The Way Toward Health - April 4 and 6, 1984

April 4, 1984

This chapter consists of a potpourri of different ideas – merely to hint at the multitudinous issues connected with health and well-being.

Your ideas about yourself are, again, vital in the larger context of a healthy lifetime.  The condition of your heart is affected, for example, by your own feelings about it.  If you consider yourself to be coldhearted, or heartless, those feelings will have a significant effect upon that physical organ.  If you feel broke-hearted, then you will also have that feeling reflected in one way or another in the physical organ itself.

Obviously, as I mentioned earlier, each individual also has many options open.  Everyone who feels brokenhearted does not die of heart failure, for example.  The subject of health cannot be considered in an isolated fashion, but must be seen in that greater context that gives health itself a value and a meaning.  As mentioned earlier, each person will also try to fulfill their own unique abilities, and to “fill out” the experience of life as fully as possible.

If an individual is hampered in that attempt strongly and persistently enough, then the dissatisfaction and frustration will be translated into a lack of physical exuberance and vitality.  There is always an unending reservoir of energy at the command of each person, however, regardless of circumstances, and we will also discuss the ways in which you can learn to tap that source and better your own health situation.

The sooner you can rid yourself of rigid beliefs about the survival of the fittest, the better you will be.  All philosophies that stress the idea of the body’s impurity or degradation should also be seen as detrimental to bodily and spiritual integrity.  Such beliefs clutter up your conscious mind with negative suggestions that can only frighten the exterior ego and impede the great strength and vitality that is your heritage from lending you the fullest possible strength and support.

Later on we will indeed discuss various methods of healing, conventional and unconventional.  Medical technology alone, however expert, cannot really heal a broken heart, of course.  Such a healing can only take place through understanding and through expressions of love.  In other words, through emotional transplants rather than physical ones alone.  The emotional factors are extremely vital, both in the development and in the healing of all dis-ease.

We will not stress particular diseases in this book, and mention symptoms only to identify the cases associated with such symptoms.  It is actually far more important that we stress the symptoms of health and those methods, beliefs, and healings that promote them.

April 6, 1984

(Advice to Jane and Rob)

It is natural enough in your situation to have blue periods now and then.

These can often serve as springboards, however, leading to greater understanding, and the feelings themselves do indeed help rid you of fears and doubts that are expressed through such a medium.  I am sure that I mentioned this before, but I wanted to refresh your memory, and this applies, generally speaking, to all individuals.  It is far better to express those feelings than to inhibit them.

At the same time, you both should – and do – try to turn your minds in other directions, so that the periods do not linger.  Generally speaking, you have handled such situations well, and what I said about your activities in Framework 2 does still apply.

Aside: Framework 2

In Jane/ Seth’s The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, which was published in 1981, I wrote: “Seth maintains that Framework 2, or inner reality, contains the creative source from which we form all events, and that by the proper focusing of attention we can draw from that vast subjective medium everything we need for a constructive, positive life in Framework 1, or physical reality.” Seth has a lot to say about Frameworks 1 and 2 in Mass Events. For example: “Those unique intents that characterize each individual exist first in Framework 2, then — and with birth, those intents immediately begin to impress the physical world of Framework 1.”