The disease is the result of many factors as it is widely known. Referring to the concept of disease or illness, come to the mind of most of us, various causes such as psychological causes, biological causes, heredity, accident, socio-economic effects, but also other less popular causes, such as human energy levels or energy exhaustion the "energy" blockage in the meridians and the chakras. The biopsychosocial model addresses mainly the most common causes, but if we want to communicate with holistic concepts, then we will need to put on the table deeper concepts, not yet so studied.
The decipherment of the disease is an art that requires multiple levels of knowledge, empathy and a holistic view. Therapists in this field are few and in order to gain the ability to better understand psychosomatic illness, it is necessary to have prior training in health psychology, synthetic psychotherapy, basic medical courses, natural ways of healing such as physiotherapy, alternative therapies, traditional Chinese medicine or Ayurveda, in energy therapies such as Reiki, combined with the experience, empathy and the final holistic view of the therapist.
So seeing a patient needs to use scientific knowledge but focus on the individual and his or her individual needs. The therapist needs to leave the door open to listen to the patient, not to prejudge and put his case in a structured box in conclusion, if he wants to be able to make a holistic psychosomatic diagnosis.
Thus meeting the disease, we meet the man. Who is he, where does he come from, where does he want to go if he knows where he wants to go, do we need to help him understand what he needs and what he needs to get to his destination? So listening to the symptom, we understand the need.
Listening, for example, to a patient experiencing severe neck pain, we notice that unexpressed emotions coexist. This translates psychosomatically to the physical imprint. The warning usually comes very early with simple signs of an emotional nature. Imagine a person who, for some reason, usually because of his childhood experiences, has learned to suppress his emotions. When this started to happen, he had a dissatisfaction but then he had no choice. It may have been Mom or Dad who had to obey, and of course he did very well and obeyed at the age he was, since he had no choice then. In the process, however, and after he became an adult, this education continued to follow him faithfully and of course he adheres to it, subconsciously.
Thus, when something happens in his life, automatically the inner, now, parent, this voice that subconsciously guides him, urges him to continue the same behavior, so when something similar happens and he will need to express his opinion, he will he continues not to express it, because that is how the rules defined it then. This unexpressed emotion will be suppressed and led to where all the unexpressed emotions are integrated and a pile of unexpressed emotions will be created, which will be at the same time the source for the bodily manifestation. This translates as the child we locked in the closet because he was not allowed to speak, so we said to the child inside us "sit aside now, I take over, me the parent, you do not speak". That's how it all started, thus no matter how much the child inside us shouted, just the parent inside us, we didn't care what voices they had, and the voices just grew louder, and the voices became bangs in the closet (in our body). "What the mouth does not say, the body says."
There are 5 stages, starting from the emotional level "I feel dissatisfied, but I am not allowed to speak", if this is maintained for a long time then we are led to the next stage "I often hurt but the doctors do not find anything" which is the embodiment, if we do not understand yet somewhere we neglect, then it goes to a more chronic level, "the doctors told me I have a cervix and I need physiotherapy" in the 3rd stage, but it can also go to deeper levels like the 4th stage "I have a neck hernia and need surgery" or 5th stage "I have a malignant tumor".
He may have been a child then and there was no choice. But now he is an adult and has the right and choice, in what he will keep and what he will leave. He needs to be trained to express himself and communicate his needs, but for this to happen he first needs to listen to his own needs, unlock the inner child from the locked closet, allow him to express himself and communicate everything he needs. The beginning was made ..
By Dr Angel,
Dr Koskeridou Aggeliki (ProfDc, MSc, MBA, BSc (Hons), HND, ND)
ProfDc Psychotherapy, MSc Health Psychology, Naturopathic Doctor
AIU Dean & Director, Clinical Professor, Inventor, Holistic Therapist, ΟΛΟΝ™ Ίασης Founder
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