I was asked to comment on the psychodynamics of autoimmune disorders.
People sometimes associate physical disorders with psychodynamic patterns. It is sometimes accurate.
Regarding autoimmune disorders, the body is attacking itself. The idea then would be that one is attacking ones self psychodynamically, perhaps some sort of self-loathing or self-judgment on some level. It is generally cloaked with denial. You need to decide for yourself if this applies to you and if so how.
Similarly, allergies to the environment can imply aversion to what is around you. Again, one must decide for ones self if this applies to them or not.
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This is very helpful.
Autoimmune and allergy disorders plague me more than any other health issues. When I developed autoimmune issues 15 or so years ago, I realized I had deep self-judgment and self-loathing and was on a self-destructive path. So I started fighting back. In my brain and it my heart, the self-destruct was illogical to me because I’ve known for a long time I was carried and sustained by God’s love and that Divine love is at the core of my being. I’ve struggled with the paradox of self-loathing and destruction, and self-love (not narcissistic but God’s love). I feel frustrated with the struggle because it drains energy and keeps me from more productive avenues. I just realized my fear of these disorders is as debilitating as the symptoms they invoke. Since fear is the opposite of love, it makes so much sense how much stress fear causes. That fear seems to fit in well with wounding around the Spirituality Current – I often struggle with being in this place. The aversion to the environment, hence my allergies, makes so much sense to me.
While I’ve made progress on my own, I know without a doubt, I was drawn to you and to the class for healing and to understand how to free myself from the control of my experience and conditioning to unharness my true nature…and ultimately to contribute in the fullest way possible to the healing of others.
Yes Bonnie,
Weave this together with you comment on the blog ‘Curiosity’ and the picture becomes increasingly clear.
Very good.
Once an autoimmune disease has developed in the physiology, is it possible for it to no longer exist if the underlying psychodynamic patterns are brought into balance? In the case of celiac disease, medicine has been able to isolate the trigger that sets off the attack cycle (gluten). Won’t the body always see gluten as an enemy, even when psychodynamic health is restored?
While I’m sure there is a direct link with my self-judgement and my auto-immune diseases, the understanding pretty much stops there. I know there is more to it and I wish I could understand it more fully.
Once a mode of function is established in the physiology, it can be difficult to remove it. After the physiology is ‘healed’ the memory remains. Even when the initial cause is gone, some degree of predisposition to the old habit is still there. Then again, is the initial cause in this sense ever really ‘gone’? The psyche too has its residuals. In this regard it is best not to think in terms of complete and total healing. There is always some level of tendency to return to that which is familiar.
Everything is everywhere. You are one with everything. Everything is there within you. Unity does not mean unity with the things you think are good and elimination of the things you do not. It means unity with everything. So healing is not about the removal of this and that. It is about the physiology having a ‘healthy relationship with…’ this and that. Of course, a healthy relationship with many things is to keep them at a distance, but not to deny the nature of their presence in your world. Life is indeed subtle.
There is a notion that energetic cords get created between people in relationship. If the relationship goes wrong, energy ‘healers’ sometimes think of removing or cutting those cords. That is actually not possible. In this sense, cords eternally exist between all things in existence. We are all one. Better to think in terms of cleaning the cords rather than attempting to eliminate that which is, in reality, eternal. A healthy relationship with people is to keep them each at the appropriate distance (i.e. have healthy boundaries) while at the same time being awake to the level where we are all one. Humanity has a great deal to learn about healthy boundaries, both culturally and socially. The word that comes to mind is “integrity”. This becomes spontaneous as the level of ones evolution rises.