The Biogenealogy Sourcebook

Healing the Body by Resolving Traumas of the Past

Christian Flèche

• Publisher: Healing Arts Press
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN: 9781594772061
• eBook ISBN: 9781620554395
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Alternative & Complementary Medicine

A practical guide to the correspondence between emotion, organ systems, and disease • Identifies what emotional shocks will engender illnesses specific to a certain part of the body • Shows how illness is an ally that enables individuals to restore balance to their health Biogenealogy is a comprehensive new vision of health that takes the mind-body connection one step further by identifying and consciously addressing the emotional shocks that create physical disorders. Each symptom of an illness precisely indicates its emotional origin. Thus, far from being an enemy, the physical symptom is actually a valuable ally that provides the key to the cure of the physical disease as well as resolution of the emotional imbalance that created it. Christian Flèche, the leading researcher and practitioner in the field of biogenealogy, explains that the "activation of illness" is the body's reaction to unresolved events that are frozen in time. These unresolved traumas affect the body on the cellular level and manifest in minor as well as more serious chronic conditions. In The Biogenealogy Sourcebook, Flèche systematically chronicles all the major organs of the body and specifies the types of emotional conflicts that lead to illness in those areas. For example, he explains that conflicts of separation are evidenced in diseases of the skin; a reduction of self-worth or deep anguish will manifest in the lymph nodes. He also shows that unresolved emotional issues can also be passed down to future generations if left untreated. Intended for therapists, researchers, and any person who wants to take his or her health in hand, this book is an important guide to understanding and decoding the causes and not just the effects of illness.

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CARDIOLOGY

The cardiovascular system is centered in the heart, which is surrounded by a protective sheath called the pericardium. The heart muscle has its own blood vessels—coronary arteries and coronary veins—which keep it well supplied with the oxygen it needs to pump blood to the far reaches of the body, into every cell. The blood circulates from the heart to the organs through the arteries and returns from the organs to the heart in the veins.

HEART

Our discussion of the heart includes the heart wall, the myocardium, and the endocardium.

The Felt Sense of the Biological Conflict

Problems of the heart can manifest if an individual has fears about the emotional or physical strength of his heart. An example is the athlete who told me, “I’m not making it: my heart isn’t strong enough.” Symptoms of the myocardium relate to a conflict of low self-esteem regarding the efficiency of one’s heart. Likewise, a patient with problems related to her endocardium reported of her felt sense: “It’s tearing my heart out.”

Another patient, who had been diagnosed with atrophy in the right auricle, said this of her felt sense: “When my mother was carrying me, she took poison to cause an abortion but it didn’t work. I imagine her with poison in her veins and not being able to move, as with venom. It’s important to slow down circulation so that the poison doesn’t reach me; atrophy of the right auricle is the best solution for my survival.”

Figure 1.1. Circulation of the blood and lymph

Neuronal connection: Brain marrow

PERICARDIUM

The pericardium is a double-layered, protective sheath that encloses the heart and the roots of the great blood vessels.

Figure 1.2. General structure of the pericardium.
(Vertical and anteroposterior section of the heart)

The Felt Sense of the Biological Conflict

Problems with the pericardium are linked to three main emotional conflicts:

1. A perceived direct attack on one’s heart. For example, someone scheduled to have a heart operation may feel that her heart will be under attack.
2. Fear for one’s heart or the heart of others—emotionally or physically. Thus the adage to be careful with one’s heart. This fear also relates to concern that pains, palpitations, swollen legs, and other physical symptoms are because of a cardiac problem. In addition, when a loved one has heart trouble, this can be experienced as a personal difficulty, that is, affecting one’s own heart.
3. Violation of the integrity of one’s territory.

Example:

Mrs. P had a blood pressure of 140/110; the two figures were close, which suggested to me a conflict linked to the pericardium. From 1965 to 1975, she had struggled to prolong the life of her father, who had a heart condition. In 1975 her father died, followed by the tragic death of her mother. Was this because of heart failure? That’s what Mrs. P came to believe. Since then, she has feared for her own heart whenever she has pain, which has manifested in a physical problem with the pericardium.

Neuronal connection: Center of the cerebellum

CORONARY ARTERIES

The coronary arteries branch from the aorta and circle the heart like a crown. They infuse the heart with blood, and are therefore called upon in times of stress to increase their output.

To understand the biological conflict, we can imagine an old stag who has been attacked within his territory and must mobilize all his strength to win. He does not economize. He develops an amazing power, which requires a lot of oxygen. He is under stress and in an active conflict stage.

In order to be as mobilized as possible, he must be in a state of permanent crisis, without any phase for rest. This is the best way to have more energy. To give strength to the muscles, he must have a lot of oxygen to feed aerobic combustion. Blood carries the oxygen, so the heart accelerates the arrival of blood. It’s the coronary arteries that feed the heart, so the heart “hyper-arterializes” its cardiac muscle. The order given by the brain is to “scour” the coronary arteries and thereby expand their output. The artery wall becomes thinner since the output of blood is more important. This provokes an ulcer in the coronary artery. Later, during the recovery phase, the artery engages in repair and risks becoming blocked.

The heart is irrigated by about twenty arteries in all. Because of this, it can continue to live in a reduced state even if 60 percent of the arteries are no longer working. The heart is not going to stop working if only one of its arteries is blocked.

During an experiment on a dog weighing 150 pounds, one of the three large arteries was tied. The dog immediately created an infarction in this artery—that is, the artery died for lack of oxygen—but the dog remained alive. Every two weeks, X-rays were taken of the coronary arteries, which showed that the collateral arteries “grew” around the blocked artery. After four months, the dog’s body had readjusted and the blood flow was normal thanks to the arteries that were near the one that had been tied. Later, a second coronary artery was tied; then, later still, a third was tied. The dog survived. There had been no conflict due to loss of territory, so no cerebral pathology had occurred.

In contrast, you can make a wonderful home for a dog and feed him well. But after a certain time, if you chase him away and give his home to another dog, the first dog, who has lost his territory, could very likely develop an infarction (heart attack) in three months’ time. For the stag, this process—from loss of territory to heart attack—takes only a couple of weeks, corresponding to the two-week period of battle over territory that is followed by the rutting season.

This example of the stag shows how, during a territorial conflict, our biology decodes the conflict by transforming it into ulcerations in our coronary arteries. The ulcerations enlarge the arterial channel so that there is more room for blood to move through; in addition, the elasticity of the arterial wall is increased.

In nature, if a young stag confronts the old stag, this stress is an opportunity for the dominant old stag since it increases his vitality. The stress phase allows him to attack the young stag and drive him away. In this way, the old stag holds on to his territory. Once the battle has been won, the body moves into the healing phase with the possibility of the epic crisis, a myocardial infarction (heart attack). We see that nature has arranged two tests: In order to continue to procreate, the stag must win out over the young stag. He then must survive the healing phase. If the conflict lasts for a long time, if he exceeds the biological time, the old stag dies. He must not wait too long to resolve this crisis—otherwise natural selection intervenes.

Within the animal world, there is an instinctive need to concern oneself directly with one’s territory and with the content of this territory—spatial access to shelter, food and water, the herd or flock, females, babies, driving away of intruders, etc.—which is in the final analysis just an extension of the nest.

The Felt Sense of the Biological Conflict

In the human world, any of the following can be construed as “territory” and become the object of conflict: workplace and colleagues, spouse, family, home, car, hobby, and so on. The conflict can be a direct attack, leading sometimes to the loss of the familiar locale where you feel at home, where you are accustomed to being at ease. All at once something happens. And you feel right away the risk of having everything turned upside down! From that moment on, you have to struggle on all levels, remain super alert, and all the more since you don’t accept what’s happening. “Bloody hell!” you think to yourself. “This is my place here!”

Sometimes one feels prevented from directing one’s territory in the sense of being able to control one’s own company, the stock of the store, perhaps the household money. Or one has difficulty withstanding the mother-in-law who intrudes in the territory. And, being the boss, it can progress from: “Why did you do that without speaking to me first?” to dictatorship. The physical impact takes place when someone tries as hard as he can to remain the boss of his territory.

In a right-handed person, loss of territory or of the content of the territory (for example, when one’s partner leaves) often results in physical problems with the coronary arteries. This often manifests as a male sexual conflict relating to territory—territory that has been lost or that you no longer have, territory that you are fighting to gain or defend, and territory over which you wish to rule.

Conflicts over territory of a sexual nature may have the following consequences:

• In a right-handed man, physical problems with the coronary arteries
• In a left-handed man, problems with the coronary veins
• In a right-handed woman, problems with the uterine cervix
• In a left-handed woman, problems with the coronary arteries

In left-handed people, the biological conflict with sexual frustration is almost always accompanied by depression.

Conflicts over territory of a nonsexual nature may also engender the following physical consequences:

• In a right-handed man, problems with the bronchial tubes
• In a left-handed man, problems with the larynx
• In a right-handed woman, problems with the left breast
• In a left-handed woman, problems with the right breast

When an individual is at risk of losing his field of action, or his territory, he experiences the following phases.

1. Conflict phase: Mobilization of all the forces in order to restore the previous state of affairs

2. Healing phase: Healing the consequences of this enormous tour de force

If the conflict could not ever be resolved, we see two possible outcomes:

1. The individual continues his struggle and constantly attacks with full force up to the moment when, exhausted, he dies or is killed by his adversary.

2. The individual adapts to his conflict—adapts to a loss of territory. The conflict is transformed, reduced, and remains active but only slightly so, and he can therefore live with it. We call that a conflict in equilibrium. The individual can live to old age, but...

Table of contents

• Cover Image
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Cardiology
• Chapter 2: Dermatology
• Chapter 3: Digestive System
• Chapter 4: Endocrinology
• Chapter 5: Hematology
• Chapter 6: Neurology
• Chapter 7: Ophthalmology
• Chapter 8: Osteology and the Musculoskeletal System
• Chapter 9: Otolaryngology: Ear, Nose, and Throat
• Chapter 10: Pulmonology
• Chapter 11: Reproductive System: Andrology
• Chapter 12: Reproductive System: Gynecology
• Chapter 13: Urology
• Conclusion
• Glossary
• Footnotes
• About the Author
• About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
• Books of Related Interest
• Copyright & Permissions
• Index