Letting go

D. R. Hawkins

Basic principles, page 411

“This chapter details the healing and recovery from a multitude of physical illnesses in the life of a physician. We will delineate the basic principles that facilitated the process of self-healing. In doing this, there will be a review of some of the material we have already covered, so as to bring it together into an integrated overall experience. We will start with the basic working concepts:”

• “A thought is a “thing.” It has energy and form.”
• “The mind with its thoughts and feelings controls the body; therefore, to heal the body, thoughts and feelings need to be changed.”
• “What is held in mind tends to express itself through the body.”  
• “The body is not the real self; it is like a puppet controlled by the mind.”
• “Beliefs that are unconscious can manifest as illness, even though there is no memory of the underlying beliefs.”
• “An illness tends to result from suppressed and repressed negative emotions, plus a thought that gives it a specific form (i.e., consciously or unconsciously, one particular illness is chosen rather than another).”
• “Thoughts are caused by suppressed and repressed feelings. When a feeling is let go, thousands or even millions of thoughts that were activated by that feeling disappear.”
• “Although a specific belief can be cancelled and energy to it can be refused, it is generally a waste of time to try to change thinking itself.”