II. The Shift in Perception, P 2
2 The acceptance of sickness as a decision of the mind, for a purpose for which it would use the body, is the basis of healing. And this is so for healing in all forms. A patient decides that this is so, and he recovers. If he decides against recovery, he will not be healed. Who is the physician? Only the mind of the patient himself. The outcome is what he decides that it is. Special agents seem to be ministering to him, yet they but give form to his own choice. He chooses them in order to bring tangible form to his desires. And it is this they do, and nothing else. They are not actually needed at all. The patient could merely rise up without their aid and say, “I have no use for this.” There is no form of sickness that would not be cured at once.
We have looked at some of the ways in which we use sickness of the body and it is absolutely necessary that we accept the responsibility for sickness if we want to be healed. This is equally true for healing in all forms, for instance, the healing of relationships, of loss and lack of every kind, and for suffering of any kind. We must accept that these things do not just happen to us and we are not acted on by anything outside our own minds.
Jesus emphasizes our responsibility for both sickness and recovery when he tells us it is our decision to remain sick or to recover. We are actually the physician. I like my doctor very much. I tell him if I am concerned about a symptom and he might tell me not to worry about it, I’m fine. Or he might send me for a test if it is needed, or prescribe medicine if he things that would help. But we are the ultimate decision maker. If the medicine works, it is because we decided we want to be healed and this is the way we choose to make that happen. However, if we still see value in the sickness, we will keep the illness and nothing the doctor does will help.
Jesus says these special agents we use are not actually needed at all. He says that we could decide that we have no use for this and we would be healed immediately. I wonder why we don’t always do this? Well, that is besides the need we have for sickness as a defense against God. But once we make a decision for healing, why go to the trouble of using outside agents to affect this when we could just be done with it? Evidently, healing can be as threatening as sickness to the unhealed mind.
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