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Ideally, the body would always right itself after such lapses from exuberant health—but even those lapses often exercise that resiliency. Maintaining that resiliency, then, is the important issue. Many such lapses are exaggerated because of your beliefs, so that they are experienced in a more drastic form than necessary. Generally drugs impede that resiliency.

Often your medical beliefs as a culture stabilize conditions that, left alone, would right themselves. As you know, this can apply for example to children being given eyeglasses. In the situation in which you find yourselves, however, eyeglasses become a more practical alternative because you do not possess the proper mental methods to offset the current belief system.

(A note for the record: I tried to use the pendulum to help me fathom the reasons for my illness—but with very little success. It’s one of the very few times the pendulum didn’t help. Even at the time I felt I wasn’t asking the right questions; sometimes the answers received were contradictory. But mainly, with hindsight I can see that I hadn’t asked the right questions to begin with. It didn’t occur to me that I needed a break.)