What power does the mind have over the body to manifest symptoms that respond as an adaptive function to a stress situation.
In this podcast, Enric Corbera exposes how current science has shown evidence of the influence of emotions on health.
In this conference, Enric Corbera talks about symptoms as signals that our unconscious emits through the body.
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Unexplained symptoms?
One in three people who go to the GP have symptoms without any medical explanation. Dr. Suzanne O’Sullivan, in her book account, through various case-examples, how doctors abandon the patients they they cannot cure their symptoms.
Each person deserves a thorough study of their ailment: “it is absolutely essential that the patient feel that the doctor understands his suffering. There are patients who believe that they are being accused of lying, pretending, that your pain is not reall”, says O’Sullivan in his book.
Dr. O’Sullivan proposes that the practice of medicine take into account that “There is a very clear interaction between mind and body”. Although it is not fully proven, various studies indicate that the mind is not detached from the body.
What is my body manifesting?
The symptom is a biological and multifactorial process what happens in our body but in the same situation no one reacts in the same way at a biological level. The physical symptoms are related to how everyone lives the experience.
Carl Gustav Jung in his book “Man and his symbols” cites examples of patients who “before a very stressful situation present: spasms and difficulty swallowing; to another patient he gives a asthma attack and he says he can’t breathe the air at home; another vomits everything he eats, he cannot digest; another has a sudden paralysis in the legs and can’t walk”.
Jung says that you are physical reactions are just a way that problems that worry us can
How does stress affect my body?
75% of health problems are caused by our emotions, being the stress the number 1 enemy of healthaccording to the Department of Integrative Oncology, via Oxford University Press.
The causes an increase in the secretion of adrenaline that causes an environment that stimulates inflammatory factors in our body and weakens the immune system.
This state of inflammation should trigger the first alarm to seek medical attentionsince it is linked to the states of emergency that the body activates when it detects that something is not working normally, just as a fever does when it occurs.
“We should judge less the doctors the patients and the patients themselves.”
Suzanne O’Sullivan.
The power of the mind and the interaction with the body
The symptom they have a multifactorial originDr. O’Sullivan comments that people suffering from psychosomatic illnesses may feel guilty because they understand that the doctor tells them that they generate their own symptoms.
Since she has been head of her department at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, she has collaborated with psychologists and psychiatrists to treat their patients from an interdisciplinary perspective and maintains that the
The key to a good study of ailments and symptoms is the integration and the complementarity of the different disciplines whose objective is the attainment of well-being.
The symptom can be understood as an adaptive function to a stress situation.
Bioneuroemoción® and the symptom
We know more and more about the with disciplines such as , which seeks to interpret the signs that emits our unconscious through the body and interpersonal relationships.
The symptom can be understood as a multifactorial element that presents a adaptive function. After experiencing a stressful situation, once the state of overactivation has passed, the body can suffer when adapting to that specific emotional environment to resolve the situation in which we find ourselves.
Yes we suppress emotions that the stress situation generates in us can cause that stress becomes chronic and, as a consequence, favor the appearance of a symptom in our body.
emotions and health
There is much to discover in human nature and in the power of influence of the mind on the body.
It’s clear that, before any disorder in our organism is essential see a specialist and treat it; however, at the same time we can attend to a factor that influences our health and that depends directly on us: our emotional state.
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Contrada, RJ, Leventhal, H. & O’Leary, A. (1990). Personality and health. In LA Pervin (Ed.), Handbook of personality (pp. 638-669). New York: Oxford University Press.