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The yogic concept of health and disease enables us to understand that the cause of physical disorders stems from the seed in the mind and beyond. The disturbed mind (adhi) is the primary root cause while the physical disease (vyadhi) is only the final manifest effect in yogic philosophy. By paying careful attention to personal history, the origins of psychosomatic disease can nearly always be traced back to patterns of mental and emotional distress.

According to yogic thought, all diseases start not with the body, but from blockages in our subtler energy systems. All disturbances start at the psychic level beyond the mind (the psyche in Indian thought goes all the way up to the sense of Self), come down through a disturbed mind, and then manifest in the subtle energy channels (prananadi), and finally settle in the physical body. Therefore, the five-layered model of existence (pancha kosha or pancha maya) is one of the ancient Indian models that helps us to look for a root cause of the manifest problem or disease.