Chapters I and 2. This lecture proposes that health and illness are relational concepts, not individual ones, and have more to do with what happens between people than within a person. Indeed, health and illness are integral expressions of the emotional and spiritual process of families stretching over many generations. This process is linked to differentiation. From differentiation grows the resourcefulness and integrity that enables us to manage creatively the stressful conditions of our lives.
Differentiation is the basis of genuine love.
The goal of this lecture is to understand the primary ways relationships foster health and illness. From the spiritual perspective healing means a return to wholeness and holiness. Healing in a spiritual sense means reuniting with the experience of connection to God. When we have faith in God physical healing becomes of secondary importance. We must turn inward.