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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-2915-19711968#p6p12</ref> <center>~</center>
...falsehood in it as an imperfection of the body is a falsehood in the consciousness The falsity to be got rid of as you try to get rid of the consciousness naturally has material consequencesvital imperfections or mental errors... and that's what illness is!...<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0229/octoberequality-the-2chief-1961support#p15p18</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>
Illness ...falsehood in the body is always a lapse into unconsciousness through falsehood in the incapacity to sustain consciousness. The falsity of the movement of transformationconsciousness naturally has material consequences... and that's what illness is!... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0802/januaryoctober-252-19671961#p24p15</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 is Each illness represents its own vibratory mode. Each illness has its own vibratory mode; it represents a means towards some new joy whole field of health.vibrations to be corrected.It's the EXACT measure of what in Matter resists the divine Influence—the exact measure, down to the atom.<ref>http://incarnateword. in/agenda/08/february-8-1967#p7</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 is a ''collective '' illness and comes from a ''collective '' impurity… The forms of illness vary according to the condition of each person and his link with the whole.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/8-july-1964#p3</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>
One [illness]brought by the forces hostile to Yoga to upset In its lowest parts (vital-material) it is the system and prevent or disturb progress—without any adequate agent of pain, physical reason—is a hostile attack.illness etc.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3128/illnessthe-andphysical-healthconsciousness#p17p25</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. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-june-1957#p2~</refcenter>
All life is the play of universal forces.The individual gives a personal form to these universal forces..health But he can choose whether he shall respond or illness isnot to the action of a particular force.Only most people do not really choose—they undergo the play of the forces.Your illnesses, depressions etc. a choice are the repeated play of every minute.such forces.It is only when one can make oneself free of them that one can be the true person and have a true life—but one can be free only by living in the Divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0928/june-15occult-1968knowledge#p15p9</ref>
All life is the play of universal forces...most people...undergo the play of the forces.Your illnesses, depressions etc. are the repeated play of such forces… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/occult-knowledge#p9</ref>=Why Illness Develops?=
=What =Causes of Illness Is Not?==
==Means of Transformation==''Q.Sweet Mother, if someone falls seriously ill, is this a purely physical phenomenon or is it a difficulty in his spiritual life?''
Illness must not be accepted as A. That depends on the person! If it is someone who is doing yoga, it is quite obviously a means of transformation; difficulty in his spiritual life. If it rather indicates certain difficulties encountered by is somebody who is not at all engaged in yoga and who lives an ordinary life in the force of transformation especially in most ordinary manner, it is an ordinary accident. It depends absolutely on the vital and person. The outer phenomena may be similar, but the body… <ref>http://incarnatewordinner 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/cwsa/31/illness-his own way, and-health#p4</ref>his way depends on what he is, on his state of consciousness and the life he leads.
==Progress==We have often said that illnesses are always the result of 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.
You are given 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 purposely . When one is in a normal state of equilibrium and lives in a normal physical harmony, the body has a capacity of resistance, it has within it an atmosphere strong enough to make you progress? Surely it 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 like thatto affect him.But if for some reason or other he loses this equilibrium or is weakened by depression, dissatisfaction, moral difficulties or undue fatigue, for instance, this reduces the normal resistance of the body and he is open to the disease..You must never think But if we consider someone who is doing yoga, then it is altogether different, in the sense that the Divine causes of disequilibrium are of a different nature and the illness usually becomes the expression of an inner difficulty which has purposely sent an illness, for that would truly to be a very wicked Divine!.overcome.So each one should find out for himself why he is ill. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0509/2219-julyjune-19531957#p2p1,p3,p4,p5</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==It's the effect of a combination of three things: bad will (at the worst, a refusal to follow the movement), a more or less total bad will; 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>
...The child must be taught as early as possible...that he does not become more interesting by being ill, but rather the contrary...Children should therefore be taught that to be ill is a sign of weakness and inferiority, not of some virtue or sacrifice.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/physical-education#p9~</refcenter>
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..illness If the nervous being is a thing to be eliminatednot merely weak, but nervous and unstable, over-sensitive, not accepted vehement or enjoyed... <ref>http://incarnateword.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/cwsa/31/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-health#p58</ref>so on—sometimes there is hysteria.
...you have These conditions are not always native to accept illness as the Divine Willbody—they are often created by troubles in the life, but rather look upon some disturbing illness or other reasons—but often it as an imperfection is due to some hereditary cause or otherwise native to the system. Women tend to get like this sometimes if there is disorder of the body… menstruation. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2931/equality-theillness-chiefand-supporthealth#p18p49,p50</ref>
==Result of the Divine Force==<center>~</center>
The Divine Force cannot by Depression and discouragement have a very adverse effect; they cut out holes in it [nervous envelope], as it were, in its descent be the cause of madness any more than very stuff, render it can be of apoplexy or any other physical illness… weak and unresisting and open to hostile attacks an easy passage. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/accidents16-possessionjune-madness1929#p30p11</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 ...the body 's whole functioning is the natural a discipline, and general result of if there is a part that no longer wants to follow the practice discipline—out of Yoga revolt or incapacity or that that practice is the cause of an inevitable breakdown of health...It is more rational to conclude that both Yogis and non-Yogis for any reason—if it stops following the discipline, you fall ill and die from natural causes and by the same dispensation of Nature… . <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3110/illnessfebruary-and8-health1969#p8p37</ref>
==Imperfection in Other Parts==<center>~</center>
As for the question about the illness, perfection in the physical plane is indeed part of the ideal of the Yoga, but ...one may have a certain perfection on other planes without having immunity all disorders in the body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p57</ref> ...all diseases are the outer expression result of a disorder, such as swollen legs DOUBT in the cells or a malfunctioning liver—.certain group of cells..a functional disorder…. IT IN NO WAY CHANGES THE BODY'S TRUE CONSCIOUSNESS. Although we are in They doubt the habit of thinking that the body is very disturbed when itDivine's illconcrete reality, when something is going wrongthey doubt the Divine Presence in them, it's not so. It isn't disturbed they doubt their being divine in their very essence, and this doubt is the way we understand itcause of all disorders. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0205/januarymay-3114-19611964#p3p4</ref>
==Incurable==<center>~</center>
There ...the cause of disease is psychic, that is no such thing as an incurable illness in reality—for what to say, subjective and the direction should be towards curing the inner causes much more than patching up by physical means. These are ideas that have their truth also. I fully recognise the psychic law and methods and their preferability, but the doctors call such ordinary run of humanity is only an illness not ready for which they have not yet been able to discover a that rule and, while it is so, doctors and their physical remedy… methods will be there.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3128/specific-illnesses-ailmentsmorality-and-other-physical-problemsyoga#p1p46</ref>
=What Is the Cause?=Subconscient==
It's If you drink unfiltered water and think, "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 realm whole of your subconscious is there, almost helplessly open to take any kind of suggestion. In life it is the action of the subconscious that's... beyond has the subtle physical, larger share and it's acts a hundred times more powerfully than the realm in which formations of illness MATERIALIZE..conscious parts. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0403/december19-25may-19631929#p13p18</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>
...In the 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 cause seeds of disease is psychichabitual desires, sensations and nervous reactions, a most obscure material which governs much that has to do with the condition of the body. It is largely responsible for our illnesses; chronic or repeated illnesses are indeed mainly due to say, subjective the subconscient and its obstinate memory and habit of repetition of whatever has impressed itself upon the direction should be towards curing the inner causes much more than patching up by physical means… body-consciousness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/2809/moralityjune-and15-yoga1968#p46p6</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==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 mind and body, are mostly automatic, uncalled for and involuntary; for we have no knowledge and therefore no control of the subconscient. It is only by an experience abnormal to us, most commonly in illness or some disturbance of balance, that we can become directly aware of something in the dumb world, dumb but very active, of our bodily being and vitality or grow conscious of the secret movements of the 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 lives concealed in the subconscience.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/out-of-the-sevenfold-ignorance-towards-the-sevenfold-knowledge#p9</ref>
It [fear] is more dangerous than the worst disease. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/fear#p30~</refcenter>
If there Yet all the time the universal forces are pouring into him without his knowing it. He is one mental disorder 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 bring about all illnessesbecome 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 is fearenters 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/cwmcwsa/0428/31the-marchenvironmental-1951consciousness#p3p6</ref>
...fear always brings what one fears. If you fear an accident, this acts like a magnet drawing the accident towards you...And the same thing holds for illness... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/27-january-1954#p6~</refcenter>
In factWhen the physical consciousness is being changed, ninety per cent of illnesses are the result of chief resistance comes from the subconscient fear of the body.In It is constantly maintaining or bringing back the ordinary consciousness inertia, weakness, obscurity, lack of intelligence which afflict the body there is a more physical mind and vital or less hidden anxiety about the consequences obscure fears, desires, angers, lusts of the slightest physical disturbance...this anxiety is a lack of confidence in vital, or the Divine's Graceillnesses,dullnesses, pains, incapabilities to which the unmistakable sign that the consecration body-nature is not complete and perfectprone..<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/fear-and-illness#p3</ref>
If you have fear or apprehension of illness in your vital, that When something is erased from the first thing to be subconscient so completely that it leaves no seed and thrown awayout of the circumconscient so completely that it can return no more, as then only can we be sure that we have finished with it helps the illnesses to come infor ever. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3128/illnessthe-subconscient-and-healththe-inconscient#p69p17,p19</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 ==Role of apprehension: "Oh, what's going to happen?" So something happens! ...The poor body feels that's what is expected of it, and it obeys! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/07/october-22-1966#p5</ref>the Vital==
...a fear in All this egoistic insistence on your own ideas, claims, preferences—assertion of your own righteousness as against the cells—is fear which opens wickedness of others, complaints, quarrels, disputes, rancours against those around you and the door to all contagion..reactions they cause—have had this effect on your liver and stomach and nerves.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0931/19doctors-juneand-1957medicines#p6p9</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 is fearIf you receive a blow in the vital, the body suffers the consequence. Throw More than half of our illnesses are the fear away result of blows of this kind, and this happens much more often than one believes. 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 disease vital: shocks, accidents, fighting, ill-will go.... Externally this is translated by an illness. If one knows how it reacts on the physical, one goes to its source and can cure oneself in a few hours. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1505/fear29-andapril-illness1953#p9p8</ref>
==Subconscient==<center>~</center>
In the subconscient Unfortunately, there is an obscure mind full of obstinate Sanskaras [imprints or habits]the vital which pokes its nose into the affair and takes a very perverse pleasure in increasing, twisting, sharpening the suffering...habitual reactions formed by our pastNow this deforms the whole system because instead of being an indicator, sometimes it becomes an obscure vital...a most obscure material which governs... with occasion for enjoying the illness, for making oneself interesting, and also having the condition opportunity to pity oneself—all kinds of things which all come from the bodyvital and are all detestable, one more than another. It is largely responsible for our illnesses…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0906/june17-15november-19681954#p6p20</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>
Illness in the body is like impurity in the vital,...subconscient ...remains submerged and obscurely at work below our conscious nature...into It may happen that in throwing out the illness (the attacking force) one throws out also something within, some impurity which past impressions and all helped it to come, but that is rejected from the surface mind sink and remain there dormant result of a Force working within and can surge up in sleep or in any absence not of the mind,…forms of automatic vital reaction illness. It is quite possible that an illness or impulse, forms of physical abnormality or nervous perturbance, forms of morbidity, disease, unbalance...attack can be transferred in this way from one to another and indeed it very commonly happens… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2231/outillness-of-the-sevenfold-ignorance-towards-the-sevenfoldand-knowledgehealth#p9p62</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 ...one must be very careful and look at oneself with great discrimination to discover the physical consciousness is small part in oneself that—how to put it?—takes pleasure in being changed, the chief resistance comes from the subconscientill. Oh! there are many reasons. It is constantly maintaining or bringing back the inertiaThere are people who are ill out of spite, weaknessthere are people who are ill out of hate, obscuritythere are people who are ill through despair,there are people...or And these are not formidable movements: it is quite a small movement in the illnessesbeing: one is vexed and says: "You will see what is going to happen, dullnessesyou will see the consequences of what he has done to me! Let it come! I am going to be ill." One does not say it openly to oneself, painsfor one would scold oneself, incapabilities to which the body-nature but there is pronesomething somewhere that thinks in that way. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2805/the22-subconscient-and-thejuly-inconscient1953#p17p57</ref>
==Forces of Disintegration==<center>~</center>
They[there] are forces of disintegration...this is vital when left to itself often invites illness, it finds it dramatic—thinks it makes it interesting to others, likes to indulge the origin of germs and microbes. Therefore most microbes have behind them a bad will ...The microbe is a very material expression of something living in a subtle physical world.tamas, etc.etc.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0531/22illness-julyand-1953health#p49p63</ref>
The possibilities 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.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/19-may-1929#p14~</refcenter>
There Diseases, accidents, catastrophes, wars, all that, is because the human material consciousness is nothing so small, so narrow that isn't it has a "microbe" or a "virus"rabid taste for drama. And of course, behind there is the vital being having fun, influences too... but it's anyway all that enjoys an opportunity to delay the same thing!.divine Work and make things difficult.And all that takes pleasure in that naturally encourages drama. For But the cells,seed of the problem difficulty is...whether to follow that pettiness, extreme pettiness of the Will physical consciousness—the material physical consciousness—which has an absolutely perverse taste for Transformationdrama.Drama—the slightest thing has to make a drama: if you have a 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.or whether to follow The slightest upset in the body, the Will for Harmonyleast disorder, which is always pleasantshould go completely unnoticed, oh, and is always thereit makes a big fuss, even when outwardly things are decomposinga drama. The taste for drama.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0608/julyjune-714-19651967#p7p3</ref>
==InertiaRole of Suggestions==
The human body has always been in the habit feeling of answering to whatever forces chose to lay hands on it and illness is the price at first only a suggestion; it becomes a reality because your physical consciousness accepts it pays for its inertia and ignorance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p77</ref>All ill-health It is due to some inertia or weakness or to some resistance or like a wrong movement there [suggestion in the vital]mind; if the mind accepts it, only it becomes clouded and confused and has sometimes a more physical to struggle back into harmony and sometimes a more psychological character.clearness.It is so with the body consciousness and illness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctorsillness-and-medicineshealth#p5p22</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.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/09/march-2-1968#p38~</refcenter>
When a force is thrown on you or a vibration of illness, it carries to the body this suggestion...A wave comes in the body—with a certain vibration in it, the body's whole functioning is remembers "cold" or feels the vibrations of a discipline, cold and if there is a part that no longer wants begins to follow the discipline—out of revolt cough or incapacity sneeze orto feel chill—the suggestion comes to the mind in the form, "I am weak, I don't feel well, I am catching a cold."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p24</ref>That is how illnesses try to come from one person to another—they attack, by a suggestion like this or otherwise, the nervous being and try to come in. for any reason—if it stops following Even if the disciplineillness is not contagious, you fall illthis often happens, but it comes more easily in contagious illnesses.The suggestion or touch has to be thrown off at once.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/1031/februaryillness-8and-1969health#p37p31</ref>
==ResistanceFear==
The first thing from which you must cure yourself once for ever, is ''Fear''...reaction against It is more dangerous than the transformative will is what causes... disorders..worst disease. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0214/august-8-1961fear#p4p30,p31</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 of illness when If there is a resistance ...or when there one mental disorder which can bring about all illnesses, it is some part in you that does not respond to the protection; or even... that almost ...wilfully calls in the adverse forces. It is enough if there is a slight movement of this kind in you; the hostile forces are at once upon you and their attack takes often the form of illnessfear.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0304/1931-maymarch-19291951#p12p3</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==Not be afraid of 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. 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! (Mother laughs) The poor body feels that's what is expected of it, and it obeys! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/07/october-22-1966#p4</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 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 illness the body are attacks 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 lower nature or door to illnesses. And I am not speaking of adverse forces taking advantage the first two types of some weaknessfear which, as I said, opening or response any human being who wants to be human in the naturenoblest 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/cwsacwm/3109/illness19-andjune-health1957#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>
We know that fear always brings what one fears.If you fear an accident, this acts like a magnet drawing the accident towards you..when the mind and consciousness have rejected the attacksIn this see, it may be said that it is the contrary forces fall on some weak point in result of character. And the body hoping that by pain or same thing holds for illness they will depress . There are people who can move about among the consciousness sick and so make it less strong to resist in places where there are epidemics and reject never catch a disease. There are others—it is enough for themto spend an hour with a sick person, they catch the illness.That too depends on what they are within themselves.. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3106/illness27-andjanuary-health1954#p95p6</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>
...it is some part The two things together: possession and fear, a sort of your body or..fearfulness. And a fragment sense of the vital helplessness in all that has gone wrong . The possession by an idea and wishes a helplessness to be illreject it, ...the situation gets complicated if behind this there is an attackand a fear, a pressure from adverse forces who really want helplessness to harm youresist. You may have opened the door through spiritual error, through And then a movement sort of vanityfearfulness that is translated in us by, of anger"Oh, of hatred or of violence; even if it is merely a movement 's going to be that comes and goesway... oh, that can open the doorit's going to be a disease.... There are always germs watching and only waiting for an occasion… " <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0506/22december-july18-19531965#p60p9</ref>
==Disharmony==<center>~</center>
In fact, ninety per cent of illnesses are the result of the subconscient fear of the body...In the cause ordinary consciousness of all illnesses, all disorders, all conflicts, here in the material world, body there is that a more or less hidden anxiety about the two simultaneous movements (one is consequences of the movement slightest physical disturbance. It can be translated by these words of Stability—and doubt about the other, future: "And what will happen?" It is this anxiety that must be checked. Indeed this anxiety is a lack of confidence in the movement of transformation)Divine's Grace, the two movements in unmistakable sign that the original Consciousness are only one consecration is not complete andperfect...here, they are separate,...they don't KNOW how to be in harmony: they can, but they don't know...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1115/februaryfear-25and-1970illness#p8p3</ref>
Human life and mind are neither in tune with Nature ...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>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/science-and-yoga#p62</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 choose are aware of the difference between the two; but you have organs and then draw backyou have all the parts of your body: nerves, muscles, bones and all the rest...always waveringNow, always doubtingif an organ by itself is in disequilibrium, always fearfulit is an organic disequilibrium, and you create 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 organ that is ill. But the organ may be in a disharmony in your beingvery good condition, which not only retards all your progressorgans may be in a very good condition, but can be the origin there is still an illness as they do not function properly: there is a lack of all kinds of disturbance balance in the mind functioning. You may have a very good stomach, but suddenly something happens to it and vital being and discomfort and disease in it does not function properly; or the bodymay also be excellent, but 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/cwm/0305/1622-junejuly-19291953#p18p31</ref>
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... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-science-of-living#p14~</refcenter>
==In Specific Illnesses==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>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/science-and-yoga#p69</ref>
Fever is not a purifying action; it is the sign of an attack on the body and a fight and resistance to the attack… <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p62~</refcenter>
Insanity is always due to a The mind with its dogmas, its rigid and arbitrary principles, the vital attackwith its passions, its excesses and dissipations soon destroy the natural balance of the body and create in it fatigue, or rather possession although there is often a physical reason as wellexhaustion and disease. Hysteria is due to a pressure It must be freed from the vital world this tyranny and there may this can be momentary possessions also..done only through a constant union with the psychic centre of the being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3112/accidentsthe-science-possessionof-madnessliving#p22p14</ref>
...skin diseases have much to do with sexual desires—not of course always, but often.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sex#p216</ref>==Inertia==
TThe human body has always been in the habit of answering to whatever forces chose to lay hands on it and illness is the price it pays for its inertia and ignorance.B<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 or wrong movement there [in the result of vital], only it has sometimes a more physical and sometimes a strong psychic-vital depression.more psychological character..<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailmentsdoctors-and-other-physical-problemsmedicines#p4p5</ref>
Depression is always the sign of an acute egoism. When you feel that it is coming near, tell yourself: "I am in a state of egoistic illness, I must cure myself of it."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/25-december-1950#p29</ref>==Adverse Forces==
=Why Illness Develops?=...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 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 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 something living in a subtle physical world and that is why these very microbes... that are always around you, within you, for years together do not make you ill and then suddenly they make you fall ill. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p49</ref>
...each one should find out for himself why he is ill.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-june-1957#p5~</refcenter>
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.when you take There is nothing that isn't a wrong attitude"microbe" or a "virus"—they give ugly names to the things they don't want, but it immediately sets off 's all the disorderssame thing!... For the cells, that's not the problem—the problem is not that, but whether to follow the Will for Transformation (which sometimes is a bit brutal—brutal compared to the very small thing a body is), or whether to follow the Will for Harmony... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0306/junejuly-207-19621965#p6p7</ref>
If the nervous being is...nervous and unstable...excitable, then ...there may even be a wrongly acute creative imagination which brings in disorders into the body that are nervous and not physical...<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p49~</refcenter>
Depression The possibilities of illness are always there in your body and discouragement 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 very adverse effect; they cut out holes "depression of the vital force". But from where does the depression come? It comes from some disharmony in it[nervous envelope]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. render it weak It is this that is the cause of your falling ill and not microbes...open to hostile attacks...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/1619-junemay-1929#p14</ref>
...passive meditation...leaves the vital and body passive and without defence against inertia, illness etc...The consciousness instead of being concentrated gets widely diffused and loosely extended...Concentration must in the earlier stages be active and dynamic with the consciousness gathered and capable of turning the will in any direction.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/concentration-and-meditation#p86~</refcenter>
The psychical prana interferes Hostile [''source of illness''] here means hostile to the Yoga. An illness which comes in all the higher operations to deform them,... limits thereby ordinary course as the operations result of physical causes—even though adverse universal forces are the mind and becomes first cause—is an ordinary illness. One brought by the link of its dependence on forces hostile to Yoga to upset the body system and its subjection to fatigue, incapacity, disease, disorder, insanity, prevent or disturb progress—without any adequate physical reason—is a hostile attack. It may have the pettinessappearance of a cold or any other illness, but to the precariousness and even eye which sees the possible dissolution action of forces and not only the workings of outward symptoms or results, the physical mentality… difference is clear. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2431/purificationillness-the-lowerand-mentalityhealth#p5p17</ref>
==Affinity in the Being==<center>~</center>
...if the Attacks of illness has succeeded in touching are attacks of the physical-physical...If it manages to pass through, to enter without one's being aware lower nature or of adverse forces taking advantage of itsome weakness, it means there is some affinity somewhereopening or response in the nature, —like all other things that come and the part of the being which has responded must have got to be convincedthrown away, they come from outside. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0431/31illness-marchand-1951health#p22p15</ref>
...the sages say, "Disorder occurs because the nature has decided to be in disorder," it's not so silly.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/may-8-1965#p39~</refcenter>
In ...but it is not your consciousness that wants to be ill, it is some part of your body or at the psychological domainmost, only a fragment of the patients who 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 recoverharm you. You may have opened the door through spiritual error, through a movement of vanity, of anger, do not recover. Perhaps of hatred or of violence; even if it is merely a movement that comes and goes, that can open the same door. There are always germs watching and only waiting for physical diseases..an occasion.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1605/522-januaryjuly-19331953#p3p60</ref>
...people always think that it is not their fault that they are ill, and it is always their fault, and they are very angry when they are told this...And yet it is true.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/16-february-1955#p37</ref>==Lack of Receptivity==
Disease will always return to And 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. That's the soul is flawed; for sensation. That's more and more my sensation: that if the sins of entire consciousness, the mind are the secret cause of the sins of the body…entire most material consciousness—the most material—was receptive to this new Power... one would become for-mi-dable.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/13/may-6-1972#p32</ref>
[Based on Aphorism<199center>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. So too poverty and trouble will always return on man in society, so long as the mind of the race is subjected to egoism.]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-199-200#p1~</refcenter>
Disease Your inner condition becomes a cause of illness when there is a resistance or revolt in it or when there is needlessly prolonged some part in you that does not respond to the protection; or even there may be something there that almost willingly and ends wilfully calls in death oftener than the adverse forces. It is enough if there is inevitable, because the mind a slight movement of this kind in you; the patient supports hostile forces are at once upon you and dwells upon their attack takes often the disease form of his bodyillness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1003/aphorism-386-38719-388may-3891929#p1p12</ref>[Based on aphorism<386>]
==To Teach a Lesson==<center>~</center>
...all This divergence between the progress in the inner being and the so-called illnesses, everything, all inertia of the disorders are to make you learn body often creates a lesson—as soon as you've learned dislocation in the lesson, it's over! But thensystem, you are so slow and heavy, you that manifests itself as an illness. This is why people who take so much time to realize that it's a lesson that it drags up Yoga frequently begin by suffering from some physical discomfort or disorder. That need not happen if they are on their guard and on careful. Or if there is a greater and onunusual receptivity in the body, then too they escape. But an unmixed receptivity making the physical parts closely follow the pace of the inner transformation is hardly possible, unless the body has already been prepared in the past for the processes of Yoga.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0503/october16-14june-19641929#p63p6</ref>
It is to make you understand that whenever you are ill, something is ill in your being.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/april-24-1960#p1~</refcenter>
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.One thinks 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 single one—there is an incapacity to receive the descending Force, this acts like a grain of curing an illness only because one sufferssand in a machine. If You know, a fine machine working quite well with everything going all right, and you put into it caused you no unpleasantnessjust a little sand (nothing much, you would never think only a grain of being cured 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. So, in it becomes as it were a little dark spot somewhere, a tiny thing hard as a stone: the economy of Nature I think 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 first purpose of physical suffering normal equilibrium; you were in good health, everything was going on well, you had nothing to give you a warningcomplain about.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0605/1722-novemberjuly-19541953#p19p41</ref>
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>==Addictions==
The illness has come like ...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 test very serious poison. It is 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 gone like 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 purification carrying away all that was standing in weakness and so continue until they get used to the poison. And the way body no longer reacts, it allows itself to be destroyed without reacting: you get rid of the joy of an integral consecrationreaction.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1506/inner-causes24-ofmarch-illness1954#p17p4</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.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/september-26-1964#p32</ref>==In Specific Illnesses==
==Old Habit of Consciousness==[For Individuals Practicing Integral Yoga]
...Fever is not a purifying action; it is the sign of an attack on the body consciousness through old habit of consciousness admits and a fight and resistance to the force of illness… attack.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p54p62</ref>
When you are open and in contact with the Divine, 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 body. 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… <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/october-2-1961#p15~</refcenter>
==In Addictions==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>
...they ...drink wine as one drinks water. They drink it neat, and after some time they become ill. They have cerebral disorders... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/24-march-1954#p4~</refcenter>
...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 skin diseases have much to be done. Onlydo with sexual desires—not of course always, 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 reactionbut often. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0631/24-march-1954sex#p4p216</ref>
==Role of Suggestions==<center>~</center>
The feeling T.B. is the result of illness is at first only a suggestion; it becomes a reality because your physical consciousness accepts itstrong psychic-vital depression...It The lack of vitality which easily comes as a result of modern civilisation is so with therefore a very strong contributing cause. Moderns have not the body consciousness solid nervous system and illness..the natural (as opposed to the artificial and morbid) zest of life that their ancestors had. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illnessspecific-illnesses-ailments-and-healthother-physical-problems#p22p4</ref>
When a force is thrown on you or a vibration of illness, it carries to the body this suggestion...—the suggestion comes to the mind in the form, "I am weak, I don't feel well, I am catching a cold." <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p24</ref>...If you drink unfiltered water and think, "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 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~</refcenter>
Depression is always the sign of an acute egoism... illnesses try to come from one person to another—they attackWhen you feel that it is coming near, by tell yourself: "I am in a suggestion... or otherwise, the nervous being and try to come in. Even if the state of egoistic illness is not contagious, this often happens, but I must cure myself of it comes more easily in contagious illnesses. The suggestion or touch has to be thrown off at once. " <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3104/illness25-anddecember-health1950#p31p29</ref>
Something is wrong here or there in the body, a small thing;... If you are unfortunate enough =How to utter a word about it to anyone, and especially to the doctor...it instantly becomes an illness…. it's because 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 harmonious, they exaggerate it—it becomes even less harmonious in order to assert itself more <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/august-4-1965#p33</ref>Prevent Illness?=
==Role of Vital==''Q. Sweet Mother, when one sees an illness coming, how can one stop it?''
''A...'' Ah! First of all, you must not want it and nothing in the main obstacle is your own vital movements. .body must want it.You must have a very strong will not to be ill.Quietness of the mind in facing your illness This is also necessary—agitation stops the action of the Force. <ref>http://incarnatewordfirst condition.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p9</ref>
If you receive a blow in The second condition is to call the vitallight, the body suffers the consequence... illnesses are the result a light of what happens in the vital: shocksequilibrium, accidentsa light of peace, fightingquietude and balance, ill-will.... Externally this is translated by an illness. If one knows how and to push it reacts on into all the physicalcells of the body, one goes enjoining them not to its source and can cure oneself in a few hours. <ref>http://incarnatewordbe afraid, because that again is another condition.in/cwm/05/29-april-1953#p8</ref>
First, not to want to be ill, and then not to be afraid of illness.You must neither attract it nor tremble.You must not want illness at all.there is the vital which...takes But you must not because of fear not want it; you must not be afraid; you must have a calm certitude and a very perverse pleasure complete trust inthe power of the Grace to shelter you from everything, and then think of something else, not be concerned about this any longer... suffering...sometimes it becomes an occasion for enjoying When you have done these two things, refusing the illness...with all kinds your will and infusing a confidence which completely eliminates the fear in the cells of things which all come from the vital body, and are all detestablethen busying yourself with something else, not thinking any longer about the illness, forgetting that it exists...But originally I think there, if you know how to do that it was this: "Take care!" it's like a danger-signal: "Take care, there's something out of orderyou may even be in contact with people who have contagious diseases, and yet you do not catch them."<ref>http://incarnatewordBut you must know how to do this.in/cwm/06/17-november-1954#p20</ref>
Many people say, "Oh, yes, here I am not afraid...vital when left to itself often invites illness" They don't have any fear in the mind, their mind is not afraid, it finds is strong, it dramatic—thinks it makes it interesting to others, likes to indulge is not afraid; but the tamasbody trembles, etc. etc. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p63</ref> ...there one doesn't know it, because it is always something in the vital physical which is pleased with becoming more weak and ill so cells of the body that it can feel and lament its tragic casethe trembling goes on. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-It trembles with a terrible anxiety and-health#p64</ref> Illness in the body this is like impurity in what attracts the vital,..illness.It may happen is there that you must put the force and the quietude of a perfect peace and an absolute trust in throwing out the illness (Grace. And then, sometimes you are obliged to drive away with a similar force in your thought all suggestions that after all, the attacking force) physical world is full of illnesses, and these are contagious, and because one throws out also something withinwas in contact with somebody who is ill, some impurity which helped one is sure to catch it to come, but and then, that is the result inner methods are not powerful enough to act on the physical, and all kinds of a Force working within and not stupidities of which the illnessair is full. It is quite possible that an illness or attack can be transferred in this way These are collective suggestions which are passed on from one person to another and indeed it very commonly happens… by everybody. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3107/illness11-andmay-health1955#p62p10,p11,p12,p13,p14</ref>
Diseases, accidents, catastrophes, wars, all The child must be taught as early as possible that, is because the human material consciousness is so small, so narrow this does not work and that it has a rabid taste for drama. And of coursehe does not become more interesting by being ill, behind there is but rather the vital being having fun, influences toocontrary... all The weak have a tendency to believe that enjoys an opportunity their weakness makes them particularly interesting and to delay use this weakness and if necessary even illness as a means of attracting the divine Work attention and make things difficult... But the seed sympathy of the difficulty is people around them.On no account should this pernicious tendency be encouraged..extreme pettiness Children should therefore be taught that to be ill is a sign of weakness and inferiority, not ofsome virtue or sacrifice...the material physical consciousness—which has an absolutely perverse taste for drama... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/june-14-1967#p3</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...one must Every day some twenty or thirty minutes, preferably on waking, if possible, will be very careful enough to ensure the proper functioning and look at oneself with great discrimination to discover balanced growth of his muscles while preventing any stiffening of the small part in oneself that...takes pleasure in being ill... there are many reasons. There are people who are ill out joints and of spitethe spine,which occurs much sooner than one thinks...out In the general programme of hate...through despairthe child's education, sports and outdoor games should be given a prominent place; that, more than all the medicines in the world, there are peoplewill 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.. one My advice is that medicines should not be used unless it is vexed absolutely impossible to avoid them; and says: this "absolutely impossible"should be very strict...you will see In this programme of physical culture, although there are well-known general lines to be followed for the consequences best development of what he has done the human body, still, if the method is to me! Let be fully effective in each case, it come! I am going to should be ill." One does considered individually, if possible with the help of a competent person, or if not say it openly to oneself, for one would scold oneself, but there is something somewhere by consulting the numerous manuals that thinks in that way. <ref>http://incarnatewordhave already been and are still being published on the subject.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p57</ref>
But in any case a child, whatever his activities, should have a sufficient number of hours of sleep.The number will vary according to his age.In the cradle, the baby should sleep longer than he remains awake.[if] The number of hours of sleep will diminish as the illness returnschild grows. This means that the cause has But until maturity it should not been changedbe less than eight hours, that the cause is in a quiet, well-ventilated place. The child should never be made to stay up late for no reason. The hours before midnight are the vital and is still there; it is only best for resting the effect which has been curednerves. But if one can act simultaneously upon both Even during the cause and waking hours, relaxation is indispensable for all who want to maintain their nervous balance. To know how to relax the effect, muscles and the cause nerves is sufficiently receptive to consent an art which should be taught to change, then one is completely cured, once for allchildren when they are very young.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0412/31physical-march-1951education#p13p9,p10,p11</ref>
=How to Prevent Illness?=<center>~</center>
First...there are those who are luminous, sunny, not to want to be illhappy, smiling and then not to be afraid of illnessthose who are gloomy, dull, misanthropic, dissatisfied, who live in grey shadows. You must neither attract it nor tremble. You must not want illness at It is the latter who catch allthe unpleasant things. But you must not because of fear not want Those who are radiant (they may be radiant without it being a spiritual radiance, it; you must not may be afraid; you must have just a calm certitude and a complete trust radiation of good see, balance, an inner confidence, the joy of living), those who carry in themselves the power 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 Grace to shelter you from everything.world as it is..<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0706/1127-mayjanuary-19551954#p13p8</ref>
We ought to use the divine health in us to cure and prevent diseases... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-394-395-396-397-398-399#p1~</ref>[Based on aphorism<394center>]
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 illnessThen, no disorder which can resist the discovery of once one has discovered this secret and the putting of realises it into practicein one's being, pain loses its justification and suffering disappears. It is an all-powerful remedy, not only in the higher deeper parts of the being , in the soul, in the spiritual consciousness, but also in life and in the cells of the body.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/13-february-1957#p10</ref>
When people are ill There is no illness, no disorder which can resist the discovery of this secret and get well quicklythe putting of it into practice, they are full not only in the higher parts of gratitude; the being but never do they think in the cells of being grateful when they are well; and yet that is a much greater miracle!the body...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/23-december-1953#p52</ref>
For you If one knows how to be able teach the cells the splendour that lies within them, if one knows how to do all kinds of things ...you must have a triple equilibrium—mentalmake them understand the reality which makes them exist, vitalgives them being, physical—and not only in each of then they too enter the partstotal harmony, but also in and the physical disorder which causes the illness vanishes as do all other disorders of the three parts in their mutual relations...being. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0509/2213-julyfebruary-19531957#p30p9,p10,p11</ref>
...particular Asanas have even an effect in destroying particular diseases,—and with Pranayama maintains perfectly the health of the body...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/hathayoga#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..in Yoga...faith That is why one is quite surprised at times: "Here's a man with a great realisation, an exceptional person, and right auto-suggestion are he is a slave of great use until all the point comes when no suggestion smallest physical things, while this man, well, he is necessary because the Truth-consciousness acts automatically so simple and looks so uncouth, but he has a great faith and produces its natural results.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-goes through difficulties and-health#p39</ref>obstacles like a conqueror!"
...as the consciousness becomes I don't say that a highly cultured man can't have faith, but it is more subtle by practice of Yogadifficult, for there is always this mental element which contradicts, discusses, we can come tries to be aware of the sea of pranic shakti around usunderstand,...But until we thus become aware of itwhich is difficult to convince, we have to possess a .which wants proofs.His faith is less pure.It is necessary a faith, śraddhāthen, to pass on to a higher degree in the power of evolutionary spiral, pass from the mind mental to lay its will the spiritual; then, naturally, faith takes on the state and action a quality of the bodya very high order. But I mean that in daily life, ordinary life, such as those 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 heal disease by faith, will or mental actionhas reached a much higher development...<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2409/the19-powerjune-of-the-instruments1957#p7p20,p21</ref>
The exercises of Pranayama are the familiar mechanical means of freeing and getting control of the pranic energy...The pranic Shakti can be directed not only upon ourselves, but effectively towards others or on things or happenings for whatever purposes the will dictates. Its effectivity is immense,.. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-divine-shakti#p6~</refcenter>
==Having Faith==There are sadhus...they live in a truly dirty condition—and they are free from all illness. Probably because they have faith...they do not think of their body, they think of the life of their soul. They have no illness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p24</ref>
If people had an absolute faith in the healing power of the Grace, perhaps they would spare themselves quite a few diseases.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/march-14-1970#p12~</refcenter>
...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 resistancein Yoga...Mental faith is not sufficient; it must be completed and enforced by a vital and even a physical faith, a faith right auto-suggestion are of great use until the body...you must reach down to point comes when no suggestion is necessary because the most subconscious, you must fix the faith in the very cells of the body..Truth-consciousness acts automatically and produces its natural results.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0331/5illness-mayand-1929health#p18p39</ref>
There are sadhus...they live in a truly dirty condition—and they are free from all illness. Probably because they have faith...they do not think of their body, they think of the life of their soul. They have no illness... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p24~</refcenter>
Those who are radiant...they may it must be radiant without an integral faith and it being a spiritual radiancemust be absolute...those who carry in themselves And it must be of the joy right kind, not merely a force of livingmental thought or will, these are in harmony with Nature but something more and, being in harmony with Nature, generally avoid accidents, they are immune from diseases deeper. The will put forth by the mind sets up opposite reactions and their life develops pleasantly as far as creates a resistance...Mental faith is not sufficient; it is possible in must be completed and enforced by a vital and even a physical faith, a faith of the world as it isbody...you must reach down to the most subconscious, you must fix the faith in the very cells of the body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0603/275-januarymay-19541929#p8p18</ref>
==Being Receptive to the Divine Force==<center>~</center>
What has Most men are not 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 done aware of the sea of pranic shakti around us, feel it with the body at first is to make mental consciousness, concretely with a mental sense, see its courses and movements, and direct and act upon it immediately by the will. But until we thus become aware of it open , we have to possess a working or at least an experimental faith in its presence and in the power of the Force, so as will to receive strength against illness develop a greater command and fatigue—when they comeuse of this prana force. There is necessary a faith, ''śraddhā'', there must be in the power of the mind to react lay its will on the state and throw them off and to keep 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 constant flow legitimate power of force into the bodyinner and greater over the outer and lesser instrument. If that This faith is donecombated 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 rest body and physical consciousness. For they too have a limiting ''śraddhā'' of their own which opposes the idea in the mind when it seeks to impose on the system the bodily change can wait for its proper timelaw of a higher yet unattained perfection.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2824/transformationthe-power-andof-the-bodyinstruments#p2p7</ref>
Try ==By Being Receptive to keep yourself open to our the Divine Force in the body, that is the main thing... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p8</ref>==
...he[one] must believe firmly that What has to be done with the body at first is to make it[open to the Force, so as to receive strength against illness] and fatigue—when they come, there must be the power to react and will go. If he[one] can keep this attitude throw them off and open to keep a constant flow of force into the true forcebody. If that is done, the mind and nervous being once strengthened, rest of the illness and weakness will disappearbodily change can wait for its proper time. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3128/illnesstransformation-and-healththe-body#p65p2</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~</refcenter>
When As the physical disorder comes, one must not be afraid; one must...face body consciousness becomes more open to the Force (it with courage, calmness, confidence, with is always the certitude that illness is a falsehood most difficult and that if one turns the last to open up 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 this frequent stress of the being, and the cells themselves illness will share in the eternal Truth diminish and Delightdisappear.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0931/13illness-februaryand-1957health#p12p56</ref>
As ==By Strengthening the body consciousness becomes more open to the Force (it is always the most difficult and the last to open up entirely), this[the] frequent stress of illness will diminish and disappear.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p56</ref>Nervous Envelope==
==Strengthening To whatever cause an illness may be due, material or mental, external or internal, it must, before it can affect the Nervous Envelope==physical body, touch another layer of the being that surrounds and protects it. This subtler layer is called in different teachings by various names,—the etheric body, the nervous envelope. It is a subtle body and yet almost visible. In density something like the vibrations that you see around a very hot and steaming object, it emanates from the physical body and closely covers it. All communications with the exterior world are made through this medium, and it is this that must be invaded and penetrated first before the body can be affected. If this envelope is absolutely strong and intact, you can go into places infested with the worst of diseases, even plague and cholera, and remain quite immune. It is a perfect protection against all possible attacks of illness, so long as it is whole and entire, thoroughly consistent in its composition, its elements in faultless balance. This body is built up, on the one side, of a material basis, but rather of material conditions than of physical matter, on the other, of the vibrations of our psychological states. Peace and equanimity and confidence, faith in health, 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 almost remould its condition. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#</ref>
...illness ...must, before it can affect the physical body, touch another layer of the being...called...the etheric body, the nervous envelope. It is a subtle body and yet almost visible...it emanates from the physical body and closely covers it. All communications with the exterior world are made through this medium, and it is this that must be invaded and penetrated first before the body can be affected. If this envelope is absolutely strong 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 and these can rapidly change and almost remould its condition. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#~</refcenter>
If one is conscious can feel them [attacks of illness] so coming and get the strength and the habit to throw them away before they can enter the subtle body or with the subtle consciousness, then one can stop an remain free from illness on . 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 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 and prevent through the subtle vital envelope which is our main armour of defence, but it can be stopped there in the envelope itself before it from entering penetrates the physical material body.Then one may feel some effect, e.g. feverishness or a tendency to cold, but there is not the full invasion of the malady. If it can be stopped earlier or if the vital envelope of itself resists and remains strong, vigorous and intact, then there is no illness; the attack produces no physical effect and leaves no traces. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p52p15</ref>
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...<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p49~</refcenter>
...if we develop can feel the inward symptoms of illness, fever or cold for instance, in the subtle physical consciousnesssheath before they are manifest in the gross body and destroy them there, preventing them from manifesting in the body. Take now the call for the Divine Power, Light, Ananda. If we become aware of a subtle environmental live only in the outward physical atmosphere consciousness, it may descend and can feel work behind the forces of illness coming towards us through it, veil but we shall feel them even nothing and only see certain results after a long time. Or at most we feel a distance certain clarity andpeace in the mind, a joy in the vital, a happy state in the physical and infer the touch of the Divine. But if we have learned how to do itare awake in the inward physical, we can stop shall feel the light, power or Ananda flowing through the body, the limbs, nerves, blood, breath and, through the subtle body, affecting the most material cells and making them by conscious and blissful and we shall sense directly the will or otherwise..Divine Power and Presence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-physical-consciousness#p12 </ref>
==By Rejecting the Suggestion of Illness==
The You must not accept but reject it [suggestions] with your physical mind and so help the body should reject illness as energetically as we reject falsehood consciousness to throw off the suggestion. If necessary, make a counter-suggestion, "No, I shall be well; I am and shall be all right." And in any case call in the mindMother's Force to throw out the suggestion and the illness it is bringing.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1531/willillness-toand-conquer-illnesshealth#p10p22</ref>
All illness should be rejected and all suggestions of illness; the Force should be called in to cure by the assent to health and the refusal of assent to the suggestions that bring or prolong its opposite. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p4~</refcenter>
Oh, how interesting it is, if you knew how interesting....Take coughing, for instance (not in the chest, in the throat).depression is So, the worst first vibration: an irritation that draws your attention in order to make you cough. It has a certain kind of all illnesses and vibration which we must reject may call "pointed," but it 's not violent: it's light, annoying. It's the first little vibration. So with as much energy as we use 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 get rid happen; the other is a will that nothing should be disturbed by the irritation; and then all of a diseasesudden, the faith that the Force is capable of restoring order everywhere immediately (none of this is intellectual: it's vibrations).<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1408/depressionfebruary-8-1967#p10p8</ref>
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>
By suggestion [of illness] I do not mean merely thoughts or words. When ..if the hypnotist saysvital mind withdraws its consent, "Sleep"refuses to be dominated by the habitual suggestions and the habitual movements, these recurrences of depression and despair can be made soon to cease. But it is not easy for this mind, once it has got into the habit of consent, even a suggestion; but quite passive and suffering and reluctant consent, to cancel the habit and get rid of the black circle. It can be done easily only when he says nothing but only puts his silent will the mind refuses any longer to convey sleep believe in the suggestions or makes movements of his hands over accept the face, ideas or feelings that also is a suggestionstart the circle.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3130/illnessthe-emergence-or-coming-forward-of-andthe-healthpsychic#p23p45</ref>
...your belief in the sanitary precautions you take helps them to work. For your thought is, "Now I am disinfected and safe", and to that extent it makes you safe.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/19-may-1929#p16~</refcenter>
It 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 always better not necessary that these difficulties should be allowed to say, "I will now have no more take this obscure form of illness. All illness", it attracts should be rejected and all suggestions of illness; the Force should be called in to cure by the assent to health and the attention refusal of these malevolent powers and they immediately want assent to prove the suggestions that they can still disturb the body. Simply when they come, reject thembring or prolong its opposite.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p48p4</ref>
...you get ==By Developing a queer sick feeling inside, a cold in the back, a little uneasiness,...as though the general harmony had been disturbed. Then you must concentrate all the more and with a great strength of will keep the faith that nothing can do you harm, nothing can touch you. This suffices, you can throw off the 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/04/31-march-1951#p22</ref>Strong Will==
...if the vital mind withdraws its consent, refuses to be dominated by body consciousness through old habit of consciousness admits the habitual suggestions force of illness and goes through the habitual movements, these[the] recurrences of depression and despair can be made soon to ceaseexperiences which are associated with it—e.g..It can be done easily only when the mind refuses any longer to believe congestion of phlegm in the suggestions chest and feeling of suffocation or accept difficulty of breathing etc. To get rid of that one must awaken a will and consciousness in the ideas or feelings body itself that start the circlerefuses to allow these things to impose themselves upon it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3031/theillness-emergence-or-coming-forward-of-theand-psychichealth#p45p54</ref>
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. In the subliminal they set in action the powers of the inner being, ...in the subconscient they silence or block the suggestions of death and illness… <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p37~</refcenter>
==Having Will Wake up in yourself a will to conquer. Not a mere will in the mind but a will in the very cells of Health==your body. Without that you can't do anything; you may take a hundred medicines but they won't cure you unless you have a will to overcome the physical illness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/will-to-conquer-illness#p1</ref>
...<center>~</center> The idea is put into the heart or the life as a force to be accepted and worked out; the heart and life become conscious of the idea and respond to its dynamisms and their substance begins to modify itself in that sense, so that the feelings and actions become the vibrations of this higher wisdom, are informed with it, filled with the emotion and the sense of it: the will and the life impulses are similarly charged with its power and its urge of self-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==
...whenever I had an illness...''Q:When I had am sympathetic with a trust, a complete assurance that it had no reality....every time a blow came, I would tell sick person my body, "But whatbegins to feel the symptoms of his disease''s A:The best way is to call for the use Divine Presence of being ill since you'll just have Truth and Harmony, to get well!" ...And it faded away only little by little..replace the vibrations of disorder and confusion.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0515/october-10-1964general#p40p28</ref>
When the disease came back, I said to myself, 'Very well, this means it must be dealt with in a new way.'<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/march-7-1961#p10~</refcenter>
It To heal [''illness''] by the descent 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 higher consciousness into shell of protection and acts there encouraging the most physical]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.becomes more possible 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 control be in the functionings midst of this Force it gets dissolved, it disappears; for no force of the body disintegration can survive within this Force; therefore disintegration disappears and set right anything with it that also disappears. It can be changed into a constructive force, that is wrongpossible, or it may be simply dissolved and reduced to deal 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 and pain etconce for all, it never comes back. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3005/descent-and-the22-lowerjuly-nature1953#p26p60</ref>
...Once the illness has got in, it [the body] can fight and overcome it...But this implies only a defensive power, the power to react against an invading enemy—it is not true freedom. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/october-17-1957#p3~</refcenter>
...But sick people... when For certain things, I tell themremember, "Be sincerewhen there are certain disorders," I know what I mean: if they REALLY want something wrong (and with the Divineperception of a consciousness that has become very sharp, all you can see when that must stopdisorder is the natural origin of an illness, for example, or of something very serious), with the call, the concentration and the response . That's all..[the disorder is dissolved]. <ref>httpIt's almost a surrender, because it's an uncalculating self-giving://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/may-8-1965#p41</ref>...the method is damaged spot opens to change the subconscient into the conscient—if each thing that rises to the surface becomes consciousInfluence, not with an idea of getting cured, at that moment it must be changed. There is but like this (''gesture like a more direct method still: it flower opening out''), simply like this, unconditionally—that is to enter the subconscient in one's full consciousness and work theremost potent gesture...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0708/11december-may20-19551967#p7p25</ref>
...when there is an illness ...automatically the cells forget ...their sadhana and everything, and it is only slowly when you get out of the illness 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 happy. But now,...as soon as the disorder comes, the cells first...got a little anxious: "Oh, we are so bad that we are still catching illnesses"—that was a period; and then, afterwards there was the impression: "Oh, You want to teach us a lesson, we have something to learn"—that was already much better: a kind of eagerness. And now there is an intense joy and a kind of power; a power that comes, a power of aspiration and a power of realization that comes with the sense: "We are winning a victory, we are winning a new victory...."<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/july-7-1965#p1~</refcenter>
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 last stage mistake is , find out what has been unreceptive, open that part and put the body should forget force and the light there, it would be possible to re-establish in a moment the harmony that has been ill; that's very importantdisturbed and the illness would immediately go.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0503/october16-10june-19641929#p27p8</ref>
...You must put a strong will for getting rid of your illness and you must remain quiet and unperturbed by the results. The two are not contradictory. One should accompany the other… <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/will-to-conquer-illness#p6~</refcenter>
We are ALWAYS off balance, the body is always off balance (more or less), and it is something else, above, a Will or a Consciousness, that holds it up and makes it work...a positive silenceSo if we can call on that Will—that Will for Harmony—and if we can have the Flame within, that Flame of aspiration, and make contact, we emerge from so-called illness, which is at unreal, an unreal and false sensation and just one way of being of the same time a complete immobility—that's very good as an antidote to disorder..general Disorder, and we enter into Harmony, and then everything is fine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0406/augustjuly-710-19631965#p27p6</ref>
...the most difficult from the yogic point of view is toothache, because it is very close to the brain….Usually in a tooth it is the nerve which has been attacked by the caries, the disease, and which begins to protest with all its strength. So, if you succeed in establishing...immobility, you prevent it from vibrating, you prevent it from protesting… if you do it fairly constantly, with sufficient perseverance, the sick nerve will die and you will not suffer at all any more. Because it was that which was suffering and when it is dead it does not suffer any longer. Try...
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-november-1954#p23</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 is It becomes more possible even to turn control the pains functionings of the body and set right anything that is wrong, to deal with illness like any other and pain into 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 form of pleasure; more effective instrument for pain work. It becomes possible to minimise fatigue. Peace, happiness, strength, lightness in the whole physical system. These are the more obvious and pleasure normal results which grow as the consciousness grows, but there are many others that are both possible. There is also the unity with the earth-consciousness, the constant sense 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… Divine in the physical, etc.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3130/illnessdescent-and-healththe-lower-nature#p58p26</ref>
Suppose that as a result of some illness or other, there is some sort of pain at a precise spot...First point: do not stress the pain...Second point... draw the peace into yourself and bring it down into the solar plexus...and from there direct it very calmly...persistently, towards the place where the pain is..., and fix it there...This is not always enough...But if by widening this movement you can add a sort of mental formation...that the only reality is the divine Reality...bring into the cells of the body the consciousness of this sole Reality,...and trusting surrender to the Grace, then I am sure...your suffering will disappear… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/4-july-1956#p21</ref>==By Overcoming Fear==
These [There] are phenomena of self-identification. Only, they are involuntary..one must be neither cowardly nor fearful. When someone cannot sleep ...his nerves are ill and weakened by excessive agitationthe physical disorder comes, one must not be afraid; one must not run away from it, he is told to sit in front of an aquarium... and look at the fish. So he looks at the fishmust face it with courage, moving aroundcalmness, coming and goingconfidence, ...After with the certitude that illness is a while he lives the life of fishes: he comes ''falsehood'' and goesthat if one turns entirely, swimsin full confidence, glideswith a complete quietude to the divine Grace, plays. And at It will settle in these cells as It is established in the end depths of the hour his nerves are being, and the cells themselves will share in a perfect state the eternal Truth and he is completely restful! Delight. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0509/1213-augustfebruary-19531957#p18p12</ref>
==Calling in the Divine Force==<center>~</center>
Most of them [illnesses] can be got rid of almost at once by faith and calling in A strict discipline is needed to cure the force. Those that are chronic are more difficult, but they too can be got rid body of by the same means if persistently used. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p44</ref>fear.The cells themselves tremble..with the callIt is only by discipline, the concentration and the response by yoga that one can overcome this fear... [the disorder But it is dissolved]. It's almost a surrenderfact that one can catch anything through fear,even invite an accident... the damaged spot opens to the InfluenceAnd, you see,from a certain point of view everything is contagious...(gesture like I knew a person who got a flower opening out),wound through the kind of fear that he felt seeing someone else's wound.He really got it..unconditionally—that is the most potent gesture.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0805/december22-20july-19671953#p25p10</ref>
''Q:When I am sympathetic with a sick person my body begins to feel the symptoms of his disease...''<center>~</center>
A:The 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. For mystics the best way cure as soon as one begins to feel afraid of something is to call for think of the Divine Presence of Truth and Harmonythen snuggle in his arms or at his feet and leave him entirely responsible for everything that happens, to replace within, outside, everywhere—and immediately the fear disappears. That is the cure for the mystic. It is the easiest of all. But everybody does not enjoy the vibrations grace of disorder and confusionbeing a mystic. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1505/general14-october-1953#p28p36</ref>
...if you have a pain somewhere... it corresponds to something within,... the contact with the true Force puts things back in order... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/march-28-1970#p23~</refcenter>
The pains 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 body come from rhythm of their physical life which enables them to reduce the illness spontaneously to a minimum. There are others, on the other hand, with whom the same source thing always becomes as bad as it can be, sometimes to the trouble point of catastrophe. There is the whole range and this can be seen quite easily. Well, this depends on a kind of happy rhythm of the movement of life in them, which is either harmonious enough to resist external attacks of illness or else doesn't exist or is not sufficiently powerful, and is replaced by that trembling of fear, that kind of instinctive anguish which transforms the vital nature; .least unpleasant contact into something painful and harmful.There is the whole range, from someone who can go through the worst contagion and epidemics without ever catching anything to one who falls ill at the slightest chance. Remain So naturally it always quiet depends on the constitution of each person; and persist in opening yourself. The Force that releases you from as soon as one wants to make an effort for progress, it naturally depends on the vital troublecontrol one has acquired over oneself, can also remove until the moment when the body becomes the disturbance in docile instrument of the nervous part higher Will and the physical body… one can obtain from it a normal resistance to all attacks.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3109/illness19-andjune-health1957#p93p7</ref>
The only thing I can suggest about diseases is to call down peace. Keep the mind away from the body by whatever means... It is in this state that the Grace acts. And it is the Grace alone that cures... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/peace-and-quiet-faith-and-surrender#p10~</refcenter>
...It is true that doctors have said that if one used can teach the[uses the mind]... body to make favourable formations—..bear pain, it becomes more and more resilient and less easily disrupted—this is a concrete result. In the case of people who know how to give confidence avoid getting completely upset as soon as they have a pain somewhere, who are able to the bodybear it quietly, to tell keep their balance, it seems that it the body's capacity to bear the disorder without going to pieces increases. This is just a passing disturbance .great achievement.I have asked myself this question from the purely practical, external standpoint and it seems to be like this.Inwardly, I have been told this many times—told and shown by small experiences—that the body can bear much more than we think, if it enters a real state of receptivityno fear or anxiety is added to the pain. If we eliminate the mental factor, the disorder will disappear as easily as body, left to itself, has neither fear nor apprehension nor anxiety about what is going to happen—no anguish—and it has come, and one can cure oneself in bear a few seconds—if one knows how to do that, one gets wonderful results. <ref>http://incarnatewordgreat deal.in/cwm/05/23-december-1953#p36</ref>
==Overcoming Fear==[Based on Aphorism<93> Pain is the touch of our Mother teaching us how to hear and grow in rapture. She has tree stages of her schooling, endurance first, next equality of soul, last ecstasy.] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-93#p3</ref>
Not be afraid of falling ill! That's what. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/07/october-22-1966#p4~</refcenter>
A strict discipline is needed to cure the body But you mustn't be afraid. Neither afraid of falling ill, nor of fearbecoming imbecile, nor even.. The cells themselves tremble. It is of dying—you must be like this ("vast and quiet gesture, like the sea"). If we could only by disciplinehave (I have it from time to time, by yoga it comes: it's on its way) a feeling of smiling trust. But to get that one can overcome this fearthe consciousness must be as vast as the creation itself. You are as vast as the creation, and totally trusting....Ultimately, it always boils down to this (which can be put in a very childlike manner): He knows better than we what has to be done. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0513/22may-july17-19531972#p10p40</ref>
...as soon as one begins to feel afraid of something [one] is to think of the Divine and then snuggle in his arms or at his feet and leave him entirely responsible for everything that happens, within, outside, everywhere—and immediately the fear disappears... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/14-october-1953#p36</ref>==By Detachment==
The physical mind...makes use of the body can bear much more than we think, nervous substance; if no fear or anxiety is added to the pain. If we eliminate withdraw it from the mental factornervous substance, the bodywe no longer feel anything, left to itself, has neither fear nor apprehension nor anxiety about for that's what gives us the perception of sensation....We know something is going to happen—no anguish—and it can bear a great deal. wrong, but we no longer suffer from it…
[Based on Aphorism<93> Pain ...this kind of indifferent detachment is the touch ESSENTIAL condition for the establishment of our Mother teaching us how to hear and grow true Harmony in rapturethe most material Matter—the most external, physical Matter.. She has tree stages of her schooling, endurance first, next equality of soul, last ecstasy.]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1002/aphorismjanuary-31-931961#p3p14</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 This detachment of the mind must be afraid. Neither 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-health, nor of becoming imbecileits vigour or its fatigue, its comfort or its discomfort, nor evenor what it 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.. of dying—you must But we have not either to be like this (vast affected in mind by hunger or thirst or discomfort or ill-health or attach the importance which the physical and quiet gesture, like vital man attaches to the things of the sea)body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/1323/maythe-17release-from-subjection-to-the-1972body#p40p2</ref>
==Practicing Indifferent Detachment==<center>~</center>
The physical mind...makes use of One step towards it [illness] is to get the nervous substance; if we withdraw it inner consciousness separate from the nervous substance, we no longer body—to feel anything, for that's what gives us the perception of sensation....We know something it is wrong, not you who are ill but we no longer suffer from it...this kind of indifferent detachment is the ESSENTIAL condition for the establishment of true Harmony only something taking place in the most material Matter—the most externalbody and not affecting your consciousness. It is then possible to see this separate body consciousness, physical Matter This is the logical consequence..what it feels, what are its reactions to things, how it works. One can then act on the cause of illnesses it to change its consciousness and how to overcome themreactions.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0231/januaryillness-31and-1961health#p14p54</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... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-subjection-to-the-body#p2</ref>==By Surrender==
One step towards it[illness] is to get ...all those physical disorders of the body, those disorders in the inner consciousness separate from functioning or even organic disorders, suddenly (naturally, the body—to feel that it constant state is one of aspiration: an intense, continuous, conscious aspiration) and suddenly—suddenly—an almost stupefying Response: all disorder disappears, not you who are ill only inside but it is only something taking place in around (around, sometimes over a rather vast extent), and everything becomes automatically organized, harmonized, without the body least effort, and not affecting your consciousnessit starts... It is moving within an extraordinary progressive harmony; then possible to see this separate body , with no apparent reason, without anything having changed in the consciousnessand any outer circumstances making a difference, pfft! it reverts to what it feelswas before: disorder, conflict, chaos, what are its reactions to thingsthat grate. And then, as you aren't conscious of the why, how it worksyou don't have the key!......the only recourse is a blissful surrender (''gesture of immobile offering Upward'').. One can then act on it to change its consciousness and reactionsnot a heavy, not an inert surrender: intense, intense! ...That's the only thing. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3106/illnessmarch-and20-health1965#p54p34,p37</ref>
Only, when one is not very much coddled, when one has a little endurance and decides within himself not to pay too much attention, quite remarkably the pain diminishes… <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-november-1954#p21~</refcenter>
...the knowledge congenital diseases can be cured only by an integral transformation of the power to cut the connection between the suffering part body itself and we have not reached yet that period in the recording brain. ...all this calls for an occult power or sadhana; otherwise it is only a training...without going so far, there is one thing -called "miraculous cure" that can take place and that one kind of "miracle" can try happen only as the result of an absolute sincerity in the consecration to do: it is not to concentrate on one's pain,...But[the Divine and] if one can turn one's attention away, one no longer suffersan unshakable faith in the Divine Grace. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0715/27cure-by-the-aprildivine-1955grace#p16p13</ref>
==Re-establishing HarmonyMedicine==
So there Medicines are two things you a ''pis aller'' [a course of action followed as a last resort] that have to do be used when you have discovered something in the disorder, big consciousness does not respond or small—the disharmony. ..responds superficially to the Force.Very often it is some part of the first thing to do material consciousness that is unreceptive—at other times it is to quieten oneselfthe subconscient which stands in the way even when the whole waking mind, bring peacelife, calm, ..physical consent to the liberating influence. Afterwards you see what is If the cause subconscient also answers, then even a slight touch of the disorder...and through Force can not only cure the pressure particular illness but make that form or kind of light and knowledge and spiritual force you re-establish the harmony...if it does not offer any obstinate resistance, you can be cured in a few secondsillness practically impossible hereafter.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0531/22doctors-julyand-1953medicines#p58p6</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 in the ''Q. Mother, how are medicines to be used for a body affected by an illness which is an index to not altogether unconscious? For even when we draw on the nature of the inner disharmony divine grace, we see that has taken place. It points to the originwe need a little medicine,... It indicates the treatment and the cure. If one could.if a little medicine is given it has a good effect.. find out what has been unreceptive, open Does this mean that part and put only the force and the light body needs medicine or is there, it would be possible to re-establish in a moment something wrong with the harmony that has been disturbed mind and the illness would immediately go. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p8</ref>vital?''
A.In most cases the use of medicines—within reasonable limits, that is, when one doesn't poison oneself by taking medicines—is simply to help the body to have confidence. It is the body which heals itself.When it wants to be cured, it is cured.And this is something very widely recognised now; even the most traditional doctors tell you, "Yes, our medicines help, but it is not the intervention of medicines which cure, it is the Vibration of Harmony into body which decides to be cured." Very well, so when the vibration of Disorderbody is told, "Take this", it says to itself, "Now I am going to get better", allowing [allows] Disorder and because it says "I am going to cease.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/march-25-1964#p34</ref>get better", well, it is cured!
In almost every case, there are things which help—a little—provided it is done within reasonable limits...we think the body is in good health, that If it's balanced, and that "something is introduced from outsideno longer within reasonable limits, which causes you are sure to fall ill," break down completely. You cure one thing but it's not like that! We are ALWAYS off balance, the body catch another which is always off balance..usually worse. and it is something elseBut still, abovea little help, in a Will or way, a Consciousnesslittle something that gives confidence to your body: "Now it will be all right, now that holds I have taken this, it is going to be all right"—this helps it up a great deal and makes it work. So if we can call on...that Will for Harmony—and if we can have ...that [the] Flame of aspiration, decides to get better and make contact, we emerge from so-called illness… <ref>http://incarnatewordit is cured.in/agenda/06/july-10-1965#p6</ref>
==Restoring Order==There 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-board, very complex and very complete, on which one can play, and the body is the instrument.
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 the Force (e.g.owing to doubt, lassitude or discouragement or for inability to react against the disease), then the aid of medical treatment becomes necessary.if order It is restored at not that the center Force ceases to act and leaves all to the medicines,—it will continue to act through the consciousness but take the support of disorderthe treatment so as to act directly on the resistance in the body, everything follows naturally, without your paying it any special attentionwhich responds more readily to physical means in its ordinary consciousness.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0509/september19-26june-19641957#p63p9,p10,p11,p12</ref>
That [The] intrusion of Disorder makes itself felt everywhere, it has repercussions everywhere...if you are able to bring to the attacked spot the true Vibration—the Vibration of Order and Harmony—and you stop the Disorder... all the other things are put back in order, as if automatically.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/september-26-1964#p57~</refcenter>
If you organise everything—your feelingsMedicine is necessary for our bodies in disease only because our bodies have learned the art of not getting well without medicines. Even so, your thoughts, your impulses, etc,—around one sees often that the psychic centre moment Nature chooses for recovery is that in which the life is abandoned as hopeless by the inner light, you will see that all inner disorder will change into a luminous orderdoctors.[Aphorism<404>]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0410/15aphorism-january404-1951#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/october405-17406-1957407#p7p1</ref>
...the habit of disease can be...minimised and gradually eliminated and in the meantime the power of the mind to set right the disorders of the body whether by conscious manipulation of vital force or by simple mental fiat will immensely increase... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-subjection-to-the-body#p5~</refcenter>
=What Are Drugs often cure the Obstacles 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 Cure?=work freely, drugs are superfluous.[Aphorism<407>] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-404-405-406-407#p4</ref>
...someone who is ill and BELIEVES in the reality ==Role of his illness; the effect of the Action is lessened in proportion to his wrong belief.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/13/june-24-1972#p16</ref>Supramental Descent==
==Rejecting The supramental descent is necessary for a dynamic action of the Divine Force==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.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/transformation-and-the-body#p16</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.
I know cases,... of people who are sick: if they follow But with the routine of the doctor and medicines and treatment and diseasesupramental manifestation, they get well; if by some mischance (!) they call on something new has taken place in the Force and I apply body: itfeels it is its own master, autonomous, with its two feet solidly on the more I applyground, the more terrified they are! They feel absolutely unexpected phenomena and they are terrified: "...What's happening to me!" As if as it were absolutely catastrophic. The minute the Force comes and they feel just This gives a bit physical impression of it,... they resist... they become absolutely restless...That is, the whole system spends being suddenly drawing itself up, with its time rejecting and rejecting all that comeshead lifted high—I am my own master. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agenda/0501/novemberoctober-2817-19641957#p12p3,p4</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 not sent to be wasted like that but for an inner use, they feel absolutely flat, run down. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/july-21-1958#p2~</refcenter>
==Unhealthy Curiosity==The absolute immunity can only come with the supramental change. For below the supramental it is the result of an action of a Force among many forces and can be disturbed by a disruption of the equilibrium established—in the supramental it is a law of the nature; in a supramentalised body immunity from illness would be automatic, inherent in its new nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p52</ref>
...there is the sense of an established harmony among the cells,... 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;... But if out of curiosity,...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"),...that [then] you'll have something very unpleasant ...While if you don't have that unhealthy curiosity ...bring one drop of the Lord on the troubled spot for everything to be fine again.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/july-20-1963#p39</ref>==Helpful Practices==
...when you are able to be truly stillSuppose that as a result of some illness or other, there is ALWAYS some sort of pain at a little light—a warm little light, very bright and wonderfully stillprecise spot. At that moment all will depend, behind; as if it were saying, "You only have to will." Then I said at the body's cells panic: "Willbeginning, how? How can I? The illness is on me, I am overcomethe approach most familiar to you. How But we can I will? It's AN ILLNESS"—Then something with a general wisdom says, "Calm downgive an example...don't remain attached to your illness!..So they consent...They try—immediatelyYou are in pain, that light comes again...a few seconds and in great pain; it's over. Then the cells remember: "But how come? I had is hurting very much, you are suffering a pain here..."—pop! It all comes back. And the whole drama unfolds like that, constantlylot.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/october-14-1964#p60</ref>
=How First point: do not stress the pain by telling yourself, "Oh, how painful! Oh, this pain is unbearable! Oh, it is being worse and worse, I shall never be able to Cure Illness?=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.
Have faithSecond point: as I said, it depends on your habits. There If you know how to concentrate, to be quiet, and if you can bring into yourself a certain peace, of any kind―it may be a mental peace, it may be a vital peace, it may be a psychic peace; they have different values and qualities, this is no disease which cannot be cured by an individual question―you try to realise within yourself a state of peace or attempt to enter into a conscious contact with a force of peace.... Suppose you succeed more or less completely. Then, if you can draw the peace into yourself and bring it down into the solar plexus―for we are not talking of inner states but of your physical body―and from there direct it very calmly, very slowly I might say, but very persistently, towards the place where the Divine Grace<ref>http://incarnatewordpain is more or less sharp, and fix it there, this is very good.in/cwm/15/cure-by-the-divine-grace#p3</ref>
Peace and stillness are the great remedy for diseaseThis is not always enough.When we can bring peace in our cells, we are cured.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/peace-and-quiet-faith-and-surrender#p26</ref>
‘‘Q:When 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 caught in an illnessa more or less deformed expression of this sole Reality―if by my aspiration, my concentration, how should one pray to I can bring into the cells of the body the Mother?’’consciousness of this sole Reality, all disorder must necessarily cease.
A:Cure meIf you can add to that a movement of complete and trusting surrender to the Grace, O Mother!then I am sure that within five minutes your suffering will disappear. If you know how to do it.You may try and yet not succeed. But you must know how to try again and again and again, until you do succeed. But if you do those three things at the same time, well, there is no pain which can resist. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1508/cure4-byjuly-the-divine-grace1956#p10p21,p22,p23,p24,p25,p26,p27,p28</ref>
I donThere't want s a power in the sound itself, and by forcing the body to repeat the sound, you force it to be ill receive the vibration at the same time. But I've noticed that if something in the body's working gets disturbed (a pain or disorder, the onset of some illness) and always I am repeat my mantra in a certain way—still the same words, the same mantra, but said with you to cure you—but you too must want to be cureda 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. Do not torment yourself The mantra acts in just the right way, in this way and always nestle in my arms so as no other. And after a while everything is put back in order. And simultaneously, of course, the precise knowledge of what lies behind the disorder and what I must do to set it right comes to receive my love and forceme. But quite apart from this, the mantra acts directly upon the pain itself.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1601/23june-september4-19341960#p2p4</ref>
Ultimately to put it quite tritely, one can cure only if the disease isn't necessary to the individual's development.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/10/december-13-1969#p14~</refcenter>
If this present difficulty The only thing I can suggest about diseases is useful to call down peace... (itKeep 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 body addressing the Lord).Grace acts.for Your Work—so be And itis the Grace alone that cures..It [The body] doesn't ask medicines only give a faith 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 stupiditybody.' I believe this That is what...gives it the necessary enduranceall. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0215/februarypeace-and-quiet-faith-7and-1961surrender#p24p10</ref>
...in order to be able to cure an illness, one must find out its cause, not its microbe.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p42~</refcenter>
...There are two ways the knowledge of curing an illness spirituallythe power to cut the connection between the suffering part and the recording brain. Onecuts 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 person brain no longer perceives anything or it is reduced to a minimum… there is one thing that one can try to do: it is receptivenot 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 concentrated 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 force concentration of consciousness the attention given to it. That is why, when one is not well the best thing to do is put upon to read or have something read, you see; it depends on the affected part and its pressure restores ordercondition one is in. But if one can turn one's attention away, one no longer suffers. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0407/3127-marchapril-19511955#p11p16</ref>
In other cases, if the body lacks receptivity... one sees the inner correspondence with the psychological state which has brought about the illness and acts on that. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p12~</refcenter>
When one has a very bad toothache (I don't know if you are completely curedhave 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 cut it will be an indication : "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 cuts, cuts it like this ("gesture"), cuts the connection, it doesn't transmit again. Naturally you must think of some inner progresssomething else. If afterwards you start saying, "Do I still have the pain?..." <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1507/will-to11-conquermay-illness1955#p6p44</ref>
But when you have had ...an illness...the body remembers for a very long time. If you want to be completely cured, you must cure this memory in the body, this is absolutely indispensable...When the remembrance is effaced, the body is truly healed.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/13-october-1954#p47~</refcenter>
...all you have phenomena of self-identification. Only, they are involuntary. And this is also one of the methods used today to do cure nervous diseases. When someone cannot sleep, cannot be restful because he is this (too excited and nervous and his nerves are ill and weakened by excessive agitation, he is told to sit in front of an aquarium, for instance—an aquarium, that's very lovely, isn'gesture t it?—before an aquarium 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 stepping back''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 there it isalso 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 it at the end of the hour his nerves are in a perfect state and he is completely restful!But the root cure condition is that one must not think of disorderone's troubles, simply watch the fish. It is anti-disorder.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0305/october12-30august-19621953#p62p18,p19</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>
I 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 disorders 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 connectedstretched 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.But you must not be disturbed by anyone.If someone comes along, sees you stretched out and shakes you, it is extremely dangerous.If one 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 strike at their psycho-physical rootconcentrate slowly (this takes more or less time—ten minutes, half an hour, one hour, two hours—depends upon the seriousness of the disorder which has 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 cure even without knowing 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 pathological whole 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 matter spiritual force and working through 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 symptoms Force, concentrate it, have all this mastery.... It is not very frequent, but it is not impossible. And one can be sure that if one is a possibilityhelped... In fact, there is a much easier method, it is to call for help.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/04/31/doctors-andmarch-medicines1951#p25p23</ref>
==Surrender==<center>~</center>
If You thought for months perhaps or even for years, you thought you were completely rid of a surrender certain kind of illness which you suffered from, and you 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 subconscient and changes things there, that is to be made, unless one changes the subconscient into the conscient, it's to Him. ..."May Your Will be done," ..always happens like this.And one sees the method is to change the subconscient into the conscient—if each thing that there was absolutely no imperative need rises to the surface becomes conscious, at that moment it must be ill or for changed. There is a more direct method still: it is to enter the disequilibrium to occursubconscient in one's full consciousness and work there, but this is difficult.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0907/june11-15may-19681955#p17p7</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...that[The] disorganization is what prevents For as soon as the cohesion necessary for least thing goes wrong, the cells mind begins to constitute an individual bodyshape and build all the catastrophes possible, so then you knowto ask itself whether it could be this, "Ah (gesture of dissolution)whether it could be that, if it'll is going to be the like that, and how it will all end." Then the cells aspireWell, there is a sort of central consciousness if instead of letting the body which aspires intenselymind do this disastrous work, with as complete a surrender as it can one used the same capacity to make: "Your Willfavourable formations—simply, Lordfor example, Your Willto give confidence to the body, Your Will...." Then... first there to tell it that it is just a peacepassing disturbance and that it is nothing, then and if it enters a lightreal state of receptivity, then Harmony—and the disorder will disappear as easily as it has vanished. And once the disorder has vanishedcome, there is instantly IN THE CELLS and one can cure oneself in a sense of living eternityfew seconds—if one knows how to do that, of living for eternityone gets wonderful results.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0805/november23-15december-19671953#p32p36</ref>
...all ...disorders of the body...suddenly (naturally, the constant state is one of... an intense, continuous, conscious aspiration) ...disappears, not only inside but around ...without the least effort, and it starts...moving within an extraordinary progressive harmony; then, with no apparent reason, without anything having changed in the consciousness and any outer circumstances making a difference, pfft! it reverts to what it was before: disorder, conflict, chaos, things that grate. And then, as you aren't conscious of the why, you don't have the key!...the only recourse is a blissful surrender.. and not a heavy, not an inert surrender: intense, intense! ...That's the only thing.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/march-20-1965#p34~</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...if something In the subliminal they set in action the powers of the body's working gets disturbed (a pain inner being, its occult power to make thought, will or simple conscious force effective on the body—in the subconscient they silence or disorder, block the onset suggestions of some death and illness(expressed or unexpressed) and I repeat my mantra in a certain way—still that prevent the same words, return of health. They help also to combat the same mantra, but said with a certain purpose and above all things (adverse suggestions) in a movement of surrender, surrender of the painmind, the disordervital, and a call, like an opening—it has a marvelous effectbody consciousness. ...And after a while everything Where all this is put back in ordercompletely done or with some completeness, the effects can be very remarkable. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0131/juneillness-4and-1960health#p4p37</ref>
...working according to somebody else's ideas makes or keeps you ill, I do not see why it should be so...If ...doing things in what you consider not the best way, makes you nervous...ill, that is a pity. It would be so 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. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p83~</refcenter>
...congenital diseases Of course it [''cancer''] can [''be cured only by an integral transformation Yoga''], but on condition of the body itself and we have not reached yet that period in the sadhana; otherwise it is only faith or openness or both. Even a so-called "miraculous mental suggestion can cure" that can take place and that kind cancer—with luck, of "miracle" can happen only course, as is shown by the result case of an absolute sincerity in the consecration to woman operated on unsuccessfully for cancer, but the Divine doctors lied and told her it had succeeded. Result, cancer symptoms all ceased and an unshakable faith in the Divine Graceshe died many years afterwards of another illness altogether. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1531/curespecific-illnesses-ailments-byand-theother-divinephysical-graceproblems#p13p2</ref>
==Changing the Attitude==<center>~</center>
These[One must be conscious, conscious of the] maladies are a creation working of one's organs, aware of the pressure of hostile forces;one that does not behave very well, telling it immediately what is to be done to set itself right.What is needed (I shall explain it to you later on) is to give them a lesson as one does to little children..The only way When they begin indulging in unhealthy fancies (indeed it is then the occasion to remain quietsay it) you must tell them: no, dissociate yourself and refuse it is not like that the work is to accept be done, it or is the other way! Suppose for example, your heart begins to throb madly; then you must make much of itcalm, allow you tell it that this is not the calm way to behave, and strength that at the Mother has been putting around same time (solely to help it) you to enter your mind and permeate your nervous system...The cure may take time because your nervous system has been in long subjected to these influences and, when they are evictedvery regular rhythmic breaths, that is, they return with violence to re-establish their hold. But if you can acquire and keep patience and fortitude and the right consciousness lung becomes the mentor of the heart and right attitude with regard teaches it how to these things, the hold they have will progressively disappearwork properly.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3105/accidents22-possessionjuly-madness1953#p15p36</ref>
The attitude in the cells changes—not the disorder (!), the disorder changes only because of the cells' reaction, that's what makes it change; but it recurs with clockwork regularity—that's its job. It is the way it's received by the cells, their reaction to it, that brings about the change.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/march-30-1963#p19~</refcenter>
...It is particularly noticeable that all the digestive functions are extremely sensitive to an attitude that is critical, bitter, full of ill-will, to a sour judgment.Nothing disturbs the functioning of the digestion more than that..And it is a vicious circle: the more the digestive function is disturbed, the more unkind ...you become, critical, dissatisfied with lifeand things and people..So you can't find any way out.And 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, a deliberate attitude of all-comprehending kindness. Just try and you will see that you feel much better.
<ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-bhikkhu#p25</ref>
=What Are the Obstacles to Cure?= 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.there are many people now whoThis energy is given for two reasons: to restore order out of the 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.treat their illnesses by making conscious mental suggestions 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 which counteract and to go deeply within to find the obscure secret suggestions of reason for this accident or illness in the subconscient, 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>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3101/illnessjuly-and21-health1958#p40p1,p2</ref> <center>~</center>
==Using ...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 Divine Force==body's cells panic: "Will, how? How can I? The illness is on me, I am overcome. How can I will? It's AN ILLNESS"—the whole drama (and that wasn't in 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, that light comes again: "You only have to will." And once or twice, for one thing or another (because the Disorder 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, it's over. Not the next minute: a few seconds and it's over. Then the cells remember: "But how come? I had a pain here..."—pop! It all comes back. And the whole drama unfolds like that, constantly.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/october-14-1964#p60</ref>
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. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p1~</refcenter>
...there is the Force sense of spiritual purification an established harmony among the cells, increasingly established among the cells, which is such an absolutely perfectly constructive force represents the right functioning, whatever that may be: it's no longer a question of a stomach or a heart or this or that nothing . And the slightest thing thatcomes 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. But if out of curiosity, for instance (it's a mental 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 least destructive desire to learn"), if you are unlucky enough to be that way, you can survive there. .be sure ("laughing") that you'll have something very unpleasant which, according to the doctor (according to ignoramuses), becomes an illness or disrupts the body's functioning.While if you direct it don't have that unhealthy curiosity and, on the spot and contrary, will the adverse force usually runs away immediately...And with that harmony not to be disrupted, you only is the illness curedhave to, we could say poetically, but all possibility of its return is also eliminated. You are cured bring one drop of the illness once Lord on the troubled spot for all, it never comes backeverything to be fine again. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0504/22july-july20-19531963#p60p39</ref>
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 to be receptive, they receive it. This energy is given for two reasons: to restore order out of the disorder caused by the accident or illness, and to impart a transformative force to repair or change the source of the illness or accident.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/july-21-1958#p1</ref>=More on Illness=
...if it[There is no such thing as an incurable illness] has succeeded in getting through reality—for what the protection and entering you,...go out of your body, remain above in a way to be doctors call such is only an illness for which they have not yet been able to see the body.discover a physical remedy.<ref>http://incarnateword. in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and from there-other-physical-problems#p1</ref>But, consciouslyeach man can make his own experiment. If one has a bad throat, you pull the Force from above, ...you begin this may be due to push these forces into the body...until you see fact that the body day before one was in a state of depression. Or perhaps one is receivingvery unhappy, that the Force is enteringdissatisfied, one finds everything very bad, and the disorder is being set right and there is next day one gets a relaxation cold in the body itselfhead. 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 helpEveryone must make his own observations. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p23p4</ref>
I used to do it simply like this: breathe in very slowly to the count 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 well; and I would concentrate it wherever there was a physical disorder (a pain or something wrong somewhere). It's very effective. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/03/february-24-1962#p36~</refcenter>
Aphorism<199>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...it[sciatica] cannot resist the Force quietly So too poverty and persistently applied. Other illnesses can resist, but sciatica being entirely tamasic cannot. The application of Force does not yet, probably, come natural to youtrouble will always return on man in society, so it brings a sense of struggle not long as the mind of quiet domination, hence the restlessness etcrace is subjected to egoism. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3110/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-otheraphorism-physical199-problems200#p18p1</ref> Of course it [cancer] can [be cured by Yoga]<center>~</center> When people are ill and get well quickly, they are full of gratitude; but on condition never do they think of faith or openness or both. Even being grateful when they are well; and yet that is a mental suggestion can cure cancer much greater miracle! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3105/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other23-physicaldecember-problems1953#p2p52</ref> <center>~</center>
==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>
The absolute immunity can only come with 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 supramental changeDivine Grace to help them to progress. …in They told themselves: it is a supramentalised body immunity good sign, I am going to find out the cause of my illness and I shall make the necessary progress. I knew a 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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