Lifestyle Keys to
Longevity and Wellness ~ Edgar Cayce
“The psychic readings of Edgar Cayce offered
similar suggestions for longevity and wellness.
From his trance state, Edgar Cayce reiterated
that we are multidimensional beings; including physical, mental, and spiritual
aspects, and must be viewed holistically.
Long before scientific research confirmed that
lifespan was based on individual lifestyle choices—including behaviors and
environmental factors, the readings indicated that wellness and health were a
state of wholeness and balance.
The readings also stressed the significance of
diet, exercise, and leisure long before the medical community noted their
importance.
A healthy lifestyle is the key to staying well
and preventing disease.
Each of us is responsible for making choices
and applying what we know.
Since we are physical, mental, and spiritual
beings, "preventative measures" need to include all of these aspects.
We can use balance in mental, spiritual, and
physical activity using moderation, regular hydrotherapy, osteopathic
treatment, exercise, proper diet, meditation, and prayer to prevent illness and
extend life.
We can also seek to reduce stress factors
including extreme emotions, frustration, anger, and worry. Imbalance and
incoordination can challenge us to grow and develop; thus illness can often be
viewed as an opportunity for transformation.
In a reading given for a 37-year-old insurance
agent, Cayce said:
"There are certain tendencies, certain
weaknesses that are present in the body.
They are not diseases–these are rather
dis-eases, when certain stresses or strains are brought to bear in the mental,
in the spiritual, and physical experience of the entity."
(Edgar
Cayce Reading 2533-6)
This man was encouraged to adapt a more
balanced lifestyle, improve his diet, and enjoy regular exercise.
The readings stress that for life expectancy,
health, and illness, the role of the mind was far more important than heredity
and genetics.
While Mr. 2533 had inherited a tendency for a
glandular imbalance, he could focus his mind on a spiritual ideal and change
his own expectations about aging and death: "…because your great, great,
great, great grandfather died you will die too—is there, and is part of the
expectancy of every cell of your body!
It can be eradicated, yes.
How? By that constant activity within self of
expectancy that this condition does not have to happen to you!"
(Edgar Cayce Reading
2533-6)
Also key to health and wellness is having a
definite spiritual purpose or ideal and being of service to one’s fellow man.
Having a purpose gives
us a reason to continue
when we encounter obstacles.
Edgar Cayce taught this again and again.
Here are a few of his readings on this matter:
"This the entity should alter within self,
being not only good, but good for something. Lose self rather in the service of
others…"
(Edgar Cayce Reading
1726-1)
"Make the experiences of the life not only
good but good for something, and we will find it will make the rest of the
years of the entity’s experience in the earth much more worthwhile…
For life…is an opportunity to show the
appreciation to the divine within, with the divine in your fellow man, and if
you act in that manner much more joy, much more worthwhile will be the earthly
experience of this entity."
(Edgar Cayce Reading
5294-1) "
... you will live as long as you desire and do
good for others."
(Edgar Cayce Reading
5223-1)
The Cayce readings also stressed the importance
of sleep for restoration and rejuvenation.
Lifestyle and behavioral factors can contribute
to sleep disorders.
Sleep is a period of restoration in which the
various systems of the body return to a natural state of harmony and balance.
At the mental and spiritual levels, sleep
presents an opportunity for communion with the deeper aspects of the soul which
may be remembered as dreams.
According to Cayce, during "what is
ordinarily termed sleep – the mind, the mental forces are caring for all the
forces of the body …
yet is as aware to the inner self and is as
alive to the deeper forces or the soul influences as in its environs of an
awake consciousness."
(Edgar Cayce Reading 1276-1)
Since all healing comes from within,
therapeutic interventions work best when assisting the natural, innate processes
of healing.
The Cayce source implied too that all knowledge
is available within, if we seek patiently, persistently, and consistently.
"For, as has been indicated so oft in each
body, no medicine, no mechanical appliance does the healing. It only attunes
the body to a perfect coordination and the Divine gives the healing."
(Edgar Cayce Reading 1173-7)
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