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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> An illness is quite simply, always and in every case, even when doctors tell you there are germs—in every case it's a disequilibrium in the being: a disequilibrium between various functionings, a disequilibrium between forces....any discomfort, any disease is a falsehood… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/1209/septemberjune-2915-19711968#p6p12</ref>
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...falsehood in it as an imperfection of the body is a falsehood in the consciousness The falsity to be got rid of as you try to get rid of the consciousness naturally has material consequencesvital imperfections or mental errors... and that's what illness is!...<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0229/octoberequality-the-2chief-1961support#p15p18</ref>
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An illness is...falsehood in every case it's the body is a disequilibrium falsehood in the being: a disequilibrium between various functionings, a disequilibrium between forces… consciousness. The falsity of the consciousness naturally has material consequences... and that's what illness is!... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0902/juneoctober-152-19681961#p12p15</ref>
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Illness is always Each illness represents its own vibratory mode. Each illness has its own vibratory mode; it represents a lapse into unconsciousness through whole field of vibrations to be corrected. It's the EXACT measure of what in Matter resists the incapacity divine Influence—the exact measure, down to sustain the movement of transformation..atom. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/januaryfebruary-258-1967#p24p7</ref>
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ItAn epidemic is a ''collective''s [ illness is] and comes from a ''collective'' impurity… The forms of illness vary according to the EXACT measure condition of what in Matter resists the divine Influence—the exact measure, down to each person and his link with the atomwhole.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0816/february8-8july-19671964#p7p3</ref>
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All disease In its lowest parts (vital-material) it is a means towards some new joy of health.... [Based on Aphorism<135>]All disease is a means towards some new joy the agent of health, all evil and pain a tuning of Nature for some more intense bliss and good, all death an opening on widest immortalityphysical illness etc. Why and how this should be so, is God's secret which only the soul purified of egoism can penetrate.]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/1128/marchthe-4physical-1970consciousness#p1p25</ref>
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An epidemic 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 collective illness particular force. Only most people do not really choose—they undergo the play of the forces. Your illnesses, depressions etc. are the repeated play of such forces. It is only when one can make oneself free of them that one can be the true person and comes from have a collective impurity… true life—but one can be free only by living in the Divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1628/8-julyoccult-1964knowledge#p3p9</ref>
<center>~</center><center>~</center>=Why Illness Develops?=
An illness which comes in the ordinary course as the result ==Causes 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>Illness==
<center>~</center>''Q.Sweet Mother, if someone falls seriously ill, is this a purely physical phenomenon or is it a difficulty in his spiritual life?''
One [illness]brought by A. That depends on the forces hostile to Yoga to upset 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 system and prevent or disturb progress—without any adequate physical reason—is a hostile attackmost ordinary manner, it is an ordinary accident.It depends absolutely on the person.<ref>http://incarnatewordThe 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/cwsa/31/illness-fact every person is ill in his own way, and his way depends on what he is, on his state of consciousness and-health#p17</ref>the life he leads.
<center>~</center>We have often said that illnesses are always the result of a disturbance of equilibrium, but this disturbance can occur in completely different states of being. For the ordinary man whose consciousness is centred in the physical, outer life, it is a purely physical disturbance of equilibrium, of the functioning of the different organs. But when behind this purely superficial life, an inner life is being fashioned, the causes of illness change; they always become the expression of a disequilibrium between the different parts of the being: between the inner progress or effort and the outer resistances or conditions of one's life, one's body.
No two Even from the ordinary external point of view, it has been recognised for a very long time that it is a fall in the resistance of the vitality due to immediate moral causes which is always at the origin of an illness. When one is in a normal state of equilibrium and lives in a normal physical harmony, the body has a capacity of 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 alikecalled contagious—in fact, though labels all vibrations are putcontagious, but still, certain diseases are considered as especially contagious...to group them; but Well, a man who, even from the purely external point of view, is in fact every person is ill a state in which his own wayorgans function harmoniously and an adequate psychological balance prevails, has at the same time enough resistance for the contagion not to affect him. But if for some reason or other he loses this equilibrium or is weakened by depression, dissatisfaction, moral difficulties or undue fatigue, for instance, this reduces the normal resistance of the body and his way depends on what he isopen to the disease. But if we consider someone who is doing yoga, then it is altogether different, on his state in the sense that the causes of disequilibrium are of consciousness a different nature and the life illness usually becomes the expression of an inner difficulty which has to be overcome.So each one should find out for himself why he leadsis ill. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-june-1957#p2p1,p3,p4,p5</ref>
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...health It's the effect of a combination of three things: bad will (at the worst, a refusal to follow the movement), a more or illness less total bad will; an ignorance of the laws and their consequences, that is... , the causes and effects (a complete ignorance); and, of course, a form of inertia—it's all a choice form of every minuteinertia, but the greatest form of inertia is the incapacity to receive and respond.These three things combined are what creates diseases and so on, and the final effect—death.That is, the disintegration of created harmony. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/09/junemarch-152-1968#p15p38</ref>
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All life The nervous (vital-physical) being supports the body—if it is calm and strong and solid, then the play body is well supported and can withstand illness and weakness or, if illness comes, it will bear and more easily get rid of universal forcesit.If the nervous being is weak, then it is the opposite..most people...undergo If the nervous being is not merely weak, but nervous and unstable, over-sensitive, vehement or excitable, then there is much fluctuation, restlessness, exaltation and depression in the being—there may even be a wrongly acute creative imagination which brings in disorders into the play body that are nervous and not physical—there is no physical illness of the forces.Your illnessesheart but there are pains and palpitations, depressions etc. nothing physically wrong with stomach and intestines and yet there is inability to digest—nervous dyspepsia; pains are created in different parts of the repeated play of such forces… <ref>http://incarnatewordbody and so on—sometimes there is hysteria.in/cwsa/28/occult-knowledge#p9</ref>
=What Illness Is Not?=These conditions are not always native to the body—they are often created by 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 the menstruation. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p49,p50</ref>
==Means of Transformation==<center>~</center>
Illness must not be accepted as Depression and discouragement have a means of transformationvery adverse effect; they cut out holes in it rather indicates certain difficulties encountered by the force of transformation especially [nervous envelope], as it were, in the vital its very stuff, render it weak and unresisting and the body… open to hostile attacks an easy passage. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/illness16-andjune-health1929#p4p11</ref>
==Progress==<center>~</center>
You are given an illness purposely to make you progress? Surely it is not like that...You must never think that the Divine has purposely sent an illnessbody's whole functioning is a discipline, for and if there is a part that would truly be a very wicked Divine!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/cwmagenda/0510/22february-july8-19531969#p2p37</ref>
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To make people ill in order to improve or perfect them is not Mother's method… <ref>http://incarnateword...all disorders in/cwsa/30/difficulties-experienced-the body and all diseases are the result of DOUBT in-the-process-cells or a certain group of-descent#p18</ref> ==Virtue== cells...The child must be taught as early as possible...that he does not become more interesting by They doubt the Divine's concrete reality, they doubt the Divine Presence in them, they doubt their being illdivine in their very essence, but rather and this doubt is the contrary...Children should therefore be taught that to be ill is a sign cause of weakness and inferiority, not of some virtue or sacrificeall disorders. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1205/physicalmay-14-education1964#p9p4</ref>
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...illness the cause of disease is psychic, that is a thing to say, subjective and the direction should be eliminatedtowards curing the inner causes much more than patching up by physical means. These are ideas that have their truth also. I fully recognise the psychic law and methods and their preferability, but the ordinary run of humanity is not accepted or enjoyed..ready for that rule and, while it is so, doctors and their physical methods will be there. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3128/illnessmorality-and-healthyoga#p58p46</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 to accept illness as enter through the conscious mind, the Divine Willwhole of your subconscious is there, but rather look upon almost helplessly open to take any kind of suggestion. In life it as an imperfection is the action of the body… subconscious that has the larger share and it acts a hundred times more powerfully than the conscious parts.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2903/equality-the19-chiefmay-support1929#p18</ref>
==Result of the Divine Force==<center>~</center>
The Divine Force cannot In the subconscient there is an obscure mind full of obstinate Sanskaras [imprints or habits], impressions, associations, fixed notions, habitual reactions formed by its descent be our past, an obscure vital full of the cause seeds of madness any more than it can be habitual desires, sensations and nervous reactions, a most obscure material which governs much that has to do with the condition of apoplexy the body. It is largely responsible for our illnesses; chronic or any other physical illness… repeated illnesses are indeed mainly due to the subconscient and its obstinate memory and habit of repetition of whatever has impressed itself upon the body-consciousness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3109/accidentsjune-possession15-madness1968#p30p6</ref>
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Whatever force is sent is Out of the subconscious we bring ordinarily so much to the surface as our waking sense mind and intelligence need for curetheir 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. Increase But the risings of the subconscious, its effects upon the mind and body, are mostly automatic, uncalled for and involuntary; for we have no knowledge and therefore no control of the subconscient. It is only by an experience abnormal to us, most commonly in illness or some disturbance of balance, that we can become directly aware of something in the dumb world, dumb but very active, of our bodily being and vitality or grow conscious of the secret movements of the mechanical subhuman physical suffering and vital mind which underlies our surface,—a consciousness which is ours but seems not the result ours because it is not part of our known mentality. This and much more lives concealed in the forcesubconscience. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3122/illnessout-of-the-sevenfold-ignorance-towards-the-andsevenfold-healthknowledge#p14p9</ref>
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I find it difficult to believe that illness and deterioration of Yet all the body is time the natural and general result of the practice of Yoga or that that practice universal forces are pouring into him without his knowing it. He is the cause aware only of an inevitable breakdown of healththoughts, feelings etc...It is more rational that rise to conclude that both Yogis the surface and non-Yogis fall ill and die these he takes for his own. Really they come from natural causes outside in mind waves, vital waves, waves of feeling and by the same dispensation of Nature… <ref>http://incarnatewordsensation etc.which take particular forms in/cwsa/31/illness-him and-health#p8</ref>rise to the surface after they have got inside. ==Imperfection in Other Parts== As for the question But they do not get into his body at once. He carries about with him an environmental consciousness (called by the illness, perfection in Theosophists the physical plane is indeed part aura) into which they first enter. If you can become conscious of this environmental self of yours, then you can catch the ideal thought, passion, suggestion or force of the Yogaillness, or whatever it may be, before it enters and prevent it from entering into you. If things in you are thrown out, they often do not go altogether but ...one may have take refuge in this environmental atmosphere and from there try to get in again or they go to a certain perfection distance outside but linger on other planes without having immunity in the bodyoutskirts or even perhaps far off, waiting till they get an opportunity to attempt entrance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3128/illnessthe-andenvironmental-healthconsciousness#p57p6</ref>
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When the physical consciousness is being changed, the chief resistance comes from the subconscient...It is constantly maintaining or bringing back the inertia, weakness, obscurity, lack of intelligence which afflict the physical mind and vital or the outer expression obscure fears, desires, angers, lusts of a disorderthe physical vital, such as swollen legs or a malfunctioning liver—...a functional disorder…. IT IN NO WAY CHANGES THE BODY'S TRUE CONSCIOUSNESS. Although we are in the habit of thinking that illnesses, dullnesses, pains, incapabilities to which the body -nature is very disturbed when it's ill, when something is going wrong, it's not soprone. It isn't disturbed in the way we understand it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/january-31-1961#p3</ref>
==Incurable==When something is erased from the subconscient so completely that it leaves no seed and thrown out of the circumconscient so completely that it can return no more, then only can we be sure that we have finished with it for ever. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-subconscient-and-the-inconscient#p17,p19</ref>
There is no such thing as an incurable illness in reality—for what ==Role of the doctors call such is only an illness for which they have not yet been able to discover a physical remedy… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-problems#p1</ref>Vital==
=What Is All this egoistic insistence on your own ideas, claims, preferences—assertion of your own righteousness as against the Cause?= It's the realm that's... beyond the subtle physicalwickedness of others, complaints, quarrels, disputes, rancours against those around you and it's the realm in which formations of illness MATERIALIZE..reactions they cause—have had this effect on your liver and stomach and nerves. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0431/decemberdoctors-25and-1963medicines#p13p9</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..all disorders...Only, men are not conscious of their vital, and all diseases as they are not conscious they don't know that fifty per cent of their illnesses are the result of DOUBT what happens in the cellsvital: shocks, accidents, fighting, ill-will....Externally this is translated by an illness.they doubt If one knows how it reacts on the Divine Presence in themphysical, they doubt their being divine one goes to its source and can cure oneself in their very essence, and this doubt is the cause of all disorders a few hours.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/05/may29-14april-19641953#p4p8</ref>
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Unfortunately, there is the vital which pokes its nose into the affair and takes a very perverse pleasure in increasing, twisting, sharpening the suffering...Now this deforms the cause whole system because instead of disease is psychicbeing an indicator, sometimes it becomes an occasion for enjoying the illness, that is to sayfor making oneself interesting, subjective and also having the direction should be towards curing opportunity to pity oneself—all kinds of things which all come from the inner causes much vital and are all detestable, one more than patching up by physical means… another. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2806/morality17-andnovember-yoga1954#p46p20</ref>
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In its lowest parts Illness in the body is like impurity in the vital,...It may happen that in throwing out the illness (vital-materialthe attacking force) one throws out also something within, some impurity which helped it to come, but that is the agent result of pain, physical a Force working within and not of the illness etc.It is 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/cwsa/2831/theillness-physicaland-consciousness#p25</ref> ==Fear== It [fear] is more dangerous than the worst disease. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/fearhealth#p30p62</ref>
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If ...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 of hate, there are people who are ill through despair, there are people... And these are not formidable movements: it is quite a small movement in the being: one mental disorder which can bring about all illnessesis 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 fearsomething somewhere that thinks in that way.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0405/3122-marchjuly-19511953#p3p57</ref>
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...fear always brings what one fears. If you fear an accidentvital when left to itself often invites illness, it finds it dramatic—thinks it makes it interesting to others, this acts like a magnet drawing likes to indulge the accident towards youtamas, etc.etc..And the same thing holds for illness... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0631/27illness-januaryand-1954health#p6p63</ref>
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In factDiseases, ninety per cent of illnesses are accidents, catastrophes, wars, all that, is because the result human material consciousness is so small, so narrow that it has a rabid taste for drama. And of course, behind there is the subconscient fear of vital being having fun, influences too... anyway all that enjoys an opportunity to delay the bodydivine Work and make things difficult. And all that takes pleasure in that naturally encourages drama.In But the ordinary consciousness seed of the body there difficulty is a more or less hidden anxiety about the consequences that pettiness, extreme pettiness of the slightest physical disturbanceconsciousness—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 bang against something, it becomes a drama; if two nations quarrel, it becomes a drama—everything becomes a drama.The taste for drama.this anxiety is a lack of confidence The slightest upset in the Divine's Gracebody,the unmistakable sign that the consecration is not complete and perfectleast disorder, which should go completely unnoticed, oh, it makes a big fuss,a drama. The taste for drama.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1508/fearjune-and14-illness1967#p3</ref>
<center>~</center>==Role of Suggestions==
If you have fear or apprehension The feeling of illness in is at first only a suggestion; it becomes a reality because your vital, that physical consciousness accepts it. It is like a wrong suggestion in the first thing to be thrown awaymind; if the mind accepts it, as it helps becomes clouded and confused and has to struggle back into harmony and clearness. It is so with the illnesses to come inbody consciousness and illness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p69p22</ref>
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When a force is thrown on you or a vibration of illness, it carries to the body this suggestion...they say they're illA wave comes in the body—with a certain vibration in it, the body remembers "cold" or feels the vibrations of a cold and so they are afraid. Itbegins to cough or sneeze or to feel chill—the suggestion comes to the mind in the form, "I am weak, I don's not true! They are afraid firstt feel well, I am catching a cold."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and then they fall ill. They constantly live with -health#p24</ref>That is how illnesses try to come from one person to another—they attack, by a sort of apprehension: "Ohsuggestion like this or otherwise, what's going the nervous being and try to happen?" So something happens! .come in..The poor body feels that's what Even if the illness is expected of itnot contagious, this often happens, and but it obeys! comes more easily in contagious illnesses.The suggestion or touch has to be thrown off at once. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0731/octoberillness-22and-1966health#p5p31</ref>
<center>~</center>==Fear==
The first thing from which you must cure yourself once for ever, is ''Fear''...a fear in It is more dangerous than the cells—is fear which opens the door to all contagion..worst disease. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0914/19-june-1957fear#p6p30,p31</ref>
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Diseases are just that...The two things together: possession and fearIf there is one mental disorder which can bring about all illnesses,... And a sense of helplessness in all that. The possession by an idea and a helplessness to reject it... And then a sort of fearfulness that is translated in us by, "Oh, it's going to be that way... oh, it's going to be a disease...fear." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0604/december31-18march-19651951#p9p3</ref>
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The real disease is fearNot be afraid of falling ill! That's what. You see, they say, "But I AM ill. Throw " They put it the fear away and the disease will go. <ref>httpother way around://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/fear-they say they're ill, and-illness#p9</ref> ==Subconscient== In the subconscient there is an obscure mind full of obstinate Sanskaras [imprints or habits], so they are afraid...habitual reactions formed by our pastIt's not true! They are afraid first, an obscure vital..and then they fall ill.They constantly live with a most obscure material which governs... with the condition sort of the apprehension: "Oh, what's going to happen?" So something happens! (''Mother laughs'') The poor body. It feels that's what is largely responsible for our illnesses… expected of it, and it obeys! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0907/juneoctober-1522-19681966#p6p4</ref>
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The subconscient 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 main...support body are afraid of death and disease everything that is unpleasant, painful, and as soon as there is any unease, even if it is insignificant, the cells of the body become anxious, they don't like to be uncomfortable.And then, to overcome that, the control of a conscious will is necessary.It is usually this kind of fear that opens the door to illnesses.And I am not speaking of the first two types of fear which, as I said, any human being who wants to be human in the noblest sense ofthe word, must overcome, for that is cowardice.But physical fear is more difficult to overcome; without it even the most violent attacks could be repelled.If one has a minimum of control over the body, one can lessen its effects, but that is not immunity. Ignorance..It is this kind of trembling of material, physical fear in the cells of the body which aggravates all illnesses.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2809/the19-subconscient-and-thejune-inconscient1957#p37p6</ref>
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We know that fear always brings what one fears.If you fear an accident, this acts like a magnet drawing the accident towards you.In this see, it may be said that it is the result of character.subconscient And the same thing holds for illness...remains submerged and obscurely at work below our conscious nature...into which past impressions and all that is rejected from There are people who can move about among the surface mind sink sick and remain in places where there dormant are epidemics and can surge up in sleep or in any absence of the mind,…forms of automatic vital reaction or impulse, forms of physical abnormality or nervous perturbance, forms of morbidity, never catch a disease. There are others—it is enough for them to spend an hour with a sick person, unbalancethey catch the illness.That too depends on what they are within themselves..<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2206/out-of-the-sevenfold-ignorance-towards-the27-sevenfoldjanuary-knowledge1954#p9p6</ref>
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If The two things together: possession and fear, a sort of fearfulness. And a sense of helplessness in you are thrown outall that. The possession by an idea and a helplessness to reject it, they often do not go altogether but take refuge in this[the] environmental atmosphere and from there try a fear, a helplessness to get resist. And then a sort of fearfulness that is translated in again or they go us by, "Oh, it's going to a distance outside but linger on the outskirts or even perhaps far offbe that way... oh, waiting till they get an opportunity it's going to attempt entrancebe a disease.... " <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/2806/thedecember-environmental18-consciousness1965#p6p9</ref>
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The suggestions that create illness In fact, ninety per cent of illnesses are the result of the subconscient fear of the body. In the ordinary consciousness of the body there is a more or unhealthy conditions less hidden anxiety about the consequences of the slightest physical being come usually through disturbance. It can be translated by these words of doubt about the subconscientfuture: "And what will happen?" It is this anxiety that must be checked.Indeed this anxiety is a lack of confidence in the Divine's Grace, the unmistakable sign that the consecration is not complete and perfect..<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3115/illnessfear-and-healthillness#p40p3</ref>
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When First of all, from the physical consciousness is being changed, point of view of the chief resistance comes from body—just the subconscientbody—there are two kinds of disequilibrium: functional and organic. It is constantly maintaining or bringing back I do not know if you are aware of the difference between the two; but you have organs and then you have all the inertiaparts of your body: nerves, weakness, obscuritymuscles,bones and all the rest...or the illnessesNow, dullnessesif an organ by itself is in disequilibrium, painsit is an organic disequilibrium, incapabilities 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 which it. But it is the body-nature organ that is proneill. <ref>httpBut the organ may be in a very good condition, all your organs may be in a very good condition, but there is still an illness as they do not function properly://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-subconscient-and-the-inconscient#p17</ref> ==Forces of Disintegration== They[there] are forces is a lack of disintegration...this is balance in the origin of germs and microbesfunctioning. Therefore most microbes You may have behind them a bad will ...The microbe is a very material expression of good stomach, but suddenly something happens to it and it does not function properly; or the body may also be excellent, but something living in a subtle physical world.happens to it and it does not work properly any more.Then you have an illness due to functional imbalance not organic imbalance.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p49p31</ref>
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The possibilities of illness Human life and mind are always there in your body and around you; you ...succumb to an illness ...due to a "depression of the vital force"...the depression...comes from some disharmony neither in tune with Nature like the being, from a lack of receptivity to the divine forces. ...this depression...createdanimals nor with Spirit—it [creates''human nature''] is disturbed, incoherent, conflicting with itself, without harmony and balance...a "favourable ground" and something takes advantage of We can then regard it. ...It is this that is the cause of your falling ill and as diseased, if not microbesitself a disease. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0328/19science-mayand-1929yoga#p14p69</ref>
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There is nothing that isn't a "microbe" or a "virus"... but it's all The mind with its dogmas, its rigid and arbitrary principles, the vital with its passions, its excesses and dissipations soon destroy the same thing!... For natural balance of the cellsbody and create in it fatigue,the problem isexhaustion and disease...whether to follow It must be freed from this tyranny and this can be done only through a constant union with the Will for Transformation...or whether to follow psychic centre of the Will for Harmony, which is always pleasant, and is always there, even when outwardly things are decomposingbeing. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0612/julythe-science-7of-1965living#p7p14</ref>
==Inertia==
The human body has always been in the habit of answering to whatever forces chose to lay hands on it and illness is the price it pays for its inertia and ignorance. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p77p78</ref><center>~</center>All 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://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p5</ref>
It's [ illness is] the effect of a combination of three things: bad will (at the worst, a refusal to follow the movement), ...an ignorance of the laws and their consequences, that is, the causes and effects (a complete ignorance); and, of course, a form of inertia—it's all a form of inertia, but the greatest form of inertia is the incapacity to receive and respond. These three things combined are what creates diseases and so on, and the final effect—death. That is, the disintegration of created harmony.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/09/march-2-1968#p38</ref>==Adverse Forces==
...there is a group of such [feed upon human vitality thrown out of the body's whole functioning 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 disciplinebad 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, and if there is a part that no longer wants to follow ninety-nine per cent chance of not finding the discipline—out true and complete remedy. The microbe is a very material expression of revolt or incapacity orsomething living in a subtle physical world and that is why these very microbes... that are always around you, within you, for any reason—if it stops following the discipline, years together do not make you ill and then suddenly they make you fall ill.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1005/february22-8july-19691953#p37p49</ref>
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They speak of viruses, they speak of microbes, they speak...reaction against 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 transformative will difference. There is what causesnothing that isn't a "microbe" or a "virus"—they give ugly names to the things they don't want, but it's all the same thing!... disordersFor the cells, that's not the problem—the problem is not that, but whether to follow the Will for Transformation (which sometimes is a bit brutal—brutal compared to the very small thing a body is), or whether to follow the Will for Harmony... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0206/augustjuly-87-19611965#p4p7</ref>
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The possibilities of illness are always there in your body and around you; you carry within you or there swarm about you the microbes and germs of every disease.How is it that all of a sudden you succumb to an illness which you did not have for years? You will say it is due to a "depression of the vital force"..But from where does the depression come? It comes from some disharmony in the bodybeing, whatever has trouble adjusting 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 new Power creates difficultiesdepression, disorders there is created what medical science calls a "favourable ground" and illnessessomething takes advantage of it. Yet in It is doubt, gloominess, lack of confidence, a flash selfish turning back upon yourself that cuts you sense off from the light and divine energy and gives the attack this advantage. It is this that if you were totally receptive, you would become formidableis the cause of your falling ill and not microbes.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1303/19-may-6-19721929#p32p14</ref>
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Your inner condition becomes a cause Hostile [''source of illness when there is a resistance ...or when there is some part in you that does not respond ''] here means hostile to the protection; or evenYoga... that almost ...wilfully calls An illness which comes in the ordinary course as the result of physical causes—even though adverse universal forcesare the first cause—is an ordinary illness. It is enough if there is a slight movement of this kind in you; One brought by the forces hostile forces are at once upon you to Yoga to upset the system and their prevent or disturb progress—without any adequate physical reason—is a hostile attack takes often . It may have the form appearance of a cold or any other illness, but to the eye which sees the action of forces and not only the outward symptoms or results, the difference is clear.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0331/19illness-mayand-1929health#p12p17</ref>
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This[The] divergence between Attacks of illness are attacks of the progress in the inner being and the inertia lower nature or of adverse forces taking advantage of the body often creates a dislocation some weakness, opening or response in the systemnature, —like all other things that come and that manifests itself as an illness..have got to be thrown away, they come from outside. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p6</ref> ==Adverse Forces== Loss of balance produces disorder in the consciousness and the adverse forces use that loss of balance for attacking… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/accidentsillness-possessionand-madnesshealth#p24p15</ref>
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Attacks ...but it is not your consciousness that wants to be ill, it is some part of illness are attacks your body or at the most, a fragment of the lower nature or vital that has gone wrong and wishes to be ill, and unless you observe with a good deal of attention you do not notice it). But I say that the situation gets complicated if behind this there is an attack, a pressure from adverse forces taking advantage who really want to harm you. You may have opened the door through spiritual error, through a movement of vanity, of some weaknessanger, opening of hatred or response in of violence; even if it is merely a movement that comes and goes, that can open the naturedoor.There are always germs watching and only waiting for an occasion..<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3105/illness22-andjuly-health1953#p15p60</ref>
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...it is some part of your And in the body or...a fragment of the vital that , whatever has gone wrong and wishes trouble adjusting to be illthis new Power creates difficulties, disorders and illnesses...the situation gets complicated Yet in a flash you sense that if behind this there is an attackyou were totally receptive, a pressure from adverse forces who really want to harm youwould become formidable. You may have opened That's the door through spiritual error, through a movement of vanity, of anger, of hatred or of violence; even sensation. That's more and more my sensation: that if it is merely a movement that comes and goesthe entire consciousness, that can open the doorentire most material consciousness—the most material—was receptive to this new Power... There are always germs watching and only waiting one would become for an occasion… -mi-dable.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0513/22may-july6-19531972#p60p32</ref>
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...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 mind protection; or even there may be something there that almost willingly and consciousness have rejected wilfully calls in the attacks, adverse forces. It is enough if there is a slight movement of this kind in you; the contrary hostile forces fall on some weak point in are at once upon you and their attack takes often the body hoping that by pain or form of illness they will depress the consciousness and so make it less strong to resist and reject them... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/illness19-andmay-health1929#p95p12</ref>
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Sometimes it's an altogether INSIGNIFICANT intrusion of falsehood, for some quite insignificant reason—what is commonly labeled a stupidity. This stems from divergence between the fact that progress in the adverse forces are always lying in wait, ready to rush in at inner being and the least sign inertia of weakness. <ref>http://incarnateword.the body often creates a dislocation in/agenda/02/july-18-1961#p59</ref> ==Disharmony== the system, and that manifests itself as an illness.This is why people who take up Yoga frequently begin by suffering from some physical discomfort or disorder.That need not happen if they are on their guard and careful.the cause of all illnesses, all disorders, all conflicts, here Or if there is a greater and unusual receptivity in the material worldbody, is that then too they escape. But an unmixed receptivity making the two simultaneous movements (one is physical parts closely follow the movement pace of Stability—and the other, the movement of inner transformation)is hardly possible, unless the two movements body has already been prepared in the original Consciousness are only one and...here, they are separate,...they don't KNOW how to be in harmony: they can, but they don't know..past for the processes of Yoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1103/february16-25june-19701929#p8p6</ref>
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Human life You have been told: "Open yourself, you will receive the Force." You have been told: "Have faith, be of goodwill and mind you will be protected." And indeed you are neither 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 tune with Nature 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 descending Force, this acts like a grain of sand in a machine..nor You know, a fine machine working quite well with Spirit—it [human nature] is disturbedeverything going all right, incoherentand you put into it just a little sand (nothing much, conflicting with itselfonly a grain of sand), without harmony suddenly everything is damaged and balancethe machine stops. We can then regard Well, just a little lack of receptivity somewhere, something that is unable to receive the Force, that is completely shut up (when one looks at it, it becomes as diseasedit were a little dark spot somewhere, if a tiny thing hard as a stone: the Force cannot enter into it, it refuses to receive it—either it cannot or it will not ) and immediately that produces a great imbalance; and this thing that was moving upward, that was blooming so wonderfully, finds itself a diseasesick, 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/cwsacwm/2805/science22-andjuly-yoga1953#p62p41</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#p18</ref>==Addictions==
...people...drink wine as one drinks water. They drink it neat, and after some time they become ill. They have cerebral disorders...people of this kind, the brain was disordered, didn't function any more. And tobacco—nicotine is a very serious poison. It is a poison that destroys the cells...it is a slow poison because one doesn't feel it immediately except when one smokes for the first time and it makes one very ill. And this should make you understand that it ought not to be done. Only, people are so stupid that they think it is a weakness and so continue until they get used to the poison. And the body no longer reacts, it allows itself to be destroyed without reacting: you get rid of the reaction.<centerref>~http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/24-march-1954#p4</centerref>
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 Illnesses==
==In Specific Illnesses==[For Individuals Practicing Integral Yoga]
Fever is not a purifying action; it is the sign of an attack on the body and a fight and resistance to the attack… attack.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p62</ref>
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Insanity is always due to a vital attack, or rather possession although there is often a physical reason as well. Hysteria is due to a pressure from the vital world and there may be momentary possessions also... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/accidents-possession-madness#p22</ref>
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...skin diseases have much to do with sexual desires—not of course always, but often.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sex#p216</ref>
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T.B. is the result of a strong psychic-vital depression...The lack of vitality which easily comes as a result of modern civilisation is therefore a very strong contributing cause. Moderns have not the solid nervous system and the natural (as opposed to the artificial and morbid) zest of life that their ancestors had. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-problems#p4</ref>
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Depression is always the sign of an acute egoism. When you feel that it is coming near, tell yourself: "I am in a state of egoistic illness, I must cure myself of it." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/25-december-1950#p29</ref>
=Why How to Prevent Illness Develops?=
''Q...each Sweet Mother, when one sees an illness coming, how can one should find out for himself why he is ill.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-june-1957#p5</ref>stop it?''
''A...when '' Ah! First of all, you take a wrong attitude, must not want it immediately sets off all and nothing in the disordersbody must want it.You must have a very strong will not to be ill.This is the first condition. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/03/june-20-1962#p6</ref>
If The second condition is to call the nervous being is...nervous light, a light of equilibrium, a light of peace, quietude and unstable...excitablebalance, then ...there may even be a wrongly acute creative imagination which brings in disorders and to push it into all the cells of the body , enjoining them not to be afraid, because that are nervous and not physicalagain is another condition...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p49</ref>
Depression First, not to want to be ill, and discouragement then not to be afraid of 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 very adverse effect; they cut out holes calm certitude and a complete trust in it[nervous envelope]the power of the Grace to shelter you from everything, and then think of something else,not be concerned about this any longer... render 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 weak and exists...open there, if you know how to hostile attacksdo 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..<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#</ref>
Many people say, "Oh, yes, here I am not afraid...passive meditation...leaves " They don't have any fear in the mind, their mind is not afraid, it is strong, it is not afraid; but the vital body trembles, and one doesn't know it, because it is in the cells of the body passive that the trembling goes on. It trembles with a terrible anxiety and without defence against inertia, this is what attracts the illness etc...The consciousness instead It is there that you must put the force and the quietude of being concentrated gets widely diffused a perfect peace and loosely extendedan absolute trust in the Grace...Concentration must And then, sometimes you are obliged to drive away with a similar force in your thought all suggestions that after all, the earlier stages be active physical world is full of illnesses, and these are contagious, and dynamic because one was in contact with somebody who is ill, one is sure to catch it, and then, that the consciousness gathered inner methods are not powerful enough to act on the physical, and capable all kinds of stupidities of turning which the will in any directionair is full. These are collective suggestions which are passed on from one person to another by everybody.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2907/concentration11-andmay-meditation1955#p86p10,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.
The psychical prana interferes in all That is why, as soon as the higher operations child is able to deform themmake use of his limbs,some time should be devoted every day to the methodical and regular development of all the parts of his body... limits thereby Every day some twenty or thirty minutes, preferably on waking, if possible, will be enough to ensure the operations proper functioning and balanced growth of his muscles while preventing any stiffening of the mind joints and becomes of the link spine, which occurs much sooner than one thinks. In the general programme of its dependence on the body child's education, sports and its subjection outdoor games should be given a prominent place; that, more than all the medicines in the world, will assure the child good health. An hour's moving about in the sun does more to cure weakness or even anaemia than a whole arsenal of tonics. My advice is that medicines should not be used unless it is absolutely impossible to fatigueavoid them; and this "absolutely impossible" should be very strict. In this programme of physical culture, incapacityalthough there are well-known general lines to be followed for the best development of the human body, diseasestill, disorderif the method is to be fully effective in each case, insanityit should be considered individually, if possible with the pettinesshelp of a competent person, or if not, by consulting the precariousness numerous manuals that have already been and even the possible dissolution of are still being published on the workings of the physical mentality… <ref>http://incarnatewordsubject.in/cwsa/24/purification-the-lower-mentality#p5</ref>
==Affinity 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 Being==cradle, the baby should sleep longer than he remains awake. 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. The hours before midnight are the best for resting the nerves. Even during the waking hours, relaxation is indispensable for all who want to maintain their nervous balance. To know how to relax the muscles and the nerves is an art which should be taught to children when they are very young.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/physical-education#p9,p10,p11</ref>
...if the illness has succeeded in touching the physical-physical...If it manages to pass through, to enter without one's being aware of it, it means there is some affinity somewhere, and the part of the being which has responded must be convinced.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p22~</refcenter>
...there are those who are luminous, sunny, happy, smiling and those who are gloomy, dull, misanthropic, dissatisfied, who live in grey shadows. It is the latter who catch all the unpleasant things. Those who are radiant (they may be radiant without it being a spiritual radiance, it may be just a radiation of good see, balance, an inner confidence, the sages sayjoy of living), "Disorder occurs because those who carry in themselves the nature has decided to be joy of living, these are in harmony with Nature and, being in disorderharmony 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's not so sillyis.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/06/may27-8january-19651954#p39p8</ref>
In the psychological domain, only the patients who do not want to recover, do not recover. Perhaps it is the same for physical diseases...<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/5-january-1933#p3~</refcenter>
...people always think that it The secret is to emerge from the ego, get out of its prison, unite ourselves with the Divine, merge into Him, not their fault that they are illto allow anything to separate us from Him. Then, once one has discovered this secret and realises it is always their faultin one's being, pain loses its justification and they are very angry when they are told this..suffering disappears.And yet it It is true.<ref>http://incarnatewordan all-powerful remedy, not only in the deeper parts of the being, in the soul, in the spiritual consciousness, but also in life and in the body.in/cwm/07/16-february-1955#p37</ref>
Disease will always return to the body if the soul There is flawed; for no illness, no disorder which can resist the sins discovery of this secret and the mind are putting of it into practice, not only in the secret cause higher parts of the sins being but in the cells of the body…body.
[Based on Aphorism<199>Disease will always return If one knows how to teach the cells the body splendour that lies within them, if one knows how to make them understand the soul is flawed; for reality which makes them exist, gives them being, then they too enter the sins of the mind are the secret cause of total harmony, and the sins of physical disorder which causes the body. So too poverty and trouble will always return on man in society, so long illness vanishes as the mind do all other disorders of the race is subjected to egoismbeing.]<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1009/aphorism13-199february-2001957#p1p9,p10,p11</ref>
Disease is needlessly prolonged and ends in death oftener than is inevitable, because the mind of the patient supports and dwells upon the disease of his body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-386-387-388-389#p1</ref>[Based on aphorism<386>]==By Faith==
==To Teach It is quite obvious that one of the most powerful means for acting on the body is faith. People who have a Lesson==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..all the so-called illnessesIt is necessary, everythingthen, all the disorders are to make you learn pass on to a lesson—as soon as you've learned higher degree in the lessonevolutionary spiral, it's over! But pass from the mental to the spiritual; then, you are so slow and heavynaturally, you take so much time to realize faith takes on a quality of a very high order. But I mean that in daily life, ordinary life, a very simple man who has a very ardent faith can have a mastery over his body—without it's being truly a lesson that "mastery"; it drags on and on and onis simply a spontaneous movement—a control over his body far greater than somebody who has reached a much higher development.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0509/october19-14june-19641957#p63p20,p21</ref>
It is to make you understand that whenever you are ill, something is ill in your being.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/april-24-1960#p1~</refcenter>
There are sadhus...One thinks of curing an they live in a truly dirty condition—and they are free from all illness only . Probably because one suffersthey have faith. If it caused you no unpleasantness, you would never ..they do not think of being cured of it. Sotheir body, in the economy they think of Nature I think that the first purpose life of physical suffering was to give you a warningtheir soul. They have no illness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0605/1722-novemberjuly-19541953#p19p24</ref>
Your illness gave you an opportunity to open your eyes towards the need for an inner change. You must take advantage of this and progress.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/inner-causes-of-illness#p28~</refcenter>
The illness has come like a test ...in Yoga...faith and gone like a purification carrying away all that was standing in right auto-suggestion are of great use until the way of point comes when no suggestion is necessary because the joy of an integral consecrationTruth-consciousness acts automatically and produces its natural results.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1531/innerillness-causesand-of-illnesshealth#p17p39</ref>
...the state of illness was certainly a necessity, often a WILLED necessity ...by the soul in order to go faster on the path—to save time, to gain lives. And if you can, if you have the power to bring that soul into contact with the force that governs its existence and leads it towards progress, towards the Realization, you do a work of quite a superior quality.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/september-26-1964#p32~</refcenter>
==Old Habit ...it must be an integral faith and it must be absolute. And it must be of Consciousness==the right kind, not merely a force of mental thought or will, but something more and deeper. The will put forth by the mind sets up opposite reactions and creates a resistance...Mental faith is not sufficient; it must be completed and enforced by a vital and even a physical faith, a faith of the body...you must reach down to the most subconscious, you must fix the faith in the very cells of the body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/5-may-1929#p18</ref>
...the body consciousness through old habit of consciousness admits the force of illness… <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p54~</refcenter>
When you Most men are open not conscious of this pranic force in the body or cannot distinguish it from the more physical form of energy which it informs and in contact 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 Divinemental consciousness, the Vibration gives you strengthconcretely with a mental sense, energy; see its courses and if you are quiet enoughmovements, and direct and act upon it fills you with great joy—and all immediately by the will. But until we thus become aware of this it, we have to possess a working or at least an experimental faith in its presence and in the cells power of the bodywill to develop a greater command and use of this prana force. You fall back into the ordinary consciousness and straightawayThere is necessary a faith, without anything changing''śraddhā'', in the power of the SAME thing, mind to lay its will on the SAME vibration coming from state and action of the SAME source turns into a painbody, such as those have who heal disease by faith, a malaisewill or mental action; but we must seek this control not only for this or any other limited use, but generally as a feeling legitimate power of uncertaintythe inner and greater over the outer and lesser instrument. This faith is combated by our past habits of mind, instability by our actual normal experience of its comparative helplessness in our present imperfect system and by an opposing belief in the body and decrepitude… physical consciousness. For they too have a limiting ''śraddhā'' of their own which opposes the idea in the mind when it seeks to impose on the system the law of a higher yet unattained perfection. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0224/octoberthe-2power-of-the-1961instruments#p15p7</ref>
==In AddictionsBy Being Receptive to the Divine Force==
...they ...drink wine as one drinks water. They drink What has to be done with the body at first is to make it neatopen to the Force, so as to receive strength against illness and after some time fatigue—when they become ill. They have cerebral disorders.come, there must be the power to react and throw them off and to keep a constant flow of force into the body.If that is done, the rest of the bodily change can wait for its proper time. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0628/24transformation-and-marchthe-1954body#p4p2</ref>
...nicotine is a very serious poison. It is a poison that destroys <center>~</center> As the cells...when one smokes for body consciousness becomes more open to the first time and it makes one very ill. And this should make you understand that it ought not to be done. Only, people are so stupid that they think Force (it is a weakness always the most difficult and so continue until they get used the last to the poison. And the body no longer reactsopen up entirely), it allows itself to be destroyed without reacting: you get rid this frequent stress of the reactionillness will diminish and disappear. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0631/24illness-marchand-1954health#p4p56</ref>
==Role of SuggestionsBy Strengthening the Nervous Envelope==
The feeling To whatever cause an illness may be due, material or mental, external or internal, it must, before it can affect the physical body, touch another layer of illness the being that surrounds and protects it. This subtler layer is called in different teachings by various names,—the etheric body, the nervous envelope. It is at first only a suggestion; subtle body and yet almost visible. In density something like the vibrations that you see around a very hot and steaming object, it becomes a reality because your emanates from the physical consciousness accepts body and closely covers it.All communications with the exterior world are made through this medium, and it is this that must be invaded and penetrated first before the body can be affected.If this envelope is absolutely strong and intact, you can go into places infested with the worst of diseases, even plague and cholera, and remain quite immune.It is a perfect protection against all possible attacks of illness, so with long as it is whole and entire, thoroughly consistent in its composition, its elements in faultless balance. This body is built up, on the one side, of a material basis, but rather of material conditions than of physical matter, on the other, of the body consciousness vibrations of our psychological states. Peace and equanimity and confidence, faith in health, undisturbed repose and cheerfulness and bright gladness constitute this element in it and give it strength and illness.substance.It is a very sensitive medium with facile and quick reactions; it readily takes in all kinds of suggestions and these can rapidly change and almost remould its condition. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/illness16-andjune-health1929#p22</ref>
When a force is thrown on you or a vibration of illness, it carries to the body this suggestion...—the suggestion comes to the mind in the form, "I am weak, I don't feel well, I am catching a cold." <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p24</ref>...If you drink unfiltered water and think, "Now I am drinking impure water", you have every chance of falling sick. And even though such suggestions may not enter through the conscious mind, the whole of your subconscious is there, almost helplessly open to take any kind of suggestion. In life it is the action of the subconscious that has the larger share and it acts a hundred times more powerfully than the conscious parts. The normal human condition is a state filled with apprehensions and fears;...To be free from all fear can come only by steady effort and discipline... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/19-may-1929#p18~</refcenter>
If one can feel them [attacks of illness] so coming and get the strength and the habit to throw them away before they can enter the body, then one can remain free from illness... illnesses try Even when the attack seems to come rise from one person to another—they attackwithin, by a suggestion... or otherwisethat means only that it has not been detected before it entered the subconscient; once in the subconscient, the nervous being force that brought it rouses it from there sooner or later and try to come init invades the system. Even if When you feel it just after it has entered, it is because though it came direct and not through the illness is subconscient, yet you could not contagiousdetect it while it was still outside. Very often it arrives like that, this frontally or more often happenstangentially from the side, direct, forcing its way through the subtle vital envelope which is our main armour of defence, but it comes more easily can be stopped there in contagious illnessesthe envelope itself before it penetrates the material body. Then one may feel some effect, e.g. The suggestion feverishness or touch has a tendency to cold, but there is not the full invasion of the malady. If it can be thrown off at oncestopped earlier or if the vital envelope of itself resists and remains strong, vigorous and intact, then there is no illness; the attack produces no physical effect and leaves no traces. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p31p15</ref>
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 <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/august-4-1965#p33~</refcenter>
==Role ...we can feel the symptoms of Vital==illness, fever or cold for instance, in the subtle physical sheath before they are manifest in the gross body and destroy them there, preventing them from manifesting in the body. Take now the call for the Divine Power, Light, Ananda. If we 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/cwsa/28/the-physical-consciousness#p12 </ref>
...==By Rejecting the main obstacle is your own vital movements. ...Quietness Suggestion of the mind in facing your illness is also necessary—agitation stops the action of the Force. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p9</ref>Illness==
If you receive a blow in the vital, You must not accept but reject it [suggestions] with your physical mind and so help the body suffers consciousness to throw off the consequencesuggestion... illnesses are the result of what happens in the vital: shocksIf necessary, accidentsmake a counter-suggestion, fighting"No, ill-willI shall be well; I am and shall be all right.... Externally this is translated by an illness. If one knows how it reacts on " And in any case call in the physical, one goes Mother's Force to its source throw out the suggestion and can cure oneself in a few hoursthe illness it is bringing. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0531/29illness-apriland-1953health#p8p22</ref>
...there is the vital which...takes a very perverse pleasure in... suffering...sometimes it becomes an occasion for enjoying the illness...all kinds of things which all come from the vital and are all detestable, ...But originally I think that it was this: "Take care!" it's like a danger-signal: "Take care, there's something out of order."<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-november-1954#p20~</refcenter>
Oh, how interesting it is, if you knew how interesting...vital when left to itself often invites illness. Take coughing, it finds it dramatic—thinks it makes it interesting to othersfor instance (not in the chest, likes to indulge in the tamasthroat). So, etc. etc. <ref>httpthe first vibration://incarnateword.an irritation that draws your attention in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p63</ref> order to make you cough.It has a certain kind of vibration which we may call "pointed," but it's not violent: it's light, annoying.It's the first little vibration.there is always something in the vital physical which is pleased So with becoming more weak and ill so that it can feel and lament its tragic case. <ref>httpvibration://incarnateword.awakening of the attention in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p64</ref> Illness the surrounding consciousness (of the throat cells); then a refusal to accept the cough, a rejection here (in the body throat), which at first almost causes nausea (all this is like impurity in the vitalseen through a microscope, you understand,they are very tiny things).The attention is focused..It may happen Then, at that in throwing out point, there are several possible factors, which are sometimes simultaneous and sometimes one drives away the illness (the attacking force) other; one throws out also is anxiety: something within, some impurity which helped it goes wrong and there is apprehension at what's going to come, but happen; the other is a will that is nothing should be disturbed by the result irritation; and then all of a sudden, the faith that the Force working within and not is capable of restoring order everywhere immediately (none of the illness. It this is quite possible that an illness or attack can be transferred in this way from one to another and indeed intellectual: it very commonly happens… 's vibrations). <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3108/illnessfebruary-and8-health1967#p62p8</ref>
Diseases, accidents, catastrophes, wars, all that, is because the human material consciousness is so small, so narrow that it has a rabid taste for drama. And of course, behind there is the vital being having fun, influences too... all that enjoys an opportunity to delay the divine Work and make things difficult... But the seed of the difficulty is ...extreme pettiness of...the material physical consciousness—which has an absolutely perverse taste for drama... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/june-14-1967#p3~</refcenter>
...one must if the vital mind withdraws its consent, refuses to be very careful dominated by the habitual suggestions and look at oneself with great discrimination to discover the small part in oneself that...takes pleasure in being ill... there are many reasons. There are people who are ill out of spitehabitual movements,...out these recurrences of hate...through depression and despair, there are peoplecan be made soon to cease... one But it is vexed not easy for this mind, once it has got into the habit of consent, even a quite passive and says: "...you will see suffering and reluctant consent, to cancel the consequences habit and get rid of what he has the black circle. It can be done easily only when the mind refuses any longer 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 believe in the suggestions or accept the ideas or feelings that waystart the circle. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0530/22the-julyemergence-or-coming-forward-of-the-1953psychic#p57p45</ref>
...[if] the illness returns. This means that the cause has not been changed, that the cause is in the vital and is still there; it is only the effect which has been cured. But if one can act simultaneously upon both the cause and the effect, and the cause is sufficiently receptive to consent to change, then one is completely cured, once for all.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p13~</refcenter>
=How 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 Prevent Illness?=take this obscure form of illness. All illness should be rejected and all suggestions of illness; the Force should be called in to cure by the assent to health and the refusal of assent to the suggestions that bring or prolong its opposite. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p4</ref>
First, not to want to be ill, and then not to be afraid of illness. You must neither attract it nor tremble. You must not want illness at all. But you must not because of fear not want it; you must not be afraid; you must have ==By Developing a calm certitude and a complete trust in the power of the Grace to shelter you from everything...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/11-may-1955#p13</ref>Strong Will==
We ought to use ...the body consciousness through old habit of consciousness admits the force of illness and goes through the divine health experiences which are associated with it—e.g. congestion of phlegm in us to cure the chest and prevent diseasesfeeling of suffocation or difficulty of breathing etc.To get rid of that one must awaken a will and consciousness in the body itself that refuses to allow these things to impose themselves upon it.. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1031/aphorismillness-394and-395-396-397-398-399health#p1p54</ref>[Based on aphorism<394>]
The secret is to emerge from the ego, get out of its prison, unite ourselves with the Divine, merge into Him, not to allow anything to separate us from Him. There is no illness, no disorder which can resist the discovery of this secret and the putting of it into practice, not only in the higher parts of the being but in the cells of the body.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/13-february-1957#p10~</refcenter>
When people are ill and get well quickly, they are full Wake up in yourself a will to conquer. Not a mere will in the mind but a will in the very cells of gratitudeyour body. Without that you can't do anything; you may take a hundred medicines but never do they think of being grateful when they are well; and yet that is won't cure you unless you have a much greater miracle!will to overcome the physical illness...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0515/23will-to-decemberconquer-1953illness#p52p1</ref>
For you to be able to do all kinds of things ...you must have a triple equilibrium—mental, vital, physical—and not only in each of the parts, but also in the three parts in their mutual relations.... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p30~</refcenter>
...particular Asanas have The idea is put into the heart or the life as a force to be accepted and worked out; the heart and life become conscious of the idea and respond to its dynamisms and their substance begins to modify itself in that sense, so that the feelings and actions become the vibrations of this higher wisdom, are informed with it, filled with the emotion and the sense of it: the will and the life impulses are similarly charged with its power and its urge of self-effectuation; even an effect in destroying particular diseasesthe body the idea works so that, for example,—and with Pranayama maintains perfectly the potent thought and will of health replaces its faith in illness and its consent to illness, or the idea of strength calls in the substance, power, motion, vibration of strength; the body.idea generates the force and form proper to the idea and imposes it on our substance of mind, life or matter.It is in this way that the first working proceeds; it charges the whole being with a new and superior consciousness, lays a foundation of change, prepares it for a superior truth of existence.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2322/hathayogathe-ascent-towards-supermind#p10p23</ref>
...in Yoga...faith ==By Pranayama and right auto-suggestion are of great use until the point comes when no suggestion is necessary because the Truth-consciousness acts automatically and produces its natural results.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p39</ref>Asana==
...as the consciousness becomes more subtle by practice first objects of Yogathe Pranayama are to purify the nervous system, we can come to be aware of circulate the life-energy through all the sea of pranic shakti around usnerves without obstruction,...But until we thus become aware of itdisorder or irregularity, we have and to possess acquire a ...necessary a faithcomplete control of its functionings, śraddhā, in so that the power mind and will of the mind soul inhabiting the body may be no longer subject to lay its will on the body or life or their combined limitations. The power of these exercises of breathing to bring about a purified and unobstructed state of the nervous system is a known and action well-established fact of our physiology. It helps also to clear the bodyphysical 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, such as those —particular Asanas have who heal disease by faitheven an effect in destroying particular diseases, will or mental action—and with Pranayama maintains perfectly the health of the body...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2423/the-power-of-the-instrumentshathayoga#p7p10</ref>
The exercises of Pranayama are the familiar mechanical means of freeing and getting control of the pranic energy...The pranic Shakti can be directed not only upon ourselves, but effectively towards others or on things or happenings for whatever purposes the will dictates. Its effectivity is immense,.. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-divine-shakti#p6~</refcenter>
==Having Faith==The exercises of Pranayama are the familiar mechanical means of freeing and getting control of the pranic energy. They heighten too and set free the psychic, mental and spiritual energies which ordinarily depend for their opportunity of action on the pranic force. But the same thing can be done by mental will and practice or by an increasing opening of ourselves to a higher spiritual power of the Shakti. The pranic Shakti can be directed not only upon ourselves, but effectively towards others or on things or happenings for whatever purposes the will dictates.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-divine-shakti#p6</ref>
If people had an absolute faith in the healing power of the Grace, perhaps they would spare themselves quite a few diseases.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/march-14-1970#p12</ref>=How to Deal with Illness?=
...it must be an integral faith and it must be absolute. And it must be of When the action is directly upon the right kindbody, not merely a force of mental thought or willthat is, but something more and deeper. The will put forth by on the mind sets up opposite reactions and creates a resistance...Mental faith affected part, it is possible that one is not sufficientrelieved; it must be completed and enforced by a vital and then, some hours later or even after a physical faithfew days, a faith of the body..illness returns.you must reach down to This means that the most subconsciouscause has not been changed, you must fix that the faith cause is in the very cells of vital and is still there; it is only the body.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/0304/531-maymarch-19291951#p18p13</ref>
There are sadhus...they live in a truly dirty condition—and they are free from all illness. Probably because they have faith...they do not think of their body, they think of the life of their soul. They have no illness... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p24~</refcenter>
Those who are radiant...they may 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 A: Be passively confident: let me do it and it is done.’ <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/cure-by-the Divine Force==-divine-grace#p8</ref>
What has to be done with the body at first is to make it open to the Force, so as to receive strength against illness and fatigue—when they come, there must be the power to react and throw them off and to keep a constant flow of force into the body. If that is done, the rest of the bodily change can wait for its proper time.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/transformation-and-the-body#p2~</refcenter>
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>
...he[one] must believe firmly that it[illness] must and will go. If he[one] can keep this attitude and open to ==By Calling the true force, the mind and nervous being once strengthened, the illness and weakness will disappear. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p65</ref>Divine Force==
...the experience that the Divine ALONE is acting in the ''Q:When I am sympathetic with a sick person my body, that He has BECOME begins to feel the body, yet all the while retaining symptoms of his character of divine omniscience and omnipotence...it was[disease''A:The best way is] absolutely impossible to have call for the LEAST disorder in the body, Divine Presence of Truth and not only in the bodyHarmony, but IN ALL THE SURROUNDING MATTER...There was[is] a divine harmony in EVERYTHING...So if that[this] is established in a permanent way,...There can no longer be accidents, ...illness,... disorders, and everything should harmonize...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/june-6-1958#p10</ref> When the physical disorder comes, one must not be afraid; one must...face it with courage, calmness, confidence, with the certitude that illness is a falsehood and that if one turns entirely, in full confidence, with a complete quietude to replace the divine Grace, It will settle in these cells as It is established in the depths vibrations of the being, and the cells themselves will share in the eternal Truth disorder and Delightconfusion.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0915/13-february-1957general#p12p28</ref>
As the body consciousness becomes more open to the Force (it is always the most difficult and the last to open up entirely), this[the] frequent stress of illness will diminish and disappear.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p56~</refcenter>
==Strengthening To heal [''illness''] by the Nervous Envelope==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><center>~</center>There are always germs watching and only waiting for an occasion. That is why one should be very careful. Anyhow, for some reason or other, the influence has pierced through the shell of protection and acts there encouraging the illness to become as bad as it can be. In that case the first means is not quite sufficient. Then you have to add something; you must add the Force of spiritual purification which is such an absolutely perfectly constructive force that nothing that's in the least destructive can survive there. If you have this Force at your disposal or if you can ask for it and get it, you direct it on the spot and the adverse force usually runs away immediately, for if it happens to be in the midst of this Force it gets dissolved, it disappears; for no force of disintegration can survive within this Force; therefore disintegration disappears and with it that also disappears. It can be changed into a constructive force, that is possible, or it may be simply dissolved and reduced to nothing. And with that not only is the illness cured, but all possibility of its return is also eliminated. You are cured of the illness once for all, it never comes back. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p60</ref>
...illness ...must, before it can affect the physical body, touch another layer of the being...called...the etheric body, the nervous envelope. It is a subtle body and yet almost visible...it emanates from the physical body and closely covers it. All communications with the exterior world are made through this medium, and it is this that must be invaded and penetrated first before the body can be affected. If this envelope is absolutely strong and intact, you can... remain quite immune. It is a perfect protection against all possible attacks of illness...It is a very sensitive medium...it readily takes in all kinds of suggestions and these can rapidly change and almost remould its condition. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#~</refcenter>
If one is conscious of the subtle body or For certain things, I remember, when there are certain disorders, something wrong (and with the subtle perception of a consciousnessthat has become very sharp, one you can stop see when that disorder is the natural origin of an illness on its way , for example, or of something very serious), with the call, the concentration and prevent it from entering the physical bodyresponse ...[the disorder is dissolved]. It's almost a surrender, because it's an uncalculating self-giving: the damaged spot opens to the Influence, not with an idea of getting cured, but like this (''gesture like a flower opening out''), simply like this, unconditionally—that is the most potent gesture. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3108/illnessdecember-and20-health1967#p52p25</ref>
The nervous (vital-physical) being supports the body—if it is calm and strong and solid, then the body is well supported and can withstand illness and weakness or, if illness comes, it will bear and more easily get rid of it. If the nervous being is weak, then it is the opposite...<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p49~</refcenter>
The particular place in the body affected by an illness is an index to the nature of the inner disharmony that has taken place.It points to the origin, it is a sign of the cause of the ailment. It reveals too the nature of the resistance that prevents the whole being from advancing at the same high speed.It indicates the treatment and the cure.if we develop If one could perfectly understand where the inward physical consciousnessmistake is, find out what has been unreceptive, we become aware of a subtle environmental physical atmosphere open that part and put the force and can feel the forces of illness coming towards us through light there, it, feel them even at would be possible to re-establish in a distance moment the harmony that has been disturbed and, if we have learned how to do it, we can stop them by the will or otherwise..illness would immediately go. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2803/the16-physicaljune-consciousness1929#p12 p8</ref>
==Rejecting the Suggestion of Illness==<center>~</center>
The We are ALWAYS off balance, the body should reject illness as energetically as we reject falsehood in the mind.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/will-to-conquer-illness#p10</ref> All illness should be rejected and all suggestions of illness; the Force should be called in to cure by the assent to health and the refusal of assent to the suggestions that bring is always off balance (more or prolong its opposite. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-less), and-health#p4</ref> ...depression it is the worst of all illnesses and we must reject it with as much energy as we use to get rid of a disease.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/depression#p10</ref> It can be done easily only when the mind refuses any longer to believe in the suggestions or accept the ideas or feelings that start the circle.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-emergence-or-coming-forward-of-the-psychic#p45</ref> By suggestion [of illness] I do not mean merely thoughts or words. When the hypnotist sayssomething else, "Sleep"above, it is a suggestion; but when he says nothing but only puts his silent will to convey sleep Will or makes movements of his hands over the face, that also is a suggestion.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p23</ref> ...your belief in the sanitary precautions you take helps them to work. For your thought isConsciousness, "Now I am disinfected and safe", and to that extent holds it up and makes you safeit work.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/19-may-1929#p16</ref> It is always better not to say, "I will now have no more illness", it attracts the attention of these malevolent powers and they immediately want to prove So if we can call on that they Will—that Will for Harmony—and if we can still disturb have the body. Simply when they comeFlame within, reject them.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p48</ref> ...you get a queer sick feeling inside, a cold in the back, a little uneasinessthat Flame of aspiration,...as though the general harmony had been disturbed. Then you must concentrate all the more and with a great strength of will keep the faith that nothing can do you harmmake contact, nothing can touch you. This suffices, you can throw off the we emerge from so-called illness at that moment. But you must do this immediately ...you must not wait five minutes, it must be done at once... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p22</ref> ...if the vital mind withdraws its consentwhich is unreal, refuses to be dominated by the habitual suggestions an unreal and the habitual movements, these[the] recurrences of depression false sensation and despair can be made soon to cease...It can be done easily only when the mind refuses any longer to believe in the suggestions or accept the ideas or feelings that start the circle. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-emergence-or-coming-forward-of-the-psychic#p45</ref> These auto-suggestions [just one way 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 beinggeneral Disorder, ...in the subconscient they silence or block the suggestions of death and illness… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p37</ref> ==Having Will of Health== ...the potent thought we enter into Harmony, and will of health replaces its faith in illness and its consent to illness...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-ascent-towards-supermind#p23</ref> You must have a very strong will not to be ill. This then everything is the first conditionfine.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0706/11july-may10-19551965#p11p6</ref> Do not love your ill health and the ill health will leave you.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/will-to-conquer-illness#p4</ref> Wake up in yourself a will to conquer. Not a mere will in the mind but a will in the very cells of your body. Without that you can't do anything... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/will-to-conquer-illness#p1</ref> ...the body consciousness through old habit of consciousness admits the force of illness...To get rid of that one must awaken a will and consciousness in the body itself that refuses to allow these things to impose themselves upon it… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p54</ref> =How to Deal with Illness?= ''Q: What to do about illness?''
A: Be passively confident: let me do it and it is done.’
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/cure-by-the-divine-grace#p8</ref>
...whenever I had an illness...I had a trust, a complete assurance that it had no reality....every time a blow came, I would tell my body, "But what'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> When the disease came back, I said to myself, It ['Very well, this means it must be dealt with in a new way.'<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/march-7-1961#p10</ref> It [the descent of the higher consciousness into the most physical'']brings light, consciousness, force, Ananda into the cells and all the physical movements.The body becomes conscious and vigilant and performs the right movements, obeying the higher will or else automatically by force of the consciousness that has come into it..It becomes more possible to control the functionings of the body and set right anything that is wrong, to deal with illness and pain etc. A greater control comes over the actions of the body and even over happenings to it from outside, e.g. minimising of accidents and small mishaps. The body becomes a more effective instrument for work. It becomes possible to minimise fatigue. Peace, happiness, strength, lightness in the whole physical system. These are the more obvious and normal results which grow as the consciousness grows, but there are many others that are possible. There is also the unity with the earth-consciousness, the constant sense of the Divine in the physical, etc.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/descent-and-the-lower-nature#p26</ref>
...Once the illness has got in, it [the body] can fight and overcome it...But this implies only a defensive power, the power to react against an invading enemy—it is not true freedom. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/october-17-1957#p3</ref>==By Overcoming Fear==
...But sick peopleone must be neither cowardly nor fearful... when I tell themWhen the physical disorder comes, one must not be afraid; one must not run away from it, must face it with courage, calmness, "Be sincereconfidence," I know what I mean: if they REALLY want with the Divine, all certitude that must stop. Thatillness is a ''falsehood''s all... <ref>http://incarnateword.and that if one turns entirely, in/agenda/06/may-8-1965#p41</ref>...full confidence, with a complete quietude to the method divine Grace, It will settle in these cells as It is to change established in the subconscient into depths of the conscient—if each thing that rises to the surface becomes consciousbeing, at that moment it must be changed. There is a more direct method still: it is to enter and the subconscient cells themselves will share in one's full consciousness the eternal Truth and work there..Delight.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0709/1113-mayfebruary-19551957#p7p12</ref>
...when there is an illness ...automatically the cells forget ...their sadhana and everything, and it is only slowly when you get out of the illness that the cells begin to remember...my ambition was that the cells should remember when being ill...The first time that the cells remembered, oh, I was very happy. But now,...as soon as the disorder comes, the cells first...got a little anxious: "Oh, we are so bad that we are still catching illnesses"—that was a period; and then, afterwards there was the impression: "Oh, You want to teach us a lesson, we have something to learn"—that was already much better: a kind of eagerness. And now there is an intense joy and a kind of power; a power that comes, a power of aspiration and a power of realization that comes with the sense: "We are winning a victory, we are winning a new victory...."<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/july-7-1965#p1~</refcenter>
A strict discipline is needed to cure the body of fear.The cells themselves tremble.It is only by discipline, by yoga that one can overcome this fear.the last stage 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 body should forget it has been ill; kind of fear thathe felt seeing someone else's very importantwound. He really got it.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/05/october22-10july-19641953#p27p10</ref>
...You must put a strong will for getting rid of your illness and you must remain quiet and unperturbed by the results. The two are not contradictory. One should accompany the other… <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/will-to-conquer-illness#p6~</refcenter>
There have been numerous cases of a panic being stopped outright simply because some people refused the suggestion and could counteract it with an opposite suggestion.For mystics the best cure as soon as one begins to feel afraid of something is to think of the Divine and then snuggle in his arms or at his feet and leave him entirely responsible for everything that happens, within, outside, everywhere—and immediately the fear disappears.That is the cure for the mystic.a positive silence, which It is at the same time easiest of all. But everybody does not enjoy the grace of being a complete immobility—that's very good as an antidote to disorder..mystic. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0405/august14-7october-19631953#p27p36</ref>
...the most difficult from the yogic point of view is toothache, because it is very close to the brain….Usually in a tooth it is the nerve which has been attacked by the caries, the disease, and which begins to protest with all its strength. So, if you succeed in establishing...immobility, you prevent it from vibrating, you prevent it from protesting… if you do it fairly constantly, with sufficient perseverance, the sick nerve will die and you will not suffer at all any more. Because it was that which was suffering and when it is dead it does not suffer any longer. Try...<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-november-1954#p23~</refcenter>
...it is possible Some people are spontaneously free from fear even in their body; they have a sufficient vital equilibrium in them not to turn be afraid, not to fear, and a natural harmony in the pains rhythm of their physical life which enables them to reduce the illness like any spontaneously to a minimum. There are others, on the other pain into 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. Well, this depends on a form kind of happy rhythm of the movement of life in them, which is either harmonious enough to resist external attacks of pleasure; for pain illness or else doesn't exist or is not sufficiently powerful, and pleasure are both is replaced by that trembling of them degradations fear, that kind of an original Ananda instinctive anguish which transforms the least unpleasant contact into something painful and harmful. There is the whole range, from someone who can be reduced into go through the worst contagion and epidemics without ever catching anything to one who falls ill at the slightest chance. So naturally it always depends on the terms constitution of each other or else sublimated into their original principle 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 Ananda… the higher Will and one can obtain from it a normal resistance to all attacks.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3109/illness19-andjune-health1957#p58p7</ref>
Suppose that as a result of some illness or other, there is some sort of pain at a precise spot...First point: do not stress the pain...Second point... draw the peace into yourself and bring it down into the solar plexus...and from there direct it very calmly...persistently, towards the place where the pain is..., and fix it there...This is not always enough...But if by widening this movement you can add a sort of mental formation...that the only reality is the divine Reality...bring into the cells of the body the consciousness of this sole Reality,...and trusting surrender to the Grace, then I am sure...your suffering will disappear… <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/4-july-1956#p21~</refcenter>
These [There] are phenomena It is true that doctors have said that if one can teach the body to bear pain, it becomes more and more resilient and less easily disrupted—this is a concrete result. In the case of self-identification. Onlypeople who know how to avoid getting completely upset as soon as they have a pain somewhere, they who are involuntaryable to bear it quietly, to keep their balance, it seems that 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. When someone cannot sleep ...his nerves are ill Inwardly, I have been told this many times—told and weakened shown by excessive agitationsmall experiences—that the body can bear much more than we think, he if no fear or anxiety is told added to sit in front of an aquarium... and look at the fishpain. So he looks at If we eliminate the fish, moving around, coming and goingmental factor, ...After a while he lives the life of fishes: he comes and goesbody, swimsleft to itself, glides, plays. And at the end of the hour his nerves are in has neither fear nor apprehension nor anxiety about what is going to happen—no anguish—and it can bear a perfect state and he is completely restful! <ref>http://incarnatewordgreat deal.in/cwm/05/12-august-1953#p18</ref>
==Calling [Based on Aphorism<93> Pain is the touch of our Mother teaching us how to hear and grow in the Divine Force==rapture. She has tree stages of her schooling, endurance first, next equality of soul, last ecstasy.] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-93#p3</ref>
Most of them [illnesses] can be got rid of almost at once by faith and calling in the force. Those that are chronic are more difficult, but they too can be got rid of by the same means if persistently used. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p44</ref>...with the call, the concentration and the response ... [the disorder is dissolved]. It's almost a surrender,... the damaged spot opens to the Influence,...(gesture like a flower opening out),...unconditionally—that is the most potent gesture.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/december-20-1967#p25~</refcenter>
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 the sea''Q). If we could only have (I have it from time to time, it comes:When I am sympathetic with it's on its way) a sick person my body begins feeling of smiling trust. But to feel get that the consciousness must be as vast as the creation itself. You are as vast as the symptoms of his diseasecreation, and totally trusting....Ultimately, it always boils down to this (which can be put in a very childlike manner): He knows better than we what has to be done.<ref>http://incarnateword.''in/agenda/13/may-17-1972#p40</ref>
A:The best way is to call for the Divine Presence of Truth and Harmony, to replace the vibrations of disorder and confusion. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/general#p28</ref>==By Detachment==
The physical mind...makes use of the nervous substance; if you have a pain somewhere... we withdraw it corresponds to something withinfrom the nervous substance, we no longer feel anything,... the contact with for that's what gives us the true Force puts things back in orderperception of sensation... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/march-28-1970#p23</ref>We know something is wrong, but we no longer suffer from it…
The pains in the body come from the same source as the trouble in the vital nature; ... Remain always quiet and persist in opening yourself. The Force that releases you from this kind of indifferent detachment is the vital trouble, can also remove ESSENTIAL condition for the disturbance establishment of true Harmony in the nervous part and the most material Matter—the most external, physical body… Matter... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3102/illnessjanuary-and31-health1961#p93p14</ref>
The only thing I can suggest about diseases is to call down peace. Keep the mind away from the body by whatever means... It is in this state that the Grace acts. And it is the Grace alone that cures... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/peace-and-quiet-faith-and-surrender#p10~</refcenter>
...one used the[uses This detachment of the mind]... to make favourable formations—... to give confidence 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, to tell 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 it is just we shall not keep the body in right order so far as we can; we have not to fall into violent asceticisms or a passing disturbance ..positive neglect of the physical frame.But we have not either to be affected in mind by hunger or thirst or discomfort or ill-health or attach the importance which the physical and if it enters a real state vital man attaches to the things of receptivity, the disorder will disappear as easily as it has come, and one can cure oneself in a few seconds—if one knows how to do that, one gets wonderful resultsbody. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0523/23the-release-from-subjection-to-decemberthe-1953body#p36p2</ref>
==Overcoming Fear==<center>~</center>
Not be afraid of falling 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! That's but it is only something taking place in the body and not affecting your consciousness. It is then possible to see this separate body consciousness, what it feels, whatare its reactions to things, how it works. One can then act on it to change its consciousness and reactions. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0731/octoberillness-22and-1966health#p4p54</ref>
A strict discipline is needed to cure the body of fear. The cells themselves tremble. It is only by discipline, by yoga that one can overcome this fear... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p10</ref>==By Surrender==
...as soon as one begins to feel afraid all those physical disorders of something [the body, those disorders in the functioning or even organic disorders, suddenly (naturally, the constant state is one] is to think of aspiration: an intense, continuous, conscious aspiration) and suddenly—suddenly—an almost stupefying Response: all disorder disappears, not only inside but around (around, sometimes over a rather vast extent), and everything becomes automatically organized, harmonized, without the Divine least effort, and it starts... moving within an extraordinary progressive harmony; then snuggle , with no apparent reason, without anything having changed in his arms or at his feet the consciousness and leave him entirely responsible for everything any outer circumstances making a difference, pfft! it reverts to what it was before: disorder, conflict, chaos, things that happensgrate. And then, withinas you aren't conscious of the why, you don't have the key!......the only recourse is a blissful surrender (''gesture of immobile offering Upward'').. and not a heavy, outsidenot an inert surrender: intense, everywhere—and immediately the fear disappearsintense! ...That's the only thing. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0506/14march-october20-19531965#p36p34,p37</ref>
...the body can bear much more than we think, if no fear or anxiety is added to the pain. If we eliminate the mental factor, the body, left to itself, has neither fear nor apprehension nor anxiety about what is going to happen—no anguish—and it can bear a great deal. ==Medicine==
Medicines are a ''pis aller'' [Based on Aphorism<93> Pain is the touch a course of our Mother teaching us how action followed as a last resort] that have to hear and grow be used when something in rapturethe consciousness does not respond or responds superficially to the Force. She has tree stages Very often it is some part of her schoolingthe material consciousness that is unreceptive—at other times it is the subconscient which stands in the way even when the whole waking mind, life, endurance firstphysical consent to the liberating influence. If the subconscient also answers, next equality then even a slight touch of the Force can not only cure the particular illness but make that form or kind of soul, last ecstasyillness practically impossible hereafter.]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1031/aphorismdoctors-and-93medicines#p3p6</ref>
Mental fear—all who have a little control over themselves or any human dignity can eliminate it; vital fear is more subtle and asks for a greater control; as for physical fear, a veritable yoga is necessary to overcome it, for the cells of the body are afraid of everything that is unpleasant, painful,...the cells of the body[they] become anxious, they don't like to be uncomfortable. And then, to overcome that, the control of a conscious will is necessary...It is this kind of trembling of material, physical fear in the cells of the body which aggravates all illnesses.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-june-1957#p6~</refcenter>
But you mustn't 'Q. Mother, how are medicines to be afraid. Neither afraid of falling illused for a body which is not altogether unconscious? For even when we draw on the divine grace, nor of becoming imbecilewe see that we need a little medicine, nor even..and if a little medicine is given it has a good effect. of dying—you must be like Does this (vast mean that only the body needs medicine or is there something wrong with the mind and quiet gesture, like the sea). <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/13/may-17-1972#p40</ref>vital?''
==Practicing Indifferent Detachment==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!
The physical mind.In almost every case, there are things which help—a little—provided it is done within reasonable limits..makes use of the nervous substance; if we withdraw If it from the nervous substance, we is no longer feel anythingwithin reasonable limits, for that's what gives us the perception of sensationyou are sure to break down completely.You cure one thing but catch another which is usually worse...We know But still, a little help, in a way, a little something is wrongthat gives confidence to your body: "Now it will be all right, but we no longer suffer from it...now that I have taken this kind of indifferent detachment is the ESSENTIAL condition for the establishment of true Harmony in the most material Matter—the most external, physical Matter This it is the logical consequence... on the cause of illnesses going to be all right"—this helps it a great deal and how it decides to overcome themget better and it is cured.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/january-31-1961#p14</ref>
...detachment There too, there is a whole range of possibilities, from the mind must be strengthened by yogi who is in so perfect a certain attitude state of indifference inner control that he could take poison without being poisoned to the things 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 body; we must not care essentially about movement needed for its cure...health or ill-healthThere is the whole possible range, from total,...This does not mean supreme mastery to an equally total bondage to all external aids and all that we shall not keep the body in right order so far as we can; we have not to fall into violent asceticisms or you absorb from outside—a bondage and a positive neglect of perfect liberation. There is the physical framewhole range. But we have not either to be affected in mind bySo everything is possible...discomfort or illIt is like a great key-health or attach the importance board, very complex and very complete, on which the physical one can play, and vital man attaches to the things of body is the bodyinstrument... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-subjection-to-the-body#p2</ref>
One step towards If one can cure by the Force as you have often done, it[illness] is to get the inner consciousness separate from best—but if for some reason the body—to feel that it body is not you who are ill but it is only something taking place in able to respond to the Force (e.g. owing to doubt, lassitude or discouragement or for inability to react against the disease), then the body and not affecting your consciousnessaid of medical treatment becomes necessary. It is then possible not that the Force ceases to act and leaves all to the medicines,—it will continue to see this separate body act through the consciousness, what it feels, what are its reactions but take the support of the treatment so as to things, how it works. One can then act directly on it the resistance in the body, which responds more readily to change physical means in its ordinary consciousness and reactions. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3109/illness19-andjune-health1957#p54p9,p10,p11,p12</ref>
Only, when one is not very much coddled, when one has a little endurance and decides within himself not to pay too much attention, quite remarkably the pain diminishes… <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-november-1954#p21~</refcenter>
...Medicine is necessary for our bodies in disease only because our bodies have learned the knowledge art of the power to cut the connection between the suffering part and the recording brain. ..not getting well without medicines.all this calls for an occult power or a training...without going Even so far, there one sees often that the moment Nature chooses for recovery is one thing that one can try to do: it in which the life is not to concentrate on one's pain,.abandoned as hopeless by the doctors..But[andAphorism<404>] if one can turn one's attention away, one no longer suffers. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0710/27aphorism-404-405-april406-1955407#p16p1</ref>
==Re-establishing Harmony==<center>~</center>
So there are two things you have to Drugs often cure the body when they do when you have discovered the disordernot merely trouble or poison it, big or small—the disharmony. ...but only if their physical attack on the first thing to do is to quieten oneself, bring peace, calm, ... Afterwards you see what disease is supported by the cause force of the disorder...and through the pressure of light and knowledge and spiritual spirit; if that force you re-establish the harmony...if it does not offer any obstinate resistance, you can be cured in a few secondsmade to work freely, drugs are superfluous.[Aphorism<407>] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0510/22aphorism-404-405-july406-1953407#p58p4</ref>
One must be conscious, conscious ==Role of the working of one's organs,...When they begin indulging in unhealthy fancies...you must tell them: no, it is not like that the work is to be done, it is the other way! Suppose for example, your heart begins to throb madly; then you must make it calm, you tell it that this is not the way to behave, and at the same time (solely to help it) you take in long, very regular rhythmic breaths, that is, the lung becomes the mentor of the heart and teaches it how to work properly... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p36</ref>Supramental Descent==
The particular place in the body affected by an illness supramental descent is an index to the nature necessary for a dynamic action of the inner disharmony that has taken place. It points to the originTruth in mind,vital and body... It indicates This would imply as a final result the treatment and disappearance of the cure. If one could... find out what has been unreceptive, open that part and put unconsciousness of the force and the light there, body; it would no longer be possible subject to re-establish in a moment the harmony that has been disturbed decay and the illness would immediately godisease. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0328/16transformation-juneand-1929the-body#p8p16</ref>In its normal state, the body always feels that it is not its own master: illnesses invade it without its really being able to resist them—a thousand factors impose themselves or exert pressure upon it. Its sole power is the power to defend itself, to react. Once the illness has got in, it can fight and overcome it—even modern medicine has acknowledged that the body is cured only when it decides to get cured; it is not the drugs per se that heal, for if the ailment is temporarily suppressed by a drug without the body's will, it grows up again elsewhere in some other form until the body itself has decided to be cured. But this implies only a defensive power, the power to react against an invading enemy—it is not true freedom.
...But with the supramental manifestation, something new has taken place in the intervention of body: it feels it is its own master, autonomous, with its two feet solidly on the Vibration ground, as it were. This gives a physical impression of Harmony into the vibration of Disorderwhole being suddenly drawing itself up, allowing [allows] Disorder to ceasewith its head lifted high—I am my own master.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agenda/0501/marchoctober-2517-19641957#p34p3,p4</ref>
...we think the body is in good health, that it's balanced, and that "something is introduced from outside, which causes you to fall ill," but it's not like that! We are ALWAYS off balance, the 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 [the] Flame of aspiration, and make contact, we emerge from so-called illness… <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/july-10-1965#p6~</refcenter>
==Restoring Order==The absolute immunity can only come with the supramental change. For below the supramental it is the result of an action of a Force among many forces and can be disturbed by a disruption of the equilibrium established—in the supramental it is a law of the nature; in a supramentalised body immunity from illness would be automatic, inherent in its new nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p52</ref>
...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/september-26-1964#p63</ref>==Helpful Practices==
That [The] intrusion Suppose that as a result of Disorder makes itself felt everywheresome illness or other, it has repercussions everywherethere is some sort of pain at a precise spot...if you are able to bring to At that moment all will depend, as I said at the attacked spot beginning, on the true Vibration—the Vibration of Order and Harmony—and approach most familiar to you stop the Disorder..But we can give an example. all the other things You are put back in orderpain, as if automaticallyin great pain; it is hurting very much, you are suffering a lot.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/september-26-1964#p57</ref>
If you organise everything—your feelingsFirst point: do not stress the pain by telling yourself, your thoughts"Oh, your impulseshow painful! Oh, etcthis pain is unbearable! Oh,—around the psychic centre which it is the inner lightbeing worse and worse, I shall never be able to bear it", you will see that all inner disorder will change into a luminous orderetc.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/15-january-1951#p5</ref> ...the body itself awakening in its cells, a freedom all this sort of thing. The more you go on thinking like this and feeling like this and the cells themselvesmore your attention is concentrated on it, an absolutely new vibration that sets disorders right—even disorders that existed prior to the supramental manifestationpain increases amazingly.<ref>httpSo, the first point://incarnatewordto control yourself sufficiently not to do that.in/agenda/01/october-17-1957#p7</ref>
Second point: as I said, it depends on your habits...the habit If you know how to concentrate, to be quiet, and if you can bring into yourself a certain peace, of disease can any kind―it may be a mental peace, it may be a vital peace, it may be...minimised a psychic peace; they have different values and gradually eliminated and in the meantime the power qualities, this is an individual question―you try to realise within yourself a state of the mind peace or attempt to set right the disorders of the body whether by enter into a conscious manipulation contact with a force of vital force or by simple mental fiat will immensely increasepeace.... <ref>http://incarnatewordSuppose you succeed more or less completely.in/cwsa/23/Then, if you can draw the peace into yourself and bring it down into the-release-solar plexus―for we are not talking of inner states but of your physical body―and from-subjection-to-there direct it very calmly, very slowly I might say, but very persistently, towards the place where the-body#p5</ref>pain is more or less sharp, and fix it there, this is very good.
=What Are the Obstacles to Cure?=This is not always enough.
...someone who But if by widening this movement you can add a sort of mental formation with a little life in it―not just cold, but with a little life in it―that the only reality is ill the divine Reality, and BELIEVES in all the cells of this body are a more or less deformed expression of this divine Reality―there is only one Reality, the reality Divine, and our body is a more or less deformed expression of his illness; this sole Reality―if by my aspiration, my concentration, I can bring into the effect cells of the Action is lessened in proportion to his wrong beliefbody the consciousness of this sole Reality, all disorder must necessarily cease.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/13/june-24-1972#p16</ref>
==Rejecting If you can add to that a movement of complete and trusting surrender to the Divine Force==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. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/4-july-1956#p21,p22,p23,p24,p25,p26,p27,p28</ref>
I know casesThere's a power in the sound itself, and by forcing the body to repeat the sound,you force it to receive the vibration at the same time... of people who are sick: But I've noticed that if they follow something in the routine 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 doctor and medicines and treatment and diseasesame words, they get well; if by some mischance (!) they call on the Force same mantra, but said with a certain purpose and I apply itabove all in a movement of surrender, surrender of the more I applypain, the more terrified they are! They feel absolutely unexpected phenomena disorder, and they are terrified: "...What's happening to me!" As if it were absolutely catastrophica call, like an opening—it has a marvelous effect. The minute mantra acts in just the Force comes right way, in this way and they feel just in no other. And after a bit while everything is put back in order. And simultaneously, of course, the precise knowledge of what lies behind the disorder and what I must do to set it,right comes to me... they resist... they become absolutely restless...That isBut quite apart from this, the whole system spends its time rejecting and rejecting all that comesmantra acts directly upon the pain itself. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0501/novemberjune-284-19641960#p12p4</ref>
...instead of using the energy in this way,[to restore and repair] they[humans] immediately throw it out. They start stirring about, reacting, working, speaking ...They can't keep anything. So naturally, since the energy was not sent to be wasted like that but for an inner use, they feel absolutely flat, run down. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/july-21-1958#p2~</refcenter>
==Unhealthy Curiosity==The only thing I can suggest about diseases is to call down peace. Keep the mind away from the body by whatever means—whether by reading Sri Aurobindo's books or meditation. It is in this state that the Grace acts. And it is the Grace alone that cures. The medicines only give a faith to the body. That is all. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/peace-and-quiet-faith-and-surrender#p10</ref>
...there is the sense of an established harmony among the cells,... And the slightest thing that comes and disturbs that harmony is VERY painful, but at the same time there is the knowledge of what to do to reestablish the harmony instantly;... But if out of curiosity,...you start asking yourself, "What's that? What effect will it have? What's going to happen?" (what the body calls "the desire to learn"),...that [then] you'll have something very unpleasant ...While if you don't have that unhealthy curiosity ...bring one drop of the Lord on the troubled spot for everything to be fine again.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/july-20-1963#p39~</refcenter>
...when you are able the knowledge of the power to be truly stillcut the connection between the suffering part and the recording brain. One cuts the connection, there is ALWAYS a little light—a warm little lightthen the brain does not register. That's what one does, very bright what the doctors do with anaesthetics. They cut the connection of the nerves between the spot that's ill and wonderfully still, behindthe brain; as if so the brain no longer perceives anything or it is reduced to a minimum… there is one thing that one can try to do: it were sayingis not to concentrate on one's pain, "You only have to will." Then turn the bodyattention away as much as possible, not think at all of one's cells panic: "Willpain, how? How can I? The illness is think as little as possible and above all not be concentrated on meit, not to pay attention—"Oh, I am overcome. How can I will? It's AN ILLNESSm in pain"—Then something with , then it becomes a general wisdom sayslittle worse; "Oh, I'm in still greater pain"Calm down...don't remain attached to your illness!..So they consent...They try—immediately, then it becomes still worse, like that light comes again...a few seconds , because one is concentrated on it; and it's over. Then this is the cells remembermistake one always makes: "But how come? I had a to think, be there, attentive, awaiting the sign of pain here..."—pop! It all ; then naturally it comes, it comes backincreased by the concentration of the attention given to it. And That is why, when one is not well the whole drama unfolds like thatbest 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, constantlyone no longer suffers.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0507/october27-14april-19641955#p60p16</ref>
=How to Cure Illness?=<center>~</center>
Have faith. There When one has a very bad toothache (I don't know if you have a toothache sometimes or not; a toothache hurts terribly because the nerve is quite, quite close to the brain, so it doesn't lose its intensity on the way, it is very direct and hurts very much), the best way—in fact there's no disease which cannot be cured by other—the best way is to cut it: "It is good, you have done your work, you told me that something was wrong there, that's enough, don't move now." And one cuts, cuts it like this ("gesture"), cuts the Divine Graceconnection, it doesn't transmit again. Naturally you must think of something else. If afterwards you start saying, "Do I still have the pain?..." <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1507/cure-by-the11-divinemay-grace1955#p3p44</ref>
Peace and stillness are the great remedy for disease.When we can bring peace in our cells, we are cured.<refcenter>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/peace-and-quiet-faith-and-surrender#p26~</refcenter>
‘‘Q:...phenomena of self-identification. Only, they are involuntary. And this is also one of the methods used today to cure nervous diseases. When one 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 caught told to sit in front of an illnessaquarium, 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 fish. So he looks at the fish, moving around, coming and going, swimming, gliding, turning, how should meeting, crossing, chasing one pray to another indefinitely, and also the water flowing slowly and the passing fish. After a while he lives the life of fishes: he comes and goes, swims, glides, plays. And at the end of the hour his nerves are in a perfect state and he is completely restful!But the condition is that one must not think of one's troubles, simply watch the Mother?’’fish. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/12-august-1953#p18,p19</ref>
A:Cure me, O Mother!<refcenter>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/cure-by-the-divine-grace#p10~</refcenter>
I donhave known some truly extraordinary instances. If you can at the moment... Wait, take an example which is quite concrete: sunstroke. This upsets you considerably, it is one of the things which makes you most ill—a sunstroke upsets everything, it disturbs the inner functions, it generally causes a congestion in the head and very high fever. So, if this has happened, if it has succeeded in getting through the protection and entering you, well, if you can just go into a quiet place, stretch yourself out flat, go out of your body (naturally, you must learn this; there are people who do this spontaneously, for others a long discipline is necessary), go out of your body, remain above in a way to be able to see the body (you know the phenomenon, seeing one's body when one is outside? This can be done at will, going out of one't want 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 be ill doing it, if your aspiration is strong enough, you get the answer; and always I am with then, from there, taking care not to re-enter your body, you begin to cure you—but 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 too must want to not be cureddisturbed by anyone. If someone comes along, sees you stretched out and shakes you, it is extremely dangerous. Do You must do this in quiet conditions, ask people not torment to disturb you or better shut yourself up where they can't disturb you. But you can concentrate slowly (this takes more or less time—ten minutes, half an hour, one 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 always nestle there is a relaxation in my arms so 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 receive my love indigestion, but a liver which doesn't function properly for the moment); it may also be cured in the same way. There was a case of cholera which was healed like that. The cholera had just been caught, had entered, but was not yet lodged; it was completely cured. Consequently, when I say that if one masters the spiritual force and forceknows how to use it, there is no malady which cannot be cured… Of course, you will say you don't know how to go out of the body, draw the Force, concentrate it, have all this mastery.... It is not very frequent, but it is not impossible. And one can be sure that if one is helped... In fact, there is a much easier method, it is to call for help.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1604/2331-septembermarch-19341951#p2p23</ref>
Ultimately to put it quite tritely, one can cure only if the disease isn't necessary to the individual's development.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/10/december-13-1969#p14~</refcenter>
If this present difficulty is useful ... (it's the body addressing the Lord)..You thought for months perhaps or even for Your Work—so be it..It [The body] doesn't ask to be cured years, you thought you were completely rid of a certain kind of the illness! It doesn't askwhich you suffered from, and you no longer paid any attention, and suddenly one day it returns as though it is readyhad never gone; 'All rightit springs up again from the subconscient and unless one enters into this subconscient and changes things there,' it says. 'As long as I can keep goingthat is, I will keep going. As long as I can lastunless one changes the subconscient into the conscient, I will lastit always happens like this. But And the method is to change the subconscient into the conscient—if each thing that's not what I'm asking for: I am asking rises to the surface becomes conscious, at that moment it must be cured of my stupiditychanged.There is a more direct method still: it is to enter the subconscient in one' I believe s full consciousness and work there, but this is what...gives it the necessary endurancedifficult. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0207/february11-7may-19611955#p24p7</ref>
=== Auto Suggestions===The mind has a considerable power of formation and a direct action on the body, and usually one uses this power to make oneself ill.For as soon as the least thing goes wrong, the mind begins to shape and build all the catastrophes possible, to ask itself whether it could be this, whether it could be that, if it is going to be like that, and how it will all end..in order 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 be able 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 receptivity, the disorder will disappear as easily as it has come, and one can cure an illnessoneself in a few seconds—if one knows how to do that, one must find out its cause, not its microbegets wonderful results.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/2223-julydecember-1953#p42p36</ref>
...There are two ways of curing an illness spiritually. One...the person is receptive; the force of consciousness is put upon the affected part and its pressure restores order<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p11~</refcenter>
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 other cases, if the body lacks receptivity... one sees subliminal they set in action the powers of the inner correspondence with being, its occult power to make thought, will or simple conscious force effective on the body—in the psychological state which has brought about subconscient they silence or block the suggestions of death and illness and acts on (expressed or unexpressed) thatprevent the return of health. They help also to combat the same things (adverse suggestions) in the mind, vital, body consciousness. Where all this is completely done or with some completeness, the effects can be very remarkable. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0431/31illness-marchand-1951health#p12p37</ref>
When you are completely cured, it will be an indication of some inner progress.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/will-to-conquer-illness#p6~</refcenter>
But when you have had ...an illness...the body remembers for a very long time. If you want to Of course it [''cancer''] can [''be completely curedby Yoga''], you must but on condition of faith or openness or both. Even a mental suggestion can cure this memory in the bodycancer—with luck, of course, this as is absolutely indispensable...When shown by the case of the remembrance is effacedwoman operated on unsuccessfully for cancer, but the body is truly healeddoctors 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/0631/13specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-octoberphysical-1954problems#p47p2</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.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/03/october-30-1962#p62~</refcenter>
One must be conscious, conscious of the working of one's organs, aware of the one that does not behave very well, telling it immediately what is to be done to set itself right.What is needed (I shall explain it to you later on) is to give them a lesson as one does to little children..When they begin indulging in unhealthy fancies (indeed it is then the occasion to say it) you must tell them: no, it is not like that the work is to be done, it is the cure other way! Suppose for all physical disorders lies in example, your heart begins to throb madly; then you must make it calm, you tell it that this is not the cells becoming convinced—conscious way to behave, and convinced—that they are an expression of at the Divinesame time (solely to help it) you take in long, very regular rhythmic breaths, or even that they are divine in their essenceis, the lung becomes the mentor of the heart and teaches it how to work properly.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1205/october22-16july-19711953#p6p36</ref>
...most disorders of the body are connected,...If one can strike at their psycho-physical root, one can cure even without knowing the pathological whole of the matter and working through the symptoms is a possibility... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p25~</refcenter>
==Surrender==It is particularly noticeable that all the digestive functions are extremely sensitive to an attitude that is critical, bitter, full of ill-will, to a sour judgment. Nothing disturbs the functioning of the digestion more than that. And it is a vicious circle: the more the digestive function is disturbed, the more unkind you become, critical, dissatisfied with life and things and people. So you can't find any way out. And there is only one cure: to deliberately drop this attitude, to absolutely forbid yourself to have it and to impose upon yourself, by constant self-control, a deliberate attitude of all-comprehending kindness. Just try and you will see that you feel much better.<ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-bhikkhu#p25</ref>
If a surrender is to be made, it's to Him. ..."May Your Will be done," ...And one sees that there was absolutely no imperative need to be ill or for =What Are the disequilibrium Obstacles to occur.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/09/june-15-1968#p17</ref>Cure?=
Human beings don't know how to keep energy.When something happens—an accident or an illness, for example—and they ask for help, a double or a triple dose of energy is sent.If they happen to be receptive, they receive it.that[The] disorganization This energy is what prevents the cohesion necessary given for the cells two reasons: to constitute an individual body, so then you know, "Ah (gesture restore order out of dissolution), it'll be the end." Then disorder caused by the cells aspireaccident or illness, there is and to impart a sort transformative force to repair or change the source of central consciousness the illness or accident.But instead of using the body which aspires intenselyenergy in this way, with as complete a surrender as they immediately throw it can make: "Your Willout. They start stirring about, Lordreacting, Your Willworking, Your Willspeaking ...They feel full of energy and they throw it all out! They can't keep anything." ThenSo naturally, since the energy was not sent to be wasted like that but for an inner use, they feel absolutely flat, run down.And it is universal.. first there is a peaceThey don't know, they do not know how to make this movement—to turn within, to use the energy (not to keep it, then a lightit doesn't keep), then Harmony—and to use it to repair the disorder has vanished. And once damage done to the body and to go deeply within to find the disorder has vanishedreason for this accident or illness, and there is instantly IN THE CELLS a sense to change it by an aspiration, an inner transformation. Instead of living eternitythat, right away they start speaking, stirring about, reacting, of living for eternity.doing this or that! <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agenda/0801/novemberjuly-1521-19671958#p32p1,p2</ref>
...all ...disorders of the body...suddenly (naturally, the constant state is one of... an intense, continuous, conscious aspiration) ...disappears, not only inside but around ...without the least effort, and it starts...moving within an extraordinary progressive harmony; then, with no apparent reason, without anything having changed in the consciousness and any outer circumstances making a difference, pfft! it reverts to what it was before: disorder, conflict, chaos, things that grate. And then, as you aren't conscious of the why, you don't have the key!...the only recourse is a blissful surrender.. and not a heavy, not an inert surrender: intense, intense! ...That's the only thing.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/march-20-1965#p34~</refcenter>
...but when you are able to be truly still, there is ALWAYS a little light—a warm little light, very bright and wonderfully still, behind; as if something in it were saying, "You only have to will." Then the body's working gets disturbed (a pain or disordercells panic: "Will, the onset of some how? How can I? The illness) is on me, I am overcome. How can I will? It's AN ILLNESS"—the whole drama (and that wasn't in sleep: I repeat my mantra in a certain way—still the same wordswas completely awake, the same mantrait was this morning), but said it's "an illness." Then something with a certain purpose and above all in general wisdom says, "Calm down, calm down, (laughing) don't remain attached to your illness! Calm down. As if you wished to be ill! Calm down." So they consent—"consent," you know, like a movement of surrenderchild who has been scolded, "All right, very well, surrender of I'll try." They try—immediately, that light comes again: "You only have to will." And once or twice, for one thing or another (because the painDisorder is something general: you may suffer at any spot, the have a disorderat any spot if you accept a certain vibration), on THIS POINT, you consent—the next minute, it's over. Not the next minute: a few seconds and it's over. Then the cells remember: "But how come? I had a call, like an opening—it has a marvelous effectpain here. .."—pop! It all comes back.And after a while everything is put back in orderthe whole drama unfolds like that, constantly. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0105/juneoctober-414-19601964#p4p60</ref>
...working according to somebody else's ideas makes or keeps you ill, I do not see why it should be so...If ...doing things in what you consider not the best way, makes you nervous...ill, that is a pity. It would be so much better if you could leave the responsibility of the way of doing things to the Mother and do cheerfully what you have to do. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p83~</refcenter>
...congenital diseases can there is the sense of an established harmony among the cells, increasingly established among the cells, which represents the right functioning, whatever that may be cured only by an integral transformation : it's no longer a question of a stomach or a heart or this or that. And the body itself slightest thing that comes and we have not reached yet disturbs that period in harmony is VERY painful, but at the same time there is the knowledge of what to do to reestablish the sadhanaharmony instantly; otherwise and if the harmony is reestablished, the functioning isn't affected. But if out of curiosity, for instance (it is only 's a so-called mental illness in humans), you start asking yourself, "What's that? What effect will it have? What's going to happen?"miraculous cure(what the body calls " the desire to learn"), if you are unlucky enough to be that way, you can take place and that kind of be sure ("miraclelaughing" can happen only as ) that you'll have something very unpleasant which, according to the result of doctor (according to ignoramuses), becomes an absolute sincerity in illness or disrupts the body's functioning. While if you don't have that unhealthy curiosity and, on the contrary, will the consecration harmony not to be disrupted, you only have to , we could say poetically, bring one drop of the Divine and an unshakable faith in Lord on the Divine Gracetroubled spot for everything to be fine again. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1504/cure-by-thejuly-divine20-grace1963#p13p39</ref>
==Changing the Attitude=More on Illness=
These[There is no such thing as an incurable illness in reality—for what the] maladies are doctors call such is only an illness for which they have not yet been able to discover a creation of the pressure of hostile forces;physical remedy.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-problems#p1</ref><center>~</center>But, each man can make his own experiment.The only way is to remain quietIf one has a bad throat, dissociate yourself and refuse this may be due to accept it or make much of it, allow the calm and strength fact that the Mother has been putting around you to enter your mind and permeate your nervous systemday before one was in a state of depression...The cure may take time because your nervous system has been long subjected to these influences andOr perhaps one is very unhappy, dissatisfied, when they are evictedone finds everything very bad, they return with violence to re-establish their hold. But if you can acquire and keep patience and fortitude and the right consciousness and right attitude with regard to these things, next day one gets a cold in the hold they have will progressively disappearhead.... Everyone must make his own observations.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/04/31/accidents-possessionmarch-madness1951#p15p4</ref>
The attitude in the cells changes—not the disorder (!), the disorder changes only because of the cells' reaction, that's what makes it change; but it recurs with clockwork regularity—that's its job. It is the way it's received by the cells, their reaction to it, that brings about the change.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/march-30-1963#p19~</refcenter>
...all Aphorism<199>Disease will always return to the body if the digestive functions are extremely sensitive to an attitude that soul is critical, bitter, full flawed; for the sins of ill-will, to a sour judgment...it is a vicious circle: the more mind are the secret cause of the digestive function is disturbed, sins of the more unkind body...criticalSo too poverty and trouble will always return on man in society, dissatisfied with life...And there so long as the mind of the race is only one cure: to deliberately drop this attitude,...and subjected to impose upon yourself,...a deliberate attitude of all-comprehending kindnessegoism.<ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0310/theaphorism-199-bhikkhu200#p25p1</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. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p40~</refcenter>
==Using ...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 is only a so-called "miraculous cure" that can take place and that kind of "miracle" can happen only as the result of an absolute sincerity in the consecration to the Divine Force==and an unshakable faith in the Divine Grace. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/cure-by-the-divine-grace#p13</ref>
To heal [illness] by the true force is obviously the best—provided the body is amenable. It has a consciousness of its own which must be fully enlightened before it gives a full response. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p1~</refcenter>
...the Force of spiritual purification which is such an absolutely perfectly constructive force that nothing that's in the least destructive can survive there. ..you direct it on the spot When people are ill and the adverse force usually runs away immediately...And with that not only is the illness curedget well quickly, they are full of gratitude; but all possibility never do they think of its return being grateful when they are well; and yet that is also eliminated. You are cured of the illness once for all, it never comes back. a much greater miracle! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/2223-julydecember-1953#p60p52</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.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/july-21-1958#p1~</refcenter>
...if it[illness] has succeeded the experience that the Divine ALONE is acting in getting through the protection and entering you,...go out of your body, remain above in a way to be able to see that He has BECOME the body... and from there, consciously, you pull yet all the Force from abovewhile retaining his character of divine omniscience and omnipotence) well, ...you begin to push these forces into the body...until you see whole time it remained actively like that the body is receiving, that the Force is entering, it was absolutely impossible to have the LEAST 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 not only in the body,but IN ALL THE SURROUNDING MATTER... there So if that is established in a much easier methodpermanent way, there CAN NO LONGER be illness it is to call for helpimpossible. There can no longer be accidents, there can no longer be illness, there can no longer be disorders, and everything should harmonize (probably in a progressive way) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0401/31june-march6-19511958#p23p10</ref>
I used to do it simply like this: breathe in very slowly to the count of 4, then hold for 4 like this...lifting the diaphragm and lowering the head...closing everything and exerting pressure... Then while I held the air, I would make it circulate with the force ...and with the peace as well; and I would concentrate it wherever there was a physical disorder (a pain or something wrong somewhere). It's very effective. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/03/february-24-1962#p36~</refcenter>
...health or illness is a choice (to express it[sciatica] cannot resist the Force quietly and persistently appliedsimply). A choice of every minute. Other illnesses can resistFor this body, at any rate, but sciatica being entirely tamasic cannotthat's how it is. The application It means abdicating with regard to the general functioning of Force does not yetthe physical substance, probablyof the body, come natural to and having illnesses you, so it brings a sense get cured of struggle or not of quiet domination, hence the restlessness etcdepending on.. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-laws than physical-problems#p18</ref> Of course it [cancer] can [be cured by Yoga]laws. But there is every minute—every minute—the possibility to choose the true consciousness, or there is, yes, but on condition a disorder or disequilibrium. It's something which is unable to follow the movement of faith progressive harmony, or openness or bothsometimes even which doesn't want to. I am talking about cells and groups of cells. Even a mental suggestion can cure cancer <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3109/specific-illnesses-ailments-andjune-other15-physical-problems1968#p2p14,p15</ref>
==Medicine==<center>~</center>
Medicines are a ''pis aller'' [a course of action followed as a last resort]that have to be used when something Disease is needlessly prolonged and ends 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 death oftener than is not able to respond to the Force...then inevitable, because the aid mind of medical treatment becomes necessary. It is not that the Force ceases to act patient supports and leaves all to the medicines,—it will continue to act through the consciousness but take dwells upon the support disease of the treatment so as to act directly on the resistance in the his body, which responds more readily to physical means in its ordinary consciousness.[Aphorism<386>] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3110/doctorsaphorism-and386-387-388-medicines389#p15p1</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<404center>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~</refcenter>
The absolute immunity can only come with You are given an illness purposely to make you progress? Surely it is not like that. Actually, you may turn the thing round and say that there are people whose aspiration is so constant, whose goodwill so total that whatever happens to them they take as a trial on the path to make progress. I knew people who, whenever they fell ill, took that as a proof of the supramental changeDivine Grace to help them to progress. …in They told themselves: it is a supramentalised body immunity good sign, I am going to find out the cause of my illness and I shall make the necessary progress. I knew a few of this kind and they moved on magnificently. There are others, on the contrary, who, far from making use of the thing, let themselves fall flat on the ground. So much the worse for them. But the true attitude when one is ill, is to say: "There is something that is not all right; I am going to see what it is." You must never think that the Divine has purposely sent an illness , for that would truly be automatic, inherent in its new nature. a very wicked Divine!<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3105/illness22-andjuly-health1953#p52p2</ref>
The complete immunity from all illness for which our Yoga tries can only come by a total and permanent enlightenment of the below from above resulting in the removal of the psychological roots of ill health—it cannot be done otherwise.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p38</ref>
...take a supramental being having the supramental consciousness, if his body gets cancer, it will remain cancer... He may not feel anything, but only if he detaches himself from his body; whereas, for the transformation to be genuine, the body ALSO has to attain a harmony above—above all illnesses and accidents. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/12/july-10-1971#p12</ref>'''Content Curated by Radhika Pillai'''
On one side there is the claim that illness and the rest should be impossible, on the other a violent rejection of the only condition under which these things can become impossible...but that is one reason why it is necessary to transform the human and put something a little more luminous in its place. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-yoga-and-vaishnavism#p35</ref>
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