What an odd juxtaposition this...
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What an odd juxtaposition this idea of "if you are ill, send for the elders and they will anoint you with oil and pray for you; confess your sins, and you may become well." Yet, doctors deal with people every day who say things like, "This job is such a pain in the neck," and rub their necks, proving that what they say is literally true. "This situation with my wife is really getting me down" can be followed rapidly by a bad case of the flu. "My teacher makes me sick!" keeps many a child in bed with stomach cramps and fever. As many as the people who cannot get along with their bosses, getting a headache that will keep them home for the day.
Doctors today are beginning to point to unresolved tensions and conflicts as being the root cause of many of the illnesses that beset us day by day. Find the spiritual, psychological or interpersonal problems facing an individual, and you will have cured the ulcer, tension headache, spastic colon and rheumatoid arthritis. Give the cancer patient a new slant on life, a new sense of power, and many will go into remission, and some will even overcome the cancer entirely.
Modern medicine is only beginning to understand the power of confession in the healing process. But we don't need to know exactly how it works to follow the precept and achieve results.
-- Herrmann
Doctors today are beginning to point to unresolved tensions and conflicts as being the root cause of many of the illnesses that beset us day by day. Find the spiritual, psychological or interpersonal problems facing an individual, and you will have cured the ulcer, tension headache, spastic colon and rheumatoid arthritis. Give the cancer patient a new slant on life, a new sense of power, and many will go into remission, and some will even overcome the cancer entirely.
Modern medicine is only beginning to understand the power of confession in the healing process. But we don't need to know exactly how it works to follow the precept and achieve results.
-- Herrmann
