Physical
lateralities of the symptoms are quite revealing of what happens inside us, so
it is possible that many readers interested in self-healing and who have read
other authors, may be surprised when I say that the right side of the body
represents for me the symbol of the "mother" and the left side is the
symbol of the "father".
As you will
understand, this is not a statement said too lightly, but it is based on a
thorough study of the subject.
When I became
interested in holistic healing, I also learned about the contrary. That is, the
right side of the body, that is governed by the left hemisphere, was related to
action, reason, Yang energy, and consequently, with the male symbol, with the
father or with their representatives (authority, etc.) and the left side,
governed by the right hemisphere, was associated with intuition, Yin energy,
with the feminine side and the mother or with their representatives
(institutions, society, etc.).
So we can
conclude that the conditions on the right side speaks of a conflict with a male
element, with the son, with the father, or with those they are represented
with, the chief, the authority, etc. Similarly, the left side evokes the
difficulties of relationship with a female element, the daughter, the mother,
home, society, etc.
People have two
distinct nervous systems operating in our body: the central nervous system or spinal-brain
that is governed by the brain and our conscious and the autonomous or autonomic
nervous system, that is governed by our Non-Conscious. Besides, the
autonomic nervous system is divided into two parts: the sympathetic system and
the parasympathetic.
The central nervous system is the one that
regulates life consciously and voluntarily. The information comes from the five
senses and has a great impact on all processes that man can make on a voluntary
basis, such as walking, picking up a glass, hugging, etc. because it acts on
the "white" muscle fibbers located mainly in the arms and legs.
However, the
autonomic nervous system governs everything that is involuntary, unconscious in
our body, such as digestion, immune system, heart function, etc., and
"red" fibbers (heart, pancreas, liver, etc.) are almost totally
dependent from it.
However, unlike the central nervous system, as we have seen,
crosses at the level of the throat, so that each cerebral hemisphere governs
the opposite side of the body to which it is located, the autonomic nervous system, does not cross anywhere, but extends from
a central axis. From head to toes, the right remains to the right and the left,
to the left.
If we know that it is
not the brain, through its central
nervous system, the one acting on diseases and accidents, as they are not
considered voluntary processes of human beings (nobody gets sick
intentionally), but rather unconscious and, therefore, from the autonomic nervous system governed by our
Non-Conscious, I am convinced that the lateralization we must keep in mind,
every time we are in the presence of a lateralized symptom is, right as a
symbol of the "mother", female, and left as a symbol of
"father", male. This must be true for all right-handed people and
vice versa, for all persons born biologically left-handers.
There is also a
more subtle explanation: according to psychology, in every human being we can
find the two polarities, one visible and another hidden, male-female,
man-woman, but we both physically and psychologically develop preferably one of
them, leaving the other in the shadow. According to C. G. Jung, the shadow is
the sum of all facets of reality that the individual does not recognize or does
not want to recognize, and therefore discard. Not recognizing the shadow, the
hidden part in us, makes us suffer, since when one rejects a certain principle,
every time he finds it on the outside world, it will trigger in him/her a reaction
of anxiety and repudiation and will take him/her to project it to his/her
spouse or partner. The tendency to highlight the qualities or defects of
another person, that actually only reflect, as if it were a mirror, the beauty
or imperfections of our own soul, emanates from this projection.
With this theory we can understand that our difficulty comes not from
the visible, that part of us which we identify with, but the invisible, the
other part we do not want to see.
So when a person has some negative symptoms in his/her right knee, an action and reason symbol, since it is governed by the
left, male hemisphere, could show some difficulty with his/her invisible and secret part, that is, with its female hidden dimension,
which is confronted by a woman of his/her environment, which will lead him/her to become aware of the problem-of feminine nuance that has.
After my training as a
psycho-coder, I have to recognize that in certain diseases, such as those
affecting the breasts, shoulders, arms, bronchi, thyroid, feet, legs, bones,
etc., it is difficult in many cases to decipher with the exactness of
laterality, since although we have a female brain that manages female
resentments and a male brain that governs male resentments, we must admit that
it can be biologically female but nevertheless have a lot of masculine energy
and vice versa.
On the other hand, there
is also the ambidextrous person, who may be biological right-handed or
biological left-handed, depending on whether it is a man or a woman.
And we may even have a
contradicted laterality. For example, some parents who have left-handed
children of birth and, for some reason, social, family, etc., are forced to
write or to eat with the right hand, these children become functional right but
remain left-handed biological.
Dr. Salomon Sellam, in
his book Los Huesos, published by
Ediciones Bérangel, offers us two aspects, two alternatives that could help us
to decipher laterality in order to better define the origin of our conflict. On
the one hand it speaks of "the side of the neuro-motor impact". When
the danger, the problem or the conflictive situation comes from the right and
the neuro-motor impact is inscribed on the same side, it would be a right
handedness. He cites as an example a firefighter with problems on his right
shoulder, as he was not able to open the door of a burning house pushing with
that part of his body and, as a consequence, a person who was inside died, for
which he felt invaded by a great guilt, which settled on his right shoulder
devalued. If instead of having used his right shoulder, to try to open the
door, had resorted to his left shoulder, of course, the pathology would have
settled on this shoulder.
And secondly, he
suggests an own version, which he tells us, has helped enormously to decipher
laterality and, consequently, the origin of emotional conflict.
A pathology located to
the right: it would be related to the affective part, with the interior, the
house, the home, with the feeling of conceiving a project, a desire, most of
the times contradicted. "I would like to do that, I would like to achieve
such a thing ... but I feel unable or unable to carry it out because I feel
unappreciated, I am a nullity in the eyes of others."
A pathology located on
the left: it is closely related to the action, the danger, the outside, the
work, the realization of a project often contradicted, followed by a feeling of
devaluation. "I have done this or that and I repent, I have been a
nullity, I have failed to discern, etc.
Here
are several tests to determine biological laterality:
Applause. The people who
applaud with the flat left and right strike, are biological right-handed; those
who have the right flat and strike with the left, are left-handed biological.
Those who applaud in the middle are considered to have a double brain, that is,
they work with both brains.
Breastfeed the baby. If
they carry the baby with the left arm they have the right to do something else,
they will leave the stronger side free, and if they are left handed, it will be
just the opposite. With what hand do you give him the bottle?
Thread the thread into a
needle. The right hand will take the needle with the left hand, the left hand
with the right.
The hammer and the nail.
Right-handers will take the nail with the left hand, the left-handers with the
right.
Climbing stairs. What is
the foot that goes up the first rung?
Conflicts
associated with laterality:
Dyslexia may be related.
In fact, there may be some contradictory laterality. It is necessary to know
the biological laterality. Although there are also transgenerational memories.
Another would be
confusing the right with the left. It is related to memories of being an
unwanted child or not of the sex that the parents would have preferred (being a
child and parents wanting a girl or vice versa).
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