It does not consist in merely thinking that we are well, but is a real condition of well-being and of power; depending on the state of our tissues and correct balance and working of our physical and psychical life.

And this correct and wholesome working will be furthered and steadied--or if broken may often be restored--by good suggestions; it may be disturbed by bad suggestions; because the controlling factor of life is mind, not chemistry, and mind is plastic to ideas.

So too the life of the Spirit is a concrete fact; a real response to a real universe.

But this concrete life of faith, with its growth and its experiences, its richly various working of one principle in every aspect of existence, its correspondences with the Eternal World, its definitely ontological references, is lived here and now; in and through the self's psychic life, and indeed his bodily life too--a truth which is embodied in sacramentalism.

Therefore, sharing as it does life's plastic character, it too is amenable to suggestion and can be helped or hindered by it.