Power of your mind

THE MONK OR THE MIND

In perth, western australia , a man suffered from tuberculosis. His lungs were badly diseased. His son decided to help his father heal himself. He went to his father 's home and told him he had recently met a wandering monk with strange powers.

This monk had just returned from a long stay at one of the most celebrated healing shrines in Europe. There he had acquire a small fragment of True Cross, set in a ring that dated back to the Middle Ages. Over the centuries, countless suffers had been healed after touching the ring or the fragment of the Cross.

When the son had heard this he had told the monk about his father's illness and begged to borrow the ring . The monk had agreed . The son then gave the monk free-will offering of the equivalent of $500.

When the son showed his father the ring, the older man practically snatched it from him. He clasped the ring to his chest, prayed silently, and went to sleep. In the morning he was healed. All the clinic's tests proved negative.

Healing of this sort happen all the time. What is the most significant about this one is that the son's amazing story was totally made up. In, fact, he had picked up a splinter of ordinary wood from the sidewalk, taken it to a jeweler, and had it set in a gold ring of antique design. He then gave it to his father.

We know, of course, it was not the splinter of wood from the sidewalk that healed the father. No, it was his imagination aroused to an intense degree, plus the confident expectancy of a perfect healing. Imagination was joined to faith or subjective feeling, and the union of the two brought about a healing through the power of his mind.

The father never learned of the trick that had been played upon him. If he had, he might well have had a relapse. Instead his tuberculosis never returned. He remained completely cured and passed away from other causes fifteen years later, at the age of eight-nine.

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