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Longlasting physical issues

Something has happened in your life, and with a bit of soul searching you may even know what that was, and since that moment you have certain physical issues, usually not too intense, only every now and then asking for more attention. And somehow you do not seem to be able to get rid of them. Now what may be the case is that your personality cannot establish his grip on certain circumstances, or that you react from your inner Self and that he feels that he is left out, and as a counteraction your personality will try to get your attention anyway, now through your body. 

So physical issues are a sign of a personality who finds himself losing grip. That is why stress or tension in itself does not cause illness, it is the powerlessness your personality experiences that does. You may also get physical issues when you learn to remember your inner Self and overdo it, thus inducing the feeling of powerlessness with your personality.

And even if you know what the issue was, it seems that your personality now uses these symptoms in all kinds of situations that lead to a similar feeling, which may be quite an amount each day. This makes your symptoms structural and long-lasting. So even if you may have let go of all the personality issues of the original situation, you still get stuck with all the other ones in which he now uses the same reaction pattern. 

I myself have experienced this in a kick-off meeting for a project, in which I sat at a table with about 15 people. I experienced the situation itself as neutral, only my personality interpreted it as a situation in which I should feel lonely, incapable and attacked, and immediately projected that onto my body in the form of unpleasant feelings, to make me aware of the fact that there must be really something wrong with me. In this way he tried to focus my attention on the symptoms, rather than the cause, so he diverted my attention from that which he interpreted as a way of dealing with situations in which he was left out. 

Do not expect an immediate solution for this, but every time that you feel these symptoms or when they get worse, be consciously aware in the situation and face the patterns of your personality. Your personality is likely to feel threatened and powerless, that is why you have these symptoms. When you only focus on taking away the symptoms, you are fooling yourself. And look at it from the bright side: you are familiar with these symptoms, and you know what they stand for. By really using them to increase your awareness of the patterns of your personality, you can break through the vicious circle in which he held you prisoner.

Of course your personality would want you to focus on the symptoms and do something about them. Somewhere in your life you have adopted the idea that you are weaker than someone else. Thus you experience weakness, and your personality will try to re-establish the balance again. For this he uses attack, because he believes that it was attack that weakened you in the first place. Now you ask other people to perform the attack for you. A lot of medical treatments consists of sticking needles and knives in bodies, poison them with medicine etc.

Another phenomena that occurs here, is that your personality extends the past to the future, and wants you to forget the possibilities of the present. He wants you to believe that what you feel now, you will keep on feeling in the future. And last but not least, the label he assigns to physical dysfunction is one of "wrong". So now he has made a new situation that he can use intensively for focusing your attention on your physical aspects, because the feelings he assigns to it, like feeling bad, wrong and guilty, assure his existence.



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