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==Practicing Indifferent Detachment==
...The physical mind...makes use of the nervous substance; if we withdraw it from the nervous substance, we no longer feel anything, for that's what gives us the perception of sensation....We know something is wrong, but we no longer suffer from it...this kind of indifferent detachment is the ESSENTIAL condition for the establishment of true Harmony in the most material Matter—the most external, physical Matter
This is the logical consequence... on the cause of illnesses and how to overcome them.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/january-31-1961#p14</ref>
...detachment of the mind must be strengthened by a certain attitude of indifference to the things of the body; we must not care essentially about its ...health or ill-health,...This does not mean that we shall not keep the body in right order so far as we can; we have not to fall into violent asceticisms or a positive neglect of the physical frame. But we have not either to be affected in mind by...discomfort or ill-health or attach the importance which the physical and vital man attaches to the things of the body... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-subjection-to-the-body#p2</ref>
...One step towards it[illness] is to get the inner consciousness separate from the body—to feel that it is not you who are ill but it is only something taking place in the body and not affecting your consciousness. It is then possible to see this separate body consciousness, what it feels, what are its reactions to things, how it works. One can then act on it to change its consciousness and reactions . <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p54</ref>
Only, when one is not very much coddled, when one has a little endurance and decides within himself not to pay too much attention, quite remarkably the pain diminishes…