This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 22nd day of July, 1930, in accordance with request made by self - Mrs. [5488], recommended by Miss [24].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [5488].

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [5488]. Now, in the physical forces of the body, we find there are conditions that, with their being corrected in the present, will not only assist and prevent the body from sufferings physically in the future, but will better fit the body mental, the body physical, for the vicissitudes of the present experience.
2. These conditions, as we find, have to do with the pressures as are caused in the system, as related to the blood supply, the heart's action, and the nervous system. These, in turn, affect other portions of the system.
3. These, then, in the body physical, are conditions as we find them with this body, [5488], present in this room:
4. IN THE BLOOD SUPPLY, this we find deficient in red, over abundant in the white. Hence the character of the pressure in the heart's action, as is caused through the accumulations of drosses in the system, is this condition, as WE find, heir apparent in the system, and this distress as comes to same is to the lower hepatic circulation, and the conditions as make for those are from pressures as have long existed in the pelvis and lumbar regions, and the disorders as come from these changes as are coming about in the life.
5. With those conditions, there comes this over stress through the nervous forces of the body, as to prevent their better, or their normal reaction. While at all periods the body does not suffer, yet there ARE periods when the distress to the digestive system, to the kidneys, to the liver, to the heart's action itself, and in the BREATHING as comes to the system - these are as the pressures, or changes, in the circulation.
6. In meeting the needs of these conditions, we will find it will be necessary to cleanse the system from the drosses. This will be necessary, not only in the manner of eliminations through the alimentary canal to be increased, but also throughout the whole of the respiratory system, through those changes as must be wrought in the system as related to the assimilation of foods that may be taken in system, through the changes as must come about for the mental attitude in its security in one direction, and not to be constantly changing from this, that or the other because it doesn't assist in the first three or four days. These are lack of stability, but one where the changes are as oft as has been exhibited in the system for many days past, many months, and many moons, these show for that alterations, or that change as from one distress to another. Not that the body has become hypochondriacal in its activity; not that the body has become wholly as one of a neurasthenic, but these are but indications of the distress and distraughtness as has been, and as is exhibited in the physical forces.
7. In meeting these, or in applying these - so that we may HAVE the proper eliminations - these, as we find, will have to be as mechanical, as has been those depressions as has caused same, so that the impingements as have existed, and as do exist in the lumbar and sacral, that causes for the distresses through the pelvis, through the changes in the activity of liver and lower hepatic circulation - these must not only be RELEASED, but they must be revivified, or resuscitated, as to their normal activity, so that - with the assimilations of the system - there will be the proper building up and distribution of the forces of the whole system.
8. In manipulative measures, or corrective measures with manipulation, with those of the colonic irrigations, with those of the stimulation of the liver sufficient to cause its proper activity, with those of the sweat or fume baths, as will take the poisons from the system, throughout the whole of the circulation, would we find be the corrective measures for this body. This we would do.
9. In the mental activities and developments for the body, will the entity claim that heritage as is in its own activities, from the mental and spiritual source, holding to these in the way and manner as will bring for that as of a well deserved, in service, and in the application of self towards those things as held, then we will find these will develop also. Ready for questions.
10. (Q) What advice as to how to take up life again?
    (A) In the application of self to the vicissitudes of life - in the midst of life one is in the midst of death, for death is but the beginning of life, as life is but the BEGINNING of an opportunity to manifest that as is INNATELY built within the soul of an individual itself. To lose faith, hope, in self and in those forces which must keep for the whole of the operative forces in life, is to lose hold and to lose CONFIDENCE in self and in self's heritage, as is given; for all are BOUGHT with the price, and in the application of self in service to another will one find that the APTITUDES of life are but the stepping stones to the better UNDERSTANDING of the conditions as each and every individual meets to make for them that development necessary, that they may join with those in the expressions of the divine forces as are made applicable in the lives of each and every individual. Applying self, then, in some DEFINITE, some individual service - not as a service that is to be seen of men, but with a service eye-single to that of manifesting that faith, that hope, that expression as was given in Him, in "As oft as ye do it unto the least of these, my little ones, ye do it unto me"; for in Him is the life, and the light, and without Him there is NO life AT ALL.
11. (Q) Where would be the best, considering all things, for the entity to live?
    (A) That would be best chosen in self. Where the greatest service, and where the losing of self IN service may be best accomplished, there live.
12. (Q) Is there any message you could give regarding her husband, who has passed beyond, that would help her?
    (A) These, as we may find, may best be had through that introspection of self in those periods when one may turn to the within and seek that counsel, that at-oneness with those whom are in the borderland; for ALL is well in the oneness of the purposes as may be accomplished in this material force through the mental changing, or guiding, that the SPIRIT may work aright.

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BACKGROUND

1. GD's note: Mrs. [5488] was very sad, unsure of her future in every way, because of recent death of her husband. She was all alone, having only one married daughter. She was much bothered mentally as well as having distressing physical symptoms.

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