These healerssimply supply a form of Suggestion which is acceptable to the patient because of his temperament, training, etc.
This will also serve to explain why some patients failing to obtain relief from one school of mental healing often are cured by healers of another school, and vice versa.
I blame the prophets and priests and healers for their fall from idealism; but I blame still more the competitive wage-system, which presents them with the alternative to swindle or to starve.
From ocean to ocean and from North to South these absent healers set apart some hour of the day when they mentally convey their healing word to the scattered members of their flock.
The ability to cure disease without the use of medicines or surgical appliances has been claimed by alleged healers in all ages.
Medicine-Men as Healers It was, however, as healers that the medicine-men were pre-eminent.
The list of healers began early and is by no means ended now.
For such are nearly as unfit to be healersof the body, as mere professional clergymen to be healers of broken hearts and wounded minds.
These faith-healing movements have particularly affected the New England portion of our population, and many of our most prominent healers have been born in the New England States.
Indeed, the story of the mental healers is probably, more than anything else, a chapter in the history of insanity, and the power of those with delusions to lead others to share their delusions.
Probably the most disillusioning phenomena with regard to the complacent idea that the diffusion of information prevents manifestations of superstition are stories of the healers Schlatter and Dowie.
As a rule, modern healers have been founders of new religions, or at least they have broken away from old-established sects, and have formed congregations for themselves.
Most of the influence that was acquired by men who in the course of history claimed to have a heavenly mission has been due, as with healers heretofore referred to, to reputed cures made by them.
Healers are at all times strong characters who are helpful to others because of their own superabundant strength.
The few hard-working and honest men are hampered by the fact that the faith healers can usually cure better than their strongest potion.
After you left last night, the neighbor who was here said like as not you were Christian healers or whatever that is, but she did not believe a word in it, and that it was all nonsense, but I told her I didn't care.
Scores of American healers do similar works to those of Dr.
The seers and healers in this section differ but little from clairvoyants and spirit mediums of the towns, and explain their powers in much the same way.
It is often through some virtue in these country seers and healers that the faeries or spirits are able to affect men and women and natural objects.
Christian Scientists and Mental Healers are often afraid of themselves acquiring the disease which they drive out of their patient; they sometimes speak of the effort that it costs them to shake it off.
Mental healers who admit that disease is real should be made to test the feasibility of what they say by healing one case audibly, through such an admission,--if this is possible.
Dishonesty necessarily stultifies the spiritual sense which Mind-healers specially need; and which they must possess, in order to be safe members of the community.
Will Mrs. Eddy and all her healers and followers throughout the world be able to add one moment, one breath, to the life of Mrs. Eddy herself, when the hour of her death has arrived?
In this orderly, scientific dispensation healersbecome a law unto themselves.
The same courtesy should be observed in the professional intercourse of Christian Science healers with one another.
If healers and Christian Scientists were to explain their cures by the laws and principles of Nature Cure philosophy, mystery and miracle would be taken out of their business.
The Limitations of Metaphysical Healing In the writings of metaphysical healers we often meet the assertion that they can cure organic diseases as easily and quickly as functional ailments.
In this case, the combined concentration and prayers of all the metaphysical healers on earth would not have succeeded in replacing the dislocated hip bone, which required the full strength of a trained manipulator.
Healers Work with Laws that They Do Not Understand In our critical analysis of "Old School" methods we found that by far the greater part of all chronic ailments is due to drugging and to surgery.
The mother, an ardent Christian Scientist, called in several healers of her cult, but the child grew worse from day to day, until the false membranes in the throat began to choke her to death.
The metaphysical healers do away with these suppressive methods of treatment and allow Nature's acute cleansing and healing efforts to run their natural course.
On the other hand, mental healers, Christian Scientists and faith healers concentrate all their efforts upon either the mental or the soul plane, frequently making no distinction between the two.
While the former poisoned their lives and paralyzed their God-given faculties and powers by dismal dread of hell's fire and damnation, our modern healers and Scientists have drifted to the other extreme.
Our healers have had many wounds to deal with since your kind has been in the green lands.
Here the letter of a young woman, the type which fills the army of the mind healers and faith curists.
They do not heal cancer and phthisis like the Emmanuel Movement in England or like the mental healers in America.
Even the competition with Christian Science, and other mental healers whose judgment is not hampered by any previous study of medicine, might seem rather unattractive to the serious physician.
One of these cases may be cited as an example of the loose generalization upon which many of the claims of these healers rest.
As the possessor of such a degree, I have been engaged during several months in an investigation of the cures which Christian-Science healers are said to have accomplished.
But the poets, Shakespeare, Tennyson, and Browning, are the great healers and regenerators of worn-out humanity.
She pointed out the bit about the healers and regenerators, and refreshing yourself at the wells of literature.
But she had managed to jot down in her neat arithmetical way: "Poets = healers and regenerators.
He served strange gods, healers and regenerators whose names had never penetrated to St. Sidwell's.
From ocean to ocean, and from North to South, these absent healers set apart some hour of the day, when they mentally convey their healing word to the scattered members of their flock.
Healers of disease by mental methods; their methods; Greatrakes; Gassner 176 III.
More especially does the career of Mesmer supply the most favorable starting-point of the survey; yet some notice should be taken of those who preceded him in achieving reputation as healers of disease.
In other cases, however, it is probable that these healers had merely stumbled across the fact that certain things said in a certain way tended to work cures; or that certain physical objects seemed to have therapeutic virtue.
This prana is what Western healers mean when they speak of "human magnetism" in their healing work.
But that quackery and graft are rampant among those who pose as healers has become so apparent that we believe every influence to expose and weed out the pretenders is timely.
Christian Scientists and Magnetic Healers have not yet admitted their defeat, and there are many regulars who have not surrendered to the plague.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "healers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
