Emotions Affect How We Physically Feel

Traditional medicine has tended to make compartments out of the body. This has been helpful for understanding how parts specialize, yet the problem with this approach is that it is similar to focusing on one “leaf” of the tree while missing the whole tree or even the entire forest. A symptom that shows up as a problem in one part of the body may not be what is the core problem. In the case of body injuries and physical pain, there is often a component that many health practitioners miss. Without treating this component the injury symptoms often linger or even do not progress in healing. What component is this? We have consistently found out that most injuries carry a very important connection. That connection is to emotions. Sometimes those emotions block the body from proceeding in healing. Simply treating the physical part does not resolve the pain. An injured person who is experiencing constant pain may be doing all the right things in terms of traditional rehabilitation and pharmacological interventions, but still nothing happens.

How can physical healing be connected to emotional components? Explaining how emotions are connected to physical pain is not simple, but we will try to give a clear picture. At the time of an injury, the body often goes through a physical trauma. A trauma is an event that creates intensive stress. There is so much stress to the body that something “breaks” or is “damaged.” The body, or its parts, cannot tolerate this abnormal extreme. When the injury happens, something powerful takes place. The body memorizes the visual scene, the sounds, the feelings, the smells almost like a 3-D (holographic) digital camera. The body then stores that information in various cells, including the spinal cord, for possible retrieval at a later date. The pain is tied into the mental discomfort and stress of the original event and its memories. Treating only the physical part of the pain will not necessarily remove the emotional stress and discomfort that is memorized by the body. That is why some patients do not heal no matter what is done to attend to their physical progress. There is still an emotional “recall” that assumes that the injury still exists in the mind. The mind believes the injury is still there.

Effective pain management will respectfully see that there is a connection between a person healing physically and healing emotionally. For true healing to happen, a person who has gone through the trauma of an injury will need emotional and physical components addressed. Only then can true and effective healing be done. The best medical pain expertise coupled with highly effective emotional treatment procedures that address traumas directly has proven to be a winning combination.