Like an artificer, biological decoding deactivates the brain program that has initiated a disease. “It is an emotional therapy that is complementary to medical approaches,” says Christian Flèche.
Interview with Christian Flèche
Does the biological decoding understand the origin of the disease?
Yes. It is a new way of understanding the cause of the pathology, which is based on the function of the damaged organ to which the disease is useful. If I’m being insulted all the time and I can’t stand it, I develop deafness. This way I avoid being in contact with stress. The disease is a solution of the body to a conflict to which I can find no other way out. Being very afraid of dying can lead a person to develop a tumor in the lungs, that is, to make more alveoli, more lungs, to symbolically avoid death.
Is there always a trigger?
It is an explosive moment that can last less than a second, and yet it revolutionizes our biology: bioshock. The time stops. Biological decoding allows for an update.
How is pre-illness bioshock defined?
There are numerous setbacks in life, but not all of them cause disease. This appears when there has previously been a bioshock, which is characterized by: something very precise in time and space has happened, it has been unexpected and subjectively very dramatic, the situation has been lived alone and there is no solution for the person . We are not dealing with a vague or diffuse situation, but rather, even if the patient has consciously forgotten it, something specific must have happened: they have received a call, there has been a drama…
It is a new way of understanding a pathology: if they insult me all the time and I can’t stand it, I develop deafness
Does biological decoding promote healing?
My job is not to cure the disease, but to heal what was at its origin. As Jung said, “disease is nature’s effort to heal the body.” When there is no external solution to that need, the body finds an internal solution, which is the disease. Work on the meaning of the disease; the doctor has his role, the psychologist has his… and the role of the psychological decoder is complementary.
Is it the art of knowing how to communicate with the unconscious?
This is the specificity of biological decoding. Nothing mental and conscious interests us. I have invented some protocols to listen to the cell and the unconscious –which for me is biological– and maintain a dialogue with it, taking into account that the unconscious is like a rosebud: you have to be delicate and subtle and you cannot access it only with a set of techniques. It also requires an attitude.
It seems complicated. Can you give me an example…?
It is a belief to say that the unconscious is complicated…
Sorry!
When you apologize, your unconscious is already expressing itself. She believes that she has made a mistake and falls into guilt. There is a pre-conflict: “I think you have to do it well, that there are good and bad behaviors.” The unconscious expresses itself constantly. You just have to listen to it, open your eyes and ears… It’s like learning a new language, the language of the unconscious.
How do we start the dialogue?
An example of a protocol would be to visualize an organ or put an organ on the table, draw a mouth or ears on it and ask questions, inducing a state of relaxation and pre-hypnosis. The organ gives us answers. I have obtained a lot of healings through this simple dialogue protocol with the unconscious that is in an organ.
When there is no external solution to a need, the body finds an internal solution: disease
He says it’s detective work. What tools do you find most useful?
The therapist’s first tool is him and all the work he has done on himself, his introspection capacity to investigate his own biology and emotions. The therapist also has to know how to be very present… If I have a child in front of me, I sit on the ground to be at his level and become a child. The ability to “become” a lung, a liver, and “dilute” as a therapist allows one to be able to dialogue with this unconscious.
And how is each organ associated with an emotion?
Each organ has a biological function. The skin is made to touch and be touched. Thus, when their needs for contact and respect are not met, emotions begin to appear. The stomach is designed to hold food. It’s your biological sense. If there is no food, hunger appears and emotion is born because the function of the organ could not be satisfied. And that happens with every part of our body. This emotion is the conscious imprint that this function has not been fulfilled.
Is it important to express emotions to stay healthy?
Yes, but the real ones… There are superficial, social emotions that are a lie. A man can make believe that he is angry because he has been fired from work and express anger, which is useless because deep down he is sad and depressed, but he does not give himself permission to cry. The focus of biological decoding is cellular and central emotions.
And how do we know that these are the emotions we express?
I always say that there are many paths to healing and many ways of expression and transformation. Art can be a wonderful way to express our emotions. But someone who cries every day or who writes sad poems does not heal. In therapy, what we are looking for is the definitive expression, to make sadness disappear forever. That’s why I’m working more and more with pre-conflicts and limiting beliefs. The man who has lost his job is fine to express his sadness. But sometimes it’s enough and sometimes it’s not. Then we will have to look for where his pre-conflict is. It may be, for example, that he is completely identified with his work.
Is there a sign that reveals that deprogramming has occurred?
No, not always. The human being is both universal and unique. There are many and very different manifestations of healing: a laugh, serenity or nothing special…
Allergies are related to a memory conflict. Eczema, with one apart
To investigate the origin of a cancer, is the function of the organ or the cancer itself taken into account?
All is important. Above all, you have to listen to the language of the person. I will look at which is the diseased organ, what are the particular symptoms that are expressed, if there is inflammation or not… We are going to decipher everything and everything is relevant: if the disease has appeared in the right or left breast; if we are facing a rheumatism, what is the affected joint; if there is an overweight, how many kilos are we talking about, when did it appear… All the details make sense.
Can you give me an example of a conflict hidden behind the disease?
Allergies are related to a memory conflict; diseases of the locomotor system reveal a devaluation; bladder diseases territory problems; in eczema there is usually a separation conflict; the colon corresponds to a rotten conflict; the kidneys, with the loss of reference points, and the mouth, with the fact of being able to catch what is mine.
Can’t the person feel worse by blaming them for the disease?
It can be hard to swallow for those who have guilt within, because this is their pattern of behavior. But others will say: “This is great: I can do something to heal myself! I no longer feel powerless nor am I a passive object, but I can become an actor in my healing, an actor in my life”.
That’s where prevention comes into play…
This is part of my most recent research. It is about being attentive to the first signs of the disease. Before developing cancer, for example, the person may have had previous symptoms such as tiredness, different breath, headaches… It is important to pay attention to these small previous signs that take place inside us and ask ourselves: “What is what doesn’t work?”, “What am I not talking about?” Of course, it is a way to prevent.
And then you have to listen…
Once I know what’s not working, I’ll try to find out what the emotion is. The key question is: “What happens to me with this? What emotion does it give me?” Then I have to fully express what is happening to me, be it with a therapist, with a friend…, until I feel lightened, calm and well. That is the sequence: I listen to my body, I find what is not going well, I investigate what emotion has been blocked and I express it until I recover my serenity. Illness expresses an unsatisfied need. We have been dissociating from ourselves.
It’s a step-by-step process…
You have to understand it as if we had three opportunities. When a problem appears, we can accept reality. That is, if my wife has left me, I accept it. If I don’t take advantage of this opportunity, emotions like sadness, fear, anger… However, I have a second chance, which is to express these emotions. If I don’t, this emotion passes into the body and the prodrome (initial symptom) occurs, which I can listen to to find the event and accompanying emotion. And if, finally, I don’t pay attention to my body either, the disease will develop, which will take more time and energy to stop.