How Do I Find the Emotion Causing the Health Issue?

I wish to share some commonality I have found in helping patients discover the emotions they need to work through that is affecting their health. This is done in conjunction with the health care intervention and support available to them.

Paying attention to health issues and using it as a clue to discover denied issue is of great benefit to us. It is a way for us to wake up to truth that we have been denying, and is also causing us difficulties in other areas of our lives.

If we are already connecting to emotions about an issue, then that is not the one affecting health. It is the emotion that is denied, ignored, and suppressed.

I start with emotional honesty with myself and say, “I do not want to know what this issue is, I do not want to feel this emotion or have this memory be awakened. I am very angry about this issue and I do not want to know that this pain is caused by ……” Usually by this point, the words will just come out of my mouth and I will have a clue as to what it is.

For example, If I am denying that I feel bad about myself, but instead am in the addiction of seeking validation, I may develop low back pain. My soul is trying to give me a clue to what I am denying. If I am having hair loss, then I am denying that I have the emotion that I do not feel I have authority in my life. Sometimes I will help patients look at other events in their lives and it alway turns out to be pointing to the same issue.

The goal is to release the emotion safely. If I feel bad about myself, I need to let myself experience it, and once the emotion is gone, I will feel how God feel about my worth. I will change how I treat myself and how I let others treat me. I will attract more opportunities that honours my nature and gifts. New people will be drawn into my life that treats me as an equal etc.

Sometimes there are other clues, such as right sided issues are about how you feel about a man or how you feel about yourself (if you are male), and left sided issues are how you feel about a woman or yourself (if you are a female). Digestive issues tend to be about fear. Skin issues tend to be about suppressed rage. Sore throat is about not speaking of something you are angry about, but have denied it completely so you are probably not even aware what you are angry about or what you wish to say -if you gave yourself the opportunity.

Health issues are incredible clues to issues of how we are not loving ourselves and others and can help us return to our real selves, if we are able to engage it emotionally.

Love,

Dr Dharm