C S Bairagi

From Dis-ease To Health C S Bairagi

When you have lived in a sick body for a decade or two, the idea of health cannot be contemplated by your consciousness. And when you are unable to contemplate something, it becomes very difficult to manifest it. A child is never conscious of its health; he or she almost always accepts this as a natural state of being. As a result, it is easy to restore a child to health when it occasionally falls sick. But we grownups seem to have a very hard time stepping out of an ailment and finding our own way back home. Why? Because we insist on staying the way we are by refusing to cooperate with the recovery of our being. We offer the magnificence of our intellect and reasoning at the feet of a discomfort in our body, thus converting an ordinary snow ball into a huge avalanche. Instead of focusing our attention on the 80 or 90% of our body that is healthy, we choose to focus on an ailment, not realizing the fact that our attention is the very thing which is keeping it there. When you identify with your sickness, it becomes a part of your being. You get so used to the idea of suffering from something that you cannot even imagine a life without it. And unless you start imagining a life that does not have in it what you don't want, what you don't want is going to stay with you whether you would like to admit it or not. Things first get manifested on the level of thought. Thought is the skeleton that then takes on flesh by bridging the gap between the formless and form. The shift from sickness to health has to be first made on the level of vibrations. Only then will the body be able to follow the direction of our practiced thought. The mind has to be healed even before the body and before health can be realized, it has to be imagined. This is where most of us fail to step out of the circumference of our habitual patterns of thought and this is where the momentum of our past robs our future of its potential to create.