Emotion, Attitudes and Illness

Great significance underlies every illness, large or small, because your body is a biofeedback system for your attitudes. Managing energy involves managing your relationship with your emotional self. Examining your emotions is the bottom line for understanding the purpose of a particular health-related situation. Poor health does not just land in your lap. You are ultimately responsible for setting the stage of your body's inner terrain based on the choices you make, and you actually restrict your body's natural healing processes when you readily accept only conventional medical labels and categories for your condition. You deny the purpose and power of your body's intelligence when you believe that you "just caught something out of the blue," rather thatn realizing and accepting that your body is merely respoding to your inner feelings and commands.

When the body exhibits a so-called symptom, there is always an underlying emotional component, and you must seek to eliminate the cause, not just eradicate the symptom. Connecting the dots between how you feel about yourself, family, friends and the world at large - and your body's physical functions provides an important key for understanding how you use your energy. Whether you are attracting colds and flus, or are challenged with more severe systemic blockages such as cancer and diabetes, or heart or organ failure, your emotions or how your feel are always involved. The message, or core purpose of your body's condition is based on a friendly, cooperative relationship between your mind, your feelings, and your cells. Illness is a built-in service, a feeling-based feedback system activated by harmful input stemming from a personal misuse of energy. Certainly you have wondered why some people get sick and others remain healthy, many unaffected by exposure to the same alleged contagion.

Healing involves unblocking old pain. When your body is in discomfort or pain, note the specific area of distress, for the location will be a key to where your emotional issues have established obstructions. The underlying message behind any symptom of poor health can be clearly understood when associated with the practical and purposeful function of the afflicted area. What feelings are registered there? Communicate with your pain, get in touch with it and describe it. In order to heal and be well, look to the part of the body in question and ask: "What is the message?" What actual function does that area of the body perform? for there you have a great clue as to what is happening.

If your genitals are calling for your attenion, the second chakra is the place in your body where the energy is blocked. Examine your feelings about issues of male and female power, or the lack of it, in your life. Do you feel powerless to create what you want? After all, the sexual organs are used to create pleasure as well as to create life. Problems in the legs and feet involve issues of perseverance through forward movement, and difficulties in the arms and hands signify a lack of willingness to passionately embrace life and to actively create your desires. The neck and throat involve issues of flexibility and self-expression. The brain is the focal point for beliefs about intelligence, the eyes about sight, and the ears about hearing; the stomach is for assimilation, the intestines for accepting nourishment from life, and the bowels for releasing waste materials. Colds and flus are assiciated with indecision, weight imbalance with unfulfilled desires, while cancer is triggered by hate, often self-hatred and anger and rage from believing you are less than who you are.

The liver is a detoxifying organ and if yours is not fuctioning properly, what contribution of toxic emotions is seething beneath the surface? Apply the meaning of the functions to your life - if you understand the working function of the afflicted area, then you can understand the issues you are resisting and stopping from finding healthy experssion in your life. Fear of letting go and releasing the past is an underlying cause of illness. Your emotional responses to what you believe has happened to you are at the core of your beliefs. Scattered thoughts result from choosing fearful interpretations, which is a misuse and misunderstanding of energy, and is at the root of all illness. To achieve a higher level of understanding, a new mindset must be consciously developed to override the messages of despair that signal the body to malfunction. You must become focused to concentrate on replacing unproductive attides and changing your interpretations of your sensory empressions.

- Chapter 5 "Healing on the Lines of Time" from Path of Empowerment by Barbara Marciniak