Illness is imbalance. For most of human history, physicians have treated illness as a symptom of a whole system imbalance. In the industrial age, when western society began to cut itself off from its connection with Nature, the Earth, and its own spirit, allopathic medicine began to treat human bodies like machines, and illnesses as a mechanical problem to be fixed with mechanical means. Western people began to see their bodies as separate from themselves and their environment. This dissociation has led to an advanced technological society with superb medical technology having a populace riddled with physical and mental illness.

Fortunately, science is beginning to catch on to what indigenous cultures have known for eons. We are not just bodies. We are integrated systems, interrelated to our total selves and a much larger physical, social and etheric environment.

An illness in the body is a symptom of a system imbalance. Treating the symptom without treating the cause may bring some temporary relief. But until the root cause of an illness is dealt with, the human system will lack life force.

Often an illness will manifest only after we continue to ignore the softer voice of our spirit trying to get our attention. It is our nature to be balanced and whole. When we ignore the gentle whispers of our own hearts, our bodies may speak louder to try to get the message across. Don't get mad at your body for working for you. Simply listen and cooperate.

If you are dealing with an illness, take some time alone to really examine what the root cause may be. Ask your body questions. Ask the illness what gift it is bringing you. Treat the symptoms and use whatever medical means you are guided to use, but don't stop there. Look at your life. See yourself as a whole being, and ask where there are imbalances in your life, and what you can do to correct them.

Ask yourself how you can add to your total life force. Meditation, positive visualization, words of strength and power, time in Nature, nutritious food and spiritual connection to the Source have all been scientifically shown to strengthen physical immunity and help heal illness.

We all have different physical packages and different lessons to learn. One person may have a fine specimen of a human body and an underdeveloped soul, while another has a brilliant spirit and a decrepit body. We have no right to decide what's best or right for another. But we can work with our own raw materials and care for what we've been given.

There are many forms of medicine and healing, but no physician working from the outside has as much power and authority over your body as YOU. This is your incarnation. Your body is a gift. And whether you honor and appreciate it or neglect and abuse it, You are the person responsible for your health. Ask yourself right now what you can do to add to your life force and strengthen your physical body.


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