It's Only Natural
Chapter XXVII
The Final Healing Ingredient
One day, many years ago when I was practicing in Seattle, Washington, a patient of mine brought her sister from New Jersey to my clinic. After the Easterner had dressed, she came out into the clinic hall and encountered the usual procession of happy chatting women, laughing youngsters and smiling nurses and said, "This isn't a doctor's office; it's a three-ring circus." Our office was apparently so different from the usual staid professional atmosphere she was accustomed to that she was rather flustered at first and didn't know quite how to take us.
Within a few minutes, however, she was running up and down the halls like everybody else, laughing her head off and having a great time. When she left, she said to me, "I haven't had so much fun in a doctor's office in all my life. The only problem is, I really don't know how I'll ever go back to Jersey and face those other doctors again. I'm afraid you've spoiled me for life." That was the last I saw of her, but when I left Seattle 1969 to take over the directorship of the Clymer Health Clinic, I tried to bring this atmosphere with me. I believe I have succeeded. In fact, if anything, it has become more pronounced here than it was out West. In our Beverly Hall Corporation Healing Research Center we believe that we have taken this ambiance to a new plateau.
I like to think of this pleasant atmosphere as the final elusive ingredient in our cures. It is nothing more nor no less than a happy optimistic outlook about the whole spectrum of life and health. It isn't an outlook we describe to the patients, nor is it something we suggest to them. It is a way of thought and life that permeates every person connected with our Healing Centers. We attempt to create, in the atmosphere around and about our Centers, vibrations of love so strong that they would melt the heart of a Scrooge.
We attempt to instill in our patients a true sense of love and realization that we humans weren't put on this planet to suffer, but rather that we are here to be healthy and useful. True, at times suffering may be our lot, but this suffering is only for the purpose of guiding us toward the proper road so we may learn to live within the laws of God and Nature.
People get well at our Healing Centers because we won't let them do otherwise. It takes a very determined person not to improve under our care. We exude such strong, healthy, happy vibrations that our patients are lifted right out of their doldrums and improve in spite of themselves.
Nothing about this final ingredient is new and all rational physicians agree that a constructive, optimistic outlook benefits the patient, yet how much is done in most medical establishments to produce such an outlook?
The reason we perpetuate such an atmosphere is that everyone connected with our Centers deeply believes in what we are doing. We all know that our methods are good. We all know that, given an opportunity, we can help almost any patient who crosses our doorstep. With this thought, it is easy for us to be happy and positive. It is easy for us to be optimistic because this optimism is based on the results of our past efforts.
At our Healing Research Centers, we sincerely and truly love each and every one of our patients. Each patient is to us a rare and individual jewel. Some are highly polished, some are a little more rough, but all have the potential of being of inestimable value. This love is the capstone of the final ingredient. Happiness, joy and the vibrations created by these emotions can give the patient a feeling of belonging and can give him a sense of assurance that he is going to get well. But love, true love, for these children of God, alone can carry the cure to its final completion. So in the last analysis, we find that this great secret of our Centers is simply to follow the admonition that Jesus gave his disciples when he last departed from them: "Love ye one another."