Diseases begin with emotions. Learn to control your emotions!

In modern psychological science, a separate category has been allocated to the direction that studies the causes of diseases from the point of view of psychology. Some scientists suggest that the root of any disease lies in the instability of the emotional state or unbalanced behavior. The psychology of diseases is a vast, actively developing field, which is considered by specialists working in medicine, psychology, and esotericism.

The science that combines these areas is called psychosomatics. Its supporters believe in the connection between soul and body: any mental illness affects the physical body, manifesting itself as diseases. And although many view the ideas of psychosomatics with skepticism, tens of thousands of people claim that the use of psychological methods helped them get rid of diseases without drugs.

Psoriasis psychosomatic causes

The skin is the outer covering of the human body, as if protecting internal organs from direct external influences. Our subconscious also perceives this organ, that is, a kind of protection of individuality. Psoriasis, like other skin diseases, can cause fear of being offended.

Psychosomatics – myth or reality? Everyone must answer this question for themselves. But still, do not forget to experience happiness as often as possible and not get hung up on any troubles. Get over your worries and live your life to the fullest, because you only have one!

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What psychological reasons lead to disturbances in the body's functioning?

The psychological causes of diseases are comprehensively considered by esotericism - the doctrine of the relationship between the physical and energy worlds. The esoteric view of man suggests that diseases can be diagnosed at an early stage and their occurrence can be prevented if the mechanism of occurrence is understood.

The connection between soul and body in esotericism

To understand the cause-and-effect relationship between illness and the body, one should imagine a person in two planes: material and energetic. The physical body is necessary to contact with the world around us: to see, feel, touch. The spiritual body is a conductor of emotions and thoughts, receiving energy flows. The two bodies are connected and constantly influence each other. Physical activity takes energy from the spiritual body, and the energy generated in the spiritual body passes into the physical body.

Energy comes from emotions. Positive and negative, they have equally strong effects on the body. Positive energy nourishes and gives vitality, while negative energy punches holes in the energy shell, causing disruptions in the body’s functioning. The spiritual body cannot get rid of negative emotions on its own; they inevitably end up on the physical level. The longer a person accumulates negativity, the stronger the diseases will take root.

The origin of disease in the body: the influence of thought forms

According to esoteric beliefs, illness is a projection of thoughts and emotions. Fear, joy, anger, apprehension, hope are combined into energy flows - thought forms. Positive emotions create light currents that easily pass through the mental body and fill the physical body with useful energy. Negative emotions are heavy, they create viscous clots, settling on the spiritual body and preventing positive energy from reaching the physical body.

Positive energy can dissolve negative energy, but only if there is more of it. Lack of light energy leads to exhaustion of the spiritual body. It cannot protect the physical from negative influences, nourish and support.

Causes of diseases in esotericism: physical manifestation of negativity

At first, the symptoms are minor: mild pain that goes away quickly, fatigue, itching, tingling. People tend to ignore such manifestations or treat them with medications without understanding the true cause. Pills may relieve symptoms, but the disease will continue to develop. To cure it, you need to find and remove the energy blockage that is preventing access to vital energy.

Diseases in esotericism have a clear nature. They are not chaotic: problems in certain organs indicate a specific problem. Among the psychological causes of diseases in esotericism there are:

1. Distrust of life. Occurs as a result of childhood trauma. Having experienced insult and injustice, the child withdraws, loses the ability to trust and rely on help. Finding himself in a difficult situation, he is lost and afraid to act. At the physical level, mistrust is manifested by kidney disease.
2. Lack of positivity and joy. Positive emotions help cleanse the body, while negative emotions fill cells with toxins and interfere with regeneration. Overwhelm with negativity causes anger and anger. The physical reflection of anger is liver disease.
3. Fear of moving forward. Getting stuck in a problem, unwillingness or inability to find a way out feels like stagnation of energy. Often manifested by causeless fatigue and depression. At the physical level, it is manifested by blood pathologies: high blood pressure, anemia, thrombosis.
4. Refusal to perceive reality. The inability to accept certain phenomena of life, the fear of change and novelty is felt as a slight chill, an unpleasant feeling of goosebumps. The physical manifestation of fear is stomach illness.

Esotericists are confident that any pathology can be corrected by changing your attitude towards life. First, a person must accept responsibility, understand that only he is responsible for his emotional reactions, and learn to manage them. By observing your emotions, you can accurately determine in which part of the body the problem is hidden.

The basis of energy healing is changing negative thinking to positive thinking. Giving up negative emotions will clear the energy channels and allow vital energy to flow through the body unhindered.

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Thus, muscle tension causes insufficient access of nutrients to the spleen, thymus, and spinal cord, which are known to be directly involved in the “birth” of immune cells. Therefore, what kind of protection of our immunity can we talk about in this case?

On the other hand, if the muscles are relaxed, then the smooth muscles of the internal organs automatically relax - the capillary wall becomes permeable, and everything it needs enters the cell. The cell is well-fed, the organ is well-fed and works great.

Even such superficial knowledge should set you up to want to be in a relaxed state, which is achieved through control of your muscles. This can be learned using various techniques, in particular classic auto-training.

There are a lot of options for auto-training, I describe one of them in my book “Psychotherapy for everyone. Life Guide."

How to distinguish the psychological nature of a disease from external influences

Adherents of the psychosomatic theory emphasize that the cause of the disease can be internal (psychological) and external. In order not to harm yourself and correctly determine the source of the disease, you need to be able to distinguish between external and internal causes of pathologies.

It is much more difficult to independently eliminate diseases that arise as a result of external causes. In addition to affirmations and other methods of suggestion, medication and even a radical lifestyle change may be needed. External causes of diseases include:

1. Ecology. It is easy to distinguish environmentally related diseases. If symptoms appear not only in family members, but also in acquaintances and colleagues, the cause is probably external. In this case, therapy is ineffective; the root cause of the problem must be eliminated.
2. Poor nutrition. A lack of vitamins is often accompanied by fatigue, apathy, headaches, insomnia and other symptoms that people mistake for psychological pathologies. To check what the reason is, you need to add a suitable vitamin complex to your diet. If the problem is vitamin deficiency, improvements will appear within 2 months.
3. Sedentary lifestyle. The less physical activity a person exhibits, the less desire he has to change something. Without receiving the necessary load, the body switches to energy saving mode, and the person thinks that he is getting sick. Although in fact there are no internal malfunctions in the body’s functioning. Only moderate exercise will help you get rid of the feeling of fatigue and return to a normal rhythm of life. It is advisable to practice under the supervision of a trainer so as not to accidentally injure yourself.
4. The influence of the environment. Passivity and shyness put a person in the position of a debtor: he cannot refuse other people a favor, often even to his own detriment. Such people work hard, but constantly feel guilty. They feel like they aren't doing enough and don't deserve to be treated well. They explain their depressed state by depression, but in fact it is the result of the unfavorable influence of the environment. The problem is solved by changing your social circle and building normal personal boundaries.
5. Incorrect treatment. Often a person is examined for a long time, and the established diagnosis changes several times. Doctors cannot determine the true cause of poor health, constantly prescribing unnecessary and inappropriate medications. Such treatment can be not only useless, but also dangerous - a person develops diseases that did not exist before. If neither therapists, nor highly specialized specialists, nor psychotherapists can establish the cause, you should temporarily give up trying to find a treatment and give the body a rest. Perhaps he can recover on his own.

Heredity is a controversial factor that cannot be clearly attributed to an external or internal cause of diseases. On the one hand, this is a manifestation of individual characteristics, on the other, it is the result of upbringing and the external influence of parents.

The psyche, reacting to external circumstances, tries to adapt and disruptions begin in its work. If the cause is not eliminated, psychological deviation becomes the cause of physical illness. Official psychology recognizes the close connection between the physical and the mental and identifies a number of psychological problems that are important to pay attention to:

1. Unreasonable fear. Strange phobias that have no rational cause appear in many people after severe emotional shock. Unreasonable fear speaks of defenselessness - a person needs protection and demonstrates this with his behavior. Constant internal tension caused by fear leads to decreased immunity, frequent viral diseases, severe coughing and chest pain.
2. Uncertainty. Inability to make decisions, constant doubts, fear of responsibility are signs of emotional immaturity. Internally, a person remains a child from whom adult decisions are expected, but he is not capable of them. The result of uncertainty is problems with bones and joints, frequent fractures, and curvature of the spine.
3. Feeling of being watched, watched. Paranoid fear of persecution is experienced by people who cannot trust. They cannot rely on others, they constantly strive to do all the work themselves, and are often overworked. They have difficulty getting close to people and do not know how to maintain friendly relationships. Constant tension leads to insomnia, severe pain in the intestines, ulcers, constipation, and erection problems.
4. Apathy. Complete indifference to life is one of the symptoms of depression. Distracted attention, lack of interests and goals literally means an unwillingness to live. A person is afraid of life, does not want to take responsibility and transfers it to other people. Without timely help, apathy can cause muscle atrophy, sclerosis, and even suicide.
5. Hallucinations. Auditory and visual hallucinations also occur in healthy people as a result of severe fatigue. But if they appear frequently and for no apparent reason, this indicates a desire to hide from the real world, to escape into the world of illusions. Regularly recurring hallucinations interfere with the normal course of a person’s life and lead to the development of mental illness.
6. Aversion to necessary things. Sometimes people may notice that useful and pleasant things cause indifference and even disgust. For example, your favorite food, medicine, rest after hard work. Disgust arises from a feeling of guilt: a person considers himself unworthy of good and necessary things, so he subconsciously forces himself to give them up. To make the refusal less painful, the psyche tries to convince him that he doesn’t really need it. Such negativism causes indigestion and chronic heart disease.
7. Anger, anger, desire to cause harm. Strong anger at others, the desire to hit, push is a symbol of internal struggle. A person is forced to restrain himself, and when he fails, outbursts of anger arise. It should also be remembered that auto-aggression (self-hatred) has the same reasons: dissatisfaction, lack of opportunity to express oneself, suppression. It is expressed in self-harm: specially inflicted cuts, blows, neglect of daily routine and nutrition. Suppressed aggression leads to diseases of the cardiovascular system, liver, and stomach.

The close connection between psyche and physiology allows the use of complex methods of prevention. Having discovered problems of a psychological nature, you should immediately use available methods to eliminate symptoms in order to prevent the disease from becoming physical.

Prevention of mental pathologies through physical influence

The influence of the psyche on the body is as strong as the influence on the psyche through physical exercise. Simple exercises help relieve nervous tension - the main cause of the development of mental pathologies. Psychophysical gymnastics helps strengthen the body and get rid of the root cause of diseases.

Basic psychogymnastics exercises:

1. "Dog Breath" Helps relieve accumulated tension, get rid of tension and sore throat. You need to sit up straight and raise your chin up. Stick out your tongue slightly, point the tip down and press it against your teeth. Take a deep breath, take several sharp short exhalations. As you exhale, you need to imagine how the tight, prickly clot in your throat is gradually decreasing. When the clot disappears, the exercise can be completed. After performing a series of inhalations and exhalations, you need to complete the exercise with a deep inhalation and a slow exhalation through the nose.
2. Grounding. Grounding techniques work for both diagnosis and treatment of neurotic conditions. You need to sit down so that your feet are completely pressed to the floor. Place your palms on your knees or lower them along your body. Straighten your shoulders, relax. Keep your head straight. Closing your eyes, imagine how a thin light ray of energy rises from the center of the earth to your feet. It passes through the feet, rises up the legs, spine, fills the body and exits through the top of the head. A person becomes one with the earth, filled with its power. An increased flow of energy must be directed to those places where dark clots have appeared - this is where the problem areas are located, in which pathologies will soon develop.
3. Transfer of emotions. Negative emotions can be released without storing them in the body. You need to take a comfortable position and relax. Imagine yourself as if from the outside. Negative emotions can be thought of as little evil monsters that try to attack the body and cause illness in it. Standing above your body, you need to raise your hands and direct a beam of bright light through your palms. The light drives away the monsters, they scatter and disappear. The body is filled with light, it envelops you like a protective shell. Passes through the skin and warms. When a feeling of pleasant warmth appears, you need to return to the body and open your eyes.
4. Visualization. The visualization technique allows you to work through the problems of mistrust, fear and alienation. You should mentally imagine yourself in a situation that causes fear. Think over your actions, try to predict the reactions of other people. During visualization, carefully monitor your state: what scares you the most, what confuses you, what you want to get away from. Often, performing visualization helps reduce anxiety and act faster in difficult situations.
5. Suspension. A disease has a stronger effect on the body if it is perceived as part of the body. To reduce the impact, you need to mentally distance yourself from the disease. Psychosomatics separates healthy and sick energy, so focusing on healthy energy strengthens it. You need to stand up straight, closing your eyes, and imagine how a stream of life-giving energy is pouring from above onto your body. It covers like an umbrella, preventing the energy of illness from leaking out.
6. Projection. The appearance of unpleasant sensations: pain, tingling, itching are harbingers of pathologies. In order to prevent them from developing, you need to throw out energy debris from the body that attracts diseases: resentment, irritation, anger, fatigue. To do this, you need to select a projection source - an object that attracts the eye. It could be a candle, a vase, a ball of thread, the main thing is that the objects are bright and not alive. The dark energy accumulated in the body should be mentally placed in the selected object. When it is full, put it in the freezer overnight. The cold will destroy the negativity and cleanse the item so it can be used again.
7. Energy balance. Restoring the internal flow of energy is the prevention of the development of pathologies. To restore it, just before going to bed and immediately after waking up, imagine how your body is filled with a light blue glow. It illuminates all organs, accelerates the blood, passes through the bones and muscles. In places where discomfort occurs, the glow should be increased until it becomes even. It is useful to repeat the exercise for 1-2 minutes throughout the day to get rid of fatigue.

Regular performance of psycho-gymnastics exercises promotes:

• improving mood;
• improving relationships with others;
• the ability to make the right decision;
• calmness in difficult situations;
• improvement of general well-being.

Psychological pathologies often develop hidden. Therefore, it is important to do self-diagnosis regularly so as not to miss health changes at the very beginning. If you cannot solve the problem on your own, you need to seek help from a psychologist. Working together with a specialist will definitely bring positive results.