New Gurus: 2. Taking the Urine
Influenced
The Origins of Wellness Culture
Phineas Percursed Quimby, an American clockmaker, got really into a certain kind of faith healing./nBut the question that he couldn't figure out was, why did some of his patients get better and some get worse?/nAnd he decided that the answer was that some of them just didn't want to get well enough./nAnd so he began to kind of pioneer this idea, which then his students and followers later codified into this new thought or the mind cure, which basically said, if you think you'll get well, you'll get well./nIf you focus your mental energies on health, you'll have it.
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