joints, sprained ankles, headaches, ulcers, arthritis and what have you. Of course, these fearful situations are generally not as dramatic as a man faced by a wild beast when he has only a club in his hand. They are usually little day by day irritations, but the body reacts anyhow.

If it is still not clear how your mind and emotions create these painful areas in the body, I'll give you an example everyone is familiar with. You have at some time or other been out on a date with the opposite sex. You engaged in some rather passionate necking. Then nothing happened, no intercourse. The body was ready but society said no.

Soon you had that terrible dull ache in your groin. Men call it stone ache. I don't know what women call it. But now you understand how your body reacts to your bottled up emotions, emotions generated by your thoughts.

What is the cure for these psychosomatic discomforts? Since you have only two choices, to fight (take action) or run (avoid the situation), you must do one or the other. You can take physical action and be ostracized by society or you can run away. You can run away by physically removing yourself from the environment or you can figuratively run away by quietly convincing yourself that what you were getting emotional about isn't that important. Or, you might convince yourself that the other person is right or at least he had a right to his opinion.

This running away is not cowardice. It is merely adapting yourself to society, learning to live with other people. It is called civilization.

But why concern yourself with curative action? Why not use preventive measures so you don't have to contend with these diseases and injuries? Why not go through life happy and carefree, unafraid and free of guilt? Yes you can. Just change your thinking.

If you are wearing a hair shirt, and it causes you to itch, you would exchange it for a cotton shirt. If your present thinking is causing you problems, exchange it for a new way of thinking. Evaluate the situations which have irritated you in the past. You will find that they are not so all fired important as you thought they were. Quit judging and criticizing other people. Would you really like it if everyone on earth looked, acted, talked and thought the same way you do? Show tolerance for other people's differences. Go one step further, pour your enemy a glass of the milk of human kindness.

And above all, be gentle with yourself. Forgive yourself. If you are made in God's image you must be perfect. You just haven't been practicing this perfection. Start practicing it.

If you think I am advising a Milktoast attitude, that you should stand still and let someone clobber you, think again. I am red headed and have always had a temper to go with it. I fought my way through elementary school and junior high. One day it suddenly occurred to me that this fighting was a bunch of nonsense. I couldn't remember a single fight which had settled anything. I decided to stop it. Well, I did have two more after that, once in college and once while in the army. But in neither of them did I strike the first blow.

I was surprised to find that, once I decided I didn't want to fight, the situations which had caused me to fight didn't arise so often. It's just another example of how we bring these things on ourselves by our thinking. We set them up ourselves whether or not we will admit it.

A fine doctor I once knew told me about an old woman who came to him with a great deal of pain. She had had the pain for several years. After examining her, he told her he thought he could help, maybe not relieve all the pain, but at least get rid of some of it. She said, "Doctor, if you could just relieve 50% of it, I would be happy." He was able to give her complete relief but that has nothing to do with the point I am about to make.

So many of us, like the old woman, are willing to accept only half a cure, half a life. We have gone through so many years not knowing what caused our problems that we think it is the way life is supposed to be. We think there is no other way. Now you know better. Now you know the choice is yours. You are the doctor. Physician, Heal Thyself.

You sometimes have a disease or injury because it is to your benefit to have it.

You do not get rid of a disease or injury until you are ready to release it.

These are pretty strong statements. Possibly you are not ready to accept this way of looking at life. Fine and good. It's your perogative. Accept them or reject them. But are you ready to think about them? How long has it been since you have examined any new philosophy? In short, how long has it been since you were required to think?

The greatest hope for the future well-being of this country lies in the relatively few people who will think. Our greatest threat to loss of freedom are not dictators or anarchists. The thing that threatens our freedom most is the people who will blindly follow the lead of anyone who takes the initiative to lead them, never taking the time to think through the logic and the consequences of the ideologies they are asked to accept. I believe Diogenes would have put out his lantern and gone home, confident that he had found an honest man, if he had overheard a conversation I had with a man a few months ago. We were discussing Robert Ardrey's book, African Genesis, Ardrey's hypothesis on man's beginning, my hypothesis, and the teaching of his church. This man reluctantly agreed that my hypothesis had merit and, that if it were not contrary to the teaching of his church, he might be willing to accept it.

I was thoroughly surprised, but learned a great lesson from this honest man. I asked him the obvious question, "Why, if you do not agree with what your church teaches, do you continue to follow its dogma? His reply was, "I trust all the church people, who have gone before, to have put together a philosophy which is for my best good, and as long as I don't question this philosophy, I don't have to think, At this he turned his back, and I had a distinct feeling that he was sorry we had started the discussion in the first place.

I think highly of this man, and would be reluctant to criticize him for what appears to me to be a weakness. However, I couldn't help but think that it was just such "thinkingless" good people who allowed Hitler to come to power.

I wish I had the answer to why people avoid thinking. Maybe, someday, I will do some research on this question. I do know, from experience, that thinking can be as exhausting as physical labor. But why is it that a person, who will not object to spending half a day digging holes and planting shrubs, will refuse to spend 15 minutes trying to come to a logical conclusion on a difficult problem? Could the fact that some people think and others refuse to think, explain why some people are senile at age 65 and others are mentally alert at 100? One of the most enjoyable experiences of my life was a summer job I once had at a university library. I developed a computer system for the retrieval of concepts taken from research reports.

It is well known in research organizations that concepts developed in one discipline are often usable for solving problems in another discipline. However, when the concept is developed or discovered it is usually reported in such a way that scientists in other fields are never aware of its development. My job was to extract these concepts from all the journals and reports of all the various scientific fields, identify and catalogue them in such a way that it didn't make any difference whether a person had a problem in the field of chemistry or the field of biology or the field of electronics he could retrieve the concepts necessary to solve the problem. You can just imagine the mental gymnastics I had to perform in order to identify and catalog these concepts. But as I said, it was an enjoyable experience. Sometimes I would just sit and think for 15 or 20 minutes without writing a word. It wasn't unusual for someone to come by and ask me if I were sleeping on the job.

I had three very able and intelligent assistants who repeatedly tried to help me catalogue the concepts but I always ended up throwing their inputs into the trash, because they were too superficial for any use. I never was able to determine why, but strongly suspected that it had been so long since they had had to exercise their reasoning faculties they just couldn't concentrate their minds long enough to follow a chain of thought to a conclusion. I do know that they were conscientious and tried.

It is imperative that we think. It is just as imperative that we think the right thoughts. It is generally known that either you control your thoughts, or your thoughts will control you.

Every day I am impressed with how true this statement is. I'm sure you know people who always seem to have something bad happening to them. You also know people whom you consider to be lucky people who continually have good things happen to them. Have you ever wondered why? Would you accept the answer if it were given to you? Would you believe that you yourself decide whether you are going to be lucky or unlucky?

I know many people who continue to say that I am lucky, but, when I attempt to explain how they too can be lucky, they turn a deaf ear. They seem to be bound by their old thinking patterns and old superstitions. They would rather blame their misfortune on God, fate, the devil, their wife, or their neighbor. To even consider that they themselves might be to blame is unthinkable.

If you consider yourself to be one of the unlucky ones, or, if you simply would like to improve your luck, the procedure is quite simple. All you have to do is change your thinking. The first thought you have to firmly plant into your mind is that you are responsible for everything that happens to you. Otherwise, with every little misfortune, you will revert back to searching for a scapegoat instead of reviewing your thoughts to determine what personal thinking caused things to go wrong. You are the master of your fate, you are the captain of your soul. Accept that, and you are ready to go on to the next step.

There are many good books written on the subject of how we think, and the mechanics are all the same. During all our waking hours, thoughts are continuously flitting through our mind. You can't stop them without special training. Where they come from is not relevant to this discussion. What is important is what you do with them as they go flitting by. What makes the thoughts work, either for your benefit or your detriment, is what you do with the thoughts.

Of course you let most of the thoughts go flitting by, but ever so often you grab onto one and start expanding it. How do you expand it? Do you build up some miserable situation for yourself or for some other person or do you expand it into something beautiful and beneficial? Whatever you think, you eventually manifest.

Do you want to marry a prince or a princess? Do you want fine clothes and a car, with a big home and lots of money? Do you want a life of service? Do you want a loving wife or husband? Do you want spiritual success? You can have any or all of these, or anything else you want, or want to be. Just concentrate your thoughts on these things.

There is really no difference between thinking and praying, except that you don't start all your thoughts with "My father who art in heaven. Just concentrate your thoughts on what you want, or what you want to be, and do this over and over again until they finally manifest.

I have a good friend who told me that he used to wonder why some prayers were answered and some were not. One night he asked to have this question answered in a dream. That night he dreamed that he was in heaven. He was standing in front of a huge pile of wrapped packages. A man walked up and threw some more packages on the pile. My friend asked the man what all the packages were for. The man replied, "Those are the things people have asked for in prayers, but the prayer ceased before they could be delivered.

Naturally your thought doesn't necessarily come about in exactly the manner you projected it. Life, with the billions of people on this planet, is much more complex than that. The end result is what counts. You have heard the expression, "The Lord works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform." This is just exactly what happens and sometimes the way the end results are brought about is so fantastic that you could never have conceived of it, even in your wildest dreams.

You can control your thoughts. Your thoughts control your life. What kind of life do you want, good, bad or mediocre? The choice is yours.

In the first chapter, I explained to you that doctors have an image to maintain, an image which is necessary if they are to instill in people the respect which is necessary if the doctor is to successfully perform his function. A few daring souls are not so concerned with protecting this image, and are willing to lay their reputations on the line in order to advance the exploration of mind function and capability. But even these doctors have to proceed with caution or be ostracized from the medical profession and not allowed to practice. This too is as it should be. We are all aware of the many quacks, with their gimmicks, who have taken advantage of people suffering from some malfunction. It is to your best interest that the medical profession be conservative, but it is also to your best interest that the medical profession make advances in preventative as well as curative techniques.

In the second chapter I asked you to think, and I also gave you a few tidbits to think about. Such as:

One hundred percent of the diseases are psychosomatic. Have you ever had a doctor tell you that? I doubt it. I have read many times that various doctors have said that fifty, sixty, or eighty percent of the diseases are psychosomatic. I have never known a doctor to say that one hundred percent of the diseases are psychosomatic. If I were a doctor, I might not say this either. But, I have no image to protect, so I can say, "Look, the emperor wears no clothes; All diseases are psychosomatic." I am not particularly interested in curing anyone, but, rather, I am interested in having people live a healthy, happy life through the proper use of a healthy, happy mind. The only way this can be accomplished is for people to put their thinking caps on, and consider the possibility that what I have said thus far is true.

Before you reject the fact that one hundred percent of the diseases are psychosomatic, let's be sure we understand the meaning of psychosomatic. I find that many people think psychosomatic means "imagined , that the person only imagines that he is sick, when he really isn't. Imagination does play a large part in producing an illness, but, after it is produced, the person isn't just imagining a hurt, he really hurts, and he is really sick. Have you ever had the flu? You didn't just imagine you hurt, you really hurt, and you were really sick. But that flu was produced by your psyche, your mind, your thought. That is what psychosomatic means.

That wasn't some little old flu bug that sneaked up on you in the dead of the night to attack you. Either the flu bug was available at the time you needed it, or you might have been carrying him around in your body for years. What happened all of a sudden, to make you get the flu? You set up the conditions in your body that allowed the flu bug to go to work and produce the flu symptoms. Who knows why you did this, maybe you needed a few days off from work in order to avoid an unpleasant situation or a boring task. Maybe you needed more attention from your wife or parents. Or, maybe there was an epidemic, and your getting the flu was caused by your fear and concentration on this fear. I remember when I used to think I had to have the flu every winter. So every winter for many years I came down with the flu. It was always good for at least 3 days in bed. Then a friend told me how I could cure the flu in 24 hours. I never had the flu again, until, many years later, the so called Asian flu was introduced. Naturally I had to come down with the Asian type, but, only once, because it was about then that I discovered I was producing this illness with my thoughts. I discovered that all disease is produced by our thoughts.

I wish that I could say that I have never been sick since, but I can't, at this writing. It takes a while to condition yourself to think only constructive thoughts. It doesn't happen overnight. You have to work at it. In fact, it is a whole new way of looking at life. You overcome your fears, you release your guilt's, you improve your self confidence, you quit comparing yourself with others, you relax, knowing that only the best things are going to happen to you. Yes, you slip a few times, but, the very second you realize that something has gone amiss, you start analyzing your past thoughts to find out what caused it. You don't waste any time blaming it on the weather, something you ate, someone else's carelessness, or any other outside source. You immediately put the blame where it belongs, on your own thinking. Then you correct your thoughts, or your attitude about the situation which brought on your discomfort.

I wish I could say that the discomfort always goes away immediately. Sometimes it does, but, other times, it takes awhile to turn your metabolism around and get your body to functioning properly again.

At this point, you may be thinking like one woman who asked, "If you never get sick how can you die?" Where did you get the idea that you have to be sick to die?" Why not leave your body in perfect health? Many people do. Ask your doctor if this is not so. The idea that you have to get sick in order to die has simply been planted in your subconscious because of your thinking. Remove the idea that you have to die when you get old. Stick around until you have perfected your spiritual evolution to the point where you can take your body with you.

There might be other drawbacks to perfect health. How would I ever get a day off from work? How would I get myself out of these disagreeable situations which I now avoid by getting sick? How else would I get attention and sympathy from my family? I'll admit that in the beginning these might be real problems. To get a day off from work or get away from a disagreeable situation, you simply lie a little. Call on the phone and say, "I am sick." You don't have to say what "you are sick of." You may be sick of the boss. You may be sick of the monotonous work you have been doing. You are not really telling a lie. How do you get attention from your family? That is an easy one. Just forget about getting their attention and start giving them your attention, and you'll be surprised how quickly it starts working in reverse.

These problems manifest themselves only in the early stages. As you change your thinking to only constructive thoughts, you find that you don't need a day off from work because you can make any job just as pleasant as you want it to be. You find those situations, that you found so disagreeable in the past, can now be turned to your advantage; you can cope with anything;

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