THE PATH TO HEALING AND RECOVERY

"A cure is not the application of a drug or a treatment which by virtue of its own power restores the sick man or woman to health. There is no such thing".

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First, know what causes dis-ease and what is causing your impaired state of health. Trace the causes, and then remove them. If they are not removed, you will continue to suffer and pile up more effects. The simple trouble will become a chronic trouble with time. When you don’t know cause, you cannot remove it. There is no recovery that is short of removal of cause. Recovery is the restoration of health by means of the operation of forces intrinsic to the organism. This is the only force known that is capable of restoring health. Healing is a biological process, not an art. If we understand that it is the sick person that recovers and not the disease, we will understand that there is a vast difference between treating disease (the popular delusional practice) and caring for a sick person. In the first case, the efforts are directed at controlling, suppressing, palliating and destroying symptoms and local pathology; in the second instance, the efforts are directed at removing the causes that have impaired the body and at trying to supply the body with its physiological needs. A “cure” is not the application of a drug or a treatment which by virtue of its own power restores the sick man or woman to health. There is no such thing.

Second is the proper adjustment of the elements necessary for health to the capacity of the “crippled” organism to make use of. Every living organism contains within itself the power to repair damages, to heal wounds and broken bones, to expel toxins, in other words to heal the wounded and the sick. We cannot use in sickness the things that we cannot use in health (drugs etc). We can use in sickness the same things that we can use in health but to different extents to accommodate the impaired body. The weaker we are, the less we can afford to expend energy (physiological, physical, mental, emotional).

Fasting, which is a period of physiological, physical, emotional, mental and sensory rest, enables the body to restore nervous-energy and step up its eliminating (toxic waste removal) process.

What we term disease is an evolution out of wrong ways of life; recovery of health is an evolution out of correct ways of living. As it takes time to evolve disease, so it requires time to erase the abnormal changes that have taken place in the tissues of the body and to evolve normal tissue to replace the abnormal tissue.

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