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there is some sort of “blueprint for illness” the body is following. Guess what? There is. And it’s coming from you! Each part of the body basically follows your own conception of what you are. It tries to create in alignment with your thoughts. So what happens when you constantly harbor destructive thoughts or self-punishing ways of thinking that do not stem from your essential true self? What happens when you have been very aggressive toward someone else, getting angry or constantly lashing out in discontent? Did you know that sometimes your own thought waves attacking other people can bounce back and hurt you? If you’re clairvoyant, you can see the effects of your thoughts on the outermost part of the spirit body. This outer sheath, or astral body, is an exact representation of the physical body of an individual, right down to each and every hair and nail. When someone begins to fall ill, the first indication is a tear or lesion in his or her astral body. Soon, the damage begins to affect the physical body, causing lots of strange physical ailments to appear. “If you have become ill, that is most certainly because you have started to harbor some negative thought patterns that have solidified into a kind of mental attachment that will eventually manifest as a particular kind of lesion,” says Ryuho Okawa, renowned spiritual leader and founder and CEO of the Oct./Nov. 2019 www.yogicherald.com 31