Changes

It's the realm that's... beyond the subtle physical, and it's the realm in which formations of illness MATERIALIZE... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/december-25-1963#p13</ref>

...all disorders...and all diseases are the result of DOUBT in the cells...they doubt the Divine Presence in them, they doubt their being divine in their very essence, and this doubt is the cause of all disorders <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/may-14-1964#p4</ref>

...the cause of disease is psychic, that is to say, subjective and the direction should be towards curing the inner causes much more than patching up by physical means… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/morality-and-yoga#p46</ref>

In its lowest parts (vital-material) it is the agent of pain, physical illness etc.

It [fear] is more dangerous than the worst disease. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/fear#p30</ref>

If there is one mental disorder which can bring about all illnesses, it is fear.

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p3</ref>

...fear always brings what one fears. If you fear an accident, this acts like a magnet drawing the accident towards you...And the same thing holds for illness...

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/27-january-1954#p6</ref>

In fact, ninety per cent of illnesses are the result of the subconscient fear of the body.In the ordinary consciousness of the body there is a more or less hidden anxiety about the consequences of the slightest physical disturbance...this anxiety is a lack of confidence in the Divine's Grace,the unmistakable sign that the consecration is not complete and perfect.

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/fear-and-illness#p3</ref>

If you have fear or apprehension of illness in your vital, that is the first thing to be thrown away, as it helps the illnesses to come in. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p69</ref>

...they say they're ill, and so they are afraid. It's not true! They are afraid first, and then they fall ill. They constantly live with a sort of apprehension: "Oh, what's going to happen?" So something happens! ...The poor body feels that's what is expected of it, and it obeys! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/07/october-22-1966#p5</ref>

Diseases are just that...The two things together: possession and fear,... And a sense of helplessness in all that. The possession by an idea and a helplessness to reject it... And then a sort of fearfulness that is translated in us by, "Oh, it's going to be that way... oh, it's going to be a disease...." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/december-18-1965#p9</ref>

The real disease is fear. Throw the fear away and the disease will go. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/fear-and-illness#p9</ref>

==Subconscient==

...subconscient ...remains submerged and obscurely at work below our conscious nature...into which past impressions and all that is rejected from the surface mind sink and remain there dormant and can surge up in sleep or in any absence of the mind,…forms of automatic vital reaction or impulse, forms of physical abnormality or nervous perturbance, forms of morbidity, disease, unbalance...

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/out-of-the-sevenfold-ignorance-towards-the-sevenfold-knowledge#p9</ref>

If things in you are thrown out, they often do not go altogether but take refuge in this[the] environmental atmosphere and from there try to get in again or they go to a distance outside but linger on the outskirts or even perhaps far off, waiting till they get an opportunity to attempt entrance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-environmental-consciousness#p6</ref>

The suggestions that create illness or unhealthy conditions of the physical being come usually through the subconscient...

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p40</ref>

When the physical consciousness is being changed, the chief resistance comes from the subconscient. It is constantly maintaining or bringing back the inertia, weakness, obscurity,...or the illnesses, dullnesses, pains, incapabilities to which the body-nature is prone. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-subconscient-and-the-inconscient#p17</ref>

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p49</ref>

==Inertia==

...reaction against the transformative will is what causes... disorders... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/august-8-1961#p4</ref>

...in the body, whatever has trouble adjusting to this new Power creates difficulties, disorders and illnesses. Yet in a flash you sense that if you were totally receptive, you would become formidable.

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/13/may-6-1972#p32</ref>

Your inner condition becomes a cause of illness when there is a resistance ...or when there is some part in you that does not respond to the protection; or even... that almost ...wilfully calls in the adverse forces. It is enough if there is a slight movement of this kind in you; the hostile forces are at once upon you and their attack takes often the form of illness.

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/19-may-1929#p12</ref>

This[The] divergence between the progress in the inner being and the inertia of the body often creates a dislocation in the system, and that manifests itself as an illness... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p6</ref>

Loss of balance produces disorder in the consciousness and the adverse forces use that loss of balance for attacking… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/accidents-possession-madness#p24</ref>

Attacks of illness are attacks of the lower nature or of adverse forces taking advantage of some weakness, opening or response in the nature...

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p15</ref>

...it is some part of your body or...a fragment of the vital that has gone wrong and wishes to be ill, ...the situation gets complicated if behind this there is an attack, a pressure from adverse forces who really want to harm you. You may have opened the door through spiritual error, through a movement of vanity, of anger, of hatred or of violence; even if it is merely a movement that comes and goes, that can open the door. There are always germs watching and only waiting for an occasion… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p60</ref>

...when the mind and consciousness have rejected the attacks, the contrary forces fall on some weak point in the body hoping that by pain or illness they will depress the consciousness and so make it less strong to resist and reject them...

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p95</ref>

Sometimes it's an altogether INSIGNIFICANT intrusion of falsehood, for some quite insignificant reason—what is commonly labeled a stupidity. This stems from the fact that the adverse forces are always lying in wait, ready to rush in at the least sign of weakness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/july-18-1961#p59</ref>

==Disharmony==

Human life and mind are neither in tune with Nature ...nor with Spirit—it [human nature] is disturbed, incoherent, conflicting with itself, without harmony and balance. We can then regard it as diseased, if not itself a disease.

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/science-and-yoga#p62</ref>

The mind with its dogmas, its rigid and arbitrary principles, the vital with its passions, its excesses and dissipations soon destroy the natural balance of the body and create in it fatigue, exhaustion and disease. It must be freed from this tyranny and this can be done only through a constant union with the psychic centre of the being... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-science-of-living#p14</ref>

Fever is not a purifying action; it is the sign of an attack on the body and a fight and resistance to the attack… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p62</ref>

Insanity is always due to a vital attack, or rather possession although there is often a physical reason as well. Hysteria is due to a pressure from the vital world and there may be momentary possessions also... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/accidents-possession-madness#p22</ref>

=Why Illness Develops?=