When we go through a negative experience usually we form a belief as: “I have a problem,” or, “I am not able to make it,” or “I have to run out of it.” If you believe in these statements, you are allowing imprints in your energy field, and they start having a separate life from the rest of your being. ‘Problems’ always trigger intense emotional reactions of being flooded, in between being numb and unable to feel fully alive; it keeps reinforcing non-thriving, untruthful negative beliefs about you and life; it motivates destructive maladaptive behaviors. Then there is not just one problem, there are infinite problems. You become a problem.

In appropriate circumstances, due to dangerous and life threatening situations, the mind cannot function, and the mind stops. The mind can think only in non-dangerous situations. The natural reaction of the body in dangerous life conditions is to produce hormones (adrenalin, cortisone and other chemicals), introducing them into the blood stream and thus, increasing blood pressure and affecting heart rate and breathing. The natural reaction to fearful circumstances is to defend or escape, so the body goes into a fight-or-flight response.

Whenever the mind assumes that somebody or something is going to attack you, harm, or insult you, the body immediately reacts. This also occurs whenever the mind feels frustration, feelings of failure, anxiety of unknown situations as well as financial worries, resentment, or guilt. The body immediately reacts. The body itself doesn’t have a mind; it is part of the existence, reacting naturally to the flow of any given situation. The mind is taking control and creating a dangerous, stressful circumstance, worries, fear, and anxieties, adding fuel to the fight-or-flight response. The body is not able to switch off from that natural response because the mind exists outside of it and feeds itself from it. The body consequently suffers, slowing down or switching off its protective immune system.

Look through your own experience. If you could bring awareness into your body when you are angry, you will witness a fight or flight response, the rush of chemicals in your body, blood circulating more, heat, perspiration and trembling. The whole body is in a state of shock. Body takes a certain posture; your face takes a particular expression, you are ready to fight or take flight.

Mind sees life as the big problem, so the mind is always in either fight or flight response. To fight, you are with the energy of anger; to run away, you are in the energy of fear. With the fight, you are with the problem; if you run away, the problem will be there following you everywhere and waiting to be resolved. You are in fear running away from fear.

Life is not the problem, our mind and its twisted vision – its di-vision, is the problem. Who is going to win in the Armageddon battle? Which part of the mind will possess the territory of your being, democrats or republicans? NONE! The mind is the winner, because the mind is all about winning. Your life energy will simply dissipate, and the mind will be strengthened.

Under normal conditions, the body produces thousands and thousands of cancer cells, which are dealt with efficiently by your immune system. From the constant state of conflict, anxiety, and stress in the mind, the energy flow is blocked and the cancer cells may get out of hand. Of course, our body may then get other illnesses and diseases. If it is our choice to create health, we can choose to come to terms with circumstances, situations, and conditions in our own perception of Self. There are no justifications for our negative attitudes, beliefs, definitions, and behaviors towards One-Self. You are your own creator or destroyer.

Illness Is An Opportunity, It Is Not An Enemy; It Is A Friend.

Illness is different from disease. Illness is warning you, talking to you, pointing a direction you have to take; asking you for your acceptance, for your expression, for the transcendence, for your awareness, your consciousness. If you are not listening, if you are not in tune with nature, you are repressing your consciousness, which is creating the experience of the dis-ease. You are avoiding the warning and repressing One-Self.

There is nothing wrong with being ill. Sometimes it is very good to fall ill. A healthy person has to experience illness sometimes, to pass through it to attain health again; new freshness, new rejuvenation, greater wellness. Existence is always going through the opposite poles in this moment of now, but it is not attached to any part of it, always changing, never staying the same. Everything that changes is alive; everything that becomes stagnant dies. That is the nature; always flowing, changing, and moving from one side of the extreme to the other. Going through opposites, without attachments, always gives fresh-ness, bliss-fulness, healthful-ness.

If you fall ill and have to go to bed, take it as a blessing from the Universe. Take it as the opportunity to cleanse and harmonize One-Self again. Rest your body on the bed. Meditate. Meditation is medicinal. Close your eyes and look at the illness. Watch the illness, the pain, the body imbalance, and don’t try to analyze or project. Do not attach to the illness or pain. Do not identify with it. You are not the illness and you cannot be in pain.

Do not attach to the thoughts. Just watch. Do nothing. The whole body might be tired, in pain, tensed or feverish, but do nothing, just watch. The more you watch without attachment and identification either to objective (your feverish body sensations), or subjective (tensed thoughts and overexcited emotions), you will become aware of a peaceful, calm, and healthy point within you. The fever might be around, but you are grounded in your inner centre, in the moment of now. Your inner centre is the one centre of All That Is. Your innermost centre is a portal for the Infinite Energy of Oneness to overflow the body with Infinite Joy for simply being. The body will harmonize naturally.

Ivan Rados