This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 5th day of December, 1942, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [257], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.

TEXT

1. GC: You will give the physical condition of this body at the present time, with suggestions for corrective measures; answering the questions, as I ask them.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [257]; this we have had before.
3. As we find, in the main, conditions are very good; yet there are those warnings that have been so oft indicated for the body; to which the body should take heed, else we will find - as we have indicated for the body - the labors, the plannings in the material will be of very little help, - unless these precautions are taken.
4. Then may the body enjoy the fruits of its labors in the material world and go on to accomplish much in a mental and spiritual manner.
5. For, remember, it is not all of life just to live nor yet all of death to die. For it is self that one has to meet. And what ye sow, - mentally, spiritually, physically, - that ye WILL eventually reap. And the laborer is worthy of his hire; or that effort, that purpose for which ye as an entity plan, consider, has already brought in eternity its own shadow of things to be.
6. These, then, are conditions as we find them with this body, [257], we are speaking of, ..., New York:
7. The blood supply indicates that the body has reached that age when it must be careful as to eliminations, as to diet, and as to sufficient exercise to keep a normal balance.
8. For, as indicated here, there are those inclinations for the incoordination between the superficial and deep circulation. This produces in the present those tendencies for the awareness of the heart's pulsation, though there is no organic heart disturbance.
9. It produces those tendencies for a rash, or an itching on portions of the body; at times on the feet, at others the small of the back, and at others on the abdomen, neck and shoulders. This is the lack of proper eliminations and proper coordination in the eliminating systems. This tends to weaken the supply of muscular forces through the areas of the sciatic centers, or across that portion of the small of the back where the rash is a signal. And this weakens the tendons, causing a lack of supply to the bursae of the feet.
10. This does not indicate that there are fallen arches, but an inclination towards the lack of circulation. Not as at some times indicated, even as a locational disorder, but - for this particular phase, as we have given again and again - when there is the least disorder in any of these manners, there should be the consistency in having the hydrotherapy treatment, with a full massage; having the limbs massaged as well as the feet, ankles, and across those areas, as well as the rest of the body, to keep a better circulation; stimulating eliminations, then, from an internal manner.
11. Do as has been so oft indicated, take a laxative - for this body - that is preferably of a vegetable nature, but alter same from time to time; that is, from one month to another, or one year or five years or a thousand years! Take varied things, not just taking one alone! As figs, Syrup of Senna, prunes and such natures; even Inner Clean or such would be well to be taken at times when such disturbances have bothered the body, and after the hydrotherapy treatment has been taken. Not something to be kept up daily, daily, daily, or even weekly, but when the exercises and the activities have been indiscrete so as to cause an upset in these directions.
12. Naturally, such disturbances produce varied effects upon the nervous systems.
13. When there is the incoordination between superficial and deeper circulation, or the arterial and the veins, then there is the settling of accumulations in varied portions. As the body should thoroughly understand from its experience in the accumulations that became segregated through the body in the lymph pockets, that produced the setting up of a system in itself. That these tendencies exist, then, SHOULD cause the body - if it is sensible - to be at least consistent and to take the time, - purely from the physical conditions!
14. Naturally these disturbances upset the nervous system, both the cerebrospinal and sympathetic, through the organs of the sensory system; as the eyes, the taste, odors, and such activities.
15. The eyes need their own local attention; by the use of lenses these are helped, but the body should be consistent in its use of same. And when there are such disturbances in the circulation, naturally, being weak from such strains, at times there is a burning, a dimness in the eyes. At such times, take slowly but consistently, for three to four days, the head and neck exercise; as well as having the hydro therapy reaction to aid in assimilating, or taking from the system those poisons that tend to form the general conditions such as we have indicated.
16. In the throat, bronchi, larynx, - there have been in times past some disturbances through the antrum, soft tissue of the face and head; the sudden changes also causing a tendency for acidity through the poor circulation and indiscretions in diet at times. This causes a stickiness, pricking sensation through portions of throat and larynx at times, which causes the body to hem and haw - that is, in clearing the throat, not in the other attitudes! [GD's note: Indexed under humor. This is one man who NEVER hemmed and hawed except in clearing his throat!]
17. These bring about those disturbances, but the head and neck exercise, consistently, and the hydrotherapy and cleansing of the system, will keep these from becoming localized.
18. Know, all that may be added to the body is only to enable each organ to reproduce itself in a consistent way and manner, and it will get rid of drosses with its reproduction. For, as in the spiritual life ye grow in grace, in knowledge, in understanding of the law of God, ye also in the mental life grow in unfoldment, in the awareness of thy associations with spiritual and material activities. So in the mental and spiritual, these throw off. For, have ye not heard how that constantly there is the change, and that the body has in a seven-year cycle reproduced itself entirely? No need for anyone, then, to have ANY disturbance over that length of period, if - by common sense - there would be the care taken. But if your mind holds to it, and you've got a stumped toe, it will stay stumped! If you've got a bad condition in your gizzard, or liver, you'll keep it - if you think so?
19. But the body, - the physical, the mental and spiritual, - will remove same, if ye will LET it and not hold to the disturbance!
20. In the organs of the chest, lungs and heart, - these are very good. There is the tendency at times, through the sedentary life, to become overweight. This will produce too large a waistline. Stoking the intestinal canal only tends to make it harder for circulation from lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, and these - smothering - cause the activities that increase the heart-beat and make for hardships; not slowing it down, for it has a job to do, and it will do it, if you give it half a chance! Because a thing is good to eat, or pleasant to the taste, or pleasing to the eye, doesn't necessarily mean that it is what your heart or your liver or your kidneys or your lungs need! You better leave it off!
21. As has been indicated, carbonated waters or those things of the nature coming from hops, or the like, are poison for this body. If you wish to pay the price, keep on taking it - but you'll be sorry in the end!
22. These can only be warnings. Ye have to do the do. God only gives an individual the ability to choose, but you do the choosing. He does not choose for you. Neither with any information that is of a creative or constructive nature.
23. The heart at times, as indicated, becomes aware of a disturbance; not organic, neither is the thrombose even dilated, but pressures through the colon area at times give rise to the necessity of frequent activity of the kidneys, reflecting in the nerve forces through the adrenals, kidneys, heart, eyes, by their coordinating natures in the body.
24. Those things as we have suggested would keep the body physically fit, if there would be consistency and persistency on the part of the body to know the truth - of self, of body, of mind, of associations, and apply them diligently.
25. Ready for questions.
26. (Q) Any disturbance in colon, where I had the operation, to be warned of?
    (A) As indicated, there needs to be these cleansings occasionally. For, when there are poisons or toxic forces, and ye have warnings in the rash, in the feet, in the heart, in the eyes, in the throat, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
27. We are through.

    Two copies to Self (one to Scarsdale, one to Washington)
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. 8/03/42 He obtained Check Physical reading 257-247.
2. 8/06/42 He obtained Check Life reading 257-248.
3. 12/05/42 He submitted further questions. [4/23/40 He had surgery to remove colon tumor.]

REPORTS

1. 12/12/42 He obtained 558-8 for his sister, and Check Life 257-250 for self.

Edgar Cayce Readings © 1971, 1993, 1994, 1995 by the Edgar Cayce Foundation