William Wood, who lived his life as a priest in Michigan, was a stomach patient and lived his life in terrible pain and on a heavy diet prescribed by his doctor. His mother and grandmother had died of stomach cancer and he feared he would die the same way. One day after preaching, he met one of the most famous doctors in America and told him about his problem. The doctor persuaded him to come to the hospital where he worked and have the necessary tests done. A few days later, the results came back and the famous doctor assured him that there was no such thing. The pains in his stomach were caused by his fears and if he kept thinking like that, he could give himself stomach cancer. The doctor also asked him a question that would change his life: "Mr. Wood, are you involved in any complicated affairs inside or outside the church?"

The priest suddenly took stock of his life. He preached every Sunday. He ran the church's relief and funeral organizations. He worked for the Red Cross and many charities. All the family's burden was on him, he was dropping the children off at school, picking them up, doing the shopping. She always felt under pressure and never rested. She was always tense, in a hurry and in a rush. She was upset or angry about everything. She gladly accepted her doctor's advice. If she followed his advice, she would have no more illnesses. She gave herself one day off a week and chose Monday to rest. She began to give up various studies and organizations as an excuse.

One day, as he was tidying up his study and desk, he read and looked through the papers and notes left by the old monks, crumpled them up and threw them in the wastebasket. Suddenly a terrific flash of lightning struck his mind: "William, do to your sorrows, your tensions, your unnecessary work what you did to these notes! Crumple them up and throw them in the wastebasket!"

This idea gave the priest a great inspiration. It was as if a weight had been lifted from his shoulders. From that day on, he made a habit of crumpling up all the things that he could do nothing about or that he could not change and throwing them in the wastebasket.

After a while, one day he saw his wife washing the dishes. She was singing while she washed the dishes. He thought to himself. "He had been married to her for 18 years and she always sang while she washed the dishes. If she had looked ahead 18 years ago and seen all the dishes she was going to wash, the pile of dishes would have been as big as a train station and she would have been terrified to know that. She was only washing one day's worth of dishes at a time, so she wasn't stuck. That's why she was in a good mood."

"I was trying to wash today's dishes, yesterday's dishes, dishes that were not dirty yet..." he thought. He decided what a fool he had been. Every Sunday he was telling people how to live a simple and serene life, but he was living a nervous, tense, sad, hectic life. He was ashamed of himself... After that day, sadness no longer bothered him. His stomach healed. One by one, as she remembered, she began to crumple up yesterday's and previous experiences and throw them in the garbage. He stopped washing tomorrow's dishes today...

Dale Carnegie has a saying: "If the burden of tomorrow is added to yesterday's and carried today, it will bring down even the strongest man. There is no need to try this. Our duty is to deal with the clear facts at hand, not the hazy things in the distance."

Aboriginal people believe that humans are not accidental victims of disease, that disease is the only way for the physical body and consciousness to communicate. "Any dysfunction in the body, any slowing down of its functions, allows us to look around us and examine the really important wounds that we need to heal. It could be damaged relationships, gaps in our belief system, fear tumors, doubts about the Creator, loss of forgiveness, and so on."

For them, healing had nothing to do with time, just as one could get sick in an instant, one could get well in an instant, as long as this relationship could be established...

The famous American Dr. Eric Pearl, both in his sessions and in his book "reconnection", sees the cause of illness as the disconnection of the spirit and the physical body. According to him, the reconnection of the two will heal most illnesses. Luise Hay says, "When we are ill, let us examine our heart. Who do we need to forgive?" According to her, all illness comes from unforgiveness.

Whatever the cause of illnesses, in my opinion, being in touch with oneself, with one's inner being, is very valuable both in terms of one's love and respect for oneself, one's love for others and one's universal stance. A person who is in touch with himself/herself will be in the moment and will not pile the dishes of the past and the future in front of him/her...

I suggest you do an affirmation I learned from dear Bülent Gardiyanoğlu every morning and evening before going to bed. "I am complete and whole with my soul and body. I am in balance. I am safe. Everything is good and beautiful where I am."

Mukaddes Pekin Başdil

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Source: Denizli Haber