Course VIII - Teaching 11: Physical Health

During his lifetime, man suffers of different physical ills, worsened by mind complexes of any kind, with repercussion on his psyche and nerves.
To keep our physical health is indispensable requirement to start the spiritual path, and we are healthy not only through remedies, prevention and hygiene but also through several human values in tune with the spirit.
In fact, a soul pure and right is source of all mental and physical good, and when our soul is impure, all spontaneity fades away and we spoil the physical functions.
Our soul has to strive continuously for recovering its original and natural purity, which is source of true wellbeing. Different mental aspects must act always together in harmony, without excessive or prevailing pressure of physical or psychical values, as it occurs more than often.
A proper and moderated practice of sports helps arrange and discipline our instincts and desires; a methodical study of science gives flexibility to our reason and order to our nervous centers, and prayer is the light of the spirit, which can synchronize these diverse intrinsic and extrinsic values both supernatural and natural.
Body and soul must be healthy as an indispensable requirement during the Good Way.