If there is ultimate good in all evil or if healing must be no more than a transfer of troubles and an adjustment in the being, then must it not be said that healing is wrong and that we ought to be content to take life as it is and make the best of it?  Such is Eastern philosophy when viewed superficially, and such is the subconscious self-surrender of the average person when his first flush of youth has been dissipated and he is left to subjective self-justification.  But nothing is further from the truth than this.  Healing is the constant element in all growth whether physical or spiritual, and the more that the seeker advances on the Path the greater will be his need for healing.  Healing thus is far more than an elimination of symptoms and is certainly more than a diminution of suffering.  It is true aliveness.

Let us here define healing as a process of adjustment or a technique of self-orientation in the continual development of a need for man to make and receive contribution from his immediate situations on the various planes of being.  Ordinary disease is the body's healing or attempted healing of its own functions and we must approach all disease as the activity to be helped to its constructive ends.  Evils of other sort as financial, emotional and mental maladjustment we must handle in the same manner but with different tools and helps and every detail made intelligent and effective by a constant remembrance that a problem is a catalytic to inner or spiritual choice or the lack thereof.  All evil is in perspective because as properly seen it shows itself an ultimate agency of good.  Thus all healing truly is an effort to endow a sufferer with the point of view adequate to permit his full opportunity for making proper choices and gaining life anew.

Illness and trouble are life's attempts to bring adjustment on whatever plane of being, and healing is the process of facilitating this adjustment.