Allergy, which comes from the Greek allos
(strange, different) and ergos (reaction activity) is a process by which an
individual recognizes as strange a particle or a substance called allergen
(harmless for most people) that, instead, provokes a response from the immune
system in him/her, leading to a number of clinical manifestations such as nasal
dripping, sneezing, itching, rash, edema, and asthma.
Allergy appears for an initial psycho-emotional
shock, a destabilizing event that exceeds the threshold of tolerance of the
individual.
What is a psycho-emotional shock?
-It is an unpleasant event of everyday life
that comes suddenly, catching us by surprise and destabilizes us.
-Living isolated, in solitude and without sharing
it with others. What we live in isolation is what we feel. It is not what we
live outside, but what we feel inside, what we experience alone.
-Without a satisfactory solution for us, at
that time, but maybe for other people it exists.
-Of real dramatic intensity, or felt as such.
The unconscious can live it in a symbolic way, but cannot distinguish between
the real and the symbolic.
There are two stages in the genesis of an
allergy:
The first stage is the "silent",
silent call awareness or identification of the aggressor phase: the allergen.
It is a programmed allergy. The immune system identifies a foreign body, is
responsible for analyzing and manufactures specific and silent antibodies,
memorizing the characteristics of the intruder. It relates to a very precise
dramatic event that has occurred at the same time we were coming in contact
with the allergen. There is a direct relationship between a psycho-emotional
shock and an external element which project the psycho-shock. The body memorizes
the substance or element that was present at the time of the drama, the immune
system categorizes it as something dangerous because it is associated with a
painful emotion and try to eliminate it when detected in the body. One
person has been exposed to a food, drug or element throughout his/her life but
from a certain moment, the moment of drama, there will be a physical rejection.
This is the first exhibition, identifying where the allergen is recorded. From
this moment the unconscious associates the shocking episode and the allergen to
form an inseparable duo. It is the moment that the unconscious takes into
oblivion because it is a very painful experience. The allergen is a simple
warning of an impending danger, known but hidden, is the announcement of the
painful and unpleasant memory of the first time. At this stage no physical
symptoms manifest.
The second stage or
"noisy" phase is when a second contact with the same allergen,
antibodies, silent until now, become reactive and trigger a disproportionate
response "allergic reaction". Now it is when clinical symptoms
appear. Allergic crisis is nothing more than a new confrontation with the
allergen that represents the initial destabilizing drama and remains hidden in
the unconscious.
To heal the allergy we have to
go find the unconscious destabilizing drama to identify emotion and the hidden
resenting, express (emotional shock) and try to find an exit for emotional
change.
An example: Allergy to nuts.
An engaged couple agrees with several couples rather spend the weekend at the
cottage of one of them. At a time when all were gathered, having an aperitif, a
heated argument ensues between the couple. The groom, after telling her no
longer wants to continue the relationship, ends up leaving just the place. The
bride, shocked at what had happened (psycho-shock), was eating nuts. This
destabilizing event will go to the deepest oblivion of this young girl. The
next time she contacts with nuts allergy symptoms will appear. It's like a
warning: every time you eat nuts will remember unconsciously the painful
emotional situation. The unconscious, to protect her, moves the emotion into
the physical body (sneezing, rashes, itching or swelling of the eyes, etc.). In
this way, dealing with annoying allergic reaction, she forgets the painful
trauma related to the substance (nuts).
Keep in mind that most
allergies are triggered by events that occurred between seven years and our
current time. Only a very small percentage of allergic processes lead us to
look in our mother experiences occurred during the time of pregnancy or our
ancestors. It is those cases in which we are sensitive to certain food,
substances, etc. and we are from birth or from the first years of life.
Water allergy: Searching in
memory related accidents such as drowning, dives, suicide, etc.
Second, water represents the
mother. We look for a problem with the mother or the maternal role. Often you
can find stories about separations caused by divorce, illness, death, etc.
Sun allergy: the sun is the
universal archetypal symbol of the father. We search related to the father or
the paternal function experiences. A large number of cases related to a
physically absent father because of a separation, divorce, death, etc. But it
can also be caused by a parent present physically but symbolically absent
because of a depression or for any other reason.
Metal allergy: This may be an
imposed contact or a separation conflict. When we have this kind of allergy
from always we look for dramatic family stories related to stabbing.
Alcohol allergy: Problems with
parents: continuous fights, divorce, etc. Liquids refer to the mother, but the
"fire" is related to the father, everything that goes up to heaven
represents the father.
"I want a very different
love than what they have given me".
Allergy or gluten intolerance
(See celiac disease): Bread is a key element of family life (family
atmosphere). We seek dramas related to the lack of family cohesion or family
separations, parents, etc.
"I am separated from my
family". “I have been kicked out”.
Hayfever: Conflicts of
heartbreaks, separations and sexual encounters that can lead to danger.
Pet allergies: We will look
for dramatic events where the animal to which we are allergic intervenes.
Also, we must take into
account the symbolic meaning it may have for the unconscious the corresponding
animal, for example, the cat, symbolically represents independence; the dog,
loyalty, unconditional love; eagle, freedom, majesty and power; rabbit,
sexuality; the bull, masculinity; horse, wind, vitality, intelligence,
nobility, intuition; Bee, industry, social, wealth, soul, diligence and
eloquence; spider, symbol of feminine energy, aggressive, fear of castration
and represents a dominant, dangerous, treacherous and ferocious woman; donkey,
related to the simplicity of spontaneous enjoyment and perhaps sensual, related
to the eat-sex-sleep; crab, water and the unconscious; deer, tenderness,
femininity, speed; the swan, (waterfowl) the sun and the moon. The day and the
night. The emotions. Hummingbird, love, joy, happiness, patience; beetle, sign
of the dirty and repulsive things; Butterfly, marital joy, happiness and
freedom; It represents the metamorphosis or transformation; fish, symbol of
Christ, erotic symbol; frog, mothers and newborns; the fidelity of couples and
prosperity; rodents, fear and physical food; turtle, vision, protection,
attachment, etc.
Allergic Sinusitis: We must
find conflicts in an environment that could be classified as harmful, unclean,
disgusting, filthy, nasty, dirty, etc.
Food Allergy: Most allergies
that are related to a particular food will lead us into a drama happened during
a meal.
Allergy medications: Go to
look towards a therapy that we have received and to which the drama is
attached.
Allergy to substances that are
in contact with the skin: beauty products, soaps and even allergy to sun,
water, and metals in general will guide us towards dramas caused by separation
or problematic contacts.
Allergy to inhalants: such as
pollens, grasses, dust mites, mold or animal hair lead us to a psycho-shock
occurred in a country house on a farm with animals, being below or above a bed,
etc.
Clinical signs guide us very
accurately to the central source of the allergy:
When eyes tearing are
affected, itching, inflation will lead us into a dramatic visual experience.
Unwilling or unable to see or have lost sight of something or someone.
When the skin is affected with
pruritus (itching), eczema, urticaria, etc., we will look for disputes related
to separations.
If the larynx, laryngeal cough
or asthma will lead us to dramas in which fear has been very present.
If those affected are the
bronchi, through bronchitis and asthma, we must direct our research into fights
and shouting in the family or look at death of a clan member by problems of
asphyxia family tree.
When symptoms are manifested
in the nose they guide us towards conflicting experiences where the
"harmful" or "it smells really bad to me" factor stands
out.
Behaviour to adopt before an
allergy:
First we have to go find all possible
historical details of the dramatic emotional experience of the allergic person
and find the connection between the phase and the first allergic sensitization
crisis. In the example discussed above, the bride was sensitized to nuts when
her boyfriend, after an argument, rose and left (abandonment, separation) in
front of his/her friends while they were eating nuts and an allergic reaction
to this food appeared some time later during a celebration, in which, among
other snacks, nuts were there. The common denominator between these two
episodes were nuts. So we must ask ourselves before an allergy:
Since when? Before having the
first outbreak of allergy, when was I in contact with that allergen? Was it a
month ago, two months ago or a year ago? What is the allergic reaction, what
are the symptoms and what organ or part of the body is affected?
What allergen is it?
Now you need to face it and
relive the situation in time and space, as if it were happening right now and
try to find the emotion associated with the event and express the resenting
that was kept in the unconscious at that moment.
And finally, we must find a
resource, a conscious departure from the first position in order to the
emotional change can occur and the possible healing of the allergy.
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