Page 356 - THE SILENT HEALING POWER By DR. MURDO MACDONALD-BAYNE

JANUARY 1953

Now we realize that sickness is the result of certain causes or neglect of
natural Laws. This comes about through ignorance and fear, lack of Love,
lack of understanding.

Sickness is just a symptom revealing that the body has lost its normal
balance and natural rhythm and is struggling to regain its equilibrium, its natural
harmony. So the attention of the mind has become focussed upon the condition,
in other words the body is talking back to the mind so the mind is caught up in

what the body is feeling. Now the mind is struggling, making a great effort to
save the latter. It is precisely this struggle that is causing all the disturbances
and displacement of the atoms resulting in pain and discomfort.

The mind is conscious of feeling and this feeling is registered in the
mind as a disease. This disease is given a name so the mind now can hold on to
it. If this name conveys to the mind that it is an incurable disease the mind

accepts it. Thus man creates the burden for himself, and when he sees that
he himself is the cause through ignorance of the Truth of his oneness with
Spirit the burden falls away; then the Spirit-Life transforms the mind and

body by its own perfect nature.
It is not until you have made contact with the Divine within by yourself
or by the aid of another who is able to show you the way can true healing take
place. Sometimes the spirit is so moved within that a complete and instan-

taneous transformation takes place, this is Divine Healing.
What really happens in sickness is that the patient’s consciousness of
health has disappeared and a consciousness of ill-health has taken its place.

He or she begins no lose cheerfulness, their energy lags, their vigour disappears.
What fate has befallen the mighty Will that supported the body? These qualities
have temporarily disappeared because the mind has fallen under a spell—“the
illusion of the reality of sickness.” The mind has surrendered its sovereignty to

the forces of disorder and confusion.
Now, some resort to drugs etc., as the final agency for their recovery
and because this recovery is not forthcoming a further acceptance of the

condition is taken. But if by some means a chemical action takes place there is
a change for the better? Then some believe in medicine as the means of
recovery. But this causes further confusion which leads to further trouble, when

the patient finds in the end that drugs are no longer any help, then there is a
further depression and apprehension.
The body is not an exclusive combination of chemical reactions, it

is endowed with an intelligence—a knowing-how—an amazing organisation

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