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Though this book is entitled The Way Toward Health, we are not speaking of physical health alone, but of mental, spiritual, and emotional health as well. You are not healthy, for example, no matter how robust your physical condition, if your relationships are unhealthy, unsatisfying, frustrating, or hard to achieve. Whatever your situation is, it is a good idea to ask yourself what you would do if you were free of it. An alcoholic’s wife might wish with all her heart that her husband stop drinking — but if she suddenly asked herself what she would do, she might — surprisingly enough — feel a tinge of panic. On examination of her own thoughts and beliefs, she might well discover that she was so frightened of not achieving her own goals that she actually encouraged her husband’s alcoholism, so that she would not have to face her own “failure.”

You may have a dangerous drug or alcohol problem, or you may be married to someone who does. In both instances the situations will be caused by your own beliefs, even though this may at first seem most unlikely. For the purposes of this particular chapter, we will discuss illnesses or situations that have arisen since childhood, so we are not including birth defects or very early life-endangering childhood accidents, or most unfortunate childhood family situations. These will be discussed separately.

Like the alcoholic’s wife mentioned earlier, such a person might suddenly feel struck by a sense of panic, rather than relief, thus experiencing for the first time the fear of motion that underlay the problem.

Such behavior, of course, operates in any condition, from the overweight person to the alcoholic, for each individual forms his own reality, and yet does so unconsciously knowing the needs and beliefs of others.

[...] Another may choose alcoholism.

[...] For instance, the alcoholic is well acquainted with the battleground he or she has picked. [...]

[...] I will say more about this later in the book, but it explains for example why a diet-watcher, suddenly determined to lose weight, may meet with veiled or even open resistance from family or friends; why the person who makes new resolutions may find himself baffled by associates’ ridicule; why the alcoholic trying not to drink finds others tempting him quite openly, or teasing him into indulgence by hidden tactics.

[...] Alcohol will not help in this particular case.

[...] I remember his last years were tragic ones; he killed a woman while driving, and became an alcoholic. [...]

Usually this occurred when alcohol relaxed the ego, and the results would then make the ego tighten its control. [...]

2. Jane learned on her own some time ago that a very moderate amount of alcohol goes well with the sessions. [...]

A very small amount of alcohol can also serve. [...]

It is a fact that alcohol is a depressant, that conscious inhibitions become lessened with indulgence of varying degrees. [...]

[...] At certain stages a state of dissociation is achieved with the indulgence of alcohol. [...]

[...] Some alcohol in the system is, as I have told you, beneficial. [...]

[...] Among them are: cogeneration, the use of waste heat from manufacturing processes to generate electricity; solar radiation; ocean waves; new, more sophisticated methods of burning coal so that it’s much less polluting; subterranean heat; the production, from municipal solid wastes, of ethanol (alcohol) as an excellent substitute for gasoline; the burning of biomass — waste materials from the home and farm; various methods of deriving energy from the vast oil shale deposits in our western states; the establishment of “energy farms” of trees and hydrocarbon-generating plants; energy reservoirs of pumped water. [...]

[...] Jane feels that alcohol somehow promotes a very beneficial relaxation on her part, for sessions.

[...] On the other hand, he felt that they were beset by errant impulses, extravagant, destructive behavior, the taking of drugs, overindulgence in alcohol, or even by suicidal tendencies.

I said once that when an alcoholic tries to stop drinking there can be repercussions from beloved ones, who are conditioned to the old situation. [...]

[...] He takes an aspirin behind your back as if he were a secret alcoholic because he fears that you would be annoyed. [...]

[...] “I know a little alcohol helps in these sessions, but it wouldn’t if I carried it very far.” [...]

[...] On some occasions, as the other evening, he spontaneously accepts this identification, particularly when alcohol acts as a depressant.

[...] A larger person with more body area and weight would be less affected, for example, as say with alcohol. [...]