But if you're searching for good health, doesn't that also mean that deep down you actually believe in good health?
Good one Len, how do you always manage to get to the heart of the matter so efficiently?
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The Way Toward Health. Acknowledging we are sick in some way is always the first step to changing it, but to focus on it would only bring more of the same. ("remember when you were not") Good health is our natural state, but I think the belief in the potential for illness is unavoidable in many societies and I don't think of it as a hinderance:
"They pick up their first ideas about health and disease from parents and doctors, and by the actions of those people to their own discomfiture. Before they can even see, children are already aware of what their parents expect from them in terms of health and disease, so that early patterns of behavior are formed, to which they then react in adulthood."
—WTH Chapter 7: May 13, 1984
I think illness or seeking improvement in any area always serves a purpose, whether it's getting to the heart of an inner conflict, aligning our outer consciousness with inner conscious guidance, or understanding ourselves better (beliefs). I look at my own desire to seek improvement in my life as sort of my internal GPS for whether I'm headed where in my 'right' direction. I think if I was totally content with everything about myself and my life, I wouldn't be here. My education would be completed.
This quote would also work if you were to substitute "The body's health" with happiness and "Poor health/ill" with unhappiness:
"The body’s health is the expression of inner well-being. Poor health is an expression also, and it may serve many purposes. (Pause.) It goes without saying that some people become ill rather than change their activities and their environments. They may also become ill, of course, to force themselves to make such changes."
—WTH Chapter 4: March 25, 1984