Vital Ingredient
Healing for a Higher Purpose
by Dr. Laurel Clark
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The phone rings. “Hello? How quickly can I get an Intuitive Health Analysis? My doctor just told me that I have to go in for surgery and I want to know if I can get a health analysis today before they start cutting on me.”
Quite often we receive phone calls like this at the World Headquarters of the School of Metaphysics. Frightened, desperate, grasping at hope, people who have tried all the traditional medical routines call in a last ditch attempt to understand what is going awry in their body. Unfortunately, the best time for an intuitive health analysis is before their physical condition has deteriorated to the point of emergency. Yes, a health analysis can pin point the cause of a disease. Yes, it can suggest useful and unusual treatments that will accelerate healing. But a severe physical disorder does not manifest overnight. It develops over a period of time, the result of dis-ordered thinking that has developed and taken root in the mind, and then takes its toll on the body.
The longer a person thinks in negative, restricted, or unwholesome ways, the more serious will be the deterioration of the body. The sooner the disorder is identified and changed, the more quickly the physical body can be restored to wholeness. Thus, the best use of a health analysis is for preventive “medicine” -- to create positive, productive, growthful ways of thinking that will cause health in the physical body. Minor disorders that are identified in their early stages can be addressed and treated before they become serious. Let go, ignored or denied, they will worsen until drastic measures are needed for healing.
At this stage of human evolution, man is ready to create with foresight. We were endowed by our Creator with free will and imagination. We have within us the means to create life and motion and to live a wholesome existence. But many people still wait for crisis to stimulate them to move. They are dissatisfied with their job, but do little to cause change. They become lethargic, start showing up late and then get fired. Bingo! They have the opportunity to create a new job, they then have lost the freedom to create it at the time they want. They are “forced” into a new situation. Or they hear a strange sound coming from somewhere in their car. The car still runs; they think, “I must got to get this looked at” and never take the car to the mechanic. Then one day, while speeding to get to an appointment, the car breaks down on the highway. The strange knocking has escalated into an immediate need for repair. Now they have to take the car in to address the problem! Sometimes people do not appreciate what they have, only knowing their blessings after they have been lost. Good health is an example. We do not often think about how wonderful this body-machine is, until a health problem limits our mobility. Chronic disease is a great attention-getter, providing an incessant stimulus for evaluating what life is all about. How often do you appreciate your eyesight? Your legs? The pumping of your heart? Do you take them for granted? Or do you show your gratitude by taking care of and nurturing your body’s needs?
In previous times, when the body became diseased, the person died soon afterward unless a shaman or priest or healer intervened. Some peoples understand death as a natural process of change, releasing the spirit to a higher existence. Modern science views the physical body as a “thing” with a life of its own, and seeks to find cause for physical disease only within the physical organism. Many modern medical doctors attempt to keep the physical body operating at any cost, even to the point of keeping a body running solely on life support machines. True healers understand that the body functions according to the intelligence which resides within it. Healing, restoring wholeness, involves the spirit, mind, emotions, and the physical systems. The cells in the body are in a continual state of change. They can regenerate or degenerate. Why does the body heal in one case and deteriorate in another? Why do two people using the same physical treatments experience different results? The body has a purpose, which is to provide a vehicle for the learning of the soul. A soul who is aware of their purpose, who is creating and learning and growing, has a healthy body that regenerates quickly. When the soul is no longer creating, when the opportunities for learning are being ignored or denied, the body has no useful purpose, and it starts to deteriorate. In modern times, we have advanced technology and pharmaceuticals that can be used to keep the body engine running even when the soul is turning away from learning. As a result, we have more and more disease and more and more people who are living with bodies that are plagued with chronic illness.
What is the solution? More advanced surgeries? More drugs? Perhaps. They have their place and can be used. But for permanent healing and real living, understanding is necessary. In the Bible, Jesus performs many healing miracles. In all cases, the miraculous healing occurs when the afflicted person wants to be healed, has faith in a higher power or in something greater than themselves and agrees to change. (“Go your way and sin no more.”) As long as the soul wants to learn, any physical experience can be used for learning. Some experiences are more pleasant than others, but the soul is not concerned with whether it is pleasant or not. Its concern is to progress spiritually, to become more creative, to understand universal law and truth, to develop character through practice in the physical. We need the physical body and physical experiences to learn and to create. When the conscious mind causes learning, health in the body can be restored.
I have heard people who justify disease and unpleasantness by saying, “It was God’s will,” or “It was meant to be.” In a sense, this is true. That is, there is a universal law of cause and effect. Thought is cause and effect is its manifest likeness. Your thoughts manifest in your body. The diseased body reflects thoughts that are unwholesome or out of alignment with universal law. The blessing is that we each have free will. Thus, even if we have created a condition of disease by thinking unhealthy thoughts, we always have the freedom to change. When we produce understanding, we give the physical body a reason to regenerate. When we admit that there is a reason for our existence that goes beyond physical survival, a spiritual purpose for life, we begin the process of healing. The nature of the physical is change. Cells in the body change every day. The entire body regenerates every seven years. Thus, even conditions of dramatic cellular deterioration can be arrested and reversed. Miraculous healings have a basis in scientific fact as well as spiritual renewal.
The story I am about to tell is bittersweet. It documents the progression of disease, as shown in a series of Intuitive Health Analyses over a period of ten years. It shows how a treatable disease went from bad to worse, resulting in severe complications and limitations. It demonstrates how one man’s mental attitudes became more and more habitual, causing ever-increasing deterioration of systems and organs of the body. But it also is a story of hope. It shows how, at any stage, the diabetes could have been treated more effectively. When the man followed the suggestions in the health analyses, he experienced immediate relief. At the times when he was disciplined, mentally and physically, he showed dramatic improvements, even miraculous healing. Had he used the analyses step-by-step with consistent forward motion, perhaps he would be healed today. Even now, John is still alive. His soul still has a purpose for using this particular body at this time. As long as there is the potential for learning, health is a possibility.
Knowing that attitudes cause health is very empowering. If you have caused a condition of disease through ignorance of your thoughts, becoming aware of your attitudes gives you the power to cause change. You no longer need to be a victim of your body. You can make wiser choices, think more productively, and live more purposefully. The Intuitive Health Analysis can give you the knowledge to cause change before a disease becomes serious. It can also provide relief and calmness in cases of extreme disease -- simply knowing the cause and having specific steps to take gives you direction and assurance. If you or your loved ones have history of disease in your family and you want t prevent illness, or if you are experiencing the early stages of disease, perhaps John’s story will help you to cause growth, change, and permanent healing. |
