Infections and Skin Disorders
Excerpt from the book: Soul-Side Out: Universal Laws to Healing and Living Your Best Life.
Healing from Pervasive Eczema and a Streptococcal blood Infection.
When I was 24 years old, I visited I lived in India for 4 months. During the 24-hour flight home from India back to Canada, my childhood eczema flared up, covering my body. As I sat in the plane, anxiously anticipating my arrival home, I vigorously scratched my elbow folds. The skin was fragile and it was soooo itchy. I scratched my arms to the point of bleeding, and within a day, one of the openings developed a large boil the size of a golf-ball and just as hard.
At the time, I was unaware of the emotional upheaval or that my physical symptoms had any relationship to anything but the surface of my skin. I was given a series of tests by infectious disease specialists at the hospital to determine the cause of the infection and the boils. They told me they had no real explanation for it. My immune system seemed normal and they told me I would likely just have to keep taking antibiotics and have this issue for the rest of my life! … I was stunned! These specialists could not help me!
I was given several prescriptions for antibiotics to rid me of the boils and streptococci blood infection causing them. When I took the antibiotics, the boil on the surface of my skin receded, only to be followed by another as soon as I finished taking the medicine.
Within our healthcare system, the solutions for what ails us is often some form of drug. There is not much else, at least not in conventional medicine. The idea is to fight or kill whatever invades our body. In Chapter 3, I will talk about this very interesting, fear-based paradigm for treating illness and disease.
After several new boils and rounds of antibiotics, I began searching for information to explain what was going on in my body. Although I don’t remember the book or where I located the passage that shifted my awareness, I do remember that boils and the green puss that oozed from them represented long-held, repressed anger erupting through the surface. Aha! That’s it! My whole body responded with an undeniable, YES! The feeling was so strong, I knew it was confirming a truth within me.
I had been holding anger and confusion in my body for years. It was finding its way out as I journaled, dreamed, sketched out and scribbled my body sensations, emotions, memories, and images. I began to trust my body and what it was telling me. I refused the last antibiotics prescribed for me and haven’t had a boil since. The healing went deeper. I stopped having issues with eczema all together, and it had been a lifetime chronic issue.
Larrie's Story: Healing from Flesh Eating Disease:
How is this possible! ? ... I had asked myself this question many times until I found the answer in one of Dr. John Sarnos books in which he coined the term "The Symptom Imperative" Dr. John E. Sarno. He’s written many books that challenge conventional western medicine and psychology including The Divided Mind; Epidemic of Mind-Body Disorders and The MInd-Body Prescription.
WHAT DR. SARNO CALLS The Symptom Imperative
operates within a series of disorders that fall within psychosomatic or mind-body medicine and it means that your body keeps creating symptoms until the underlying cause is addressed which is an emotional or spiritual conflict.
Although it is true that symptoms arise anywhere in the body, in my experience the mind is not random in its choice of where or how the pain or symptom is experienced. Symptoms are often a precise metaphorical reflection of the underlying psychic, spiritual or emotional conflict the person is experiencing.
In his books, The Divided Mind; the Epidemic of Mind-Body Disorders, and the Mind-Body Prescription, Dr. John Sarno breaks the diseases and disorders that fall within Mind-Body Medicine into 2 categories.
Those disorders that are directly induced by unconscious emotions such as pain problems (including, but not limited to back pain and migraine headaches)
Diseases in which unconscious emotions play a role, but are not the only factor,
including
Dr. Sarno has tracked to the repression of emotion through the autonomic-peptide branch of the central nervous system (Sarno, 2006). (Peptides are molecules that participate in a system of inter- communication between the brain the body)
He says:
"The altered physiology in this process that creates the symptoms and physical pain appears to be a mild, localized reduction in blood flow to a small region or specific body structure resulting in a state of mild oxygen deprivation. (Sarno, 2006, p.14-15)
The result is the sensation of physical pain or fatigue.
The tissues that may be targeted by the brain include the muscles of the neck, shoulders, back or buttons; any spinal or peripheral nerve and any tendon. As a consequence, the symptoms may occur virtually anywhere in the body.” (Sarno, 2006, p.14-15)
In short, what Dr. Sarno is saying is that many types of symptoms are caused by mild and benign (meaning harmless) oxygen deprivation to a specific are of the body, and brought on by stress through the central nervous system through repressed emotion.
How is this possible! ? ... I had asked myself this question many times until I found the answer in one of Dr. John Sarnos books in which he coined the term "The Symptom Imperative" Dr. John E. Sarno. He’s written many books that challenge conventional western medicine and psychology including The Divided Mind; Epidemic of Mind-Body Disorders and The MInd-Body Prescription.
WHAT DR. SARNO CALLS The Symptom Imperative
operates within a series of disorders that fall within psychosomatic or mind-body medicine and it means that your body keeps creating symptoms until the underlying cause is addressed which is an emotional or spiritual conflict.
Although it is true that symptoms arise anywhere in the body, in my experience the mind is not random in its choice of where or how the pain or symptom is experienced. Symptoms are often a precise metaphorical reflection of the underlying psychic, spiritual or emotional conflict the person is experiencing.
In his books, The Divided Mind; the Epidemic of Mind-Body Disorders, and the Mind-Body Prescription, Dr. John Sarno breaks the diseases and disorders that fall within Mind-Body Medicine into 2 categories.
Those disorders that are directly induced by unconscious emotions such as pain problems (including, but not limited to back pain and migraine headaches)
- Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Carpel Tunnel Syndrome, Chronic Pain, Ulcers, Hernias, Irritable Bowel, Sexual Dysfunction, Tinnitus, Bone Spurs, Bulging Disks, Herniated Discs, Knee, shoulder, back or knee strain/pain or diagnosed tears, and migraines.
- Skin disorders such as eczema, hives, psoriasis, asthma, and common gastrointestinal conditions including reflux, ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, allergies and many others.
Diseases in which unconscious emotions play a role, but are not the only factor,
including
- cancer
- autoimmune disorders,
- cardiovascular conditions
Dr. Sarno has tracked to the repression of emotion through the autonomic-peptide branch of the central nervous system (Sarno, 2006). (Peptides are molecules that participate in a system of inter- communication between the brain the body)
He says:
"The altered physiology in this process that creates the symptoms and physical pain appears to be a mild, localized reduction in blood flow to a small region or specific body structure resulting in a state of mild oxygen deprivation. (Sarno, 2006, p.14-15)
The result is the sensation of physical pain or fatigue.
The tissues that may be targeted by the brain include the muscles of the neck, shoulders, back or buttons; any spinal or peripheral nerve and any tendon. As a consequence, the symptoms may occur virtually anywhere in the body.” (Sarno, 2006, p.14-15)
In short, what Dr. Sarno is saying is that many types of symptoms are caused by mild and benign (meaning harmless) oxygen deprivation to a specific are of the body, and brought on by stress through the central nervous system through repressed emotion.
Lots of us make ourselves SICK physically, emotionally or spiritually
by not listening to our inner being.
TRUTH is we are ALL DOING IT!
It’s a perfectly Normal thing to do! …
Thats RIGHT Completely NORMAL ! ….
Dr. Sarno
concluded that since EVERYONE experiences psychosomatic symptoms, the mind-split is a universal human trait, not something associated only with neurosis or to put it another way, Neurotic is normal. (Sarno, The Divided Mind p. 52)
He also says that a big reason for these disorders is the resistance of the Medical profession to acknowledge a mind-body connection and to normalize the experience.
He says “ For the majority there is a stigma attached to disorders related to psychology. There is shame associated with the idea that one is suffering from psychological induced symptoms. Stress or illness disease on the other hand is more acceptable because it is believed to stem from things “out there” that are doing something TO YOU and its does not imply a personal defect!
But, the the truth is that the Symptom Imperative and the Mind-Body Spilt - the need to reconcile thought and feeling or the head and heart… our spiritual nature with our purpose here on Earth is a UNIVERSAL process
The simplest way to accept and understand this Universal Process
of Mind-Body Communication is through the 5-step process of INside-OWT
INside-OWT is a completely natural way to access your inner knowledge. It's a process you remember because we all know what fundamentally heals us at the core of our being. You can access unconscious feelings that need resolution quickly and find the gift of new inner wisdom and inner strength at the same time.
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