2 Corinthians 4:4 Satan, the god of this evil world, has blinded the minds of those who don't believe, so they are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News that is shining upon them.

We are also hypnotically affected by suggestion, which reaches us from a thousand different sources. The conversations of friends and acquaintances, newspapers, magazines, books, all affect us adversely. Their beliefs in disease and sickness as realities, and in its inevitableness, influence us unless we have become too positive to be affected. From innumerable sources it is subtly suggested to us that disease, sickness, infection are realities that cannot be evaded, and to which we are prone. The effect of all this, putting it in simple and elementary language, is to divert the life power into wrong channels, thus producing disease and ill-health in place of perfection. The normal state of health has to give place to an abnormal state of disease or sickness. It is by realizing the Truth and the perfection of the Reality, by living in God’s light and power, that our thoughts cease to be negative and based on error and illusion and maximum health is successfully achieved.

It is often said that ill-health is the result of sin. It is, for thinking about disease, sickness and ill-health, believing them to be inevitable, is one of the greatest of sins. The way of life is to walk (think and act) after the Spirit (which is perfect, whole, immortal and incorruptible) and not after the flesh (corruption, disease, sickness, death). By thinking "after the flesh" we dishonor God who is absolute Wholeness and Perfection, and cut ourselves off from the Divine Life and Power.

Galatians 5:16 So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.

But there are other ways by which wrong thinking destroys the health. Indulging in thoughts of hate, resentment, ill-will, fear, worry, grief, and anxiety, produces ill-health, and, by lowering the tone of the body, lays it open to infection and disease. We therefore see that the state of the mind and the character of the thoughts are important factors which cannot be ignored. It is useless to treat either ill-health or disease if they are merely the external effects of hidden causes of the mind. In order to successfully achieve maximum health we have to get back to the cause of the trouble.

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