
The healing power of the mind can be one of our most powerful means of achieving course in miracles better health. To be able to use the mind for healing, we must first heal our mind. This is analogous to a sculptor who must first sharpen his or her tools to have them ready for creating the sculpture.
Healing our mind is crucial, because without doing that our problems, which are without beginning, can become without end. When we suffer from a certain disease, we may resort to medication or other interventions to heal the condition, but unless we find a way to heal our mind the disease will come back. Disease and all the other problems in our life originate from the crucible of unhealthy minds.
An unhealthy mind is any mental action that disturbs us and makes us unhappy; an unhealthy body comes from an unhealthy mind. If we do nothing to heal the mind, it is likely that we will repeat the habits and actions that made us physically unhealthy in the first place; it is likely that we may again create the imbalances in our bodies that caused the disease and thus suffer the same illness again in the future.
Once we have healed our mind, we become ready to use its healing powers. In the same manner that we take external medicine to heal a physical sickness, we need inner medicine to extirpate the roots of disease to ensure we never again experience the disease. That inner medicine is the healing power of the mind, and we can trigger it through meditation.