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          Local woman is
            testimony to mind
            power     by James PierreStaff Reporter
      Patricia Mischell believes
            in the power of the mind.     The Hartwell resident has
            overcome the restrictions of arthritis and an eighth grade education
            to achieve beyond what those restrictions might see to imply.     "I had to quite my
            job and to welfare,"  Mischell said of the time she
            suffered from the disease.  "It was very crippling. 
            My kids used to push me up the steps.  I couldn't open bottle
            caps." HER LIMITED EDUCATION hasn't prevented
            her from establishing herself as a recognized parapsychologist and
            psychic.     She has been utilized by
            police departments to solve criminal mysteries and appeared on radio
            and television talk-shows to offer advice and psychic
            predictions.  For two years, she appeared on the Bob Braun show
            as resident psychic.     Now Mischell has just
            released her first book on the subject of mind power called
            "Beyond Positive Thinking" to coincide with the opening of
            her Positive Living Center in June at 8425 Vine St.  in the
            Hartwell Shopping Center.     "I believe my moving
            from welfare to where I am today is almost astronomical," 
            said Mischell from her home in the Williamsburg of Cincinnati
            apartment complex. | 
              HER CENTER will stress
            the aspects of thinking and living that changes lives, 
            Mischell said.     The center will house a
            bookstore that she now operates from her home, be the site of
            classes in such subjects as yoga, positive thinking and nutrition, a
            place for weekly speaker's platforms and Sunday sessions of the Hope
            Ministries which Mischell established in 1976.     Mischell said she first
            discovered the hidden powers of the mind when she met a minister who
            gave her a book on the subconscious mind.  After reading that
            book, she read another on positive thinking.     "Then I started using
            the techniques that were in those books.  I started
            meditating.  I would visualize myself running and doing other
            things that I wanted to do.  Then I started putting feelings
            into my visualizations.  Within six months my arthritis went
            into remission,"  Mischell said.     MISCHELL ALSO realized
            spiritual revelations during the time she made changes in her life,
            but she said she doesn't mention god a lot in her book.                
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