Well, each morning after I sat down and let myself get still I took up my "patients" one by one and "treated" them. That is, I said over the name of one and then tried to imagine her whole and straight and bright, the perfect woman. To this mental picture of the perfect woman I would then begin to talk mentally, as if I really saw her and was describing her to herself. Something like this: "Why, Mary, you are glorious! You are perfect! You are beautiful, and strong, and good clear through. You are one with God, and you smile and realize your goodness and wisdom and power. All you desire is yours and you rejoice. You are loving, kind, as well as wise and powerful. You are ideal, Mary, and your own comes to you!" Then I would take up the next one in the same way. Sometimes if I could not lose consciousness of their diseases I would deny each one in detail, as if I were wiping out a picture. "You are not weak --- your liver is not torpid --- your stomach is not a weak one --- etc." Then I would picture the perfect woman, or man, as the case might be, and call it by the "patient's" name, describing to it all its perfections.

To deny a thing is to wipe it out. To affirm a thing is literally to make it firm. Both things are done in imagination and responded to in reality. When imagination held an imperfect image I denied it away in detail; when I succeeded in imagining a beautiful, perfect picture I affirmed it. The longer I worked at this the less denying and more affirming I did, because by practice I gained control of my imagination, and it grew easier to conjure up the sort of pictures I wanted to see and affirm.