[Baha’u’llah and the New Era by J.E. Esslemont]@TWC D-Link bookBaha’u’llah and the New Era CHAPTER 7: HEALTH AND HEALING 13/24
There is a "contagion of health," as well as a contagion of disease, although the former is very slow and has a small effect, while the latter is often violent and rapid in its action. Much more powerful effects result from the patient's own mental states, and "suggestion" may play an important part in determining these states. Fear, anger, worry, et cetera, are very prejudicial to health, while hope, love, joy, et cetera, are correspondingly beneficial. Thus Baha'u'llah says:-- Verily the most necessary thing is contentment under all circumstances; by this one is preserved from morbid conditions and lassitude.
Yield not to grief and sorrow: they cause the greatest misery.
Jealousy consumeth the body and anger doth burn the liver: avoid these two as you would a lion .-- Tablet to a Physician. And 'Abdu'l-Baha says:--"Joy gives us wings.
In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener....
But when sadness visits us our strength leaves us." Of another form of mental healing 'Abdu'l-Baha writes that it results:-- from the entire concentration of the mind of a strong person upon a sick person, when the latter expects with all his concentrated faith that a cure will be effected from the spiritual power of the strong person, to such an extent that there will be a cordial connection between the strong person and the invalid.
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