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Parts of the Being and Illness

Your description makes it clear that the obstruction in the throat is not physical, it
is the obstruction of a formation of obscure force in the physical mind, — for the
throat is the centre of the physical mind. In your other parts of the mental there is
not any opposition, but here in the physical mind there is probably a habitual form
of old external ideas which are rejected but something of them remains. It is this that
translates itself in the obstruction and pain. It is a mechanical difficulty which we
must try to remove.

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It is neither the vital nor the body that contains these illnesses — it is a force from
outside that creates them and the nervous being (physical vital) and the body respond
from habit or inability to throw it away. It is always better not to say, “I will now
have no more illness”, it attracts the attention of these malevolent powers and they
immediately want to prove that they can still disturb the body. Simply when they
come, reject them.

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The nervous (vital-physical) being supports the body — if it is calm and strong and
solid, then the body is well supported and can withstand illness and weakness or,
if illness comes, it will bear and more easily get rid of it. If the nervous being is
weak, then it is the opposite. If the nervous being is not merely weak, but nervous
and unstable, over-sensitive, vehement or excitable, then there is much fluctuation,
restlessness, exaltation and depression in the being — there may even be a wrongly

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