Illusions and Mental Illness

Those who tend to have illusions or mental illness must make sure

that they direct the power back to the navel at the end of each

practice session. This will help to prevent such afflictions and many

other side effects. In fact, everyone should end his practice in this

way on the off chance that some stress or weakness has been incurred somewhere that he may not know about. When practitioners

who are in a weakened condition have more power made

available to them, they may experience such effects as ringing of

the ears, muffled hearing, or smarting eyes.

Once the power is activated, you will find that if you have ever

had a toothache you may again experience it and if you have a

latent virus or cold in your system it may be activated. Various

other pains out of the past may suddenly assail you. It may seem

as though the “power” is the cause of your trouble and it is, in a

way, and you would be correct in thinking so.

Your problems and illnesses have remained hidden in your body,

unknown to you. There are various ways to understand this. Perhaps

it might make more sense to say that most of our ills stem

from the mind. The mind is a storehouse of everything we have

been exposed to and when we use it, opened and cleaned, the

sickness will be overcome.

Initially, as you are suddenly confronted anew with painful memories

relived as though they were real, you feel that your practice

has caused this and it has. As you continue to practice, however,

and as these mind contents are emptied and replaced by a harmoniously

functioning system, you come to realize the wisdom of

just how you personally have harbored and been affected by these

“memory-illnesses”.

That is not to say that the illness you experience was just in

your imagination. The mind is complex and, in fact, are inseparable

from the body. Perhaps, “body” is just another way to describe

a complex set of processes that might, with another view,

be called “mind” comes closer to it. Again, as the various energy

routes are cleared of obstructions, it is conceivable that some of

those obstructions might have been due to past illnesses or injuries.

Then, as resistance to the flow of energy is met along a route,

the memory that is associated with it is evoked.