It’s an ancient military tradition that asserts the messenger should be treated well. If you shoot the messenger, information will be lost that might otherwise have averted the costly horror of war.

It’s the same in our battle for physical, mental, and spiritual health. Without diseases generous pain it seems that there can be no gain. You mightn’t want to hear what the message says, but it’s best to listen anyway.

 Disease is a messenger that calls for learning. Every disease is an important invitation to growth that’s well worth attending too. Murdering the messenger will only put change off until it finds another way through.

Medicating the symptoms of your physical disease away will not achieve good health! Tranquillizing emotional distress will have it rise more strongly as it struggles to escape. Turning away from your divine foundation will have your worldly constructions fall like a house of cards that’s built on shifting sandy ground.

Further to this, your mind, body and spirit are inextricably linked. Being ill at ease in any of these points of your existence will be reflected respectively in each of these other aspects of self.

As an example, an all too real physical backache may have an emotional connection to a fear around feeling supported. This in turn may have a connection to a despondency associated with your relationship with your version of spiritual identity.

Fortunately disease is a generous messenger that only wants to be heard and will speak through each of these three aspects simultaneously. Honestly and respectfully answering the call to change at any level will bring about change on all three levels!

I am far from being alone in empirically observing healing of even the most truculent physical disease through mind work and or the intelligent and committed application of one of the many forms of prayer. Equally, I have seen that resolving physical disease has brought about substantial shifts in these other two more subtle identities.

Disease is a valuable harbinger of evolution. Our diseases are symbolic riddles and rhymes, the meaning of which we are tasked to divine.