Have you ever consented to disease? Accepted it for you or for someone else?
“Oh well, that’s life, people get sick, and it’s my turn now…” This is not a plan for staying healthy. We should never consent to something we don’t want to experience.
Today I was thinking about how diligent we must be to not agree with disease. The media is filled with reports of suffering, graphic pictures of it, descriptions and symptoms detailed to impress, and then there are neighbors who seem infatuated with talking about disease as if there’s little else to discuss. If we’re not alert, we might start agreeing with the general consensus that disease is real powerful and out to get us. Thanks to Truth, this is not true! But we have to prove it by keeping our thought free of its deleterious influence.
Don’t consent to disease!
No matter how many other people we see struggling with disease, we do not have to struggle with it too. We can help them and keep our thought free of believing in it.
Disease is in belief only. It’s not a physical reality that becomes contagious. Any contagion is in mind alone, and we have spiritual immunity to that mental contagion through Truth.
Our immunity is the spiritual truth about perfect God and perfect man. The man of God’s creating does not catch a disease. It’s impossible. God’s man is spiritual, immortal, healthy and well forever. The more we identify ourselves as spiritual, and not fallible vulnerable mortals, the stronger our defenses are against the suggestion of disease, and the safer our bodies from being affected by it.
There are probably many things you absolutely refuse to consent to. For example, I would never consent to smoking a cigarette. No matter how adamantly someone offered me a smoke, I would not accept. I absolutely refuse to have anything to do with even the suggestion.
We can apply the same rule to catching a disease. We can absolutely refuse to catch one by not consenting. Out of thought, out of body, is a rule any of us can demonstrate.
So, don’t consent! If you see disease in the news, down the block, at work, in your memory, don’t consent to its claims. Refuse to believe it’s real and know you are the immune and permanently healthy child of God.
Don’t give disease an inch, or it will become a ruler….
Consent to God’s absolute control over your well being, and stay healthy. Agreement with Truth makes a positive difference, and it’s a safe way to live.
There’s another way of consenting to disease, which I am struggling with at the moment. That is, consenting to illness as a “way out” or temporary respite from a situation one does not like, but feels trapped in. I have a job I don’t really like and I am trying to “grow” out of the job and at the moment I am overcome by a back problem, which is stopping me working but not in the right sort of way. I feel trapped in the job because I don’t see an alternative and I desperately need the money. And while I am not working – now – I am not earning. So…..
To anon above,
You’re never trapped! God amde you free with boundless opportunities to express your God-given worth and talent. The back suffering could be an extension of your “job suffering.” You don’t want either. From a spiritual perspective you’re not trapped in a job or in an ailing body. There is a less limited, infinitely freer view of work and self to entertain that can lift your experience to a much higher level where there is no more suffering.
Start with the truth about yourself–that your Life is God, unlimited, fetterless, unbounded, unrestricted… Your work is to express an unbounded Mind, which means manifesting unbounded thinking. And you can do that in any work environment, because the environment does not control your thinking. God controls your thinking, and that in turn, demonstrated, controls your environment.
Thank you, Evan. That is so helpful.
How to the point.
We are faced with a constant threat on every form of media possible.
Being aware of the truth is what we must do, over time for that Porter we all know about.
I find the concept of a given season for a particular disease such a novel thing. Do you think if yo went in to the Amazon, and talked to the natives about “flu season” they would be worried? Need a flu shot? Not so much.
It is not part of their thinking, so they see it as not true/real or to deal with. I guess we all need to be a bit more native in our thinking and what is true, at least I do!