Medicine has progressed at an astonishing speed in the 21st Century, but many of us feel ambivalent and distrustful towards the 'omnipotence' of medical science. When we are ill emotional problems can turn into real, bodily illnesses. The symptoms are physical manifestations of psychological conflicts. The body is never ill or healthy - it is only the information of the mind being expressed in the body.

The congruence of mind and body is called 'health'. There is a disturbance in harmony on the information level when we are ill and it is expressed in the body. The symptom is an information carrier that calls us to pay attention to it. If we feel unwell, we might want to ask ourselves two questions: what do we need? And what is wrong? An ill person's mind always needs something.

If we do not view our symptoms as an enemy that needs to be destroyed but instead as a partner that might be able to help in finding what we need, then we can communicate with ourselves in an honest way.