First and foremost is our
willingness to deal with the symptom to discover not only its message and
meaning, but also the feelings and emotions that are below those messages.
To do this, we must give up
the physical causes (viruses, bacteria, hereditary conditions, climatic
factors, etc.) Although external conditions are always there, they do not
sicken anyone, though man uses them for the disease manifestation.
Neither blueprints nor bricks
make the house, but the architect uses them as a means to carry out his/her
construction. Therefore, first, we should learn to make a qualitative and
subjective assessment of symptoms:
What did this happen to me
for? What is it? How is it? How does it manifest?
What makes me feel?
Secondly, the precise moment
when a symptom appears is very important. We must take account of any event
occurring at the same time to the appearing of a symptom, and not only external
facts but also see what happens in our mind.
In what aspect of my being,
emotions, thoughts, or attitudes is happening the same conflict that happens to
my body? What happened before it appeared? What was I doing? Who was I with?
When did it start?
What were my thoughts and
feelings at that time?
What were my fears, fantasies,
or frustrations?
We must dig deep into our
personal situation.
At what level the symptom that
has manifested in my body describes or expresses an event that is happening in
my life?
Has something happened in our
family or affective domain? Has it happened a change in our lives? What do I
refuse to live? Have we received any news or we are experiencing some
transcendent event?
The most acute symptoms have
their true cause in the moment, a few hours before having appeared or, at most,
a few days ago before its manifestation.
However, in those known as
"chronic conditions" their cause is not so close.
Anyway, it is not important if
a disease comes from a few days ago, from our childhood, from what we
feel in the womb of our mother or from some inheritance from an ancestor. What
we really want is to discover what it wants to transmit to us and which
negative belief has helped it.
What does my soul and my
Higher Self want to tell me through this symptom? What happens to me this for?
When we ask ourselves this
question we must be careful because often the first thing that comes to our
mind can be correct.
The third stage raises the need
to observe carefully the language, the words and the tone we use, the turns and
expressions we use to verbalize the process. Do not forget that language is
deeply personal psychosomatic. Our physical symptoms correspond to our mental
and emotional imbalances, which means that emotional problems are related to
body sensations. So we find that when the patient talks about his/her physical
symptoms, is always telling us about a psychic problem.
What are the internal feelings
and the language used to describe the problem? Example: "I do not see
clear, my eyes hurt- the heart is leaping with joy, do something with all my
heart - I am keeping a cool head - I could not stop in time - I cannot swallow
it, if I see it my stomach becomes sick – It keeps me asphyxiated, I am
breathless ", etc.
The last phase of analysis
leads us to a personal reconsideration: What is this symptom preventing me to
do? What is it forcing me to do?
What should I stop doing? What
new action should be taken?
What am I getting through it?
Could I do the same without this disease?
Because we cannot forget that
there may be hidden reasons of our illness that give us a reward and this
alienates us from the desire to improve. You may get more attention or
affection when we are sick. Or maybe it is a resource to manipulate, to blame.
You can also hide hidden fears, problems of undervaluation or low self-esteem
... Innumerable reasons that each person will find depending on their
individual characteristics and their vital task. As we have seen, a symptom is
always the physical manifestation of something we reject inside, something that
is in the shadows and comes in order we live with it. Almost always it forces
us to change our behaviour to correct imbalance, so the right thing for our
evolution is voluntarily desist from that which we are removed of and willingly
accept what we are forced to do.
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