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We are all under pressure. We react to life pressures by producing internal reactions and all of us will have physical symptoms to these pressures. This is a defense reaction. Some are internal, some external. It is the internal reactions in the subconscious of which we are totally unaware. And this is the beginning of the effects of stress.

Displaced inner feelings (anger, anxiety, fear, hopelessness) are what you are unaware of. Some of these are usually things relatively unimportant (traffic jams). Many times people don’t know how angry they are inside. Your emotions need to be felt and experienced.

These emotions generated in the subconscious mind remain there. These feeling are the result of a complicated interaction between different parts of our minds and between the mind and the outside world. Many are unpleasant, painful or embarrassing, in some way unacceptable to us or society, so we repress them.

Anxiety, anger, and low self-esteem are the strongest emotions we deal with. They are repressed because the mind doesn’t want us to experience them, nor does it want them to be seen by the outside world. Tension is the unconscious repressed, unacceptable emotions.

The tension may be expressed physically or emotionally. It is often expressed as a physical symptom. These physical symptoms exist to serve a purpose. If you thwart that purpose by taking away the symptoms without dealing with its cause, the brain will simply find a substitute symptom or disorder.

Emotional states are capable of causing physical symptoms. The symptom has to be dealt with emotionally.

Think of pain in psychological terms, because if you can do that the tension will cease to produce a physical reaction; it will manifest in emotions, not in the body. Fear and preoccupation with physical restrictions are more effective as a psychological defense than pain.

If no emotion was experienced, it is dealt with physically. This is how stress affects body.

Tension experienced as an emotion does not divert into the body physically.
Oftentimes pain that you experience functions to divert your attention away from repressed, undesirable emotions like anxiety and anger. It may be more difficult to experience anxiety and anger or another emotion than it would be to experience pain.

So the question is: What emotion is causing the physical condition? If you can neutralize the emotion that is fueling your physical condition the physical symptom will dissipate.

This in essence is the course of study in The Ultimate Natural Stress Management Manuel. Let’s neutralize the emotions that are causing a negative response.

The "Ultimate Natural Stress Management Manual"

When we do this, your stress will be reduced and your entire life will be better. Please read stress management for more information.

In Health,

Dr Peter Lind

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