关于疾病认知的根本误区｜《健康之道》连载（10）

1984年 1月28日

对你们中的许多人来说，所有这些关于蓬勃生机、健康与活力的讨论似乎都离题太远。相反地，世界似乎充满了不幸和疾病。

我承认，情况似乎看起来确实如此。我的读者们，当我这样说时，你们可能还会感到相当震惊——根本就没有疾病这种东西，有的只是过程。你们所认为的疾病却是完全正常的身体过程被夸大或过度延伸的结果。举例来说，你们并非受到病毒的攻击，因为各种病毒都正常地存在于体内。那么，并没有杀手病毒，只有越过了通常界限的病毒。在本书后面的章节中，我们会对这类问题进行更多的讨论——因为我希望向你们展示，某些感受与信念是如何切实地促进健康，而另一些则是如何不幸地扩展或夸大了完全正常的身体过程或病毒活动。

当然，这意味着你并非沦为了一种疾病的受害者或感染了一种病毒，而是由于这样或那样的原因，你自己的感受、思想和信念导致你寻求一轮轮疾病的发作。

当然，对许多读者来说，这种观念听起来像是医学上的异端邪说，但是你越早开始用这些新角度来看待健康和“疾病”，你就会变得越健康、越快乐。

并非你是一样东西，而疾病是另一样东西，因为你的思想和情绪是导致一阵阵身体不适的诱因。一旦明白了这一点，你就可以开始采取措施来促进蓬勃生机与活力，而不是恐惧、怀疑和“疾病”。

你会发现所谓的疾病提供了某些服务。它们为你达成了某些目的，而你可能相信自己无法以其它方式达成那些目的。这种疾病的理由并不像你想的那样深埋在潜意识里。它们与有意识的心智要近得多，通常由你多年来所做的一系列看似无关痛痒的决定组成。当然，其它疾病也可能是由突然做出的决定引起的，那源于你对生活中某一特定事件的反应。

人们被教导说，他们的身体是一种战场，他们必须时刻处于战备状态，以免受到外来细菌、病毒或疾病的攻击或入侵，而那些细菌、病毒或疾病可以毫无预警地袭击。很快，我们将开始讨论其他导致健康不佳的负面信念。然而，就目前而言，我们将专注于那些与生俱来的积极态度、感受和信念，它们会不断提升我们的幸福感、力量感和成就感。

All of this talk about exuberance, health and vitality may seem quite beside the point to many of you. It may seem instead that the world is filled with unhappiness and disease. 

I admit that this certainly seems to be the case. It may also strike you, my readers, as quite shocking when I tell you that there is no such thing, basically, as disease. There are instead only processes. What you think of as disease is instead the result of an exaggeration or overextension of perfectly normal body processes. You are not attacked by viruses, for instance, for all kinds of viruses exist normally in the body. There are no killer viruses, then, but viruses that go beyond their usual bounds. We will have more to say about such issues later on in the book — for I hope to show you how certain feelings and beliefs do indeed promote health, while others promote an unfortunate extension or exaggeration of perfectly normal bodily processes, or viral activity. 

This means, of course, that you do not fall victim to a disease, or catch a virus, but that for one reason or another your own feelings, thoughts, and beliefs lead you to seek bouts of illness.

Certainly, such ideas will sound like medical heresy to many readers, but the sooner you begin to look at health and "disease" in these new terms, the healthier and happier you will become.

You are not one thing and illness another, for your thoughts and emotions are the triggers that lead to bouts of poor health. Once you know this, you can begin to take steps that will serve to promote exuberance and vitality instead of fear, doubts, and "disease." 

You will discover that so-called diseases perform certain services. They fulfill purposes for you that you may believe you can achieve in no other way. The reasons for such illnesses are not deeply buried in the subconscious, as you may think. They are much closer to the conscious mind, and usually consist of a series of seemingly innocuous decisions that you have made through the years. Other illnesses, of course, may be caused by sudden decisions that are a response to a particular event in your life. 

People have been taught that their bodies are a kind of battleground, and that they must be in a constant state of readiness lest they be attacked or invaded by alien germs or viruses or diseases that can strike without warning. Soon, we will begin to discuss other negative beliefs that cause poor health. For now, however, we will concentrate upon those inbred, positive attitudes, feelings, and beliefs that constantly improve our sense of well-being, strength, and fulfillment. 

——摘译自赛斯《健康之道》

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