The Power of Self-Suggestion #268318

How profound are the sufferings of those unhappy persons who allow their imaginations to become fixed upon some disease which threatens them or from which they even imagine they already suffer! The physiologist easily explains this fact by informing us that the constant transference of a nervous current into any organ must at last be followed by change in the condition of its nutrition and consequently by disease. And can we doubt that the power capable of plunging man into such deep distress can also render him happy? If we are ill because we believe our selves to be ill, why should we not have the power of keeping ourselves in health by the firm con viction that we are healthy?