In his work Psychosomatics and Body Psychotherapy, the famous psychotherapist Mark Sandomirsky wrote: “The relationship between the body and the psyche is always two-way. As all somatic disorders have their psychological“ roots ”, so any psychological problems always bring psychosomatic“ fruits. ” Diseases of the stomach serve this vivid confirmation.
Body and soul
Each of us once experienced pain and malaise in the stomach. Having felt that a problem with this important digestive organ is brewing or has already matured, we first of all go to the doctor. After all, who will help find the cause and make a diagnosis? Only a doctor. But they, unfortunately, often do not take into account such a factor as psychosomatics, looking for external causes of pathologies, while they may be concentrated inside. If your stomach hurts, psychosomatics often plays a key role in this.
What is psychosomatics?
This is a science that, literally translated, binds the soul and body. This is a section of psychology that studies the influence of psychological factors on the physical body. Each of us knows cases when in a burst of strong emotions we felt pain. If this is unhappy love, it hurts in the region of the heart, if you hold back the words tearing out - this is the throat, and if you are very worried, "sucks in the stomach." Is that familiar? And there are people so closed and unemotional that almost the whole body suffers from the unions - back, stomach, head. There are problems in the genitourinary system. But the first thing that starts to bother them is gastrointestinal diseases.
East is the heart of psychology
Usually, psychosomatic problems do not appear in the analyzes, because they are guilty of strong emotions, causing stress and subsequent muscle spasm. After all, the human body has many muscles, and the muscles contract during emotional shocks.
It was in the East that they first began studying psychosomatics and succeeded much better than official medicine, which, although it recognizes the harmful effects of stress on the body, still does not give it such an important role. Most often, doctors are looking for more “mundane” reasons for this why the patient is diagnosed with gastrointestinal diseases.
Attention! Doctors even believe that a little stress is useful, as it helps to keep the body in good shape. True, constant, chronic stress brings nothing good to the body.
What emotions often cause psychosomatic illnesses? Here they are:
These are the most powerful manifestations of feelings that we often cannot control. It is established that each organ is associated with its own emotion. So, the kidneys are responsible for fear, insecurity and weak will.
Poor lung function may be associated with sadness. And if oxygen is poorly supplied to the body, multiple problems begin with other internal organs.
Remember: suppress inner experiences are a very bad and harmful practice for your body. Emotions cannot be suppressed; they must be learned to express correctly. Without torn hair and broken dishes, of course, but express. Otherwise, they will eat you from the inside, causing not only gastrointestinal diseases. Over time, this will cause a malfunction in the work of the whole organism.
What role does the stomach play?
There is an opinion that our stomach is responsible not only for the digestion of food, but also for the “digestion” of impressions. And so that the latter do not cause harm, you need to learn to accept and be aware of them, otherwise the stomach will begin to suffer from them, as the psychosomatics teach.
Be open to new impressions, but never let the negativity linger for a long time - it happened, accepted and moved on. People are often afraid to feel helpless. They prefer to be silent, but do not cease to feel.
Emotions and diseases of the stomach
If stomach problems are caused precisely by negative emotions, then you will probably need the following list to help determine the nature of these emotions. So, the psychosomatics of stomach diseases will be considered by us further. Inflammation in the said organ - gastritis - usually occurs against the background of a conflict in the sphere of feelings: the ability to take responsibility, grow up, find a way out of insoluble conflicts. When we don’t see an internal conflict, it sinks into a grosser form - a physical one, to make the brain pay attention to itself.
Or you do not have a sufficient sense of self-preservation. Infantilism forces you to abandon attempts to protect yourself.
However, there is another way of developing gastritis - aggressive. When anger that is not splashed out over you, the hydrochloric acid of the stomach, which by its nature is very aggressive, becomes even more concentrated. The mucous membrane does not cope with its protective function. This suggests that you are unable to forgive and forget the insult. If you tend to lock up your grievances, it immediately becomes clear why the stomach hurts: psychosomatics played an important role here.
Some direct aggression inwardly, outwardly remaining calm and even peaceful. But inside lava flows, which harms, first of all, by himself. It can be a reaction to events or simply anger at oneself due to failures or low self-esteem. Others freely express their aggression. But this does not help, because conflict situations are constantly repeated. Ultimately, the culmination is gastric ulcer. This is a clear psychosomatics: the stomach eats itself.
If any of the above emotions strangles you, it is not surprising that one of the above diagnoses will soon arise. Moreover, it is these emotions that can lead to a tumor in the stomach.
Psychological characteristics and diseases of the stomach
In the diagnosis of diseases of the stomach there is a psychological characteristic of patients. If one of the following traits is peculiar to you, perhaps it is time to try to change your character:
- Laziness. Because of it, all organs begin to work worse - like us, they are "lazy." Over time, if you do nothing to turn laziness into activity, digestion worsens by reducing the production of gastric juice.
- Irritability. This is how anxiety manifests itself when interacting with the outside world, the stomach also responds psychosomatically to it, which, in turn, increases the tendency to irritability.
- Disappointment, depression, apathy, indifference to everything that happens around, slows down the work of all organs that are engaged in vigorous activity, including the stomach. Such is the psychosomatics of atrophic gastritis, which causes exhaustion of the body.
- Cruelty and selfishness. Surprisingly, the stomach suffers from these emotions almost always. If you demand too much from people, especially from your loved ones, a coldness will ultimately appear in your relationship. And then psychosomatics manifests itself - the stomach instantly reacts to the lack of harmony in the relationship.
- Despair and resentment. Severe karma, in the end, translates into many problems that have to be overcome with great difficulty. If a person realizes his mistakes and believes that soon everything will normalize, over time he will work out karma. But the lack of understanding and acceptance contributes to the formation of resentment towards fate. There is a feeling of despair and hopelessness until an understanding comes of why these very events are happening around you.
How to cope with this problem?
The psychomatics of diseases of the stomach requires the help of a specialist. First, find the causes of stomach disease in yourself - either alone or with the help of a therapist. As soon as a cause is discovered, it will be much easier to cure its effect. Think about the situations that led to the disease. This may be one situation, but there may be several. Remember - accept and lower. Let the emotions that overwhelm you against your will disappear.
Look for positive emotions. Sport, hobbies, reading, love. Surround yourself with happiness, look for it in every day. It is, but we do not see it, immersed in our problems, as if in a vacuum. Each person once upon himself realizes what psychosomatics is. Probably everyone had a stomachache after terrible stress or a sore throat from unspoken words.
Psychiatrists often prescribe antidepressants or tranquilizers for their patients, while alternative medicine specialists prefer softer methods - visceral massage, which relieves spasm from the abdominal organs, therapeutic manual massage, which helps relieve stress, and other methods. Louise Hay, for example, advises using auto-training, which sets the emotional background to a more favorable wave.
Conclusion
Finding harmony within oneself is certainly not easy, and everyone is looking for it in their own way - meditations, yoga, traveling, what they love. But if you achieve this harmony, no problem can make you a miserable person. Be healthy and happy!