Most illnesses start from anger. Many of people’s diseases are initiated at a mental level. If the psyche is good, it will emit positive energy into the body.

Some people even heal more easily when they have good thoughts. Others get sick from their thoughts. They either worry excessively, have a pessimistic mindset, or are tormented by obsessive ideas.

Elder Paisios from Mount Athos: Pemptousia

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 Good thoughts help one heal faster

Saint Paisios the Aghiorite was asked how much the state of mind influences physical health. Here is what he answered: “When someone has a good state of mind, physical pain is relieved. And when they do not, a bad state of mind worsens their health.”

Father Paisios gave the example of a cancer patient abandoned by doctors, who had nothing more to do to save him. Faith can help that patient enormously if one leaves himself to God’s will and becomes joyful at heart.

Faith in God and joy of heart

“If he believes in God and he is in a joyful spiritual atmosphere, he can live longer.” On the contrary, if he becomes depressed because of the diagnosis and loses hope, he can die faster. “He can melt with anger and die in a few weeks.

Sometimes, someone may be healthy from a medical point of view, the tests do not show anything wrong, but if he has something that torments him spiritually, then he may not be completely healthy.” A sad, embittered or hopeless soul can get sick more easily.”

Most illnesses start from anger

Because most diseases begin with anger. All people have a sensitive spot. And that is why anger will hit one person in the stomach, another in the head.” And doctors now recognize that many conditions have a nervous background.

There are gastrointestinal diseases that are actually triggered by stress. Saint Paisios tells us what the best healing medicine is for those suffering anger. “The best medicine for an illness is spiritual joy, because it spreads the grace of God in the soul.”

The best medicine for an illness is spiritual joy

The joy to which Father Paisios refers is spiritual, not worldly. Worldly joy is deceptive, fleeting, and is influenced by health, money, well-being, and success in life. Spiritual joy comes from love and obedience to God.

When you trust inwardly that God is the heavenly Father who arranges your life to be beneficial for your salvation, you no longer fear anything. You no longer grieve, you no longer worry.

“Spiritual joy has the greatest healing power for all diseases. It is the divine balm that closes wounds, while sorrow irritates them.”