Are you nursing a grudge against anyone ? Be aware.

[KASTURI SETHI]

Respected Sir,

It is submitted that I have read a book titled, 'Techniques in Prayer Therapy'  written by Dr.Josephy Murphy, World famous American author, educator and spiritual guide. He has written more than 30 books. The contents of this book are worth sharing with the visitors of TMI website. 

ARE YOU NURSING A GRUDGE AGAINST ANYONE ? BE AWARE.

Introduction              

This article has nothing to do with taxation field. I am writing this article  in the interest of health of visitors of this forum. There are so many factors (air pollution, nuclear pollution, mal-nutrition, water-pollution, lack of exercise, lack of oxygen and ill luck) which affect our health adversely   but I am discussing here  only one aspect which is ultra-crucial for all of us and that is physical health depends upon mental health and vice versa. Now-a-days it is one of the toughest jobs to remain physically fit and fine. Recently  I have read a book titled,  ‘Techniques in  Prayer Therapy’ written by Dr. Joseph Murphy (1898-1981),  a world famous American author, educator and spiritual guide who has written  more than 30 books. This book was written about 55 years ago and is still very popular and very useful for maintaining physical as well as  mental health. Its usefulness has not diminished even after six decades.  In the year 2016, this book was translated into Hindi language for the first time by Dr.Sudhir Dixit.   Dr.Murphy has served humanity by writing more than 30 books on various subjects. For the welfare of visitors of TMI website and also for others who would be motivated by the readers of this article, I am sharing Dr.Joseph Murphy’s moral, religious and spiritual guidelines and instructions   with those who have not read this book.

Review of the  book

This book highlights on the power of prayer and solution of the physical problems through various  techniques of prayer as therapy. The author highlights the real causes of fatal diseases and how these diseases  can be treated without any medicines and  medical surgery.  Dr.Murphy had treated so many patients without medicine and medical surgery by diagnosing the patients in a holistic manner.  He  was also assisted by  Dr. Parker American Psychologist in diagnosing the latent causes of diseases and treatment thereof. In this book he has a given a detailed description of case studies of those patients who were healed by him through various techniques of prayer therapy. Out of those cases some are detailed below:-

1. A woman suffering from ulcer in the stomach visited Dr.Murphy and he diagnosed her holistically, especially, enquired about her  family life, social life and occupational life etc. She told the doctor that she had bitter relations with her real sister for many years. She  fed  herself with the poison of   hatred, jealousy, revenge  and anger against her sister. The doctor prescribed her prayer therapy  for one month.  The patient was advised to wish peace, happiness,   well-being and perfect health of her sister as well as hers by way of prayer to God. The frequency was twice a day. After one month she visited the doctor again and the  doctor examined her. The patient was surprised to know that she had been healed of ulcer completely. What healed her ? The negative thoughts (hatred, jealousy, revenge and anger) which she had been nursing for so many years were thrown out of her mind by way of prayer therapy. Thus the root causes of illness were removed and effect (result) was there. She was  completely healed without any medicine and surgery. Medical tests confirmed that there she had  no trace of ulcer in her body.
2. Similarly, a  woman had been suffering from migraine and high blood pressure for the last ten years. She was frustrated and fed up  with the unbearable pains and other ill-effects caused by   the chronic diseases.  On being asked by the doctor, she disclosed that her mother had given whole property to her sister and she had been nursing hatred, revenge, jealousy  and anger against her mother and sister. Her mother had died ten years ago. Dr.Murphy advised her to pray to God and wish  peace, happiness  and well being to her mother’s soul and also think that her mother had done right  whatever she had thought proper and right for her. This time also duration of prayer was one month. After one month her brain was purged from  the poison of hatred, revenge, anger and jealousy against her sister and mother by sincere prayers to God and resultantly, she was cured of  migraine and high blood pressure  which could not be treated  with medicines for the last ten years. 
3. Similarly, in another case a person had been suffering from tumour  and he consulted Dr.Murphy. He told the doctor that he had been  suffered  a huge loss of money in his business because of fraud committed  by his partner. He took to his heart. He could not reconcile with himself after this traumatic incident. He was helpless. He nursed hatred, revenge, anger, and prejudice against his ex-partner for so many years. Dr. Murphy prescribed various techniques of prayer therapy and  he was also healed   completely. The patient’s medical tests and reports were O.K. after undergoing the treatment via prayer therapy instead of medicines and medical surgery.
4. The author also gave detailed case studies of the patients suffering from tuberculosis, paralysis, sinusitis, asthma etc. which were also healed  by his treatment of  prayer therapy. Such is the power of prayer therapy.
5. In this book, the author has emphasized the need for establishing rapport by  the patient with  God with complete integrity. What Dr.Murphy conveys his message through his book is very much clear from above examples (based on facts)  given in the book. Even  a single thought whether positive or negative affects our mental health and,  in turn, our physical health accordingly.

Conclusion

If you are feeding and sustaining hatred, enmity, revenge, jealousy, envy, inferiority complex, guilty feelings, prejudice etc., the functions  of your whole body  will be upset which  generate (rather, auto-populate)  so many fatal diseases in a phased manner, so these devil  (negative thoughts) should be thrown out of our mind as early as possible and should be replaced by positive thoughts. If you take medicine regularly for a prolonged period on any health problem, you are controlling the disease and not rooting out the disease because root cause is not rooted out.  Dr.Murphy says that if anybody harms you, you are to pray to God and wish  peace, happiness, health and comfortable life for the harmer. Whether the offender is to be punished or not, is the jurisdiction of God. We have  no moral right  to even think ill of others. This is the theory of ‘cause and effect’.  Our goal is to ‘delete’ the cause and enjoy the fruit (effect) i.e.   peaceful, healthy and happy  life.  To cap it all, for healthy life we cannot forget the proverbial truth that prevention is better than cure.

What is brewing in our inside the world (mind)  that is controllable and what is happening outside the world that is out of control. If we are unable to control what is brewing in our mind, we should be mentally prepared to face the music. Dr.Joseph Murphy's is loud and clear.

KASTURI LAL SETHI

PANCHKULA