Who Is Responsible For Curing Disease? Based on our current way of thinking, there is one common thread running through the explanation of these examples. It can be summarized as, “You are not responsible for your disease.” Just to be clear, if you or a family member has an incurable condition, this doesn’t mean it was their fault; but it is their responsibility to take care of.

When you ask the question of who is responsible for curing disease, what answer do you usually get? Well, it’s the doctor’s responsibility, of course, and the government’s and the entire medical establishment—everyone but you, right? Here’s the problem: have they succeeded in curing disease? No, they haven’t.

If doctors and scientists, the medical establishment and the government do not know how to cure diseases and do not know what causes them, do you want to give the responsibility for treating your disease, or for making you healthy, to them? If they are responsible for curing your disease, then what power does that leave you to find solutions and to take action?

If we are to believe in the law of personal responsibility, then we are empowered to reject the role of passive victim in our own lives. Conversely, this means that you will not be able to, or should not listen to, the conventional way of thinking about disease, because doing so makes you a victim to the disease.

Michelle Says: “Nowadays we look towards doctors and other ‘professionals’ to give us answers, to help us feel better and be healthy, as if we don’t know anything about it ourselves. We are supposed to trust these ‘professionals,’ who are only taught the modern techniques of treating disease with drugs and surgery. They are not taught traditional methods, which have served different cultural groups across the globe in effective ways for thousands of years. Many of these professionals just inject us with chemicals, and then perform mostly needless surgery. What we need to do is relearn traditional methods of healing, and combine them with the modern techniques that are useful and helpful, so we can live healthy and harmonious lives. Very few professionals have spent any time cultivating compassion and love towards another human. How can we really heal ourselves or another without love or compassion?”

Activity: Do you want to be responsible for your health? Ask yourself this question and see what arises. If you listen closely, you’ll hear two answers. One that says, yes, I do, and the other that says, no, I don’t. Listen to and pay attention to the yes, and to the no. It is usually our hidden no to life that thwarts our efforts. Pay attention to the no, and invite in the yes.