Body and soul, a mirror relationship
- mariaolympiagiannali
- Feb 25, 2023
- 2 min read
Diet, sleeping habits and physical activity are important for the body, but well-being is much more than that. Of course you eat and sleep well so that the body can cope with all functions, but what happens when the body starts to react in different ways without us knowing the reason? What does our mental condition look like?
One's mental illness is usually reflected in the body's various functions. This is an old theory that has sometimes been proven true. How many times have the doctors been unable to find anything pathological when you feel different temporary discomforts in different parts of the body? Headaches, migraines, pain in joints, muscles, stomach, back, even kidneys and liver.
Sometimes you treat your body as you treat your soul, and your mental condition can be reflected and transferred to various problems in the body. Emotions such as fear, frustration, guilt are negative emotions that are expressed through various physical problems.
Consider a situation when a child cries himself to sleep and the mother will not comfort him. How does the body react? The heart beats as if it is going to burst, the baby sweats and the face turns red.
This frustration, fear and feeling of loneliness and abandonment is exactly what can be expressed later in life. Now the child hides behind an adult body that tries to hide these feelings. Through the adult way of living and using logic in everyday life, you can deceive yourself. On the other hand, one cannot deceive the very body that has experienced these feelings. After a long period of sabotage in the body, it reacts in different ways just like when it was a baby.
That you were not accepted or cared for as a child can be expressed through headaches or various stomach ailments. Pain in the back or in the joints may be something that you have experienced and that you do not allow to change the way you look at things.
Finding your way back to safety and calming this child down is not easy, but it is possible. Learning to accept this fear and abandonment as one's missing piece of the puzzle is important so that the body can begin to heal. The child screams inside one's subconscious mind and that must be taken care of so that the inner baby's body stops sweating and the heart calms down.
The body's illness shows us what we need to deal with. As soon as we begin to deal with the causes of our mental illness, the bodily symptoms that lose their function disappear. Then you have found the missing piece of the puzzle, accepted it and embraced it. You find yourself.
After we have been to the doctor and assured that there is nothing pathological that has caused these problems, we need to look deep into the soul. What are my symptoms trying to tell me? Do I need to be loved? Why am I afraid of being loved? How can I take care of myself?
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