incurred somewhere that he may not know about. When practitio-
ners who are in a weakened condition have more power made
available to them, they may experience such effects as ringing of
the ears, muffled hearing, or smarting eyes.
Once the power is activated, you will find that if you have ever
had a toothache you may again experience it and if you have a
latent virus or cold in your system it may be activated. Various
other pains out of the past may suddenly assail you. It may seem
as though the “power” is the cause of your trouble and it is, in a
way, and you would be correct in thinking so.
Your problems and illnesses have remained hidden in your body,
unknown to you. There are various ways to understand this. Per-
haps it might make more sense to say that most of our ills stem
from the mind. The mind is a storehouse of everything we have
been exposed to and when we use it, opened and cleaned, the
sickness will be overcome.
Initially, as you are suddenly confronted anew with painful memo-
ries relived as though they were real, you feel that your practice
has caused this and it has. As you continue to practice, however,
and as these mind contents are emptied and replaced by a har-
moniously functioning system, you come to realize the wisdom of
just how you personally have harbored and been affected by these
“memory-illnesses”.
That is not to say that the illness you experience was just in
your imagination. The mind is complex and, in fact, are insepa-
rable from the body. Perhaps, “body” is just another way to de-
scribe a complex set of processes that might, with another view,
be called “mind” comes closer to it. Again, as the various energy
routes are cleared of obstructions, it is conceivable that some of
those obstructions might have been due to past illnesses or inju-
ries. Then, as resistance to the flow of energy is met along a route,
the memory that is associated with it is evoked.
When to see a Doctor
If you have definite physical problems you should follow your
doctor’s advice as well. You are not to think of this method as some
sort of magical cure-all, and should seek to obtain whatever you
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