When living in an apartment house where laundry work had to be done in the basement in an old-fashioned machine with an electric wringer, I learned that erroneous suggestions should be denied reality as soon as they present themselves.
The first time I went to the basement to wash, our son went with me and was helping me to wring the clothes. Another tenant expressed the fear that he would get his hand caught in the wringer because her son had once done so. She related the experience to us in detail. Silently I declared that this could not happen to our son, because I knew that in reality he was one of divine Love's spiritual ideas. However, I did not deny the suggestion that such an accident had actually happened to someone else.
Several weeks later I left our young daughter and her playmate in the basement while my washing was in the machine. Some time later I heard cries of distress. I rushed to the basement to find that our daughter had climbed up onto the machine and that her arm was caught in the wringer up to her elbow.
