Diseases As A Conflict Between Body And Mind
The body speaks and expresses itself through symptoms. Illnesses, pains, injuries, discomfort… are a sign that something negative is happening. Very often, these negative things that our body reveals to us relate to our emotional world.
Different therapeutic techniques address this point of view. A way of looking at reality that seemed to belong to Freud’s obsolete psychoanalysis and his theory of repression but, in reality, there is something else. Third generation therapies such as mindfulness or yoga, cell renewal medicine, bodily and cerebral biochemistry and quantum physics have succeeded, from different perspectives, in directly linking body and mind; their mutual influence is extremely powerful.
Our body’s warnings
When we feel pain, when we feel tired or when an illness arises, our body warns us. Our mind interprets a situation, perhaps intimately related to our emotions. Now is the time to stop and analyze what is happening to us, how we feel and how it affects us.
By always taking into account, as a first option, the use of traditional medicine, we can use the power of our mind to enhance the effects of this medical treatment and care practices. In order to be able to explore the power within our minds, we must give ourselves time, allow ourselves to do this, and be patient.
“Every disease is nothing more than the physical manifestation of a malaise, of a disorder due to a mental condition which alters the balance of the body.”
-Dr. Edward Bach-
The power of thoughts
The mind is everything we think about. Every thought that passes through our head influences our life and our body as well as our reality. The thoughts that influence our environment the most are those to which we pay the most attention and which we nourish with our words, actions and reactions.
If thoughts play on our reality and our body, then thinking positively could help provide solutions to problems, illnesses and deficiencies. However, this is not enough. Thinking only of what is good for us implies making judgments and believing that what we want will happen on its own.
To change this way of thinking or interpreting what we perceive, we have to go beyond things, to the deep world of emotions. Towards the development of emotional intelligence and our personal knowledge.
Diseases as proper interpretations of reality
Illness can indicate that our mind is doing something that we don’t like. To change this, we would have to observe the type of programming our minds work with and how we have acquired them and how we execute them through conduits. We must keep in mind that our learning within our family is the origin of emotional management.
Emotions like fear, anger, rage, sadness or uncertainty reflect certain mental attitudes that make us react in ways that are anything but fluid. We may not be confident, or we may expect too much from others.
Certain bodily genes are sown and cultivated in our emotional world. Some pains are the consequences of not understanding certain experiences that have hurt us, made us angry or caused us great dissatisfaction. These experiences remain buried within us and, little by little, our body reflects them.
In summary, we can say that certain bodily symptoms or pains are related to a certain degree of sadness or dissatisfaction, which are the result of attachment, over-control, repressed or misunderstood anger. , etc. It is said that basically all disease is synonymous with something that we hide. If our heart is aching, burning, irritated, or just experienced disillusionment, our body will reflect it. Because it is the most immediate reflection of our way of thinking and seeing life.
Emotions and illnesses
The research carried out and transcribed in the book Emotions and Health , from the editorial Ariel, highlights, from a psychological, physiological and / or social point of view, to what extent emotions and behaviors play an important role in the well-being of people and in the manifestation of diseases.
There is, every time more, a greater knowledge of the factors and variables which are the allies of our health. But we also know more about the pressure, the competitiveness and the demands placed on us in our daily life. From this point of view, emotional management becomes a sort of determining filter for health and, by extension, for illnesses in people.
I think, I am
Louise L. has spent much of her life teaching people that their thoughts can change their lives. She has written many books which have helped people discover their own worth and she believed that if children could discover the potential of their thoughts early on, their journey through life would be more joyful and rewarding.
I invite you to think about the power of affirmations, understood as thoughts and words that we use on a daily basis. If we can successfully identify them, transform these negative thoughts into positive actions and words and then internalize them, we will change the way we feel and live.
“The power is always in the moment.”
-Louise L. Hay-
To feel better
We can see that everything we experience has a reason. The greatest learning is to learn something from an experience. To get to know us and to accept. To have a good relationship with ourselves and with others. To learn that we have to stop hoping and that we have to start loving ourselves more in order to be able to love, that we have to be patient and have confidence, that we have to have more compassion, to stop criticizing ourselves and being too demanding. We must take advantage of what we have, allow ourselves to be enthusiastic about everything and deeply believe that nature has put everything within our reach so that we are happy.
If we learn to deal with the emotions our mind is feeling, our bodies will minimize sending signals of concern. A perpetual state of fatigue, weak defenses or repetitive constipation can indicate that we are managing our emotions badly and that this will play a role on our immune system. If, on the other hand, we are content and peaceful and we find ourselves in a state of growth, discovery and fulfillment, we will secrete hormones and be filled with energy, health and life.
