Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - Letters on Occult Meditation - V - Dangers to the
Nervous System







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Letters on Occult Meditation - Letter V - Dangers to be avoided in
Meditation





Dangers to the Nervous SystemThe troubles
connected with the nervous system are more frequent than those attacking the brain, such
as insanity and disruption of the brain tissue. Almost all who undertake meditation are
conscious of an effect in [105] the nervous system; sometimes it takes the form of
sleeplessness, of excitability, of a strained energy and restlessness that permit of no
relaxation; of an irritability that has been foreign perhaps to the disposition until
meditation was pursued; of a nervous reaction - such as a twitching of the limbs, the
fingers or the eyes - of depression or a lowering of the vitality, and of many individual
modes of showing tension and nervousness, differing according to nature and temperament.
This display of nervousness may be either severe or slight, but I seek earnestly to point
out it is quite needless, provided the student adheres to the rules of common sense, that
he studies wisely his own temperament, and that he does not blindly proceed with forms and
methods but insists on knowing the raison d'ętre of instituted action. If occult students
disciplined the life more wisely, if they studied the food problem more carefully, if they
took the needed hours of sleep with more determination, and if they worked with cautious
slowness and not so much from impulse (no matter how high the aspiration) greater results
would be seen and the Great Ones would have more efficient helpers in the work of serving
the world.
It is not my purpose in these letters to take up specifically the diseases of the brain
and of the nervous system. I only desire to give general indications and warnings and (for
your encouragement) to point out that later when the wise Teachers move among men and
openly teach in specific schools, many forms of brain trouble and of nervous complaints
will be cured through meditation wisely adjusted to the individual need. Proper
meditations will be set to stimulate quiescent centers, to turn the inner fire to proper
channels, to distribute the divine heat in equable arrangement, to build in tissue [106]
and to heal. The time for this is not yet, though it lies not so far ahead as you might
imagine.





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