SICKNESS AND DISEASE
That is a very interesting subject because it takes you right to the heart of our existence. The ancient Egyptians believed that all sicknesses started from the mind. In order to cure any physical disorder they were concentrating mainly on the mind, or the first thing they were trying to heal was the mind. Of course they had also herbal potions to help with physical symptoms like fever etc. The American Indians had similar beliefs. They had their herbal potions and they had their witch doctors that we know so well. The question that for many years was turning in my mind was why the head?
As a high school student I understood that the brain controls all the body functions, then it is logical to turn to the brain if something goes wrong with the body. It is only when I started reading spiritual books that I understood the real reason for any sickness. I understand now that there are two main reasons for any sickness. Perhaps a particular sickness comes to you in order to help you learn a very special lesson. Perhaps you have planned that before you were born, but it could also be that you have attracted that physical sickness to yourself because of your indulgences. Think hard about your life’s experiences and you will find plenty of examples that fit that scenario.
On the other hand the disharmony that can cause a disease might not be directly related to your actions. It might be related to the way life has evolved on earth. Look around you everything we do is artificial. The atmosphere is polluted, the vegetables and fruit are growing with the help of chemical fertilisers, lots of the vegetables are grown in hot houses, doctors continually prescribe medicines that can help one symptom but cause other problems at the same time. Can you see now how our decisions have ruined our environment and now we are helping our demise? God has given us a beautiful planet to live on, has given us a complete ecological system that sustains life in so many forms and what have we done with it? I leave you to answer that question yourself.
But back to our original discussion as to why the ancient Egyptians focussed so much focussing on the head? Another reason is that ideas in our head can cause blocks in our bodies. We all know how psychological problems can create physical sickness. So here we are, what today is modern medicine, was common practice in ancient Egypt, hundreds or even thousands of years before Christianity. The other day I was watching an interview about the movie called “Beautiful Mind” (it is a movie about a brilliant mathematician who became schizophrenic at the age of 30 and finally overcame his sickness) In that interview the person whose story was told in the movie said that after many years of medical treatment and medication he threw all tablets away and gave up all medical treatments. The way he overcame his sickness was by separating, with the help of his logic, the illusion of the sickness from the real life and slowly, slowly managed to block out the illusions. What a wonderful example of using positive thinking, positive energy to overcome negativity and physical sickness. Is it not this a perfect example of the type of practices that the ancient Egyptians were using? Somehow through the centuries we have lost the wisdom of those people.
It is the disharmony, the negative thinking that creates the physical sickness and disease. Man is not different than any other animal. He is supposed to live in the open air, between the trees and the plants and not between four walls. Man is supposed to work with his hands; he is supposed to work the earth and not in front of a monitor. Man has to live in harmony with his environment. Only then we will manage to overcome sickness, to overcome our negative thoughts, only then we will be able to bring God’s loving energy into our hearts.
Once I read in a book a message from Mary (the Virgin Mary) to the people, She said: “People need to go back to the very basics if this planet will be able to sustain life”. The decision is ours, is yours and mine.
That is a very interesting subject because it takes you right to the heart of our existence. The ancient Egyptians believed that all sicknesses started from the mind. In order to cure any physical disorder they were concentrating mainly on the mind, or the first thing they were trying to heal was the mind. Of course they had also herbal potions to help with physical symptoms like fever etc. The American Indians had similar beliefs. They had their herbal potions and they had their witch doctors that we know so well. The question that for many years was turning in my mind was why the head?
As a high school student I understood that the brain controls all the body functions, then it is logical to turn to the brain if something goes wrong with the body. It is only when I started reading spiritual books that I understood the real reason for any sickness. I understand now that there are two main reasons for any sickness. Perhaps a particular sickness comes to you in order to help you learn a very special lesson. Perhaps you have planned that before you were born, but it could also be that you have attracted that physical sickness to yourself because of your indulgences. Think hard about your life’s experiences and you will find plenty of examples that fit that scenario.
On the other hand the disharmony that can cause a disease might not be directly related to your actions. It might be related to the way life has evolved on earth. Look around you everything we do is artificial. The atmosphere is polluted, the vegetables and fruit are growing with the help of chemical fertilisers, lots of the vegetables are grown in hot houses, doctors continually prescribe medicines that can help one symptom but cause other problems at the same time. Can you see now how our decisions have ruined our environment and now we are helping our demise? God has given us a beautiful planet to live on, has given us a complete ecological system that sustains life in so many forms and what have we done with it? I leave you to answer that question yourself.
But back to our original discussion as to why the ancient Egyptians focussed so much focussing on the head? Another reason is that ideas in our head can cause blocks in our bodies. We all know how psychological problems can create physical sickness. So here we are, what today is modern medicine, was common practice in ancient Egypt, hundreds or even thousands of years before Christianity. The other day I was watching an interview about the movie called “Beautiful Mind” (it is a movie about a brilliant mathematician who became schizophrenic at the age of 30 and finally overcame his sickness) In that interview the person whose story was told in the movie said that after many years of medical treatment and medication he threw all tablets away and gave up all medical treatments. The way he overcame his sickness was by separating, with the help of his logic, the illusion of the sickness from the real life and slowly, slowly managed to block out the illusions. What a wonderful example of using positive thinking, positive energy to overcome negativity and physical sickness. Is it not this a perfect example of the type of practices that the ancient Egyptians were using? Somehow through the centuries we have lost the wisdom of those people.
It is the disharmony, the negative thinking that creates the physical sickness and disease. Man is not different than any other animal. He is supposed to live in the open air, between the trees and the plants and not between four walls. Man is supposed to work with his hands; he is supposed to work the earth and not in front of a monitor. Man has to live in harmony with his environment. Only then we will manage to overcome sickness, to overcome our negative thoughts, only then we will be able to bring God’s loving energy into our hearts.
Once I read in a book a message from Mary (the Virgin Mary) to the people, She said: “People need to go back to the very basics if this planet will be able to sustain life”. The decision is ours, is yours and mine.
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