“One of the forms your freedom shall take is the freedom from sickness. For in your realization that the body is simply a means, that the body is simply a vehicle of experience, which is the product of Mind, you shall find, in your realization that everything comes from Mind, that never shall you choose sickness. For sickness is nothing more than a device, a carefully laid plan that you use to substantiate your belief that you can be separate.”

“If ever, hear me well, if ever you are sick – from the slightest bodily sniffle, to the worst bodily disease you can imagine, from the worst psychiatric disease you might define, back to the slightest sigh that is not joy – if ever you experience any of those, you are believing that the body is an end.”

“How is it that so? As you believe that the body is an end, you believe, as I have told you, that it has existence of itself. And thus you believe that your body can become sick, somehow independent of you. And thus you believe that you, separate, isolated being, can be the victim of your body. While without the belief in separation, it could not be so.”

“Arising out of mind, it would be possible for you to choose what the world would call physical symptoms. But in your awareness that the body is but a means, and that everything comes from Mind, there would never be resistance. Because there could never be the belief that you were the victim of your body. And therefore, your perception would not be of illness. It would simply be of experience.”

Namaste
The Other Voice by Brent Haskell – Chapter 8, Sections VII – IX – The Body as a Means