7.6 Illness Is Nourished by Mind; Healing Arises When We Let Go --- Trust Self‑Nature, for Wholeness Is Already Here

7.6 Illness Is Nourished by Mind; Healing Arises When We Let Go --- Trust Self‑Nature, for Wholeness Is Already Here

【Insight】
A physical symptom is like a triggered smoke alarm. The alarm is not the fire---it is the signal. The real "fire" is your sustained attention toward the symptom, the fear it breeds, and the solid identity of "I am sick." Every confirmation of the illness, every worry about its outcome, adds fuel to this illusory flame. The entire external system of medicine and care often unwittingly participates in this collusion, repeatedly reinforcing a subconscious imprint: "You are a malfunction awaiting repair."

【Reality】
You must see a fundamental law of energy: The intrinsic life‑energy of Self‑Nature flows in one direction and for one purpose: toward wholeness, balance, and vitality---this is healing itself. However, when you fearfully focus your 'mind at work' (the sustained focus of thought) on the phenomenon of "illness," you perform a fatal hijacking of this flow. The subtle energy that should seamlessly flow toward cellular repair and systemic balance is captured and transmuted by your "fixation," becoming instead the "nourishment" that feeds and strengthens the very object of your fear.

Therefore, the "image of illness" manifested on the physical level is like a reflection in a mirror. You cannot "fix" a projection, because any effort to "fix" it---including anxiety, resistance, and the desperate wish for it to disappear---only provides a stronger light source (energy) for this projection, making it clearer and more solid.

Key Insight: When you cease projecting (abide in No‑Mind), the energy hijacking ends, and the intelligence of healing resumes command.
At this point, the dissipation of the smoke (symptoms) enters a natural process. For formless psychological afflictions (like depression or anxiety), which are pure "fabrications of attention," cessation of projection often brings immediate relief. For tangible physical tissue damage, the reparative intelligence of Self‑Nature also begins instantly, but the material reconstruction and restoration of tissue follow the natural rhythm of time and space, requiring patience.

The Law: Withdraw the light‑source of your attention, and the phenomenon is deprived of nourishment. The day energy returns to its source is the day true healing begins. The process belongs to nature; patience is wisdom.

【Instant Healing through No‑Mind】
The essence of healing is to stop this self‑hijacking of energy, allowing the energy of life to return to its natural course of creating health.

When the alarm (symptom) sounds:

1. Awareness and Withdrawal: Immediately see and stop the unconscious energy cycle. Observe as it is: "Right now, the identity of 'I' is fixing life‑energy onto this phenomenon." Then, simply withdraw identification and attention from this entire "body‑mind story," abiding in the knowing of No‑Mind.

2. Abide in No‑Mind: Clearly recognize: The body and its symptoms are not me, nor are they mine. They are merely fluctuations arisingand passing within the vast background of Self‑Nature. Rest in this knowing of 'No‑Mind,' and the fixation of energy will naturally dissolve.

3. Trust and Allow: Transform anxiety about the outcome into silent trust in the operating principle of Self‑Nature. This is not active striving but passive allowing: Cease the interference of 'mind at work,' stop demanding a specific timetable. Let the inner world fall silent, allowing healing to complete itself according to its inherent wisdom and pace.

【Ultimate Guidance】
The smoke alarm will fall silent after the fire is extinguished, but the smoke already generated in the air requires time and circulation to dissipate completely.

The body's alarm (symptoms) will calm after you stop feeding it with 'mind at work,' but the material adjustments and repairs already set in motion require respect for life's own rhythm.

Do not mistake 'No‑Mind' for a magic wand that instantly erases all traces. It is the tongs that pull away the firewood. The fire is out, but the clearing of residual warmth and ash is the final, necessary journey of nature.

True confidence is, after pulling away the firewood, not repeatedly poking the ashes to check if the fire is "truly" out; it is walking away peacefully, certain that the wind of Self‑Nature and time will handle everything.

To depart from the image of illness is the beginning of healing.
Patience with the process is wisdom itself.

Once the outer "image of illness" appears,
you cannot erase it through resistance, suppression, or willpower.
-- Do not delude yourself into thinking you can remove the image of sickness.
-- Do not delude yourself into thinking you can remove the image of sickness.
-- Do not delude yourself into thinking you can remove the image of sickness.

The way of healing is simple yet profound:
Do not invite illness. Do not reject the body. Do not feed the image. Abide in No‑Mind.
You are already whole. Nothing is missing.
That's all there is to it--- nothing could be simpler.