New Thought

Any form of belief in mental healing other than 1 Christian Science and 2 hypnotism or psychotherapy It was practised in the 19th century and its central principle was affirmative thought or suggestion employed with the conviction that man produces changes in his health his finances and his life by the adoption of a favorable mental attitude As a therapeutic doctrine it stands for silent and absent mental treatment and the theory that all diseases are mental in origin As a cult it has its unifying idea the inculcation of workable optimism in contrast with the ldquoold thoughtrdquo of sin evil predestination and pessimistic resignation The term is essentially synonymous with the term High Thought used in England