The Mind Body Connection Summary

What emotion is hidden behind each disease?

There is a body-mind relationship that reflects how conflicting attitudes, fears and repressed feelings can directly influence the organism and its functioning. I discovered what is the psychological origin of your ailments, work with those negative emotions and, from that, make your life healthier. From head to toe, we tell you what lies behind each pain.In the book "The mind body connection", Debbie Shapiro explains how our emotional states can favor all kinds of diseases: hypertension, cardiac dysfunction or nervous disorders of different types. The different ailments can contribute not only to transform our physical health, but also to facilitate healing at a deeper level. The secret lies in

Normally, we consider the body as a "container" that accompanies us, that we must take care of and that when it is damaged they should take the doctor to repair it. "Unfortunately this view is very limited. It denies the complexity of energies that configure our whole being, energies that flow and intercommunicate. (...) There is no separation between what happens in the mind (thoughts and feelings) and what happens in the body, "he explains.For Shapiro, "demonstrating the effect of the psychosomatic relationship is simple. We know that a feeling of anxiety or nervousness can lead to an upset stomach, constipation or headache. We know that stress can cause ulcers or even heart attacks; that depression and unhappiness affect our organism to the point that we feel heavy and lethargic, lacking in energy; we lose our appetite or we overeat; our back and neck hurt ... However, happiness increases our energy and our vitality.

It is the bridge between mind and body. A neck with little mobility indicates the impossibility of seeing in all directions: it is a very rigid and limited vision, which implies obstinacy and a narrow mentality. It can also be a reaction to extreme stress that instills in us the desire to lock ourselves up and limit ourselves.

Back. It is a space where symbols and meanings are mixed. That is where we leave everything we do not want to see or show to others: it is the place where we buried feelings and experiences that have caused us harm or confusion. On the other hand, it contains the spinal column, the most important element of the whole psychosomatic structure, the pillar that sustains our being and on which the rest of the body is based. Back pain indicates a desire to get away from something, to turn away from it; or we need to get rid of "a weight" that we carry over it.

Heart. As the center of love and the core of our emotions, it is associated with the whole range of feelings. Heart attacks are a desperate situation through which the body warns us that we have gone too far, that we are paying too much attention to material aspects or that we are struggling to get something of little real value and we do not devote enough attention to the family or to the