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Lesson 4

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Lesson 9, Lesson 10, Lesson 11, Attitude, Getting Well and Staying Well

Much illness has its roots in unrecognized spiritual distress -issues of isolation, of anger, the feelings people have that they don't matter or that nobody matters to them. There is a general lack of meaning and purpose and significance that seems to underlie illness. What we call stress might really be spiritual isolation. It might really be an insensitivity to and a lack of recognition of our spiritual needs. And so they are unmet because they are unrecognized - and we are spiritually isolated.

What is spiritual isolation? To me it seems that it is living with a closed heart. Some people have said to me "If my heart was open, I could forgive." But I think it's the other way around. Forgive first-and then your heart can open.

The most popular surgery in this country, coronary bypass surgery, is probably a metaphor. The problem with our culture is that we have bypassed the heart, especially in men. And we keep acting that out, over and over again, in the operating room.

How often the process of physical healing runs concurrently with the healing of the heart. A greater altruism, a greater compassion, seems to occur in people as you work with them through illness. We become open to looking at the meaning of life, not just the meaning of one's own pain, but the meaning of life itself.

Rachel Naomi Remen