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Catastrophic Illness

According to E. Arthur Winkler, the mind has a very strong bearing on the physical state of the body. In his book, God Wants You Healthy, he describes the connection between words that people state and the physical problems that result from programming in the subconscious mind (11). He describes instances from his own counseling and hypnotherapy practice that dramatically illustrate the power of the mind to create perfect health, social poise, an attractive personality, and success in most areas of living.

Dr. Winkler does not specifically discuss the disease of AIDS, but it is possible to extrapolate from his ideas the connection between the disease and the attitudes that might bring it about. He does devote an entire chapter in his book to sexuality, and he says that "our society has developed many moral concepts about the expression of sex" (114). Many of these ideas have to do with what is appropriate and what is not between two people who desire to be together. Many traditional teachings say that sex is evil, nasty, and dirty, and these beliefs cause sexuality to become blocked, creating physical difficulties of all kinds.

It is possible that our society as a whole has judged and condemned normal sexuality to such an extent that the new disease of AIDS has been created to manifest the collective guilt and fear. There is also great fear about homosexuality, which has actually been with us for centuries, and perhaps the two negative ideas have come together in the form of AIDS.

There have been healings of the disease of AIDS with the use of mental techniques, although they are not widely publicized. The media gives much more coverage to the negative aspects of the epidemic. Persons who have AIDS and want to be healed would be assisted with such ideas as "My sexuality is good," "I am completely OK," "I harbor no negative judgement about any aspect of myself." Repetition of these concepts would replace the negative...

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