Psyche and Emotions in the Physical Body

How the psyche, emotions and the physical body act upon each other.

The power and influence of the psyche and emotions onto the physical body are underestimated in a lot of times. In our western culture we make a clear difference between psychological and physical complaints. But in fact, that’s a distinction made by and for humans, to make it easier to get a clear view and find a pattern in the complaints. In reality, the human body doesn’t know these limitations.

Psychological complaints can after an amount of time result in physical complaints. In the same way, physical complaints can lead to psychological complaints. A simple example, to make some things more clear:

Someone has troubles with his/her leg
This means, that walking is not possible
One can not go to work/school, friends, sports etc
They are (temporarily) isolated
This can result in frustration, anger, sadness, fear etc. because they feel themselves too much
or not needed any more, friends are not coming as often as expected, etc

This way a physical problem (pain in the leg) is been confronted with an emotional or psycical blockade. Of course there are a lot of possible scenarios, and a physical complaint will not always lead to a psychological / emotional complaint. But, as long as the complaint is present, the opportunity is increasing.

At the same way an emotional or psychological complaint can lead to a physical complaint. Think about people who are having a very stressful life, which can lead to heart disease or a gastric ulcer.

But you can also think at people who are very tensed (by stress, fear or angre). You'll see that their whole body is prepared to fight or flight.
The face and body have muscles which are (extremely) tensed, adrenalin is rushing through the body. These people should have an energetic massage to calm down.
You feel that they can get angry or fall down in tears any moment now.
Sometimes it's enough to put your arms around them and all the pain and frustration is released.

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