There is a belief system prevalent in
the western world today that says illness and disease is caused by something
physical in the body and that physical illness is caused by physical means. This
belief is one of the greatest misconceptions, or more accurately,
misperceptions, that exists in relation to health and medicine in the western
world today. It is the main reason why medicine is not making any headway on any
of the major illnesses and diseases currently prevalent in the world.
Somewhere along the way we developed an
incorrect view or perception of what sickness really is and why it exists in
the first place. Unfortunately, we are presently locked into the belief system that
says we are at the mercy of all illness and disease and that there is nothing
we can do about it. This is mainly due the belief that illness is caused by strictly
physical sources and means and by them only.
We get the flu because we are infected
with the influenza virus; we develop cancer because of cancer cells in our body;
we have repetitive headaches because we do not drink enough water; or we have a
sore back simply because we sat incorrectly on a chair. These are just a few
examples of causes that we ascribe to our physical symptoms. In most of these
cases, we are told that these physical ailments are separate from us and that
we have to suffer the effects until they disappear, either on their own or
through the help of medication etc.
Fortunately, we do not have to believe
this any longer. Knowledge of a better way is beginning to flood the earth like
rays from the sun as it rises above the horizon. It is becoming clear to many
that there must be more to sickness than what is commonly believed and taught
in the world as a whole.
As was introduced in my article, 3 Misconceptions About Illness and Disease,
the body, in reality, does not have power to create. The belief that it can, a
fundamental error, is the source of all physical symptoms produced in our
bodies. As hard as it may be to accept, the body is nothing but a machine, and
like a machine, it receives its directions and messages from a higher source.
What is that higher source? It is the
mind, which is the only level of creation. Nothing physical is able to create
anything else that is physical. The level of mind is the level of creation, aka
the cause, and the physical level is merely the effects of this cause. It may
seem hard to accept at first, but this is how it works. There can be nothing
physical unless it first existed in the mind. For something to be in the body,
it must first have been in the mind, if it hadn’t, it wouldn’t be there.
This leads us to the one thing we all
need to know about illness and disease: You cannot cure it via physical means, because
it is not caused by those means. What does this mean for us? It means that we
do not need to seek outside ourselves for healing; we are the cure we have been
looking for. Our perceptions and corresponding beliefs are what drive our
physical symptoms. In this way, illness and disease is a call to lead us back
to a balanced perception, to help us let go of beliefs that are hindering our
moving forward in life.
Until we understand and acknowledge this,
nothing will change in our health & well-being. No one will be completely free
of illness and disease in the world until they realise that it is not a
physical problem. The symptom may seem physical and appear in the body as
something physical, but the symptom is NOT the real illness or disease. All
illness and disease stems from the mind, and this is the only place it can be
cured or alleviated. Therefore, the problem is not physical, it is mental. All types
of physical healing or treatment are forms of magic, being based on magic
principles.
Again, as hard as it is may be to accept,
until it is accepted, no progress will be made in overcoming illness and
disease, no matter its form. It is not something to be despised or
avoided, as it contains within it the very seeds for its reversal. Every
illness or disease is designed to teach us a specific lesson, to lead us
forward and ultimately back to wholeness in the mind. It is futile for us to
hold onto the belief that these things are separate from us, that illness and
disease are out to get us.
There is nothing out to get us, because
it is all just us in the first place. When we know how this works, we can begin
taking back control of our lives, including our health & well-being. To
know that we create our lives, including our physical symptoms, is essential to
our liberation from illness and disease, as contradictory as that may seem at
first. Physical symptoms exist for the very purpose that we will overcome them,
so that we will learn the lessons the symptoms were designed to teach us.
