The Inner Life

MANIFESTATIONS known as disease are the result of the accumulations of emotionalized states of consciousness allowed to become mental convictions.

If the individual can be induced fully to rationalize his thinking and to change the negative states of consciousness to positive ones, the inharmonious manifestations disappear.

There are conditions which have to be met over which it might appear that the individual has no control. It does take a high degree of understanding to meet all conditions that arise.

Take a case of diabetes mellitus. Sugar is found in the urine, where it is not supposed to be. The substances found in the urine should be only waste, the by-products of combustion and wear and tear of the bodily economy in the expenditure of energy. To be found in the urine the sugar must have been in the blood stream. We know that sugar is needed in the blood; it is the great source of energy.

We also know that that part of consciousness that regulates production of energy knows its business, and would operate perfectly if not interfered with. So if there is too much sugar in the blood stream for the amount of energy expended, there must be some reason why it is there; and there is a very definite reason.

One of the functions of the liver is to store glycogen, which is a very soluble form of sugar. It is stored there to meet the ordinary demands, but more particularly to meet emergency demands, and is quickly forced into the blood stream to meet those demands.

Our primitive ancestors, when aroused to a high state of emotional stress, either fought or ran away. Modern society comes along and says it is not nice to fight and it is cowardly to run. So we allow our emotions to run riot and get aroused for action as did our predecessors, yet we repress action and thus prevent the expenditure of energy supposed to accompany such cyclonic mental states.