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But if we add to this a feeling of discontent, then these spirits have a negative effect on us and make everything difficult and dark for us. They then act on the physical body and fill it with heaviness, so that one feels as if one is chained to the earth. If the ego does not resist this and does not sense the dangers that threaten it, then these spirits also dominate our ego; the person becomes powerless and falls into hypochondria. Everyone knows how difficult hypochondria is to cure. This illness always points to an effect from a previous life as an esoteric, because it cannot arise in one incarnation. When the spirits of heaviness have taken hold of us in this way, it manifests itself in illnesses of the lower abdomen and the digestive organs.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Esoteric Lesson","site_heading":"Spiritual Dangers and the Balance of Inner Forces","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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