Chapter 5: Inner battles - the cause of illness

All symptoms may be caused by a distortion in the flow of life force but what keeps them in place? Especially as there is a natural tendency for the life force to play out and heal without any effort on our part. This chapter explains how we end up with symptoms that don’t go away.

We get better on our own (if we don’t get in the way)

Most illnesses are short-lived and self-limiting, only lasting a few days. However, some illnesses become chronic and settle into a permanent state. There are a number of reasons this happens but they all include some aspect of the illness being ignored by the patient. A common example is the daily consumption of a substance that would only cause a small problem if ingested once a week but can cause a more serious problem when consumed daily. Examples are dairy, tea, coffee, sugar, chocolate and alcohol. Of course, many people can consume these substances daily with little effect.  For some people, who have a small problem with them, when they are taken daily and even many times a day can cause chronic symptoms to develop. Some people sense this, even if they haven’t been told, which is why they may occasionally fast from them. Most of the time we deny the problems they cause. This denial comes from our I-force, and this can be the foundation of chronic illness.

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We fight the healing process

Chronic symptoms occur because our ego gets involved and we ignore the warning signs. It is the same the world over; when we ignore warning signs, our problems will either get worse or we get stuck in a situation that continues. It affects our well-being as well as our health. I get ‘messages’ all the time from my life force that my ego ignores. ‘Do your taxes’, ‘Check the oil in the car’, ‘Paint the house’, ‘Wash some clothes’, ‘Pay attention’, ’ Tidy up’, ‘Don’t have another drink’, ‘Eat less sugar’, ‘Why on earth are you smoking?’. The warnings go away if I do the thing I am meant to, but sometimes I don’t and suffer the consequences. Chronic symptoms come about because my ego is adept at listening to my I-force. I have set up a cause for chronic symptoms. And one of the clearest warning symptoms is pain. But what is pain?

 

Pain and sensation

The level of pain anyone experiences can’t be measured with a machine - it is a subjective experience. Unlike other unmeasurable experiences you don’t find many scientists saying it doesn’t exist. However, it is important to make a distinction between sensation and pain. A sensation is an experience of the body before the ego and I-force get involved. I remember hitting myself on the thumb with a hammer in a typical cartoon-type way, and the sensation was intense. But I managed to just look at the sensation objectively. It was like I wasn’t there. It remained a sensation and, for a while at least, it stayed as a sensation and didn’t become a pain. I was probably in shock, and my ego wasn't functioning. It took a few more seconds and the sensation turned to pain. But I was left with a question, can all pain be side-lined and become a sensation, and if it does remain a sensation, how does that affect the progress of it getting better?

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Sensation is an experience of the body not interpreted by the mind or ego. Sensations can be intense but, in themselves, are neither pleasant nor unpleasant. Those sensations aren't painful; they just are. It is only at the moment we give them a designation that they become a symptom. Whether they are painful or not, once they become a symptom and have an ego and I-force involvement, they become something you want to get rid of and probably with an anti-medicine, such as a painkiller. 

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Getting back to my thumb, as I said, it didn’t take too long before the sensation turned into pain and at that point it became a symptom. Something in me had interpreted the sensation and declared it pain, probably to stop me from doing it again. In the long term that might be helpful. The moment my ego got involved and declared the sensation painful, the I-force became involved and tried to stop the pain. 

When any sensation is felt, we have a choice. We can try to suppress it or accept it. With difficult or strong sensations, we often both try to suppress part of it and also accept part of it. These choices govern what will happen next. The ideal solution is to accept it because then nothing gets stuck. This is what happens with mundane occurrences such as stubbing your toe or getting a small splinter. It is rare for these pains to get stuck and for the I-force to get involved. If we told another person about it we might call it pain, but if we kept it to ourselves and didn’t tell anyone we might not label it. (To talk to another person we generally involve our ego.)

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When in a still point, pain moves to sensation. When I reject strong sensation and want to run away from it and abandon the still point, the sensation becomes pain. Pain hurts, sensation just is. When in a still point all suffering disappears. This is the end of a dance.

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When your mind gets traumatised by an experience and you are in pain, there is only one solution. There may be many therapies that try to play out that solution but they all are trying to do the same job. That job is to re-live the trauma in every aspect and at the same time maintain an awareness of the still point. That is the only way. When that has been achieved you will be able to look at any aspect of what happened and not fly off into panic or fear or any other emotion. Every therapy tries to do this except the ones that try to bury or divert from the problem and these avoidance therapies store up problems for the future and should be avoided. (See Chapter 7 on clearing trauma.)

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When the event or sensation starts to become overwhelming, the I-force gets involved. Someone might scream, swear or cling to someone else in an attempt to suppress the sensation so that the person can still function. During this time, the I-force has to keep working to suppress what is happening, taking energy from its owner. All the time this life force/I-force battle is in progress, there is an inner contradiction, an inner battle. Whenever the I-force is involved, even if it is helping a situation, there is an inner battle, a desire to sort out a situation and also, at the same time, an equal desire to suppress it. This inner battle keeps the symptoms in place and suppresses healing.

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Inner battles (I-force vs life force) aren't entirely stable. The mind and body would always prefer a still point where no effort is required. An inner battle is always trying to get resolved, slowly letting out the distortion in the flow of life force, which is why it produces symptoms. The symptoms are pointers to show you the way to solve the inner battle. Unfortunately, Western medicine chooses to see them as something that needs to be stopped and prescribes anti-medicine. Most people work this out subconsciously or even consciously and have a dislike of medication. They often forget to take the tablets or work hard at ‘coming off’ their tablets.

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Suppression

An inner battle is the I-force fighting the life force but in doing so it creates a dance of symptoms. And when the I-force manages to keep back the life force, chronic symptoms develop. Examples are many, individual and varied. They can include: stopping yourself from crying when you see something kind happening; or stopping yourself from getting angry at a perceived injustice; or just not knowing how to deal with your own emotions. These situations could easily cause high blood pressure, for example, as the I-force opposes the life force.

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Another example of an inner battle leading to a chronic condition could occur from not knowing how to deal with a trauma. After a trauma, the life force wants you to re-live the trauma, so you can come out the other side and not get stuck but the I-force wants to shut the re-living down because it doesn’t want to go through that again. The I-force believes it is too much to handle. This is an inner battle. It isn't the trauma alone that causes Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); it is the I-force reaction to the trauma that is the problem.  If the inner battle isn't resolved it will lead to a chronic situation.

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Chronic pain and trying to live

 As soon as the life force stops being distorted (by the I-force) the illness disappears. It is the I-force that keeps our problems in place. Symptoms are the body’s way of communicating with you and saying there is a distortion in the flow of life force.

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Recap

The cause of every symptom and illness is a distortion in the flow of life force. This distortion is caused by, and held in place by, an inner battle. Inner battles are created both consciously and unconsciously, but regardless of how they are created they are always created by the patient. It doesn’t matter how old the patient is; both newborn and geriatric people do this. When anyone is overwhelmed, the overwhelm gets to distort the flow of life force. The only solution that will end in a cure is to remove the distortion. If a distortion remains, so will your symptoms, the symptoms aren't the problem. When you get well, the symptoms aren't needed; removing the symptoms DOESN'T improve the health of the person. Putting steroid cream on an eczema rash may remove the rash until the cream is stopped, which is when the rash returns. The health of the person wasn't improved by the cream; only by clearing the distortion does the health improve.

 

Consciously created inner battles

Inner battles can occur when you do something you know you shouldn’t but you do it anyway. For example, feigning illness to take a day off work, stealing something that doesn’t belong to you or lying to a friend.

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If the conflict that the ego creates isn't resolved, it will result in an illness. The purpose of the illness is to undo the conflict. However, perhaps you can internally justify feigning an illness to take a day off work by saying something like ‘I have worked hard on that project and now that it is finished I deserve a day off.’ If that justification undoes the internal conflict then no illness will result.

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You can also justify lying to a friend by saying something like, ‘It is better for them if they don’t know the truth.’ Again, if the justification works for you, no illness will result. (Lying always requires an inner battle, though.)

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Consciously created inner battles point to the existence of the part of you that wants to fight the life force, the ego. The ego, as I see it, is the part of you that resists being thought of as inferior. It is the part that when it gets told to shut up, gets louder. It is the part that marches across the Sahara desert when told it can’t. It is also the part that wants to hide under the duvet when the morning alarm goes off. Everyone has one, everyone fights it, and occasionally we win, but sometimes we lose. It isn't separate from us, it is us. But there is a difference between the ego and the part that knows to do the healthy thing - the life force. In a battle between your ego and life force, the life force can always win. However, the ego will put up with a lot of pain and even die trying to show it is better than the life force. It isn't.

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Unconsciously created inner battles

Sometimes, an inner battle is created unconsciously by having ideas that seem reasonable within themselves, but when they come together with other equally reasonable ideas they can oppose each other. For example, being an ethical vegan and wearing leather shoes or voting for a political party that then goes and does something you don't agree with. All the ideas are reasonable but, when they come together, they can be in conflict. If these opposing ideas are accepted by your personality they pull in opposing directions and can easily cause depression. (See Chapter 7: Depression)

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An unconsciously created inner battle is still an inner battle and needs to be resolved; it creates a disorder in the flow of life force and symptoms, which, as we now know, are pointers to removing the inner battle and clearing distortion.

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Having reasonable ideas, which end up opposing each other and leading to depression, is solely caused by the ego of the patient. However, blaming the person who is ill for creating their problem is absurd. If you believe a person wants to be ill you haven’t understood illness. Nobody, absolutely nobody, wants to be ill, ever. Those people who you think want to be ill have a bigger problem than you can see. 

 

Anyone can have an inner battle

Children tend to have less fixed views than adults, which is probably why they recover quickly from illnesses and can be more robust. But children can still have fixed views that can lead to inner battles, distortion in the flow of life force and symptoms. If they sort out their problems quickly, without getting overwhelmed, they will go on into adulthood without difficulty. Problems can arise when adults don't tell them the truth about the way things are, in a skilful manner.

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For example, children under 3 are generally not aware of what being dead means. Their first experience of death may be in the form of a dead pet, a dead animal by the side of the road or a dead grandparent. When they first become aware of death it is a new concept and, if it isn’t explained properly, can cause an inner battle. I don't know the way to explain death to everyone because everyone is different and everyone needs to find their way. I do know lots of ways to explain death badly, though, because I see them in my clinic. Health anxiety is a typical reaction of someone told that anyone can die at any time. While this may be true, it leaves children looking around every corner for something that will kill them and is probably not very helpful.

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Children and babies can easily have inner battles which explain night terrors, tantrums, involuntary tics and other fears and anxieties. Those battles can come from being left in hospital without adequate explanation or left in the dark when going to sleep or being left in a school or being vaccinated or other ‘medical’ procedures and even just from being told ’no’.

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Illness comes about from a distortion in the flow of life force. A distortion in the flow of life force comes about through an inner battle.

 

Beliefs

Causes of inner battles come exclusively from beliefs. Everyone’s beliefs are only partially true. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be beliefs. For example, the belief that nothing happens after your death leaves your ego wondering what is the point of anything. And the belief that you go on to another life makes your ego not care so much for this one. The good thing about beliefs is that there is a limited number of the way they are created, five to be exact (see Appendix: Causes of Belief).

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When you believe something that isn’t an absolute truth, somewhere the opposite will also be true and so there is a conflict. But what is 100% true? What makes something true isn't what another person says, in person or in a religious book or even if everyone says it is. What makes it true is that it doesn’t distort your flow of life force. This might sound like a circular argument but not having a distortion in the flow of life force is a very special state and moves you to peace and away from chronic illness, into a still point and out of the dance.

Inner battles are the basis of all illnesses. They are the basis of all mental illness. The arguments we all have with another aspect of ourselves only go quiet when we touch on the peace at the centre of our being. That peace is always there, but it might get overlaid with a partial truth or belief. Inner battles can always be resolved regardless of what has happened to get it there in the first place. We can always get better, regardless of what we believe or what we have done.

 

Resolving inner battles

Resolving inner battles can be done in many ways but the Boulderstone Technique is the most direct way I have found, as described in this book and outlined here.

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The Boulderstone Technique resolves inner battles by tuning into the patient’s life force and bringing forward the resistance to the life force that is causing the difficulty. By allowing the energy to move through the body, as it wants to, the inner battle is resolved.

When any inner battle is resolved, the illness that resulted from that inner battle instantly disappears. That includes chronic illness and severe illness.

 

The purpose of symptoms is to point to where the inner contradiction is

Every inner battle causes a lessening of your vitality. Check it out for yourself. Set up a situation where you have an inner battle. It can be quite mundane: think of something you need to do and at the same time don’t want to do. One example might be: I need to clean my windows and I don’t want to clean my windows. Make it real and you will feel the tension. The little inner fight you set up drains you of a small piece of vitality. Not enough to trigger an illness but then it is only about window dirt.

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The (small) lack of vitality is the illness and if you study the feeling you will see that it directly points back to the cause: the inner battle between wanting clean windows and not wanting to clean them. The point of symptoms is to help you to resolve inner conflict. The solution is to resolve the inner contradiction and the solutions to that are many. You could wash the windows. You could smash the windows, they then wouldn’t need cleaning. You could learn to live with them. You could poke your eyes out. Every one of those ideas resolves that small inner contradiction and will remove the associated lack of vitality. It may cause another inner battle but it will remove the original inner battle. The way you resolve the inner battle is your business but the symptoms are the pointers to the problem. Covering over the symptoms with any medication or distraction keeps the problem in place with the need for stronger symptoms.

 

The size of the inner battle is dependent only on the patient not on the act

I have met quite a few people who have killed another person and the conflict within them may be large or small, depending on the way they view it. 

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Of three people who killed separate people, one was awake most nights pacing his room, talking to himself in a very agitated state. His inner contradiction was great and it affected him in the mental sphere. He was only going to get to peace through believing in a higher power. If he couldn’t he would probably go mad, if he wasn’t already. I met him on a meditation retreat in a darkened cave where he stayed for 30 days. I believe he was trying to blank out or isolate his thoughts.

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Another person who had killed someone had been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). I feel I understand people diagnosed with MS (see MS section, Chapter 7) in that they all use tension in their neck and body to stop their emotions from getting out of control. In my view, MS is an emotional illness where the patient has discovered a way of dealing with unresolved emotional difficulties by clamping down on them and simulating peace and a still point. Unfortunately, in my opinion, this leads to clamping down on their nerves with the typical MS symptoms following. The solution to MS is to resolve the inner battle, what else? (More on MS in Chapter 7)

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And yet another person who had killed someone seemed to not be too bothered by what they did. 

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The level of disturbance is based solely on the patient’s internal battle and nothing else.

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(All three people were from the armed forces and the killings were considered legal.)

 

Other ways inner battles come about

Even looking at the planet there can be conflicting views. Wanting to look after the planet and taking one or two flights a year for a holiday are two ideas that individually might seem reasonable but together might create a conflict. The problem is that if we hold both of those views they will make our perfect mind less than perfect.

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Inner contradiction doesn't just come from passive views about the world. Sometimes circumstances occur that will create a big inner battle. Usually, these come about in violent ways. A car accident, for example, could cause the physical body to be pulled in different directions. This is physical conflict which can cause ongoing discomfort, such as whiplash. A thought that might come up during the accident is ‘I don’t want to die’ but the truth of it is, in the end, we all die. It will bring up the problem every one of us has about death. If we haven’t sorted out that issue beforehand there is bound to be a conflict.

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Conflict could arise days after the accident. For example, if another person was seriously injured in the accident the question might come into your head ’That should have been me, why did I escape unhurt?’ Inner battles will develop without much effort on our part.

 

Inner battles are only created by the individual affected

The point is, all inner battles are created by the individual experiencing them. It is the world view of the individual that is wholly responsible regardless of the circumstance or even age or intellectual ability of the person. One way of understanding this is to realise that regardless of the situation not everyone is affected in the same way. The person who knows how to resolve inner battles will walk away from any difficulty without any mental or emotional conflicts because they are at peace and will consequently recover quickly.

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Western medicine practitioners generally dislike this idea, that the level of illness is created by the patient. WM wants to absolve everyone of their illnesses so that it can give them pills which will clear up their symptoms. How have we got ourselves into this position of not taking responsibility for the way we react to events?

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Inner battles that come from opposing views have to be either held in place or resolved. In the perfect mind the inner contradiction is always resolved and resulting problems go away but if the fight is held in place then it will always reduce vitality because it takes energy to avoid dealing with problems. Even knowing this doesn’t always help, I still procrastinate when it comes to doing my tax return because a part of me believes if I put it off I will save myself some pain. Of course, I am wrong.

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Even when the conflict is held the mind will try to get it resolved, sometimes waiting until you are relaxed or in a deep sleep and your defences are lowered. This is why panic attacks can appear to come from out of the blue when least expected and also why bad dreams can occur.

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Resolving inner battles brings you closer to the perfect mind but often requires you to re-live an incident that contributed to the formation of the conflict. This is where remembered-pain (as opposed to direct-pain) comes to the surface. Remembered pain is not really pain and it is unfortunate that it is called pain. Most physical pain exists to get you to move away from its cause and remember stay away. To clear remembered pain you have to go into it and feel it completely, bringing yourself to a still point at the same time as remembering the pain. Once this has been achieved the pain part of the remembered pain disappears. Embarrassment, is a form of remembered pain that can be removed by this process but still leaves the memory in tact. 

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Without inner battles we are clear and free from anxiety, embarrassment and confusion. With inner contradiction we often don’t even know what we want. This is because when we connect with the conflict, our thoughts and feelings follow the paths of the two conflicting ideas and can move off in different directions. When opposing views collide we end up confused or anxious or both. Doctors, for some reason, are adept at creating these opposing views in their patients. Perhaps because it is easy to do. All they have to say is ‘I don’t like the look of that lump, but you can’t have a scan for a couple of weeks.’ Or ‘I can give you an appointment in six months.’

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Satisfactorily resolving the conflict isn't something we are taught. Especially if our parents didn’t know how. Television dramas rely on their characters not knowing how to resolve conflict. As a teaching medium television is second to none, it just teaches how not to solve problems. Also we are taught from an early age to actively avoid physical and emotional pain. But resolving emotional pain requires us to seek it out. Instead, we are taught to avoid all pain often with pharmaceutical drugs. Even our friends will say, ‘Have a cup of tea/coffee/cigarette/drink/etc’.

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Inner battles are only created by the individual affected

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Drugs distract

Drugs only rarely solve the inner contradiction problem but they are seductive in that they can distract you. Most drugs distract. Indeed, that is my definition of a drug: a substance that puts you into a different mindset. Legal recreational drugs like alcohol, tea, coffee and tobacco all put you into a slightly different mind set. That is their purpose; if you need to change the way you are thinking they are the substance for you. Sugar, television and reading all can do the same but are not as reliable and therefore weaker. Stronger drugs, like heroin, cocaine and their derivatives, are stronger because they are more reliable in putting you into a different mind set. None of them solves the problem.

 

Projecting inner contradiction

One way people try to resolve inner battles is to project the conflict outwards and find the problem in their outer world. Picking an argument with someone when the real argument is with yourself is very common. There will always be a problem in the external world that is close enough to the problem in your inner world to draw you in. 

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I have seen people who engage in politics because they want control. They seek power probably because they feel weak, become a doctor if they dislike being ill, become a teacher if they want to learn. They are all ways people try to resolve their inner battles by projecting them outwards. Unfortunately, it is an inefficient method of healing and generally people get lost and forget why they started and, as a result, often burn out. Externalising our inner battles is a way of not taking full responsibility for our conflicts. I spent nearly thirty years learning this lesson.

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I now believe it is better to sort out my inner world before trying to sort out our outer world. I argue that it is only when you are free of inner contradiction that the changes you make in the outer world will be authentic and acceptable to others.

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‘First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye’ - Matthew 7:5, The Bible

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When you are free from inner battles certain things happen: 

 You become your own person: you live an authentic life 

 You see the true value of things

 You know how you are responsible for your life.

 Self-improvement happens automatically: you don't need to seek it out.

 Life decisions become easy: you know that peace is the answer.

 You don't experience anxiety: you are healthy, you sleep like a baby.

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It is probable that everyone has experienced these things for at least a short time but it is the depth of experience that defines freedom from contradiction. Feeling like this for a few minutes is helpful but it is possible to feel like this for days on end and longer.

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Maintaining a mind free from contradiction

A mind free from contradiction and battles is something that can be extended and deepened by one’s actions and behaviours. One of the easiest ways to extend and deepen the experience is by meditation (See Appendix: Meditation). Every action that comes from peace generates a situation where peace is more easily available.

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Meditation and your life’s purpose

People often ask me for help in finding their true purpose in life because they believe that everyone has a purpose. I don’t know whether everyone has a purpose or not but I know how to find it if you have one. Meditation is not about keeping your mind quiet but about being aware of everything that comes up in your thoughts and feelings and processing them to get back to peace. You know that if someone is annoying you that punching their lights out is going to leave you with more inner contradiction not less and so you look around for other ways to keep your mind free. If you look you will find one; it will always be personal to you and it will be your purpose.

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When you manage to keep your mind free from contradiction you will automatically be following your life purpose. It is unique to you and it is dynamic, meaning it changes as you change. Everything else takes you to inner contradiction and ill health. If you can manage to sit around all day not doing anything, without inner contradiction, then you are doing the right thing for you, although sitting all day is harder than most people think. Keeping a perfect mind is the very opposite of boring; you have to be adaptable in every situation.

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All illness, physical and mental, can be permanently removed when you know the real cause of the illness. The problem with modern Western medicine is that its focus on symptom removal blocks the pointers that are showing you the way forward. No wonder people have lost their way.

 

Where do bacteria and viruses fit in?

Germ theory remains a cornerstone of Western medicine, explaining how infectious diseases are spread through microorganisms like bacteria and viruses. However, this understanding doesn't paint the whole picture. Many bacteria and viruses coexist peacefully with us, even benefiting our health.

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Western medicine relies heavily on Germ Theory to explain how infectious diseases spread. This has led to a view of bacteria and viruses as enemies to be eradicated and is probably the reason antibiotics are so freely given by doctors. However, the reality is more complex. While some microbes cause illness, others play vital roles in our health. Indeed without them, we would die.

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Examples of helpful viruses

Some helpful viruses are bacteriophages. These viruses are abundant in the environment and play a crucial role in controlling bacterial populations. Endogenous retroviruses are viruses integrated into our DNA and have become part of our genome, providing us with essential functions. Some common cold viruses can cause mild discomfort but many others are harmless and even help train our immune systems to fight off possible future infections. Some human papillomaviruses (HPVs) can cause warts or cancer but most HPV strains are harmless and don't cause any symptoms.

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Also, some bacteria are positively good for us, helping us to digest food, protecting us from disease-causing microbes, and some even produce vitamins and other nutrients. The same is true for some viruses, fungi and protozoa. 

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Everyone reacts differently

It is important to note that bacteria and viruses that cause symptoms don’t always do so in a consistent manner, especially outside a laboratory. Human beings react differently to the same bug. For instance, the Epstein-Barr virus infects about 95% of people worldwide by the time they reach the age of 50. While most people don’t experience any symptoms, some may have life-threatening symptoms. Furthermore, people who live in the same house and catch the ‘same’ cold can have vastly different symptoms. Some may experience throat-related symptoms, while others may have nose-related or lung-related symptoms. It is apparent that there is more to the disease than just the presence of a particular microbe.

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Of course, Western medical scientists will tell you the difference is in the immune system but they do not factor in the I-force. A factor that can have an effect before the immune system gets a look in.

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The I-force reaction is significant

We already know that a cause of stress is a life force/I-force battle AND that both acute and chronic stress directly affect the immune system. Therefore, the I-force is a factor in the functioning of the immune system. So, a strong I-force could be responsible for the Epstein-Barr virus having a small or large negative effect. The point is the state of the I-force is an important factor in whether you become ill or not.

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Theory, theory everything theory

Germ Theory says that bacteria and viruses directly cause disease. Although Germ Theory has been strongly adopted by Western medicine it is not yet fact. There is another unproven theory that suggests that microbes exploit existing weaknesses in the body's internal environment. Not a theory that pharmaceutical companies would want to support.  My theory is that those weaknesses stem from internal conflicts, a life force/I-force battle, and microbes, in exploiting these weaknesses, show us what needs to be addressed.

What happens to get you ill?

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Before showing any symptoms there is always a palpable distortion in the flow of life force. That is not theory but what I feel in my practice. This distortion could have been created minutes before or years before symptoms emerge. It could have come from a trauma or an incident where the ego was challenged but, whatever the cause, the I-force comes into effect and there is a life force/I-force battle. At this point, there are even a few minor warning signs depending on the cause of the distortion. To get ill the person has to ignore the warning signs. If they didn’t ignore them, and instead did something about them, the illness wouldn't progress in the same way. The life force/I-force battle creates a blind spot that allows a microbe a home and creates subsequent symptoms.

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In finding a home the microbe can go wild until it exceeds its boundaries and is detected and stopped, causing symptoms and sometimes even a diagnosable disease. The real problem is the I-force that got in the way. Killing off the microbe might stop the symptoms but it doesn't sort out the I-force or the problem.

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When something is true on one level there is often a parallel truth on a different level.

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The situation at the microbe level is also played out at a macro level.

The basis of every soap opera storyline is the life force/I-force battle being played out. At a basic level one character does something but hides their actions from another character and tension is built up. The tension is the life force/I-force battle that produces symptoms or, in this case, drama. The ‘illness’ is really the life force/I-force battle but the ’symptoms’ will continue until the illness is resolved.

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On another level …​

It seems to me that politicians are often on the lookout for easy solutions to problems and are more likely to solve society’s symptoms than deal with causes. Rounding up homeless people doesn’t solve the problem of how they got there in the first place. Taxing carbon dioxide output won’t stop global warming and stopping people from smoking won’t stop teenagers’ desire to experiment with risky behaviours.

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Money

A huge amount of money is in play when we are talking about symptom removal and there could well be a vested interest in the relevant industries keeping the status quo. A way to change this situation is not to litigate against pharmaceutical companies for putting profits above people’s health. This is just a version of symptom removal. Instead, the change comes from dealing with the cause and that cause is the belief that symptoms are the problem. How do you do that? You connect with your own life force. It is as simple as that.

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What to do

Microbes are often found at the scene of an illness but being found at the scene doesn't mean the microbe is the cause of the illness. Bacteria and viruses can certainly create symptoms but they were let in.  We live with bacteria and viruses in our environment all the time but they only become a problem under certain conditions. Those conditions are connected to the life force and I-force.

While medicine might kill off the bacteria or virus and temporarily relieve symptoms, it often doesn't address the cause of the illness. I believe this root cause lies in a distortion in the flow of life force. While I can't scientifically prove this, and perhaps I never will, the lack of scientific proof doesn't automatically make something untrue. My experience shows that working with life force and removing distortions in its flow provides genuine, lasting help for people – far beyond simply managing their symptoms.

Following the life force and allowing it to dismantle the I-force uncovers a still point that was always there. That still point which can exist in yourself and in the wider world, is devoid of symptoms and illness. And all you have to do to achieve this health is connect with your own life force.

 

 

Summary

The purpose of symptoms is to point to our inner contradiction.

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