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 "old thought" of sin, evil, predestination, and pessimistic resignation. The term is essentially synonymous with the term High Thought, used in England.

A group of metaphysical Christian faith groups including Unity, Religious Science, Science of Mind, Divine Science, Christian Science, etc.

Mind development movement founded by Phineas Quimby, 19th century. The potential of the human brain being limitless one has the ability to use the mind to control his or her physical body and their entire lifestyle; one has a consciousness that one creates one self, which can be changed and elevated to better one's affairs in each incarnation.

Movement that tries to merge classic occult concepts with Christian terminology.

Unity teaches eternal truths and ancient wisdom in a new way. We always teach that our Truth and our connection with God can only be found within.

New Thought describes a set of religious ideas that developed in the United States during the late 19th century, originating with Phineas Parkhurst Quimby. Followers of New Thought also find inspiration in the Transcendentalist philosophy, as it was developed by Ralph Waldo Emerson and other 19th-century American thinkers. See also New Thought Movement.