Ananda
Healing Prayer Ministry
Applying Paramhansa
Yogananda's Teachings for
Healing Body, Mind, and Soul.
The Healing Power of Thought
Paramhansa Yogananda, Inner
Culture Magazine, July 1934
Nobleman
of Capernaum:
46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water
wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.
When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he
went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal
his son: for he was at the point of death.
48 Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye
will not believe.
49 The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.
50 Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man
believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his
way. And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told
him, saying, Thy son liveth.
52 Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And
they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left
him. So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in which Jesus
said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole
house.
54 This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was
come out of Judaea into Galilee.
-John 4:46-54
Jesus
preferred those people who loved God as a result of their own innate
reasoning and perfect accord, rather than those who were compelled
to believe in God as a result of the awe and fear they felt at the
display of miracles. In other words, Almighty God prefers to have
His children use their own free will and reason to love Him rather
than be led to love Him through the force of His miraculous powers.
Jesus wanted the nobleman of Capernaum to believe in Him without
the performance of the miraculous healing of his son.
However,
when the father insisted, through true faith, Jesus at last said:
"Go thy way; thy son liveth." After this, the nobleman believed,
or rather, sensed the vibratory healing power of Jesus and went
home. On his return home, the nobleman was greeted by his servant,
who happily announced to him that his son had been living since
the day before at the seventh hour. In absent healing the word of
healing has to be spoken by the healer. If songs can float through
the ether, ready to be caught out of the ether by a radio, so it
is that broadcasted healing vibrations can be picked up by sensitive
Soul radios.
How
the Law of Healing Operates
In
this healing it must be remembered that the nobleman's son became
well immediately when Jesus spoke; that is, when Jesus set in motion
His will-impregnated healing Soul Force in the ether. Jesus broadcasted
the God-given healing vibrations and they were received by the nobleman,
who relayed them to his son, just as songs, broadcasted at 7 A.M.
from Los Angeles, reach New York at exactly the same time.
This
happens because sound is carried by infinitely fast-moving omnipresent
electrons in the ether. If sound waves can be carried through the
ether, then sounds impregnated with healing Soul Force can also
be transmitted through the ether. Ordinary songs and speeches, received
through the radio, produce some mental effect upon the listener,
but words impregnated with Soul Force remain in the ether, ever
ready to work. Jesus impregnated His utterance with His Almighty
healing power. Ordinary songs and thoughts transmitted over the
radio give only momentary inspiration, but the words of Jesus, "Thy
son liveth," contained in them the all-accomplishing, invisible
healing power.
As
the energy in the body can be directed by the will to move any part
of the body, so also, by omnipresent Divine Will, any atomic changes
can be initiated in any body, in any thing, and at any place, no
matter how far distant. God had a reason for creating the Cosmos;
then He willed it, and light or energy came. Then He willed that
the light become flesh and earth. Hence, the Universe, being a product
of Divine Mind, can be changed by Divine Mind at any time.
Matter,
although it has dimensions, is not different from thought, for material
objects are nothing but the frozen thought of God. Hence, the body
and the life in it, are dream products of God's will and thought.
The dream Cosmos, with the earth and the living Beings on it, are
sustained by God's concentrated thought. If He should dissolve His
dream, the Universe, with all things in it, would melt away like
a dream. If the Cosmos is made of the frozen thought of God, then
the human body is also made and sustained by the same Divine Thought.
Hence,
God's thought, being the Creator of the thought-body, can create
changes in it through the power of Divine Will. Jesus realized that,
since God brought the body of the son of the nobleman into existence
through His thought, so also His Almighty Power could produce the
desired change in it. God's will and thought created all things,
and those people who are in tune with God's will and thought can
produce any desired changes in matter or in human bodies instantaneously,
merely by concentrated thought.
The
nobleman thought that his son was sick, but Jesus thought differently,
and so the son recovered. Jesus was able to displace the dream of
sickness in the son by a dream of health, because He knew that the
entire Cosmos was made of the tissue of dreams. Ultimately, all
disease is found to be psychological, so a strong mind, fostering
thoughts of health and perfection, can displace a stubborn thought
of illness in another person.
Most
people cannot heal themselves because their own thoughts are poisoned
by the habit of thinking of chronic sickness. It is strange that
the people who are always well never seem to believe that they can
become sick. But if they happen to become sick after having enjoyed
fifty years of good health, and are then unable to keep well for
three months, they believe that they can never get well again. Right
at this time, if a strong mind can revive the will of the patient
who is paralyzed with sickness, then he himself can change his thought
and energy, and thus heal himself.
No
one can heal us except through the hidden power of our own thoughts.
Thought is the brain of the cells and units of Life Force present
in every particle of bodily tissue. Hence, a disease thought upsets
the entire government of the Life Force in the cells, whereas the
thought of health corrects any disorder in the cellular system.
It must be remembered that I am speaking of the concentrated Divine
Thought which can heal and not of the fanciful thought of imaginative
people. In order to move Divine Thought, the ordinary man must know
the relation of thought, Life Force, and body without denying the
existence of the body thought.
The
body is the frozen thought and frozen energy of God. Nevertheless,
man cannot realize this until he knows that thought is frozen into
energy and energy is frozen into the body of man. Many people try
to explain away the body delusion. First, it must be realized that
the body is made of invisible electrons, and that electrons are
made of the invisible thought of God.
Instead
of saying that the body does not exist, one should say: "The body
is not what we think it is. It is not anything but the frozen thought
and energy of God, and cannot be gained by fanatic fancy, or by
strong Orthodox belief, but only by tuning in with God and by waking
up His consciousness to find that the Cosmos is nothing but His
frozen dream."
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