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Root Cause of Disease: Preventing and Healing Illness by Addressing the Emotional Sources

Root cause of disease; photograph of man in sun by Steve Halama

Photograph by Steve Halama

Understanding the emotional threads of why disease manifests in our bodies

We can send a man to the moon, but we still can’t cure most diseases.

We put poisons in our bodies to attempt to get rid of cancer. We take medication that interrupts our bodies’ natural chemistry. We allow our organs to be cut from our bodies, causing other organs to work harder. But where has this path led?

About 3,400 people are diagnosed with cancer daily in the U.S. and about 1,500 people die every day. Every seven seconds, someone is diagnosed with dementia worldwide. And there’s no cure for cancer —or Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s or MS — just to name a few. Yet it seems we don’t have a clue what to do differently. The complete truth behind how disease is sparked in the body remains untouched and unacknowledged.

Until now . . .

Try This Test

Think of holding a lemon in your hand — look at it, feel it, smellalways comes back as a . As Buddha said, “All that we are is a result of what we thought.” Do you ever think in the moment, “I’m breathing”? Until you read that, you’d probably lost sight that you were breathing at all. Unless you’re winded, you simply forget about this critical function. Your ability to think happens the same way. Because you’re nearly always doing it, it’s easy not to notice you’re thinking — or you’re thinking.

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