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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>
<center>~</center> ...any discomfort, any disease is a falsehood… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/12/september-29-1971#p6</ref> <center>~</center> ...falsehood in the body is a falsehood in the consciousness The falsity of the consciousness naturally has material consequences... and that's what illness is!...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/october-2-1961#p15</ref> <center>~</center> 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… forces....
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Illness is always a lapse into unconsciousness through ...it as an imperfection of the incapacity body to sustain the movement be got rid of as you try to get rid of transformationvital imperfections or mental errors... <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0829/januaryequality-the-25chief-1967support#p24p18</ref>
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It...falsehood in the body is a falsehood in the consciousness. The falsity of the consciousness naturally has material consequences... and that's [ what illness is] the EXACT measure of what in Matter resists the divine Influence—the exact measure, down to the atom!...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0802/februaryoctober-82-19671961#p7p15</ref>
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All disease is a means towards some new joy of healthEach illness represents its own vibratory mode.... [Based on Aphorism<135>]All disease is Each illness has its own vibratory mode; it represents a means towards some new joy whole field of health, all evil and pain a tuning of Nature for some more intense bliss and good, all death an opening on widest immortalityvibrations to be corrected. Why and how this should be so, is GodIt's secret which only the soul purified EXACT measure of egoism can penetratewhat in Matter resists the divine Influence—the exact measure, down to the atom.]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/1108/marchfebruary-48-19701967#p1p7</ref>
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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> <center>~</center><center>~</center> 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… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p17</ref>
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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>
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No two All life is the play of universal forces. The individual gives a personal form to these universal forces. But he can choose whether he shall respond or not to the action of a particular force. Only most people do not really choose—they undergo the play of the forces. Your illnesses are alike, though labels depressions etc. are putthe repeated play of such forces...to group It is only when one can make oneself free of them; but in fact every that one can be the true person is ill and have a true life—but one can be free only by living in his own way, and his way depends on what he is, on his state of consciousness and the life he leadsDivine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0928/19-juneoccult-1957knowledge#p2p9</ref>
<center>~</center> ...health or illness is... a choice of every minute... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/09/june-15-1968#p15</ref> <center>~</center>=Why Illness Develops?=
All life is the play ==Causes 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>Illness==
=What Illness Is Not''Q.Sweet Mother, if someone falls seriously ill, is this a purely physical phenomenon or is it a difficulty in his spiritual life?=''
==Means A. That depends on the person! If it is someone who is doing yoga, it is quite obviously a difficulty in his spiritual life. If it is somebody who is not at all engaged in yoga and who lives an ordinary life in the most ordinary manner, it is an ordinary accident. It depends absolutely on the person. The outer phenomena may be similar, but the inner causes are absolutely different. No two illnesses are alike, though labels are put on diseases and attempts made to group them; but in fact every person is ill in his own way, and his way depends on what he is, on his state of Transformation==consciousness and the life he leads.
Illness must not be accepted as 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 means purely physical disturbance of equilibrium, of the functioning of transformationthe different organs. But when behind this purely superficial life, an inner life is being fashioned, the causes of illness change; it rather indicates certain difficulties encountered by they always become the expression of a disequilibrium between the force different parts of transformation especially in the vital being: between the inner progress or effort and the body… <ref>http://incarnatewordouter resistances or conditions of one's life, one's body.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p4</ref>
==Progress== You are given an illness purposely to make you progress? Surely Even from the ordinary external point of view, it is not like that...You must never think that the Divine has purposely sent an illness, been recognised for a very long time that would truly be it is a very wicked Divine!... <ref>http://incarnateword.fall in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p2</ref> <center>~</center> To make people ill in order the resistance of the vitality due to improve or perfect them immediate moral causes which is not Mother's method… <ref>http://incarnatewordalways at the origin of an illness.When one is in/cwsa/30/difficulties-experienced-a normal state of equilibrium and lives in-a normal physical harmony, the-process-body has a capacity of-descent#p18</ref> ==Virtue== ...The child must be taught resistance, it has within it an atmosphere strong enough to resist illnesses: its most material substance emanates subtle vibrations which have the strength to resist illnesses, even diseases which are called contagious—in fact, all vibrations are contagious, but still, certain diseases are considered as early as possibleespecially contagious.Well, a man who, even from the purely external point of view, is in a state in which his organs function harmoniously and an adequate psychological balance prevails, has at the same time enough resistance for the contagion not to affect him..that But if for some reason or other he does not become more interesting loses this equilibrium or is weakened by being illdepression, dissatisfaction, moral difficulties or undue fatigue, for instance, but rather this reduces the normal resistance of the body and he is open to the contrarydisease...Children should therefore be taught But if we consider someone who is doing yoga, then it is altogether different, in the sense that the causes of disequilibrium are of a different nature and the illness usually becomes the expression of an inner difficulty which has to be overcome.So each one should find out for himself why he is ill is a sign of weakness and inferiority, not of some virtue or sacrifice. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1209/physical19-june-education1957#p9p1,p3,p4,p5</ref>
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...illness is It's the effect of a combination of three things: bad will (at the worst, a thing refusal to be eliminatedfollow the movement), not accepted a more or enjoyedless 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/cwsaagenda/3109/illnessmarch-and2-health1968#p58p38</ref>
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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..you have If the nervous being is not to accept illness as the Divine Willmerely weak, but rather look upon it as an imperfection nervous and unstable, over-sensitive, vehement or excitable, then there is much fluctuation, restlessness, exaltation and depression in the being—there may even be a wrongly acute creative imagination which brings in disorders into the body that are nervous and not physical—there is no physical illness of the body… <ref>http://incarnateword.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/cwsa/29/equality-the-chief-support#p18</ref> ==Result different parts of the Divine Force==body and so on—sometimes there is hysteria.
The Divine Force cannot These conditions are not always native to the body—they are often created by its descent be troubles in the life, some disturbing illness or other reasons—but often it is due to some hereditary cause or otherwise native to the system. Women tend to get like this sometimes if there is disorder of madness any more than it can be of apoplexy or any other physical illness… the menstruation. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/accidentsillness-possessionand-madnesshealth#p30p49,p50</ref>
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Whatever force is sent is for cure. Increase of illness or physical suffering is not the result of the forceDepression and discouragement have a very adverse effect; they cut out holes in it [nervous envelope], as it were, in its very stuff, render it weak and unresisting and open to hostile attacks an easy passage. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/illness16-andjune-health1929#p14p11</ref>
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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 fall ill and die from natural causes and by the same dispensation of Nature… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p8</ref> ==Imperfection in Other Parts== As for any reason—if it stops following the question about the illnessdiscipline, 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 in the bodyyou fall ill. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3110/illnessfebruary-and8-health1969#p57p37</ref>
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...all disorders in the outer expression body and all diseases are the 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 the habit of thinking that They doubt the body is very disturbed when itDivine's illconcrete reality, when something is going wrong, it's not so. It isn't disturbed in they doubt the way we understand it. <ref>http://incarnateword.Divine Presence in/agenda/02/january-31-1961#p3</ref> ==Incurable== There is no such thing as an incurable illness in reality—for what the doctors call such is only an illness for which them, they have not yet been able to discover a physical remedy… <ref>http://incarnateword.doubt their being divine in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-problems#p1</ref> =What Is the Cause?= It's the realm that's... beyond the subtle physicaltheir very essence, and it's this doubt is the realm in which formations cause of illness MATERIALIZE..all disorders. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0405/decembermay-2514-19631964#p13p4</ref>
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...all disorders...the cause of disease is psychic, that is to say, subjective and all diseases are the result of DOUBT in direction should be towards curing the cells.inner causes much more than patching up by physical means.These are ideas that have their truth also.they doubt I fully recognise the Divine Presence in them, they doubt psychic law and methods and their being divine in their very essencepreferability, but the ordinary run of humanity is not ready for that rule and this doubt , while it is the cause of all disorders so, doctors and their physical methods will be there.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0528/maymorality-14and-1964yoga#p4p46</ref>
<center>~</center> ...the cause of disease is psychic, that is to say, subjective and the direction should be towards curing the inner causes much more than patching up by physical means… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/morality-and-yoga#p46</ref> <center>~</center>==Subconscient==
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 its lowest parts (vital-material) life it is the agent action of pain, physical illness etcthe subconscious that has the larger share and it acts a hundred times more powerfully than the conscious parts.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2803/the19-physicalmay-consciousness1929#p25p18</ref>
==Fear==<center>~</center>
It In the subconscient there is an obscure mind full of obstinate Sanskaras [fearimprints or habits] , impressions, associations, fixed notions, habitual reactions formed by our past, an obscure vital full of the seeds of habitual desires, sensations and nervous reactions, a most obscure material which governs much that has to do with the condition of the body. It is more dangerous than largely responsible for our illnesses; chronic or repeated illnesses are indeed mainly due to the subconscient and its obstinate memory and habit of repetition of whatever has impressed itself upon the worst diseasebody-consciousness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1409/fearjune-15-1968#p30p6</ref>
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If there 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 one mental disorder 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 can bring about all illnessesunderlies our surface, —a consciousness which is ours but seems not ours because it is fearnot part of our known mentality. This and much more lives concealed in the subconscience.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0422/31out-of-the-sevenfold-ignorance-towards-the-marchsevenfold-1951knowledge#p3p9</ref>
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Yet all the time the universal forces are pouring into him without his knowing it. He is aware only of thoughts, feelings etc.that rise to the surface and these he takes for his own.Really they come from outside in mind waves, vital waves, waves of feeling and sensation etc.fear always brings what one fearswhich 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 fear an accidentcan become conscious of this environmental self of yours, this acts like a magnet drawing then you can catch the accident towards thought, passion, suggestion or force of illness, or whatever it may be, before it enters and prevent it from entering into you...And 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 same thing holds for illnessoutskirts or even perhaps far off, waiting till they get an opportunity to attempt entrance... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0628/27the-januaryenvironmental-1954consciousness#p6</ref>
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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> <center>~</center>
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>
<center>~</center>==Role of the Vital==
...they say they're illAll this egoistic insistence on your own ideas, and so they are afraid. It's not true! They are afraid firstclaims, and then they fall ill. They constantly live with a sort preferences—assertion of your own righteousness as against the wickedness of apprehension: "Ohothers, complaints, quarrels, what's going to happen?" So something happens! ...The poor body feels that's what is expected of itdisputes, rancours against those around you and the reactions they cause—have had this effect on your liver and stomach and it obeys! nerves. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0731/octoberdoctors-22and-1966medicines#p5p9</ref>
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If you receive a blow in the vital, the body suffers the consequence.More than half of our illnesses are the result of blows of this kind, and this happens much more often than one believes..a fear Only, men are not conscious of their vital, and as they are not conscious they don't know that fifty per cent of their illnesses are the result of what happens in the cells—is fear which opens vital: shocks, accidents, fighting, ill-will.... Externally this is translated by an illness. If one knows how it reacts on the door physical, one goes to all contagion..its source and can cure oneself in a few hours. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0905/1929-juneapril-19571953#p6p8</ref>
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Diseases are just that...The two things together: possession Unfortunately, there is the vital which pokes its nose into the affair and feartakes a very perverse pleasure in increasing,twisting, sharpening the suffering... And a sense Now this deforms the whole system because instead of helplessness in all that. The possession by being an idea and a helplessness to reject indicator, sometimes it... And then a sort of fearfulness that is translated in us bybecomes an occasion for enjoying the illness, "Ohfor making oneself interesting, it's going and also having the opportunity to be that way... ohpity oneself—all kinds of things which all come from the vital and are all detestable, it's going to be a disease...one more than another." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/06/december17-18november-19651954#p9p20</ref>
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The real disease Illness in the body is fearlike impurity in the vital,. Throw the fear away and the disease will go. <ref>http://incarnateword.It may happen that in/cwm/15/fear-and-throwing out the illness#p9</ref> ==Subconscient== In (the subconscient there attacking force) one throws out also something within, some impurity which helped it to come, but that is an obscure mind full the result of obstinate Sanskaras [imprints or habits], ...habitual reactions formed by our past, an obscure vital...a most obscure material which governs... with the condition Force working within and not of the bodyillness. It is largely responsible for our illnesses… quite possible that an illness or attack can be transferred in this way from one to another and indeed it very commonly happens… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0931/juneillness-15and-1968health#p6p62</ref>
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The subconscient is the main...support of death and disease one must be very careful and look at oneself with great discrimination to discover the small part in oneself that—how to put it?—takes pleasure in being ill.Oh! there are many reasons..There are people who are ill out of spite, there are people who are ill out ofhate, there are people who are ill through despair, there are people... Ignorance.And these are not formidable movements: it is quite a small movement in the being: one is vexed and says: "You will see what is going to happen, you 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, for one would scold oneself, but there is something somewhere that thinks in that way.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2805/the22-subconscient-and-thejuly-inconscient1953#p37p57</ref>
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...subconscient ...remains submerged and obscurely at work below our conscious nature...into which past impressions and all that is rejected from the surface mind sink and remain there dormant and can surge up in sleep or in any absence of the mind,…forms of automatic vital reaction or impulsewhen left to itself often invites illness, forms of physical abnormality or nervous perturbanceit finds it dramatic—thinks it makes it interesting to others, forms of morbidity, diseaselikes to indulge the tamas, unbalanceetc.etc..<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2231/outillness-of-the-sevenfold-ignorance-towards-the-sevenfoldand-knowledgehealth#p9p63</ref>
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If Diseases, accidents, catastrophes, wars, all that, is because the human material consciousness is so small, so narrow that it has a rabid taste for drama. And of course, behind there is the vital being having fun, influences too... anyway all that enjoys an opportunity to delay the divine Work and make things difficult. And all that takes pleasure in that naturally encourages drama. But the seed of the difficulty is that pettiness, extreme pettiness of the physical consciousness—the material physical consciousness—which has an absolutely perverse taste for drama. Drama—the slightest thing has to make a drama: if you have a toothache, it becomes a drama; if you are thrown outbang against something, it becomes a drama; if two nations quarrel, they often do not go altogether but take refuge it becomes a drama—everything becomes a drama. The taste for drama. The slightest upset in this[the] environmental atmosphere and from there try to get in again or they body, the least disorder, which should go to completely unnoticed, oh, it makes a distance outside but linger on the outskirts or even perhaps far offbig fuss, waiting till they get an opportunity to attempt entrancea drama. The taste for drama. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/2808/thejune-environmental14-consciousness1967#p6p3</ref>
<center>~</center>==Role of Suggestions==
The suggestions that create feeling of illness or unhealthy conditions of is at first only a suggestion; it becomes a reality because your physical consciousness accepts it. It is like a wrong suggestion in the physical being come usually through mind; if the subconscient.mind accepts it, it becomes clouded and confused and has to struggle back into harmony and clearness.It is so with the body consciousness and illness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p40p22</ref>
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When the physical consciousness a force is being changedthrown on you or a vibration of illness, it carries to the chief resistance body this suggestion. A wave comes from in the body—with a certain vibration in it, the subconscient. It is constantly maintaining body remembers "cold" or bringing back feels the inertiavibrations of a cold and begins to cough or sneeze or to feel chill—the suggestion comes to the mind in the form, weakness"I am weak, obscurityI don't feel well,I am catching a cold."<ref>http://incarnateword..or the in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p24</ref>That is how illnessestry to come from one person to another—they attack, dullnessesby a suggestion like this or otherwise, pains, incapabilities the nervous being and try to which come in. Even if the body-nature illness is pronenot contagious, this 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/cwsa/2831/the-subconscientillness-and-the-inconscienthealth#p17p31</ref>
==Forces of DisintegrationFear==
They[there] are forces of disintegrationThe first thing from which you must cure yourself once for ever, is ''Fear''...this It is more dangerous than the origin of germs and microbes. Therefore most microbes have behind them a bad will .worst disease..The microbe is a very material expression of something living in a subtle physical world...<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0514/22-july-1953fear#p49p30,p31</ref>
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The possibilities of illness are always If 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 beingis one mental disorder which can bring about all illnesses, 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 microbesfear. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0304/1931-maymarch-19291951#p14p3</ref>
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There is nothing that isn't a "microbe" or a "virus"... but itNot be afraid of falling ill! That's all the same thing!what... For the cells,the problem is...whether to follow the Will for Transformation...or whether to follow the Will for HarmonyYou see, which is always pleasantthey say, and is always there, even when outwardly things are decomposing"But I AM ill. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/july-7-1965#p7</ref> ==Inertia== The human body has always been in the habit of answering to whatever forces chose to lay hands on " They put it and illness is the price it pays for its inertia and ignorance. <ref>httpother way around://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p77</ref>All they say they're ill-health is due to some inertia or weakness or to some resistance or wrong movement there [in the vital], only it has sometimes a more physical and sometimes a more psychological character... <ref>http://incarnatewordso they are afraid.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p5</ref> It's [ illness is] the effect of not true! They are afraid first, and then they fall ill. They constantly live with a combination sort of three thingsapprehension: bad will (at the worst"Oh, a refusal what's going to follow the movementhappen?" So something happens! (Mother laughs), ...an ignorance of the laws and their consequences, The poor body feels 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 expected of created harmony.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/09/march-2-1968#p38</ref> ...the body's whole functioning is a disciplineit, and if there is a part that no longer wants to follow the discipline—out of revolt or incapacity or... for any reason—if it stops following the discipline, you fall ill.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/10/february-8-1969#p37</ref> ==Resistance== ...reaction against the transformative will is what causes... disorders... obeys! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0207/augustoctober-822-19611966#p4</ref>
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Mental fear—all who have a little control over themselves or any human dignity can eliminate it; vital fear is more subtle and asks for a greater control; as for physical fear, a veritable yoga is necessary to overcome it, for the cells of the body are afraid of everything that is unpleasant, painful, and as soon as there is any unease, even if it is insignificant, the cells of the body become anxious, they don't like to be uncomfortable.And then, to overcome that, the control of a conscious will is necessary.It is usually this kind of fear that opens the door to illnesses.And I am not speaking of the first two types of fear which, as I said, any human being who wants to be human in the bodynoblest sense of the word, must overcome, whatever has trouble adjusting for that is cowardice. But physical fear is more difficult to this new Power creates difficulties, disorders and illnessesovercome; without it even the most violent attacks could be repelled. Yet in If one has a flash you sense minimum of control over the body, one can lessen its effects, but that if you were totally receptiveis not immunity. It is this kind of trembling of material, you would become formidablephysical fear in the cells of the body which aggravates all illnesses.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1309/may19-6june-19721957#p32p6</ref>
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Your inner condition becomes a cause of illness when there is a resistance We know that fear always brings what one fears...or when there is some part in If you that does not respond to fear an accident, this acts like a magnet drawing the protection; or even..accident towards you. In this see, it may be said that almost it is the result of character.And the same thing holds for illness..wilfully calls There are people who can move about among the sick and in the adverse forcesplaces where there are epidemics and never catch a disease. It There are others—it is enough if there is for them to spend an hour with a slight movement of this kind in you; sick person, they catch the hostile forces illness. That too depends on what they are at once upon you and their attack takes often the form of illnesswithin themselves.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0306/1927-mayjanuary-19291954#p12p6</ref>
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This[The] divergence between the progress in the inner being two things together: possession and the inertia fear, a sort of the body often creates fearfulness. And a dislocation sense of helplessness in the systemall that. The possession by an idea and a helplessness to reject it, and that manifests itself as an illnessa fear, a helplessness to resist... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p6</ref> ==Adverse Forces== Loss And then a sort of balance produces disorder fearfulness that is translated in the consciousness and the adverse forces use us by, "Oh, it's going to be that loss of balance for attacking… <ref>http://incarnatewordway...in/cwsa/31/accidents-possession-madness#p24</ref> <center>~</center> Attacks of illness are attacks of the lower nature or of adverse forces taking advantage of some weaknessoh, opening or response in the natureit's going to be a disease...." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3106/illnessdecember-and18-health1965#p15p9</ref>
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...it is some part In fact, ninety per cent of illnesses are the result of the subconscient fear of your the body or...a fragment In the ordinary consciousness of the vital that has gone wrong and wishes to be ill, ...the situation gets complicated if behind this body there is an attack, a pressure from adverse forces who really want to harm you. You may have opened more or less hidden anxiety about the door through spiritual error, through a movement consequences of vanity, of anger, of hatred or of violence; even if it is merely a movement that comes and goes, that can open the doorslightest physical disturbance. There are always germs watching and only waiting for an occasion… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p60</ref> <center>~</center> ...when the mind and consciousness have rejected the attacks, the contrary forces fall on some weak point in the body hoping that It can be translated by pain or illness they will depress these words of doubt about the consciousness and so make it less strong to resist and reject them... <ref>httpfuture://incarnateword"And what will happen?" It is this anxiety that must be checked.Indeed this anxiety is a lack of confidence in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p95</ref> <center>~</center> Sometimes itthe Divine's an altogether INSIGNIFICANT intrusion of falsehoodGrace, for some quite insignificant reason—what is commonly labeled a stupidity. This stems from the fact unmistakable sign that the adverse forces are always lying in wait, ready to rush in at the least sign of weaknessconsecration is not complete and perfect. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0215/julyfear-18and-1961illness#p59p3</ref>
==Disharmony==
First of all, from the point of view of the body—just the body—there are two kinds of disequilibrium: functional and organic...I do not know if you are aware of the difference between the two; but you have organs and then you have all the cause parts of all illnessesyour body: nerves, all disordersmuscles, bones and all conflictsthe rest. Now, here if an organ by itself is in the material worlddisequilibrium, it is an organic disequilibrium, and you are told: that organ is ill or perhaps it is badly formed or it is not normal or an accident has occurred to it. But it is the two simultaneous movements (one organ that is ill. But the movement of Stability—and the otherorgan may be in a very good condition, all your organs may be in a very good condition, the movement but there is still an illness as they do not function properly: there is a lack of transformation), the two movements balance in the original Consciousness are only one and.functioning..hereYou may have a very good stomach, they are separate,...they don't KNOW how but suddenly something happens to it and it does not function properly; or the body may also be in harmony: they canexcellent, but they don't know.something happens to it and it does not work properly any more.Then you have an illness due to functional imbalance not organic imbalance. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1105/february22-25july-19701953#p8p31</ref>
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Human life and mind are neither in tune with Nature ...like the animals nor with Spirit—it [''human nature''] is disturbed, incoherent, conflicting with itself, without harmony and balance. We can then regard it as diseased, if not itself a disease.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/science-and-yoga#p62</ref> ...if you choose and then draw back...always wavering, always doubting, always fearful, you create a disharmony in your being, which not only retards your progress, but can be the origin of all kinds of disturbance in the mind and vital being and discomfort and disease in the body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p18p69</ref>
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The mind with its dogmas, its rigid and arbitrary principles, the vital with its passions, its excesses and dissipations soon destroy the natural balance of the body and create in it fatigue, exhaustion and disease. It must be freed from this tyranny and this can be done only through a constant union with the psychic centre of the being... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-science-of-living#p14</ref>
==In Specific IllnessesInertia==
Fever is not a purifying action; it is The human body has always been in the sign habit of an attack answering to whatever forces chose to lay hands on it and illness is the body price it pays for its inertia and a fight ignorance. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and -health#p78</ref>All ill-health is due to some inertia or weakness or to some resistance to or wrong movement there [in the attack… vital], only it has sometimes a more physical and sometimes a more psychological character. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illnessdoctors-and-healthmedicines#p62p5</ref>
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Insanity ...there is always due 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 vital attackbad 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, or rather possession although there is often a physical reason as wellninety-nine per cent chance of not finding the true and complete remedy. Hysteria The microbe is due to a pressure from the vital very material expression of something living in a subtle physical world and there may be momentary possessions alsothat 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/cwsacwm/3105/accidents22-possessionjuly-madness1953#p22p49</ref>
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They speak of viruses, they speak of microbes, they speak...skin diseases have much but we are entirely made up of those things! It's only their interplay, their way of adjusting and harmonizing among themselves that makes all the difference. There is nothing that isn't a "microbe" or a "virus"—they give ugly names to do with sexual desires—not of course alwaysthe things they don't want, but it's all the same thing!... For the cells, that's not the problem—the problem is not that, but oftenwhether 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/cwsaagenda/3106/sexjuly-7-1965#p216p7</ref>
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T.BThe possibilities of illness are always there in your body and around you; you carry within you or there swarm about you the microbes and germs of every disease. How is the result it that all of a strong psychic-sudden you succumb to an illness which you did not have for years? You will say it is due to a "depression of the vital force". But from where does the depressioncome? It comes from some disharmony in the being, from a lack of receptivity to the divine forces.When you cut yourself off from the energy and light that sustain you, then there is this depression, there is created what medical science calls a "favourable ground" and something takes advantage of it.It is doubt, gloominess, lack of confidence, a selfish turning back upon yourself that cuts you off from the light and divine energy and gives the attack this advantage. It is this that is the cause of your falling ill and not microbes. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other19-physicalmay-problems1929#p4p14</ref>
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Depression is always Hostile [''source of illness''] here means hostile to the Yoga. An illness which comes in the ordinary course as the sign result of physical causes—even though adverse universal forces are the first cause—is an acute egoismordinary illness. When you feel that it is coming near, tell yourself: "I am in One brought by the forces hostile to Yoga to upset the system and prevent or disturb progress—without any adequate physical reason—is a state hostile attack. It may have the appearance of egoistic a cold or any other illness, I must cure myself but to the eye which sees the action of it." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/25-december-1950#p29</ref> =Why Illness Develops?= ...each one should find out for himself why he forces and not only the outward symptoms or results, the difference is illclear. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0931/19illness-juneand-1957health#p5p17</ref>
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...when you take a wrong attitudeAttacks of illness are attacks of the lower nature or of adverse forces taking advantage of some weakness, opening or response in the nature, it immediately sets off —like all the disorders..other things that come and have got to be thrown away, they come from outside. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0331/juneillness-20and-1962health#p6p15</ref>
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If the nervous being is...nervous but it is not your consciousness that wants to be ill, it is some part of your body or at the most, a fragment of the vital that has gone wrong and wishes to be ill, and unstableunless you observe with a good deal of attention you do not notice it)...excitableBut I say that the situation gets complicated if behind this there is an attack, then ..a pressure from adverse forces who really want to harm you.there You may have opened the door through spiritual error, through a movement of vanity, of anger, of hatred or of violence; even be if it is merely a wrongly acute creative imagination which brings in disorders into movement that comes and goes, that can open the body that door. There are nervous always germs watching and not physical..only waiting for an occasion. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3105/illness22-andjuly-health1953#p49p60</ref>
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Depression And in the body, whatever has trouble adjusting to this new Power creates difficulties, disorders and discouragement have illnesses. Yet in a very adverse effect; they cut out holes in it[nervous envelope]flash you sense that if you were totally receptive,you would become formidable.That's the sensation.. render it weak That's more and more my sensation: that if the entire consciousness, the entire most material consciousness—the most material—was receptive to this new Power...open to hostile attacks..one would become for-mi-dable. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0313/16may-june6-19291972#p32</ref>
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...passive meditation...leaves Your inner condition becomes a cause of illness when there is a resistance or revolt in it or when there is some part in you that does not respond to the vital protection; or even there may be something there that almost willingly and body passive and without defence against inertia, illness etc..wilfully calls in the adverse forces.The consciousness instead It is enough if there is a slight movement of being concentrated gets widely diffused and loosely extended...Concentration must this kind in you; the earlier stages be active hostile forces are at once upon you and dynamic with their attack takes often the consciousness gathered and capable form of turning the will in any directionillness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2903/concentration19-andmay-meditation1929#p86p12</ref>
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The psychical prana interferes This divergence between the progress in all the higher operations to deform them,... limits thereby the operations of the mind inner being and becomes the link inertia of its dependence on the body and its subjection to fatigue, incapacity, disease, disorder, insanity, often creates a dislocation in the pettinesssystem, the precariousness and even the possible dissolution of the workings of the that manifests itself as an illness. This is why people who take up Yoga frequently begin by suffering from some physical mentality… <ref>http://incarnateworddiscomfort or disorder. That need not happen if they are on their guard and careful.Or if there is a greater and unusual receptivity in/cwsa/24/purification-the-lower-mentality#p5</ref> ==Affinity in the Being== body, then too they escape...if But an unmixed receptivity making the illness has succeeded in touching physical parts closely follow the physical-physical...If it manages to pass through, to enter without one's being aware pace of it, it means there the inner transformation is some affinity somewherehardly possible, and unless the body has already been prepared in the past for the part processes of the being which has responded must be convincedYoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0403/3116-marchjune-19511929#p22p6</ref>
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You have been told: "Open yourself, you will receive the Force." You have been told: "Have faith, be of goodwill and you will be protected." And indeed you are bathed in the Consciousness, bathed in the Force, bathed in the Protection and to the extent you have faith and open yourself, you receive all that, and it helps you in keeping fit and in rejecting the little inner disturbances and re-establishing order when these come, in protecting yourself against small attacks or accidents which might have happened.But if somewhere in your being—either in your body or even in your vital or mind, either in several parts or even in a single one—there is an incapacity to receive the sages saydescending Force, "Disorder occurs because this acts like a grain of sand in a machine. You know, a fine machine working quite well with everything going all right, and you put into it just a little sand (nothing much, only a grain of sand), suddenly everything is damaged and the nature has decided machine stops. Well, just a little lack of receptivity somewhere, something that is unable to be in disorderreceive the Force, that is completely shut up (when one looks at it, it becomes as it were a little dark spot somewhere, a tiny thing hard as a stone: the Force cannot enter into it," it's 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 sillywonderfully, finds itself sick, and sometimes just when you were in the normal equilibrium; you were in good health, everything was going on well, you had nothing to complain about.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0605/may22-8july-19651953#p39p41</ref>
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In ...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 psychological domainbrain was disordered, only didn't function any more. And tobacco—nicotine is a very serious poison. It is a poison that destroys the patients who do cells...it is a slow poison because one doesn't feel it immediately except when one smokes for the first time and it makes one very ill. And this should make you understand that it ought not want to recoverbe done. Only, do not recover. Perhaps people are so stupid that they think it is a weakness and so continue until they get used to the same for physical diseases.poison.And the body no longer reacts, it allows itself to be destroyed without reacting: you get rid of the reaction. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1606/524-januarymarch-19331954#p3p4</ref>
<center>~</center> ...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> <center>~</center>==In Specific Illnesses==
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…[For Individuals Practicing Integral Yoga]
[Based on Aphorism<199>Disease will always return to the body if the soul Fever is flawednot a purifying action; for it is the sins of the mind are the secret cause of the sins sign of an attack on the body. So too poverty and trouble will always return on man in society, so long as the mind of a fight and resistance to the race is subjected to egoismattack.] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1031/aphorismillness-199and-200health#p1p62</ref>
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Disease Insanity is needlessly prolonged and ends in death oftener than always due to a vital attack, or rather possession although there is inevitable, because the mind of the patient supports and dwells upon the disease of his body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-386-387-388-389#p1</ref>[Based on aphorism<386>] ==To Teach often a Lesson== physical reason as well...all the so-called illnesses, everything, all the disorders are Hysteria is due to make you learn a lesson—as soon as you've learned pressure from the lesson, it's over! But then, you are so slow and heavy, you take so much time to realize that it's a lesson that it drags on and on vital world and onthere may be momentary possessions also. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0531/octoberaccidents-14possession-1964madness#p63p22</ref>
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T.B. is the result of a strong psychic-vital depression..One thinks of curing an illness only because one suffers. If it caused you no unpleasantness, you would never think The lack of being cured vitality which easily comes as a result of itmodern civilisation is therefore a very strong contributing cause. So, in Moderns have not the solid nervous system and the natural (as opposed to the economy artificial and morbid) zest of Nature I think life that the first purpose of physical suffering was to give you a warningtheir ancestors had. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0631/17specific-novemberillnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-1954problems#p19p4</ref>
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Your illness gave you an opportunity to open your eyes towards Depression is always the need for sign of an inner changeacute egoism. You When you feel that it is coming near, tell yourself: "I am in a state of egoistic illness, I must take advantage cure myself of this and progressit. " <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1504/inner-causes25-ofdecember-illness1950#p28p29</ref>
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The illness has come like a test and gone like a purification carrying away all that was standing in the way of the joy of ''Q. Sweet Mother, when one sees an integral consecration. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/inner-causes-of-illness#p17</ref>coming, how can one stop it?''
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...The second condition is to call the state light, a light of illness was certainly a necessityequilibrium, often a WILLED necessity ...by the soul in order to go faster on the path—to save timelight of peace, to gain lives. And if you canquietude and balance, if you have the power and to bring that soul push it into contact with all the cells of the force that governs its existence and leads it towards progressbody, towards the Realizationenjoining them not to be afraid, you do a work of quite a superior quality.<ref>http://incarnatewordbecause that again is another condition.in/agenda/05/september-26-1964#p32</ref>
==Old Habit First, not to want to be ill, and then not to be afraid of Consciousness==illness. You must neither attract it nor tremble. You must not want illness at all. But you must not because of fear not want it; you must not be afraid; you must have a calm certitude and a complete trust in the power of the Grace to shelter you from everything, and then think of something else, not be concerned about this any longer. When you have done these two things, refusing the illness with all your will and infusing a confidence which completely eliminates the fear in the cells of the body, and then busying yourself with something else, not thinking any longer about the illness, forgetting that it exists... there, if you know how to do that, you may even be in contact with people who have contagious diseases, and yet you do not catch them. But you must know how to do this.
Many people say, "Oh, yes, here I am not afraid." They don't have any fear in the mind, their mind is not afraid, it is strong, it is not afraid; but the body trembles, and one doesn't know it, because it is in the cells of the body that the trembling goes on.It trembles with a terrible anxiety and this is what attracts the illness.It is there that you must put the body consciousness through old habit force and the quietude of consciousness admits a perfect peace and an absolute trust in the Grace. And then, sometimes you are obliged to drive away with a similar force in your thought all suggestions that after all, the physical world is full of illnesses, and these are contagious, and because one was in contact with somebody who is ill, one is sure to catch it, and then, that the inner methods are not powerful enough to act on the physical, and all kinds of illness…stupidities of which the air is full. These are collective suggestions which are passed on from one person to another by everybody. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3107/illness11-andmay-health1955#p54p10,p11,p12,p13,p14</ref>
<center>~</center>The child must be taught as early as possible that this does not work and that he does not become more interesting by being ill, but rather the contrary. The weak have a tendency to believe that their weakness makes them particularly interesting and to use this weakness and if necessary even illness as a means of attracting the attention and sympathy of the people around them. On no account should this pernicious tendency be encouraged. Children should therefore be taught that to be ill is a sign of weakness and inferiority, not of some virtue or sacrifice.
When you are open 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 in contact with regular development of all the Divineparts of his body. Every day some twenty or thirty minutes, the Vibration gives you strengthpreferably on waking, energy; and if you are quiet possible, will be enough, it fills you with great joy—and all to ensure the proper functioning and balanced growth of his muscles while preventing any stiffening of this in the cells joints and of the bodyspine, which occurs much sooner than one thinks. You fall back into In the ordinary consciousness general programme of the child's education, sports and straightawayoutdoor games should be given a prominent place; that, without anything changingmore than all the medicines in the world, will assure the SAME thingchild good health. An hour's moving about in the sun does more to cure weakness or even anaemia than a whole arsenal of tonics. My advice is that medicines should not be used unless it is absolutely impossible to avoid them; and this "absolutely impossible" should be very strict. In this programme of physical culture, although there are well-known general lines to be followed for the SAME vibration coming from best development of the human body, still, if the SAME source turns into a painmethod is to be fully effective in each case, it should be considered individually, if possible with the help of a malaisecompetent person, a feeling of uncertaintyor if not, instability by consulting the numerous manuals that have already been and decrepitude… <ref>http://incarnatewordare still being published on the subject.in/agenda/02/october-2-1961#p15</ref>
==In Addictions== 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.they The number of hours of sleep will diminish as the child grows.But until maturity it should not be less than eight hours, in a quiet, well-ventilated place.The child should never be made to stay up late for no reason.drink wine as one drinks waterThe hours before midnight are the best for resting the nerves. They drink it neatEven during the waking hours, relaxation is indispensable for all who want to maintain their nervous balance. To know how to relax the muscles and after some time the nerves is an art which should be taught to children when they become ill. They have cerebral disorders..are very young. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0612/24-marchphysical-1954education#p4p9,p10,p11</ref>
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...nicotine is a very serious poisonthere are those who are luminous, sunny, happy, smiling and those who are gloomy, dull, misanthropic, dissatisfied, who live in grey shadows. It is a poison that destroys the cells...when one smokes for latter who catch all the first time and it makes one very illunpleasant things. And this should make you understand that it ought not to be done. Only, people Those who are so stupid that radiant (they think may be radiant without it is being a weakness and so continue until they get used to the poison. And the body no longer reactsspiritual radiance, it allows itself to may be destroyed without reacting: you get rid just a radiation of good see, balance, an inner confidence, the reaction. <ref>http://incarnateword.joy of living), those who carry in/cwm/06/24-march-1954#p4</ref> ==Role themselves the joy of Suggestions== The feeling of illness is at first only a suggestion; it becomes a reality because your physical consciousness accepts it...It is so living, these are in harmony with the body consciousness Nature and illness... <ref>http://incarnateword., being in/cwsa/31/illness-harmony with Nature, generally avoid accidents, they are immune from diseases and-health#p22</ref> <center>~</center> When a force their life develops pleasantly as far as it is thrown on you or a vibration of illness, it carries to the body this suggestion...—the suggestion comes to the mind possible in the form, "I am weak, I don't feel well, I am catching a coldworld as it is." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3106/illness27-andjanuary-health1954#p24p8</ref>
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If you drink unfiltered water and thinkThe secret is to emerge from the ego, "Now I am drinking impure water"get out of its prison, you have every chance of falling sick. And even though such suggestions may not enter through unite ourselves with the conscious mindDivine, the whole of your subconscious is theremerge into Him, almost helplessly open not to allow anything to take any kind of suggestionseparate us from Him. In life Then, once one has discovered this secret and realises it in one's being, pain loses its justification and suffering disappears. It is an all-powerful remedy, not only in the action deeper parts of the subconscious that has being, in the soul, in the larger share spiritual consciousness, but also in life and it acts a hundred times more powerfully than in the conscious partsbody. The normal human condition is a state filled with apprehensions and fears;...To be free from all fear can come only by steady effort and discipline... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/19-may-1929#p18</ref> <center>~</center>
... illnesses try to come from one person to another—they attack, by a suggestion... or otherwiseThere is no illness, no disorder which can resist the nervous being discovery of this secret and try to come the putting of it into practice, not only in. Even if the illness is not contagious, this often happens, higher parts of the being but it comes more easily in contagious illnesses. The suggestion or touch has to be thrown off at once. <ref>http://incarnatewordthe cells of the body.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p31</ref>
If one knows how to teach the cells the splendour that lies within them, if one knows how to make them understand the reality which makes them exist, gives them being, then they too enter the total harmony, and the physical disorder which causes the illness vanishes as do all other disorders of the being. <centerref>~https://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/13-february-1957#p9,p10,p11</centerref>
Something is wrong here or there in the body, a small thing;... If you are unfortunate enough 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>==By Faith==
==Role It is quite obvious that one of Vital==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. That is why one is quite surprised at times: "Here's a man with a great realisation, an exceptional person, and he is a slave of all the smallest physical things, while this man, well, he is so simple and looks so uncouth, but he has a great faith and goes through difficulties and obstacles like a conqueror!"
I don't say that a highly cultured man can't have faith, but it is more difficult, for there is always this mental element which contradicts, discusses, tries to understand, which is difficult to convince, which wants proofs.His faith is less pure..It is necessary, then, to pass on to a higher degree in the evolutionary spiral, pass from the mental to the main obstacle is your own vital movementsspiritual; then, naturally, faith takes on a quality of a very high order. ...Quietness of the mind But I mean that in facing your illness daily life, ordinary life, a very simple man who has a very ardent faith can have a mastery over his body—without it being truly a "mastery"; it is also necessary—agitation stops the action of the Forcesimply a spontaneous movement—a control over his body far greater than somebody who has reached a much higher development. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3109/doctors19-andjune-medicines1957#p9p20,p21</ref>
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If you receive a blow in the vital, the body suffers the consequenceThere are sadhus... illnesses they live in a truly dirty condition—and they are the result of what happens in the vital: shocks, accidents, fighting, ill-willfree from all illness. Probably because they have faith...they do not think of their body, they think of the life of their soul. Externally this is translated by an They have no 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/05/2922-apriljuly-1953#p8p24</ref>
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...there is the vital which...takes a very perverse pleasure inYoga... suffering...sometimes it becomes an occasion for enjoying faith and right auto-suggestion are of great use until the illness...all kinds of things which all come from point comes when no suggestion is necessary because the vital Truth-consciousness acts automatically and are all detestable, ..produces its natural results.But originally I think that it was this: "Take care!" it's like a danger-signal: "Take care, there's something out of order."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0631/17illness-novemberand-1954health#p20p39</ref>
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...vital when left to itself often invites illness, it finds must be an integral faith and it dramatic—thinks must be absolute. And it makes must be of the right kind, not merely a force of mental thought or will, but something more and deeper. The will put forth by the mind sets up opposite reactions and creates a resistance...Mental faith is not sufficient; it interesting to othersmust be completed and enforced by a vital and even a physical faith, likes a faith of the body...you must reach down to indulge the tamasmost subconscious, etc. etcyou must fix the faith in the very cells of the body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/illness5-andmay-health1929#p63p18</ref>
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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 aware of the sea of pranic shakti around us, feel it with the mental consciousness, concretely with a mental sense, see its courses and movements, and direct and act upon it immediately by the will.But until we thus become aware of it, we have to possess a working or at least an experimental faith in its presence and in the power of the will to develop a greater command and use of this prana force.there There is always something necessary a faith, ''śraddhā'', in the vital power of the mind to lay its will on the state and action of the body, such as those have who heal disease by faith, will or mental action; but we must seek this control not only for this or any other limited use, but generally as a legitimate power of the inner and greater over the outer and lesser instrument. This faith is combated by our past habits of mind, by our actual normal experience of its comparative helplessness in our present imperfect system and by an opposing belief in the body and physical consciousness. For they too have a limiting ''śraddhā'' of their own which is pleased with becoming more weak and ill so that opposes the idea in the mind when it can feel and lament its tragic caseseeks to impose on the system the law of a higher yet unattained perfection. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3124/illnessthe-power-of-andthe-healthinstruments#p64p7</ref>
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Illness in What has to be done with the body at first is like impurity in to make it open to the vitalForce,...It may happen that in throwing out the so as to receive strength against illness (the attacking force) one throws out also something within, some impurity which helped it to and fatigue—when they come, but that is there must be the result of power to react and throw them off and to keep a Force working within and not constant flow of force into the illnessbody. It If that is quite possible that an illness or attack done, the rest of the bodily change can be transferred in this way from one to another and indeed it very commonly happens… wait for its proper time. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3128/illnesstransformation-and-healththe-body#p62p2</ref>
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As the body consciousness becomes more open to the Force (it is always the most difficult and the last to open up entirely), this frequent stress of illness will diminish and disappear.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p56</ref>
Diseases, accidents, catastrophes, wars, all that, is because ==By Strengthening the human material consciousness is so small, so narrow that it has a rabid taste for drama. And of course, behind there is the vital being having fun, influences too... all that enjoys an opportunity to delay the divine Work and make things difficult... But the seed of the difficulty is ...extreme pettiness of...the material physical consciousness—which has an absolutely perverse taste for drama... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/june-14-1967#p3</ref>Nervous Envelope==
<center>~</center> ...one To whatever cause an illness may be due, material or mental, external or internal, it must be very careful and look at oneself with great discrimination to discover , before it can affect the physical body, touch another layer of the small part in oneself being thatsurrounds and protects it...takes pleasure This subtler layer is called in being illdifferent 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. there All communications with the exterior world are many reasonsmade through this medium, and it is this that must be invaded and penetrated first before the body can be affected. There are people who are ill out If this envelope is absolutely strong and intact, you can go into places infested with the worst of spitediseases,even plague and cholera, and remain quite immune...out It is a perfect protection against all possible attacks of hate...through despairillness, there are people... one so long as it is vexed whole and says: "entire, thoroughly consistent in its composition, its elements in faultless balance...you will see 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 consequences vibrations of what he has done to me! Let it come! I am going to be illour psychological states." One does not say it openly to oneselfPeace and equanimity and confidence, for one would scold oneselffaith in health, but there undisturbed repose and cheerfulness and bright gladness constitute this element in it and give it strength and substance. It is something somewhere that thinks a very sensitive medium with facile and quick reactions; it readily takes in that wayall kinds of suggestions and these can rapidly change and almost remould its condition. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0503/2216-julyjune-19531929#p57</ref>
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...If one can feel them [ifattacks of illness] so coming and get the strength and the habit to throw them away before they can enter the body, then one can remain free from illness returns. This Even when the attack seems to rise from within, that means only that the cause it has not been changed, that detected before it entered the cause is subconscient; once in the vital 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 still there; because though it is only came direct and not through the effect which has been curedsubconscient, yet you could not detect it while it was still outside. But if one can act simultaneously upon both Very often it arrives like that, frontally or more often tangentially from the cause and the effectside, direct, and forcing its way through the cause subtle vital envelope which is sufficiently receptive to consent to changeour main armour of defence, then but it can be stopped there in the envelope itself before it penetrates the material body. Then one is completely curedmay feel some effect, once for alle.<ref>http://incarnatewordg.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p13</ref> =How feverishness or a tendency to Prevent Illness?= Firstcold, but there is not to want to the full invasion of the malady. If it can be illstopped earlier or if the vital envelope of itself resists and remains strong, vigorous and intact, then not to be afraid of illness. You must neither attract it nor tremble. You must not want there is no illness at all. But you must not because of fear not want it; you must not be afraid; you must have a calm certitude the attack produces no physical effect and a complete trust in the power of the Grace to shelter you from everything..leaves no traces.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0731/11illness-mayand-1955health#p13p15</ref>
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We ought to use ...we can feel the symptoms of illness, fever or cold for instance, in the divine health subtle physical sheath before they are manifest in us to cure the gross body and prevent diseasesdestroy them there, preventing them from manifesting in the body.Take now the call for the Divine Power, Light, Ananda.If we live only in the outward physical consciousness, it may descend and work behind the veil but we shall feel nothing and only see certain results after a long time. Or at most we feel a certain clarity and peace in the mind, a joy in the vital, a happy state in the physical and infer the touch of the Divine. But if we are awake in the inward physical, we 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 conscious and blissful and we shall sense directly the Divine Power and Presence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1028/aphorism-394-395-396-397the-398physical-399consciousness#p1p12 </ref>
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The secret is You must not accept but reject it [suggestions] with your physical mind and so help the body consciousness to emerge from throw off the egosuggestion. If necessary, make a counter-suggestion, get out of its prison"No, unite ourselves with I shall be well; I am and shall be all right." And in any case call in the Divine, merge into Him, not Mother's Force to allow anything to separate us from Him. There is no illness, no disorder which can resist throw out the discovery of this secret suggestion and the putting of illness it into practice, not only in the higher parts of the being but in the cells of the bodyis bringing.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0931/13illness-februaryand-1957health#p10p22</ref>
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When people are ill and get well quicklyOh, how interesting it is, if you knew how interesting.... Take coughing, for instance (not in the chest, in the throat). So, they are full the first vibration: an irritation that draws your attention in order to make you cough. It has a certain kind of gratitude; vibration which we may call "pointed," but never do they think it's not violent: it's light, annoying. It's the first little vibration. So with that vibration: awakening of the attention in the surrounding consciousness (of being grateful when 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 wellvery 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 yet there is apprehension at what's going to happen; the other is a will that nothing should be disturbed by the irritation; and then all of a sudden, the faith that the Force is capable of restoring order everywhere immediately (none of this is a much greater miracle!..intellectual: it's vibrations). <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0508/23february-december8-19531967#p52p8</ref>
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For you ...if the vital mind withdraws its consent, refuses to be able dominated by the habitual suggestions and the habitual movements, these recurrences of depression and despair can be made soon to do all kinds cease. But it is not easy for this mind, once it has got into the habit of things ...you must have consent, even a triple equilibrium—mentalquite passive and suffering and reluctant consent, vital, physical—and not to cancel the habit and get rid of the black circle. It can be done easily only when the mind refuses any longer to believe in each of the parts, but also in suggestions or accept the ideas or feelings that start the three parts in their mutual relations...circle. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0530/22the-julyemergence-or-coming-forward-of-the-1953psychic#p30p45</ref>
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Illness must not be accepted as a means of transformation; it rather indicates certain difficulties encountered by the force of transformation especially in the vital and the body.But it is not necessary that these difficulties should be allowed to take this obscure form of illness..particular Asanas have even an effect All illness should be rejected and all suggestions of illness; the Force should be called in destroying particular diseases,—and with Pranayama maintains perfectly to cure by the assent to health and the refusal of assent to the body..suggestions that bring or prolong its opposite. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2331/hathayogaillness-and-health#p10p4</ref>
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...in Yogathe body consciousness through old habit of consciousness admits the force of illness and goes through the experiences which are associated with it—e.g.congestion of phlegm in the chest and feeling of suffocation or difficulty of breathing etc.faith To get rid of that one must awaken a will and right auto-suggestion are of great use until the point comes when no suggestion is necessary because consciousness in the Truth-consciousness acts automatically and produces its natural resultsbody itself that refuses to allow these things to impose themselves upon it.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p39p54</ref>
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...as the consciousness becomes more subtle by practice of Yoga, we can come Wake up in yourself a will to be aware of the sea of pranic shakti around us,conquer...But until we thus become aware of it, we have to possess Not a ...necessary a faith, śraddhā, mere will in the power of the mind to lay its but a will on in the state and action very cells of the your body, such as those . Without that you can't do anything; you may take a hundred medicines but they won't cure you unless you have who heal disease by faith, a will or mental actionto overcome the physical illness...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2415/thewill-powerto-of-theconquer-instrumentsillness#p7p1</ref>
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The exercises 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 Pranayama 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 familiar mechanical means emotion and the sense of freeing it: the will and getting control the life impulses are similarly charged with its power and its urge of self-effectuation; even in the pranic energy...The pranic Shakti can be directed not only upon ourselvesbody the idea works so that, for example, the potent thought and will of health replaces its faith in illness and its consent to illness, but effectively towards others 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 things our substance of mind, life or happenings for whatever purposes the will dictatesmatter. Its effectivity It is immensein 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/2422/the-divineascent-towards-shaktisupermind#p6p23</ref>
==Having FaithBy Pranayama and Asana==
If people had an absolute faith in ...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 healing body or life or their combined limitations. The power of these exercises of breathing to bring about a purified and unobstructed state of the Gracenervous system is a known and well-established fact of our physiology. It helps also to clear the physical system, but is not 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, perhaps they would spare themselves quite a few —particular Asanas have even an effect in destroying particular diseases,—and with Pranayama maintains perfectly the health of the body.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/1123/march-14-1970hathayoga#p12p10</ref>
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The exercises of Pranayama are the familiar mechanical means of freeing and getting control of the pranic energy...it must be an integral faith They heighten too and it must be absolute. And it must be of set free the right kindpsychic, not merely a force of mental thought or will, but something more and deeperspiritual energies which ordinarily depend for their opportunity of action on the pranic force. The will put forth by But the mind sets up opposite reactions and creates a resistance...Mental faith is not sufficient; it must same thing can be completed done by mental will and enforced practice or by an increasing opening of ourselves to a vital and even a physical faith, a faith higher spiritual power of the bodyShakti...you must reach down to the most subconsciousThe pranic Shakti can be directed not only upon ourselves, you must fix but effectively towards others or on things or happenings for whatever purposes the faith in the very cells of the body..will dictates.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0324/5the-maydivine-1929shakti#p18p6</ref>
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There are sadhus...they live in 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 truly dirty condition—and they are free from all few days, the illnessreturns. Probably because they have faith...they do This means that the cause has not think of their bodybeen changed, they think of that the cause is in the vital and is still there; it is only the life of their soul. They have no illness.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/0504/2231-julymarch-19531951#p24p13</ref>
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Those who are radiant...they may be radiant without it being a spiritual radiance...those who carry in themselves the joy of living, these are in harmony with Nature and, being in harmony with Nature, generally avoid accidents, they are immune from diseases and their life develops pleasantly as far as it is possible in the world as it is... <ref>http''Q://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/27-january-1954#p8</ref>What to do about illness?''
==Being Receptive to the Divine Force== What has to be done with the body at first is to make A: Be passively confident: let me do 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 throw them off and to keep a constant flow of force into the body. If that it is done, the rest of the bodily change can wait for its proper time.’ <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2815/transformationcure-andby-the-bodydivine-grace#p2p8</ref>
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Try There is something there that expects the illness, accepts it when it comes and gives it free play. He must learn to keep yourself open calm and quiet in the mind and vital being, to refuse to regard the illness and the tendency to our Force it in the bodyas something normal to it, regarding it rather as something imposed from outside, and he must believe firmly that is 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 main thing..illness and weakness will disappear. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctorsillness-and-medicineshealth#p8p65</ref>
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...he[one] must believe firmly that it[illness] must and will go. If he[one] can keep this attitude and open ''Q:When I am sympathetic with a sick person my body begins to feel the true force, symptoms of his disease''A:The best way is to call for the mind Divine Presence of Truth and nervous being once strengthenedHarmony, to replace the illness vibrations of disorder and weakness will disappearconfusion. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3115/illness-and-healthgeneral#p65p28</ref>
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...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 wasTo heal [is''illness''] absolutely impossible to have by the LEAST disorder in true force is obviously the body, and not only in best—provided the body, but IN ALL THE SURROUNDING MATTER...There was[is] a divine harmony in EVERYTHINGamenable...So if that[this] is established in It has a permanent way,...There can no longer consciousness of its own which must be accidents, ...illness,... disorders, and everything should harmonize..fully enlightened before it gives a full response. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0131/junedoctors-6and-1958medicines#p10p1</ref> <center>~</center> When the physical disorder comes, There are always germs watching and only waiting for an occasion. That is why one must not should be afraid; one mustvery careful...face it with courageAnyhow, calmnessfor some reason or other, confidence, with the certitude influence has pierced through the shell of protection and acts there encouraging the illness to become as bad as it can be. In that illness case the first means is not quite sufficient. Then you have to add something; you must add the Force of spiritual purification which is a falsehood and such an absolutely perfectly constructive force that nothing that 's in the least destructive can survive there. If you have this Force at your disposal or if one turns entirelyyou can ask for it and get it, you direct it on the spot and the adverse force usually runs away immediately, for if it happens to be in full confidencethe midst of this Force it gets dissolved, it disappears; for no force of disintegration can survive within this Force; therefore disintegration disappears and with it that also disappears. It can be changed into a complete quietude constructive force, that is possible, or it may be simply dissolved and reduced to nothing. And with that not only is the divine Graceillness cured, It will settle in these cells as It but all possibility of its return is established in the depths also eliminated. You are cured of the beingillness once for all, and the cells themselves will share in the eternal Truth and Delightit never comes back. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0905/1322-februaryjuly-19571953#p12p60</ref>
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As the body consciousness becomes more open to the Force For certain things, I remember, when there are certain disorders, something wrong (it is always the most difficult and with the last to open up entirely)perception of a consciousness that has become very sharp, this[you can see when that disorder is the] frequent stress natural origin of an illness will diminish and disappear.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p56</ref> ==Strengthening , for example, or of something very serious), with the Nervous Envelope== ...illness ...mustcall, before it can affect the physical body, touch another layer of concentration and the being...calledresponse ...[the etheric body, the nervous envelopedisorder is dissolved]. It is 's almost a subtle body and yet almost visible...surrender, because it emanates from 's an uncalculating self-giving: the physical body and closely covers it. All communications damaged spot opens to the Influence, not with the exterior world are made through an idea of getting cured, but like this medium(''gesture like a flower opening out''), and it is this that must be invaded and penetrated first before the body can be affected. If simply like this envelope is absolutely strong and intact, you can... remain quite immune. It unconditionally—that 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 conditionthe most potent gesture. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0308/16december-june20-19291967#p25</ref>
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If one The particular place in the body affected by an illness is conscious an index to the nature of the subtle body or with inner disharmony that has taken place. It points to the subtle consciousnessorigin, one can stop an illness on its way and prevent it is a sign of the cause of the ailment. It reveals too the nature of the resistance that prevents the whole being from entering advancing at the physical bodysame high speed.It indicates the treatment and the cure.If one could perfectly understand where the mistake is, find out what has been unreceptive, open that part and put the force and the light there, it would be possible to re-establish in a moment the harmony that has been disturbed and the illness would immediately go. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/illness16-andjune-health1929#p52p8</ref>
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The nervous (vital-physical) being supports the body—if it is calm and strong and solidWe are ALWAYS off balance, then the body is well supported and can withstand illness and weakness always off balance (more orless), if illness comes, it will bear and more easily get rid of it. If the nervous being is weaksomething else, then above, a Will or a Consciousness, that holds it is the opposite... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-up and-health#p49</ref> <center>~</center> ..makes it work.So if we can call on that Will—that Will for Harmony—and if we develop can have the inward physical consciousnessFlame within, we become aware that Flame of a subtle environmental physical atmosphere aspiration, and can feel the forces of make contact, we emerge from so-called illness coming towards us through it, feel them even at a distance which is unreal, an unreal and false sensation andjust one way of being of the general Disorder, if and we have learned how to do itenter into Harmony, we can stop them by the will or otherwise... <ref>http://incarnatewordand then everything is fine.in/cwsa/28/the-physical-consciousness#p12 </ref> ==Rejecting the Suggestion of Illness== The body should reject illness as energetically as we reject falsehood in the mind. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1506/will-tojuly-conquer10-illness1965#p10p6</ref>
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All illness should be rejected It [''the descent of the higher consciousness into the most physical''] brings light, consciousness, force, Ananda into the cells and all suggestions the physical movements. The body becomes conscious and vigilant and performs the right movements, obeying the higher will or else automatically by force of illness; the Force should be called in consciousness that has come into it. It becomes more possible to cure by control the functionings of the assent body and set right anything that is wrong, to health deal with illness and pain etc. A greater control comes over the actions of the refusal body and even over happenings to it from outside, e.g. minimising of assent accidents and small mishaps. The body becomes a more effective instrument for work. It becomes possible to minimise fatigue. Peace, happiness, strength, lightness in the whole physical system. These are the suggestions more obvious and normal results which grow as the consciousness grows, but there are many others that bring or prolong its oppositeare possible. There is also the unity with the earth-consciousness, the constant sense of the Divine in the physical, etc. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3130/illnessdescent-and-healththe-lower-nature#p4p26</ref>
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...depression is one must be neither cowardly nor fearful. When the worst of all illnesses and we physical disorder comes, one must not be afraid; one must not run away from it, must reject face it with courage, calmness, confidence, with the certitude that illness is a ''falsehood'' and that if one turns entirely, in full confidence, with a complete quietude to the divine Grace, It will settle in these cells as much energy as we use to get rid It is established in the depths of a diseasethe being, and the cells themselves will share in the eternal Truth and Delight.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1409/depression13-february-1957#p10p12</ref>
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A strict discipline is needed to cure the body of fear. The cells themselves tremble. It is only by discipline, by yoga that one can be done easily only when overcome this fear. But it is a fact that one can catch anything through fear, even invite an accident. And, you see,from a certain point of view everything is contagious. I knew a person who got a wound through the mind refuses any longer to believe in the suggestions or accept the ideas or feelings kind of fear that start the circlehe felt seeing someone else's wound. He really got it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3005/the-emergence-or-coming22-forward-of-thejuly-psychic1953#p45p10</ref>
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By 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 [of illness] I do not mean merely thoughts or words. When For mystics the hypnotist says, "Sleep", it best cure as soon as one begins to feel afraid of something is a suggestion; but when he says nothing but only puts to think of the Divine and then snuggle in his silent will to convey sleep arms or makes movements of at his hands over feet and leave him entirely responsible for everything that happens, within, outside, everywhere—and immediately the face, that also fear disappears. That is the cure for the mystic. It is the easiest of all. But everybody does not enjoy the grace of being a suggestionmystic. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3105/illness14-andoctober-health1953#p23p36</ref>
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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 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 thing always becomes as bad as it can be, sometimes to the point of catastrophe.There is the whole range and this can be seen quite easily.your belief Well, this depends on a kind of happy rhythm of the movement of life in the sanitary precautions you take helps them , which is either harmonious enough to workresist 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 least unpleasant contact into something painful and harmful. For your thought There isthe whole range, "Now I am disinfected from someone who can go through the worst contagion and safe"epidemics without ever catching anything to one who falls ill at the slightest chance. So naturally it always depends on the constitution of each person; and as soon as one wants to make an effort for progress, it naturally depends on the control one has acquired over oneself, until the moment when the body becomes the docile instrument of the higher Will and one can obtain from it a normal resistance to that extent it makes you safeall attacks. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0309/19-mayjune-19291957#p16p7</ref>
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It is always better not true that doctors have said that if one can teach the body to saybear pain, "I will now have no it becomes more and more illness", it attracts resilient and less easily disrupted—this is a concrete result. In the attention case of these malevolent powers and people who know how to avoid getting completely upset as soon as they immediately want have a pain somewhere, who are able to bear it quietly, to prove keep their balance, it seems that they can still disturb the body's capacity to bear the disorder without going to pieces increases. This is a great achievement. I have asked myself this question from the purely practical, external standpoint and it seems to be like this. Simply when they comeInwardly, I have been told this many times—told and shown by small experiences—that the body can bear much more than we think, reject themif no fear or anxiety is added to the pain.<ref>http://incarnatewordIf we eliminate the mental factor, the body, left to itself, has neither fear nor apprehension nor anxiety about what is going to happen—no anguish—and it can bear a great deal.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p48</ref> <center>~</center>
...you get a queer sick feeling inside, a cold [Based on Aphorism<93> Pain is the touch of our Mother teaching us how to hear and grow in the back, a little uneasiness,..rapture.as though the general harmony had been disturbed. Then you must concentrate all the more and with a great strength She has tree stages of will keep the faith that nothing can do you harmher schooling, nothing can touch you. This sufficesendurance first, you can throw off the illness at that moment. But you must do this immediately ...you must not wait five minutesnext equality of soul, it must be done at once..last ecstasy. ] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0410/31-marchaphorism-195193#p22p3</ref>
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But you mustn't be afraid. Neither afraid of falling ill, nor of becoming imbecile, nor even...if of dying—you must be like this ("vast and quiet gesture, like the vital mind withdraws sea"). If we could only have (I have it from time to time, it comes: it's on its consent, refuses way) a feeling of smiling trust. But to get that the consciousness must be dominated by as vast as the habitual suggestions and creation itself. You are as vast as the habitual movementscreation, these[the] recurrences of depression and despair can be made soon to ceasetotally trusting....It 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 easily only when the mind refuses any longer to believe in the suggestions or accept the ideas or feelings that start the circle. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3013/themay-emergence17-or-coming-forward-of-the-psychic1972#p45p40</ref> <center>~</center>
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… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p37</ref>==By Detachment==
==Having Will The physical mind...makes use of Health==the nervous substance; if we withdraw it from the nervous substance, we no longer feel anything, for that's what gives us the perception of sensation....We know something is wrong, but we no longer suffer from it…
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You This 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 sleep or its waking, its movement or its rest, its pain or its pleasure, its health or ill-health, its vigour or its fatigue, its comfort or its discomfort, or 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 very strong will positive neglect of the physical frame. But we have not either to be affected in mind by hunger or thirst or discomfort or ill. This is -health or attach the importance which the physical and vital man attaches to the things of the first conditionbody. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0723/11the-mayrelease-from-subjection-to-the-1955body#p11p2</ref>
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Do One step towards it [illness] is to get the inner consciousness separate from the body—to feel that it is not you who are ill but it is only something taking place in the body and not love affecting your ill health consciousness. It is then possible to see this separate body consciousness, what it feels, what are its reactions to things, how it works. One can then act on it to change its consciousness and the ill health will leave youreactions. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1531/willillness-toand-conquer-illnesshealth#p4p54</ref>
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Wake up in yourself a will to conquer. Not a mere will ..all those physical disorders of the body, those disorders in the mind functioning or even organic disorders, suddenly (naturally, the constant state is one of aspiration: an intense, continuous, conscious aspiration) and suddenly—suddenly—an almost stupefying Response: all disorder disappears, not only inside but around (around, sometimes over a will rather vast extent), and everything becomes automatically organized, harmonized, without the least effort, and it starts... moving within an extraordinary progressive harmony; then, with no apparent reason, without anything having changed in the very cells 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 your body. Without that the why, you candon't do anythinghave the key!......the only recourse is a blissful surrender (''gesture of immobile offering Upward'').. and not a heavy, not an inert surrender: intense, intense! ...That's the only thing. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1506/will-tomarch-conquer20-illness1965#p1p34,p37</ref>
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...congenital diseases can be cured only by an integral transformation of the body consciousness through old habit itself and we have not reached yet that period in the sadhana; otherwise it is only a so-called "miraculous cure" that can take place and that kind of consciousness admits "miracle" can happen only as the force result of illness...To get rid of that one must awaken a will an absolute sincerity in the consecration to the Divine and consciousness an unshakable faith in the body itself that refuses to allow these things to impose themselves upon it… Divine Grace. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3115/illnesscure-andby-the-divine-healthgrace#p54p13</ref>
=How to Deal with Illness?=Medicine==
Medicines are a ''Q: What to do about illness?pis aller'' A: Be passively confident: let me do [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. Very often it and is some part of the material consciousness that is unreceptive—at other times it is donethe subconscient which stands in the way even when the whole waking mind, life, physical consent to the liberating influence. If the subconscient also answers, then even a slight touch of the Force can not only cure the particular illness but make that form or kind of illness practically impossible hereafter.’ <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1531/curedoctors-by-the-divineand-gracemedicines#p8p6</ref>
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''Q...whenever I had an illness...I had Mother, how are medicines to be used for a body which is not altogether unconscious? For even when we draw on the divine grace, we see that we need a trustlittle medicine, and if a complete assurance that little medicine is given it had no realityhas a good effect....every time a blow came, I would tell my Does this mean that only the body, "But whatneeds medicine or is there something wrong with the mind and the vital?'s the use of being ill since you'll just have to get well!" ...And it faded away only little by little... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/october-10-1964#p40</ref>
<center>~</center>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 medicines which cure, it is the body which decides to be cured." Very well, so when the body is told, "Take this", it says to itself, "Now I am going to get better", and because it says "I am going to get better", well, it is cured!
When the disease came backIn almost every case, I said there are things which help—a little—provided it is done within reasonable limits. If it is no longer within reasonable limits, you are sure to myselfbreak down completely. You cure one thing but catch another which is usually worse. But still, 'Very wella little help, in a way, a little something that gives confidence to your body: "Now it will be all right, now that I have taken this means , it must is going to be dealt with in all right"—this helps it a new waygreat deal and it decides to get better and it is cured.' <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/march-7-1961#p10</ref>
<center>~</center>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.
It [If one can cure by the Force as you have often done, it is the descent of best—but if for some reason the higher consciousness into body is not able to respond to the most physical]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.becomes more possible It is not that the Force ceases to act and leaves all to the medicines,—it will continue to control act through the functionings consciousness but take the support of the treatment so as to act directly on the resistance in the body and set right anything that is wrong, which responds more readily to deal with illness and pain etcphysical means in its ordinary consciousness. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3009/descent-and-the19-lowerjune-nature1957#p26p9,p10,p11,p12</ref>
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...Once the illness has got Medicine is necessary for our bodies in, it [disease only because our bodies have learned the body] can fight and overcome it..art of not getting well without medicines.But this implies only a defensive powerEven so, one sees often that the moment Nature chooses for recovery is that in which the power to react against an invading enemy—it life is not true freedomabandoned as hopeless by the doctors. [Aphorism<404>]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0110/octoberaphorism-404-405-17406-1957407#p3p1</ref>
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...But sick people... Drugs often cure the body when I tell them, "Be sincerethey do not merely trouble or poison it," I know what I mean: but only if they REALLY want their physical attack on the disease is supported by the force of the Divinespirit; if that force can be made to work freely, all that must stop. That's all..drugs are superfluous. [Aphorism<407>] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0610/mayaphorism-404-405-8406-1965407#p41p4</ref>
<center>~</center>==Role of Supramental Descent==
The supramental descent is necessary for a dynamic action of the Truth in mind, vital and body...the method is to change This would imply as a final result the subconscient into disappearance of the conscient—if each thing that rises to unconsciousness of the surface becomes conscious, at that moment body; it must would no longer be changed. There is a more direct method still: it is subject to enter the subconscient in one's full consciousness decay and work there..disease. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0728/11transformation-mayand-1955the-body#p7p16</ref> <center>~</center>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.
...when there is an illness ...automatically But with the cells forget ...their sadhana and everythingsupramental manifestation, and something new has taken place in the body: it feels 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 rememberedits own master, ohautonomous, I was very happy. But nowwith its two feet solidly on the ground,...as soon as the disorder comes, the cells first..it were.got This gives a little anxious: "Oh, we are so bad that we are still catching illnesses"—that was a period; and then, afterwards there was the physical 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 comesthe whole being suddenly drawing itself up, a power of aspiration and a power of realization that comes with the sense: "We are winning a victory, we are winning a new victoryits head lifted high—I am my own master...."<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agenda/0601/julyoctober-717-19651957#p1p3,p4</ref>
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The absolute immunity can only come with the supramental change...For below the last stage supramental it is that the body should forget 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 has been illis a law of the nature; that's very importantin a supramentalised body immunity from illness would be automatic, inherent in its new nature.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0531/octoberillness-10and-1964health#p27p52</ref>
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Suppose that as a result of some illness or other, there is some sort of pain at a precise spot.At that moment all will depend, as I said at the beginning, on the approach most familiar to you.But we can give an example.You must put a strong will for getting rid of your illness and are in pain, in great pain; it is hurting very much, you must remain quiet and unperturbed by the results. The two are not contradictorysuffering a lot. One should accompany the other… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/will-to-conquer-illness#p6</ref>
<center>~</center>First point: do not stress the pain by telling yourself, "Oh, how painful! Oh, this pain is unbearable! Oh, it is being worse and worse, I shall never be able to bear it", etc., all this sort of thing. The more you go on thinking like this and feeling like this and the more your attention is concentrated on it, the pain increases amazingly.So, the first point: to control yourself sufficiently not to do that.
Second point: as I said, it depends on your habits...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 positive silencepsychic peace; they have different values and qualities, which this is at the same time an individual question―you try to realise within yourself a complete immobility—that's very good as an antidote state of peace or attempt to disorderenter into a conscious contact with a force of peace....Suppose you succeed more or less completely. <ref>http://incarnatewordThen, if you can draw the peace into yourself and bring it down into the solar plexus―for we are not talking of inner states but of your physical body―and from there direct it very calmly, very slowly I might say, but very persistently, towards the place where the pain is more or less sharp, and fix it there, this is very good.in/agenda/04/august-7-1963#p27</ref>
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...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 most difficult from only reality is the yogic point of view is toothachedivine Reality, because it is very close to and all the brain….Usually in cells of this body are a tooth it more or less deformed expression of this divine Reality―there is the nerve which has been attacked by the cariesonly one Reality, the diseaseDivine, and which begins to protest with all its strength. Soour body is a more or less deformed expression of this sole Reality―if by my aspiration, if you succeed in establishing...immobilitymy concentration, you prevent it from vibratingI can bring into the cells of the body the consciousness of this sole Reality, 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://incarnateworddisorder must necessarily cease.in/cwm/06/17-november-1954#p23</ref>
If you can add to that a movement of complete and trusting surrender to the Grace, then I am sure that within five minutes your suffering will disappear. If you know how to do it.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. <centerref>~https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/4-july-1956#p21,p22,p23,p24,p25,p26,p27,p28</centerref>
...There's a power in the sound itself, and by forcing the body to repeat the sound, you force it is possible even to turn receive the pains of illness like any other pain into a form of pleasure; for pain and pleasure are both of them degradations of an original Ananda and can be reduced into vibration at the terms of each other or else sublimated into their original principle of Ananda… <ref>http://incarnatewordsame time.But I've noticed that if something in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p58</ref> <center>~</center> Suppose that as the body's working gets disturbed (a result pain or disorder, the onset of some illness or other, there is some sort of pain at ) and I repeat my mantra in a precise spot...First point: do not stress certain way—still the pain...Second point... draw the peace into yourself and bring it down into the solar plexus...and from there direct it very calmly...persistentlysame words, towards the place where the pain is...same mantra, but said with a certain purpose and fix it there...This is not always enough...But if by widening this above all in a movement you can add a sort of mental formation...that the only reality is the divine Reality...bring into the cells surrender, surrender of the body the consciousness of this sole Realitypain,...and trusting surrender to the Gracedisorder, then I am sure...your suffering will disappear… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/4-july-1956#p21</ref> <center>~</center> These [There] are phenomena of self-identification. Only, they are involuntary... When someone cannot sleep ...his nerves are ill and weakened by excessive agitationa call, he is told to sit in front of like an aquariumopening—it has a marvelous effect... and look at The mantra acts in just the fish. So he looks at the fishright way, moving around, coming in this way and going, in no other...After And after a while he lives the life everything is put back in order. And simultaneously, of fishes: he comes and goes, swims, glidescourse, plays. And at the end precise knowledge of what lies behind the hour his nerves are in a perfect state disorder and he is completely restful! <ref>http://incarnatewordwhat I must do to set it right comes to me.in/cwm/05/12-august-1953#p18</ref> ==Calling in the Divine Force== Most of them [illnesses] can be got rid of almost at once by faith and calling in But quite apart from this, the force. Those that are chronic are more difficult, but they too can be got rid of by mantra acts directly upon the same means if persistently usedpain itself. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3101/illnessjune-and4-health1960#p44p4</ref>
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The only thing I can suggest about diseases is to call down peace...with Keep the call, mind away from the concentration and body by whatever means—whether by reading Sri Aurobindo's books or meditation. It is in this state that the response Grace acts... [And it is the disorder is dissolved]Grace alone that cures. It's almost The medicines only give a surrender,... the damaged spot opens faith to the Influence,body...(gesture like a flower opening out),...unconditionally—that That is the most potent gestureall.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0815/decemberpeace-20and-1967quiet-faith-and-surrender#p25p10</ref>
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''Q:When I am sympathetic with a sick person my body begins ...the knowledge of the power to feel cut the connection between the suffering part and the symptoms of his diseaserecording brain.One cuts the connection, then the brain does not register.That's what one does, what the doctors do with anaesthetics.They cut the connection of the nerves between the spot that'' As ill and the brain; so the brain no longer perceives anything or it is reduced to a minimum… there is one thing that one can try to do:The best way it is not to call for concentrate on one's pain, to turn the Divine Presence attention away as much as possible, not think at all of Truth one's pain, think as little as possible and Harmonyabove all not be concentrated on it, not to replace 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 vibrations mistake one always makes: to think, be there, attentive, awaiting the sign of disorder and confusionpain; then naturally it comes, it comes increased by the concentration of the attention given to it. That is why, when one is not well the best thing to do is to read or have something read, you see; it depends on the condition one is in. But if one can turn one's attention away, one no longer suffers. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1507/general27-april-1955#p28p16</ref>
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...When one has a very bad toothache (I don't know if you have a pain somewhere... 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 corresponds is very direct and hurts very much), the best way—in fact there's no other—the best way is to cut it: "It is good, you have done your work, you told me that something withinwas 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 something else. If afterwards you start saying, "Do I still have the contact with the true Force puts things back in orderpain?... " <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/07/11/march-28may-19701955#p23p44</ref>
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The pains ...phenomena of self-identification. Only, they are involuntary. And this is also one of the methods used today to cure nervous diseases. When someone cannot sleep, cannot be restful because he is 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'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 his troubles) and look at the body come from fish. So he looks at the same source as fish, moving around, coming and going, swimming, gliding, turning, meeting, crossing, chasing one another indefinitely, and also the trouble in water flowing slowly and the vital nature; passing fish... Remain always quiet After a while he lives the life of fishes: he comes and persist in opening yourselfgoes, swims, glides, plays. The Force that releases you from And at the vital trouble, can also remove end of the disturbance hour his nerves are in a perfect state and he is completely restful!But the nervous part and condition is that one must not think of one's troubles, simply watch the physical body… fish. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3105/illness12-andaugust-health1953#p93p18,p19</ref>
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The only thing 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 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 suggest about diseases be done at will, going out of one's body and remaining just above it), the body is stretched out on a bed, a bench, on the ground, anywhere; you are stretched just above it and from there, consciously, you pull the Force from above, and if you are used to call down peace. Keep doing it, if your aspiration is strong enough, you get the mind away 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 whatever meansanyone.If someone comes along, sees you stretched out and shakes you, it is extremely dangerous.You must do this in quiet conditions, ask people not to disturb you or better shut yourself up where they can't disturb you. It But you can concentrate 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 this state the body itself. Once that is done you can get back and you are cured. This has been done for a sunstroke, which is a fairly violent thing, and also for typhoid fever, and many other illnesses, as, for instance, for a liver which was suddenly upset somehow (not due to indigestion, but a liver which doesn't function properly for the moment); it may also be cured in the Grace actssame 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. And Consequently, when I say that if one masters the spiritual force and 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 Grace alone body, draw the Force, concentrate it, have all this mastery.... It is not very frequent, but it is not impossible. And one can be sure that curesif one is helped... In fact, there is a much easier method, it is to call for help. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1504/peace-and31-quiet-faith-andmarch-surrender1951#p10p23</ref>
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...You thought for months perhaps or even for years, you thought you were completely rid of a 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, unless one used changes the[uses subconscient into the mind]..conscient, it always happens like this. And the method is to make favourable formations—... to give confidence change the subconscient into the conscient—if each thing that rises to the bodysurface becomes conscious, to tell it at that moment it must be changed. There is just a passing disturbance ...and if more direct method still: it enters a real state of receptivity, is to enter the disorder will disappear as easily as it has come, and one can cure oneself subconscient in a few seconds—if one knows how to do that's full consciousness and work there, one gets wonderful resultsbut this is difficult. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0507/2311-decembermay-19531955#p36p7</ref> ==Overcoming Fear==
Not === Auto Suggestions===The mind has a considerable power of formation and a direct action on the body, and usually one uses this power to make oneself ill. For as soon as the least thing goes wrong, the mind begins to shape and build all the catastrophes possible, to ask itself whether it could be afraid this, whether it could be that, if it is going to be like that, and how it will all end. Well, if instead of letting the mind do this disastrous work, one used the same capacity to make favourable formations—simply, for example, to give confidence to the body, to tell it that it is just a passing disturbance and that it is nothing, and if it enters a real state of falling ill! That's whatreceptivity, the disorder will disappear as easily as it has come, and one can cure oneself in a few seconds—if one knows how to do that, one gets wonderful results. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0705/october23-22december-19661953#p4p36</ref>
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A strict discipline These auto-suggestions [''of being restored to good health'']—it is needed 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, its occult power to cure make thought, will or simple conscious force effective on the body—in the subconscient they silence or block the body suggestions of death and illness (expressed or unexpressed) that prevent the return of fearhealth. The cells themselves trembleThey help also to combat the same things (adverse suggestions) in the mind, vital, body consciousness. It Where all this is only by disciplinecompletely done or with some completeness, by yoga that one the effects can overcome this fear..be very remarkable. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0531/22illness-julyand-1953health#p10p37</ref>
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Of course it [''cancer''] can [''be cured by Yoga''], but on condition of faith or openness or both...as soon Even a mental suggestion can cure cancer—with luck, of course, as one begins to feel afraid of something [one] is to think shown by the case of the Divine and then snuggle in his arms or at his feet and leave him entirely responsible woman operated on unsuccessfully for everything that happenscancer, within, outside, everywhere—and immediately but the fear disappears.doctors lied and told her it had succeeded.Result, cancer symptoms all ceased and she died many years afterwards of another illness altogether. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0531/14specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-octoberphysical-1953problems#p36p2</ref>
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...One must be conscious, conscious of the working of one's organs, aware of the body can bear much more than we thinkone that does not behave very well, if no fear or anxiety telling it immediately what is to be done to set itself right. What is needed (I shall explain it to you later on) is added to the paingive them a lesson as one does to little children. If we eliminate When they begin indulging in unhealthy fancies (indeed it is then the mental factoroccasion to say it) you must tell them: no, it is not like that the body, left work is to itselfbe done, has neither fear nor apprehension nor anxiety about what it is going the other way! Suppose for example, your heart begins to happen—no anguish—and throb madly; then you must make it calm, you tell it can bear a great deal. [Based on Aphorism<93> Pain that this is not the touch of our Mother teaching us how way to hear behave, and grow at the same time (solely to help it) you take in rapture. She has tree stages of her schoolinglong, very regular rhythmic breaths, endurance firstthat is, next equality the lung becomes the mentor of soul, last ecstasythe heart and teaches it how to work properly.]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1005/aphorism22-july-931953#p3p36</ref>
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Mental fear—all who have a little control over themselves or any human dignity can eliminate it; vital fear It is more subtle and asks for a greater control; as for physical fear, a veritable yoga is necessary to overcome it, for particularly noticeable that all the cells of the body digestive functions are afraid of everything extremely sensitive to an attitude that is unpleasantcritical, painfulbitter, 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 cells of digestive function is disturbed, the body[they] more unkind you become anxious, they doncritical, dissatisfied with life and things and people. So you can't like to be uncomfortablefind any way out. And thenthere is only one cure: to deliberately drop this attitude, to overcome thatabsolutely forbid yourself to have it and to impose upon yourself, the by constant self-control of , a conscious will is necessary...It is this kind of trembling of material, physical fear in the cells deliberate attitude of the body which aggravates all illnesses-comprehending kindness. Just try and you will see that you feel much better.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0903/19-junethe-1957bhikkhu#p6p25</ref>
<center>~</center> But you mustn't be afraid. Neither afraid of falling ill, nor of becoming imbecile, nor even... of dying—you must be like this (vast and quiet gesture, like =What Are the sea). <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/13/may-17-1972#p40</ref> ==Practicing Indifferent Detachment=Obstacles to Cure?=
The physical mindHuman 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.makes use This energy is given for two reasons: to restore order out of the nervous substance; if we withdraw it from disorder caused by the nervous substanceaccident or illness, we no longer feel anything, for that's what gives us and to impart a transformative force to repair or change the source of the perception illness or accident.But instead of sensationusing the energy in this way, they immediately throw it out.They start stirring about, reacting, working, speaking ...We know something is wrongThey 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 we no longer suffer from for an inner use, they feel absolutely flat, run down. And itis universal...They don't know, they do not know how to make this kind of indifferent detachment is movement—to turn within, to use the energy (not to keep it, it doesn't keep), to use it to repair the ESSENTIAL condition for damage done to the establishment of true Harmony in body and to go deeply within to find the most material Matter—the most externalreason for this accident or illness, physical Matter This is the logical consequence... on the cause of illnesses and how there to overcome themchange 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/agenda/0201/januaryjuly-3121-19611958#p14p1,p2</ref>
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...detachment of the mind must but when you are able to be strengthened by truly still, there is ALWAYS a certain attitude of indifference little light—a warm little light, very bright and wonderfully still, behind; as if it were saying, "You only have to the things of will." Then the body; we must not care essentially about its ...health or ill-health's cells panic: "Will, how? How can I? The illness is on me,I am overcome...This does not mean How can I will? It's AN ILLNESS"—the whole drama (and that we shall not keep the body wasn't in right order so far as we can; we have not 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 fall into violent asceticisms or a positive neglect of the physical frameyour illness! Calm down. But we have not either As if you wished to be affected in mind byill! 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.discomfort " And once or ill-health twice, for one thing or attach another (because the importance which 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 physical next minute: a few seconds and vital man attaches to it's over. Then the things of the bodycells 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/cwsaagenda/2305/the-release-from-subjection-tooctober-the14-body1964#p2p60</ref>
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One step towards it[illness] ...there is to get the inner consciousness separate from sense of an established harmony among the cells, increasingly established among the cells, which represents the body—to feel right functioning, whatever that may be: it 's no longer a question of a stomach or a heart or this or that. And the slightest thing that comes and disturbs that harmony is not you who are ill VERY painful, but it at the same time there is only something taking place in the body knowledge of what to do to reestablish the harmony instantly; and not affecting your consciousnessif the harmony is reestablished, the functioning isn't affected. It is then possible to see this separate body consciousnessBut if out of curiosity, what for instance (it feels'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 desire to learn"), if you are its reactions unlucky enough to be that way, you can be sure ("laughing") that you'll have something very unpleasant which, according to the doctor (according to thingsignoramuses), how it worksbecomes an illness or disrupts the body's functioning. One can then act While if you don't have that unhealthy curiosity and, on the contrary, will the harmony not to be disrupted, you only have to, we could say poetically, bring one drop of the Lord on it the troubled spot for everything to change its consciousness and reactionsbe fine again. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3104/illnessjuly-and20-health1963#p54p39</ref>
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Only, when one There is no such thing as an incurable illness in reality—for what the doctors call such is only an illness for which they have not very much coddledyet been able to discover a physical remedy. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-problems#p1</ref>But, when each man can make his own experiment. If one has a little endurance and decides within himself not bad throat, this may be due to pay too much attentionthe fact that the day before one was in a state of depression. Or perhaps one is very unhappy, quite remarkably dissatisfied, one finds everything very bad, and the pain diminishes… next day one gets a cold in the head.... Everyone must make his own observations. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0604/1731-novembermarch-19541951#p21p4</ref>
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...the knowledge of the power to cut the connection between the suffering part and the recording brain. ...all this calls for an occult power or a training...without going so far, there is one thing that one can try to do: it is not to concentrate on one's pain,...But[and] if one can turn one's attention away, one no longer suffers. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/27-april-1955#p16Aphorism</ref199> ==Re-establishing Harmony== So there are two things you have Disease will always return to do when you have discovered the disorder, big or small—the disharmony. ...body if the first thing to do is to quieten oneself, bring peace, calm, ... Afterwards you see what soul is flawed; for the sins of the mind are the secret cause of the disorder..sins of the body.So too poverty and through trouble will always return on man in society, so long as the pressure mind 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 secondsrace is subjected to egoism. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0510/22aphorism-july199-1953200#p58p1</ref>
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One must be consciousWhen people are ill and get well quickly, conscious they are full of the working gratitude; but never do they think of one's organs,...When being grateful 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 madlyare well; 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, yet that is, the lung becomes the mentor of the heart and teaches it how to work properly... a much greater miracle! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/2223-julydecember-1953#p36p52</ref>
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The particular place ...the experience that the Divine ALONE is acting in the body affected by an illness is an index to , that He has BECOME the body, yet all the nature while retaining his character of divine omniscience and omnipotence) well, the inner disharmony whole time it remained actively like that has taken place. It points , it was absolutely impossible to have the originLEAST disorder in the body,... It indicates the treatment and not only in the curebody, but IN ALL THE SURROUNDING MATTER. If one couldSo if that is established in a permanent way, there CAN NO LONGER be illness it is impossible... find out what has been unreceptiveThere can no longer be accidents, open that part and put the force and the light therecan no longer be illness, it would there can no longer be possible to re-establish disorders, and everything should harmonize (probably in a moment the harmony that has been disturbed and the illness would immediately go. progressive way) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0301/16june-june6-19291958#p8p10</ref>
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...health or illness is a choice (to express it simply). A choice of every minute. For this body, at any rate, that's how it is.It means abdicating with regard to the intervention general functioning of the Vibration physical substance, of Harmony into the vibration body, and having illnesses you get cured of Disorderor not, allowing [allows] Disorder depending on... other laws than physical laws. But there is every minute—every minute—the possibility to choose the true consciousness, or there is, yes, a disorder or disequilibrium. It's something which is unable to follow the movement of progressive harmony, or sometimes even which doesn't want to cease.I am talking about cells and groups of cells. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agenda/0509/marchjune-2515-19641968#p34p14,p15</ref>
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...we think the body Disease is needlessly prolonged and ends in good health, that it's balanceddeath oftener than is inevitable, because the mind of the patient supports and that "something is introduced from outside, which causes you to fall ill," but it's not like that! We are ALWAYS off balance, dwells upon the disease of his body is always off balance... and it is something else, above, a Will or a Consciousness, that holds it up and makes it work. So if we can call on...that Will for Harmony—and if we can have ...that [theAphorism<386>] Flame of aspiration, and make contact, we emerge from so-called illness… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0610/julyaphorism-10386-1965#p6</ref> ==Restoring Order== ...if order is restored at the center of disorder, everything follows naturally, without your paying it any special attention. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/september387-26388-1964389#p63p1</ref>
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That [The] intrusion of Disorder makes itself felt everywhere, it has repercussions everywhere...if you You are able given an illness purposely to bring to the attacked spot the true Vibration—the Vibration of Order and Harmony—and make you stop the Disorder... all the other things are put back in order, as if automatically. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/september-26-1964#p57</ref> <center>~</center> If you organise everything—your feelings, your thoughts, your impulses, etc,—around the psychic centre which is the inner light, you will see that all inner disorder will change into a luminous order. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/15-january-1951#p5</ref> <center>~</center> ...the body itself awakening in its cells, a freedom of the cells themselves, an absolutely new vibration that sets disorders right—even disorders that existed prior to the supramental manifestation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/october-17-1957#p7</ref> <center>~</center> ...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... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-subjection-to-the-body#p5</ref> =What Are the Obstacles to Cureprogress?= ...someone who is ill and BELIEVES in the reality 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> ==Rejecting the Divine Force== I know cases,... of people who are sick: if they follow the routine of the doctor and medicines and treatment and disease, they get well; if by some mischance (!) they call on the Force and I apply Surely it, the more I apply, the more terrified they are! They feel absolutely unexpected phenomena and they are terrified: "...What's happening to me!" As if it were absolutely catastrophic. The minute the Force comes and they feel just a bit of it,... they resist... they become absolutely restless...That is, the whole system spends its time rejecting and rejecting all that comes. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/november-28-1964#p12</ref> <center>~</center> ...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. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/july-21-1958#p2</ref> ==Unhealthy Curiosity== ...there is the sense of an established harmony among the cellsActually,... And you may turn the slightest thing that comes round and disturbs say that harmony is VERY painful, but at the same time there are people whose aspiration is the knowledge of what to do to reestablish the harmony instantly;... But if out of curiosityso constant,...you start asking yourself, "What's whose goodwill so total that? What effect will it have? What's going whatever happens 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 them they take as a trial on the troubled spot for everything path to be fine again.<ref>http://incarnatewordmake progress.in/agenda/04/july-20-1963#p39</ref> ...when you are able to be truly still, there is ALWAYS a little light—a warm little light, very bright and wonderfully still, behind; as if it were saying, "You only have to will." Then the body's cells panic: "Will, how? How can I? The illness is on meknew people who, I am overcome. How can I will? It's AN ILLNESS"—Then something with a general wisdom says, "Calm down...don't remain attached to your illness!..So whenever they consent...They try—immediatelyfell ill, took that light comes again...as 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> =How to Cure Illness?= Have faith. There is no disease which cannot be cured by proof of the Divine Grace<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/cure-by-the-divine-grace#p3</ref> Peace and stillness are the great remedy for disease.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 one is caught in an illness, how should one pray to the Mother?’’ A:Cure me, O Mother!<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/cure-by-the-divine-grace#p10</ref> I don't want you help them to be ill and always I am with you to cure you—but you too must want to be curedprogress. Do not torment yourself and always nestle in my arms so as to receive my love and force.<ref>httpThey told themselves://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/23-september-1934#p2</ref> Ultimately to put it quite tritely, one can cure only if the disease isn't necessary to the individual's development.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/10/december-13-1969#p14</ref> If this present difficulty is useful ... (it's the body addressing the Lord)..for Your Work—so be it..It [The body] doesn't ask to be cured of the illness! It doesn't ask, it is ready; 'All right,' it says. 'As long as I can keep goinga good sign, I will keep am going. As long as I can last, I will last. But that's not what I'm asking for: I am asking to be cured of my stupidity.' I believe this is what...gives it the necessary endurance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/february-7-1961#p24</ref> ...in order to be able to cure an illness, one must find out its the cause, not its microbe.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p42</ref> ...There are two ways of curing an my illness spiritually. One...the person is receptive; the force of consciousness is put upon the affected part and its pressure restores order<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p11</ref> In other cases, if I shall make the body lacks receptivity... one sees the inner correspondence with the psychological state which has brought about the illness and acts on that. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p12</ref> When you are completely cured, it will be an indication of some inner necessary progress.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/will-to-conquer-illness#p6</ref> But when you have had ...an illness...the body remembers for I knew a very long time. If you want to be completely cured, you must cure few of this memory in the body, this is absolutely indispensable...When the remembrance is effaced, the body is truly healed.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/13-october-1954#p47</ref> ...all you have to do is this (''gesture of stepping back''), and there it is.And it is the root cure of disorder. It is anti-disorder.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/03/october-30-1962#p62</ref> ...the cure for all physical disorders lies in the cells becoming convinced—conscious kind and convinced—that they are an expression of the Divine, or even that they are divine in their essencemoved on magnificently.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/12/october-16-1971#p6</ref> ...most disorders of the body There are connectedothers,...If one can strike at their psycho-physical root, one can cure even without knowing the pathological whole of on the matter and working through the symptoms is a possibility... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p25</ref> ==Surrender== If a surrender is to be madecontrary, it's to Him. ..."May Your Will be donewho," ...And one sees that there was absolutely no imperative need to be ill or for the disequilibrium to occur.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/09/june-15-1968#p17</ref> ...that[The] disorganization is what prevents the cohesion necessary for the cells to constitute an individual body, so then you know, "Ah (gesture far from making use of dissolution), it'll be the end." Then the cells aspirething, there is a sort of central consciousness of let themselves fall flat on the body which aspires intensely, with as complete a surrender as it can make: "Your Will, Lord, Your Will, Your Willground...." Then... first there is a peace, then a light, then Harmony—and the disorder has vanished. And once So much the disorder has vanished, there is instantly IN THE CELLS a sense of living eternity, of living worse for eternitythem.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/november-15-1967#p32</ref> ...all ...disorders of But the body...suddenly (naturally, the constant state is true attitude when 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.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/march-20-1965#p34</ref> ...if something in the body's working gets disturbed (a pain or disorder, the onset of some illness) and I repeat my mantra in a certain way—still the same words, the same mantra, but said with a certain purpose and above all in a movement of surrender, surrender of the pain, the disorder, and a call, like an opening—it has a marvelous effect. ...And after a while everything is put back in order. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/june-4-1960#p4</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. <ref>httpsay://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p83</ref> ...congenital diseases can be cured only by an integral transformation of the body itself and we have not reached yet that period in the sadhana; otherwise it "There is only a so-called "miraculous cure" something that can take place and that kind of "miracle" can happen only as the result of an absolute sincerity in the consecration to the Divine and an unshakable faith in the Divine Grace. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/cure-by-the-divine-grace#p13</ref> ==Changing the Attitude== These[the] maladies are a creation of the pressure of hostile forces;...The only way is to remain quiet, dissociate yourself and refuse to accept it or make much of it, allow the calm and strength that the Mother has been putting around you to enter your mind and permeate your nervous system...The cure may take time because your nervous system has been long subjected to these influences and, when they are evicted, they return with violence to re-establish their hold. But if you can acquire and keep patience and fortitude and the not all right consciousness and right attitude with regard ; I am going to these things, the hold they have will progressively disappear.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/accidents-possession-madness#p15</ref> The attitude in the cells changes—not the disorder (!), the disorder changes only because of the cells' reaction, that's see 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.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/march-30-1963#p19</ref> ...all the digestive functions are extremely sensitive to an attitude " You must never think that is critical, bitter, full of ill-will, to a sour judgment...it is a vicious circle: the more the digestive function is disturbed, the more unkind ...critical, dissatisfied with life...And there is only one cure: to deliberately drop this attitude,...and to impose upon yourself,...a deliberate attitude of all-comprehending kindness.<ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-bhikkhu#p25</ref> ...there are many people now who...treat their illnesses by making conscious mental suggestions to the body which counteract the obscure secret suggestions of illness in the subconscient. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p40</ref> ==Using the Divine Force== To heal [illness] by the true force is obviously the best—provided the body is amenable. It has a consciousness of its own which must be fully enlightened before it gives a full response. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p1</ref> ...the Force of spiritual purification which is such purposely sent an absolutely perfectly constructive force that nothing that's in the least destructive can survive there. ..you direct it on the spot and the adverse force usually runs away immediately...And with that not only is the illness cured, but all possibility of its return is also eliminated. You are cured of the illness once for all, it never comes back. that would truly be a very wicked Divine!<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p60</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> ...if it[illness] has succeeded in getting through the protection and entering you,...go out of your body, remain above in a way to be able to see the body... and from there, consciously, you pull the Force from above, ...you begin to push these forces into the body...until you see that the body is receiving, that the Force is entering, the disorder is being set right and there is a relaxation in the body itself. Once that is done you can get back and you are cured. …[if]you don't know how to go out of the body,... there is a much easier method, it is to call for help. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p23</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. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/03/february-24-1962#p36</ref> ...it[sciatica] cannot resist the Force quietly and persistently applied. Other illnesses can resist, but sciatica being entirely tamasic cannot. The application of Force does not yet, probably, come natural to you, so it brings a sense of struggle not of quiet domination, hence the restlessness etc. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-problems#p18</ref> Of course it [cancer] can [be cured by Yoga], but on condition of faith or openness or both. Even a mental suggestion can cure cancer <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-problems#p2</ref> ==Medicine== 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.<ref>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</ref> Medicine is necessary for our bodies in disease only because our bodies have learned the art of not getting well without medicines. [Based on Aphorism<404>Medicine is necessary for our bodies in disease only because our bodies have learned the art of not getting well without medicines. Even so, one sees often that the moment Nature chooses for recovery is that in which the life is abandoned as hopeless by the doctors.]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-404-405-406-407#p1</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<407>] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-404-405-406-407#p4</ref> ==Role of Supramental Descent== 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.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/transformation-and-the-body#p15</ref> The absolute immunity can only come with the supramental change. …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>
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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