2026-05-20
Hot or cold, expansive or contractive, full or empty.
Take motor car that doesn't start. Check the fuel tank. It's empty? Fill it up, problem solved.
But is it?
Fuel tanks move from empty to full whenever we stop at the pumps. Then they deplete until the next time we stop at the pumps. It's a cycle that repeats. Low fuel is not generally a cause of failure.
Take the body - feeling low? Get something to eat. Problem solved? Maybe ... maybe not.
Was there a real problem or was it a natural cycle? It's a fact that we eat mostly out of habit. That's useful as it means we don't have to waste brain-power and time on deciding when to eat. Well, most of the time anyway. Once we have a regular eating habit that works for us, we can just follow it, but if we have to adjust it due to circumstances it's not normally a problem - we have enough in our system so that if we have to go without for a day or so we may hardly notice any adverse effect (indeed it may be beneficial to fast for a while).
"Disease is in essence the result of conflict between Soul and Mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort"
But is the medical world missing something important of which practitioners of old habitually took note?
