patient was healed only temporarily by herbal preparations, they soon returned with similar complaints once again. This made the healers wonder why the body often returns to its diseased state.
One thing to note is that most of these cultures were very spiritual by nature. Religion was created to make mankind more disciplined and to keep them from doing evil things, but the first religious war ended mankind’s belief that religion could do any good.
Spirituality still survives and most of us have some type of spiritual connection. Questions such as “Where did we come from?”, “Where do we go after death?” haunt almost all of us who think for ourselves and use our own willpower. Many of us know instinctively that there is more to life than religion. The feeling we get when we help another, the power of love which cannot be measured and the loss of a loved one cannot be expressed with words.
Our thoughts are very powerful. As the old saying goes, “We are what we think.”
As Marcus Aurelius who lived in the 1st century A.D. said, “The Universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it”. When we have disappointments in life, if we let our guard down and think negatively, we will get sick. On the other hand, if we always stay positive, regardless of whatever circumstances we find ourselves in, our health will thrive!
What we are today is the result of our thoughts of yesterday. We have powers we never dreamed of. The only limitations we have are the restrictions of our own mind. Anyone who focuses on negative things will soon find themselves experiencing those very results they focused upon. When the sages noticed the mind-body connection, they realized that the only way to keep disease from taking over our body