=What is Health and Healing?=
Good health is the exterior expression of an inner harmony. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/illness-and-health#p8</ref> =Why is Health and Healing Important?=
It is good health, a solid body, well poised when one sleeps well, eats well. When one is quite calm, well balanced, very quiet, one has a solid basis and can receive a large number of forces. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/15-april-1953#p13,p14,p15</ref>
=Misconceptions of =Health and Healingin its Natural Form==
Medicines The body, spontaneously, without any need for one to intervene mentally or even vitally, has a part truth behind it—with the certitude that even if something goes wrong it will be cured. The body carries within itself the certitude of cure, the certitude that the illness or disorder is sure to disappear.The body carries within itself the sense of its advantages and disadvantagesdivinity. There. As all religions and philosophies point This is what you must try to the Supreme but each find again in a different direction, so all medical fashions are ways to health—though they don't always reach yourself if you have lost it. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/09/31/doctors-andjuly-medicines1957#p23p13,p15,p16</ref>
Illnesses do not come from yoga. Yoga helps to build up a health that is robust and unfailing. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/illness-and-health#p1</ref>==Subtle Body==
=What Health 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 Healing protects it. This subtler layer is called in Different Parts 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. 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 Being?=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>
==Physical=What is Illness?=
To whatever cause an illness may be due, material or mental, external or internal, it must, before it can affect Illness without any exception is the expression of a break in equilibrium. Speaking only of the physical body, touch another layer not of the nervous illnesses of the being that surrounds and protects itvital or of mental illnesses. This subtler layer That is called in different teachings by various names,—the etheric if all your organs, all the members and parts of your bodyare in harmony with one another, the nervous envelopeyou are in perfect health. It But if there is a subtle body and yet almost visible. In density something like the vibrations that slightest imbalance anywhere, immediately you see around get either just a little ill or quite ill, even very hot and steaming objectbadly ill, it emanates from the physical body and closely covers itor else an accident occurs. All communications with the exterior world are made through this medium, and it That always happens whenever there is this that must be invaded and penetrated first before the body can be affectedan inner imbalance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0305/1622-junejuly-19291953#p11p29</ref>
If this envelope An illness of the body is absolutely strong always the outer expression and intacttranslation of a disorder, you can go into places infested with a disharmony in the worst of diseases, even plague and cholera, and remain quite immune. It inner being; unless this inner disorder is a perfect protection against all possible attacks of illnesshealed, so long as it is whole the outer cure cannot be total and entire, thoroughly consistent in its composition, its elements in faultless balancepermanent.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0315/16inner-junecauses-1929of-illness#p11p12</ref>
There is a physical Nature which is perfectly harmonious"Disease" no longer means anything, which has an absolutely harmonious workingit really doesn't: it's distortions of vibrations and shiftings of vibrations, without any disorderand... (what can I call it?) encrustations—from the point of view of movement, without disequilibriumit's like bottlenecks, without any rupture and from the point of view of harmony, which would be expressedthe cell, if it existed upon earth, by a perfect health, a growing force, a continuous progress; and then all that one would 's like to obtain from oneencrustations: it's body one would obtain; and this can go as far as an almost unimaginable progress what remains of the old Inertia out of perfectionwhich we came.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0705/29november-june28-19551964#p7p9</ref>
==Vital=What are the Causes of Ill-health?=
In order to The origin of an illness may be in the mind; it may be completely cured, in the vital must ; it may be converted, in any of the parts of the being. One and "to the same illness may be converted" isn't due to surrender—to be converted is to understanda variety of causes; it may spring in different cases from different sources of disharmony. To be converted is to adhere.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0603/december16-31june-19651929#p52p9,p10</ref>
==Mind==If one cherishes desires, there is bound to be disappointment and suffering, especially if at the same time one does Yoga and takes up the spiritual life. For such desires, demand for vital affection and love from men and demand for physical comforts are not consistent with the spirit of Yoga in which one must turn one's heart to the Divine and be vitally pure and in physical things must be content with what one gets and equal-minded in all conditions. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/desire#p37</ref>
Finally, the body obeys the mind automatically It's something in those things in which it is formed or trained to obey it, but the relation of the body to subconscient—in the mind is not in all things that of an automatic perfect instrumentcells' subconscient. 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 wellIts roots are there. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/2801/thenovember-5-mind1960#p30p12,p13</ref> =How to Cultivate Health and Healing?=
=Why is Health and Healing Important?=That's the one thing needed—important, very important: to keep the body in good health, in a sort of balance. We must keep our balance. Very important. The rest doesn't matter!<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/july-24-1963#p40</ref>
It is in good health that the way towards transformation is found.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/illness-==Potent Thought and-health#p5</ref>Will==
Health The potent thought and will of health replaces its faith in illness and its consent to illness, or illness is a choice (the idea of strength calls in the substance, power, motion, vibration of strength; the idea generates the force and form proper to express the idea and imposes it simply). A choice on our substance of every minutemind, life or matter. For It is in this bodyway that the first working proceeds; it charges the whole being with a new and superior consciousness, at any ratelays a foundation of change, that's how prepares it isfor a superior truth of existence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0922/junethe-ascent-15towards-1968supermind#p15p23</ref>
Three powers are needed for the Divine Work: one was the power over health, the second was the power over government, and the third was the power over money.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/july-6-1958#p10</ref>==Physical Aspiration==
=What Happens You may have a physical aspiration also; that the body may feel the need to acquire a kind of equipoise in which all the parts of the being will be well balanced, and that you may have the power to hold off illness at a distance or overcome it fast when Health it enters trickily, and Healing that the body may always function normally, harmoniously, in perfect health. That is Not Present?=a physical aspiration. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/7-october-1953#p11</ref>
Usually, unless one has taken good care to make it otherwise, the impulses—the impulses of desire—all the enthusiasms and passions with all their reactions are the masters of human life. One must already be something of a sage to be able to undergo a rigorous discipline of the body and obtain from it the ordered, regular effort which can perfect it. There is no longer any room there for all the fancies of desire. You see, as soon as one gives way to excesses, to immoderation of any kind and a disorderly life, it becomes quite impossible to control one's body and develop it normally, not to mention that, naturally, one spoils one's health and as a result the most important part of the ideal of a perfect body disappears; for with bad health, impaired health, one is not much good for anything. And it is certainly the satisfaction of desires and impulses of the vital or the unreasonable demands of certain ambitions which make the body suffer and fall ill. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/8-may-1957#p3</ref>==Belief==
==What is Illness==If one believes in self-healing, one shall after a time find out the way to heal myself—if one hasfaith in transformation, one can end by laying the hand on and unravelling the whole process of transformation. But if one begins with doubt and go on with more doubt, how far am I likely to go on the journey? <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/doubt-and-faith#p29</ref>
Illness without any exception is the expression of a break in equilibrium. Speaking only of the body, not of the nervous illnesses of the vital or of mental illnesses. That is, if all your organs, all the members and parts of your body are in harmony with one another, you are in perfect health. But if there is the slightest imbalance anywhere, immediately you get either just a little ill or quite ill, even very badly ill, or else an accident occurs. That always happens whenever there is an inner imbalance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p29</ref>==Preoccupation==
An illness of the body What is not good is always the outer expression and translation of a disordertoo much preoccupation with it, anxiety, a disharmony despondency in the inner being; unless this inner disorder is healedillness etc., for these things only favour the outer cure cannot be total and permanentprolongation of ill-health or weakness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1531/innerillness-causesand-of-illnesshealth#p12p81</ref>
=How All illness should be rejected and all suggestions of illness; the Force should be called in to cure by the assent to health and the refusal of assent to Cultivate Health the suggestions that bring or prolong its opposite. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and Healing?=-health#p4</ref>
==What are the Prerequisites?True Knowledge==
Health naturally depends upon Knowledge, when it goes to the sadhanaroot of our troubles, has in itself a marvellous healing-power as it were. As soon as you touch the quick of the trouble, as soon as you, diving down and down, get at what really ails you, the pain disappears as though by a miracle. Unflinching courage to reach true knowledge is therefore the very essence of yoga. No lasting superstructure can be erected except on a solid basis of true Knowledge.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0131/julysentimentalism-sensitiveness-6instability-1958laxity#p11p10</ref>
Whatever the effort, whatever the difficulty, whatever time it takes, whatever number of lives, you must know that all this doesn't matter: you KNOW you ARE the Master, that the Master and you are the same. To know it INTEGRALLY, and nothing must belie it. Health depends on their inner life (an intermediate inner life, not the deepest), it's because of this.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/october-25-1960#p59-p60</ref>==Union with Divine==
If one has It is only by emerging from the mind's prison and consciously soaring into the healing capacitylight of the spirit that, there is through a conscious union with the capacity Divine, we will be able to remedy wear let Him give us back the balance and tearhealth which we have lost. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/march-2518-1970#p79p10</ref>
For the spiritual life to give and not to demand is the rule. The sadhak however can ask for the Divine Force to aid him in keeping his health or recovering it if he does that as part of his sadhana so that his body may be able and fit for the spiritual life and a capable instrument for the Divine Work. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/seeking-the-divine#p8</ref>==Peace==
==How Does If you know how to concentrate, to be quiet, and if you can bring into yourself a certain peace, of any kind―it may be a mental peace, it may be a vital peace, it may be a psychic peace; they have different values and qualities, this is an individual question―you try to realise within yourself a state of peace or attempt to enter into a conscious contact with a force of peace.... Suppose you succeed more or less completely. Then, if you can draw the Physical Healing Happen?==peace into yourself and bring it down into the solar plexus―for we are not talking of inner states but of your physical body―and from there direct it very calmly, very slowly I might say, but very persistently, towards the place where the pain is more or less sharp, and fix it there, this is very good. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/4-july-1956#p14,p15,p16,p17,p18,p19,p20,p21,p22,p23,p24,p25,p26,p27,p28</ref>
It readily takes in all kinds of suggestions ==Widening and these can rapidly change and almost remould its condition. Depression and discouragement have a very adverse effect; they cut out holes in it, as it were, in its very stuff, render it weak and unresisting and open to hostile attacks an easy passage. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p11</ref>Trust==
===How But if by widening this movement you can add a sort of mental formation with a little life in it―not just cold, but with a little life in it―that the only reality is the divine Reality, and all the cells of this body are a more or less deformed expression of this divine Reality―there is only one Reality, the Divine, and our body is a more or less deformed expression of this sole Reality―if by my aspiration, my concentration, I can bring into the cells of the body the consciousness of this sole Reality, all disorder must necessarily cease.If you can add to Deal with Pain?===that a movement of complete and trusting surrender to the Grace, then I am sure that within five minutes your suffering will disappear. If you know how to do it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/4-july-1956#p14,p15,p16,p17,p18,p19,p20,p21,p22,p23,p24,p25,p26,p27,p28</ref>
First point: do not stress the pain by telling yourself, "Oh, how painful! Oh, this pain is unbearable! Oh, it is being worse and worse, I shall never be able to bear it", etc., all this sort of thing. The more you go on thinking like this and feeling like this and the more your attention is concentrated on it, the pain increases amazingly.Second point: as I said, it depends on your habits. If you know how to concentrate, to be quiet, you try to realise within yourself a state of peace or attempt to enter into a conscious contact with a force of peace. Suppose you succeed more or less completely. Then, if you can draw the peace into yourself and bring it down into the solar plexus―for we are not talking of inner states but of your physical body―and from there direct it very calmly, very slowly I might say, but very persistently, towards the place where the pain is more or less sharp, and fix it there, this is very good.But if by widening this movement you can add a sort of mental formation with a little life in it―if by my aspiration, my concentration, I can bring into the cells of the body the consciousness of this sole Reality, all disorder must necessarily cease… <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/4-july-1956#p12,p13,p14,p15,p16,p17,p18,p19,p20,p21,p22,p23,p24,p25,p26,p27,p28</ref>==Mother’s Force==
==Useful Practices==To separate oneself from the thing and call in the Mother's force to cure it [''is the Yogic method'']—or else to use one’s own will force with faith in the power to heal, having the support of the Mother's force behind you. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p3</ref>
To separate yourself from the thing and call in the Mother's force to cure it [is the Yogic method]—or else to use your own will force with faith in the power to heal, having the support of the Mother's force behind you. If you cannot use either of these methods then you must rely on the action of the medicine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p3</ref>==Japa==
Remain quietOne can pass from a more or less mechanical, withinmore or less efficient and real japa, concentrated only on receiving strength to the true japa full of power and healthlight. A power that heals everything. One can come out of it refreshed, confident rested, cured. So those who say they come out of it exhausted, contracted, emptied, it means that they are not doing it in the Divine is with you all the time, and you will soon be all righttrue way. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3101/illnessoctober-and6-health1959#p46p11</ref>
===Through Receptivity=Harmony of Movements==It depends on the part. The method is almost the same for all parts of the being. To begin with, the first condition: to remain as quiet as possible. You may notice that in the different parts of your being, when something comes and you do not receive it, this produces a shrinking—there is something which hardens in the vital, the mind or the body. There is a stiffening and this hurts, one feels a mental, vital or physical pain. So, the first thing is to put one's will and relax this shrinking, as one does a twitching nerve or a cramped muscle; you must learn how to relax, be able to relieve this tension in whatever part of the being it may be. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p17,p18</ref>
===Through Faith===To think constantly of the harmony of the body, of the beauty of the movements, of not doing anything that is ungraceful and awkward. You can obtain a rhythm of movement and gesture which is very exceptional. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/17-july-1957#p7,p8,p9</ref>
It must be an integral faith and it must be absolute. And it must be of the right kind, not merely a force of mental thought or will, but something more and deeper. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/5-may-1929#p18</ref>===Will for Harmony===
===Through Knowledge===We are ALWAYS off balance, the body is always off balance (more or less), and it is something else, above, a Will or a Consciousness, that holds it up and makes it work. So if we can call on that Will—that Will for Harmony—and if we can have the Flame within, that Flame of aspiration, and make contact, we emerge from so-called illness, which is unreal, an unreal and false sensation and just one way of being of the general Disorder, and we enter into Harmony, and then everything is fine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/july-10-1965#p6</ref>
Knowledge, when it goes to the root of our troubles, has in itself a marvellous healing-power as it were. As soon as you touch the quick of the trouble, as soon as you, diving down and down, get at what really ails you, the pain disappears as though by a miracle. Unflinching courage to reach true knowledge is therefore the very essence of yoga. No lasting superstructure can be erected except on a solid basis of true Knowledge.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/10/november-29-1969#p47</ref>==Receptivity==
===Through Calm Presence===One cannot imagine the immense flood of force that is at your disposal! And generally you do not feel it even. When one feels it, something shrinks because it is too much and produces a kind of instinctive fear in your cells; and when one receives it, more than three-quarters of it is thrown away like an overfilled vessel! It gushes out, spills over, because you are not able to hold it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/16-september-1953#p29</ref>
Suppose there is a painSo, some sign or other that something in the body first thing is out of order. In the consciousness—in the consciousness—you are absolutely indifferent, which means that whether itto put one's life or deathwill and relax this shrinking, disease as one does a twitching nerve or health, there is equalitya cramped muscle; but if the body reacts according one must learn how to its old habitrelax, "What should be done able to get over relieve this tension in whatever part of the being it?" Ifmay be.After having relaxed this contraction, on the other hand, the cells have learned their lesson and say right away, "Lord, Your presence" (without words—the attitude), pfft! the thing goesone begins trying to widen yourself—one feels you are widening. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0604/november31-23march-19651951#p20p17,p18</ref>
You cannot imagine the immense flood of force that is at your disposal! And generally you do not feel it even. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/16-september-1953#p29</ref>==Memory==
===Through Formation===The body remembers for a very long time. If one wants to be completely cured, one must cure this memory in the body, this is absolutely indispensable. And whether one knows it or not, you work in order to cure the memory in the body. When the remembrance is effaced, the body is truly healed.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/13-october-1954#p47,p48,p49,p50,p51,p52</ref>
When one has a thought, a well-made mental formation which goes out =Future of you, it becomes an independent entity and continues on its way and it does that for which it was made. It continues to act independently. That is why one must be on your guard. If one have made such a formation and it has gone out, it has gone out to do its work; and after a time one finds out that it was perhaps not a very happy thing to have a thought like that, that this formation was not very beneficial; now that it has gone out, it is very difficult for you to get hold of it again. One must have considerable occult knowledge. It has gone out and is moving on its way… =the Body==Through Sincerity and Aspiration===One must sincerely want to be healed, for otherwise it does not work. If one wants to have the experience solely for the experience's sake and then the next minute one returns to what one was before, this does not work. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/26-may-1954#p25</ref>
==Common Errors==What it craves for is duration, health, strength, physical perfection, bodily happiness, liberation from suffering, ease. These demands are not in themselves unacceptable, mean or illegitimate, for they render into the terms of Matter the perfection of form and substance, the power and delight which should be the natural outflowing, the expressive manifestation of the Spirit. When the gnostic Force can act in the body, these things can be established; for their opposites come from a pressure of external forces on the physical mind, on the nervous and material life, on the body organism, from an ignorance that does not know how to meet these forces or is not able to meet them rightly or with power, and from some obscurity, pervading the stuff of the physical consciousness and distorting its responses, that reacts to them in a wrong way. A supramental self-acting self-effectuating awareness and knowledge, replacing this ignorance, will liberate and restore the obscured and spoiled intuitive instincts in the body and enlighten and supplement them with a greater conscious action.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-gnostic-being#p24</ref>
===Overreliance on Medical Science=== No external measure can enable us to react against the harm caused '''Content curated by mental faith in the necessity of drugs. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/march-18-1970#p10</ref>Saurav'''
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