Edgar Cayce Readings, 386-1

(Physical Suggestion)

TEXT

EC: Yes, we have the body here, [386].
Now, as we find, there are conditions that disturb the better equilibrium of the body-mental; and these have their incipiency - or foundations - in the mental or imaginative forces of the body, through PHYSICAL suppression of the active forces in the mental body - that is creative in its activity.
These, then, are the conditions as we find them with this body, [386], we are speaking of:
In the BLOOD SUPPLY we find a condition that is - while it may not be said to be abnormal, it is UNNORMAL for a developing or an active force in a body of such PHYSICAL abilities.
For, while there is not a great unbalancing in the white and red blood, the effluvia and fluor in the hemoglobin does not make for those activities that carry to the impulses in the nerve forces that which creates a balance in the responsive or reactory forces of a normal body.
A great deal of this has come through suppression to the PHYSICAL body, until it has made for an inability of the body to respond to its own self's reactions for that the body WOULD do. See?
This, then, is the difference between an unbalanced condition in a mental reaction and that of dementia - which destroys the reaction in the plasm of the nerve as fixed from the blood supply itself; though, unless there are some material changes, this may become the condition that will ensue.
The reactions, to be sure, began with the developments of the body in the eighth to twelfth year, and the shocks to the nervous system, with the inability of the blood supply to make the reactions that may be said to be the FULL ability for perfect coagulation - through SUGGESTIVE influences.
Hence a great deal of the condition existent in the present is psychopathic.
Hence the character of the hallucinations, and the inability of the body to bring the mental reactions for that the speech would imply - and that the activities of the body would do.
For, it is the body ATTEMPTING to assert its own soul's development under a suppression of the imaginative and desirous impulses, THROUGH these suppressions throughout the developing period of the body!
Reaching, then, that period when there is the change in the impulses that flow from the body through its creative forces, in the active principle of the body-mental and physical in itself, we have that of the nervous breakdown.
And, as we find, these conditions may be MATERIALLY aided. See?
We would change the surroundings, and the environs. And let them be as near to nature as is possible. And while the body should not be left alone at any period, until there is an equal balance in the mental and physical activities, it should be so - in its surroundings - that it is not only near to nature but has to DEPEND UPON itself for the NECESSITIES of its activity; in the preparation of foods, in the preparation of rests, and in the activities for the body.
THESE will make for responses that would bring about, as we find, a nearer normal balance.
And the environs should be where the body would not only be as near to nature as possible, but the sun, the sea, the sand, the pines or the woods, should all be a part of the surroundings - or nature itself, see? and wear as FEW clothes as possible; yet making for physical ACTIVITIES throughout the change.
In the surroundings there should be the suggestive forces that are constructive and spiritual, and creative in their activity for the body.
And we will find these will respond, in sixty to ninety days, to a near normal condition.
Ready for questions.
We would use also with these, when the suggestions are given in the association, a gentle massage over the whole of the cerebro-spinal system; using also the WET cell battery (plain, see? but carrying the Gold). The positive anode should be of the copper, and attached to the 4th dorsal plexus. The negative anode carrying the Gold would be attached to the right and up an inch from the umbilicus plexus, or over the ASSIMILATING ganglia - from the lymph reaction in digestive system, so that the FOODS that are assimilated will create a constructive force in the blood supply, responding to the cells of the GLANDS in the body.
This appliance would be given each evening, in the beginning - for the first ten days - attached only ten minutes; the next ten days twenty minutes; the next ten days thirty minutes. Then we would rest a period of ten days, see? Then begin over again.
The massage would be not so much of the osteopathic or adjustment nature, but more of the NEUROPATHIC - or a gentle QUIETING of the nerves.
Let the diets be nerve and blood building; well balanced.
(Q) What suggestion should be given the body?
(A) The constructive forces. Of necessity, the suggestions will be according to who does the suggesting - and the response of the body to the suggestor, see?
(Q) Would Virginia Beach be a good place for the body?
(A) Excellent?
(Q) Would her aunt, Mrs. [760] be a good person to be with her?
(A) Excellent!
(Q) If she is the one to give the suggestion, just what should she say?
(A) Let's wait until she commences, first - and then we will check over these!
We would check these conditions, through these same sources, every ten days.
We are through for the present.
Copy to Mr. [2903]
Copy to File

BACKGROUND

8/05/33 Letter from her father [2903]: "I'm writing you about my daughter [386] who has hardly been real well since she was a baby, having had scarlet fever, diphtheria, adenoid operation, sinus trouble, etc., all of which has made her timid and sensitive and melancholy.
"Within the last week she at times has had hallucinations. [760] has been here with us and will enclose a letter with this. The doctor here at ... Hospital has gone over her for about a week and finds nothing physically wrong but seems to think it is rather mental.
"I would appreciate it if you would give me a reading on her, for from what you have done for others I feel sure you can find the seat of her trouble and that which is necessary to correct same.
"As she is not strong physically she usually stays in bed until ten a.m., so a reading any morning would find her at home ... Ave."
8/05/33 letter from her aunt [760]: "Brother [2903] and wife sent for me, feeling I might be of some help to them and [386] in her pitiful condition. I say pitiful, for to me a sick mind is the most pitiful of all afflictions. During the past week she has been under the observation of the best doctor here, making all sorts of tests, etc., and his report was he could find nothing wrong with her but her mind, [Dementia Praecox - see 386-3 Reports] saying she must not be left alone to brood... As I told her parents there is bound to be a cause, and until that is removed or treated she is not going to get any better, and there is only one way to get the absolute truth and facts and that is through you. So they are writing you now. She is so despondent and has delusions only at times... I know the first readings are always thorough and definite, but please let one question be (unless given without question) where is best for her to go for a change and what best could or should she do to employ her mind. Her eyes are weak and she can use them little at a time. She has sinus trouble, hayfever. Has had two operations first when a child for adenoids and tonsils, which she says she has never gotten over, the other a lump in one breast, all without a general anesthetic, which I think has just shattered her nervous system..."

REPORTS

8/25/33 Cousin [419]'s letter: "They haven't decided yet about bringing [386] to the Beach but will know in a few days. They have to get her in the right frame of mind before they can put the question to her about whether she will follow out the treatments."
8/27/43 Father [2903]'s ltr.: "[386] said she would like to go up there and follow out your rdg...when I know what you have done for [538] and [1103] and the others, I feel sure you will have the same success with [386]."
9/28/33 See 386-2.