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<center>All disease is a means towards some new joy of health, all evil and pain a tuning of Nature for some more intense bliss and good, all death an opening on widest immortality. Why and how this should be so, is God's secret which only the soul purified of egoism can penetrate. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/march-4-1970#p1</ref></center>
=What Is Illness?=
...illnesses are falsehoods of the body… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/doctors-and-medicines#p4</ref>
An illness is quite simply, always and in every case, even when doctors tell you there are germs—in every case it's a disequilibrium in the being: a disequilibrium between various functionings, a disequilibrium between forces....any discomfort, any disease is a falsehood… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/1209/septemberjune-15-1968#p12</ref> <center>~</center> ...it as an imperfection of the body to be got rid of as you try to get rid of vital imperfections or mental errors.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/equality-1971the-chief-support#p6p18</ref> <center>~</center>
...falsehood in the body is a falsehood in the consciousness . The falsity of the consciousness naturally has material consequences... and that's what illness is!...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/october-2-1961#p15</ref>
...An illness is...in every case it's a disequilibrium in the being: a disequilibrium between various functionings, a disequilibrium between forces… <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/09/june-15-1968#p12~</refcenter>
Each illness represents its own vibratory mode.Each illness has its own vibratory mode; it represents a whole field of vibrations to be corrected..Illness is always a lapse into unconsciousness through It's the EXACT measure of what in Matter resists the incapacity divine Influence—the exact measure, down to sustain the movement of transformation..atom. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/januaryfebruary-258-1967#p24p7</ref>
...It's [ illness is] the EXACT measure of what in Matter resists the divine Influence—the exact measure, down to the atom.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/february-8-1967#p7~</refcenter>
All disease An epidemic is a means towards some new joy ''collective'' illness and comes from a ''collective'' impurity… The forms of illness vary according to the condition of health..each person and his link with the whole.<ref>http://incarnateword. in/cwm/16/8-july-1964#p3</ref>
[Based on Aphorism<135center>]All disease is a means towards some new joy of health, all evil and pain a tuning of Nature for some more intense bliss and good, all death an opening on widest immortality. Why and how this should be so, is God's secret which only the soul purified of egoism can penetrate.]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/march-4-1970#p1~</refcenter>
An epidemic In its lowest parts (vital-material) it is a collective the agent of pain, physical illness and comes from a collective impurity… etc. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1628/8the-julyphysical-1964consciousness#p3p25</ref>
...An illness which comes in the ordinary course as the result of physical causes—even though adverse universal forces are the first cause—is an ordinary illness… <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p17~</refcenter>
All life is the play of universal forces.The individual gives a personal form to these universal forces.But he can choose whether he shall respond or not to the action of a particular force. Only most people do not really choose—they undergo the play of the forces.One [illness]brought by Your illnesses, depressions etc. are the repeated play of such forces hostile to Yoga to upset . It is only when one can make oneself free of them that one can be the system true person and prevent or disturb progress—without any adequate physical reason—is have a hostile attack.true life—but one can be free only by living in the Divine.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3128/illness-andoccult-healthknowledge#p17p9</ref>
...No two illnesses are alike, though labels are put...to group them; but in fact every person is ill in his own way, and his way depends on what he is, on his state of consciousness and the life he leads. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-june-1957#p2</ref>=Why Illness Develops?=
...health or illness is... a choice ==Causes of every minute... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/09/june-15-1968#p15</ref>Illness==
All life is the play of universal forces''Q...most people...undergo the play of the forces.Your illnessesSweet Mother, if someone falls seriously ill, depressions etc. are the repeated play of such forces… <ref>http://incarnateword.is this a purely physical phenomenon or is it a difficulty in/cwsa/28/occult-knowledge#p9</ref>his spiritual life?''
=What Illness Is Not?=A. That depends on the person! If it is someone who is doing yoga, it is quite obviously a difficulty in his spiritual life. If it is somebody who is not at all engaged in yoga and who lives an ordinary life in the most ordinary manner, it is an ordinary accident. It depends absolutely on the person. The outer phenomena may be similar, but the inner causes are absolutely different. No two illnesses are alike, though labels are put on diseases and attempts made to group them; but in fact every person is ill in his own way, and his way depends on what he is, on his state of consciousness and the life he leads.
==Means We have often said that illnesses are always the result of Transformation==a disturbance of equilibrium, but this disturbance can occur in completely different states of being. For the ordinary man whose consciousness is centred in the physical, outer life, it is a purely physical disturbance of equilibrium, of the functioning of the different organs. But when behind this purely superficial life, an inner life is being fashioned, the causes of illness change; they always become the expression of a disequilibrium between the different parts of the being: between the inner progress or effort and the outer resistances or conditions of one's life, one's body.
Illness must not be accepted as Even from the ordinary external point of view, it has been recognised for a very long time that it is a fall in the resistance of the vitality due to immediate moral causes which is always at the origin of an illness. When one is in a normal state of equilibrium and lives in a normal physical harmony, the body has a means capacity of transformation; resistance, it rather indicates has within it an atmosphere strong enough to resist illnesses: its most material substance emanates subtle vibrations which have the strength to resist illnesses, even diseases which are called contagious—in fact, all vibrations are contagious, but still, certain diseases are considered as especially contagious. Well, a man who, even from the purely external point of view, is in a state in which his organs function harmoniously and an adequate psychological balance prevails, has at the same time enough resistance for the contagion not to affect him. But if for some reason or other he loses this equilibrium or is weakened by depression, dissatisfaction, moral difficulties encountered by or undue fatigue, for instance, this reduces the force normal resistance of transformation especially the body and he is open to the disease. But if we consider someone who is doing yoga, then it is altogether different, in the vital sense that the causes of disequilibrium are of a different nature and the body… illness usually becomes the expression of an inner difficulty which has to be overcome.So each one should find out for himself why he is ill. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3109/illness19-andjune-health1957#p1,p3,p4,p5</ref>
==Progress==<center>~</center>
...You are given an illness purposely It's the effect of a combination of three things: bad will (at the worst, a refusal to make you progress? Surely it is not like that...You must never think that follow the Divine has purposely sent movement), a more or less total bad will; an illnessignorance of the laws and their consequences, for that would truly be is, the causes and effects (a complete ignorance); and, of course, a very wicked Divine!form of inertia—it's all a form of inertia, but the greatest form of inertia is the incapacity to receive and respond.These three things combined are what creates diseases and so on, and the final effect—death.That is, the disintegration of created harmony. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0509/22march-july2-19531968#p2p38</ref>
To make people ill in order to improve or perfect them is not Mother's method… <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/difficulties-experienced-in-the-process-of-descent#p18~</refcenter>
==Virtue==The nervous (vital-physical) being supports the body—if it is calm and strong and solid, then the body is well supported and can withstand illness and weakness or, if illness comes, it will bear and more easily get rid of it. If the nervous being is weak, then it is the opposite. If the nervous being is not merely weak, but nervous and unstable, over-sensitive, vehement or excitable, then there is much fluctuation, restlessness, exaltation and depression in the being—there may even be a wrongly acute creative imagination which brings in disorders into the body that are nervous and not physical—there is no physical illness of the heart but there are pains and palpitations, nothing physically wrong with stomach and intestines and yet there is inability to digest—nervous dyspepsia; pains are created in different parts of the body and so on—sometimes there is hysteria.
...The child must be taught as early as possible...that he does These conditions are not become more interesting always native to the body—they are often created by being illtroubles in the life, but rather some disturbing illness or other reasons—but often it is due to some hereditary cause or otherwise native to the contrary.system..Children should therefore be taught that Women tend to be ill get like this sometimes if there is a sign disorder of weakness and inferiority, not of some virtue or sacrificethe menstruation.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1231/physicalillness-educationand-health#p9p49,p50</ref>
...illness is a thing to be eliminated, not accepted or enjoyed... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p58~</refcenter>
...you Depression and discouragement have not to accept illness a very adverse effect; they cut out holes in it [nervous envelope], as the Divine Willit were, in its very stuff, but rather look upon render it as weak and unresisting and open to hostile attacks an imperfection of the body… easy passage. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2903/equality-the16-chiefjune-support1929#p18p11</ref>
==Result of the Divine Force==<center>~</center>
...The Divine Force cannot by its descent be the cause body's whole functioning is a discipline, and if there is a part that no longer wants to follow the discipline—out of madness revolt or incapacity or... for any more than reason—if it can be of apoplexy or any other physical illness… stops following the discipline, you fall ill. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3110/accidentsfebruary-possession8-madness1969#p30p37</ref>
Whatever force is sent is for cure. Increase of illness or physical suffering is not the result of the force. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p14~</refcenter>
...I find it difficult to believe that illness and deterioration of all disorders in the body is and all diseases are the natural and general result of DOUBT in the practice cells or a certain group of Yoga or that that practice cells. They doubt the Divine's concrete reality, they doubt the Divine Presence in them, they doubt their being divine in their very essence, and this doubt is the cause of an inevitable breakdown of healthall disorders...It is more rational to conclude that both Yogis and non-Yogis fall ill and die from natural causes and by the same dispensation of Nature… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3105/illnessmay-and14-health1964#p8p4</ref>
==Imperfection in Other Parts==<center>~</center>
As for ...the question about the illnesscause of disease is psychic, perfection in the physical plane that is indeed part of to say, subjective and the ideal of direction should be towards curing the Yoga, but inner causes much more than patching up by physical means.These are ideas that have their truth also..one may have a certain perfection on other planes without having immunity in I fully recognise the body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-psychic law and methods and-health#p57</ref> ...the outer expression of a disordertheir preferability, such as swollen legs or a malfunctioning liver—...a functional disorder…. IT IN NO WAY CHANGES THE BODY'S TRUE CONSCIOUSNESS. Although we are in but the habit ordinary run of thinking humanity is not ready for that the body is very disturbed when rule and, while it's ill, when something is going wrongso, it's not so. It isn't disturbed in the way we understand itdoctors and their physical methods will be there. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0228/januarymorality-31and-1961yoga#p3p46</ref>
==IncurableSubconscient==
There is no If you drink unfiltered water and think, "Now I am drinking impure water", you have every chance of falling sick. And even though such thing as an incurable illness in reality—for what suggestions may not enter through the conscious mind, the doctors call such whole of your subconscious is only an illness for which they have not yet been able there, almost helplessly open to discover take any kind of suggestion. In life it is the action of the subconscious that has the larger share and it acts a physical remedy… hundred times more powerfully than the conscious parts.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other19-physicalmay-problems1929#p1p18</ref>
=What Is the Cause?=<center>~</center>
It's In the realm that's... beyond subconscient there is an obscure mind full of obstinate Sanskaras [imprints or habits], impressions, associations, fixed notions, habitual reactions formed by our past, an obscure vital full of the subtle physicalseeds of habitual desires, sensations and it's nervous reactions, a most obscure material which governs much that has to do with the realm in which formations condition of illness MATERIALIZE.the body.It is largely responsible for our illnesses; chronic or repeated illnesses are indeed mainly due to the subconscient and its obstinate memory and habit of repetition of whatever has impressed itself upon the body-consciousness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0409/decemberjune-2515-19631968#p13p6</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 <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/may-14-1964#p4~</refcenter>
Out of the subconscious we bring ordinarily so much to the surface as our waking sense mind and intelligence need for their purpose; in so bringing them up we are not aware of their nature, origin, operation and do not apprehend them in their own values but by a translation into the values of our waking human sense and intelligence...But the risings of the subconscious, its effects upon the cause mind and body, are mostly automatic, uncalled for and involuntary; for we have no knowledge and therefore no control of disease the subconscient. It is psychiconly by an experience abnormal to us, most commonly in illness or some disturbance of balance, that is to saywe can become directly aware of something in the dumb world, dumb but very active, subjective of our bodily being and vitality or grow conscious of the direction should be towards curing secret movements of the inner causes mechanical subhuman physical and vital mind which underlies our surface,—a consciousness which is ours but seems not ours because it is not part of our known mentality. This and much more than patching up by physical means… lives concealed in the subconscience.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2822/moralityout-of-andthe-sevenfold-ignorance-towards-the-sevenfold-yogaknowledge#p46p9</ref>
In its lowest parts (vital-material) it is the agent of pain, physical illness etc.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-physical-consciousness#p25~</refcenter>
==Fear==Yet all the time the universal forces are pouring into him without his knowing it. He is aware only of thoughts, feelings etc. that rise to the surface and these he takes for his own. Really they come from outside in mind waves, vital waves, waves of feeling and sensation etc. which take particular forms in him and rise to the surface after they have got inside.But they do not get into his body at once. He carries about with him an environmental consciousness (called by the Theosophists the aura) into which they first enter. If you can become conscious of this environmental self of yours, then you can catch the thought, passion, suggestion or force of illness, or whatever it may be, before it enters and prevent it from entering into you. If things in you are thrown out, they often do not go altogether but take refuge in this 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>
It [fear] is more dangerous than the worst disease. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/fear#p30~</refcenter>
If there When the physical consciousness is one mental disorder being changed, the chief resistance comes from the subconscient. It is constantly maintaining or bringing back the inertia, weakness, obscurity, lack of intelligence which can bring about all afflict the physical mind and vital or the obscure fears, desires, angers, lusts of the physical vital, or the illnesses, it dullnesses, pains, incapabilities to which the body-nature is fearprone..<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 When something is erased from the accident towards you...And subconscient so completely that it leaves no seed and thrown out of the same thing holds circumconscient so completely that it can return no more, then only can we be sure that we have finished with it for illness..ever. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0628/27the-subconscient-and-januarythe-1954inconscient#p6p17,p19</ref>
In fact, ninety per cent ==Role 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>Vital==
If you have fear or apprehension All this egoistic insistence on your own ideas, claims, preferences—assertion of illness in your vitalown righteousness as against the wickedness of others, complaints, quarrels, that is the first thing to be thrown awaydisputes, as it helps rancours against those around you and the illnesses to come inreactions they cause—have had this effect on your liver and stomach and nerves. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illnessdoctors-and-healthmedicines#p69p9</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! <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/07/october-22-1966#p5~</refcenter>
If you receive a blow in the vital, the body suffers the consequence.More than half of our illnesses are the result of blows of this kind, and this happens much more often than one believes..a fear Only, men are not conscious of their vital, and as they are not conscious they don't know that fifty per cent of their illnesses are the result of what happens in the cells—is fear which opens vital: shocks, accidents, fighting, ill-will.... Externally this is translated by an illness. If one knows how it reacts on the door physical, one goes to all contagion..its source and can cure oneself in a few hours.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0905/1929-juneapril-19571953#p6p8</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...." <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/december-18-1965#p9~</refcenter>
The real disease Unfortunately, there is fearthe vital which pokes its nose into the affair and takes a very perverse pleasure in increasing, twisting, sharpening the suffering. Throw Now this deforms the fear away whole system because instead of being an indicator, sometimes it becomes an occasion for enjoying the illness, for making oneself interesting, and also having the disease will goopportunity to pity oneself—all kinds of things which all come from the vital and are all detestable, one more than another. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1506/fear17-andnovember-illness1954#p9p20</ref>
==Subconscient==<center>~</center>
In Illness in the subconscient there body is an obscure mind full of obstinate Sanskaras [imprints or habits]like impurity in the vital, ...habitual reactions formed by our pastIt may happen that in throwing out the illness (the attacking force) one throws out also something within, an obscure vital...a most obscure material some impurity which governs... with helped it to come, but that is the condition result of a Force working within and not of the bodyillness. It is largely responsible for our illnesses…quite possible that an illness or attack can be transferred in this way from one to another and indeed it very commonly happens… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0931/juneillness-15and-1968health#p6p62</ref>
The subconscient is the main...support of death and disease and ...of... Ignorance... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-subconscient-and-the-inconscient#p37~</refcenter>
...subconscient ...remains submerged one must be very careful and obscurely look at work below our conscious nature...into which past impressions and all that is rejected from oneself with great discrimination to discover the surface mind sink and remain there dormant and can surge up small part in sleep or oneself that—how to put it?—takes pleasure in any absence being ill. Oh! there are many reasons. There are people who are ill out of the mindspite,…forms there are people who are ill out of automatic vital reaction or impulsehate, there are people who are ill through despair, forms of physical abnormality or nervous perturbancethere are people... And these are not formidable movements: it is quite a small movement in the being: one is vexed and says: "You will see what is going to happen, forms you will see the consequences of morbiditywhat he has done to me! Let it come! I am going to be ill." One does not say it openly to oneself, diseasefor one would scold oneself, unbalance..but there is something somewhere that thinks in that way.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/05/22/out-of-the-sevenfold-ignorance-towards-the-sevenfoldjuly-knowledge1953#p9p57</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. <refcenter>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~</refcenter>
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 illnessesvital when left to itself often invites illness, dullnessesit finds it dramatic—thinks it makes it interesting to others, pains, incapabilities likes to which indulge the body-nature is pronetamas, etc. etc. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2831/the-subconscientillness-and-the-inconscienthealth#p17p63</ref>
==Forces of Disintegration==<center>~</center>
They[Diseases, accidents, catastrophes, wars, all that, is because the human material consciousness is so small, so narrow that it has a rabid taste for drama. And of course, behind there] are forces of disintegrationis the vital being having fun, influences too...anyway all that enjoys an opportunity to delay the divine Work and make things difficult.And all that takes pleasure in that naturally encourages drama.this But the seed of the difficulty is that pettiness, extreme pettiness of the origin of germs and microbesphysical consciousness—the material physical consciousness—which has an absolutely perverse taste for drama. Therefore most microbes Drama—the slightest thing has to make a drama: if you have behind them a bad will .toothache, it becomes a drama; if you bang against something, it becomes a drama; if two nations quarrel, it becomes a drama—everything becomes a drama.The taste for drama.The microbe is slightest upset in the body, the least disorder, which should go completely unnoticed, oh, it makes a very material expression of something living in big fuss,a subtle physical world.drama.The taste for drama.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0508/22june-july14-19531967#p49p3</ref>
The possibilities ==Role of illness are always there in your body and around you; you ...succumb to an illness ...due to a "depression of the vital force"...the depression...comes from some disharmony in the being, from a lack of receptivity to the divine forces. ...this depression...created[creates] ...a "favourable ground" and something takes advantage of it. ...It is this that is the cause of your falling ill and not microbes.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/19-may-1929#p14</ref>Suggestions==
There The feeling of illness is nothing that isn't at first only a "microbe" or suggestion; it becomes a "virus"reality because your physical consciousness accepts it... but it's all It is like a wrong suggestion in the same thing!... For mind; if the cellsmind accepts it,the problem is...whether it becomes clouded and confused and has to follow the Will for Transformationstruggle back into harmony and clearness...or whether to follow It is so with the Will for Harmony, which is always pleasant, body consciousness and is always there, even when outwardly things are decomposingillness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0631/julyillness-7and-1965health#p7p22</ref>
==Inertia==<center>~</center>
The human When a force is thrown on you or a vibration of illness, it carries to the body has always been this suggestion. A wave comes in the body—with a certain vibration in it, the habit body remembers "cold" or feels the vibrations of answering a cold and begins to whatever forces chose cough or sneeze or to lay hands on it and illness is feel chill—the suggestion comes to the mind in the price it pays for its inertia and ignoranceform, "I am weak, I don't feel well, I am catching a cold. "<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p77p24</ref>All ill-health That is due how illnesses try to some inertia or weakness come from one person to another—they attack, by a suggestion like this or otherwise, the nervous being and try to some resistance or wrong movement there [come in . Even if the vital]illness is not contagious, this often happens, only but it has sometimes a comes more physical and sometimes a more psychological character.easily in contagious illnesses.The suggestion or touch has to be thrown off at once. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctorsillness-and-medicineshealth#p5p31</ref>
It's [ illness is] the effect of a combination of three things: bad will (at the worst, a refusal to follow the movement), ...an ignorance of the laws and their consequences, that is, the causes and effects (a complete ignorance); and, of course, a form of inertia—it's all a form of inertia, but the greatest form of inertia is the incapacity to receive and respond. These three things combined are what creates diseases and so on, and the final effect—death. That is, the disintegration of created harmony.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/09/march-2-1968#p38</ref>==Fear==
...the body's whole functioning is a disciplineThe first thing from which you must cure yourself once for ever, and if there is a part that no longer wants to follow the discipline—out of revolt or incapacity or''Fear''... for any reason—if it stops following It is more dangerous than the discipline, you fall illworst disease.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1014/february-8-1969fear#p37p30,p31</ref>
==Resistance==<center>~</center>
...reaction against the transformative will If there is one mental disorder which can bring about all illnesses, it is what causes... disorders..fear. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0204/august31-8march-19611951#p4p3</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.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/13/may-6-1972#p32~</refcenter>
Your inner condition becomes a cause Not be afraid of illness when there is a resistance falling ill! That's what.You see, they say, "But I AM ill." They put it the other way around: they say they're ill, and so they are afraid.or when there is some part in you that does It's not respond true! They are afraid first, and then they fall ill. They constantly live with a sort of apprehension: "Oh, what's going to the protection; or even... happen?" So something happens! (Mother laughs) The poor body feels that almost ...wilfully calls in the adverse forces. It 's what is enough if there is a slight movement expected of this kind in you; the hostile forces are at once upon you it, and their attack takes often the form of illness.it obeys! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0307/19october-may22-19291966#p12p4</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... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p6~</refcenter>
==Adverse Forces==Mental fear—all who have a little control over themselves or any human dignity can eliminate it; vital fear is more subtle and asks for a greater control; as for physical fear, a veritable yoga is necessary to overcome it, for the cells of the body are afraid of everything that is unpleasant, painful, and as soon as there is any unease, even if it is insignificant, the cells of the body become anxious, they don't like to be uncomfortable. And then, to overcome that, the control of a conscious will is necessary. It is usually this kind of fear that opens the door to illnesses. And I am not speaking of the first two types of fear which, as I said, any human being who wants to be human in the noblest sense of the word, must overcome, for that is cowardice. But physical fear is more difficult to overcome; without it even the most violent attacks could be repelled. If one has a minimum of control over the body, one can lessen its effects, but that is not immunity. It is this kind of trembling of material, physical fear in the cells of the body which aggravates all illnesses. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-june-1957#p6</ref>
Loss of balance produces disorder in the consciousness and the adverse forces use that loss of balance for attacking… <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/accidents-possession-madness#p24~</refcenter>
Attacks We know that fear always brings what one fears. If you fear an accident, this acts like a magnet drawing the accident towards you. In this see, it may be said that it is the result of character. And the same thing holds for illness . There are attacks of people who can move about among the lower nature or of adverse forces taking advantage of some weaknesssick and in places where there are epidemics and never catch a disease. There are others—it is enough for them to spend an hour with a sick person, opening or response in they catch the nature.illness.That too depends on what they are within themselves.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3106/illness27-andjanuary-health1954#p15p6</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… <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p60~</refcenter>
...when the mind The two things together: possession and consciousness have rejected the attacksfear, the contrary forces fall on some weak point a sort of fearfulness. And a sense of helplessness in the body hoping all that . The possession by pain or illness they will depress the consciousness an idea and so make a helplessness to reject it less strong , and a fear, a helplessness to resist and reject them. 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/cwsaagenda/3106/illnessdecember-and18-health1965#p95p9</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. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/july-18-1961#p59~</refcenter>
In fact, ninety per cent of illnesses are the result of the subconscient fear of the body...it is some part In the ordinary consciousness of your the body there is a more orless hidden anxiety about the consequences of the slightest physical disturbance... a fragment It can be translated by these words of doubt about the vital future: "And what will happen?" It is this anxiety that has gone wrong and wishes to must be ill, ..checked.the situation gets complicated if behind Indeed this there anxiety is an attack, a pressure from adverse forces who really want to harm you. You may have opened lack of confidence in the door through spiritual errorDivine's Grace, through a movement of vanity, of anger, of hatred or of violence; even if it the unmistakable sign that the consecration is merely a movement that comes not complete and goes, that can open the doorperfect. There are always germs watching and only waiting for an occasion… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0515/22fear-julyand-1953illness#p60p3</ref>
==Disharmony==
First of all, from the point of view of the body—just the body—there are two kinds of disequilibrium: functional and organic...I do not know if you are aware of the difference between the two; but you have organs and then you have all the cause parts of all illnessesyour body: nerves, all disordersmuscles, bones and all conflictsthe rest. Now, here if an organ by itself is in the material worlddisequilibrium, it is an organic disequilibrium, and you are told: that organ is ill or perhaps it is badly formed or it is not normal or an accident has occurred to it. But it is the two simultaneous movements (one organ that is ill. But the movement of Stability—and the otherorgan may be in a very good condition, all your organs may be in a very good condition, the movement but there is still an illness as they do not function properly: there is a lack of transformation), the two movements balance in the original Consciousness are only one andfunctioning...hereYou may have a very good stomach, they are separate,...they don't KNOW how but suddenly something happens to it and it does not function properly; or the body may also be in harmony: they canexcellent, but they don't know.something happens to it and it does not work properly any more.Then you have an illness due to functional imbalance not organic imbalance.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1105/february22-25july-19701953#p8p31</ref> <center>~</center>
Human life and mind are neither in tune with Nature ...like the animals 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>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/science-and-yoga#p62p69</ref>
...if you choose and then draw back...always wavering, always doubting, always fearful, you create a disharmony in your being, which not only retards your progress, but can be the origin of all kinds of disturbance in the mind and vital being and discomfort and disease in the body.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p18~</refcenter>
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>
==In Specific IllnessesInertia==
Fever is not a purifying action; it is The human body has always been in the sign habit of an attack answering to whatever forces chose to lay hands on it and illness is the body price it pays for its inertia and a fight ignorance. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and -health#p78</ref>All ill-health is due to some inertia or weakness or to some resistance to or wrong movement there [in the attack… vital], only it has sometimes a more physical and sometimes a more psychological character. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illnessdoctors-and-healthmedicines#p62p5</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>==Adverse Forces==
...skin diseases there is a group of such [feed upon human vitality thrown out of the body by emotions and excitements] small entities, they may clash with one another, because among themselves they do not have much a very peaceful life: clashing with one another, fighting, destroying, demolishing each other. And that is the origin of microbes. They are forces of disintegration. But they continue to do with sexual desires—not be alive even in their divided forms and this is the origin of germs and microbes. Therefore most microbes have behind them a bad will and that is what makes them so dangerous. And unless one knows the quality and kind of bad will and is capable of acting upon it, there is a ninety-nine per cent chance of not finding the true and complete remedy. The microbe is a very material expression of course something living in a subtle physical world and that is why these very microbes... that are alwaysaround you, within you, but oftenfor years together do not make you ill and then suddenly they make you fall ill.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3105/sex22-july-1953#p216p49</ref>
T.B. is the result of a strong psychic-vital depression...<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-problems#p4~</refcenter>
Depression They speak of viruses, they speak of microbes, they speak... but we are entirely made up of those things! It's only their interplay, their way of adjusting and harmonizing among themselves that makes all the difference. There is always nothing that isn't a "microbe" or a "virus"—they give ugly names to the things they don't want, but it's all the sign of an acute egoismsame thing!... When you feel For the cells, that it 's not the problem—the problem is coming nearnot that, tell yourself: "I am in but whether to follow the Will for Transformation (which sometimes is a bit brutal—brutal compared to the very small thing a state of egoistic illnessbody is), I must cure myself of itor whether to follow the Will for Harmony..."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0406/25july-december7-19501965#p29p7</ref>
=Why Illness Develops?=<center>~</center>
The possibilities of illness are always there in your body and around you; you carry within you or there swarm about you the microbes and germs of every disease. How is it that all of a sudden you succumb to an illness which you did not have for years? You will say it is due to a "depression of the vital force". But from where does the depression come? It comes from some disharmony in the being, from a lack of receptivity to the divine forces.When you cut yourself off from the energy and light that sustain you, then there is this depression, there is created what medical science calls a "favourable ground" and something takes advantage of it.It is doubt, gloominess, lack of confidence, a selfish turning back upon yourself that cuts you off from the light and divine energy and gives the attack this advantage.each one should find out for himself why he It is this that is the cause of your falling illand not microbes.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0903/19-junemay-19571929#p5p14</ref>
...when you take a wrong attitude, it immediately sets off all the disorders... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/03/june-20-1962#p6~</refcenter>
If Hostile [''source of illness''] here means hostile to the nervous being isYoga.An illness which comes in the ordinary course as the result of physical causes—even though adverse universal forces are the first cause—is an ordinary illness..nervous One brought by the forces hostile to Yoga to upset the system and unstable.prevent or disturb progress—without any adequate physical reason—is a hostile attack..excitable, then ...there It may even be have the appearance of a wrongly acute creative imagination cold or any other illness, but to the eye which brings in disorders into sees the body that are nervous action of forces and not physical..only the outward symptoms or results, the difference is clear.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p49p17</ref>
Depression and discouragement have a very adverse effect; they cut out holes in it[nervous envelope],... render it weak and ...open to hostile attacks...<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#~</refcenter>
...passive meditation...leaves Attacks of illness are attacks of the vital and body passive and without defence against inertialower nature or of adverse forces taking advantage of some weakness, illness etc...The consciousness instead of being concentrated gets widely diffused and loosely extended...Concentration must opening or response in the earlier stages nature,—like all other things that come and have got to be active and dynamic with the consciousness gathered and capable of turning the will in any directionthrown away, they come from outside. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2931/concentrationillness-and-meditationhealth#p86p15</ref>
The psychical prana interferes in all the higher operations to deform them,... limits thereby the operations of the mind and becomes the link of its dependence on the body and its subjection to fatigue, incapacity, disease, disorder, insanity, the pettiness, the precariousness and even the possible dissolution of the workings of the physical mentality… <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/purification-the-lower-mentality#p5~</refcenter>
==Affinity ...but it is not your consciousness that wants to be ill, it is some part of your body or at the most, a fragment of the vital that has gone wrong and wishes to be ill, and unless you observe with a good deal of attention you do not notice it). But I say that 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 the Being==/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p60</ref>
...if the illness has succeeded in touching the physical-physical...If it manages to pass through, to enter without one's being aware ==Lack of it, it means there is some affinity somewhere, and the part of the being which has responded must be convinced.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p22</ref>Receptivity==
...And in the sages saybody, "Disorder occurs because the nature whatever has decided trouble adjusting to be this new Power creates difficulties, disorders and illnesses. Yet in disordera flash you sense that if you were totally receptive," ityou would become formidable. That's the sensation. That's not so sillymore and more my sensation: that if the entire consciousness, the entire most material consciousness—the most material—was receptive to this new Power... one would become for-mi-dable.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0613/may-86-19651972#p39p32</ref>
In the psychological domain, only the patients who do not want to recover, do not recover. Perhaps it is the same for physical diseases...<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/5-january-1933#p3~</refcenter>
...people always think that Your inner condition becomes a cause of illness when there is a resistance or revolt in it or when there is some part in you that does not their fault respond to the protection; or even there may be something there that they almost willingly and wilfully calls in the adverse forces. It is enough if there is a slight movement of this kind in you; the hostile forces are ill, at once upon you and it is always their fault, and they are very angry when they are told this...And yet it is trueattack takes often the form of illness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0703/1619-februarymay-19551929#p37p12</ref>
Disease will always return to the body if the soul is flawed; for the sins of the mind are the secret cause of the sins of the body…<center>~</center>
[Based on Aphorism<199>Disease will always return to This 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. This is why people who take up Yoga frequently begin by suffering from some physical discomfort or disorder. That need not happen if the soul they are on their guard and careful. Or if there is flawed; for a greater and unusual receptivity in the sins of body, then too they escape. But an unmixed receptivity making the mind are physical parts closely follow the secret cause pace of the sins of inner transformation is hardly possible, unless the body. So too poverty and trouble will always return on man has already been prepared in society, so long as the mind past for the processes of the race is subjected to egoismYoga.]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1003/aphorism16-199june-2001929#p1p6</ref>
Disease is needlessly prolonged and ends in death oftener than is inevitable, because the mind of the patient supports and dwells upon the disease of his body. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-386-387-388-389#p1~</ref>[Based on aphorism<386center>]
==To Teach You have been told: "Open yourself, you will receive the Force." You have been told: "Have faith, be of goodwill and you will be protected." And indeed you are bathed in the Consciousness, bathed in the Force, bathed in the Protection and to the extent you have faith and open yourself, you receive all that, and it helps you in keeping fit and in rejecting the little inner disturbances and re-establishing order when these come, in protecting yourself against small attacks or accidents which might have happened. But if somewhere in your being—either in your body or even in your vital or mind, either in several parts or even in a Lesson==single one—there is an incapacity to receive the descending Force, this acts like a grain of sand in a machine. You know, a fine machine working quite well with everything going all right, and you put into it just a little sand (nothing much, only a grain of sand), suddenly everything is damaged and the machine stops. Well, just a little lack of receptivity somewhere, something that is unable to receive the Force, that is completely shut up (when one looks at it, it becomes as it were a little dark spot somewhere, a tiny thing hard as a stone: the Force cannot enter into it, it refuses to receive it—either it cannot or it will not) and immediately that produces a great imbalance; and this thing that was moving upward, that was blooming so wonderfully, finds itself sick, and sometimes just when you were in the normal equilibrium; you were in good health, everything was going on well, you had nothing to complain about. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p41</ref>
...all the so-called illnesses, everything, all the disorders are to make you learn a lesson—as soon as you've learned the lesson, it's over! But then, you are so slow and heavy, you take so much time to realize that it's a lesson that it drags on and on and on.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/october-14-1964#p63</ref>==Addictions==
...people...drink wine as one drinks water. They drink it neat, and after some time they become ill. They have cerebral disorders...people of this kind, the brain was disordered, didn't function any more. And tobacco—nicotine is a very serious poison. It is to a poison that destroys the cells...it is a slow poison because one doesn't feel it immediately except when one smokes for the first time and it makes one very ill. And this should make you understand that whenever you it ought not to be done. Only, people are illso stupid that they think it is a weakness and so continue until they get used to the poison. And the body no longer reacts, something is ill in your beingit allows itself to be destroyed without reacting: you get rid of the reaction.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0106/april24-24march-19601954#p1p4</ref>
...One thinks of curing an illness only because one suffers. If it caused you no unpleasantness, you would never think of being cured of it. So, in the economy of Nature I think that the first purpose of physical suffering was to give you a warning.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-november-1954#p19</ref>==In Specific Illnesses==
Your illness gave you an opportunity to open your eyes towards the need for an inner change. You must take advantage of this and progress.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/inner-causes-of-illness#p28</ref>[For Individuals Practicing Integral Yoga]
The illness has come like Fever is not a test purifying action; it is the sign of an attack on the body and gone like a purification carrying away all that was standing in the way of fight and resistance to the joy of an integral consecrationattack.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1531/innerillness-causes-ofand-illnesshealth#p17p62</ref>
...the state of illness was certainly a necessity, often a WILLED necessity ...by the soul in order to go faster on the path—to save time, to gain lives. And if you can, if you have the power to bring that soul into contact with the force that governs its existence and leads it towards progress, towards the Realization, you do a work of quite a superior quality.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/september-26-1964#p32~</refcenter>
==Old Habit of Consciousness==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>
...the body consciousness through old habit of consciousness admits the force of illness… <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p54~</refcenter>
When you are open and in contact ...skin diseases have much to do with the Divinesexual desires—not of course always, the Vibration gives you strength, energy; and if you are quiet enough, it fills you with great joy—and all of this in the cells of the bodybut often. You fall back into the ordinary consciousness and straightaway, without anything changing, the SAME thing, the SAME vibration coming from the SAME source turns into a pain, a malaise, a feeling of uncertainty, instability and decrepitude… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0231/october-2-1961sex#p15p216</ref>
==In Addictions==<center>~</center>
T.B.is the result of a strong psychic-vital depression.they ..The lack of vitality which easily comes as a result of modern civilisation is therefore a very strong contributing cause.drink wine Moderns have not the solid nervous system and the natural (as one drinks water. They drink it neat, opposed to the artificial and after some time they become ill. They have cerebral disorders..morbid) zest of life that their ancestors had. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0631/24specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-marchphysical-1954problems#p4</ref>
...nicotine is a very serious poison. It is a poison that destroys the cells...when one smokes for the first time and it makes one very ill. And this should make you understand that it ought not to be done. Only, people are so stupid that they think it is a weakness and so continue until they get used to the poison. And the body no longer reacts, it allows itself to be destroyed without reacting: you get rid of the reaction. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/24-march-1954#p4~</refcenter>
==Role Depression is always the sign of Suggestions==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." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/25-december-1950#p29</ref>
The feeling of illness is at first only a suggestion; it becomes a reality because your physical consciousness accepts it...It is so with the body consciousness and illness... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p22</ref>=How to Prevent Illness?=
When a force is thrown on you or a vibration of illness, it carries to the body this suggestion''Q...—the suggestion comes to the mind in the form, "I am weakSweet Mother, I don't feel well, I am catching a cold." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/when one sees an illness-and-health#p24</ref>...If you drink unfiltered water and thinkcoming, "Now I am drinking impure water", you have every chance of falling sick. And even though such suggestions may not enter through the conscious mind, the whole of your subconscious is there, almost helplessly open to take any kind of suggestion. In life how can one stop it is the action of the subconscious that has the larger share and it acts a hundred times more powerfully than the conscious parts. The normal human condition is a state filled with apprehensions and fears;...To be free from all fear can come only by steady effort and discipline... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/19-may-1929#p18</ref>?''
''A... illnesses try to come from one person to another—they attack'' Ah! First of all, by a suggestion... or otherwise, the nervous being you must not want it and try to come nothing in. Even if the illness is not contagious, this often happens, but body must want it comes more easily in contagious illnesses. The suggestion or touch has You must have a very strong will not to be thrown off at onceill. <ref>http://incarnatewordThis is the first condition.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p31</ref>
Something The second condition is wrong here or there in to call the bodylight, a small thing;... If you are unfortunate enough to utter light of equilibrium, a word about it to anyonelight of peace, quietude and balance, and especially to the doctor...push it instantly becomes an illness…. it's because into all the cells that are in disorder feel all of a sudden they are very important and very interesting persons!... If they have a movement that isn't harmoniousthe body, they exaggerate it—it becomes even less harmonious in order enjoining them not to assert itself more <ref>http://incarnatewordbe afraid, because that again is another condition.in/agenda/06/august-4-1965#p33</ref>
==Role First, not to want to be ill, and then not to be afraid of Vital==illness. You must neither attract it nor tremble. You must not want illness at all. But you must not because of fear not want it; you must not be afraid; you must have a calm certitude and a complete trust in the power of the Grace to shelter you from everything, and then think of something else, not be concerned about this any longer. When you have done these two things, refusing the illness with all your will and infusing a confidence which completely eliminates the fear in the cells of the body, and then busying yourself with something else, not thinking any longer about the illness, forgetting that it exists... there, if you know how to do that, you may even be in contact with people who have contagious diseases, and yet you do not catch them. But you must know how to do this.
Many people say, "Oh, yes, here I am not afraid..." They don't have any fear in the mind, their mind is not afraid, it is strong, it is not afraid; but the main obstacle body trembles, and one doesn't know it, because it is your own vital movementsin the cells of the body that the trembling goes on. It trembles with a terrible anxiety and this is what attracts the illness...Quietness It is there that you must put the force and the quietude of a perfect peace and an absolute trust in the mind Grace. And then, sometimes you are obliged to drive away with a similar force in facing your illness thought all suggestions that after all, the physical world is full of illnesses, and these are contagious, and because one was in contact with somebody who is ill, one is also necessary—agitation stops sure to catch it, and then, that the action inner methods are not powerful enough to act on the physical, and all kinds of stupidities of which the Forceair is full. These are collective suggestions which are passed on from one person to another by everybody. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3107/doctors11-andmay-medicines1955#p9p10,p11,p12,p13,p14</ref>
If you receive a blow in the vitalThe child must be taught as early as possible that this does not work and that he does not become more interesting by being ill, but rather the body suffers the consequencecontrary... illnesses are The weak have a tendency to believe that their weakness makes them particularly interesting and to use this weakness and if necessary even illness as a means of attracting the result attention and sympathy of what happens in the vital: shocks, accidents, fighting, ill-will...people around them. Externally On no account should this is translated by an illnesspernicious tendency be encouraged. If one knows how it reacts on the physical, one goes Children should therefore be taught that to its source be ill is a sign of weakness and can cure oneself in a few hours. <ref>http://incarnatewordinferiority, not of some virtue or sacrifice.in/cwm/05/29-april-1953#p8</ref>
That is why, as soon as the child is able to make use of his limbs, some time should be devoted every day to the methodical and regular development of all the parts of his body...there is Every day some twenty or thirty minutes, preferably on waking, if possible, will be enough to ensure the proper functioning and balanced growth of his muscles while preventing any stiffening of the joints and of the vital spine, whichoccurs much sooner than one thinks...takes a very perverse pleasure in... suffering...sometimes it becomes an occasion for enjoying In the illness...all kinds general programme of things which all come from the vital child's education, sports and are outdoor games should be given a prominent place; that, more than all detestablethe medicines in the world, will assure the child good health.An hour's moving about in the sun does more to cure weakness or even anaemia than a whole arsenal of tonics..But originally I think My advice is that medicines should not be used unless it was is absolutely impossible to avoid them; and this: "Take care!absolutely impossible" should be very strict. In this programme of physical culture, although there are well-known general lines to be followed for the best development of the human body, still, if the method is to be fully effective in each case, it's like should be considered individually, if possible with the help of a danger-signal: "Take carecompetent person, or if not, there's something out of order."<ref>http://incarnatewordby consulting the numerous manuals that have already been and are still being published on the subject.in/cwm/06/17-november-1954#p20</ref>
...vital when left to itself often invites illnessBut in any case a child, it finds it dramatic—thinks it makes it interesting to otherswhatever his activities, likes should have a sufficient number of hours of sleep. The number will vary according to indulge his age. In the tamascradle, etcthe baby should sleep longer than he remains awake. etc. <ref>http://incarnatewordThe number of hours of sleep will diminish as the child grows.But until maturity it should not be less than eight hours, in/cwsa/31/illnessa quiet, well-and-health#p63</ref> ventilated place.The child should never be made to stay up late for no reason..there is always something in The hours before midnight are the best for resting the vital physical which is pleased with becoming more weak and ill so that it can feel and lament its tragic case. <ref>http://incarnatewordnerves.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p64</ref> Illness in Even during the body waking hours, relaxation is like impurity in the vital,..indispensable for all who want to maintain their nervous balance.It may happen that in throwing out the illness (the attacking force) one throws out also something within, some impurity which helped it To know how to come, but that is relax the result of a Force working within muscles and not of the illness. It nerves is quite possible that an illness or attack can art which should be transferred in this way from one taught to another and indeed it children when they are very commonly happens… young.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3112/illness-andphysical-healtheducation#p62p9,p10,p11</ref>
Diseases, accidents, catastrophes, wars, all that, is because the human material consciousness is so small, so narrow that it has a rabid taste for drama. And of course, behind there is the vital being having fun, influences too... all that enjoys an opportunity to delay the divine Work and make things difficult... But the seed of the difficulty is ...extreme pettiness of...the material physical consciousness—which has an absolutely perverse taste for drama... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/june-14-1967#p3~</refcenter>
...one must be very careful and look at oneself with great discrimination to discover the small part in oneself that...takes pleasure in being ill... there are many reasons. There those who are people luminous, sunny, happy, smiling and those who are ill out of spitegloomy, dull, misanthropic,...out of hate...through despairdissatisfied, there are people..who live in grey shadows. one It is vexed and says: "the latter who catch all the unpleasant things...you will Those who are radiant (they may be radiant without it being a spiritual radiance, it may be just a radiation of good see , balance, an inner confidence, the joy of living), those who carry in themselves the consequences joy of what he has done to me! Let it come! I am going to be ill." One does not say it openly to oneselfliving, these are in harmony with Nature and, being in harmony with Nature, for one would scold oneselfgenerally avoid accidents, but there they are immune from diseases and their life develops pleasantly as far as it is something somewhere that thinks possible in that waythe world as it is. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0506/2227-julyjanuary-19531954#p57p8</ref>
...[if] the illness returns. This means that the cause has not been changed, that the cause is in the vital and is still there; it is only the effect which has been cured. But if one can act simultaneously upon both the cause and the effect, and the cause is sufficiently receptive to consent to change, then one is completely cured, once for all.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p13~</refcenter>
=How The secret is to Prevent Illness?=emerge from the ego, get out of its prison, unite ourselves with the Divine, merge into Him, not to allow anything to separate us from Him. Then, once one has discovered this secret and realises it in one's being, pain loses its justification and suffering disappears. It is an all-powerful remedy, not only in the deeper parts of the being, in the soul, in the spiritual consciousness, but also in life and in the body.
First, not to want to be illThere is no illness, no disorder which can resist the discovery of this secret and then not to be afraid the putting of illness. You must neither attract it nor tremble. You must into practice, not want illness at all. But you must not because only in the higher parts of fear not want it; you must not be afraid; you must have a calm certitude and a complete trust the being but in the power cells of the Grace to shelter you from everything..body.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/11-may-1955#p13</ref>
We ought If one knows how to use teach the divine health in us cells the splendour that lies within them, if one knows how to cure make them understand the reality which makes them exist, gives them being, then they too enter the total harmony, and prevent diseasesthe physical disorder which causes the illness vanishes as do all other disorders of the being... <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1009/aphorism-394-39513-396february-397-398-3991957#p1p9,p10,p11</ref>[Based on aphorism<394>]
The secret is to emerge from the ego, get out of its prison, unite ourselves with the Divine, merge into Him, not to allow anything to separate us from Him. There is no illness, no disorder which can resist the discovery of this secret and the putting of it into practice, not only in the higher parts of the being but in the cells of the body.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/13-february-1957#p10</ref>==By Faith==
It is quite obvious that one of the most powerful means for acting on the body is faith.People who have a simple heart, not a very complicated mind—simple people, you see—who don't have a very great, very complicated mental development but have a very deep faith, have a great power of action over their bodies, very great..When people are ill That is why one is quite surprised at times: "Here's a man with a great realisation, an exceptional person, and get he is a slave of all the smallest physical things, while this man, well quickly, they are full of gratitude; he is so simple and looks so uncouth, but never do they think of being grateful when they are well; he has a great faith and goes through difficulties and yet that is obstacles like a much greater miracleconqueror!...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/23-december-1953#p52</ref>"
...For you I don't say that a highly cultured man can't have faith, but it is more difficult, for there is always this mental element which contradicts, discusses, tries to be able understand, which is difficult to do all kinds of things .convince, which wants proofs.His faith is less pure.you must have a triple equilibrium—mentalIt is necessary, vitalthen, physical—and not only to pass on to a higher degree in each of the partsevolutionary spiral, but also in pass from the mental to the three parts spiritual; then, naturally, faith takes on a quality of a very high order. But I mean that in their mutual relationsdaily life, ordinary life, a very simple man who has a very ardent faith can have a mastery over his body—without it being truly a "mastery"; it is simply a spontaneous movement—a control over his body far greater than somebody who has reached a much higher development.... <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0509/2219-julyjune-19531957#p30p20,p21</ref>
...particular Asanas have even an effect in destroying particular diseases,—and with Pranayama maintains perfectly the health of the body...<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/hathayoga#p10~</refcenter>
There are sadhus...they live in Yogaa truly dirty condition—and they are free from all illness.Probably because they have faith..faith and right auto-suggestion are .they do not think of their body, they think of great use until the point comes when life of their soul. They have no suggestion is necessary because the Truth-consciousness acts automatically and produces its natural resultsillness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3105/illness22-andjuly-health1953#p39p24</ref>
...as the consciousness becomes more subtle by practice of Yoga, we can come to be aware of the sea of pranic shakti around us,...But until we thus become aware of it, we have to possess a ...necessary a faith, śraddhā, in the power of the mind to lay its will on the state and action of the body, such as those have who heal disease by faith, will or mental action...<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-power-of-the-instruments#p7~</refcenter>
...The exercises of Pranayama are the familiar mechanical means of freeing and getting control of the pranic energyin Yoga...The pranic Shakti can be directed not only upon ourselves, but effectively towards others or on things or happenings for whatever purposes faith and right auto-suggestion are of great use until the will dictates. Its effectivity point comes when no suggestion is immense,.necessary because the Truth-consciousness acts automatically and produces its natural results. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2431/theillness-divineand-shaktihealth#p6p39</ref>
==Having Faith==<center>~</center>
If people had ...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. The will put forth by the mind sets up opposite reactions and creates a resistance...Mental faith is not sufficient; it must be completed and enforced by a vital and even a physical faith, a faith of the body...you must reach down to the most subconscious, you must fix the faith in the healing power very cells of the Grace, perhaps they would spare themselves quite a few diseasesbody.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1103/march5-14may-19701929#p12p18</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. The will put forth by the mind sets up opposite reactions and creates a resistance...Mental faith is not sufficient; it must be completed and enforced by a vital and even a physical faith, a faith of the body...you must reach down to the most subconscious, you must fix the faith in the very cells of the body...<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/5-may-1929#p18~</refcenter>
There Most men are sadhusnot conscious of this pranic force in the body or cannot distinguish it from the more physical form of energy which it informs and uses for its vehicle.But as the consciousness becomes more subtle by practice of Yoga, we can come to be aware of the sea of pranic shakti around us, feel it with the mental consciousness, concretely with a mental sense, see its courses and movements, and direct and act upon it immediately by the will..they live But until we thus become aware of it, we have to possess a working or at least an experimental faith in its presence and in the power of the will to develop a truly dirty condition—and they are free from all illnessgreater command and use of this prana force. Probably because they There is necessary a faith, ''śraddhā'', in the power of the mind to lay its will on the state and action of the body, such as those have who heal disease by faith, will or mental action; but we must seek this control not only for this or any other limited use, but generally as a legitimate power of the inner and greater over the outer and lesser instrument.This faith is combated by our past habits of mind, by our actual normal experience of its comparative helplessness in our present imperfect system and by an opposing belief in the body and physical consciousness..For they do not think too have a limiting ''śraddhā'' of their body, they think of own which opposes the idea in the mind when it seeks to impose on the system the life law of their soul. They have no illnessa higher yet unattained perfection... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0524/22the-julypower-of-the-1953instruments#p24p7</ref>
...Those who are radiant...they may be radiant without it being a spiritual radiance...those who carry in themselves ==By Being Receptive to the joy of living, these are in harmony with Nature and, being in harmony with Nature, generally avoid accidents, they are immune from diseases and their life develops pleasantly as far as it is possible in the world as it is... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/27-january-1954#p8</ref>Divine Force==
==Being Receptive What has to be done with the body at first is to make it open to the Divine Force==, so as to receive strength against illness and fatigue—when they come, there must be the power to react and throw them off and to keep a constant flow of force into the body. If that is done, the rest of the bodily change can wait for its proper time. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/transformation-and-the-body#p2</ref>
...What has to be done with <center>~</center> As the body at first is to make it consciousness becomes more open to the Force, so as to receive strength against illness (it is always the most difficult and fatigue—when they come, there must be the power last to react and throw them off and to keep a constant flow of force into the body. If that is doneopen up entirely), the rest this frequent stress of the bodily change can wait for its proper timeillness will diminish and disappear.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2831/transformationillness-and-the-bodyhealth#p2p56</ref>
Try to keep yourself open to our Force in ==By Strengthening the body, that is the main thing... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p8</ref>Nervous Envelope==
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.he[one] must believe firmly 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[illness] is this that must be invaded and will gopenetrated first before the body can be affected. If he[one] this envelope is absolutely strong and intact, you can keep this attitude 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 open to entire, thoroughly consistent in its composition, its elements in faultless balance. This body is built up, on the one side, of a material basis, but rather of material conditions than of physical matter, on the true forceother, of the mind vibrations of our psychological states. Peace and nervous being once strengthenedequanimity and confidence, faith in health, the illness undisturbed repose and cheerfulness and bright gladness constitute this element in it and give it strength and substance. It is a very sensitive medium with facile and quick reactions; it readily takes in all kinds of suggestions and these can rapidly change and weakness will disappearalmost remould its condition. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/illness16-andjune-health1929#p65</ref>
...the experience that the Divine ALONE is acting in the body, that He has BECOME the body, yet all the while retaining his character of divine omniscience and omnipotence...it was[is] absolutely impossible to have the LEAST disorder in the body, and not only in the body, but IN ALL THE SURROUNDING MATTER...There was[is] a divine harmony in EVERYTHING...So if that[this] is established in a permanent way,...There can no longer be accidents, ...illness,... disorders, and everything should harmonize...<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/june-6-1958#p10</ref> ...When the physical disorder comes, one must not be afraid; one must...face it with courage, calmness, confidence, with the certitude that illness is a falsehood and that if one turns entirely, in full confidence, with a complete quietude to the divine Grace, It will settle in these cells as It is established in the depths of the being, and the cells themselves will share in the eternal Truth and Delight.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/13-february-1957#p12~</refcenter>
As If one can feel them [attacks of illness] so coming and get the strength and the habit to throw them away before they can enter the body consciousness becomes more open , then one can remain free from illness. Even when the attack seems to rise from within, that means only that it has not been detected before it entered the subconscient; once in the subconscient, the force that brought it rouses it from there sooner or later and it invades the system. When you feel it just after it has entered, it is because though it came direct and not through the Force (subconscient, yet you could not detect it while it was still outside. Very often it arrives like that, frontally or more often tangentially from the side, direct, forcing its way through the subtle vital envelope which is always our main armour of defence, but it can be stopped there in the most difficult and envelope itself before it penetrates the last material body. Then one may feel some effect, e.g. feverishness or a tendency to open up entirely)cold, this[but there is not the full invasion of the malady. If it can be stopped earlier or if the] frequent stress vital envelope of itself resists and remains strong, vigorous and intact, then there is no illness will diminish ; the attack produces no physical effect and disappearleaves no traces.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p56p15</ref>
==Strengthening the Nervous Envelope==<center>~</center>
...we can feel the symptoms of illness ...must, fever or cold for instance, in the subtle physical sheath before it can affect they are manifest in the physical gross bodyand destroy them there, touch another layer of preventing them from manifesting in the being...called.body.Take now the call for the Divine Power, Light, Ananda.If we live only in the etheric bodyoutward physical consciousness, it may descend and work behind the nervous envelopeveil but we shall feel nothing and only see certain results after a long time. It is Or at most we feel a subtle body certain clarity and yet almost visible...it emanates from peace in the mind, a joy in the vital, a happy state in the physical body and closely covers itinfer the touch of the Divine. All communications with But if we are awake in the inward physical, we shall feel the exterior world are made light, power or Ananda flowing through this mediumthe body, the limbs, nerves, blood, breath and it is this that must be invaded and penetrated first before , through the subtle body can be affected. If this envelope is absolutely strong , affecting the most material cells and making them conscious and intact, you can... remain quite immune. It is a perfect protection against all possible attacks of illness...It is a very sensitive medium...it readily takes in all kinds of suggestions blissful and these can rapidly change we shall sense directly the Divine Power and almost remould its conditionPresence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0328/16the-junephysical-1929consciousness#p12 </ref>
...If one is conscious ==By Rejecting the Suggestion of the subtle body or with the subtle consciousness, one can stop an illness on its way and prevent it from entering the physical body... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p52</ref>Illness==
The nervous (vital-You must not accept but reject it [suggestions] with your physical) being supports the body—if it is calm mind and strong and solid, then so help the body is well supported and can withstand illness and weakness orconsciousness to throw off the suggestion. If necessary, make a counter-suggestion, if illness comes"No, it will bear I shall be well; I am and more easily get rid of itshall be all right. If " And in any case call in the Mother's Force to throw out the suggestion and the nervous being is weak, then illness it is the opposite..bringing.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p49p22</ref>
...if we develop the inward physical consciousness, we become aware of a subtle environmental physical atmosphere and can feel the forces of illness coming towards us through it, feel them even at a distance and, if we have learned how to do it, we can stop them by the will or otherwise... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-physical-consciousness#p12 ~</refcenter>
==Rejecting Oh, how interesting it is, if you knew how interesting.... Take coughing, for instance (not in the Suggestion chest, in the throat). So, the first vibration: an irritation that draws your attention in order to make you cough. It has a certain kind of vibration which we may call "pointed," but it's not violent: it's light, annoying. It's the first little vibration. So with that vibration: awakening of the attention in the surrounding consciousness (of the throat cells); then a refusal to accept the cough, a rejection here (in the throat), which at first almost causes nausea (all this is seen through a microscope, you understand, they are very tiny things). The attention is focused. Then, at that point, there are several possible factors, which are sometimes simultaneous and sometimes one drives away the other; one is anxiety: something goes wrong and there is apprehension at what's going to happen; the other is a will that nothing should be disturbed by the irritation; and then all of a sudden, the faith that the Force is capable of restoring order everywhere immediately (none of Illness==this is intellectual: it's vibrations). <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/february-8-1967#p8</ref>
The body should reject illness as energetically as we reject falsehood in the mind.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/will-to-conquer-illness#p10~</refcenter>
...All illness should if the vital mind withdraws its consent, refuses to be rejected dominated by the habitual suggestions and all suggestions the habitual movements, these recurrences of illness; the Force should depression and despair can be called in made soon to cure by cease. But it is not easy for this mind, once it has got into the assent habit of consent, even a quite passive and suffering and reluctant consent, to health cancel the habit and get rid of the refusal of assent black circle. It can be done easily only when the mind refuses any longer to believe in the suggestions or accept the ideas or feelings that bring or prolong its oppositestart the circle. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3130/illnessthe-andemergence-or-coming-forward-of-the-healthpsychic#p4p45</ref>
...depression is the worst of all illnesses and we must reject it with as much energy as we use to get rid of a disease.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/depression#p10~</refcenter>
Illness must not be accepted as a means of transformation; it rather indicates certain difficulties encountered by the force of transformation especially in the vital and the body.But it is not necessary that these difficulties should be allowed to take this obscure form of illness..It can All illness should be rejected and all suggestions of illness; the Force should be done easily only when called in to cure by the mind refuses any longer assent to health and the refusal of assent to believe in the suggestions that bring or accept the ideas or feelings that start the circleprolong its opposite.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3031/theillness-emergence-or-coming-forward-of-theand-psychichealth#p45p4</ref>
==By suggestion [of illness] I do not mean merely thoughts or words. When the hypnotist says, "Sleep", it is Developing a suggestion; but when he says nothing but only puts his silent will to convey sleep or makes movements of his hands over the face, that also is a suggestion.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p23</ref>Strong Will==
...your belief the body consciousness through old habit of consciousness admits the force of illness and goes through the experiences which are associated with it—e.g. congestion of phlegm in the sanitary precautions you take helps them to workchest and feeling of suffocation or difficulty of breathing etc. For your thought is, "Now I am disinfected and safe", To get rid of that one must awaken a will and consciousness in the body itself that refuses to allow these things to that extent impose themselves upon it makes you safe.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0331/19illness-mayand-1929health#p16p54</ref>
...It is always better not to say, "I will now have no more illness", it attracts the attention of these malevolent powers and they immediately want to prove that they can still disturb the body. Simply when they come, reject them.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p48~</refcenter>
Wake up in yourself a will to conquer...you get Not a queer sick feeling inside, a cold mere will in the back, mind but a little uneasiness,...as though will in the general harmony had been disturbedvery cells of your body. Then Without that you must concentrate all the more and with a great strength of will keep the faith that nothing can 't do anything; you harm, nothing can touch may take a hundred medicines but they won't cure you. This suffices, unless you can throw off have a will to overcome the physical illness at that moment. But you must do this immediately ...you must not wait five minutes, it must be done at once... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0415/31will-marchto-1951conquer-illness#p22p1</ref>
...if the vital mind withdraws its consent, refuses to be dominated by the habitual suggestions and the habitual movements, these[the] recurrences of depression and despair can be made soon to cease...It can be done easily only when the mind refuses any longer to believe in the suggestions or accept the ideas or feelings that start the circle. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-emergence-or-coming-forward-of-the-psychic#p45~</refcenter>
These auto-suggestions [of being restored to good health]—it The idea is really faith in put into the heart or the life as a mental form—act both on force to be accepted and worked out; the subliminal heart and life become conscious of the subconscient. In idea and respond to its dynamisms and their substance begins to modify itself in that sense, so that the subliminal they set in action feelings and actions become the powers vibrations of the inner beingthis higher wisdom, are informed with it, ...in filled with the subconscient they silence or block emotion and the suggestions sense of death it: the will and illness… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-the life impulses are similarly charged with its power andits urge of self-health#p37</ref>==Having Will of Health==...effectuation; even in the body the idea works so that, for example, the potent thought and will of health replaces its faith in illness and its consent to illness, or the idea of strength calls in the substance, power, motion, vibration of strength; the idea generates the force and form proper to the idea and imposes it on our substance of mind, life or matter..It is in this way that the first working proceeds; it charges the whole being with a new and superior consciousness, lays a foundation of change, prepares it for a superior truth of existence.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-ascent-towards-supermind#p23</ref>
...You must have a very strong will not to be ill. This is the first condition.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/11-may-1955#p11</ref>==By Pranayama and Asana==
Do ...the first objects of the Pranayama are to purify the nervous system, to circulate the life-energy through all the nerves without obstruction, disorder or irregularity, and to acquire a complete control of its functionings, so that the mind and will of the soul inhabiting the body may be no longer subject to the body or life or their combined limitations. The power of these exercises of breathing to bring about a purified and unobstructed state of the nervous system is a known and well-established fact of our physiology. It helps also to clear the physical system, but is not love your ill health entirely effective at first on all its canals and openings; therefore the Hathayogin uses supplementary physical methods for clearing them out regularly of all their accumulations. The combination of these with Asana,—particular Asanas have even an effect in destroying particular diseases,—and with Pranayama maintains perfectly the ill health will leave youof the body.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1523/will-to-conquer-illnesshathayoga#p4p10</ref>
Wake up in yourself a will to conquer. Not a mere will in the mind but a will in the very cells of your body. Without that you can't do anything... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/will-to-conquer-illness#p1~</refcenter>
The exercises of Pranayama are the familiar mechanical means of freeing and getting control of the pranic energy...They heighten too and set free the body consciousness through old habit psychic, mental and spiritual energies which ordinarily depend for their opportunity of consciousness admits action on the pranic force of illness...To get rid But the same thing can be done by mental will and practice or by an increasing opening of that one must awaken ourselves to a will and consciousness in higher spiritual power of the body itself that refuses to allow these Shakti. The pranic Shakti can be directed not only upon ourselves, but effectively towards others or on things to impose themselves upon it… or happenings for whatever purposes the will dictates.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3124/illnessthe-anddivine-healthshakti#p54p6</ref>
=How to Deal with Illness?=
When the action is directly upon the body, that is, on the affected part, it is possible that one is relieved; then, some hours later or even after a few days, the illness returns. This means that the cause has not been changed, that the cause is in the vital and is still there; it is only the effect which has been cured. But if one can act simultaneously upon both the cause and the effect, and the cause is sufficiently receptive to consent to change, then one is completely cured, once for all. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p13</ref>
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''Q: What to do about illness?''
A: Be passively confident: let me do it and it is done.’<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/cure-by-the-divine-grace#p8</ref> <center>~</center> There is something there that expects the illness, accepts it when it comes and gives it free play. He must learn to keep calm and quiet in the mind and vital being, to refuse to regard the illness and the tendency to it in the body as something normal to it, regarding it rather as something imposed from outside, and he must believe firmly that it must and will go. If he can keep this attitude and open to the true force, the mind and nervous being once strengthened, the illness and weakness will disappear. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p65</ref> ==By Calling the Divine Force== ''Q:When I am sympathetic with a sick person my body begins to feel the symptoms of his disease''A:The best way is to call for the Divine Presence of Truth and Harmony, to replace the vibrations of disorder and confusion. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/general#p28</ref> <center>~</center> To heal [''illness''] by the true force is obviously the best—provided the body is amenable. It has a consciousness of its own which must be fully enlightened before it gives a full response. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p1</ref>There are always germs watching and only waiting for an occasion. That is why one should be very careful. Anyhow, for some reason or other, the influence has pierced through the shell of protection and acts there encouraging the illness to become as bad as it can be. In that case the first means is not quite sufficient. Then you have to add something; you must add the Force of spiritual purification which is such an absolutely perfectly constructive force that nothing that's in the least destructive can survive there. If you have this Force at your disposal or if you can ask for it and get it, you direct it on the spot and the adverse force usually runs away immediately, for if it happens to be in the midst of this Force it gets dissolved, it disappears; for no force of disintegration can survive within this Force; therefore disintegration disappears and with it that also disappears. It can be changed into a constructive force, that is possible, or it may be simply dissolved and reduced to nothing. And with that not only is the illness cured, but all possibility of its return is also eliminated. You are cured of the illness once for all, it never comes back. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p60</ref> <center>~</center> For certain things, I remember, when there are certain disorders, something wrong (and with the perception of a consciousness that has become very sharp, you can see when that disorder is the natural origin of an illness, for example, or of something very serious), with the call, the concentration and the response ... [the disorder is dissolved]. It's almost a surrender, because it's an uncalculating self-giving: the damaged spot opens to the Influence, not with an idea of getting cured, but like this (''gesture like a flower opening out''), simply like this, unconditionally—that is the most potent gesture. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/december-20-1967#p25</ref> <center>~</center> The particular place in the body affected by an illness is an index to the nature of the inner disharmony that has taken place. It points to the origin, it is a sign of the cause of the ailment. It reveals too the nature of the resistance that prevents the whole being from advancing at the same high speed. It indicates the treatment and the cure. If one could perfectly understand where the mistake is, find out what has been unreceptive, open that part and put the force and the light there, it would be possible to re-establish in a moment the harmony that has been disturbed and the illness would immediately go. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p8</ref> <center>~</center>
...whenever I had an illness...I had We are ALWAYS off balance, the body is always off balance (more or less), and it is something else, above, a Will or a trustConsciousness, a complete assurance that holds it up and makes it had no realitywork....every time a blow cameSo 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, I would tell my bodywhich is unreal, "But what's the use an unreal and false sensation and just one way of being ill since you'll just have to get well!" ...And it faded away only little by little..of the general Disorder, and we enter into Harmony, and then everything is fine.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0506/octoberjuly-10-19641965#p40p6</ref>
When the disease came back, I said to myself, 'Very well, this means it must be dealt with in a new way.'
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/march-7-1961#p10</ref>
It [''the descent of the higher consciousness into the most physical'']brings light, consciousness, force, Ananda into the cells and all the physical movements.The body becomes conscious and vigilant and performs the right movements, obeying the higher will or else automatically by force of the consciousness that has come into it..It becomes more possible to control the functionings of the body and set right anything that is wrong, to deal with illness and pain etc. A greater control comes over the actions of the body and even over happenings to it from outside, e.g. minimising of accidents and small mishaps. The body becomes a more effective instrument for work. It becomes possible to minimise fatigue. Peace, happiness, strength, lightness in the whole physical system. These are the more obvious and normal results which grow as the consciousness grows, but there are many others that are possible. There is also the unity with the earth-consciousness, the constant sense of the Divine in the physical, etc.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/descent-and-the-lower-nature#p26</ref>
==By Overcoming Fear== ...Once one must be neither cowardly nor fearful. When the illness has got inphysical disorder comes, one must not be afraid; one must not run away from it, must face it [with courage, calmness, confidence, with the body] can fight certitude that illness is a ''falsehood'' and overcome it...But this implies only that if one turns entirely, in full confidence, with a defensive powercomplete quietude to the divine Grace, It will settle in these cells as It is established in the depths of the power to react against an invading enemy—it is not true freedombeing, and the cells themselves will share in the eternal Truth and Delight. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0109/october13-17february-1957#p3p12</ref>
...But sick people... when I tell them, "Be sincere," I know what I mean: if they REALLY want the Divine, all that must stop. That's all... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/may-8-1965#p41</ref>...the method is to change the subconscient into the conscient—if each thing that rises to the surface becomes conscious, at that moment it must be changed. There is a more direct method still: it is to enter the subconscient in one's full consciousness and work there...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/11-may-1955#p7~</refcenter>
...when there A strict discipline is an illness needed to cure the body of fear...automatically the The cells forget ..themselves tremble.their sadhana and everything, and it It is only slowly when you get out of the illness by discipline, by yoga that the cells begin to remember...my ambition was that the cells should remember when being ill...The first time that the cells remembered, oh, I was very happyone can overcome this fear. But now,...as soon as the disorder comes, the cells first...got it is a little anxious: "Oh, we are so bad fact that we are still catching illnesses"—that was a period; and thenone can catch anything through fear, afterwards there was the impression: "Oheven invite an accident. And, You want to teach us a lessonyou see, we have something to learn"—that was already much better: from a kind certain point of eagernessview everything is contagious. And now there is an intense joy and I knew a person who got a wound through the kind of power; a power that comes, a power of aspiration and a power of realization fear that comes with the sense: "We are winning a victory, we are winning a new victoryhe felt seeing someone else's wound.He really got it..."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0605/22-july-7-19651953#p1p10</ref>
...the last stage is that the body should forget it has been ill; that's very important.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/october-10-1964#p27~</refcenter>
There have been numerous cases of a panic being stopped outright simply because some people refused the suggestion and could counteract it with an opposite suggestion...You must put a strong will for getting rid For mystics the best cure as soon as one begins to feel afraid of something is to think of your illness the Divine and you must remain quiet then snuggle in his arms or at his feet and unperturbed by leave him entirely responsible for everything that happens, within, outside, everywhere—and immediately the fear disappears. That is the cure for the mystic. It is the resultseasiest of all. The two are But everybody does not contradictoryenjoy the grace of being a mystic. One should accompany the other… <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1505/will-to14-conqueroctober-illness1953#p6p36</ref>
...a positive silence, which is at the same time a complete immobility—that's very good as an antidote to disorder... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/august-7-1963#p27~</refcenter>
...the most difficult Some people are spontaneously free from fear even in their body; they have a sufficient vital equilibrium in them not to be afraid, not to fear, and a natural harmony in the yogic point rhythm of view is toothachetheir physical life which enables them to reduce the illness spontaneously to a minimum. There are others, on the other hand, because with whom the thing always becomes as bad as it is very close can be, sometimes to the brain…point of catastrophe.Usually in a tooth it There is the nerve which has been attacked by the carieswhole range and this can be seen quite easily. Well, this depends on a kind of happy rhythm of the diseasemovement of life in them, and which begins is either harmonious enough to protest with all its strength. Soresist external attacks of illness or else doesn't exist or is not sufficiently powerful, and is replaced by that trembling of fear, if you succeed in establishingthat kind of instinctive anguish which transforms the least unpleasant contact into something painful and harmful...immobilityThere is the whole range, you prevent it from vibrating, you prevent it from protesting… if you do it fairly constantly, with sufficient perseverance, someone who can go through the sick nerve will die worst contagion and you will not suffer epidemics without ever catching anything to one who falls ill at all any morethe slightest chance. Because So naturally it was that which was suffering always depends on the constitution of each person; and as soon as one wants to make an effort for progress, it naturally depends on the control one has acquired over oneself, until the moment when the body becomes the docile instrument of the higher Will and one can obtain from it is dead it does not suffer any longer. Try..a normal resistance to all attacks.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0609/1719-novemberjune-19541957#p23p7</ref>
...it is possible even to turn the pains of illness like any other pain into a form of pleasure; for pain and pleasure are both of them degradations of an original Ananda and can be reduced into the terms of each other or else sublimated into their original principle of Ananda… <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p58~</refcenter>
Suppose It is true that doctors have said that as a result of some illness or otherif one can teach the body to bear pain, there it becomes more and more resilient and less easily disrupted—this is some sort of pain at a precise spotconcrete result...First point: do not stress In the case of people who know how to avoid getting completely upset as soon as they have a pain...Second point... draw somewhere, who are able to bear it quietly, to keep their balance, it seems that the peace into yourself and bring it down into body's capacity to bear the solar plexusdisorder without going to pieces increases.This is a great achievement..and I have asked myself this question from there direct it very calmly...persistently, towards the place where the pain is...purely practical, external standpoint and fix it thereseems to be like this...This is not always enough...But if Inwardly, I have been told this many times—told and shown by widening this movement you small experiences—that the body can add a sort of mental formation...that the only reality bear much more than we think, if no fear or anxiety is added to the divine Reality..pain.bring into If we eliminate the cells of mental factor, the body the consciousness of this sole Reality,...and trusting surrender left to the Graceitself, then I am sure...your suffering will disappear… <ref>http://incarnatewordhas neither fear nor apprehension nor anxiety about what is going to happen—no anguish—and it can bear a great deal.in/cwm/08/4-july-1956#p21</ref>
These [There] are phenomena Based on Aphorism<93> Pain is the touch of self-identification. Only, they are involuntary... When someone cannot sleep ...his nerves are ill our Mother teaching us how to hear and weakened by excessive agitation, he is told to sit grow in front rapture. She has tree stages of an aquarium... and look at the fish. So he looks at the fishher schooling, moving aroundendurance first, coming and going, ...After a while he lives the life next equality of fishes: he comes and goes, swims, glidessoul, playslast ecstasy. And at the end of the hour his nerves are in a perfect state and he is completely restful! ] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0510/12-augustaphorism-195393#p18p3</ref>
==Calling in the Divine Force==<center>~</center>
Most of them [illnesses] can But you mustn't be got rid afraid. Neither afraid of almost at once by faith and calling in the force. Those that are chronic are more difficultfalling ill, but they too can be got rid nor of by the same means if persistently used. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p44</ref>...with the call, the concentration and the response ... [the disorder is dissolved]. It's almost a surrender,... the damaged spot opens to the Influencebecoming imbecile,nor even...of dying—you must be like this ("vast and quiet gesture , like a flower opening outthe sea"),...unconditionally—that is the most potent gesture.<ref>httpIf we could only have (I have it from time to time, it comes://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/december-20-1967#p25</ref>it''Q:When I am sympathetic with s on its way) a sick person my body begins feeling of smiling trust. But to feel get that the symptoms of his diseaseconsciousness must be as vast as the creation itself...''A:The best way is to call for You are as vast as the Divine Presence of Truth and Harmonycreation, to replace the vibrations of disorder and confusiontotally trusting. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/general#p28</ref>...if you have a pain somewhere... Ultimately, it corresponds always boils down to something within,... the contact with the true Force puts things back this (which can be put in order..a very childlike manner): He knows better than we what has to be done. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/1113/marchmay-2817-19701972#p23p40</ref>
...The pains in the body come from the same source as the trouble in the vital nature; ... Remain always quiet and persist in opening yourself. The Force that releases you from the vital trouble, can also remove the disturbance in the nervous part and the physical body… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p93</ref>==By Detachment==
The only thing I can suggest about diseases is to call down peace. Keep the physical mind away from the body by whatever means... It is in this state that makes use of the Grace acts. And nervous substance; if we withdraw it is from the Grace alone nervous substance, we no longer feel anything, for that cures's what gives us the perception of sensation... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/peace-and-quiet-faith-and-surrender#p10</ref>We know something is wrong, but we no longer suffer from it…
...one used this kind of indifferent detachment is the[uses ESSENTIAL condition for the mind]... to make favourable formations—... to give confidence to establishment of true Harmony in the bodymost material Matter—the most external, to tell it that it is just a passing disturbance physical Matter...and if it enters a real state of receptivity, the disorder will disappear as easily as it has come, and one can cure oneself in a few seconds—if one knows how to do that, one gets wonderful results. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0502/23january-december31-19531961#p36p14</ref>
==Overcoming Fear==<center>~</center>
Not This detachment of the mind must be afraid strengthened by a certain attitude of indifference to the things of falling the body; we must not care essentially about its sleep or its waking, its movement or its rest, its pain or its pleasure, its health or ill! That's -health, its vigour or its fatigue, its comfort or its discomfort, or whatit eats or drinks. This does not mean that we shall not keep the body in right order so far as we can; we have not to fall into violent asceticisms or a positive neglect of the physical frame. But we have not either to be affected in mind by hunger or thirst or discomfort or ill-health or attach the importance which the physical and vital man attaches to the things of the body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0723/octoberthe-release-from-subjection-to-22the-1966body#p4p2</ref>
...A strict discipline is needed to cure the body of fear. The cells themselves tremble. It is only by discipline, by yoga that one can overcome this fear... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p10~</refcenter>
...as soon as one begins to feel afraid of something One step towards it [oneillness] is to think of get the inner consciousness separate from the Divine body—to feel that it is not you who are ill but it is only something taking place in the body and not affecting your consciousness. It is then snuggle in his arms or at his feet and leave him entirely responsible for everything that happenspossible to see this separate body consciousness, withinwhat it feels, outsidewhat are its reactions to things, everywhere—and immediately the fear disappears.how it works.One can then act on it to change its consciousness and reactions. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0531/14illness-octoberand-1953health#p36p54</ref>
...the body can bear much more than we think, if no fear or anxiety is added to the pain. If we eliminate the mental factor, the body, left to itself, has neither fear nor apprehension nor anxiety about what is going to happen—no anguish—and it can bear a great deal. ==By Surrender==
[Based on Aphorism<93> Pain ...all those physical disorders of the body, those disorders in the functioning or even organic disorders, suddenly (naturally, the constant state is one of aspiration: an intense, continuous, conscious aspiration) and suddenly—suddenly—an almost stupefying Response: all disorder disappears, not only inside but around (around, sometimes over a rather vast extent), and everything becomes automatically organized, harmonized, without the touch of our Mother teaching us how to hear least effort, and grow it starts... moving within an extraordinary progressive harmony; then, with no apparent reason, without anything having changed in rapturethe consciousness and any outer circumstances making a difference, pfft! it reverts to what it was before: disorder, conflict, chaos, things that grate. She has tree stages And then, as you aren't conscious of her schoolingthe why, endurance firstyou don't have the key!......the only recourse is a blissful surrender (''gesture of immobile offering Upward'').. and not a heavy, next equality of soulnot an inert surrender: intense, last ecstasyintense! ...That's the only thing.]<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1006/aphorismmarch-20-931965#p3p34,p37</ref><
...Mental fear—all who have a little control over themselves or any human dignity can eliminate it; vital fear is more subtle and asks for a greater control; as for physical fear, a veritable yoga is necessary to overcome it, for the cells of the body are afraid of everything that is unpleasant, painful,...the cells of the body[they] become anxious, they don't like to be uncomfortable. And then, to overcome that, the control of a conscious will is necessary...It is this kind of trembling of material, physical fear in the cells of the body which aggravates all illnesses.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-june-1957#p6~</refcenter>
But you mustn't ...congenital diseases can be afraid. Neither afraid cured only by an integral transformation of falling ill, nor the body itself and we have not reached yet that period in the sadhana; otherwise it is only a so-called "miraculous cure" that can take place and that kind of becoming imbecile, nor even... "miracle" can happen only as the result of dying—you must be like this (vast an absolute sincerity in the consecration to the Divine and quiet gesture, like an unshakable faith in the sea)Divine Grace. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1315/maycure-by-the-17divine-1972grace#p40p13</ref>
==Practicing Indifferent DetachmentMedicine==
...The physical mind...makes use Medicines are a ''pis aller'' [a course of action followed as a last resort] that have to be used when something in the nervous substance; if we withdraw consciousness does not respond or responds superficially to the Force. Very often it from is some part of the nervous substance, we no longer feel anything, for material consciousness that's what gives us the perception of sensation....We know something is wrong, but we no longer suffer from unreceptive—at other times it...this kind of indifferent detachment is the ESSENTIAL condition for subconscient which stands in the establishment of true Harmony in way even when the most material Matter—the most externalwhole waking mind, life, physical Matter This is consent to the logical consequence..liberating influence. on If the cause subconscient also answers, then even a slight touch of illnesses and how to overcome themthe Force can not only cure the particular illness but make that form or kind of illness practically impossible hereafter.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0231/januarydoctors-31and-1961medicines#p14p6</ref>
...detachment of the mind must be strengthened by a certain attitude of indifference to the things of the body; we must not care essentially about its ...health or ill-health,...This does not mean that we shall not keep the body in right order so far as we can; we have not to fall into violent asceticisms or a positive neglect of the physical frame. But we have not either to be affected in mind by...discomfort or ill-health or attach the importance which the physical and vital man attaches to the things of the body... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-subjection-to-the-body#p2~</refcenter>
''Q...One step towards it[illness] Mother, how are medicines to be used for a body which is to get not altogether unconscious? For even when we draw on the inner consciousness separate from the body—to feel divine grace, we see that it we need a little medicine, and if a little medicine is not you who are ill but given it is has a good effect. Does this mean that only something taking place in the body and not affecting your consciousness. It needs medicine or is then possible to see this separate body consciousness, what it feels, what are its reactions to things, how it works. One can then act on it to change its consciousness there something wrong with the mind and reactions <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p54</ref>the vital?''
OnlyA. 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 very much coddledthe medicines which cure, it is the body which decides to be cured." Very well, so when one has a little endurance the body is told, "Take this", it says to itself, "Now I am going to get better", and decides within himself not because it says "I am going to pay too much attentionget better", quite remarkably the pain diminishes… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-november-1954#p21</ref>well, it is cured!
In almost every case, there are things which help—a little—provided it is done within reasonable limits...the knowledge of the power If it is no longer within reasonable limits, you are sure to cut the connection between the suffering part and the recording brainbreak down completely. You cure one thing but catch another which is usually worse...all this calls for an occult power or But still, a little help, in a training...without going so farway, there is one thing a little something that one can try gives confidence to doyour body: "Now it will be all right, now that I have taken this, it is not going to be all right"—this helps it a great deal and it decides to concentrate on one's pain,...But[get better and] if one can turn one's attention away, one no longer suffers. <ref>http://incarnatewordit is cured.in/cwm/07/27-april-1955#p16</ref>
==ReThere too, there is a whole range of possibilities, from the yogi who is in so perfect a state of inner control that he could take poison without being poisoned to the one who at the least little scratch rushes to the doctor and needs all sorts of special drugs to get his body to make the movement needed for its cure. There is the whole possible range, from total, supreme mastery to an equally total bondage to all external aids and all that you absorb from outside—a bondage and a perfect liberation. There is the whole range. So everything is possible. It is like a great key-establishing Harmony==board, very complex and very complete, on which one can play, and the body is the instrument.
So there are two things If one can cure by the Force as you have often done, it is the best—but if for some reason the body is not able to respond to do when you have discovered the disorder, big or small—the disharmonyForce (e. g...the first thing owing to do is doubt, lassitude or discouragement or for inability to quieten oneself, bring peace, calmreact against the disease), then the aid of medical treatment becomes necessary... Afterwards you see what It is not that the cause of Force ceases to act and leaves all to the disorder...and medicines,—it will continue to act through the pressure consciousness but take the support of light and knowledge and spiritual force you re-establish the harmony...if it does not offer any obstinate treatment so as to act directly on the resistancein the body, you can be cured which responds more readily to physical means in a few secondsits ordinary consciousness.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0509/2219-julyjune-19531957#p58p9,p10,p11,p12</ref>
...One must be conscious, conscious of the working of one's organs,...When they begin indulging in unhealthy fancies...you must tell them: no, it is not like that the work is to be done, it is the other way! Suppose for example, your heart begins to throb madly; then you must make it calm, you tell it that this is not the way to behave, and at the same time (solely to help it) you take in long, very regular rhythmic breaths, that is, the lung becomes the mentor of the heart and teaches it how to work properly... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p36~</refcenter>
...The particular place Medicine is necessary for our bodies in disease only because our bodies have learned the body affected by an illness is an index to the nature art of the inner disharmony that has taken placenot getting well without medicines. It points to the originEven so,... It indicates the treatment and the cure. If one could... find out what has been unreceptive, open sees often that part and put the force and the light there, it would be possible to re-establish moment Nature chooses for recovery is that in a moment which the harmony that has been disturbed and life is abandoned as hopeless by the illness would immediately godoctors.[Aphorism<404>]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0310/16aphorism-404-405-june406-1929407#p8p1</ref>
...the intervention of the Vibration of Harmony into the vibration of Disorder, allowing [allows] Disorder to cease.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/march-25-1964#p34~</refcenter>
...we think Drugs often cure the body is in good health, that when they do not merely trouble or poison it's balanced, and that "something is introduced from outside, which causes you to fall ill," but it's not like that! We are ALWAYS off balance, only if their physical attack on the body disease is always off balance... and it is something else, above, a Will or a Consciousness, that holds it up and makes it work. So supported by the force of the spirit; if we can call on...that Will for Harmony—and if we force can have ..be made to work freely, drugs are superfluous.that [theAphorism<407>] Flame of aspiration, and make contact, we emerge from so-called illness… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0610/julyaphorism-10404-405-406-1965407#p6p4</ref>
==Restoring OrderRole of Supramental Descent==
The supramental descent is necessary for a dynamic action of the Truth in mind, vital and body...if order is restored at This would imply as a final result the disappearance of the center unconsciousness of disorder, everything follows naturally, without your paying the body; it any special attentionwould no longer be subject to decay and disease.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0528/septembertransformation-and-26the-1964body#p63p16</ref>In its normal state, the body always feels that it is not its own master: illnesses invade it without its really being able to resist them—a thousand factors impose themselves or exert pressure upon it. Its sole power is the power to defend itself, to react. Once the illness has got in, it can fight and overcome it—even modern medicine has acknowledged that the body is cured only when it decides to get cured; it is not the drugs per se that heal, for if the ailment is temporarily suppressed by a drug without the body's will, it grows up again elsewhere in some other form until the body itself has decided to be cured. But this implies only a defensive power, the power to react against an invading enemy—it is not true freedom.
...That [The] intrusion of Disorder makes itself felt everywhereBut with the supramental manifestation, it something new has repercussions everywhere...if you are able to bring to taken place in the attacked spot body: it feels it is its own master, autonomous, with its two feet solidly on the true Vibration—the Vibration ground, as it were. This gives a physical impression of Order and Harmony—and you stop the Disorder... all the other things are put back in orderwhole being suddenly drawing itself up, as if automaticallywith its head lifted high—I am my own master.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agenda/0501/septemberoctober-2617-19641957#p57p3,p4</ref>
...If you organise everything—your feelings, your thoughts, your impulses, etc,—around the psychic centre which is the inner light, you will see that all inner disorder will change into a luminous order.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/15-january-1951#p5</ref> ...the body itself awakening in its cells, a freedom of the cells themselves, an absolutely new vibration that sets disorders right—even disorders that existed prior to the supramental manifestation.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/october-17-1957#p7~</refcenter>
The absolute immunity can only come with the supramental change...For below the supramental it is the habit result of disease an action of a Force among many forces and can be...minimised and gradually eliminated and in the meantime the power disturbed by a disruption of the mind to set right equilibrium established—in the disorders supramental it is a law of the nature; in a supramentalised body whether by conscious manipulation of vital force or by simple mental fiat will immensely increase..immunity from illness would be automatic, inherent in its new nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2331/theillness-release-from-subjection-to-theand-bodyhealth#p5p52</ref>
=What Are the Obstacles to Cure?=Helpful Practices==
...someone who Suppose that as a result of some illness or other, there is ill and BELIEVES in the reality some sort of his illness; pain at a precise spot. At that moment all will depend, as I said at the effect of beginning, on the Action is lessened in proportion approach most familiar to his wrong beliefyou.<ref>http://incarnatewordBut we can give an example.You are in pain, in/agenda/13/june-24-1972#p16</ref>great pain; it is hurting very much, you are suffering a lot.
==Rejecting First point: do not stress the Divine Force==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.So, the first point: to control yourself sufficiently not to do that.
Second point: as I said, it depends on your habits...I If you know caseshow to concentrate, to be quiet,... of people who are sick: and if they follow the routine you can bring into yourself a certain peace, of the doctor and medicines and treatment and diseaseany kind―it may be a mental peace, it may be a vital peace, they get wellit may be a psychic peace; if by some mischance (!) they call on the Force have different values and I apply itqualities, the 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 I applyor less completely. Then, if you can draw the more terrified they are! They feel absolutely unexpected phenomena peace into yourself and they are terrified: "...What's happening to me!" As if bring it were absolutely catastrophic. The minute down into the Force comes and they feel just a bit solar plexus―for we are not talking of inner states but of your physical body―and from there direct itvery calmly,... they resist... they become absolutely restless...That very slowly I might say, but very persistently, towards the place where the pain ismore or less sharp, the whole system spends its time rejecting and rejecting all that comes. <ref>http://incarnatewordfix it there, this is very good.in/agenda/05/november-28-1964#p12</ref>
...instead of using the energy in this way,[to restore and repair] they[humans] immediately throw it out. They start stirring about, reacting, working, speaking ...They can't keep anything. So naturally, since the energy was This is not sent to be wasted like that but for an inner use, they feel absolutely flat, run down. <ref>http://incarnatewordalways enough.in/agenda/01/july-21-1958#p2</ref>
==Unhealthy Curiosity==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.
...there is the sense If you can add to that a movement of an established harmony among complete and trusting surrender to the cellsGrace,then I am sure that within five minutes your suffering will disappear... And the slightest thing that comes and disturbs that harmony is VERY painful, but at the same time there is the knowledge of what If you know how to do to reestablish the harmony instantly;.it.You may try and yet not succeed. But if out of curiosity,...you start asking yourself, "What's that? What effect will it have? What's going must know how to happen?" (what the body calls "the desire to learn")try again and again and again,...that [then] until you'll have something very unpleasant do succeed...While But if you don't have that unhealthy curiosity ...bring one drop of do those three things at the Lord on the troubled spot for everything to be fine againsame time, well, there is no pain which can resist.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0408/4-july-20-19631956#p39p21,p22,p23,p24,p25,p26,p27,p28</ref>
...when you are able to be truly still, there is ALWAYS There's a little light—a warm little lightpower in the sound itself, very bright and wonderfully stillby forcing the body to repeat the sound, behind; as if you force it were saying, "You only have to willreceive the vibration at the same time." Then But I've noticed that if something in the body's cells panic: "Willworking gets disturbed (a pain or disorder, how? How can I? The the onset of some illness is on me, ) and I am overcome. How can I will? It's AN ILLNESS"—Then something with repeat my mantra in a general wisdom sayscertain way—still the same words, "Calm down...don't remain attached to your illness!..So they consent...They try—immediatelythe same mantra, that light comes again...but said with a few seconds certain purpose and it's over. Then above all in a movement of surrender, surrender of the pain, the cells remember: "But how come? I had disorder, and a call, like an opening—it has a pain heremarvelous effect.The mantra acts in just the right way, in this way and in no other.."—pop! It all comes And after a while everything is put backin order. And simultaneously, of course, the whole drama unfolds like thatprecise knowledge of what lies behind the disorder and what I must do to set it right comes to me. But quite apart from this, constantlythe mantra acts directly upon the pain itself.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0501/octoberjune-144-19641960#p60p4</ref>
=How to Cure Illness?=<center>~</center>
Have faithThe only thing I can suggest about diseases is to call down peace. Keep the mind away from the body by whatever means—whether by reading Sri Aurobindo's books or meditation. It is in this state that the Grace acts. There And it is no disease which cannot be cured by the Divine Gracealone that cures. The medicines only give a faith to the body. That is all. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/curepeace-byand-quiet-thefaith-divineand-gracesurrender#p3p10</ref>
...Peace and stillness are the great remedy for disease.When we can bring peace in our cells, we are cured.<refcenter>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/peace-and-quiet-faith-and-surrender#p26~</refcenter>
‘‘Q...the knowledge of the power to cut the connection between the suffering part and the recording brain. One cuts the connection, then the brain does not register. That's what one does, what the doctors do with anaesthetics. They cut the connection of the nerves between the spot that's ill and the brain; so the brain no longer perceives anything or it is reduced to a minimum… there is one thing that one can try to do:When it is not to concentrate on one's pain, to turn the attention away as much as possible, not think at all of one's pain, think as little as possible and above all not be concentrated on it, not to pay attention—"Oh, I'm in pain", then it becomes a little worse; "Oh, I'm in still greater pain", then it becomes still worse, like that, because one is caught in an illnessconcentrated on it; and this is the mistake one always makes: to think, be there, attentive, awaiting the sign of pain; then naturally it comes, it comes increased by the concentration of the attention given to it. That is why, how should when one pray is not well the best thing to do is to read or have something read, you see; it depends on the Mother?’’A:Cure mecondition one is in. But if one can turn one's attention away, O Mother!one no longer suffers. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwm/1507/cure-by-the27-divineapril-grace1955#p10p16</ref>
I don't want you to be ill and always I am with you to cure you—but you too must want to be cured. Do not torment yourself and always nestle in my arms so as to receive my love and force.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/23-september-1934#p2~</refcenter>
...Ultimately When one has a very bad toothache (I don't know if you have a toothache sometimes or not; a toothache hurts terribly because the nerve is quite, quite close to the brain, so it doesn't lose its intensity on the way, it is very direct and hurts very much), the best way—in fact there's no other—the best way is to put cut it quite tritely: "It is good, you have done your work, you told me that something was wrong there, that's enough, don't move now." And one can cure only if cuts, cuts it like this ("gesture"), cuts the disease isnconnection, it doesn't necessary to transmit again. Naturally you must think of something else. If afterwards you start saying, "Do I still have the individual's developmentpain?..." <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1007/december11-13may-19691955#p14p44</ref>
...If this present difficulty is useful ... (it's the body addressing the Lord)..for Your Work—so be it..It [The body] doesn't ask to be cured of the illness! It doesn't ask, it is ready; 'All right,' it says. 'As long as I can keep going, I will keep going. As long as I can last, I will last. But that's not what I'm asking for: I am asking to be cured of my stupidity.' I believe this is what...gives it the necessary endurance. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/february-7-1961#p24~</refcenter>
...in order phenomena of self-identification. Only, they are involuntary. And this is also one of the methods used today to cure nervous diseases. When someone cannot sleep, cannot be able restful because he is too excited and nervous and his nerves are ill and weakened by excessive agitation, he is told to cure sit in front of an aquarium, for instance—an aquarium, that's very lovely, isn't it?—before an illnessaquarium with pretty little fish in it, goldfish; just to sit there, settle down in an easy-chair and try not to think of anything (particularly not of his troubles) and look at the fish. So he looks at the fish, moving around, coming and going, swimming, gliding, turning, meeting, crossing, chasing one another indefinitely, and also the water flowing slowly and the passing fish. After a while he lives the life of fishes: he comes and goes, swims, glides, plays. And at the end of the hour his nerves are in a perfect state and he is completely restful!But the condition is that one must find out its causenot think of one's troubles, not its microbesimply watch the fish.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/2212-julyaugust-1953#p42p18,p19</ref>
...There are two ways of curing an illness spiritually. One...the person is receptive; the force of consciousness is put upon the affected part and its pressure restores order<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p11~</refcenter>
In other casesI have known some truly extraordinary instances. If you can at the moment... Wait, take an example which is quite concrete: sunstroke. This upsets you considerably, it is one of the things which makes you most ill—a sunstroke upsets everything, it disturbs the inner functions, it generally causes a congestion in the head and very high fever. So, if this has happened, if it has succeeded in getting through the protection and entering you, well, if you can just go into a quiet place, stretch yourself out flat, go out of your body (naturally, you must learn this; there are people who do this spontaneously, for others a long discipline is necessary), go out of your body, remain above in a way to be able to see the body (you know the phenomenon, seeing one's body when one is outside? This can be done at will, going out of one's body and remaining just above it), the body is stretched out on a bed, a bench, on the ground, anywhere; you are stretched just above it and from there, consciously, you pull the Force from above, and if you are used to doing it, if your aspiration is strong enough, you get the answer; and then, from there, taking care not to re-enter your body, you begin to push these forces into the body, like that, regularly, until you see the body receiving them (for, the first few moments they don't enter, because the body is quite upset by the illness, it is not receptive, it is curled up), you push them gently, gently, quietly, without nervousness, very peacefully, into the body lacks receptivity.But you must not be disturbed by anyone. If someone comes along, sees you stretched out and shakes you, it is extremely dangerous.You must do this in quiet conditions, ask people not to disturb you or better shut yourself up where they can't disturb you. But you can concentrate slowly (this takes more or less time—ten minutes, half an hour, one sees hour, two hours—depends upon the inner correspondence with seriousness of the psychological state disorder which has brought about set in), slowly, from above, you concentrate the Force until you see that the body is receiving, that the Force is entering, the disorder is being set right and there is a relaxation in the body itself. Once that is done you can get back and you are cured. This has been done for a sunstroke, which is a fairly violent thing, and also for typhoid fever, and many other illnesses, as, for instance, for a liver which was suddenly upset somehow (not due to indigestion, but a liver which doesn't function properly for the moment); it may also be cured in the same way. There was a case of cholera which was healed like that. The cholera had just been caught, had entered, but was not yet lodged; it was completely cured. Consequently, when I say that if one masters the illness spiritual force and acts on knows how to use it, there is no malady which cannot be cured… Of course, you will say you don't know how to go out of the body, draw the Force, concentrate it, have all this mastery.... It is not very frequent, but it is not impossible. And one can be sure thatif one is helped... In fact, there is a much easier method, it is to call for help. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p12p23</ref>
...When you are completely cured, it will be an indication of some inner progress.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/will-to-conquer-illness#p6~</refcenter>
But when You thought for months perhaps or even for years, you thought you have had ...an were completely rid of a certain kind of illness...the body remembers for a very long time. If which you want to be completely curedsuffered from, and you must cure no longer paid any attention, and suddenly one day it returns as though it had never gone; it springs up again from the subconscient and unless one enters into this memory in subconscient and changes things there, that is, unless one changes the subconscient into the bodyconscient, it always happens like this is absolutely indispensable...When And the remembrance method is effacedto change the subconscient into the conscient—if each thing that rises to the surface becomes conscious, at that moment it must be changed. There is a more direct method still: it is to enter the body subconscient in one's full consciousness and work there, but this is truly healeddifficult.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0607/1311-octobermay-19541955#p47p7</ref>
=== Auto Suggestions===The mind has a considerable power of formation and a direct action on the body, and usually one uses this power to make oneself ill...For as soon as the least thing goes wrong, the mind begins to shape and build all you have the catastrophes possible, to ask itself whether it could be this, whether it could be that, if it is going to be like that, and how it will all end. Well, if instead of letting the mind do is this (''gesture of stepping back'')disastrous work, one used the same capacity to make favourable formations—simply, for example, to give confidence to the body, to tell it that it is just a passing disturbance and there that it is.And nothing, and if it is enters a real state of receptivity, the root disorder will disappear as easily as it has come, and one can cure of disorder. It is anti-disorderoneself in a few seconds—if one knows how to do that, one gets wonderful results.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0305/october23-30december-19621953#p62p36</ref>
...the cure for all physical disorders lies in the cells becoming convinced—conscious and convinced—that they are an expression of the Divine, or even that they are divine in their essence.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/12/october-16-1971#p6~</refcenter>
These auto-suggestions [''of being restored to good health'']—it is really faith in a mental form—act both on the subliminal and the subconscient...most disorders In the subliminal they set in action the powers of the body are connectedinner being,...If one can strike at their psycho-physical rootits occult power to make thought, one can cure even without knowing will or simple conscious force effective on the body—in the subconscient they silence or block the pathological whole suggestions of the matter death and working through illness (expressed or unexpressed) that prevent the symptoms is a possibilityreturn of health.They help also to combat the same things (adverse suggestions) in the mind, vital, body consciousness.Where all this is completely done or with some completeness, the effects can be very remarkable. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctorsillness-and-medicineshealth#p25p37</ref>
==Surrender==<center>~</center>
Of course it [''cancer''] can [''be cured by Yoga''], but on condition of faith or openness or both...If Even a surrender mental suggestion can cure cancer—with luck, of course, as is to be madeshown by the case of the woman operated on unsuccessfully for cancer, but the doctors lied and told her it's to Him. .had succeeded.."May Your Will be doneResult," cancer symptoms all ceased and she died many years afterwards of another illness altogether...And one sees that there was absolutely no imperative need to be ill or for the disequilibrium to occur.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0931/junespecific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-15physical-1968problems#p17p2</ref>
...that[The] disorganization is what prevents the cohesion necessary for the cells to constitute an individual body, so then you know, "Ah (gesture of dissolution), it'll be the end." Then the cells aspire, there is a sort of central consciousness of the body which aspires intensely, with as complete a surrender as it can make: "Your Will, Lord, Your Will, Your Will...." Then... first there is a peace, then a light, then Harmony—and the disorder has vanished. And once the disorder has vanished, there is instantly IN THE CELLS a sense of living eternity, of living for eternity.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/november-15-1967#p32~</refcenter>
...all ...disorders One must be conscious, conscious of the working of one's organs, aware of the bodyone that does not behave very well, telling it immediately what is to be done to set itself right...suddenly What is needed (naturally, the constant state I shall explain it to you later on) is to give them a lesson as one ofdoes to little children... an intense, continuous, conscious aspirationWhen they begin indulging in unhealthy fancies (indeed it is then the occasion to say it) ...disappearsyou must tell them: no, it is not only inside but around ...without like that the least effortwork is to be done, and it starts...moving within an extraordinary progressive harmonyis the other way! Suppose for example, your heart begins to throb madly; thenyou must make it calm, with no apparent reasonyou tell it that this is not the way to behave, without anything having changed in and at the consciousness and any outer circumstances making a difference, pfft! it reverts same time (solely to what help it was before: disorder, conflict) you take in long, chaosvery regular rhythmic breaths, things that grate. And thenis, as you aren't conscious of the why, you don't have lung becomes the key!...mentor of the only recourse is a blissful surrender.. heart and not a heavy, not an inert surrender: intense, intense! ...That's the only thingteaches it how to work properly.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0605/march22-20july-19651953#p34p36</ref>
...if something in the body's working gets disturbed (a pain or disorder, the onset of some illness) and I repeat my mantra in a certain way—still the same words, the same mantra, but said with a certain purpose and above all in a movement of surrender, surrender of the pain, the disorder, and a call, like an opening—it has a marvelous effect. ...And after a while everything is put back in order. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/june-4-1960#p4~</refcenter>
...working according It is particularly noticeable that all the digestive functions are extremely sensitive to somebody else's ideas makes or keeps you an attitude that is critical, bitter, full of ill-will, I do not see why it should be soto a sour judgment.Nothing disturbs the functioning of the digestion more than that..If ...doing things in what you consider not And it is a vicious circle: the more the best waydigestive function is disturbed, makes the more unkind you nervousbecome, critical, dissatisfied with life and things and people.So you can't find any way out..illAnd there is only one cure: to deliberately drop this attitude, to absolutely forbid yourself to have it and to impose upon yourself, by constant self-control, that is a pitydeliberate attitude of all-comprehending kindness. It would be so Just try and you will see that you feel much better if you could leave the responsibility of the way of doing things to the Mother and do cheerfully what you have to do. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/illness-andthe-healthbhikkhu#p83p25</ref>
...congenital diseases can be cured only by an integral transformation of =What Are the body itself and we have not reached yet that period in the sadhana; otherwise it is only a so-called "miraculous cure" that can take place and that kind of "miracle" can happen only as the result of an absolute sincerity in the consecration Obstacles to the Divine and an unshakable faith in the Divine Grace. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/cure-by-the-divine-grace#p13</ref>Cure?=
==Changing Human beings don't know how to keep energy. When something happens—an accident or an illness, for example—and they ask for help, a double or a triple dose of energy is sent. If they happen to be receptive, they receive it. This energy is given for two reasons: to restore order out of the Attitude==disorder caused by the accident or illness, and to impart a transformative force to repair or change the source of the illness or accident.But instead of using the energy in this way, they immediately throw it out. They start stirring about, reacting, working, speaking ... They feel full of energy and they throw it all out! They can't keep anything. So naturally, since the energy was not sent to be wasted like that but for an inner use, they feel absolutely flat, run down. And it is universal. They don't know, they do not know how to make this movement—to turn within, to use the energy (not to keep it, it doesn't keep), to use it to repair the damage done to the body and to go deeply within to find the reason for this accident or illness, and there to change it by an aspiration, an inner transformation. Instead of that, right away they start speaking, stirring about, reacting, doing this or that! <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/july-21-1958#p1,p2</ref>
...These[the] maladies are a creation of the pressure of hostile forces;...The only way is to remain quiet, dissociate yourself and refuse to accept it or make much of it, allow the calm and strength that the Mother has been putting around you to enter your mind and permeate your nervous system...The cure may take time because your nervous system has been long subjected to these influences and, when they are evicted, they return with violence to re-establish their hold. But if you can acquire and keep patience and fortitude and the right consciousness and right attitude with regard to these things, the hold they have will progressively disappear.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/accidents-possession-madness#p15~</refcenter>
...but when you are able to be truly still, there is ALWAYS a little light—a warm little light, very bright and wonderfully still, behind; as if it were saying, "You only have to will." Then the body's cells panic: "Will, how? How can I? The attitude illness is on me, I am overcome. How can I will? It's AN ILLNESS"—the whole drama (and that wasn't in the cells changes—not the disorder sleep: I was completely awake, it was this morning), it's "an illness." Then something with a general wisdom says, "Calm down, calm down, (laughing) don't remain attached to your illness! Calm down. As if you wished to be ill!)Calm down." So they consent—"consent," you know, like a child who has been scolded, "All right, very well, I'll try." They try—immediately, the disorder changes that light comes again: "You only have to will." And once or twice, for one thing or another (because of the cells' reactionDisorder is something general: you may suffer at any spot, have a disorder at any spot if you accept a certain vibration), on THIS POINT, you consent—the next minute, that's what makes it change; but it recurs with clockwork regularity—that's its jobover. It is Not the way next minute: a few seconds and it's received by over. Then the cellsremember: "But how come? I had a pain here..."—pop! It all comes back. And the whole drama unfolds like that, their reaction to it, that brings about the changeconstantly.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0405/marchoctober-3014-19631964#p19p60</ref>
...all the digestive functions are extremely sensitive to an attitude that is critical, bitter, full of ill-will, to a sour judgment...it is a vicious circle: the more the digestive function is disturbed, the more unkind ...critical, dissatisfied with life...And there is only one cure: to deliberately drop this attitude,...and to impose upon yourself,...a deliberate attitude of all-comprehending kindness.<refcenter> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-bhikkhu#p25~</refcenter>
...there are many people now whois the sense of an established harmony among the cells, increasingly established among the cells, which represents the right functioning, whatever that may be: it's no longer a question of a stomach or a heart or this or that.And the slightest thing that comes and disturbs that harmony is VERY painful, but at the same time there is the knowledge of what to do to reestablish the harmony instantly; and if the harmony is reestablished, the functioning isn't affected..treat their illnesses by making conscious But if out of curiosity, for instance (it's a mental suggestions illness in humans), you start asking yourself, "What's that? What effect will it have? What's going to happen?" (what the body calls "the desire to learn"), if you are unlucky enough to be that way, you can be sure ("laughing") that you'll have something very unpleasant which counteract , according to the doctor (according to ignoramuses), becomes an illness or disrupts the body's functioning. While if you don't have that unhealthy curiosity and, on the contrary, will the obscure secret suggestions harmony not to be disrupted, you only have to, we could say poetically, bring one drop of illness in the subconscientLord on the troubled spot for everything to be fine again. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3104/illnessjuly-and20-health1963#p40p39</ref>
==Using the Divine Force=More on Illness=
To heal [There is no such thing as an incurable illness] by in reality—for what the true force doctors call such is obviously the best—provided the body is amenable. It has a consciousness of its own only an illness for which must be fully enlightened before it gives they have not yet been able to discover a full responsephysical remedy. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctorsspecific-illnesses-ailments-and-medicinesother-physical-problems#p1</ref>But, each man can make his own experiment. If one has a bad throat, this may be due to the fact that the day before one was in a state of depression. Or perhaps one is very unhappy, dissatisfied, one finds everything very bad, and the next day one gets a cold in the head.... Everyone must make his own observations. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p4</ref>
...the Force of spiritual purification which is such an absolutely perfectly constructive force that nothing that's in the least destructive can survive there. ..you direct it on the spot and the adverse force usually runs away immediately...And with that not only is the illness cured, but all possibility of its return is also eliminated. You are cured of the illness once for all, it never comes back. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p60~</refcenter>
...When something happens—an accident or an illness,...they ask for help, a double or a triple dose of energy is sent. If they happen Aphorism<199>Disease will always return to be receptive, they receive it. This energy the body if the soul is given flawed; for two reasons: to restore order out the sins of the mind are the secret cause of the disorder caused by sins of the accident or illnessbody. So too poverty and trouble will always return on man in society, and to impart a transformative force to repair or change so long as the source mind of the illness or accidentrace is subjected to egoism.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0110/julyaphorism-21199-1958200#p1</ref>
...if it[illness] has succeeded in getting through the protection and entering you,...go out of your body, remain above in a way to be able to see the body... and from there, consciously, you pull the Force from above, ...you begin to push these forces into the body...until you see that the body is receiving, that the Force is entering, the disorder is being set right and there is a relaxation in the body itself. Once that is done you can get back and you are cured. …[if]you don't know how to go out of the body,... there is a much easier method, it is to call for help. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p23~</refcenter>
...I used to When people are ill and get well quickly, they are full of gratitude; but never do it simply like this: breathe in very slowly to the count they think of 4, then hold for 4 like this...lifting the diaphragm and lowering the head...closing everything and exerting pressure... Then while I held the air, I would make it circulate with the force ...and with the peace as being grateful when they are well; and I would concentrate it wherever there was yet that is a physical disorder (a pain or something wrong somewhere). It's very effective. much greater miracle! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0305/february23-24december-19621953#p36p52</ref>
...it[sciatica] cannot resist the Force quietly and persistently applied. Other illnesses can resist, but sciatica being entirely tamasic cannot. The application of Force does not yet, probably, come natural to you, so it brings a sense of struggle not of quiet domination, hence the restlessness etc. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-problems#p18</ref> Of course it [cancer] can [be cured by Yoga], but on condition of faith or openness or both. Even a mental suggestion can cure cancer <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-problems#p2~</refcenter>
==Medicine==...the experience that the Divine ALONE is acting in the body, that He has BECOME the body, yet all the while retaining his character of divine omniscience and omnipotence) well, the whole time it remained actively like that, it was absolutely impossible to have the LEAST disorder in the body, and not only in the body, but IN ALL THE SURROUNDING MATTER. So if that is established in a permanent way, there CAN NO LONGER be illness it is impossible. There can no longer be accidents, there can no longer be illness, there can no longer be disorders, and everything should harmonize (probably in a progressive way) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/june-6-1958#p10</ref>
Medicines are a ''pis aller'' [a course of action followed as a last resort]that have to be used when something in the consciousness does not respond or responds superficially to the Force.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p6</ref>...if for some reason the body is not able to respond to the Force...then the aid of medical treatment becomes necessary. It is not that the Force ceases to act and leaves all to the medicines,—it will continue to act through the consciousness but take the support of the treatment so as to act directly on the resistance in the body, which responds more readily to physical means in its ordinary consciousness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p15~</refcenter>
Medicine ...health or illness is necessary for our bodies in disease only because our bodies have learned the art a choice (to express it simply). A choice of not getting well without medicinesevery minute. For this body, at any rate, that's how it is. [Based on Aphorism<404>Medicine is necessary for our bodies in disease only because our bodies have learned It means abdicating with regard to the general functioning of the physical substance, of the art body, and having illnesses you get cured of or not getting well without medicines, depending on... Even soother laws than physical laws. But there is every minute—every minute—the possibility to choose the true consciousness, one sees often that the moment Nature chooses for recovery or there is that in , yes, a disorder or disequilibrium. It's something which the life is abandoned as hopeless by unable to follow the doctorsmovement of progressive harmony, or sometimes even which doesn't want to. I am talking about cells and groups of cells.]<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1009/aphorism-404june-40515-406-4071968#p1p14,p15</ref>
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.[Aphorism<407center>] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-404-405-406-407#p4~</refcenter>
==Role Disease is needlessly prolonged and ends in death oftener than is inevitable, because the mind of Supramental Descent==the patient supports and dwells upon the disease of his body. [Aphorism<386>] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-386-387-388-389#p1</ref>
...The supramental descent is necessary for a dynamic action of the Truth in mind, vital and body. This would imply as a final result the disappearance of the unconsciousness of the body; it would no longer be subject to decay and disease.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/transformation-and-the-body#p15~</refcenter>
You are given an illness purposely to make you progress? Surely it is not like that.Actually, you may turn the thing round and say that there are people whose aspiration is so constant, whose goodwill so total that whatever happens to them they take as a trial on the path to make progress.I knew people who, whenever they fell ill, took that as a proof of the Divine Grace to help them to progress.The absolute immunity can only come with They told themselves: it is a good sign, I am going to find out the cause of my illness and I shall make the supramental changenecessary progress. …in I knew a supramentalised body immunity few of this kind and they moved on magnificently. There are others, on the contrary, who, far from making use of the thing, let themselves fall flat on the ground. So much the worse for them. But the true attitude when one is ill, is to say: "There is something that is not all right; I am going to see what it is." You must never think that the Divine has purposely sent an illness , for that would truly be automatic, inherent in its new nature. a very wicked Divine!<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3105/illness22-andjuly-health1953#p52p2</ref>
...The complete immunity from all illness for which our Yoga tries can only come by a total and permanent enlightenment of the below from above resulting in the removal of the psychological roots of ill health—it cannot be done otherwise.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p38</ref>
...take a supramental being having the supramental consciousness, if his body gets cancer, it will remain cancer... He may not feel anything, but only if he detaches himself from his body; whereas, for the transformation to be genuine, the body ALSO has to attain a harmony above—above all illnesses and accidents. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/12/july-10-1971#p12</ref>'''Content Curated by Radhika Pillai'''
...On one side there is the claim that illness and the rest should be impossible, on the other a violent rejection of the only condition under which these things can become impossible...but that is one reason why it is necessary to transform the human and put something a little more luminous in its place. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-yoga-and-vaishnavism#p35</ref>
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