Many individuals are seeking cures for disease. For the most part, these efforts take material, or physical, conditions as a given, and seek a cure within that framework. What happens when one seeks healing by deliberately not working within that framework? That is, is it possible to be healed by making a direct effort to understand more of God, Spirit, and one's relation to God, and by looking away from the very condition that seems so painful and difficult?
A friend of mine described to me just such a healing and the thoughts that accompanied it. One evening while away from home, she began to feel very sick, experiencing great pain and restricted breath; she was unable to relax, even to sit down. But she told me that despite the physical limitations, the difficulty didn't seem physical to her at all! She said it was clear to her that it was thought that needed adjusting. She said she never once asked herself, "I wonder what this is? What's wrong in my body?"
She reported that there was no fear of the symptoms; in fact, she spiritually understood that they did not need to be included in the equation. She knew that just as the wagging tail of a dog expresses the dog's joy, so her body was an expression of thought. It couldn't be separated from thought, and it would be comforted as her thought was more spiritually based on God's presence.
