Episode 6 - The Health of Mediums and Psychics

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Episode Transcript

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Chapter six, The Health of Mediumsand psychics. The health bodily, mentally
and spiritually of mediums is a veryimportant factor in all mediumistic and psychic development,
far more so than is usually realized. In the first place, we
have a certain amount of bodily energyin order to accomplish anything we desire in
life, and this energy comes largelyfrom physical health. Mediums have found,

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to their cost that the production ofphenomena, especially of the physical order,
is at times a very exhausting process, and unless they keep themselves in good
bodily health, they discover that theybecome run down and nervously exhausted, in
which case they render themselves subject toinsomnia, depressing mental emotions, and if
this gets worse, to obsession andeven greater dangers and difficulties. It is

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very important, therefore, for allmediums to keep up their physical health a
healthy brain. The mind of mandepends largely upon the condition of his brain,
and if this is not rested,freshened, and applied in abundance with
rich, healthy blood, his mentallife suffers in consequence. For we know
that any poisonous substance mixed with theblood immediately affects the mind by circulating through

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the delicate substance of the brain.The tiny nerve cells all over the body,
which are the storehouses of energy,may be compared to a number of
tiny cups which we fill with energyevery night during sleep, and more or
less empty every day. Our dutyis to keep these little cups brim full,
and if we allow them to becometoo emptied, so that nothing is
left, we run into danger ofnervous exhaustion, neurasthenia, et cetera.

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The first thing which the medium mustpay attention to is therefore the state of
his physical health, and the followingrules will be found helpful by all those
who wish to attain this condition deepbreathing exercises. In the first place,
a certain number of deep breathing exercisesshould be taken every day. These serve
to keep the lungs active and tomassage the internal organs. But deep breathing

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exercises have a more potent and farreaching effect than this. There is a
peculiar life giving property in fresh air, and if we do not breathe this
fully, we never live as completelyand receive as large a supply of the
vital and magnetic currents of the universe, as we otherwise would. If any
one doubts this, he has butto stand erect and take half a dozen

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deep breathing exercises as directed below,and he will feel energized from top to
toe. The way to take thesebreathing exercises so as to get the best
results is as follows. One.How to breathe. Stand before an open
window or out of doors, freefrom all restrictive clothing. Before beginning,
exhale forcibly, bending the body forwardand relaxing the muscles. Place both open

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hands over the abdomen. Now,breathe as deeply as possible against these hands,
expanding the abdomen as much as possible, without allowing the chest or ribs
to expand in the least In otherwords, breathe with abdomen only. After
you have done this five or sixtimes, place both your hands against your
ribs on either side. Now breathein deeply, pressing out the ribs,

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but without allowing either the abdomen orthe upper chest to expand. After you
have done this five or six times, place your hands on the upper chest
just below the neck, and breathewith this portion of the lungs without allowing
either the ribs or the abdomen toexpand. At first, you will find
it very difficult to control your breathinglimiting it to these parts of the lungs.

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But this will come with practice,and it will be shown later in
chapter forty one how important these breathingexercises are when the psychic side of the
breathing exercises is understood, the psychiccomplete breath. After you have mastered these
three separate steps, you will beenabled to take what is known as a
complete breath, that is, onewhich expands first the abdomen, then the

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ribs, then the upper chest.You should by this time have such control
over your breathing that you are unableto do this in three distinct stages,
or merge them together into one asyou wish. In all these breathing exercises,
the back of the nasal passage shouldbe relaxed, and you should breathe
through the nose, never the mouth, as though you were smelling of flower.

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If you do this and relax inwardly, you will find that the air
strikes the back of the throat beforeit is felt at all, and you
will never notice the air in thenose itself. Practice this every day until
you become proficient. The best wayto ensure this is to close the lips
while keeping the teeth separated. Thenthrow down the under portion of the jaw
developing exercises two. A certain amountof exercise should be taken each day.

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The particular character of exercise which willbe found beneficial for the maintenance of health
also for development of psychic and mediumisticgifts are those which develop the vitality of
the inner organs about the waistline.Bending exercises of all kinds are especially useful.
Large muscles are not required for goodhealth, but energy and endurance are.

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The following for exercises will be foundvery helpful in this connection. A
stand erect raising both arms over thehead as far as possible. Raise yourself
on your toes, and at thesame time stretch upwards with the finger tips
as far as you can, asthough trying to lengthen yourself. B stand
as before, arms raised over thehead. Now bend forward and try to

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touch the floor with your fingertips withoutbending the knees. Again, raise yourself
up to a standing position very rapidly. This is a well known but very
useful exercise. C Stand as anexercise, b and bend the body sideways
from the waist as far as possible, first to the left, then to
the right. Make this motion asrapid as you can. D Stand as

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before, and bend slowly, tryingto touch the floor with the fingers.
As you do this, take ina deep breath. The purpose of this
exercise is to compress the liver fromabove and below at the same time,
and this massage will prove very helpfulhealth. Hence, other points to be
observed in maintaining good health are thefollowing. One Eat as little red meat

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as you can, since this isacknowledged by all to retired psychic development.
Two eat a certain amount of fruitevery day, not in addition to other
food, but in place of it. Acid fruits are particularly beneficial in nearly
all cases. Three drink at leasta quart of water each day. Four
accustom the body to cool baths.It is best to begin these in the

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summer time and continue them in thewinter. Five. Wear as little clothing
as you can consistent with warmth.The skin breathes as well as the lungs,
and free circulation of air on thesurface is essential the powers of the
mind. We now come to themental factor. Few realize how important this

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is in the development of psychic gifts. If the mind be depressed, worried,
scattered, and unable to concentrate uponany definite thing, good results can
hardly be hoped for in any wayof psychic development. Many psychics can obtain
good results for individual sitters, butas soon as they make a public appearance,
they fail more or less completely.We can hardly doubt that the reason

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for this is their apprehension for theresults, fear they will not succeed,
et cetera. This prevents all freecommunication. It shuts the doors of the
soul, as it were, againstany outside influences. In order to be
receptive and sensitive, we must havea free mind and give ourselves up wholly
to those forces and vibrations which playupon us. If you watch yourself,

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you will find that your body tendsto contract all over as soon as you
think certain thoughts or experience certain emotions, such as jealousy, hatred, envy,
et cetera. On the other hand, as soon as you send out
thoughts of friendship, love, sympathy, et cetera, you find that your
whole being expands and relax. Ifthis is true of the muscles of the
body, how much more true itis of the muscles of the soul,

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if I may so express it.The imagination, it has been said,
is the lungs of the spiritual life, and in order to have free play,
they must be unrestricted, just asour physical lungs are. The essence
of psychic development is this complete surrenderand quiescence. And until this is insured,
full development can hardly be expected.There is such a thing as spiritual

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contraction. We have all heard ofthe man with the in growing conscience.
This means simply that this man isdwarfed, contracted, and unsympathetic in his
attitude to all that he meets.Gentleness and cheerfulness, said Robert Louis Stevenson,
are the perfect duties, and wecannot do better than advise the medium
to follow this motto in his dailylife. Psychic contagion these influences which are

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harmful in ourselves, are harmful whenexperienced in others, and they are contagious
to a remarkable degree all experience.Spiritualists know that a medium is liable to
take on the conditions of the spiritor of another person when in a sensitive
state, and this is true ofhis mental and spiritual life as well as
his physical health. We can acquirethe other's irritable disposition, his sourness,

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and lack of balance for the timebeing, just as easily as we can
acquire other symptoms. And unless thisis recognized and the medium takes care to
throw off these influences, they areliable to remain with him more or less
and influence him, just as wesometimes experience the after influence of a bad
dream in the daytime. How tochoose a good developing medium. The practical

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conclusion to be drawn from all thisis that it is very dangerous to the
mental and moral health of a psychicto develop under the guidance of a medium
who is mentally, morally, physicallyor spiritually ill, for these conditions will
possibly sooner or later be taken on, and they are liable to influence the
medium to his own detriment. Bemost careful therefore, in selecting the psychic

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under whom you develop, for yourown future progress and happiness will depend largely
upon that. End of Chapter six