Hey dear community, at the beginning I would like to welcome you all to my new contribution and hope that your week has brought some interesting experiences into your life! In my today's post, I would like to go into alchemy and shed light on the view of the alchemists when it came to diseases.
Experiencing an illness is not easy for people and if someone has a physical suffering, the mental level suffers just as much and this was one of the most important points of the alchemists to consider everything as a whole and this can also be associated with the body. Everyone deals with it differently, but the course of each disease disrupts people's routine and people are forced to adapt to the disease and often diseases are not easy to recognize and due to the helplessness, most visit their doctor in the hope that the symptoms will be cured quickly and depending on how bad the disease is, each person reacts differently and often it can happen that the whole life is turned upside down and people are directed in a new direction by the disease and maybe even recognize things that were previously unknown to them. Diseases result in people getting weaker and withdrawing and a feeling of fear arises, causing people to despair and they no longer know how to deal with these situations and forget that a sick person should never lose hope because healing is possible. As soon as someone gets sick, the first thought is to get well again as quickly as possible and the focus and energy is set on healing and usually it happens that people hide in a kind of victim role and forget that there are always two sides and this principle of duality was of great importance for the understanding of the alchemists.
Even if it may sound a bit strange at first, some alchemists considered illness as a way to self-knowledge or as an exam that one would have to pass in order to emerge from this difficult situation as an even stronger person and in any case people are forced to change their lives during the illness and this can refer to nutrition, sports activities or other things. Often people would never have come to certain things or would have changed their behavior if they had not gone through the gate of the disease and many have used this negative experience to develop themselves into a stronger being and so the disease can also be seen as a food for thought and for hundreds of years there have been reports of people who have become a completely new person through the course of a disease and the reports extend to the present where many people look back on the disease as an way which they have used to change. In this respect, one can also better explain this duality by not seeing the disease as suffering but considering it as a opportunity to develop into an even stronger being and the mental level plays a major role for every sick person and through a negative way of thinking, the complaints usually become even stronger or completely new ones are added.
Even if there are always different views in different cultures in which alchemy was practiced, there are many parallels and the mental level plays a key role everywhere and a good example is ancient China where the alchemists could not only heal diseases through their own minds, but even reach eternal life. If someone is sick, the disease can also be considered as a kind of player who challenges people and if someone gives up on himself during this fight, the disease has won and it can be said that whoever gives up has already lost. When the disease challenges someone, it takes a lot of self-discipline depending on the severity of the disease and some forget that even if some lose their strength, they still grow and the human being's own will is a huge factor how people deal with the disease and every person who is in such a situation should never forget what a strength is inside and watches to provide with the necessary power. The sick must never forget that already the old alchemists considered disease as a way to develop into a stronger being or to reach completely new levels and even if the struggle is often difficult, the sick will often emerge more strongly from the diseases and will be rewarded for the courage that the one has shown to take up the fight with disease and won it. At the end of the article I would like to mention that people should always ask their doctor or pharmacist for the right medicine and application in case of illness!
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you could learn something new about this important topic! I captured these pictures with my Camera Sony Alpha 6000 plus 55-210 mm lens.