Physical Illness and Emotional Aspects
In many cases the physical condition is the result of an emotional imbalance that persists over time.
Of course there are individual differences in how illness, both psychological and physical level. For example, some people whose physical health has been very good throughout his life, emotional distress may persist for long without becoming clearly manifest physically, but his body itself will be weakened, so that will more easily for common diseases like influenza, less vitality, mild symptoms such as headaches, digestive problems or other, chronic fatigue, etc..
Other people, however, express their emotional problems physically very quickly so that you may not even be aware of what they are feeling.How is the disease?
Modern medicine tends to focus almost exclusively on treating the symptoms, ignoring the real cause of the disease and ignoring, in many cases, the fact that the symptoms are the attempts made by the agency to achieve self healing. For example, fever helps fight the invading agents such as viruses or bacteria, by increasing the temperature. Inflammation to the affected site attracts a variety of cells and substances would fight the infectious agent. At the same time, the agent concentrates in the inflamed site, preventing it from spreading throughout the body.
But sometimes these defenses fail. It may be that these reactions are so intense that they end up doing more harm than good and not be able to heal, or maybe the body just react or do so improperly, or you have any symptoms that persists for months without evolve any way, causing a chronic nuisance that we endure as we can. And this can happen to common infectious agents that many people overcome without much difficulty, or even in the absence of a known medical cause. Why is this happening? All we are subjected to stressful events throughout our lives. A person may feel, for example, anxiety about one of these events. Anxiety has a number of physical symptoms such as palpitations and release of stress hormones called. When anxiety occurs too often it is not surprising, then, that can eventually cause physical illness or disturbance in the functioning of certain organs. That is, our emotional states affect our bodies (for example, has been found in depressed people also often take a weakened immune system).
But emotions, as already mentioned in other sections of this web site (such as constructive thinking or rationing Emotive Therapy), not just happen but are related to how we interpret what happens to us. If we interpret something as menacing feel anxiety. This reaction can lead to symptoms such as stomachaches or headaches, muscle tension, infectious diseases or respiratory diseases, as demonstrated by some studies that have seen how these symptoms can occur after a stressful event.
Our way of seeing the world also influences the chronic symptoms. People with chronic thoughts and feelings of hopelessness, helplessness and depression also have little capacity to cope with stressful events or solve problems in their lives (so-called coping skills) are more likely to have chronic diseases.
The physical symptoms that manifest themselves chronically or appear and disappear periodically without any medical treatment improvements, or being treated pharmacologically always end up being replaced by others that follow, we are indicating that there is a problem or conflict unresolved emotional. If you dig a little is likely to discover negative emotional states that may be contributing to physical illness, either directly causing symptoms (headaches, digestive problems, etc..) Or by weakening our defenses so that we are more easily attacked by agents infectious (such as influenza virus or other) and it costs us too much work to get rid of them.
Thus, the physical symptoms lead to negative emotional states and these in turn show us aspects of ourselves that we must act.
When we feel sad, dissatisfied, aggressive, irritable, jealous, anxious, inferior to others, ashamed, and so on. and these feelings are stable or are repeated often, we know that there is any imbalance in us over which we have to work to regain the serenity, courage, confidence, etc..
Of course, to do this we need to know ourselves well, not afraid to delve into our inner self and discover who we really are and what we are feeling.
This can be used two types of treatment (which can be applied together, if desired):
1. Psychological treatment for personal development to help people connect with their true nature, to know their true desires and needs in life and try to achieve them. In this way, achieve greater well-being and psychological balance, in turn, lead to greater fitness and improve your overall health.
2. Bach Flower therapy (alternative medicine).
Source: http://www.cepvi.com/psicoge.htm