Scientific Healing Affirmations

By Paramhansa Yogananda

Scientific Healing Affirmations is a beloved classic book of the great yoga master, Paramhansa Yogananda (1893-1952), author of Autobiography of a Yogi. This is a reprint of the original 1924 classic by Yogananda: a pioneering work in the field of self-healing and self-transformation. Yogananda explains that words are crystallized thoughts, and have life-changing power when spoken with conviction, concentration, willpower, and feeling.

This book offers far more than mere suggestions for achieving positive attitudes. Yogananda explains in simple language how affirmations can recreate us—physically, mentally, and spiritually. He offers us more than mere suggestions for a positive attitude, showing us how to impregnate our words with spiritual force. This little book will be a treasured companion on the road to realizing your highest, divine potential.

Added to this text are over fifty of Yogananda’s well-loved “Short Affirmations,” taken from issues of East-West and Inner Culture magazines from 1932 to 1942. This little book will be a treasured companion on the road to realizing your highest, divine potential.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Crystal Clarity Publishers
• Release date: Dec 15, 2021
• ISBN: 9781565896277

Paramhansa Yogananda

Born in 1893, Paramhansa Yogananda was the first yoga master of India to take up permanent residence in the West. He arrived in America in 1920 and traveled throughout the country on what he called his “spiritual campaigns.” Hundreds of thousands filled the largest halls in major cities to see the yoga master from India. Yogananda continued to lecture and write up to his passing in 1952. Yogananda’s initial impact on Western culture was truly impressive. His lasting spiritual legacy has been even greater. His Autobiography of a Yogi, first published in 1946, helped launch a spiritual revolution in the West. Translated into more than fifty languages, it remains a best-selling spiritual classic to this day. Before embarking on his mission, Yogananda received this admonition from his teacher, Swami Sri Yukteswar: “The West is high in material attainments but lacking in spiritual understanding. It is God’s will that you play a role in teaching mankind the value of balancing the material with an inner, spiritual life.” In addition to Autobiography of a Yogi, Yogananda’s spiritual legacy includes music, poetry, and extensive commentaries on the Bhagavad Gita, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the Christian Bible, showing the principles of Self-realization as the unifying truth underlying all true religions. Through his teachings and his Kriya Yoga path millions of people around the world have found a new way to connect personally with God. His mission, however, was far broader than all this. It was to help usher the whole world into Dwapara Yuga, the new Age of Energy in which we live. “Someday,” Swami Kriyananda wrote, “I believe he will be seen as the avatar of Dwapara Yuga: the way shower for a new age.”

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SPIRITUAL POWER of MAN’S WORD

MAN’S WORD is Spirit in man. Words are sounds occasioned by the vibrations of thoughts. Thoughts are vibrations sent forth by the ego or soul. Every word that leaves your mouth ought to be potent with genuine soul vibration. The words of most people are lifeless because they are spoken automatically, without being impregnated with soul force. Too much talking, exaggeration, or falsehood is like shooting bullets out of a toy gun, without the gunpowder. That is why the prayers or words of such people do not produce any desired changes. Every word you utter must represent not only Truth, but also some of your own realized soul force. Words without soul force are like husks without the corn.

Words that are saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like vibration bombs, which can explode the rocks of difficulties and create the change desired. Avoid speaking unpleasant words, even if they are true.

Sincere words or affirmations repeated understandingly, feelingly, and willingly are sure to move the omnipresent Cosmic Vibratory Force to render aid in your difficulty. Appeal to that Force with infinite confidence, casting out all doubt. If your affirmations are spoken with disbelief, or while looking for the desired result, your attention is deflected from its mark. You should not sow the vibratory prayer seed in the soil of Cosmic Consciousness and then continually pick it out to see if it has germinated into the desired result.

The God-Given POWER of MAN

IT SHOULD BE remembered that there is nothing greater in power than Cosmic Consciousness or God. The power of Cosmic Consciousness is greater than the power of your mind, or the minds of others. Thus, you should seek Its aid alone. This does not mean that you should make yourself passive, inert, or credulous, or that you should minimize the power of your mind. Remember, God helps those who help themselves. He gave you willpower, concentration, faith, reason, and common sense to use to help heal yourself. You must use them all as you seek divine help. But in using your will power or common sense to get rid of a difficulty or disease, you must not rely wholly on, or harness yourself solely to, your ego and thus disconnect yourself from the Divine Force. During affirmations or prayer vibrations, always feel that you are using your own but God-given power to heal yourself or others. Always believe that it is not only God, but you also, as His beloved child, who try to employ God-given will, reason, etc. to act on the difficult problems of life. A balance must be struck between the old idea of depending wholly on God, and the modern way of depending wholly on the ego.

The attitude of the mind should be different during the different affirmations. For example, will affirmations should be accompanied by strong will; feeling affirmations by devotion; reason affirmations by intelligence and devotion; imagination affirmations by firm fancy and faith. In healing others, select an affirmation that is suitable to the conative, imaginative, emotional, or thoughtful temperament of your patient. In all affirmations, intensity of attention is most important, but continuity and repetition are also necessary. Impregnate your affirmations with your devotion, will, and faith—intensely and repeatedly—unmindful of the results. Results will come naturally as the fruit of your labors.

In curing the body, the attention must not be on the reality of the disease, which stifles the faith, but on the mind. During cures for such mental difficulties as fear, anger, bad habits, failure-consciousness, or nervousness, the concentration should be on the opposite mental quality. For example, the cure for fear is cultivating the consciousness of bravery; for anger, peace; for weakness, strength; for sickness, health.

MENTAL RESPONSIBILITY for CHRONIC DISEASES

IN TRYING TO get rid of a physical or mental sickness by mental or physical methods, one often concentrates more on the gripping power of the disease than on the possibility of cure. Thus