Explores the body as a map of consciousness, where physical symptoms reflect stresses on our minds, emotions, and Higher Self • Offers a comprehensive guide to 800 physical symptoms with the description of their inner cause and the message they are sending to our consciousness • Explains how learning a symptom's message empowers the individual affected to take charge and effect change on the inner level • Addresses the individual as well as the helping professions, healers and therapists, to help them understand more fully the dynamics of the body-mind interface The body is intimately connected to the mind and the Spirit. Each physical symptom reflects a deeper part of our Spirit and consciousness, the part the Western traditions know as the "unconscious" or "subconscious." When we make a decision that leaves us with stress, it affects our consciousness, and therefore our energy field or aura. When the tension increases in intensity, it reaches the physical level where it creates a symptom. This means that if we make a different decision, or change our mind about something, we can let go of this stress, and the symptom. The symptom itself is not the problem, just a message that, once understood, has fulfilled its purpose and can be released. Integrating Martin Brofman's more than 30 years of research and healing practice, The Inner Cause comprises an A to Z compendium of 800 symptoms and a psychology of their inner causes, the messages they are trying to send to our consciousness. Woven into the descriptions of symptoms, the author also discusses personality profiles associated with certain symptoms, derived from his understanding of the chakras, the body-mind interface, and the connections he discovered when developing his Body Mirror System of Healing. He explains that when you explore the inner cause to a symptom, you recognize that you have created this symptom through the stressed way you chose to respond to the conditions in your life. By learning a symptom's message, you become empowered to take charge and effect change on the inner level. For each symptom discussed, the author explores the message of the symptom, which chakras are involved, how you may be affected, and which issues you might need to look at to resolve the tension or stress--although a specific solution will always depend on the individual's personal situation. With its correlation of symptoms and psychological states of being, The Inner Cause provides invaluable insight into how we can effectively support our own healing process physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
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Okay. You’ve got some kind of symptom. Whether you consider it to be the result of an accident, some organism, or just bad luck, you’ve got something to deal with, something to understand, some action to take.
Now what?
The diagnosis of a symptom, particularly one that may be considered life-threatening, can be a shock, with many strong emotions coming up for the person involved. Before any decisions are made in terms of how to proceed, the first step should be an emotional acceptance that the symptom exists.
Acceptance is not defeatism. It is not to say that by accepting the fact that the symptom exists, you are accepting that it will continue to its apparent logical conclusion. Emotionally accepting that the symptom exists simply gives you a starting point, from which you can decide what you want to do about it. You thus begin in a clear space. The symptom exists. It has been diagnosed on the physical level, as the result of some kind of physical or medical examination. That’s a fact.
If someone has been diagnosed with a condition described as terminal, they have been given a medical opinion based on the result of a medical physical examination. It is important to emotionally accept the medical diagnosis, which is about the condition of the physical body at the moment it was examined, from the point of view of the medical establishment. It is also important to understand that the prognosis, the prediction according to the medical point of view about where the symptom may be heading, is an opinion based on the diagnosis. Any doctor will agree that getting another opinion is not only reasonable, but recommended. You can then see if there are differing opinions, or an agreed-upon diagnosis and prognosis for your condition.
If there is an agreed-upon prognosis by the medical establishment, if a number of doctors agree that this is the prognosis, the perceived eventual conclusion of the symptom, the person involved needs to get to grips with it and to accept emotionally that what the doctors have predicted is a distinct possibility. It might happen, and from the doctors’ point of view, is very likely to happen. That needs to be emotionally accepted as a possibility. Once that is accepted emotionally, other possibilities can also be explored.
In my own case, I had to accept emotionally that the doctors expected me to die very soon from the spinal cord tumour I had experienced. When I did that, when I accepted the possibility of imminent death, releasing the fear of death, I was then more able to experience life more fully in the moment of experience. I was then able later to consider other possible futures, including the possibility of healing myself, and manifest that into reality.
An axiom among people working with their consciousness is that when you put certain pictures into your consciousness, you improve the probability of them happening. If you have a fear of something, then you continually put into your consciousness a picture of that thing happening. You are saying, ‘I do not want that to happen.’ The picture is clear. The fear of that happening is like glue attaching you to that picture.
If you have fear about the prognosis, you hold that picture in your consciousness about what might happen, and according to the dynamics of consciousness, you increase the possibility of that happening. If you are afraid to hear the doctor’s opinion about what might in fact happen, you need to do something to release the fear, and thus dissolve the glue.
When you have emotionally accepted the possibility that what you have been afraid of might actually happen, you do dissolve the glue by releasing the fear, and you are then more easily able to hold your attention on what you want to happen, holding that picture in your consciousness, rather than what you have been afraid of happening. You get to grips with the symptom, and the diagnosis.
What happens next is up to you, your decision.
You can decide to follow the traditional medical approach and work with medical advice and treatment. I did that, and agreed to have an operation intended to remove the tumour, though afterwards I was told that it was not successful, and that the tumour was not accessible. That was when I was told that I had one or two months to live, unless I coughed or sneezed. I had to emotionally accept that as well, in order to eventually consider other possibilities.
You can decide to work with alternative or complementary approaches, and also with your consciousness, as I did. The methods you choose do not have to be considered mutually exclusive. You can use whatever makes sense to you, whatever it is you feel good using, in order to do something about the symptom.
It is important to understand that the symptom is not the problem – it is a symptom of the problem, an indication of the existence of something else. The medical view is that it is a sign or an indication of a disorder or a disease, and it can also be seen as an indication of the tensions in the consciousness that provides the environment in which the disorder or disease can exist, and which can then be seen as the inner cause.
This is explained more fully in the next chapter.
CHAPTER 2
The Inner Cause
Why did this symptom happen?
In terms of what you have decided to do about the symptom, whether you have made a decision to follow the traditional medical model, or use herbs, or energy work, or diet, or any other approach based on treating the symptom, it can be interesting to also consider why and how the symptom happened to you.
When we discuss the causes of physical symptoms, many people tend to think in terms of the physical cause, or what is seen as the cause in physical cause-and-effect reality. Of course symptoms manifest in physical reality, through accidents, injuries, microorganisms, etc. It is important, though, to also understand that the symptom would not have manifested if the conditions for it were not there in the person’s consciousness.
For example, Type ‘A’ Behaviour is a personality profile that has been associated with heart disease. This means that there is a statistically significant correlation between people with Type ‘A’ Behaviour and those who develop heart disease. In other words, people with Type ‘A’ Behaviour have been seen to be more likely than others to develop heart disease. We can say that Type ‘A’ Behaviour is a heart disease personality. Whatever might be seen as the physical cause of heart disease, it is acknowledged that this personality type is a consistent element.
There is also a cancer personality, a near-sighted personality, an arthritis personality, etc. In fact, every physical symptom can be associated with a particular way of being. If you have a symptom, you have a way of being that correlates with that symptom.
The way of being associated with the symptom is not who you are, but rather a way of being you have adopted as the result of decisions you have made in response to events in your life. If you were not born with the symptom, you were not born with that way of being. Rather, it reflects decisions you made in your life in response to conditions at that time, and the stressed way of being with which you have identified since then.
If it was a symptom evident at birth, it was still reflecting tension in your consciousness about conditions in your life at that time; the decisions made at that time, at no matter which level, can still be changed, and those tensions released, to return to a way of being that more truly reflects who you really are.
The symptom on the physical level reflects tension in your consciousness about something that was happening in your life at the time the symptom began.
You made decisions in response to conditions in your life at that time, decisions that left you with stress, and which encouraged a way of being that correlates with the symptom that developed. In that way, it can be said that the way of being you adopted attracted or nourished that symptom, regardless of the apparent cause on the physical level.
If you have a stressed way of being that has resulted in a physical symptom, it is important to emphasize again that the way of being you have been experiencing is not who you really are, but just what you have been doing, a reflection of the way you have chosen to respond to conditions around you. You can make different choices. There is always a choice.
No matter which methods you have decided to use to treat or release the symptom, you can also decide to release the stressed way of being associated with the symptom, which can be seen as the inner cause of the symptom. If the decisions you have made have resulted in a stressed way of being, if you have created a personality profile associated with a particular symptom, then it follows that it is possible to release the stressed way of being, the personality profile that attracted the symptom. You can change your mind about something, and interact with your environment in a different way that is not as stressed, and that more reflects who you really are.
The effect of doing that can be to encourage the release of the symptom, since the environment that attracted or nourished it no longer exists to sustain it. By releasing the stress, and the stressed way of being, the inner cause, you can be more assured that the symptom will not have a tendency to return.
In this way, the process of healing implies a process of transformation, a release of a way of being that is not who you really are, and a return to who you really are, the real you.
We can explore the mechanism behind this process.
Everything begins with your consciousness
Let’s look at what this means.
You are inside there, inside your body, looking out through your eyes, and things happen around you. It is you who decides what to think, what to feel and how to respond to these conditions.
The ‘you’ who is doing this deciding is what we are calling your consciousness.
The way you choose to respond – and there is always a choice – can leave you in balance, or can leave you with stress. When it leaves you with stress, you are out of balance in your consciousness. There is tension in your consciousness about something happening in your life at that time.
If the tension reaches a certain level of intensity, it can result in a symptom on the physical level. The symptom speaks a language, and this language reflects the idea that we create our reality, and points to what we consider to be the inner cause of the symptom.
We will be exploring this idea further. For now, we can say that on some level, the symptom served a positive purpose in terms of helping you to understand yourself and your response to life. The symptom was a message from a deeper part of your consciousness about tension you were holding about a situation in your life that needed to be resolved at that time.
We create our reality
Symptoms are the result of stress. When we are exploring the inner cause of the symptom, we consider that we have created the symptom through the stressed way we chose to respond to the conditions in our life at the time the symptom developed or was discovered.
When we say that we have created the symptom, it doesn’t mean that we have consciously chosen to have that symptom, but rather that the symptom was the logical conclusion of the particular thoughts and emotions we chose that left us with stress, and that resulted in the symptom.
It’s not something to feel guilty about, but rather to understand as a logical process, in order to choose to make different decisions, choosing different thoughts and emotions, different perceptions that could have the effect of releasing the inner cause, the stressed way of thinking that created the symptom. If the symptom served to give us a m...
