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=What Health and Healing is in Different Parts of Being?=
==Physical==
To whatever cause an illness may be due, material or mental, external or internal, it must, before it can affect the physical body, touch another layer of the being that surrounds and protects it. This subtler layer is called in different teachings by various names,—the etheric body, the nervous envelope. It is a subtle body and yet almost visible. In density something like the vibrations that you see around a very hot and steaming object, it emanates from the physical body and closely covers it. All communications with the exterior world are made through this medium, and it is this that must be invaded and penetrated first before the body can be affected. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p11</ref>
If this envelope is absolutely strong and intact, you can go into places infested with the worst of diseases, even plague and cholera, and remain quite immune. It is a perfect protection against all possible attacks of illness, so long as it is whole and entire, thoroughly consistent in its composition, its elements in faultless balance.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p11</ref>
There is a physical Nature which is perfectly harmonious, which has an absolutely harmonious working, without any disorder, without disequilibrium, without any rupture of harmony, which would be expressed, if it existed upon earth, by a perfect health, a growing force, a continuous progress; and then all that one would like to obtain from one's body one would obtain; and this can go as far as an almost unimaginable progress of perfection.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/29-june-1955#p7</ref>
==Vital==
In order to be completely cured, the vital must be converted, and "to be converted" isn't to surrender—to be converted is to understand. To be converted is to adhere.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/december-31-1965#p52</ref>
==Mind==
Finally, the body obeys the mind automatically in those things in which it is formed or trained to obey it, but the relation of the body to the mind is not in all things that of an automatic perfect instrument. The body also has a consciousness of its own and, though it is a submental instrument or servant consciousness, it can disobey or fail to obey as well. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-mind#p30</ref>
=Why is Health and Healing Important?=