We have tried to explain throughout this book how this knowledge can be used to try and reach a state of perfect health. We are fully aware that, for some people, dis-ease is so far advanced that a complete physical cure for them is out of the question. What help then can this knowledge be to such people? We would answer that it can be of great help and comfort. Sometimes the greatest help one human being can offer another who is suffering, is the restoration of their peace of mind. Sometimes we can relieve pain, although we may not be able to help restore complete physical health. These things alone are very often the difference between someone dying in peace and someone who dies racked with pain and anxiety. The subject of death is a long and involved one and will no doubt fill the pages of another book. The important message that we would like to put forward at this point is that it is not necessarily in the prevention of death that healing can only be shown to be successful; its success can equally be in the manner in which someone is allowed to die - this in itself can seem quite often to be 'miraculous'. Again this is where the practice of non-attachment is so important. If we proceed on the basis that we must, at all costs, help someone to recover physically, then we will quite often find ourselves disappointed and unable to help. Our attachment to a specific outcome is creating a fear within us that the result we so desperately want may not be reached. This fear can be a major hindrance in any one's recovery, or indeed in their being allowed to die in peace and serenity. If however we learn to accept totally every stage of life, every development of an illness however strange or worrying it may seem, we will be creating no battle and therefore no energy can be wasted. In this way we direct all our valuable resources towards improved health, be it our own or someone else's health, and we waste none of our energy on fighting fear. For those of us who are going through any form of illness and particularly serious illness, we would recommend keeping this book beside the bed and re-reading it whenever we become demoralised and feel unable to cope. For in each and every one of us lie those abilities of which we have talked; the ability to ask for help, the ability to receive an answer and the ability to bring about our own recovery. The authors quite often have to remind themselves of the basic rules - the direction of thoughts, listening to emotions, acceptance of symptoms. We are all relative beginners in this realisation of our own internal powers, and so if we forget occasionally we must not berate ourselves. It is far more important to acknowledge our temporary slip and to try and get back on track again by reminding ourselves of the new tools and information that we now have available to us. For any of us, whatever our state of health, calling on family, friends, doctors, healers or therapists does not mean we are weak and failing in our efforts towards self-healing. Sometimes the extra 'leg-up' that any one of these people can offer is just the impetus we need to start believing in ourselves again. Taking an antibiotic does not mean we have failed, provided we do not assume that it has removed the cause of dis-ease. Having surgery does not mean we have failed, provided we do not assume that it has provided all of the answers. Seeing a counsellor does not mean we have failed, provided we do not assume that by simply talking about our problems we have entirely removed them from our lives. No-one else can take responsibility on our behalf for our own well-being. The only person who can do that is ourself. We either assume total responsibility for ourself, or we do not. The choice is ours. If we do take charge of our own lives, the simple application of all that we have written about will help to bring about substantial improvements. Once we have fully grasped the meaning of responsibility we will begin to realise the importance of complete honesty with ourselves and with others. This ability to be completely honest is in itself a most powerful healing tool, and gives us a feeling of self-worth and value on a daily basis. Being honest with others about how we feel is a fundamental part of life that many of us consider to be of no real importance. By being honest with ourselves to begin with we will find that honesty with others becomes much easier, and decisions that would previously have been awkward become effortless. Because we now know what we want and know that we do not want it in order to hurt anyone else, we find the strength and commitment to help our resolve. At this stage, blocks in our lives and personalities start to remove themselves and it is as if doors of opportunity open all around us. Meditation, the lists of intention and a greater understanding of how powerful we really are, will help us to achieve a state of total self-honesty. As we begin to achieve it, we will become aware of the weight lifting from our shoulders. Not only will we feel lighter, we will even move more easily through life, both mentally and physically. For, by coming to terms with what is in our best interests to have and then by seeking to achieve those things, we are avoiding the fight against those things that have already entered our lives, but that we did not want. Instead of being in the mode of fighting negative things, we are now in the mode of positive creation. By continuing to focus on those positive things we will find that negative things will gradually, or suddenly, disappear. The power to create what we want lies in the belief of the creator - ourself. By putting our minds to wanting perfect health and the perfect life, and by banishing all fear that we may not achieve it, we will find that every day will bring us nearer to that once, seemingly impossible goal. We hope that the steps mapped out in this book will be used for the process of going forward towards this goal. We know that for some people this will seem like an impossible mission, but whatever our thoughts, it is surely worth pursuing the ideas until we are absolutely certain, one way or another, as to whether this type of approach is indeed workable. Going on from this book and reading further material as suggested, with the emphasis on what attracts us rather than on what we think we should read, is part of important further development. Putting this book down, without trying the methods suggested and without seeking out further alternative information, is indicative of a continued unwillingness to take responsibility. The only reason that can exist for this choice is our fear that we may be confronted with the truth. There is nothing to be feared in facing the truth, yet there is plenty to be lost in not facing it. The truth is real, and sooner or later we will have to face it. By denying what we really want to do or say or have or be - ie by denying the truth - we are only putting off what will one day have to be said or done or had or been if we do not wish to experience the inevitable physical damage that such denial will incur in the future. This knowledge that the truth is something real and that an untruth is therefore something that is not real, gives us one final insight that some of us may find to be a powerful mental tool when we are struggling with illness. It seems a fitting end for what we hope has been an invitation accepted: The true nature of the human being is perfect health. It therefore follows that the untrue nature of the human being is imperfect health, or dis-ease. If dis-ease is an untruth, it cannot be real for an untruth is a lie. Just by focusing on the truth - perfect health - as the true nature of our condition, the lie - dis-ease - must step aside and vanish from our lives for good.