Many Masters and spiritual teachers have pointed out that excessive attachment to sensual pleasure can hinder healing — not because pleasure itself is “bad,” but because identification with it pulls awareness away from the deeper source of vitality and balance.

Here’s how some well-known Masters frame it:

1. Buddha

Spoke of the “middle way” — overindulgence in sense pleasures creates agitation and craving, which keep the mind restless and the body out of harmony.
Healing, in his view, arises from a mind free of grasping, where energy is not constantly spent chasing the next stimulation.

2. Paramahansa Yogananda

Taught that when consciousness is absorbed in sensory gratification, life-force flows outward through the senses rather than inward toward the spine and higher centers — weakening the body’s natural regenerative power.
He said deep meditation redirects life-force inward, restoring and recharging the body at its core.

3. Dr. David Hawkins

Noted that lower attractor fields (linked to overindulgence in lust, greed, and sensory craving) carry energies of compulsion and dependency that weaken the body’s kinesiology testing response.
Healing is facilitated when consciousness moves into higher states like acceptance, love, and peace, where the body naturally reorganizes toward health.

4. Osho

Clarified that pleasure itself is natural, but when it becomes an escape from inner emptiness, it turns into an addiction that prevents deep rest and repair.
True healing comes when we can be still within ourselves, not needing constant outer stimulation to feel alive.

Core idea across traditions:
Sensual pleasure in balance can be part of a joyful, healthy life, but when pursued compulsively, it scatters vital energy, clouds intuition, and blocks the body’s natural self-healing mechanisms. True healing thrives when awareness is rooted in inner stillness and energy is allowed to flow back to its Source.

Excessive Attachment to Sensual Pleasure Can Hinder Healing