A viewer asks: “What lessons are there for me to learn from the many symptoms of Parkinson’s disease?”

The main lesson is truly a general one. Your vulnerability is an aggregate sum total of many prior circumstances, so it is not attributable to any particular causal influence that could be defined in isolation and held up as the major issue. Anyone can be hindered by life in ways to make them more vulnerable to infection in a world that is imperfect and often harsh and unfair. Given that it is unnatural to be surrounded by microbial pathogens of many kinds, you are in a warzone constantly whose reason for being and motivations are foreign to you. You cannot be faulted in any way for being vulnerable inherently, that is the point of the warfare to begin with, to find a powerful tool to use against you—the interlopers are often successful in doing this. So the main lesson here is the general need to stand strong and to cultivate a divine partnership that can be as strong and unwavering as possible. That is always a strategy that will strengthen you and help to forestall future difficulty as well as to heal whatever has accumulated in the current lifetime causing symptoms of any kind. It is rarely helpful to agonize over specific details. The human mind is too prone to overdramatize and overinterpret such things, to feel like one has failed in some way. If a certain weakness at some point was a contributing factor, that might have been a very transient circumstance and a fleeting weakness in response to temporary conditions and not needing to be elevated even as a need of today. What you are experiencing is the legacy of many such occurrences. Your task is to move forward and regain your strength and wellbeing, not to conduct a factfinding autopsy of prior dilemmas and liabilities. It is important to know this is not your fault; you do not own it; it does not define you; it is a temporary circumstance of the current lifetime, but need not reoccur in future lives nor even remain present or worsen in the current life—that will be a function of how the healing goes. So the lesson here is simply to know that you have encountered one of life’s difficulties but are not without resources and without options. You can take action and you can help yourself going forward in partnership with the divine—that will pay many dividends regardless of the tempo of the illness itself. We have said many times that often the last thing to change is the actual symptoms. Even though there has been enormous healing take place, to get to a point where symptoms will subside, until that tipping point, there is a temptation to feel defeated. This is a mistake always because when you ask for help, you will be given help. There will be much always going on behind the scenes—that will help your future regardless of what symptoms seem to be saying. So the greatest lesson in this experience is to be in a place and have the knowledge and awareness that you are greater than your illness reflects and you are very blessed to have the divine on your side and working on your behalf.