You can see this show up in pop-psychology and New Age renditions of Eastern philosophy, with a slightly different bent: If you’re suffering, it’s because you aren’t in right alignment with your true self. If you were more in touch with your “core,” you would have seen this coming. Illness or difficulty is a sign that you were harboring some kind of negativity or resentment—it just showed up in physical form because it was hiding in your thoughts.
