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Lynn Freeman, D.C., Ph.D.(cand)
Do emotions cause
illness and disease, or worsen them?
A good way to look at
emotions is to see them as E motions —energy in motion. Our
bodies are made up of molecules, which are made up of atoms. Atoms
are made up of protons, neutrons and electrons and they all spin
around each other. In other words, we may look solid but in fact our
bodies are just like all matter and that is, we are energy moving at
different rates resulting in densities that we see and call solid.
And because we are not actually solid, the molecular substance of our
bodies is actually quite susceptible to thought and emotion.
When our emotions are
flowing freely, that is, allowed to be felt and expressed with out
resistance, (which usually takes the form of negative judgment), then
it raises the vibratory rate within the cells of our bodies—the
life force is higher. Life force is actually a quantifiable thing.
They have done studies on food that was cooked in various
ways—electric stove, flame and microwave. The food was hooked up
to a meter that measured the vibratory rate. Food cooked with flame
had the highest rate while the food cooked in the microwave had the
lowest. This concept of life force can also be clearly seen under a
microscope. When they do blood cell analysis- that is put your blood
under a very high powered microscope, if you are carrying the
precursor of disease, even before the disease fully hits, you can see
how the cells are moving very slowly, and many of them are clumped
together. They have low vitality—they lack life force. The
healthier the individual, the more freely they move. In fact they
bounce around like happy balloons.
Going back to this concept
of emotions and health, when the emotions are freely allowed
expression it keeps the life force of our bodies higher, hence the
term increase in vibratory rate. This increase in vibration
keeps the cellular aspect of the body more fluid and freely flowing.
Which again if you could see it under a microscope that would
translate into the cells having the mobility they should have. Now
there are a number of other factors that play into keeping the cells
healthy, strong and freely moving such as diet and biochemical
factors-such as toxins in the air we breath or the water, the
vibratory rate of the food (how alive or chemicalized and processed
it is), etc. But if all those other conditions were ideal, the
emotions would still play in as a large contributor to this vibratory rate.
With all that background in
mind, I will continue. You have asked if emotions cause or worsen
illness. In some cases yes but I believe it is much more generally a
case not so much of the emotion itself but what we do with the
emotion. In our culture we have a lot of judgment and resistance to
emotions that we classify as "bad". That is,
anger-sadness-fear etc. In and of them selves, these emotions are
natural and normal. A child will have a fear reaction to parents
fighting or loud voices, or they might feel angry that the parents
don’t have available time, energy or focus for them, or they may
feel sad at the disappearance of a parent from their daily life. But
our culture generally has not taught us how to be with these with our
children or with our selves. We are taught to avoid them at all
costs, deny they are there, or cover them over with material things
or things to do—all distractions. Or we discount them, that is,
tell ourselves or others why we shouldn’t feel the way we do.
Children often do not have a safe place to go and express their
feelings when bad things happen, either because parents are too busy,
or because they do not know how to be with their own feelings. Hence
they are uncomfortable with their child’s and will resort the
tactics I just described.
The end result of all this
is usually one of two main responses. In one, the child (and
ultimately the adult because it continues on through life unless
consciously worked with) will mainly act out and express their
repressed feelings in very visible ways—anti-social behaviors or
strong displays of anger. These strong displays are attempts at
expressing and having that expression received, but the more that
expression gets overlooked for what it is truly trying to say, the
worse it gets, or the longer it continues. I call this type of person
an "expresser." As they go through life they are usually
highly reactive and will display one or two emotions freely (often
anger.) That free expression of anger might take on either the loud
explosive approach or be more passive aggressive with regular
expressions of criticism or caustic style of communicating. Anger in
itself is a fine emotion, it is just one of our repetoir of human
experiences but when anger is used as a weapon or line of defense,
(such is usually the case with expressors) it is very different than
when some one is tapping into the original cause of their anger or
they are non harmfully expressing anger that is very current.
The other general response
is to internalize. This will often display in a way that is much more
acceptable to others and hence gets a lot of support. This might take
the form of the overly compliant or "pleaser" child. It
might also happen in cases where a parent was not that functional and
the child felt responsible on some level for taking care of a
parent’s emotional needs or takes over responsibilities the
parent was not sufficiently handling. This pleaser attitude might
seem desirable to the parent or socially but this person loses the
ability to know what they are feeling and the ability to express
their true self. Their emotions end up getting internalized. I call
this person the "repressor"—those who mainly
internalize their feelings or have a hard time being in touch with
what they are feeling. They usually grow up to be helper types and
put others needs before their own. But because they have lost touch
with their own feelings they are not all that aware of what their
needs are. They often do not find out until they break down wilt
illness. And even then they will resist the thought of anyone else
having to take care of them.
One problem in either case
is that when we are holding onto anger or any emotion that goes back
to earlier events, usually from childhood, then the charge—the
emotional component—of what is currently triggering the response
is compounded by the energy of the withheld energy of the original,
plus compounded events. In other words the charge is usually much
greater than the event would otherwise call for if it were not being
made worse by the individual’s history. And in the case of
personal relationships, each partner’s issues correspond so that
when one partner’s issue or wound is being triggered it triggers
the other’s wound thereby escalating it.
In either of these cases
the true emotion never gets fully expressed or received and will
ultimately have long term negative effects on ones body or life. In
my experience as a chiropractor and in doing therapy with people, it
appears the repressors tend to show up with many more symptoms
starting at an earlier age, while the expressers will often
experience illness a little later in life. Though both the expresser
and the repressor are prone to illness from the lack of ability to
have expressed in the past or to currently express what is truly
going on. Where the repressor is clearly internalizing their
emotions, and illness would make more sense in that case, I believe
the expressers brake down later due to the warring effect on the body
of over reacting and using emotions as a defense or
tactic—emotions that under healthy conditions would simply be an
emotion. (Another observation I have noticed (though there are no
studies on this) is that repressors will more often end up
constipated while expressers will more often have hyperactive
digestive disturbances, such as loose stool or a great degree of
flatulence. )
So which ever tactic gets
taken on, the end result is similar. Certain emotions are left
unacknowledged or unexpressed. Even if there are displays of certain
emotions, the deeper truth associated with the emotion is buried
underneath the conscious mind. This results in what I described
earlier, a slowing or sluggishness of the life force or vibratory
rate. When ever there is a lack of ability to be who we are or
express our truths the vibration slows down. This occurs when we,
discount or repress feelings, engage in self pity, judgment, blame
or resist any emotion. When emotions are not allowed expression at
the time they are experienced, they become locked in the body, stored
energetically in the cellular memory. The system boggs down. Then the
environment for breakdown is set up. The immune system is lowered.
The general defense system of the body is decreased.
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