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The vessel of our body holds our spirit, and our soul looks out through our eyes. Even though we are spiritual beings, by definition we cannot experience the material world without being in the physical. On Earth we learn what it is to be human and yet be of Spirit. The body acts as a focal point for the immense transitions that will take place during a lifetime. It is the vehicle for our manifestation in this plane of existence, and we must care for it lovingly. If we were not such capable beings, “gods in the making” (699–1) as Cayce told us, this would not be possible.

Our physical form is a product of all we have ever done, thought, and experienced with each lifetime contributing to the totality. Old memories are stored as patterns in the cells of our body. The energetic imprint of life-ending or -threatening injuries and accidents can carry over to future incarnations with their residue showing up as birthmarks or physical ailments. Current illnesses and conditions can be a direct result of something that we did or experienced in a prior life. For example, a person may be obese in this life, and he or she died of starvation in a previous one and made a death vow never to be hungry again. Perhaps the person laughed at overweight people and must now learn how that feels. The current life condition may not always manifest exactly as it occurred when the pattern was initiated. In one Cayce reading a man was told that his stuttering was due to an incarnation in which he had not hesitated in voicing his negative opinions. Another learned that his asthma was the karmic manifestation of previously having pressed the life out of others. Many past-life regressionists believe that any challenge encountered in the physical body can be related directly to one or more past-lives.

We are each the direct cause of and are responsible for the physical form we now have. Our bodies are the product of habits begun long ago, often over many lifetimes. The body is a finely-tuned machine that desires love, comfort, nourishment, and care. Spiritual distortions eventually manifest in the physical if they are not corrected, and the body tells us when we are off track. When it is out of alignment, we are meeting self. Pain is a reminder that the physical body has reacted to our thoughts in a way that is in conflict with what the body would want for us. Back pains, for example, can be fear based resulting from our not feeling supported or by trying to hold onto something that does not support us. The nature of the problem points to the very issue we must address. For example, being nearsighted might indicate that our vision of ourselves, others, and the world is too narrow, perhaps too focused on our own ego or personality. An ankle injury could result from fear of moving forward, and cancer is often caused by bottled up anger. As you will read in one of the regressions that follows, intestinal surgery was necessary after the awakening of the memory of someone close to this person trying to eliminate her, mentally, if not physically. Looking at this from the soul’s perspective, illnesses and conditions of the body prompt us to take responsibility for our creations and to change our ideals and thoughts to those more in keeping with our higher purpose. By correcting our limiting choices, they can then be expressed in a different form of manifestation. As Cayce said in one of the readings, “All healing, all correcting of the spiritual and of the mental life must come from the Divine within, and the results in the physical being will be in keeping with that which is developed in the spiritual self.” (3064–1) Whatever our physical issue, it points to a correction that we must first make on the spiritual level by making our decisions more in concert with God’s energy. When we do this, healing can occur on the spiritual, mental, emotional, and often the physical levels.