Man is a wondrous and complex being. When the body becomes ill or disease ridden it is important to heal not only the outward manifestation that is called illness or disease but also the inward manifestation that is the cause or root of the health problems stemming from erroneous thinking or faulty belief system.
Why is the belief system important? Here is an example of a faulty belief system. Accepting as truth a false premise will only create a faulty pattern of thoughts. If you were somehow taught as a child that 2 plus 2 equals 5 then every math problem you ever attempt to solve will be based on a false premise and the result will be in a wrong conclusion. If over time every time someone says to you, no, 2 plus 2 is not 5 but 4 and you do not change your thinking you will be reaffirming an erroneous concept thereby making it even more solidified in your thought pattern, your belief system.
What are you believing about yourself? How do you think of your own body? If you are thinking or saying that you are not well or that you have a disease what are you affirming about your own body? When you give meaning to a thought by pondering this thought and adding an emotional response you are giving it form, giving it meaning and giving it a reality in your life experience. Modern medicine, doctors, surgeons and even holistic treatments can correct a physical problem but to understand where this problem originated is important in preventing this problem from reoccurring or taking hold of your body again.
Jesus was known as a great spiritual healer and there are many stories in the Bible about the times sick and broken individuals who encountered him were healed. One story is about Jesus walking into a town and finding a man laying on his mat beside the road because he was ridden with disease and unable to walk. Jesus asked the man, “What is it you want me to do for you?” The man said, “I wish to walk.” Jesus replied then take up your bed and walk so the man did and as he began to walk away Jesus warned, “Go and sin no more.” What was Jesus saying to this man? He meant, your thinking is flawed and you have accepted a mistake about your own body as truth. Sin no more means to change your thought pattern to one that is life-affirming or the same condition or something even worse will overtake the body again. Remember, the definition for insanity is to do the same things in the same way and expect a different result.
Modern medicine is a physical solution to health problems while spiritual healing is a change of thinking, a solution to a faulty belief system. Both need to happen to have permanent healing.
