Mental Color Therapy Part II
by Lily Cornford

This article is a continuation of a transcript of an informal workshop, which included a question and answer period.  The questions were inaudible but the responses, we felt, stand on their own and so we have included them.

Now I would like to speak briefly about skeletal healing. Many people think that because the skeleton is composed of bone, you can’t do anything with it.  Believe me, that’s a fallacy and we have healed it repeatedly.  We had a young boy fifteen years old; he was a very arrogant boy and he had a very dreadful problem in that his skull was too small. He had brain capacity but he couldn’t get it through and down on paper simply because his skull was very small.  This is a true story and I know it sounds fantastic, but through the healing his skull literally began to grow, and with the growth his brain was able to spread out and gradually his skeletal began to get straighter.  We passed him then on to a doctor and to a therapist and we haven’t seen him for about two years. But we got him moving and that was all we had to do.  We have had patients come in with their arms in splints and we healed them through the splint so that eventually when the splint was taken off, their arms were straight.  We’re healing a little boy right now and by God he is one of the new age children.  He is sharp and alive and he has had two hip operations and his little leg was very curved as a result.  As of last Saturday, his leg was straight and the scars from the operation are slowly diminishing.  Each Saturday morning we have a children’s healing.  We call it Picadilly Circus because you have never heard such noise, but the children are delightful and they never quarrel. 

We have had one child since he was eighteen months old.  He came to us from Great Almonds Street Hospital (the famous hospital in London) with Leukodystrophy of the brain.  His mother was told to take him home and that in six months he would be dead.  That boy is now 6 ½--he’s the brightest boy in the school, he’s been walking round on two crutches and now, right before I left, he began walking without his crutches.  We’ve still got work to do, but he has healed himself through his own will power and the help of the healers. He’s not had one pill all through his six-and-one-half years.  He has improved on account of the healing energies. 

You can always use the energy of love with terminal cases. You cannot interfere if you always say, “Thy will be done; not my will, Thy will.”  If you can ease someone’s transit, it is worth it.  To go over peacefully, rather than in pain and suffering, can always be accomplished through the use of the energy of love. 

We always work by sending the colors through the hands.  Sometimes we do not touch the body. Sometimes we work purely with the etheric, but mostly we touch the body.  People like a human contact and that helps tremendously. The nervous system is the most important system of the whole body.  Without the nerves we wouldn’t function, and so we try to get to the root cause of an inharmony.  If you get to the root cause, you can then begin to heal.  And many times the root cause lies in a shock that can go back to childhood—to falling off a horse or falling down a slide. 

For example, this is your stomach and over your stomach are your nerves.  Everything is doing its work and the nerves are holding it comfortably and steadily and then suddenly you jump, you fall, you have an accident and the nerves tighten up.  Then, this organ, no matter what it is, can’t function properly. It becomes an effort to move and to digest and this sets up inharmony, pain and suffering.  Release the nervous system and gradually the organ begins to get its rightful space, do its rightful work and healing can take place.

We have twelve pairs of cranial nerves and they are found in the back of the head. Those nerves activate our five senses and without them the senses wouldn’t operate.  It is very often the case that when those nerves have trouble, if we heal them, we right the trouble.  We have a very important nerve called the vagus nerve, which is the second longest nerve in the body. A lot of people get tightness across the top part of their body and they immediately think they have heart trouble.  Two of our important healers have had this trouble and both went to the doctors at different times and were directed to the hospital.  Both of them came back with instruments attached to them to monitor their hearts.  I think they had it on for twenty-four hours and returned to the hospital only to find there was nothing wrong with them. 

When they came back we did healing on the vagus nerve and within a month there was no more trouble.  So if you are going to do healing and people come to you and say they think they have heart trouble, first of all look to the vagus nerve and then, if you are not sure, send them to the doctor or the hospital.  But nine times out of ten, unless there is something wrong with the heart organ (which is a very strong organ in the body), you will find that the problem is related to the vagus nerve.

We work differently on the vagus nerve, depending upon the situation.  We work on the whole twelve pair of cranial nerves; first we cleanse them using the spring green and then, sometimes, we will use sapphire blue, or sometimes electric blue.  It just depends on the patient and the particular problem.  But we place a lot of attention upon the nervous system because if you can heal the nervous system then the rest of the organs will take their rightful place. I maintain that there isn’t an illness that cannot be helped.  And I think quite a lot of problems stem from nerves and tension.  Ninety-five percent of our illnesses are caused by tension, anxiety, and worry--particularly cancer. 

Before you do healing you have to find out the cause of the particular symptoms, and then you work accordingly.  The cause can be determined by talking with the patient.  They don’t always tell you the truth, however.  The most valuable tool, therefore, is to unfold and use your own, pure intuition.  When I started first using my intuition, I was a bit wary.  But if you can develop this faculty, you never make a mistake.

We practice absent healing as well, and that is fantastic.  We usually do this on Thursday for about two hours and we have a list of people--we only need a name and someone who has a connecting link and that is all.  It doesn’t matter where in the world they live--we send the colors out and it works. Thought is immediate.  It doesn’t matter where in the world a person lives—the energy is there immediately.

Regarding the preparation of the healer--well, I wouldn’t suggest that you go out and eat steak and kidney pudding and then go do healing.  You have to purify your body but you would never want to be fanatical.  Fanaticism never gets us anywhere, it only drives everybody else mad.  Purify the body to the best of your ability.  It doesn’t mean you have to be 100% vegetarian, but if you are vegetarian that is good.  But most of all, purify your thoughts. There is no value in thinking of beautiful colors, while at the same time thinking, “my god that woman is a pain in the neck.”  And believe me, some of them are! You need infinite patience. 

We have to go carefully when working with the medical establishment and it can only be done by example and by working quietly.  Physicians spend seven years in hard training and if someone comes along and accomplishes healing with their hands in the twinkle of an eye--it can be difficult to take. Also, there are many charlatans around. I don’t know about here, but in London, by God, they are asking for an awful amount of money.

At the moment two of our healers work together on our patients.  One person takes the head and the other the torso. We take turns.  We work with the whole body—the physical, the etheric, the astral and the mental.  But if we can get in touch with the soul, then we really are working.

If anybody comes to us who has taken drugs or drink, or if they are a bit scruffy, we have a special ritual of washing the etheric with salt and water.  We have a little bowl where we put clean water and kitchen salt, not table salt, that’s too refined. And we dip our hands in it and take quite a lot of dampness on a napkin and then, we sweep away on the etheric body.  One will go over the head and one will go over the body and believe me, sometimes, when they are particularly grubby, you get a feeling of grubbiness on your fingers that you have taken off the etheric body.  We always do that with anybody who has taken drugs.  We are making a rule now that unless a patient will endeavor to give up drugs, we won’t work with them.  The patients have to assume a measure of responsibility in this work.

We use a lighted night light with the children, we call it our fairy candle and we go all around the body, sealing it.  We use this light also with epileptics and with schizophrenics.  We have a lighted candle and we start at the top of the body and we trace around the periphery of the entire body.  Usually the patients are lying on their backs.  Our symbol of protection is the circle and the cross.  We make that symbol over the palms of the hands because that is where your center exists.  And we make it over the soles of the feet and then we come down the spine and we do it over every chakra--the cross and the circle--that is a wonderful protection, particularly for schizophrenics, epileptics or anyone with drug or alcohol problems.  The children love it, especially the hyperactive ones. And if we forget to give it to them they’ll say, “Where’s the candle, where’s the fairy candle?”

About ten years ago a poor man came into our clinic, you couldn’t tell whether he had a curvature, lung trouble, or what it was.  So, we gave him a healing, and when he got off the table I did a stupid thing! I love doing stupid things because I am a stupid woman. I got hold of my medical book and I opened it to a picture of a perfect rib cage.  I said to this fellow, “Now look here Dennis, look at this, this is a perfect rib cage.  You will visualize this rib cage every morning of your life and you will improve.”  Within six months he had to have a new suit because he was beginning to stand upright.  It wasn’t a curvature, it was that the shoulder blades were covering his spine and gradually they went back into their rightful place and there was his spine quite straight.  He is now perfectly upright.  He also came to us with asthma.  Although we healed his skeletal, we didn’t heal his asthma because he couldn’t control his emotions.  Recently I’ve received a letter from him making an appointment and he is slowly beginning to lose his asthma because he is beginning to control his emotions. 

We never take people off their pills.  And suddenly they will come in and say, I forgot to take my pills this morning.  Nature is so wonderful, she heals herself when we give her the opportunity.  We never take anyone away from their medication or their doctor.  We work with them.  In fact, I’ve got one lady always telling her doctor what I say and always telling me what her doctor says.  It’s an interchange.

We only have failures if the person doesn’t want to get well.  There are a lot of people who don’t want to get well, particularly if they are on a health pension.  We have had quite a number of people on pensions and suddenly they have had to go for an examination and they disappear. 

We had one girl very recently who was hit by a car and thrown up into the air and her head was in a pool of blood.  She was an awful mess and she was brought to us. She couldn’t hear and she couldn’t smell.  Slowly but surely she is improving and she comes to our classes.  The neurologist was looking in her ears and there is a lot of congealed blood right inside.  And there hasn’t been anything that we could do about it.  She was sitting in our school and she experienced a sudden pain and she rubbed her ear and a big piece of congealed blood fell out.  Last week another piece came out.  And that was all a result of the healing energies.  Her leg is straightened and she is now walking without a cane. She has not regained her sense of taste and smell yet, but they are coming.  Nature sometimes takes a long time in healing, particularly in the case of terrible accidents.

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I grew up adhering strictly to the mandates of the Church of England, but I was always asking questions.  My mother was non-conformist.  We three girls were brought up in the Church of England because we lived opposite the church. And when my mother died (she was a very good woman), she wasn’t allowed to be buried in the plot of ground in the cemetery that belonged to the Church of England, because she hadn’t been baptized or confirmed. Well, being a rebel, that just set me off. I began asking questions, and of course the first place I began to explore was spiritualism and that finished me.  I went enquiring, searching, and I came across a healing group in London.  All through the war we did absent healing.  We sat while the bombs were dropping all around us, that was my first introduction to this work.  But I had to earn a living and so it wasn’t until I was 65 that I started this new career on a full-time basis and I have never looked back.  Financially we work like Robin Hood.  Those that can pay, pay, and those that can’t, don’t pay.

Our school meets twice a year and just last week my colleague and I were saying that we have never been bored.  We give the same curriculum, twice a year, and we are always learning something new every year and we are open to anything and everything.  Don’t worry if you get to 65, you can still start a new life.  I never crossed the Atlantic until I was 80 and I celebrate my 84th birthday in May and I’ve been across three times in the last 12 months.

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If we have a desperate case, we try to meet with patients twice a week.  But I am so booked up now, I don’t believe I have any free appointments until four weeks from now.  I start at 9 a.m. and the last patient comes at 6 p.m. and so it is 7:30 or 8:00 p.m. before we are finished.  The sessions last one hour—first you ask them if any progress has been made, then you get them onto the table and begin working with them, and then we always cover them up with a blanket and leave them for seven minutes.  They ask why seven minutes, and I say that is a lovely number. Then they come out into the lounge and have a cup of tea and Rescue Remedy.  If anybody is driving home, I won’t let them leave until I see that they are really back with us.

You should always make your patient comfortable.  Some patients need a cushion under their knees to help their spine. Others need a cushion under their head.  These are things to observe in your patient from the time you go into the room, until the time you leave. You learn a lot through observation—for example, you learn a lot by how they use their hands or their eyes.  Always observe your patients and you will know what they want and what they need.  Nobody is relaxed these days, nobody.  But through our work we help them to relax every part of their body.  So they’ve got to get time for the body to get into its rhythm again before they go out into the street or into their cars. 

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I maintain that if we eat sensibly, if we are relaxed and if we start using the salivary glands as they should be used--right at the beginning when we put something in our mouths, and masticate thoroughly, we should enjoy good health.  The message goes right the way down the digestive organs and then all the digestive juices work as they should. But most people eat when they are so tense, and so emotionally disturbed, that it is no wonder that they have allergies.  Most allergies are caused by emotions.  Some of my principal healers today came with allergies that were purely emotional.  Cancer is most definitely related to emotions, frustrations, and irritations.