When people seek medical treatment, which almost always provides just symptomatic relief that is not curative, what percent of the time might that backfire in thwarting the karmic forces giving rise to the illness, to cause a new and different problem experienced as symptom displacement?

Many will be disappointed and disheartened to learn that approximately 50% of the time, with a significant chronic malady, overriding the consequences through symptomatic treatment medically will, in fact, cause a shift in the energies via the Law of Karma to produce a new inconvenience in the form of another illness with its own set of symptoms, and this can continue with a series of such changes if medical treatment that masks symptoms thwarts the karmic lesson intended to be delivered. This is simply reflecting the power of the Law of Karma, being an essential part of the way the universe is put together to see that there will be a reckoning for any kind of misstep or wrongdoing—the karmic penalties will out unless there is a divine intervention and divine grace applied to remove the karmic burden through restoring an energetic balance on behalf of the sufferer. So what we are saying is there is a right way and a wrong way to seek relief from illness. The medical expedient might be a quicker path to gaining relief; even only as a holding action it is certainly welcome, particularly if someone is suffering pain or debilitating symptoms and can regain function and live a normal life again. We have said before that in most instances medical treatments like pharmaceutical agents are a kind of band-aid that covers up the problem, but healing will only happen if that is appropriate and possible for the body to bring about. In most cases, it will require karmic repair to make all the symptoms disappear. That is why when people stop using medication, in many instances the symptoms will return if there is a chronic illness situation, so the only thing that is provided is temporary relief and masking of the negative consequences and symptoms of the ongoing illness, without curing it. What this all points out is the importance of using the appropriate healing tools—to truly solve the dilemma by repairing the karma and other sources of negativity that underlie the actual creation of the illness—that will bring about a fundamental restoration through curing the disease. There are many times when surgery, too, is ineffective, and this is due to symptom displacement rather than the actual surgery being flawed conceptually or carried out inappropriately. The same kind of phenomena will often happen, that there may be temporary relief followed by a recurrence of symptoms.