This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 1st day of February, 1937, in accordance with request made by the wife - Dr. [1125], Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
(As of early Time of Reading this morning) 11:30 to 11:40 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. Washington, D.C. (Physical Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the body and those conditions that are existent, mentally, physically, with [1205].
2. Now, as we find, there are physical disturbances. While in some respects these are specific, the general debilitation in the physical sense arises much more from the mental attitudes than from purely physical reactions.
3. And until there are such physical disturbances or such a change in the mental attitude, very little may be accomplished unless the mental attitude and outlook upon conditions can be changed.
4. Here we may see manifested how a material-minded personage may bring about physical disturbances when if the coordination of the mental and physical body were kept in the same manners as exercised in the material activities, we would have quite a difference in the physical and the mental reactions for the body.
5. The abuse of privileges for the physical forces then is rather that which is gradually, as we find, sapping the strength and the vitality of the body.
6. While war is being waged, as it were, in the resistances of the body, with the influences brought to bear in the physical body, unless some reserve is kept we will have a mental AND a physical breakdown.
7. As to whether this will assume reactions through the digestive forces (as from liver AND kidneys in the hepatic circulation, by breaking down the abilities for the system to eliminate, and yet secrete active forces for the system), or whether it becomes specific infection in either of these or in the respiratory system, depends upon the body's resistance maintained.
8. For as has been indicated the body abuses its physical forces, and the mental attitude towards same then produces those disturbances that arise that make for animosities,
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disagreeableness, that become more and more POISON to the whole body.
9. As to what may be accomplished:
10. Until there can be a change in the mental attitude, (whether from reasoning or from a breakdown that makes it necessary for the body-physical to give in for applications depends upon the body itself and its mental forces, rather than that which may be applied from without) we do not find that much may be accomplished.
11. Ready for questions.
12. (Q) Is there anything his wife can do to help bring about such a change of the mental attitude? (A) Only as has been indicated in relationships that each SHOULD bear one to the other; or that the wife should bear with the body. Yet not condoning the very activities, but in patience, in longsuffering reason with - but DO NOT ARGUE WITH!
13. (Q) What can be done to prevent getting too stout? (A) This doesn't make any difference to the body, why does it make differences to others! These are only a part of the general conditions.
14. (Q) Why so nervous? (A) As has just been indicated.
15. (Q) Why the vomiting in the mornings? Is this from taking liquor? (A) This is from the general resistances of the body or the system in its attempt to adjust itself and to meet the needs of the general conditions that are being brought about.
16. (Q) Does he have T.B.? (A) Not in the present.
17. (Q) How may irritability be helped? (A) Only by that in its own mental self, not anything from without. If the body would order its life physically, and its social relationships and its home relationships, in the same manner as it does its material activities in its business relations, there would be quite a difference.
18. We are through for the present. Copy to Wife " " Ass'n file