2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Today there are many "official" theories of cancer. They describe the effects of viruses, mutations and carcinogens as a triggering factor. But if you look closely at “oncological” individuals, observe the ways of responding to stress, the emotional landscape against which the disease arises, it becomes obvious that the problem of cancer has psychological roots.
According to the "task" of the organism
An attempt to link oncology and the emotional sphere is not at all new - the ancient Greek doctors Hippocrates and Galen were still involved in this issue. Galen wrote that cheerfulness is a natural prevention of cancer. Creating the doctrine of the types of temperament, Hippocrates first of all asserted the thesis of psychosomatic unity. He said that many diseases are determined by internal processes. Later, this point of view was confirmed. It has been proven that the state of the emotional sphere significantly affects the immune and endocrine systems of the body. Psychosomatic illness occurs precisely when this influence becomes too strong.
Ancient Chinese medicine viewed a tumor as a result of the accumulation and stagnation of blood and vital energy. Malignant formations were characterized as insensitive clusters, that is, devoid of life, alien to the body. Therefore, not only drugs that affect the tumor itself were used to treat them, but Tao was also practiced as a way to change the lifestyle.
A stone on the heart
There is a well-known oncological metaphor - “a stone on the heart”. Over time, if not removed, the stone turns into a tumor. When oncology occurs, there is a transition from an external psychological problem to an internal - somatic one. An organ that is damaged by a tumor symbolizes an external danger that cannot be dealt with in an adequate way. Oncology is in fact a surrender, a shift of the problem from the area of personal responsibility towards the acceptance of care: “Let the doctors now deal with my problem, I cannot do it”.
What triggers an oncological reaction? Trauma becomes the starting point - an event after which one cannot live as before. She seems to divide life into "before" and "after", and the personality splits into pre-traumatic and post-traumatic. An adequately experienced traumatic event allows one to live in changed conditions. But if we ignore reality, do not accept it, the body can begin to form a tumor. You can't close your eyes to her.
Between crocodile and lion
For the "traumatic" equation, the following conditions are needed: firstly, the principles, stereotypes and rules according to which the structuring of life takes place, and secondly, immersion in events that at some point begin to strongly diverge from these principles.
For example, a man is emotionally involved in a romantic relationship with a girl “inappropriate” from the point of view of relatives. For some time, loyalty to the parental system will keep him in a stable relationship "between a crocodile and a lion," but one day he will have to make a choice - to follow his desires or to give them up. Self-betrayal is a prime example of chronic trauma.
Acute trauma arises as a response to the discovery of a reality, the existence of which is in conflict with the existing ideas. Finding reality hurts. For example, a woman who grew up in a very strict family suddenly discovers in herself sexual desires that threaten her usual identity: "I am a good daughter, an exemplary spouse." And then you can either thank fate for finding something that was always inaccessible, or turn on powerful repressive mechanisms aimed at expelling outrageous information from the psyche. True, these mechanisms do not work as well as the forget-it-stick from the movie "Men in Black", and therefore the information expelled from consciousness always returns, albeit at the somatic level.
Change or die
We can often observe a situation in which a single person is actually a "clone" of another. He does not understand what desires he has. Instead, he broadcasts the desires of the other as his own, or sacrifices claims in exchange for guaranteed consistency in the relationship. This is how the phenomenon of dependent relationships is formed, when the emptiness inside is filled with vigorous activity on the periphery and one of the partners is forced to abandon himself in favor of the other, believing that his life is more important and valuable than his own.
Dependent relationships are dangerous because, when they end, they leave one of the partners in a state of total loneliness, when there is no way to rely on oneself. In this situation, the whole life that was built around the relationship leaves. A typical personal reaction to such experiences is a feeling of helplessness and hopelessness, when you give up and you have no strength left for anything. And it is at this point that it is more necessary than ever to continue living.
Symbolically, the body's message in the form of an oncological response looks like this: "Change or die." For some time, a person is in a state of impasse, when a solution cannot be found in the old ways. And then it remains to either explore new possibilities, or resort to physical care as a solution.
We all know situations in which a person suddenly loses the meaning of life. This often happens during crises - an entrepreneur loses a business, a politician retires, children grow up and create their own families. If life ends there, the tumor simply "voices" the decision that the person unconsciously made. And then the same tumor sets a new condition for him: if you want to live, you need to do it happily. That is, you need to understand what makes you alive, and make room for this in your life.
Suppression of vitality
A hobby can revive a person - often a completely useless and meaningless thing in terms of achievement and success. But thanks to him, a space appears, free of obligations and debt, a space for caring about your emotional state.
Openly displayed aggression also helps to defend one's interests - a universal way of building personal boundaries. It is often suppressed for fear of harming another and being isolated. But this is in vain. Failure to cope with conflict situations creates chronic tension. Conversely, a constructive clarification of relationships strongly promotes mutual understanding and allows them to acquire new skills and opportunities.
The inability to be oneself, the rejection of the experience of one's own authenticity, the choice of a convenient and comfortable false identity simultaneously occurs at the somatic level. The tumor cell becomes alien to the tissue in which it originated, it divides uncontrollably and penetrates into other organs. And then it displaces healthy cells and takes their place. This is a completely transparent message to the body: "Once you made the wrong choice, and now you are reaping the results." But it's never too late to get things right.
Work on bugs
In order to gain greater stability in relying on yourself, you need to look around and ask yourself a few questions:
- What is happening in my life now?
- Do I like what is happening?
- What values do I support - prescribed by society or those that resonate with my most intimate and anxious desires?
- When I make a choice, do I seek to avoid anxiety or try something new?
- How free am I in my ability to do what I want?
Remember that a neoplasm is a reaction to being "stuck" in past emotions and unfinished situations.
Try to see what unperceived event makes you very sensitive or, conversely, overly insensitive. Is there an experience in life that you still can't talk about without tears? What keeps you in these emotions and prevents you from moving on, draining your body and taking away life energy?
Emotions remain frozen only if we strive to protect the damaged area of the soul. Change happens when attitudes change. But for this it is necessary to turn around to face a difficult situation and finish what determines its emotional content. For example, to forgive and endure an insult, to let go of a person who has left a long time ago, to come to terms with the loss, to assert his desire to live here and now.
Such practices not only release from the accumulated tension, but also strengthen the confidence that what happens in your life depends solely on yourself. And that in itself is a very healthy idea.
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