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Technical Essay # 74 - FAF 10 April 1992

.ce Illness


I have long believed that illnesses are caused in the mind and that the physical symptoms
are only indicators of one's state of being. However, not until recently have I seen much
tangible "proof" in that regard.

Previously it has been said that all illness come from PTS-ness. Possibly, if we modify it to
mean that it comes out of making oneself effect somehow. I've never seen more than minor
results on illnesses by addressing suppressives in one's environment.

However, if we go a little more basic, and regard illness as a symptom of something that is
being not confronted, not accepted, or not communicated, then it opens some more doors.

I discovered, sort of incidentally, recently that it can be very effective to address an illness
head on, and go directly for what it is about.

I found that one can work directly with the somatic or the location of the illness in a number of
ways.

I had a client with a long list of serious illnesses, having had several operations for tumors,
still seeing doctors every day. I asked her which one currently bothered her the most. She
said, a heart attack somatic, a pain in her heart going into her left arm and making it numb.
She would get it every time she ate something. I had her put attention on the area and
describe the shape, color, temperature, vibration, and so forth of the pain area. Then we did
hello & ok on it. It answered back quite well, so I figured we could talk some more with it. I
then did a variation of a technique called 6-step reframing from NLP. It is basically
establishing a method of communication with a part of the person or a circuit and then giving
it more choices. We established that the pain being a little lighter would mean 'Yes' and
another difference would mean 'No'. Then we proceeded to clear that part. It was not willing
to let her consciously know the specific content of what we talked about, but it was willing to
provide the Yes/No answers. Many of them were a surprise to the client. Anyway, it protested
about being called a "part" of her. On questioning it affirmed that it was a separate being. I
changed to an entity type of handling on it, still without knowing the content of incidents and
so forth. But we had it in session, and eventually it got freed up and blew. Sitting across from
the client I myself felt it zipping past my ear, and right after that she originated that it seemed
to have left and the pain was gone. This was session number 6 or so for this client, and she
was as surprised as I was to find that it was an entity. She had no previous exposure to that
kind of phenomena. The somatic never came back after that. There were some other
handlings related to eating, but nothing more was needed for that.

The same client had a seriously inflamed esophagus and often had serious breathing
problems. Two sessions were done while she had an attack of this and couldn't breathe. The
first one, done over the phone late one evening, uncovered an entity in a similar fashion. The
entity had evil intentions and she absolutely hated it and refused to deal with it. However, I
asked her to "put it out behind a thick glass wall", and the it was ok. She got a visio of it as an
ugly snake-like monster, in great detail. She was willing to pass commands on to it at a
distance, and gradually became willing to tolerate its existence there. Eventually the ugly
monster turned into a little prince. The prince got a little more handling, and an orientation,
and off he went. Her breathing somatics disappeared at that point.

However, three days later she was brought into the health center where I do sessions
sometimes, as an emergency. She couldn't breathe and was hysterical. The holistic doctor
there didn't know what to do with her, but incidentally I was there, so they interupted the
session I was in, and brought me in. It was probably the most demanding environment to do a
session in I've experienced so far. This lady appeared to be choking to death and several
people were standing around not knowing what to do. I didn't have time to doubt that I could
do something for her. However, I was prepared for at least making her death a little less
painful. I got her to relax enough so that she could at least answer. But there was no way I
could establish signals for communicating with her sub-conscious like in the last two
sessions. I addressed it then from the angle of being willing to accept her current condition as
it is, learn from it, and being willing to flow with it. She was totally unwilling in that regard at
first, it was totally unfair, her being such a nice and loving person didn't deserve a thing like
that. "Who would deserve it?" I inquired. Well, it would be appropriate for her ex-husband, for
sure. The ex-husband had come up before. She had a very traumatic incident where he had
tried to kill her by strangling her and stuffing food down her throat. She escaped and he then
was stalking her for years, despite restraining orders and so forth. I had tried to get her to run
the incident itself, but it was much too charged and unavailable. But I noticed of course how
her symptoms fit the incident very well. However, now she is lying there, with all the medical
diagnoses to back her condition up, and she is in very real pain. She felt she didn't deserve it
because she is so nice, but that other guy should have it. Well, it made instant sense to me
right then how come she had those symptoms. She totally doesn't accept that man, and she
totally doesn't accept the feelings she have for him. Therefore, those parts of herself were
separated off from her conscious self and were running on automatic. She didn't admit to at
first having any negative feelings at all. But when I pursued it, she gradually admitted that
what she would really want would be to torture this guy to death, cut him into little pieces, and
feed them to his parents. She had split off into a polarity, where her nice loving self was the
only side she would admit to. The other side has violent, vengeful emotions, and would take
pleasure out of hurting people. Since she didn't take responsibility for that part of her at all, it
was running on automatic. And the obvious target becomes herself. So, she needs to learn to
accept that, and to accept the person it was based on. I gradually got her to do that, with tricky
2WC questions, and so forth. When she finally accepted responsibility for it, the symptoms
subsided and she could relax for the first time. It took about an hour and a half. Her breathing
problems gradually vanished totally over the next week or so. She hasn't had those physical
problems since.

This lady also had edema, which is abnormal aggregation of water in the body, relating to
inflammation. "What does water mean to you?", I asked her. "Life, I love water, I can't get
enough of it." Hm, that provided some clue, if she is maybe holding on to it, because she likes
it. I was considering doing something with service facs, but decided for Remedy of
Havingness instead. I had her mock up glasses of water, buckets of water, rivers of water, etc.
Interchangably pulling them into her body or letting them disappear in the distance. She
started having trouble pulling it in when it got bigger than a bathtub. After some practice she
became willing to even pull in tanker trucks and so forth. Eventually we visualized a whole
ocean that would just wash in and out of her body, realizing that there would be no scarcity of
water, whatever she let go of could come back. She became a bit worried about the pollution
in her mockup, but we changed the meaning a bit so that the ocean would be a cleaning
force that would sweep away impurities and bring back clarity. Eventually she became totally
willing to do that, and very relaxed and comfortable about it. Edema has not been a complaint
since then.

Final example, with the same client. Her last major symptom was Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
It is diagnosed by the doctors as Epstein-Barr virus and incurable. She is usually very tired,
and spends most of her day just sitting around without energy to do anything. Has been like
that for a couple of years, supposedly because she ate some contaminated fish. "Well, I don't
buy that", I think. "If she doesn't have her energy here, where is it then?". I assume that she
has just misplaced the energy, there is no such thing as losing it. So I proceed to question
her as to where it might be. Did she ever have a lot of energy in the past? She certainly did,
and the story quickly began to surface. Before the short-lived marriage to the man who tried
to kill her, she had had a sexually all-consuming relationship with a man. They were totally
obsessed and ecstatic about each other. However, except for that the relationship was a
disaster. She felt it was so destructive and out of control that she had to get away. She got
away at first by marrying the guy who then tried to kill her. But even more seriously, she got
away by isolating the part of her that had all that passion and energy, and by pretending it
didn't exist anymore, because it was destructive and unwanted. She particularly did that
when she married her current husband, because she doesn't think it is ok to think about
anybody else then. And the passion and energy was tightly linked with the memory of the guy
she only wants to forget. We worked on the polarity of that, and it made a big difference.
However, we are not done yet, that was the last session we did, a week ago. Even though it is
incomplete, it is an excellent example.

This particular client might be unusually accessible or unusually psychosomatic. However,
my suspicion is that similar types of case are the foundation for a great deal of illnesses in
people. As long as they can be willing to be in session and talk about it, something can be
done.

With some clients one would first have to overcome belief systems that tell them that they
couldn't possibly recover through mental or spiritual means, illnesses are strictly physical.
The client needs to have enough of a willingness to admit being cause to go ahead with
handlings like described. Some people first need to be brought up to that. Thinking about that
right now, it might have something to do with 'horrible' overts one has committed. If the idea
of admitting to being cause is more scary than illness or death, well then that has to be
handled first.

So, what has worked for me as regards to illness is to approach it very directly. Having the
attitude that it is some kind of mis-understanding, illness is not the natural state. Specifying or
communicating with what is there to find out what it is really about. Not believing for a
moment that the physical diagnosis is anything but a indicator of some unfinished business.

I suspect that illnesses appear in direct relation to specific issues. It is not just that one pulls in
the first the best illness because there is suppression around. The selection of type of illness
seems related to the type of unconfronted/uncommunicated case. The illness gets to make
sense once the underlying case becomes known. There are therapists who have correlated
common illnesses with specific mental or emotional issues, and there might very well be
some validity to that.

Overall, I would tend to believe that the appearance and state of the body is indicative of
one's state as a being. If one was in good enough shape the body would always be well. The
body works as a meter, giving reads on existing charge. Many sources claim things like that.
However, it is somewhat at odds with the view that the body is a totally separate thing from
the being, he just happens to be occupying it for the moment.

There are kind of two different ways of looking at it. Is the body an independent organism that
is used to trap you, and you just need to get out of it as quickly as possible. Or, is the body a
part of yourself, an indicator of your current state, and you need to bring it up with you.

I would tend to favor the last possibility at this point. But it takes further investigation.

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