A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.
Carl JungMan and woman become a devil to each other when they do not separate their spiritual paths, for the nature of created beings is always the nature of differentiation.
Carl JungYou must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.
Carl JungSynchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.
Carl Jung