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WORRY AND BOTHER ABOUT ILLNESS<\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The doctor has seen my blood. He has given
\nme this little paper to show you how weak the blood is and to communicate it to
\nyou. The tiredness seems to increase rather than grow less. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

You must not
\nworry; you will soon be back on your feet, especially as your vitality has remained
\nvery strong. Have no fear and keep your full trust in the Divine Grace. <\/span><\/p>\n

18 February 1938<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

X told me, \u201cIt was a mistake on your part
\nnot to inform the Mother about your body which is so thin and weak.\u201d Kindly
\ntell me what to do to improve it. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Do not bother
\nabout it and increase your faith in the Divine\u2019s Grace. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Blessings. <\/span><\/p>\n

4 July 1939<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

People say that one gets this attack [of
\nillness] on account of working too hard and exposing oneself to the sun and
\ncold winds during the course of it. This suggestion is worrying me. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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This attack is not
\ndue to work or exposure but to the suggestion of an old habit rising from the
\nsubconscient. Do not listen to what people say and keep your faith in the
\nDivine\u2019s Grace. Everything will become all right in the course of time. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>My blessings. <\/span><\/p>\n

8 January 1940<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Do not worry and rest your hand.
\nThat is the best way to get better quickly. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>My advice is not to worry. The more
\nyou think of it, the more you concentrate upon it and, above all, the more you
\nfear, the more you give a chance for the thing to grow. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>If, on the contrary, you turn your
\nattention and your interest elsewhere you increase the possibilities of cure. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Why give so much importance to these
\nmaterial workings of the body? It is better to feel absolutely free of them and
\nlet them go their own way without bothering about it, until we have the force
\nand knowledge necessary to intervene in their obscurity and to compel them to
\nchange and become the true expression of the Supreme Light and Consciousness. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Health: not to be preoccupied with
\nit, but to leave it to the Divine. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Think less of yourself and your
\nhealth. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Surely you will become stronger. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>But if you are convinced that you
\nhave an illness, go to the hospital, surely there they will find one. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>If parents could leave their
\nchildren alone, they would not  <\/span><\/p>\n

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fall ill so often,
\nperhaps not even once out of ten times. Yes, you have not said anything to the
\nchild, but how worried you were about its health. It appeared as if a
\ncatastrophe had happened or the child had suddenly developed cancer. It is your
\nworry that spoils the whole atmosphere and increases the trouble.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>If you are ill, your illness is
\nlooked after with so much anxiety and fear, you are given so much care that you
\nforget to take help from the One who can help you and you fall into a vicious
\ncircle and take a morbid interest in your illness.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>When I was twenty, a doctor told me
\nthat in cases of troubles of the stomach or intestines, the best thing is to
\ncontinue eating as usual and not to bother about the trouble. He said, \u201cIf you
\nhave acidity, it will come from whatever food you take and the more you bother
\nabout it, the more it will increase. If you go on changing your food, in the
\nend you will find that you cannot even drink a drop of water without getting
\ninto trouble. But if you remain normal and don\u2019t worry, you will become all
\nright.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>And I have found this advice to be
\nquite true.<\/span><\/p>\n

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WRONG THINKING AND ILLNESS<\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>In fact I can assure you that the
\npain in the stomach as well as many other discomforts are due 90% to wrong
\nthinking and  <\/span><\/p>\n

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strong
\nimaginations − I mean that the material basis for them is practically
\nnegligible. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>With love and blessings. <\/span><\/p>\n

1943 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Do not torment yourself and do not
\nworry; above all try to banish all fear; fear is a dangerous thing which can
\ngive importance to something which had none at all. The mere fear of seeing
\ncertain symptoms renew themselves is enough to bring about this repetition. <\/span><\/p>\n

24 July 1945<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

I have a notion that much protein and
\nstarchy food aggravate eczema. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

In the effect of
\nfood on the body 90% belongs to the power of thought. If you follow with
\nconfidence the treatment of Dr. X, it will cure you. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Blessings. <\/span><\/p>\n


\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/i>6 October 1962<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>You may have been told that certain
\nbodily complaints will give you a great deal of pain. Things like that are
\noften said. You may then make a formation of fear and keep expecting the pain.
\nAnd the pain comes even when it need not. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>But in case it is there after all, I
\ncan tell you one thing. If the consciousness is turned upward, the pain
\nvanishes. If it is turned downward, the pain is felt and even increases. When
\none experiments with the upward and the downward turnings, one sees that the
\nbodily complaint as such has nothing to do with the pain. The body may suffer
\nvery much or not at all, although its condition is exactly the same. It is the
\nturn of the consciousness <\/span><\/p>\n

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that makes all the
\ndifference.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>I say \u201cturned upward\u201d because to
\nturn towards the Divine is the best method, but what can be said in general is
\nthat if the consciousness is turned away from the pain to one\u2019s work or
\nanything that interests one, the pain ceases. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>And not only the pain but whatever
\ndamage there may be in an organ is set right much more easily when the
\nconsciousness is taken away from the trouble and one is open to the Divine.
\nThere is the Sat aspect of the Divine \u2014 the pure supreme Existence above or
\nbeyond or behind the cosmos. If you can keep in contact with it, all physical
\ncomplaints can be removed.<\/span><\/p>\n

25 November 1962<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Beloved Mother: <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>I am suffering with quite a severe
\nrecurrence of swollen ankles due to Dengue fever. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Dr. X is treating me, but I beg your
\nHealing Force and am doing my best to open so that our work may progress at
\nthis crucial time. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Stop imagining
\nwrong things and your miseries will stop at the same time. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Blessings. <\/span><\/p>\n

10 December 1964<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>His vital force is very poor <\/i>and mental suggestions rather
\nstrong. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Do what he asks for a time. He may
\nfind out that it is all his imagination, for it is his imagination <\/i>that makes him sick or rather gives him the impression <\/i>of sickness.  <\/span><\/p>\n

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