Each of us has been sick before. From simple colds to serious illnesses, it seems that everything is just a responsibility of the body.
Do you know that psychological factors can lead to physical diseases?
Do you believe that a person’s inner pain can become the root of illness?
Many research reports point out the subtle relationship between the body and mind, which is amazing! According to figures released by the WTO, 60%-80% of diseases worldwide are psychosomatic (mind-body diseases), caused by changes in psychology and emotions eventually leading to physical disorders or changes.
So, what is the relationship between physical diseases and psychological factors? Explained by Guangzhou psychological counseling.
Emotional changes in people
Often accompany a series of physiological changes
When emotions change, it is often accompanied by a series of physiological changes.
For example, fear can dilate pupils, cause thirst, sweating, and paleness; while feeling low or excessively tense, a person may increasingly dislike their appearance, feel dissatisfied with how they dress or groom, leading to oily hair, irritability, sweating, abnormal genital secretions, or odor.
Psychological counselors point out that if one is unable to extricate themselves from a negative emotion for a long time, it can have adverse effects on physical health.
The relationship between physical illnesses and psychological emotions
is closely related
Most of our physical diseases are accumulated from negative thoughts and emotions, where different emotions are stored in different parts of the body. The ancient wisdom of Chinese medicine has long stated that the kidneys control fear, the liver harbors anger, the lungs hold grief….
An American survey once revealed that about 35% of individuals, due to excessive stress, developed heart disease, digestive ulcers, and high blood pressure. Nearly all cases of functional gastrointestinal disorders, insomnia, headaches, dental caries, acquired cardiac discomfort, and certain gastric ulcers, paralysis, etc., are caused by fear and anxiety, or are directly related to them.
Research conducted by Chinese psychologists on hypertensive patients revealed that up to 74.5% of them had adverse emotional personalities before the illness. There are far more diseases closely related to psychological factors than the few mentioned above; many diseases are related to psychological factors, just to varying degrees.
Rheumatoid arthritis patients feel intense joint pain whenever they experience grief, sadness, or fear; the pain diminishes as emotions stabilize. A study found that about one-third of patients experiencing toothache for the first time have psychogenic origins, all with varying degrees of psychological trauma history. Even external injuries have a close relationship with psychological factors.
Moreover, according to surveys, patients with low spirits and mental malaise have slower wound healing compared to those with positive and vibrant spirits. Due to the close relationship between psychological factors and diseases, developed Western countries have established quite advanced medical psychology, which is increasingly playing a significant role.
The discomfort and illnesses of the body may be
a cry for help from within
Our thoughts may deceive us, but the body never lies, faithfully storing all emotions to remind us to face our true needs truthfully.
Various rashes on the skin, like eruptions of small volcanoes, are messages saying, “I am angry, see my fury, hear my voice”; issues with intimate relationships often manifest as symptoms on the reproductive organs, especially in women.
A woman developed severe pelvic inflammation after her husband’s infidelity, which resisted treatment for a long time, preventing sexual activity. In reality, her body spoke out the words she did not at the time: “No! I will not be with someone who betrays me!”
She was fortunate, with the help of psychological counseling, she understood her needs, divorced, found someone who truly loved her, and with the right treatments and counseling, she was long healed.
Another woman, married with a son and daughter, always lived with her in-laws. Even though her husband’s family treated her well, she yearned for her own space, suggesting to move out of her in-law’s home multiple times, but was always rejected. Eventually, she stopped mentioning it, until she was diagnosed with lung cancer.
By the time of the diagnosis, it was already in the late stage, after two chemotherapy sessions, she was moved to an intensive care unit. Besides conventional medical treatment, her family arranged for a renowned psychotherapist to assist her. Throughout the treatment, she kept calm, only expressing her desire for her husband, children to visit her daily, with her husband mostly spending nights in the small waiting room with her.
In a hypnotic therapy session, the therapist asked her about her biggest wish in life?
“I wish to have my own home, to be with my husband and children, to have our own house, not big, even a few dozen square meters are fine, with a view of green plants outside.”
“How long would you like to live there?” the therapist asked.
“Not for long, a few months would be good.”
She calmly shared her wish, with a faint smile escaping her lips unnoticed by even herself.
The woman with lung cancer was filled with sorrow for not having an independent family, but when she avoided facing her true feelings by keeping busy or avoiding them, her subconscious used bodily ailments to grant her greatest wish. In this way, she finally obtained her own space but at the cost of her precious life.
The discomfort and illnesses of the body are just calls for help from within, fire alarms. Unfortunately, most people do not truly understand these signals, treating a headache with headache medicine, foot pain with foot medicine, or even trying to remove the fire alarm, which inevitably leads to tragic consequences.
The body can help us perceive
The body is our most loyal friend, always using various ways to remind us of the root of issues.
The knowledge of the mind may be forgotten, but the wisdom of the body, like learning to ride a bike, is never forgotten! The body is like a display of our subconscious mind, which we seldom understand or comprehend.
The power of the subconscious mind is limitless; every successful person utilizes this power to extract stored information from the subconscious, identify the information causing the disease, resolve and eliminate it. Similarly, situations like fatigue, accidents caused by the subconscious can also be resolved and changed.
Various problems in life like financial scarcity, career setbacks, poor relationships, disharmony in families, and child issues. From a psychological perspective, the occurrence of these problems is just a result; in the past, we were busy dealing with the results but did not seek the causes, resulting in similar problems recurring, leaving us exhausted and overwhelmed.
Identifying psychological causes of issues
Deeply transforming the subconscious
Many psychological factors are buried in the subconscious, influencing our emotions, behavior, leading to various problems and manifesting as diseases in the body.
When we are sufficiently awake, understand our issues, recognize the psychological causes, reevaluate ourselves, overcome psychological barriers, heal psychological trauma, and grow from there, we can effectively help ourselves resolve current troubles.
Among diagnosed symptomatic patients, 60% do not need medication or surgery; by changing lifestyle, attitude, and adjusting psychologically, symptoms can be alleviated and eliminated.
Through psychological counseling, emotions of seekers are unblocked, the influences diminish or disappear, leading to a transformation in life. By delving into the subconscious for transformation, we liberate ourselves from the accumulation of emotional cages, setting the stage for a beautiful life, reshaping a new life!
Conclusion of Guangzhou Psychological Counseling
Modern individuals face dual pressures from family and work, where stress, anxiety, depression, and personality factors can induce physiological changes and trigger diseases.
If diseases persist recurrently or the causes cannot be diagnosed, consider starting from the psychological origins that trigger the disease, and promptly seek psychological counseling for assistance.
