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→What Is the Cause?
...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>
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-physical-consciousness#p25</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>
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-june-1957#p6</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>
==Forces of Disintegration==
...They[there] are forces of disintegration...this is the origin of germs and microbes. Therefore most microbes have behind them a bad will ...The microbe is a very material expression of something living in a subtle physical world ...
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p49</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>
T.B. is the result of a strong psychic-vital depression...
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-problems#p4</ref>
Depression is always the sign of an acute egoism. When you feel that it is coming near, tell yourself: "I am in a state of egoistic illness, I must cure myself of it."