Right Attitude in Illness

Dear Friends,

Dear friends, This time we would like to ask your attention for the important right attitude regarding healing.

How to react in the case of an illness?

No doubt a man is very often himself the cause of the disorder of this physical mechanism. It is this disorder which he calls illness, whether it is physical or mental. Sometimes it is his neglect, sometimes an unbalanced condition around him causes an illness. Nevertheless, to have a yielding attitude towards illness is not the right thing. No doubt it is a good thing to look upon the illness of which one has been cured as having been a trial, a test, an ordeal through which one was passing and which one has left behind; thinking that it was for the better, that one is now purified, that one has learned a lesson from it. And that one has become more thoughtful and considerate towards oneself and others by an experience like this.

To think, 'What I am going through is something that I must continually bear,' is not the right attitude. The attitude should be: 'No, this is not my portion in life. I forget it. I must do everything in my power to overcome it, by a thought, by a feeling, by a belief, by a good action, by progress, by a conception, by healing, by whatever method.' There must be no limitation!

The Sufi Message, Volume IV: Healing and the Mind World, Part 1: “Health”

With loving greetings,

Sattva van Dorssen, Secretary of the Spiritual Healing Activity
Shamsher van Hees, Assistant Secretary, Spiritual Healing Activity