Originally posted in German on 25th September 2024
Written by Heinz Grill on 21.09.24
An illness always involves the physical body. Even phenomena such as depression or anxiety disorders arise through being physically existence. Although a panic attack or a depressive-reactive-mood is largely reflected in the psyche, these are motivated from the physical. There are the most subtle metabolic processes, which may originate in the abdominal organs, and move up to the brain through a displacement of transmitter functions and cause very specific psychological phenomena. The body is therefore the primary instance that, through its own very individually existing reality, produces a certain illness scenario.
The fact that the physical conditions determine the consciousness through a wide range of emotions and feelings, is part of the human existential form of life. If someone becomes ill, the wish to become well will most likely inevitably also accompany this. There is always a desire to be free from a situation of discomfort with its pain and restrictions and to break through, as quickly as possible, to a pleasant, functional state. The main place of interest and prevailing consciousness are therefore governed by this desire for a way out of the disagreeable situation. In other words, the situation can be described as follows: In their body bound state, people who have become ill cannot or can only to a limited extent picture a healthy perspective, and it becomes considerably more difficult for them to freely relate outwardly to others. In this sense illness is always connected to the person and their consciousness.
Perhaps a simple example can be given based on the nature of an insult. The person who has been insulted says, not without reason, that the other person with their unfounded words has hurt them. Anyone who has suffered insults in such a situation, which, seen from a purely spiritual perspective, is like being covered in dark-black or dirty-grey dye, would instantly like to justify themselves and, in this way, break out of the hurt, diminished state. Nevertheless, it can be discovered that an insult always constitutes a situation that brings illness and will have an effect, regardless of whether the person concerned resists it or not. Often, however, the circumstances become more complicated, more difficult and more stressful for the health when the people affected want to become free from the psychological situation that has perhaps even become physical. Those offended must act out of their disagreeable situation of being diminished and feeling hurt, and this is a situation that arises from the body and the desire for a freer reality.
This now subjective situation of being affected, of pain and of feeling ill or also of being ill should, in a first step, be sufficiently recognised. The previous article, stating that illness is not people’s enemy, but that the actual cause is to be sought on another plane, can now be more easily comprehended. Pain and becoming ill are the result of a defence or, in other words, a reaction that happens naturally to a greater or lesser extent in every individual person. However, it comes from circumstances that affect the body and the individual existence and that express themselves through the plane of perceptible reality, that is the physical. A disturbance in human interaction, a breach of morality or a long-term failure to fulfil essential duties precede these physical attachments.
If individuals now learn to analyse and perceive, to a certain extent, this distinction between cause and consequence by practising observation, they can develop the next step for their healing. The principle that those affected do not focus on the symptoms or get involved in the illness is important at this stage of self-activity and for further development that builds awareness. For a comprehensive, integral healing that strives for the further development of the soul, spiritual and the physical existence, it is essential to adopt a concept that is orientated towards the future. Although it is always very important to clarify the causes of the circumstances that have led to the illness or to being hurt, the individual consciousness must not remain in the past with the events, but must adopt better resolutions for the future in the sense of a growing development.
For example, if someone has been insulted it is relatively easy for them to practise realising that the other person, the aggressor, in the most eminent sense, has a problem and only projects this onto others by means of humiliation. This enables a better strength to develop relatively quickly. People can therefore learn to overcome the pain of being insulted and foster a greater sense of honour when interacting with others, for example, a projection free, communication with content. At best they can even look at the poverty of the aggressor and consider how they could learn to organise their life onto a higher plane. Spiritual reality reveals specifically the fact that those that try to bring harm to others and reckon they can demonstrate their egotistic advantages allow a kind of soul force to flow to the other people, if it could be put this way. Hidden forces actually flow to the traumatised people and the attackers give themselves up to the others.
The feat of leading the consciousness to the next freer plane that corresponds to development and to free oneself from involvement, must always be achieved in life. The greatest help for development is actually the negative in the world, because it disturbs the existing sense of well-being with its comfortable coexistence, it does not easily harmonise with habitual feelings and for this reason it awakens the imagination for the next stage of development. The real enemies of humanity are therefore not the external attacks but rather the inner lethargy, the despondency in the psyche and the many development duties neglected as a result. For this reason, people should keep in mind this situation of a freely chosen development that does not exist in illness nor in the attempt to free themselves from a disagreeable situation. They then can consider which development steps can be identified as the next point to aim for and progress with courageous focus towards the realisation of a next dimension.
In the last article it was stated that examples of how this development can be given a form would follow. However, the situations surrounding illness and those of a free development that are described here, seem once again to be essential in order to be able to better understand the examples that will follow in the next article.
They rob life forces.
People who have to insult others almost always suffer from major problems and have no true self-esteem.
Drawing: R.R.