Affirmation · “The Subconscious Says Yes”
Health Rays
Speak and dwell upon charged, life-affirming words to build a felt sense of health and ‘radiate’ it to the body and to others.
Sit still. Choose a potent word — life, wholeness, strength. Speak it slowly, with feeling, until a sense of vitality builds. Direct (radiate) that felt health into the body. Rest in it.
What it is
A healing-affirmation practice from Walter DeVoe’s Mystic Words of Mighty Power. DeVoe held that certain words, spoken with feeling and conviction, are “potent” — they carry a constructive, life-giving force.
In his scheme of the fourfold nature of man (physical, mental, spiritual, divine) and its “Health Culture,” the practitioner repeats charged affirmations until a sense of vitality builds, then deliberately radiates that “health ray” — to one’s own body and, in DeVoe’s intent, outward to another person needing healing.
The Method
- Still and centre. Sit quietly and turn attention inward, away from the body’s complaints toward the source of life within (“Soul Culture” precedes “Health Culture” in DeVoe’s order).
- Choose a potent word or affirmation. Select a charged, life-affirming statement — life, wholeness, strength, “I am filled with the living health of God.” DeVoe’s book supplies such affirmations to be used as set forms.
- Speak it with feeling, repeatedly. Say the word slowly and with conviction, letting its meaning and force build a felt quality of health and energy in the body. Repetition and feeling — not volume — are the point.
- Radiate the ray. Once the sense of vitality is strong, hold the intention of sending it: directing the felt health into the affected part of your own body, or, in DeVoe’s practice, toward another person held in mind.
- Close in stillness. Rest in the heightened sense of wholeness before returning to ordinary activity. (Affirmation phrasing is attributed paraphrase in DeVoe’s idiom; his book is a collection of such set affirmations.)
Source & Lineage
Walter DeVoe (b. 1874) taught through the College of Freedom in Chicago, which published Mystic Words of Mighty Power (1905); he later founded the Elohist Ministry. The practice belongs to the affirmation-and-radiation wing of early New Thought healing.
Common refinements
Words without feeling. Mechanical recitation does little; the felt charge is the working element.
- Rushing. The vitality has to build before there is anything to “radiate”; go slowly.
- Treating it as proven tele-healing. Use the radiating image as a focusing device, not a substitute for another’s medical care.
- Symptom fixation. Keep attention on the quality of health, not on the ailment.