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== Fear and Illness ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Nine-tenths of the danger in an illness comes from fear. Fear can give you the apparent symptoms of an illness; and it can give you the illness too,—its effects can go so far as that. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p17</ref></u>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">If you are ill, your illness is looked after with so much anxiety and fear, you are given so much care that you forget to take help from the One who can help you and you fall into a vicious circle and take a morbid interest in your illness. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/worry-and-bother-about-illness#p22</ref></u></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">First, not to want to be ill, and then not to be afraid of illness. You must neither attract it nor tremble. You must not want illness at all. But you must not because of fear not want it; you must not be afraid; you must have a calm certitude and a complete trust in the power of the Grace to shelter you from everything, and then think of something else, not be concerned about this any longer. When you have done these two things, refusing the illness with all your will and infusing a confidence which completely eliminates the fear in the cells of the body, and then busying yourself with something else, not thinking any longer about the illness, forgetting that it exists... there, if you know how to do that, you may even be in contact with people who have contagious diseases, and yet you do not catch them. But you must know how to do this. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/11-may-1955#p13</ref></u></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Even what the mind and will can do with the body in the field proper to the body and its life, in the way of physical achievement, bodily endurance, feats of prowess of all kinds, a lasting activity refusing fatigue or collapse and continuing beyond what seems at first to be possible, courage and refusal to succumb under an endless and murderous physical suffering, these and other victories of many kinds sometimes approaching or reaching the miraculous are seen in the human field and must be reckoned as a part of our concept of a total perfection.... </span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/1-may-1957#p1</ref>
=Fear of Divinisation of the Consciousness=