In certain corners, it is wise not to suggest that the Mind is the cause of the body’s illnesses. If you do, people hear that it is their fault, that somehow they are bad, or somehow they deserve to be ill. There is alot of shame and guilt that surrounds whether we have the right to have any mental or emotional connectivity with our body’s ailments. And then there’s the blame, the fear, the lack of understanding as to how our mind and body work together.

These are big unexplored areas that define how we are. Just how much power we have to recover from disease depends on how much we recognise disharmony between what we think consciously and what we know in the core of our being. To look beyond the surface takes great courage. Most people have developed brittle and seemingly essential egos to protect a very vulnerable place inside. Going into that vulnerable place and realising that it has been unfed, unwatered and stunted during many years, is a shame that is often too great to face.

Our medical culture encourages us, fundamentally, to view illness as defects of the functioning of the body. But what if illness is just nature’s intelligent way to protect us from something, to send a message to us that we need to take notice, that there is something we can do about our disharmony if we did but understand nature’s messages? What if illnesses are not ’senseless’ disorders but meaningful biological processes that are meant to save the organism not destroy it? What if illness were completely a natural response to an emotional crisis in the body?

“The differentiation between the psyche, the brain, and the body is purely academic. In reality they are one. One without the other is inconceivable.” Ryke Geerd Hamer

Looking at illness in its entirety, are we not fools to hive off the physical from the mental, emotional or indeed spiritual? How have we come to split human experience off into so many opposing categories? Could the shame of it being, by necessity into today’s culture, an either/or scenario actually contribute to the stress that we suffer at a time when the body is doing its’ best to alert us to a disharmony we need to address within?

This is the endless trap that people with ME/CFS find themselves in. The split could never be more complete than the endless search for physical cures with the ME/CFS community. Outwardly directed by our medical culture, by our superficial way of living our lives: out of harmony with ourselves and our environment: what chance do we have of helping people with ME/CFS?

Be one of the first to understand how integral the mind-body connection is to our humanity. I find even the language I have to use, is only transitional: ie: mind-body connection. We are first and foremost biologically intelligent organisims that comprise all aspects of existence: not just the physical.

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Tags: ME/CFS, mental emotional physical illness, mind-body, mind-body connection