Linda
Mihalic
The dictionary defines disease as “a pathological
condition resulting from various causes, such as infection, genetic
defect, or environmental stress, and characterized identifiable signs
or symptoms.” Science defines disease as the “impairment
of the normal state, which interrupts or modifies the vital functions.”
Science further classifies the causes of physical diseases as the
invasion of a living being by outside agents, microorganisms (e.g.,
bacteria, viruses, and fungi), parasites or harmful substances such
as toxins.
Disease also may result from a congenital or acquired anatomical
fault, or a physiological malfunction (e.g., diabetes mellitus),
while a combination of external and internal factors cause other
diseases. For instance, failure to adapt to changes in its environment
can produce damaging changes within a living being.
Other diseases of the human condition include psychic neuroses and
psychoses, alcoholism and other drug addictions. Thus, we may accurately
say that a diseased individual is characterized as “afflicted,
complaining, conditioned, defective, disabled, disordered, infected,
infirm, sick or troubled.”
How healthy are you? Health is defined as “soundness, especially
of body or mind, freedom from disease or abnormality, a condition
of optimal well-being.”
The root of the word “health” also means “whole,
wholesome, holy, and hallow.” Thus, we may expand the definition
of healthy to include being complete, pure, consecrated, immortal,
divine and Godlike.
Now, are you perfectly healthy, or are you perhaps in need of further
healing than you imagined?
What is healing? Healing is “to restore or to return to health
or soundness, to cure, to repair, or to restore a person to spiritual
wholeness.”
Please read Edna Lister’s lectures, “What Is Healing?” and “What
Is a Miracle?”
