Thomas Troward (1847-1916) - New Thought Movement

Thomas Troward (1847-1916) is an author whose works influenced the New Thought Movement, Mind Sciences, and mystic Christianity. Influences on his writings include the teachings of Christ, Islamic and Hindu Teachings, and Buddhism.

Troward was the author of several books including the Edinburgh Lectures 1904.

Troward has been credited as a major influence on New Thought, Religious Science, Science of Mind and founder Ernest Holmes, and even in the History of Alcoholics Anonymous literature. In the beginning of the global best seller The Secret, the introduction remarks credit Troward's philosophy with inspiring the movie and it's production.

The philosopher William James characterized Troward’s Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science as "far and away the ablest statement of philosophy I have met, beautiful in its sustained clearness of thought and style, a really classic statement." Several of Troward's books are in the public domain due to their publication before the 1920s.

Dr. Frederick Bailes - Your Mind Can Heal You

Dr. Frederick Bailes was born into a family of pioneers in New Zealand in 1889 and was trained to be a medical missionary.
As he was completing his training he was diagnosed with diabetes, an incurable condition then.
After the diagnosis, he came across the writings of Thomas Troward (The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science 1904) and began to develop a philosophy for living, and within six years, he attained a complete recovery...before the discovery of insulin.
He went on to live until the age of 81.
After his healing, as a student at a large London hospital, Dr. Bailes closely observed the mental factors which entered into the recovery of patients and noticed that certain fundamental thought-patters invariable produced bodily reactions.
By stimulating his patients causative mental patterns toward healing, Dr. Bailes soon found remarkable results.

"with the fundamental truth that the person for whom we are treating is a perfect idea in the Mind of God, and our whole procedure during a treatment is intended to remove from our own mind any idea or picture of imperfection or sickness."
- Frederick Bailes

Dr. Bailes seven "R"s as outlined in his book In his book "Your Mind Can Heal You" are:
Relaxation
Recognition
Relationship
Reasoning
Realization
Release
Rejoice

You can read more about Dr. Bailes here:
http://frederickbailes.wwwhubs.com/



Dr. Frederick Bailes, posted to http://manifesting-reality.blogspot.com/ on 5-10-2008