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=What Is Healing?=
==Definition==
It is opening and receptivity to the divine influence.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/doctors-and-medicines#p11 </ref>
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What is majorly understood as healing power is a very great mental or vital power that imposes itself through the resistance of Matter... It's the contagion of a vibration. And then it's irrevocable.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/july-12-1967#p23 </ref>
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They are...faculties that develop in man as he opens to the higher mind and overmind, and through those regions he receives the light of the Truth. These faculties are not a direct expression of the supreme Truth, but a transcription, an indirect reflection of it. They include intuition, foreknowledge, knowledge by identity and certain powers such as that of healing and, to an extent, of acting upon circumstances.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/23-april-1960#p4 </ref>
==Pain and Suffering==
Human beings always suffer because of egoistic causes, humanly... So, always at the root of human sorrow there is a turning back upon oneself, more or less conscious, more or less ...acknowledged, but it is always that. Even when one weeps over another's misery, there is always a mixture.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/26-may-1954#p24 </ref>
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All disorders, all suffering is falsehood.
Thus it can be said that illnesses are falsehoods of the body...
… an illness is only a wrong attitude taken by some part of the body.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/doctors-and-medicines#p10 </ref>
===Role of Medical Science and Medicine===
Medical Science to the human body is like a great Power which enfeebles a smaller State by its protection or like a benevolent robber who knocks his victim flat and riddles him with wounds in order that he may devote his life to healing and serving the shattered body. <ref>http://innateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-404-405-406-407#p3car </ref>
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Medical Science has been more a curse to mankind than a blessing. It has broken the force of epidemics and unveiled a marvellous surgery; but, also, it has weakened the natural health of man and multiplied individual diseases; it has implanted fear and dependence in the mind and body; it has taught our health to repose not on natural soundness but a rickety and distasteful crutch compact from the mineral and vegetable kingdoms. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/march-14-1970#p12 </ref>
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Drugs often cure the body when they do not merely trouble or poison it, but only if their physical attack on the disease is supported by the force of the spirit; if that force can be made to work freely, drugs are superfluous.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-404-405-406-407#p3 </ref>
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The doctor aims a drug at a disease; sometimes it hits, sometimes misses. The misses are left out of account, the hits treasured up, reckoned and systematised into a science.
<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-386-387-388-389#p4</ref>
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The chief role of the doctor is, by various means, to induce the body to recover its trust in the Supreme Grace. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/doctors-and-medicines#p10 </ref>
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In most cases the use of medicines—within reasonable limits, that is, when one doesn't poison oneself by taking medicines—is simply to help the body to have confidence. It is the body which heals itself. When it wants to be cured, it is cured. And this is something very widely recognised now; even the most traditional doctors tell you, "Yes, our medicines help, but it is not the medicines which cure, it is the body which decides to be cured." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-june-1957#p10 </ref>
In every case, it is the Force that cures.
Medicines have little effect; it is the faith in medicines that cures.
Get treated by the doctor whom you trust and take only the medicines that inspire trust in you.
The body only has trust in material methods and that is why you have to give it medicines—but medicines have an effect only if the Force acts through them.
Allopaths ordinarily cure one thing, only to the detriment of another.
Ayurvedic doctors do not usually have this drawback. That is why I recommend them.
<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/doctors-and-medicines#p31,p32,p33,p34,p35,p36</ref>
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One must have an unshakable faith to be able to do without medicines.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/letters-to-a-young-sadhak-x#p4 </ref>
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To conclude, we might say that the patient’s faith is what gives medicines the power to cure.
If people had an absolute faith in the healing power of the Grace, perhaps they would spare themselves quite a few diseases.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/march-14-1970#p12 </ref>
=Why Heal?=