Discover The Reality Of Disease

‘Dis-ease’ meaning lack of ease or harmonious functioning, is a state where order degenerates into some degree of chaos or malfunction. The natural balance of constructive and destructive forces has been lost and communication between the parts breaks down. Peace and order are replaced by a condition akin to war.

The ancient Chinese have recognised for thousands of years that there are 3 main causes of imbalance and disease that undermine our health.
EXTERNAL - wind, cold, heat, humidity, dryness, damp, fire
INTERNAL - anger, fear, over-excitement, anxiety, grief, worry and other constitutional weaknesses.
MISCELLANEOUS - trauma, poisoning, accident, chemical injury, radiation, infectious diseases, etc.

Our health in the 21st. century is being undermined, on the one hand by poor nutrition from over-processed and junk foods, together with environmental pollution and on the other hand, by negative, emotional and mental states, especially if intense or sustained over a long period of time. Increasingly, it is these internal causes that are playing a large part in creating disease patterns.

We can look at illness in a negative way where we experience it as suffering and may even ask “Why is this happening to me?”. Or we can look at it as a gift and an opportunity to discover things about myself.

Our bodies can be our wisest teachers. They speak to us through their symptoms giving us a message that we need to change. This may mean changes in lifestyle, diet, mental outlook or finding the roots of distressing emotional states and letting go of old negative patterns.

“All disease originates in the mind. Nothing appears on the body unless there is a mental pattern corresponding to it.” (Dr. Joseph Murphy – “The Power of your Subconscious Mind”)

Here are just give three examples of ways in which our bodies send us messages.

1. Stiff joints restrict our freedom of movement and possibly indicate that we have become rigid and inflexible in our thinking or attitude towards something or someone. We may have a critical or judgemental outlook or we are holding onto old patterns or bottling up our feelings. If there is inflammation as well this may indicate anger, irritation or frustration. What is working me up or making me hot? Is it that I need to be more forgiving or accepting?

2. Coughing is a way of clearing the throat or lungs of some irritation. Do I need to let go of something? Coughing may be an expression of grief. Or am I being asked to accept something I do not want to?

3. Athlete’s Foot This is a itching and sore fungal infection between the toes. What is its message? Am I walking in the right direction in my life? Is something or someone getting under my skin?
(Read “Your Body Speaks Your Mind” by Debbie Shapiro)

Illness has a habit of stopping us in our tracks. We may have to take time off from work. It often forces us to take stock of our lives. It gives us timeout to be quiet and go within, to rest and retreat from the hurly-burly of busy lives. In the enforced rest it can make us re-evaluate what we are doing.

It is nature’s wise and wonderful way of pulling us up sharp and saying
“ Hey! Where are you going?” She will put us on our backs for a day or two or however long it takes us to figure it out. We are forced to be quiet and look within for answers. It is only then, that we ever allow our inner wisdom to have a say and guide us as to what we need to change, so that we recover and learn the salutary lesson inherent in the illness. Even then, it is only if we are ready to listen.

A common cold and its associated symptoms are a wonderful way for the body to rid itself of toxic build-up in the tissues, whether from dietary intake or negative emotions. But what do we do? We go for the painkillers and the antibiotics to be rid of the inconvenient symptoms as fast as possible! If we have a temperature we want to bring it down as soon as we can so we can carry on with our lives. And we are missing the message completely.

When we suppress minor ailments we are preventing the body detoxifying itself and so we are storing up problems for ourselves in the future. The fire of the fever would have burnt out the infection and internal rubbish. If we had not taken the antibiotics we would not be weakening our immune system that is intended to protect us most of the time, if we keep it strong.

The unheard message that we need to change will call us to listen in a more forceful way through an illness that has gone deeper, if we ignore it.

I am not advocating that we should not take medication, only that we should use it wisely to assist rather than suppress.

“Disease occurs when consciousness is unable to purify itself through the release of these lower frequencies. ” Inner Focus School.