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Continuing on with the spiritual significance series, I decided to do the spleen this time.

The spleen is a little different than the previous articles as it is an organ that people don’t really pay attention to, nor know when there is a problem with it until something is seriously wrong with the physical body.

Unless you are aware of the aura over the spleen and/or can directly feel the spleen (through Goenka’s style of vipassana for example) you may only have hints of how the spleen is functioning via other issues happening elsewhere in the body.

Typically gut issues, liver issues, general issues with getting infections and fighting off infections or taking a look at the spleen meridian can help you see if you have spleen issues, before something more serious can manifest.

As before, I will start with some established anatomy and physiology before getting into the spiritual significance of spleen problems.

The spleen has a lot of close relationships with other organs of the body, especially the intestines/gut and liver, so please take a look at those when I get around to writing them.

Anatomy & function of the spleen

The spleen is a kidney bean shaped organ that is usually about the size of your fist. It sits within the lower rib cage, below your left lung, in front of the left kidney and behind the top part of your stomach.

It is considered an immune organ that is part of the lymphatic system. It filters, breaks down and stores blood cells in the red pulp portion and specialises in making white blood cells (immune cells) and antibodies in the white pulp portion. The white blood cells are called lymphocytes and they travel in the lymphatic system.

This is why the spleen has such a big role to play in digestion and gut health as a large proportion of those lymphocytes perform immune functions in and around the intestines. They are highly active if there are bacterial colony and leaky gut issues.

It is important to point out that in some Eastern teachings, the spleen is considered to be another lobe of the liver or even the same organ. This makes sense from a Western perspective too as it is well-known that many functions of the spleen can be taken over by the liver and vice versa if either organ is damaged in some way. That is why it is possible to live without a spleen if you are born without one or if it becomes damaged or removed, as long as the liver has had time to take over its functions.

I highly recommend looking at liver issues if you suspect spleen issues and vice versa. I will write about liver issues at some point in the future. Also because the lymphocytes the spleen makes travel throughout the lymphatic system, I recommend looking into lymphatic system issues too, especially regarding infection or cancers there.

General advice for a healthy spleen

Generally speaking, anything that helps you fight infections or keep the cells of the body generally healthy so they are less likely to become victim to bacteria, funghi or viruses (if you belief in them) will reduce pressure on the immune system and hence pressure on the spleen.

Movement is a big part of helping the lymphatic fluids flow and hence lymphocytes better move around the body to help cells in need, as well as preventing stagnation that can cause toxic harm to cells, again reducing pressure on the spleen. This doesn’t necessarily have to be exercising in a class or gym. Even just a small brisk walk each day and making sure you get up and stretch gently or move around, especially  if you are sedentary at work, can create fantastic benefits.

Breathing in a relaxed and deep way can more directly massage the spleen as well as improving fluid movement throughout the body. As I’ve said many times, don’t underestimate the power of breathing!

Diet. Obviously what you eat has a huge effect on the spleen due to the fact that such a huge amount of white blood cells are in and around the intestinal walls. Certain foods encourage the growth of unwanted bacteria or yeast that cause stress and harm to the gut, even to the extent of causing holes in the intestines where unwanted bacteria, proteins and other molecules & chemicals can go straight into the blood or lymphatic channels.

This causes a lot of inflammation and immune cell activity around the body and many people have this without being aware of it. They simply feel very fatigued after eating dairy or grain-based foods for example and think that they are reacting to the food or components of it (such as gluten) rather than realising that actually they have holes in their intestines that is commonly referred to as “leaky gut”.

In addition, certain nutrients are needed to build and maintain a healthy body not just a healthy immune system.

There is a huge amount that can be said about diet and all the different gut complications and diseases that can affect and stress the spleen. Way more than I can cover in several articles even, so I recommend getting in touch with an experienced naturopath or nutritionist, preferably outside of the established medical institutions unless they have questioned what they have been taught.

There are other things that can help with spleen health but apart from the above advice, they are mostly indirect. Generally speaking simply aiming for better overall health will help the spleen, as it will for all other organs too.

The spiritual significance in general

Just like there is a lot of overlap in the physical functioning of the spleen with the liver, there is a lot of energetic overlap with the liver too.

I would also say that many of the organs in the middle of the torso have a common energetic theme, closely related to the solar plexus chakra in many ways.

1. Power.

All of the middle torso organs directly or indirectly provide, filter or balance in some way the blood’s constitution. The blood being a big source of nutrients and energy for the physical body is reflective of how much power we believe we have. As such, all the organs in the middle of the torso, including the spleen, reflect our beliefs about how how much power we have or not. A weaker spleen can highlight weak beliefs of our power not just in the physical world but also mentally, emotionally and in the astral.

Problems can also occur when someone feels all powerful not just powerless. Dominating controlling and harming others will create a more inflammed spleen and set someone up for more infections and diseases there.

Learning about power, what it is and what it isn’t is important. I say this because a lot of people I come across with energy blocks in their spleen often fear power, like they may become a “bad” person if they use their power. This can often tie in to observations of family members, politicians or famous people from history who abused their power.

Sometimes people fear that their power to create the life may interfere with other people’s lives or stir people up in some way. So they step back because they don’t want to be a bother to anyone.

There is a lot to be said about this but essentially you cannot do anything in this reality without affecting others. You’ll benefit others much more by following your true desires and becoming the person you wish because you’ll be setting a good example for others, and even if you don’t see directly how it positively affects others, know that energy radiates out into the collective consciousness of humanity making it easier for others to also become the best version of themselves.

You cannot control completely what others think about you nor how they may react. Always remember that so long as you are not wishing to harm others and setting an intention to help yourself and by doing so better help others, you are likely on the right path and are not abusing your power.

2. Defense/immunity/protection.

This is a bit more specific to the spleen due to its obvious immune function but there is overlap with the liver and other immune organs such as the thymus gland. As has been shown in independent scientific studies, your beliefs in your ability to protect yourself has a big impact on how many immune cells you produce. If you believe you can fight off infections or not get them in the first place (I’m a good example of this!) then you’ll have a good functioning spleen and have less infections in life.

Those who fear other people, fear that they wouldn’t be able to handle dangerous situations, survival situations, life or death situations or even indeed smaller challenges such as relationship arguments or the boss being demanding etc will often have weaker spleens.

In the spiritual world too this is true. I have come across a great many people who fear things in the non-physical worlds such as astral parasites or etheric entities like ghosts or archons etc and they all had some weakness or another in the spleen. Especially if they believed that they couldn’t fight against or solve those issues.

Testing your beliefs on whether your defenses work or not, modifying them and eventually venturing into questions about whether you actually need protection or not, especially if they are psychological rather than a real threat, is important here. Very often limiting beliefs based on previous traumas are not actually relevant in your current life because those threats don’t actually exist anymore.

I have written a lot about perceived threats especially in the spiritual world in past blog articles. That sort of advice can also be relevant for the physical world too, so please have a look at those.

3. Receiving.

The fears mentioned above can reflect into other organs of the body related to being able to receive from this reality, other realities and those people or beings in them. These include the stomach, intestines, lungs, eyes and anything else where you receive nutrients or information in any form.

While the spleen itself doesn’t directly relate so much to the ability to receive, the beliefs related to it do have an impact on your ability to receive.

Generally speaking those limiting beliefs about other people/beings/things in any reality and the fears related to them mean that you resist them. This results in slowing down or even blocking energy of all kinds. Hence you greatly limit what you can receive in the process.

It must be understood that receiving is not the same as taking on or becoming the vibrations of energy you don’t wish. If you are truly in allowance of the energies coming your way, whether emotional, mental or spiritual, then you can easily let them pass through you without effect or transmute them into the vibration of energies you do wish. Very much like your digestive system treats the food you eat.

Again testing and questioning your beliefs is important here so that you do not become victim to others via your own judgments.

4. Relationships.

I often say that life is all about relationships. Relationships with yourself, others and other things in this and other realities. Again all of the middle organs and in fact much of the rest of the body too are closely related to relationships.

Within the context of the spleen, a lot of the limiting beliefs about power, control, dominance, hierarchy, defense, protection and so on are due to our experiences, judgments and thus beliefs about others. Thus your spleen can very much highlight how well you get on with others or not.

If you worry about other’s perceptions of you, feel you cannot express yourself fully around others, cannot stop others harming you, forcing you, choosing for you etc then that can reflect as a weakened spleen.

If you have ease around others and even better, are able to receive from them even if they are very different from you and even if they are not friendly towards you at all, then you are likely to have a well functioning spleen.

Many of the beliefs and habits you have with others takes time to change in life and again requires self examination, honesty, questioning and curiosity.

5. Decisiveness/choice.

This ties into the subject of power mentioned above because those fears mentioned above often stop people from being able to make decisions.

I also mention this because people quite often say or feel that they are not powerless yet they can often be indecisive in a way that can hide the fact that deeper down they indeed do have power issues.

I was a good example of this as I would always say that I was ok with whatever others suggested to do without realising how much I was being pulled along other people’s paths in the direction of life I didn’t truly wish.

Hidden beneath my conscious mind was a wounding where I experienced being powerless because I wasn’t allowed to choose what I wished at a very young age. This continued through early life because I became what parents, teachers and “those in power” wanted me to become and where I finally felt appreciated by doing what was expected without realising that my true desires were quietly being silenced in the process. To the point that I had trouble connecting with my emotions and thus true desires. Hence the indecisiveness.

This is a common issue in adults due to the processes of growing up and what we start to believe or are told is normal. This is especially through state schooling where we are conformed to being what governments and society at large wants us to be. I’m not saying all of it is bad but it is well known that markers/traits of being a genius drop from around 90% in preschool years to less than 5% by the time we finish school. We become less creative, less in tune with our emotions and desires and thus start becoming further from what we wish whilst becoming numb to them.

Learning to notice your thoughts, dreams and emotions and/or doing new things so that you can gain contrast in life, can help you better know yourself and your desires and hence better guide you in making choices in the direction of life you truly wish.

6. Obsession, control & fear of loss of an attachment.

This ties in both with power and relationships mentioned above. Often if we have a lack of power we become reliant on others or on other things to make up for that lack power. Or we try to control as many little details in life or other people around us for us to feel safe.

This could be in the form of a person who helps us financially, with tasks, helps you feel safe in the world or around others etc. It could also be in the form of a home that helps us feel safe and supported. Sometimes it can be in the form of an object such as a teddy bear as a child, or for us spiritual types, a crystal pendant or other object we may feel lost without. Sometimes it can be about many different things that need to be right in order for us to feel safe which can manifest as being obsessive in a way that is akin to ADHD or ADD etc.

Learning to question and test whether we really do need that other person or thing, or for every little detail to be right for us to feel safe & supported is important here. Sometimes it’s about learning to be self-sufficient. Sometimes it’s about learning that many of the fears we have aren’t actually relevant and are just psychological rather than real. Learning to trust life and enjoy the journey can be very useful too.

7. Courage & fear

This is a common factor in all middle organs of the body and again is related to beliefs about ones own power.

Courage is the ability to acknowledge the limiting thoughts, emotions, physical sensations and spiritual on-goings that might prevent you from doing what is best and regardless of them, choosing to do what is best for you and others anyway.

People often view courage through the concepts that come up in films and books such as superheroes saving the population. However I have found that often one person’s courage to speak up and say “no” can be a bigger challenge for some than another person who may be charging head-on into an army of demons.

It may seem so simple and easy for many people but the energetic charge or resistance behind saying “no” can be massive, so don’t underestimate other’s challenges even if it seems simple for you!

There is a lot I can say about courage and what you can do to gain courage but essentially, it’s about acting/moving forwards despite those things that might stop you and those things can often be summed up in one word – fear.

It is important to test your beliefs. Facing fears is a way to do this. If you find your boss scary for example, face that fear and talk to him/her anyway. Speak up and state yourself clearly. They might make things hard for you but usually it is a psychological rather than a real fear.

Either way, the more you learn to express yourself the way you wish, whether there are uncomfortable setbacks or not, you’ll start to realise that actually the core of who you are cannot be harmed and that actually you do have some ability to create life as you wish.

As my snowboard instructor said when I was young “Feel the fear and do it anyway!” Those who are more stable/successful/happy in life are those that have been more willing to face their fears and have done so more often.

Lets look into more specifics with each spleen disease now:

Enlarged spleen (Splenomegaly)

There a a lot of causes for the spleen to enlarge. It is important work out why the spleen has become enlarged first and resolve what is causing that. An enlarged spleen is more likely to burst or rupture in response to trauma or increased pressure inside and outside of the body and this can be fatal.

The main symptoms are abdominal pain and a feeling of fullness even if you haven’t eaten so for a lot of people there are not many obvious signs.

An experienced doctor or osteopath for example may be able to feel or see indications that a spleen has grown down and towards the intestinal area but often it could easily be missed.

Causes of an enlarged spleen can include:

• Blood cancers such as leukaemia, Hodgkin’s lymphoma and metastases from other cancers in the body that get trapped in the spleen.
• Blot clots in the spleen or liver.
• Anemia.
• Cystic fibrosis.
• Infections such as mononucleosis, syphilis, malaria, endocarditis or any other significant infection that puts a lot of stress on the immune system. Those that put strain especially on the lymphatic system are more of a problem.
• Liver issues such as fatty liver or cirrosis.
• Inflammatory diseases such as sarcoidosis.
• Metabolic disorders including amyloidosis or Gaucher disease.

As you can see, the main reason the spleen enlarges is to try to boost immune function to fight off infection or repair the body.

On a physical level, sorting out the source of the problem and getting that solved will be the first port of call. Many of the above causes can be solved with antibiotics and other drugs especially if it is life threatening without them. Afterwards, looking at the advice above both physically and spiritually becomes important to stop things from returning rather than relying on the established medical system.

Of course there may be circumstances when you have to rely on them depending on your situation – I am not a doctor nor medical physician  of any kind so the information in this article and all my others is just opinion. I wonder how many times I’ll have to write that?!

In addition to the general information, an enlarged spleen is representative of increased efforts to bolster immunity, protection, defense, relationship problems, power and so on. However it also suggests that you are fighting to get stronger without really looking at what is really causing the problem or ignoring making the effort to change. Have a look at the general advice and see what is highlighted for you and where you can make some changes in life physically, emotionally, mentally to reduce pressure in your life rather than keeping the fight going.

Looking up what each causative disease of splenomegaly means energetically is advised too. Some of which I will list below.

Functional asplenia – hyper or hyposplenism

This is where the spleen doesn’t work fully as intended. This may manifest as an underactive spleen and hence lower immunity and increased risk of infections. This could also mean that it becomes overactive which can result in red blood cells being recycled i.e. destroyed to frequently, resulting in fatigue or similar signs to anemia.

An accident or other trauma directly to the spleen, damage or issues in blood supply to and/or from the spleen (splenic infarction), coeliac disease and sickle cell anemia are common causes of this physically. Making efforts to mitigate or solve those is the key practically. Going to A&E is essential if there has been any kind of trauma or damage and there is abdominal pain, fatigue, nausea and vomiting.

An underactive spleen highlights lower beliefs about power in relationships and in life and protection/defense in general. Look at the general section above and see what methods you can employ to step into your power and improve your relationships with others.

An overactive spleen represents desperation or excessive efforts to gain power/control in life causing harm in the process. Ask yourself where can you simplify things by making changes based on the general section above rather than fighting against other people/beings/things/situations with the current methods you use that obviously don’t really work in the long-term.

Damaged or ruptured spleen

This is usually caused by a car accident or any other blow to the abdomen. It is a serious injury and can cause death through internal bleeding, so it is best to sort it out at A&E where a surgeon can help you.

Symptoms can include pain under the ribs on the left, nausea, dizziness and a quick heart beat. If there is also damage to the blood supply to the spleen than there may be nausea and vomiting too.

Energetically accidents are related to unawareness. While we tend to think of this as short-term awareness especially in the physical world, ask yourself why that might have manifested for you.

Usually reality will try to show you signs of this or that problem in life. Very often we are unaware of all the little signs our physical, emotional, mental or spiritual bodies try to tell us or of the world around us that is reflecting back at us what we believe or are manifesting. A sudden disease or accident may come out of nowhere it seems to us but it is usually the universe saying “ok, you ignored all the other signals, now are you paying attention?!”

So after any accident that causes a ruptured spleen, have a look at the general section above and take a deep look at yourself. Were you fighting too much in life, overusing or abusing your power with others or were you feeling powerless to the point that you feel you would be defeated by others as examples.

Splenic infection

This is inflammation cased by an invading bacteria, fungi or viruses (if you believe in viruses!) and there are many possible sources. Symptoms include fever, shivers, abdominal pain and fatigue and you should definitely get yourself checked out by a doctor!

Practically antibiotics or other drugs may be needed, especially in an acute situation.

Energetically like with any infection elsewhere in the body, it is related to annoyance, anger or irritation. With the spleen especially it is in relation to defending yourself against someone or something. Often it is due to the belief that you are in some way weak or defenseless.

These statements about infection become even more relevant when it is affecting the spleen itself because one of the spleen’s main functions is immunity or if you like defense of the body.

Because there is always some level of inflammation related to infections you also may also have some suppressed anger and an overreaction to your challenging situation, people or environment.

In addition to the advice in the general section, ask yourself whether you are overreacting or not. Anger is the emotion we get when we are not getting what we want from life so ask yourself whether the methods, habits and actions you are taking in this situation are working or not.

The true self cannot be destroyed, so choose to speak, act and live life from the true you, or if you like the person you truly wish to be. Obviously this should include looking after your physical body by getting good rest, sleep, food and exercise which in turn will benefit your health and reduce pressure on your spleen!

Splenic Abscess/Cyst

An abscess is a collection of pus that has formed in response to an infection, usually of bacterial origin and after a prolonged or intense fight with your immune system. Fever, chills, abdominal pain and fatigue are the symptoms just like any other spleen infection and you should absolutely get yourself medical help ASAP as it can turn into a life threatening situation.

A cyst is an air, fluid or even solid material filled sac within the body. Usually it is formed due to an infection or toxic environment that the body does not have to power or resources to overcome at the time it was formed. Thus a cyst can be thought of as the body encapsulating a problem to stop the damage or infection from spreading or getting worse, or until such time that the body can deal with it. You may have the feeling of fullness abdominal pain or discomfort if the cyst presses against anything in your body.

Often however cysts stay within the body throughout life as the immune system struggles to get inside of a cyst as it is effectively sealed off from the rest of the body. They can only usually cause problems if they press against certain tissues in the body preventing effective functioning or causing pain. You can also get energetic cysts in the aura which I did a YouTube video about here if you are interested.

I have put abscesses and cysts together as essentially most cysts start off as an abscess before being encapsulated.

Energetically, the same advice as given for splenic infection above applies here as both are mostly caused by an infection. Energetically the same advice applies but even more so.

If a cyst is present then the body has stopped it from potentially becoming a big problem however it highlights that there have been some decisions that have been detrimental in the past which may reoccur if you don’t look into it. Physically this may be poor diet or other lifestyle factors affecting immunity and health in general whether long term or short term before the cyst formed.

Energetically it may be seen as an unresolved mental, emotional or spiritual problem that you have decided, consciously or not, to put aside until you can better face it. Maybe the methods you employed at the time of its formation where not ideal, maybe you didn’t have the tools, experience or knowledge to cope with that challenge.

While physically we don’t generally see cysts as a problem, energetically it ties up some of our energy and causes inefficient energy flow in the aura. Resolving this can free more energy and help us feel freer and more capable. So ask yourself about whatever previous situation it was that happened around the time of the cyst’s creation and see if you can resolve any of those issues with yourself or others now. Do you have the resources or courage to face that now?

Splenic cancer

Cancer anywhere in the body is an uncontrollable division of cells due to genetic mutation that in turn is caused by localised toxic effects.

Cancer of the spleen is a rare form of cancer. Usually it is related to cancers elsewhere in the body that may bud-off and travel into the lymphatic system or blood and thus get lodged in the spleen. Lymphatic system cancers such as chronic leukaemia  are more likely the cause and not all of these types of cancer are serious.

Persistent abdominal pain, weakness, fatigue and unexplained weight loss are all possible symptoms of cancer of the spleen though of course you can get these symptoms from other spleen issues and other diseases and cancers around the body.

Sorting out your general health and doing anything to resolve the original cause of cancer elsewhere in the body is important for helping the body fight off the cancer. As I’ve mentioned many times I consider chemo and radio-therapy to be barbaric and likely to cause more cancers in the future even if they appear to initially help so say the established medical profession!

Surgery is often a good option if done right but anything you can do to improve your body’s own chances of clearing it before it gets serious is very important and of course also during and after medical intervention. Toxic exposure and/or stagnation due to poor fluid movement in the body are key physical factors to look into with any cancer.

Energetically all cancers are related to self-hate or if you like a lack of love for an aspect of yourself. Longstanding resentments, deep hurts etc. So generally the energetic solution to cancer is always to let go of those deeper and longstanding issues and learn to love that part of yourself you’ve been ignoring or hating.

With respect to the spleen, it is a more serious version of the general information I have written about above. Either this is through ignorance or avoidance of those issues or due to self hatred of yourself for not resolving those issues.

So with spleen cancer, look at the general advice and choose to follow through that advice out of love for yourself. All those things you can do are an act of love towards yourself. You must learn to love yourself to cure the energetic reasons behind any cancer. With the spleen this means working on your courage to face your fears, stand in your own power and thus resolve relationship issues at the same time as showing love for your physical body too.

As requested by a client and my Wife this blog article will be about the spiritual significance of the bladder and urinary tract.

Like previous articles, I will start with some anatomy and some scientific understandings before going into the more spiritual side. Please do go and do some research yourself to go deeper as I won’t cover everything from the established medical view-point. Please be careful of the official medical profession’s advice however. As you may have seen in my previous articles their advice can often be detrimental unfortunately.

The kidneys are very closely related to the bladder physically and spiritually. Generally the kidneys are related to the ability to sort through and choose to let go of something, whereas the bladder is more about whether you hold onto or not that thing you’ve chosen to or start to choose about letting go of. I will at some point do an article on the kidneys and it’ll be worth looking into if you have bladder issues and vice versa.

A lot of kidney issues affect the bladder. Kidney stones have to pass through the kidneys, ureters, bladder and urethra. Also for example, urinary tract infections (UTIs) & bladder infections can pass upwards towards the kidneys.

The tissues and organs around the bladder and urethra (such as the prostate in males pressing on and affecting urinary flow) can affect urination so it’ll be worth looking into other organs I’ll write about in the future too.

Anatomy & function

As with previous articles, knowing the anatomy can greatly help in sensing into your organs for healing purposes and for helping with body-scanning types of meditation such as Goenka’s style of vipassana.

The bladder in men and women is located behind the pubic bone at the front of the pelvis. At the top of the bladder are attached the two ureters, where the urine from the kidneys flows into the bladder. At the bottom is the sphincter muscle that stops urine from flowing out of the bladder into the urethra which is where we pee from.

Obviously in men the urethra is longer due to travelling inside the penis. In women you have the womb behind the bladder and the birth canal behind the urethra. Surrounding the urethra in women is the clitoris and g-spot which is actually one organ. In men surrounding the urethra is the prostate. The sperm ducts which supply semen from the testes also join onto the urethra inside the prostate. I will cover these organs in more detail in future articles and they are worth looking into if you have any issues with the urethra.

The muscle of the bladder is called the detrusor muscle. It is supposedly one of the strongest muscles in the body and is able to easily force the urine out of the bladder at high pressure so that urinating doesn’t take too long.

Physiologically the only function of the bladder is to store urine so that we can pee it out when we wish rather than constantly dribble urine all day! In alternative circles there are claims that the bladder can actually reabsorb some or all of the urine through its walls.

I’ve not seen the evidence myself but there are claims that some scans of the bladders of yogis have shown how they are able to reabsorb urine. They say that this is one of the ways they can live of little or no food and drink. Just a curiosity for you to explore if you’re interested but not really useful for most if not all of us!

Physical world things that affect the bladder

Toxins & chemicals, including pharmaceuticals

I have mentioned this in many articles in the past. There are huge sources of chemicals of all kinds in the modern world, many of which are toxic and damaging to the bladder. Of course many chemicals should be detoxified by the liver and various bodily chemicals and enzymes before getting to the bladder, but the body is not perfect and especially when we are exposed to large amounts like we often are in the modern world many do reach and affect the bladder.

If you take a lot of pharmaceutical drugs you absolutely must consider how much damage they may be doing to your kidneys and bladder as a lot of them and/or their by-products pass through the urinary system and the kidneys are a good example of organs that get negatively affected by them.

It is far better to look into and cut out sources of toxins in your life than it is to go on a detox every now and again or only focus on trying to take things that benefit the bladder in some way. I won’t repeat over and over again the chemical sources to look out for, so consider what I wrote in my thyroid article here.

A lot of these toxins can lead to irritation of the bladder walls leading to inflammation of the bladder and urinary tract, a weakening of the immune system there and hence urinary tract infections (UTIs) and even bladder cancers.

In men, excess toxins are one of the main reasons why prostate cancer has increased over the years because the toxins pass through the bladder walls and into the prostate, due to its close proximity.

Also, toxic exposure in the kidneys will affect the kidney’s ability to filter your blood and create urine. The concentration of urine and the amount of substances that leak through the kidneys that shouldn’t, such as certain proteins, can affect UTIs for example.

Not enough or poor quality of water intake

Water is obviously the main component of urine and the more that is present in the body, the better the kidneys and urinary tract can flush out unwanted chemicals and reduce the risk of diseases caused by toxins.

Though it is possible to die from drinking too much water as was shown with Asian game show competitors trying to win games consoles in the past, you would have to drink an insane amount of water for that to happen. Water needs will vary by how big a person is, what climate they live in etc but generally the 2 liters recommendation is something good to aim for.

The quality of water is also important. I will do an article on all the amazing qualities of water at some point in the future, including it’s memory, healing and other weird properties. For now, understand that tap water in all countries will contain varying trace amounts of all sorts of chemicals. Flouride found in many water supplies around the world is very toxic (especially to sensitive tissues like the thyroid and nerve cells) for example.

Though most people have heard of the major chemicals in water not many know how much of contraceptives, pain-killers, recreational drugs, other pharmaceutical drugs and household and industrial chemicals make it into our tap water. A surprising amount of female contraceptive medications and cocaine was found in London tap water for example.

There are many methods of purifying water and I highly recommend looking into it as a long-term health benefit practice. Some methods are useless or become bad after some time and some filters actually add toxins unfortunately so please do your research. If you want to go into the subject of filters and other water purification methods, you can read an older article I wrote here.

Poor urination habits

This can be a major factor in some of the diseases mentioned below. The main habit that is detrimental, is not going to the toilet when you body signals to you that you should pee.

The bladder expands as it takes on more urine. Sensors in the bladder wall signal that that bladder is getting fuller. Once a certain threshold is reached, the nervous system will signal this to you, which you’ll experience as an urgency to pee.

If you continually ignore this signal, whether you have a “good excuse” or not (such as work priorities, your teacher/boss not letting you go to the toilet or not wanting to get out of a comfortable bed to go pee etc etc) then you will start to be less sensitive to such signals and your body will even remove these sensory cells from your bladder wall over time, making it harder to know you need to pee.

This is a major cause of urinating when you don’t wish to later in life. See urinary incontinence below.

Also the bladder walls can smooth out over time from over stretching if you resist peeing. This can make it easier to have UTIs due to the damage to the tissues.

Keeping urine in the bladder for longer obviously means that you are also keeping potential toxins exposed to the bladder wall again increasing the risk of bladder diseases.

If you really wait too long then, urine can also start to build up in the ureters towards the kidneys, increasing the risk of infection in those areas as well as creating backward pressure and potential damage to the kidneys.

In short, always pay attention to your bladder feelings and go to the toilet when you feel the signals. You can repair nerve damage over time simply by listening to you body, in this case the bladder, and respond by going to the toilet when you get the signal. Getting caught without a way to go to the toilet every now and again is normal and nothing to worry about but what is key is keeping good daily habits.

Poor hygiene

An obvious one but something some people don’t think of, especially men I would guess. This is partly due to the fact that women’s urethras, birth canals and anuses are closer together and thus women tend to be more aware of such issues. Don’t wipe from back to front as mothers would say!

Washing regularly is key but also pay attention to what chemicals you are using to wash yourself as there are unfortunately a lot of chemicals in cleaning products these days and you also want to be careful of not affecting the microbiome (the “good” bacteria) that are needed in each area nor do you want to mix the bacteria from the anus, vaginal or urethra areas.

The gut microbiome can have a huge effect on the vaginal and urinary bacteria so looking into improving your diet can work wonders for some people on urinary tract issues. A good nutritionist or naturopath may help if you wish to explore this.

Poor medical testing and treatment

I thought I’d throw this in seeing as I know people who have been negatively affected by the established medical professions. As many of you know, I started off as a biochemist in hospital labs in the UK, so I know first-hand knowledge of this sort of thing.

This is especially regarding UTIs. As some of you might know and as I mentioned above, the types and amounts of bacteria in your bodies has a huge impact on health. The trouble is that mainstream medicine only tests for certain types of bacteria not all of them. Antibiotics will affect certain types of bacteria more than others but usually will affect many types in one go.

I say this because many of the antibiotics that are commonly prescribed for various illnesses will kill off bacteria all over the body including many of the beneficial bacteria too (such as those that produce vitamin K2 for us or ward off the more harmful bacteria). In addition laboratory testing will not test for the beneficial bacteria that those antibiotics kill off. It is also worth noting that some of the more harmful types of bacteria are good at protecting themselves from the immune system and from antibiotics.

This leads often to a cycle of higher risks of infections returning and doctors prescribing yet more antibiotics that kill off more and more of the beneficial bacteria. Some people with chronic UTIs are found to be stuck in this cycle until they find alternative practitioners that do test for more strains of bacteria and are given supplements/diets containing or encouraging the abundance of the bacteria they have been missing.

As a side note,I was listening to a podcast yesterday about the research on how meditation of all types have a measurable effect on balancing the gut microbiome. It was somewhere in the middle of this podcast with Huberman and Dr. Richard Davidson.

Lack of movement

Should be an obvious one but movement of tissues and therefore fluids in the body is vital to the health of the body. I have mentioned this many times and it is one of the key principles of osteopathy as I was taught at university.

Movement of any kind, even a gentle walk each day, is beneficial to getting fluids and tissue movement in and around the bladder for better bladder tissue health. We are so much more sedentary on average and all this sitting we are doing is not good for our bladders and all the other organs in the pelvis and elsewhere in the body.

There are exercises that you can use to supplement this such as pelvic floor exercises where you can tense on and off multiple times a day the same muscles that you use to stop yourself from peeing. The benefits of this aren’t just for bladder health but also for all the other organs close by and as such can help with rectal diseases and even stronger orgasms for example!

If you are not sure about tensing and feeling into the pelvic floor, then I recommend you try out pilates exercises especially with an instructor privately or in a class.

For some people, they may want to explore putting (a clean finger!) into their rectum or birth canal to massage surrounding tissues to encourage better fluid mechanics and thus health of those organs. Please research this before doing it. While it is generally better for certain conditions than others, such as prostate enlargement in males, it can also help with the bladder. And yes this is one of the other benefits of regular sexual intercourse.

Breathing

Breathing is something many people underestimate. It is one of the primary drivers of tissue and fluid movement in the body so ties in nicely with the section above on fluid mechanics and health.

Many people don’t breathe deep into their body. Especially when stressed, people tend to breathe in their upper torso rather than allowing the intestinal area and below to expand. When you breathe deeply, usually when you are more relaxed, you will move the tissues in the pelvic area and so massage the pelvic organs, including bladder.

Some people try not to relax their bellies so as not to look fat. In addition many clothes in the modern world tend to compress the lower abdomen, such as the elastic portion of sweatpants or the use of belts etc. Underwear often compresses the lower abdomen and/or genital region. Even men’s underwear these days tends to be tighter than they were. This limits the movement of fluids including lymphatic fluid through this region as well as creating a habit of not breathing into the lower abdomen due to being used to clothes compressing there.

So learning to breathe lower in the body as well as looking at and removing particularly restrictive clothing can be useful for everyone.

Clothes

As well as clothing fit, it is worth paying attention to what materials your underwear is made of and clothes in general too for the health of the rest of your body.

Certain fabrics will allow better movement or better airflow than others. Certain fabrics will also promote health better than others due to the vibration of the molecules in the fabric. Man-made fibers such as polyester are particularly poor for tissue health. There are a lot of micro-plastics that can enter our skin through the use of synthetic materials and in addition many of them irritate our skin or provide due to vibration a place for unwanted bacteria to thrive.

More natural materials such as cotton and silk have a higher vibratory state and are better for the cells of our body. If you can find organic fabrics like you can find easily in shops here in Sweden they buy those. Many chemicals are found on clothes especially newly bought ones (notice how there are no moth balls in shops yet they stay free of pests such as moths – no mistake!) so please make sure you wash new clothes at least once before use!

Closely fitting underwear especially in women can be a bridge for bacteria to travel from one orifice to another, not just a breeding ground. Something to bear in mind if you suffer from UTIs for example.

OK, let’s start looking into some of the more common bladder and urinary tract issues, as well as bladder issues in general…

The bladder energetically in general

As you’ll see in more detail with each case below, bladder issues relate to not letting go of something you know doesn’t serve you. Letting go is the key phrase.

Very often it is refusing to let go. As I have mentioned above, the kidneys are usually where you or your subconsciousness make a decision to let go of or realise that letting go of XYZ would be beneficial to you. The bladder is where you store such things until you actually do let go of them.

Many of us have said to ourselves that it would be good to change this or that about ourselves so that we can be better in one way or another. If you haven’t gotten around to actually following through with that thought process and thus are holding onto the old version of yourself, then don’t be surprised if stagnant energy is building up in your bladder!

So quite often the issues in the bladder are usually known to some extent but there is an unwillingness to let go and/or there has been no effort to follow through. This is why I often say that fears, especially fears of survival get stuck in the bladder.

Those fears relate to who would you be if you really did let go of XYZ. Quite often they are beliefs, habits or defenses that probably did help you survive or get through tough times in life. However many of these also hinder you from moving forwards and becoming the version of you, you truly wish.

The fear is that if you let go of them then you may be vulnerable, expose yourself to risk or judgement from others. Sometimes they relate to survival in terms of being supported in life and as such can be related to money, resources, support from family members/friends/co-workers/governments/society or this reality in general. There is a lot that can be said about the bladder and your ability to manage resources therefore which I will cover in more detail in the incontinence section below. A great explanation of this can be found here, written by one of the other healer’s out there that I have be inspired by many times in the past.

Along with the fear of letting go and trying something new there is often blame or resentment stored in the bladder towards the people and structures of society that are perceived to be unsupportive of you and make you constantly feel like you’re in survival mode. If it is more self-directed  such as knowing that you could have made better choices regardless of others and other circumstances around you, then there may be a lot of guilt instead.

Another emotion to consider with certain bladder and urinary tract issues is anger. Inflammation and any other form of irritation to tissues of the body can be considered a form of anger, whether we call it anger itself or annoyance, irritation or frustration. These are more common in infections and energetically you can sum it up in the common phrase “pissed off”. You can just as easily be pissed off at yourself as with others and sometimes this anger comes up because you are actually starting to move out of guilt and resentment towards something better. Thus it could possibly be an indication of wanting to let go and move into something new, though people can get stuck in the anger phase and cause further irritation.

As you may gather, bladder issues relate a lot to holding onto the past. The solution then is to realise that you are not your past. The past doesn’t have to dictate the future. While you cannot change the past, you can learn from the mistakes of the past and change what you do in the present to create the future you wish for.

Many people focus and get stuck on how you let go of something that does not serve you which can also perpetuate stagnant energies in the bladder. While understanding the past is useful, getting caught in memories of the past can keep you manifesting more of it.

The solution to letting go is to BE something different. The past mistakes are a guide of what not to do or of what you don’t wish for, so that you can explore new and different options.

If you focus on creating something new (The bladder is affected by the creative energies of the 2nd chakra after all), being productive and working on or exploring new possible goals in life, then you’ll find that sooner or later you won’t be thinking of nor investing in the past. This is the true key to letting go.

Bladder cancer

As most people know, cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells in the body. Those cells are often found with mutations, due to genetic damage, that can turn them into cells that shouldn’t be present in that area.

In about 80% of cases, bladder cancer affects the tissues inside the bladder and in 20% of cases it affects the bladder in a way that could affect surrounding tissues. In the former case bladder cancers are typically treated from within and in the latter case surgery is typically offered due to not being able to work from the inside.

I will do a separate article on cancers in the future as there are some issues I have with the way the established medical professions deal with cancer and how they actually increase the risk of metastases and cancers coming back, after barbaric treatments such as chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy.

Physically looking into the advice given in the previous section to improve bladder health and indeed overall health to give the body a chance to correct the cancer or at the very least recover from the more invasive medical profession’s solutions is important. Toxic exposure and/or stagnation due to poor fluid movement in the body are key physical factors to look into with any cancer.

Energetically all cancers are related to self-hate or if you like a lack of love for an aspect of yourself. Longstanding resentments, deep hurts etc. So generally the energetic solution to cancer is always to let go of those deeper and longstanding issues and learning to love that part of yourself you’ve been ignoring or hating.

More specifically for bladder cancer, it is related to holding onto old, limiting or false ideas, or refusing to release blame for not fulfilling your desires. There is a lot of self-hate stored in the bladder because of not letting go or even not wanting to let go of any of these.

So in essence, bladder cancer is an extreme representation of the general information I wrote about in the last section, and thus the advice of letting go by creating something new is very important.

Using your will power to direct your attention to the present rather than wallowing in the past is important. There is a need here to explore something new and find something you actually enjoy, not just say you enjoy. Immersing yourself in that newness is important and you may have to make radical changes to your life to make room for this new activity, hobby, work, interest etc.

Blood in the urine (Haematuria)

This is a symptom of some other disease and should be checked by your doctor to see what the cause is. Typically they may do biochemical and/or microbiological tests on your urine and in some cases may perform scans or put cameras up into the bladder via the urethra to see what’s going on.

Blood can come out due to problems with the kidneys, kidney stones passing through, bacterial infections and possibly cancer. The only way to be sure is to check first with your physicians.

Once you know what is causing the issue you can look at the other diseases listed here or in a future kidney article for energetic reasons.

You could say that because blood represents energy, power and information that seeing blood is a message your physical body is using to get your attention. Blood also represents learning as blood issues of all kinds represent issues in responding to life and learning from it. With blood from urinary tract issues, you are likely not learning something new and moving forwards because of holding onto the past.

Urinary incontinence

There are many types of urinary incontinence depending on the cause and symptoms. Here is a small list taken from the BUPA website that I’ve added to:

• Urge incontinence. This is when you feel a sudden need to pee without warning. You have to go then and there. You can’t put it off or delay for the toilet. There can often be small leakages of urine too.
• Nocturia. is a type of urge incontinence where you get up in the middle of the night to pee.
• Stress incontinence. This is when urine leaks when you sneeze, cough or exert yourself such as when doing exercise or putting yourself in a stressful position. This indicates a weak  or damaged sphincter muscle and/or nerve issues to that muscle.
• Overflow incontinence. This is when you can’t fully empty your bladder so urine keeps dribbling out.
• Functional incontinence. This is when you can’t reach a toilet in time or can’t use a toilet properly due to mobility problems.
• Total incontinence. This is when your bladder can’t store urine at all and could be nerve and/or sphincter muscle damage for example.
• Mixed incontinence. This means you have both stress incontinence and urge incontinence.
• Bladder leakage. You are considered to have bladder leakage when you either need to pee often, dribble urine after going to the toilet, constantly dribble urine day and night, have difficulty passing urine when you want to and/or feel like you never fully empty your bladder when peeing.
• Overactive bladder. You are considered to have an overactive bladder when you have to rush to go to the toilet to pee, need to pee often during the day, wake up at night to pee, leak urine before you get to the toilet, often with pain in the bladder/belly region. Related to urge incontinence.
• Urinary retention. This is the need to urinate but have an inability or difficulty in starting. This can lead to bladder leakage.

A lot of these incontinence issues are secondary to other issues elsewhere in the body and even though some of them tend to appear later in life they shouldn’t be considered a normal thing that has to happen as you age, so get yourself checked out, even if you don’t wish to follow established medical advice. However, their help should always be considered as they are often the only people that may be able to offer a physical solution to your problem.

Examples of primary issues that can cause incontinence include:

• Neurological issues. Such as stroke or Parkinson’s disease affecting the central nervous system and thus control of the nerves affecting the bladder muscles. Or damage to nerves closer to the bladder and pelvis in general such as being cut during surgery or by pressure on them by surrounding tissues such as prostate enlargement, cysts or cancers.
• An enlarged prostate gland. Can put direct pressure on the urethra, and bladder and sphincter muscles (the muscles that stop urine coming out of the bladder).
• Radiotherapy. Used in the treatment of bladder, prostate and other cancers in the pelvic area is known to damage the bladder, urethra and surrounding tissues.
• Recent birth. Giving birth very often weakens and in some cases damages the pelvic floor and surrounding tissues leading to incontinence.
• Having an episiotomy during childbirth or other pelvic region operations. Cuts into the organs and tissues including the pelvic floor can sever nerves, weaken muscles and damage fascia in that region which can lead to incontinence.
• Being overweight and/or constipated. This puts direct pressure on the pelvic area including bladder leading to incontinence. A primary factor in stress incontinence.
• Benign or cancerous lumps. Again could apply pressure to the bladder and urethra.

Other factors include what I have listed in the physical world effects near the start of this article, as well as frequent or recent UTIs, long-term high-impact sports such as running and of course, pharmaceuticals.

Obviously it would be wise to sort out the primary factors causing your incontinence first before or alongside looking at the health of the bladder directly in these cases.

There are various allopathic treatments prescribed depending on the cause, ranging from various drugs to control nerve stimulus on the bladder, surgery to remove obstructions and rebuild tissues, pelvic floor exercises and awareness and even biofeedback and electrical stimulation procedures. Please educate yourself on invasive and drug related solutions. They may cause more damage than they solve but of course they may actually be the best or only option if things have gone too far.

Incontinence pads or nappies are sometimes the only physical solution for some.

Energetically a lot of bladder incontinence issues relate to too much or too little control of letting go in life, sometimes a loss of control.

If you try to hold onto the old beliefs and related emotions I mentioned about in the general piece above, then your bladder will not be able to keep it all in and eventually have to leak to let those emotions, just like the physical urine, out one way or another. In this case refusal of letting something go is a key factor here.

Having an external factor pressing on your bladder whether via being overweight, having a tumor, enlarged prostate or whatever else, is very much like your body telling you to let go of what is causing that other problem. If you continue to ignore the original problem, the body eventually forces you to let go by making you pee each time pressure is applied and thus urinating smaller or larger amounts when you don’t necessarily want to.

So energetically this also represents a refusal of letting go of whatever is behind that pressure. If you are overweight for example, one of the main causes of having excess body fat energetically is being defensive and having limiting beliefs of being defenseless/weak (there are other causes of course). So if that is the cause of your incontinence then your body is trying to tell you to let go of those limiting beliefs and defenses that you have been refusing to let go of.

Weaknesses in being able to urinate and/or fully empty the bladder represent beliefs in a lack of power/ability to let go of the old and bring in the new. There may be experiences/traumas and thus limiting beliefs in having no power and control in your life reflecting in the inability to let out your physical urine too. Such beliefs need to be challenged in order to bring the new you forwards.

Similarly if you have no control over when urine comes out whether it dribbles out randomly or all the time or you can’t dictate going when you want, including not making it to the toilet, then that can also indicate negative experiences and resultant limiting beliefs of your own power in life.

It could represent having a lot of traumatic experiences where you were not allowed to have your own say, your own choice, your own beliefs etc in life. As such, urine doesn’t come out when you wish, it seems to be dictated by other people and circumstances outside of yourself as a reflection of you giving your power away to others. Letting go of those limiting beliefs by testing them out to see if they really are true and exploring a more empowered version of yourself is important.

Urgency is an important symptom to look into and I like the Eastern point-of-view here given by another healer I respect a lot. Briefly put, urgency problems that happen with a lot of types of incontinence and relate to issues in being able to manage resources in life. How those resources are stored and released. These resources are not just about fluids and energy but also about money, time, attention and your emotional capacity for example.

Especially if there have been traumas or negative experiences related to being supported in life and thus survival habits and limiting beliefs related to foundational support, stability, trust and inner support, then there may be a sense of urgency in life in general that gets reflected in the bladder and its energies. You could say that such people don’t feel safe enough to slow down. Life may seem too demanding rather than manageable.

In Eastern medicine the water element is related to winter and as such relaxation, rest, conservation, inner gathering, contemplation and healing. So if you have symptoms of urgency to go to the toilet, you have likely not been paying attention to yourself nor looked after yourself enough. You can consider it your body trying to tell you to slow down and take some time to look after yourself.

Considering the other things mentioned mentioned in this article during this time-out may help you feel more supported in life and help you go in the direction you wish to more easily and hence lower this sense of urgency.

There are a lot of slightly different energetic possibilities here with the different forms of incontinence but I hope these examples give you some idea of the common themes for you to resolve any particular scenario.

Urinary stones – related to kidney stones

Urinary stones are directly related to kidney stones. Simply they are stones that usually start growing in the kidneys and at some point get released from the kidneys before reaching the bladder where they are then called urinary stones.

I had the unfortunate experience of having kidneys stones in both kidneys many years ago. Very painful, especially the second time where it took a whole week for that larger stone to pass through my ureter into my bladder. No pain killer no matter how strong it was dulled the pain at all apart from morphine. That’s how painful it can be!

Physically they are caused by poor water intake, lack of movement in that part of the body, eating certain foods that promote stones such as vegetables and leafy greens that are high in oxalates, other nutrient imbalances especially in the different types of salt caused by diet and/or other functionings of the other organs in the body.

I recommend “chanca piedra” which you can drink regularly as a herbal tea, for dissolving/breaking down stones in the kidneys, bladder, gall-bladder and elsewhere. It literally translates to “stone crusher” so I’m told. But obviously looking at diet with a good nutritionist or naturopath as well as exercising more are good physical things to look into as prevention. Otherwise it’s a case of taking pain killers! Receiving ultrasound blasts to break up the stones, or in some cases surgery to remove stones that are too large to go through the ureters is an option.

I will cover this disease again in more detail when I write a separate article on the kidneys however I will focus on the energetic side of the bladder and urethra part of the journey of a stone.

The stone itself can be described as crystalised anger, regret or guilt which in turn can relate to deeper fears. Note how these are the same emotions that affect the bladder directly as mentioned in the general section above.

The difficult stage of the stone’s journey for me was passing from the kidney and especially down the ureter towards the bladder. The kidney is all about deciding or becoming aware of something that would be good to remove from life. Many times I had people say I was holding onto anger but I was not really aware of it myself before the incident so it suddenly coming into my awareness and being released was the painful stage for me.

When both stones from each kidney incident reached my bladder and later passed out my urethra I literally had no pain whatsoever. I didn’t even use any of the medications they gave me to relax/enlarge the urethra. This indicated to me that once I had discovered this anger I originally wasn’t aware of, I had little or no resistance to letting it go. I moved on easily if you like.

If you ever experience having kidneys stones that get stuck in the bladder and/or are difficult to pass through the urethra then it indicates that you have trouble in letting go of that ball of anger/guilt/resentment.

Following a lot of the advice in the general section above will help energetically in terms of letting go of the old and creating the new.

In most cases stones do pass within a few hours or at most a week or so, so the physical solution is generally quick, however looking into why you got the stones in the first place working on the physical and energetic causes as a prevention not just for future stones but other urinary tract diseases is important.

Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) (Incl. Cystitis)

UTIs are caused by bacterial infections to the bladder and/or urethra. They can cause the lining inside to get inflamed i.e. red and raw. In serious cases they can spread up towards the kidneys and cause kidney infections so it’s always good to resolve them sooner than later. Cystitis is the term we use when the infection is in the lower urinary tract only.

Sometimes there may be blood present in the urine due to the inflammation but one of the main symptoms is urgency to pee due to the soreness felt in the urethra and/or pressure felt in the bladder. Urinating stings in most cases.

Often UTIs can be fleeting and only last an hour or more especially if you keep drinking to flush out the bacteria and support your immune system with your diet and supplements. Cranberry juice is well-known to help but finding one without added sugar can be hard or more costly unfortunately. I say that because refined sugar promotes bacterial growth in the body.

If the UTI doesn’t disappear quickly and especially if fever or other symptoms start appearing, please go and see your doctor and get some antibiotics as that is likely your only option. Again research what you need to do to make up for the negative effects antibiotics has on your microbiome otherwise you’ll increase your risk of other issues around your body including your gut and birth canal as well as increasing your risk of more UTIs in future.

Physically many women get UTIs straight or soon after sexual intercourse due to foreign (from the man) or even local bacteria (i.e. from the woman’s own body) from other orifices making their way to the urethra opening. It happens in men too after intercourse but due to the fact that bodily fluids are mostly ending up inside the woman (depending on what you get up to!) and the short distance between other orifices and the urethra opening in women, they suffer the most.

Altering sexual positions/methods can help if you really suffer but focusing on better hygiene and other factors in both partners is more important. Women, that motherly advice of urinating after sex, and men washing your penis well before sex or using a condom (be aware of chemicals in condoms and other sexual aids however) if a lady asks, are useful practical bits of advice!

Prevention will always be better than cure so look also into the advice given in the general section above, including what underwear you use for example.

As I mentioned briefly in the general section, inflammation represents irritation, anger, annoyance and quite often there is blame of self or another behind that. Hence the term “pissed off” is used commonly to represent UTIs.

Quite often this pissed off scenario is aimed at someone of the opposing sex or a lover. Aside from the bacterial side mentioned above, the intimacy of sex also has an energetic component. Considering the emotional, mental and spiritual needs each person has from sexual intercourse and indeed of the relationship as a whole, is important to explore to resolve this anger between couples.

This energetic component may be stirred up more between a couple during sex due to the closeness of the act, hence why UTIs can so often happen after sex.

Outside of close relationships it is also easy to get pissed off with others at work or in other challenging situations. So UTIs can happen after sex because of someone or something occurring outside of the relationship itself and of course can happen at any time without sex. I say this because it can be all too easy to blame your sexual partner when the main stimulus was not from them, and of course blame is something to avoid because it is one of the main emotions stirring up UTIs in the first place.

Remember that the anger related to the blame and pissed-offness is because of not getting what you want or need in some way. Exploring and working on why you are not happy and what you can do about it and especially actually going and doing it is the solution to anger disappearing not just from the bladder.

The other big emotion that can cause UTIs is guilt. This can cause inflammation because guilt is like a self-punishment and is one of the lowest vibrational emotions you can have. Like any emotion, guilt should be a message. A message that something you did in the past wasn’t for your or another’s best interest.

Ideally you should notice the guilt and start questioning why you have that guilt and once you’ve worked out what to do or not do and thus not harm yourself or another in future, the guilt should disappear. Especially once you realise you will not do the negative thing you did before and hence are a different person now, who does not deserve that judgement any more.

Sometimes people wear guilt like a badge of honor because they think if another realises that they are guilty towards them, they might interpret it as being thoughtful and caring. Far better to let it go and instead actually do something that betters that other person!

Sometimes too guilt is felt when actually you do nothing wrong at all. Maybe it is cellular memory happening. Maybe it is an outdated or false belief in society making you feel that way. Logically discussing any scenario in your mind can often expose this sort of thing as false and help you release the guilt once you realise you aren’t actually in the wrong nor have you harmed another.

As I often mention with emotions, it can sometimes be hard to tell whether an emotion is coming up because of a present situation or whether it is coming up because you are actually clearing the past by doing something productive in the direction of life you truly wish.

Emotions will often surface when you are doing the right thing because those old emotions are no longer a match to the new you, so have to come to the surface to be cleared. So in saying that, sometimes a UTI might occur because you have been moving forwards. If however you get repeated UTIs then you have to question if you are holding yourself back from the new.

With UTIs, again the same advice of letting go and creating the new is important to resolving them as with other . So the advice is the same as mentioned in the general section above.

Because there is also a feeling or urgency that comes with UTIs, please look in the last section about management of resources. Urgency is often a signal from the body to slow down, reflect, recuperate, heal and generally look after yourself.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this article as much as the others on the relationship of physical symptoms to spiritual issues. Let me know if there’s anything in particular you’d like to see in future by emailing me.

I’ve moved to Sweden…

This is really just an update on my services for those who use them regularly.

Firstly apologies for not writing on my blog nor making youtube videos recently. I will start to make more in the coming weeks.

I’ve not been the best at keeping up with the ever increasing demands of the internet and all the channels and apps associated with it. Recently however I’ve also had a lot to do with getting my business up and running in Sweden.

Sweden like many other European countries these days seems to be very particular and awkward about setting up a business. I’ve had to go through visa, tax identity number, ID cards, opening a bank account, getting my business registered, insurance done etc etc. Everything takes at least several weeks and you cannot do anything without having done the step previous to it.

I can maybe talk in future about what all this really means and what contracts and hence spiritual contracts are related here and the purposes of “those in power” have for them. Let’s face it, from our more spiritual perspective, there’s no need for all these bits of paper (or maybe I should say digital versions of them, now much of it is online these days) that don’t actually prove anything and really just get in the way of us getting on with what we wish to get on with.

The other thing that has been taking up my time has been learning the Swedish language. It’s not the easiest language an English individual can learn. As an example they have 5, yes 5 different ways of doing plurals compared English where you just put a “s” at the end of a word!

Changes to payments

Seeing as I’m now working in Sweden I’ll be charging for appointments in Swedish Krona. At the time of writing, £75 GBP is nearly Kr 950 SEK so that is what the price will now be set at for all appointments.

Also if you are Swedish or have a Swedish bank account you can now opt to pay via bank transfer that way.

I hope the new Paypal payment link looks a bit nicer and is easier to use. Let me know if you have any problems.

New in-person services

Most of you reading this will be overseas and unlikely to be able to have an in-person session with me but if you happen to be in the North of Sweden and are able to explore West of the city Umeå, you are welcome to come have a session with me in-person.

Many people come to see the northern lights, go dog sledding, have sauna session, take ice baths etc in the winter or go rafting, camping, go on moose and reindeer safaris etc here in the summer. Granö is in Västerbotten in Northern Sweden and if you do come here a lot of those experiences you can find via the local business Granö Beckasin.

Cranio-sacral therapy & osteopathy

Anyone who has been following me for years will know that I started off as a biochemist then osteopath and cranio-sacral therapist before venturing into the more spiritual work I have mostly done for the past 12 years. I still worked on people using these skills over the years when people could see me in person but they have not been my main services on offer due to moving around so much.

Now I have a more permanent place to live and work from, I have a little treatment room where I will be able to perform these techniques as well as energy healing services in Granö, a little village West of Umeå, Sweden.

I will happily offer energetic versions of these techniques if people abroad want to explore that, as I have done with the more curious clients I’ve had over the years.

I’ll start writing more useful articles soon, likely starting with the spiritual significance of the bladder, as requested by a client. Feel free to let me know if you have questions and suggestions.

All the best to you all, Grant.

This see-saw concept is something I commonly mention about during my sessions with people. I belief it is a useful concept to get across especially when trying to manifest/create/receive something new in life.

The misunderstood “law of attraction”

I could write a lot about the law of attraction and how many people misunderstand it and/or don’t apply it well. Let’s keep it brief.

Essentially this law states that you get out what you put in. If you are unhappy in life and you keep creating, holding onto the same emotional habits, you’ll simply create more and more unhappiness. If you invest yourself in exploring, learning and eventually creating happiness, gradually you’ll experience more happiness in life.

The law of attraction is very real and it is happening in every moment of every day of your life. There is not just circumstantial evidence for this either and you could delve into quantum physics or quantum mechanics if you really wanted to understand how precise this law actually is.

Many who truly understand this law have used it very effectively to win the lottery, acquire their dream house, learn to develop supposedly impossible skills such as astral travel, powerful energy healing and so on.

What stumps a lot of people is that they start off with a set of vibrations when they start to exist in this reality that seem to be so difficult for them to change. Both the vibrations their individuated consciousness or soul that they take from lifetime to lifetime and also the vibrations of the physical body that are based on how that physical body’s ancestors chose to believe/act/experience. Soul memory and cellular memory if you like. From there you change some of those initial vibrations and create new ones as you live life.

These starting vibrations have a lot of momentum to them and some of them, because they are so hard to change or even impossible in a human life, may be deemed as “destiny” or if you like what the soul chose for this lifetime. They include things like being a human, being male or female, the belief in gravity, the need to eat and dying if you don’t eat for example – things that you are extremely unlikely to be able to change in this lifetime.

Then some other vibrations may be hard to change but you can change them within one lifetime with enough focus such as gaining the seemingly “impossible” abilities I mentioned above.

Then there are other vibrations that may be somewhat less hard to change but still need some focus and effort to do so, such as becoming rich when starting off poor in life. And then there are vibrations with less and less momentum that are easier and easier to change and require less focus and effort – you get the idea I hope.

Momentum

The key thing to understand here is momentum. The greater the momentum or if you like the greater the investment or holding onto a particular belief/habit/lifestyle etc, the harder it is to change and so the more time, effort and focus is needed to do so.

It is hard to slow down a big heavy truck because it has a lot of momentum but every little pebble on the road creates resistance which over time slows down that truck. Eventually you’ll more easily change the direction of that truck and even make if go back the other way. Those little pebbles are all your little efforts to be something different. Some pebbles can be larger of course than others but the idea is that every little effort starts to create change.

Holding onto and creating more thoughts/emotions/actions that are in line with what the truck is already doing is like maintaining your foot on the accelerator instead.

When you start to go more in the direction of life you wish, you start to create momentum in that direction instead of the old. This means that maintaining the desired experience gets easier and easier requiring less and less effort until it becomes a new habit.

Awareness is key

This point is very simple yet very important:

You cannot change something if you are unaware of what you are actually doing/thinking/emoting. I.e. what you are continually investing or holding onto.

When you awaken more and more you simply become more aware in one way or another. Some people become more aware of society and how governments etc behave which is one form of awakening. Some people become more aware of energies that exist beyond what is normal or taught in society and become awakened in a different way. There are many types of awakening.

In order to apply the law of attraction to your life you don’t necessarily have to become more aware of your thoughts, emotion, actions, things happening in your environment/outside life and astral on-goings. The more the better of course but for many that can actually be overwhelming and distract them from their original intention. All “levels” are reflections of each other so often just focusing on your actions or thoughts can be enough, though if you want to have better emotional experiences it would be silly to not focus on becoming more aware of your emotions too.

The common psychological terms of conscious, subconscious and unconscious are useful here. Conscious refers to what you are aware of, subconscious is what you are somewhat aware of but don’t pay enough attention to to fully know or understand. The unconscious is that which affects your life and have no clue about, but can start to become aware of when you ask questions about your life and examine it or be curious about it, at which point it starts to become subconscious.

A lot of peoples mental, emotional and physical efforts are sub- and un-conscious. On autopilot rather than being conscious choices you could say.

I say this because I’ve come across a great many people trying to manifest/attract a better life in one way or another yet they complain they are not getting what they desire.

They often will meditate, use affirmations or some other spiritual technique for several hours a day saying that they are applying the law of attraction exactly the way the book/video/spiritual guide is telling them. Yet for the majority of the day they are not paying any attention to what thoughts, emotions and actions they are actually investing in which are often the opposite of what they desire.

Where are you on the see-saw?

When we are making efforts on our spiritual path we get stuck every now and again because we simply are not honest with ourselves. Again it takes some awareness to notice that to be able to change it. Questions, curiosity, learning, help from others and so on, are examples of what you might like to use to help you see more of yourself here.

Now we know that we need to be more honest about ourselves, ask yourself, where are you on the see-saw of your particular desires? Pay attention to your thoughts, emotions and actions for an entire day and ask yourself truthfully what side of the see-saw is heaviest based on what you’ve observed.

Are you speaking more ill of yourself, or if you like “cursing” yourself more than you think? Are your efforts really going to create a new you? What direction do you see your invested energy each day will take you in?

These sorts of awareness exercises and questions can help you change the focus of your life and flip the see-saw to be weighted more towards those desires you truly wish for yourself.

Start making those small steps towards that desire in order start flipping the see-saw. I won’t go deep into the concept of baby-steps again as I’ve mentioned it so many times in recent articles but start making those steps no matter how small and no matter how uncomfortable they initially seem, and make a habit doing that every day so that you are tipping the see-saw in your favor everyday.

Consistency and regularity is important

Remember we need momentum.

It is just like going to the gym – going a few times isn’t suddenly going to give you any noticeable results but going regularly every week consistently for over a year definitely will!

I am a big proponent of exercising. Gyms and exercise areas are fantastic for spiritual growth as we get used to choosing our goals despite the thoughts, emotions and physical discomfort that would otherwise stop us from continuing.

To start creating a new direction is often uncomfortable and often a lot of people give up on the law of attraction quite quickly just like people who stop going to the gym after a few sessions because they don’t notice results or give into the thoughts, emotions or physical discomfort.

Often too when people do make an effort for many months or even years depending on the distance between their starting vibration and the vibration of their goal, they don’t realise how close they are to actually achieving their goal. I have seen many people give up and revert back to their old habits when they were actually so close!

I will perhaps write in the next article the concept of a phase-shift to help people better see this point.

Act rather than just meditate!

This is something important to write about when talking about the law of attraction. Just like the language of the mental density is thought and the language of the emotional density is emotions. The language of the physical world is action.

While it is entirely possible that you get a lottery win for example just by meditating on it and not buying a ticket, by for example a ticket accidentally landing on your doorstep or a friend winning, it is far to act in accordance with you meditation by acting to increase you possibilities too. So acting physically by buying a ticket will be much better.

Moreover if abundance is your goal, don’t believe that a lottery win is the only way because the universe will say “well ok then, I won’t give you abundance in all these other millions of ways.”

So following through with physical decisions is very important if you want to create change in physical reality.

I thought I’d write a bit about high blood pressure in this article seeing as so many of my clients have mentioned about their blood pressure worries over the last year and that so many had what I consider a skewed belief of what high blood pressure really means. I will perhaps cover low blood pressure another time as there are other considerations with that.

Though I will be going over the spiritual significance somewhat of blood pressure, I will be mostly talking about the falsehoods that mainstream medicine likes us to believe about blood pressure and suggest some avenues to explore what you can do to fix it, or at the very least mitigate it, rather than just take drugs for the rest of your life, like the pharmaceutical companies would like you to do. There may be some that need to take drugs despite what I mention here so it will depend on your circumstances.

I won’t be going into the biochemical mechanisms of how the body controls blood pressure too much, nor will I talk about how each blood pressure medication works, as it would take up a whole article and you can find a lot of that information freely on the internet.

I will unfortunately have to repeat this here: I am not a practicing physician of any kind and you should consult your doctor on anything I have said here first, before following any advice or making any changes to your health. The modern world huh?!

The spiritual significance of high blood pressure

Seeing as I’ve written a lot of “spiritual significance” articles recently, let’s start here for people who don’t want to read all the physical world things below.

Blood on a physical level is a source of energy, nutrients and immune cells for the body to function and it also takes waste products away. So it is related a lot to spiritual energy resources, power and defense.

If blood is flowing freely there is a lot of joy in life. If it is not flowing freely or does not contain the resources provided by other organs, it suggests a lack of joy or a lack of support from others as well as a belief that there is not enough power to create the life you wish.

Low blood pressure suggests more that you have had unloving or unsupportive experiences in life leading to defeatism/depression and a lack of trying in life.

High blood pressure on the other hand suggests that you are not living life as you wish but unlike low blood pressure, you still have the energy/power to at least be trying and possibly trying too hard. This is a reflection of the blood pressure being increased to force itself into areas it struggles to get into otherwise.

Often it is trying to live up to your own standards based on limiting beliefs or trying to live up to other people’s standards, either way not accomplishing them. There can an attitude of “should” do this or that which can include trying to support others rather than looking at what actually will make you happy and fulfill your desires.

It can often be related to following what society or family believes creates a successful life, verses what would truly make your heart sing. It can lead to issues in relationships including judgment, blame, competition, fight or other forms of resistance with others. So sorting out relationship issues is often a big part of blood pressure issues.

I really like one of the suggested solutions in Daniel Condron’s book “Permanent Healing” which I will quote here: “It is not your responsibility to live for others. You are capable of fulfilling your own life and you need to, for this is the way you will aid the most people.” This is something that often comes up in healing sessions for me. You cannot support others without attending to your own needs and desires first. You will have more energy and capability of helping others if you are healthy, fit and mentally/emotionally strong yourself. You will also set a better example of how they too can get into a better state.

Searching for what you wish to achieve in this life and making goals and taking baby steps towards that will solve a lot of energetic causes of disease (yes you’ll likely see me write it over and over in many articles!). In the case of high blood pressure you are likely taking on too many things, even if you are not trying to help others and take on other responsibilities outside of yourself.

Hone in more closely on what is the most important to your happiness and drop all the other things that aren’t really needed or are causing you too much stress. I often say that it may seem nice having multiple mansions or sports cars to some people, but that’s a lot of things to be maintaining, repairing, visiting, worrying about, paying for insurance or people to look after them etc so it can take up a surprising amount of time and stress having more. Same goes for too many hobbies, too many club memberships etc You’ll stress yourself out too much spreading yourself thinly.

As I mention in the coming paragraphs, blood pressure generally increases with age because of the entropy of the physical body. We slowly start to have less resources available to mitigate issues rather than it being about a serious issue related to the energetic causes above necessarily. Often many people solve a lot of their relationship issues as they age in fact. In that case, high blood pressure is more about the beliefs related to no longer being able to achieve or experience x y or z due to age and a less able body.

If you find out what the underlying physical issue is, such as a liver problem for example, then consider what the spiritual significance of that organ is too when working out a plan to improve you blood pressure.

I say this because blood carries ideas with it too. What limiting beliefs do you have that are preventing new ideas/new energies from reaching that part of you? The liver in this example is a factory that in general relates to your beliefs on what, how and how much power you have to build/create the life you wish. So question your beliefs about what you can create and start making a plan with little steps to disprove that you need someone else’s permission first, money to achieve it, that you don’t have the courage, lack experience or that x, y or z has to happen first.

Your blood pressure increases because your body needs to increase it!

Yes, read that again. Your blood vessels are in many ways like water pipes in your home. If there is not enough water pressure then the water comes out in dribbles from your tap, doesn’t reach all areas of your home or in even worse cases, no water comes out of any tap.

Likewise in the human body, you need a certain amount of pressure in the arteries and veins for the blood to go from the heart (with oxygenated blood courtesy of the lungs) through the arteries, into the tissues of the body then take deoxygenated blood through the veins and back to the heart.

If there’s a lack of pressure then the bodily tissues don’t get enough oxygen and other nutrients to function, grow and repair. Also waste products from the body do not get taken away as efficiently causing toxic damage to the cells. If there is too low pressure then there isn’t enough oxygen to keep the body alive and you die, likely with a heart attack due to it pumping too hard to try and make the blood move and to get enough oxygen itself.

Obviously too low amounts of blood movement through the body is not good, especially for prolonged periods each day as the tissues of the body slowly suffer toxic damage and don’t get the nutrients and energy from oxygen to function properly, let alone repair any damage done. This would lead eventually to all sorts of diseases depending on where the blood supply is poor, what stresses are placed on the body and what nutrients are lacking etc.

So what is the simplest way the body can adapt to try and get to more blood flow to the tissues of the body that are stagnant? That’s right, the body intentionally increases blood pressure to try and squeeze more blood and the oxygen and other nutrients that come with it into those areas.

Taking blood pressure medications can increase your risk of disease, including heart attack

This is a tricky concept to get across to some people and of course I have to be careful here as medications can be useful in some situations. Each person has to assess their own case depending on many factors. Factors which include what else may be going on in the various organs and tissues of the body.

Let’s give you a simple example of why blood pressure medications can be dangerous…

Let’s say the arteries that supply blood to your heart muscles start to get narrowed (there are various reasons why that might happen of course). This means that the heart muscles aren’t getting enough nutrients & energy and that toxic by-products of metabolism aren’t getting removed quick enough. If allowed to continue, those heart muscles will fatigue and atrophy and of course struggle to pump blood, creating a risk of disease elsewhere in the body or even worse death from a heart attack, as those muscles fail to work.

The body will respond by increasing blood pressure, partly by making the heart pump stronger and/or faster, to attempt to increase blood flow to those heart muscles. While it doesn’t necessarily solve the initial issue in those arteries, it does compensate for the problem and give the body and you more time to solve why those arteries are narrowed in the first place.

Now if you happen to go to the GP, or more likely these days the nurse (as doctors don’t seem to want to see anyone anymore!) and they do a check of your blood pressure and see that “It’s on the high side” what typically happens?

The stories I keep hearing over and over again from the Western world is that they don’t ask any questions about your lifestyle factors, other signs or symptoms you may have, do little or no tests of the various systems of the body, don’t check the tissues of your body or do physical function tests, maybe do a blood test or not… Essentially they don’t really question or look for WHY the the blood pressure has increased in the first place.

Typically they put you on blood pressure medication straight away and unless you are firm with them and decide for yourself, they will never take you off blood pressure medications for the rest of your life.

In this example, while the blood pressure drops with medication and it looks like you are in better health because now the figure is closer to 120/80, your body is now in much greater risk of disease and death. Why? Because those little arteries supplying your heart muscles now have less blood flowing through them due to the lower pressure. Those heart muscles will now more easily fatigue, stagnate and possibly fail to work. So you have simply increased your risk of heart disease, angina and heart attack!

This is often why so many pharmaceutical medications often list causing the very diseases they claim to help with!

Polypharmacy

Polypharmacy is a term that is becoming more commonly used these days and simply means the practice of prescribing multiple medications for an individual, especially excessively, for a single disease and/or due to extra complications that come up because of the side effects of the initial medication.

If there is restricted blood flow in an area of the body, say the liver (due to heavy drinking and thus scarring of the liver as an example), then the cardio-vascular system will increase the blood pressure so that blood can percolate more easily into the tissues of the liver and reach more cells. This keeps them healthier and functioning better and of course reduces the risk of disease.

If blood pressure medications are taken then this doesn’t happen due to the lower pressure, and it will make it more likely a liver disease will occur. Also, because the liver is involved in so many biochemical processes of which other organs of the body rely on, other organs start to struggle too, making it more likely you’ll end up with diseases elsewhere.

So if your doctor isn’t looking for the root cause and is just treating the symptoms instead, after that initial blood pressure medication, your GP will prescribe another medication to solve the symptoms of that new disease which depending on many factors could be anything from muscular pain, to fatigue, to kidney disease, to genito-urinary disease etc etc.

Of course no medication is perfect and that second disease causes yet further imbalances making it more likely yet another disease can occur. And so it continues, getting even more complicated as each additional medication causes untold harmful interactions with each other and the body.

I sometimes shake my head with my Uncle as an example, who was prescribed medications by his GP to widen his urethra to help him urinate as part of his prostate issues and then was also prescribed medications by another practitioner to narrow his urethra because he was becoming incontinent. Literally two medications cancelling out each other’s effects and likely causing extra stress on his liver and kidneys as the body tries to detoxify both medications!

Blood pressure norms are made up!

This is something my Wife came across when listening to Dr John Bergman D. C. one of our favorite physicians we’ve come across over the years.

By the way, a lot of the information I have shared in this article Dr Bergman agrees with. If you’d like to go deeper into the scientific research surrounding what I am trying to say here, then looking up this doctor can take you quite quickly to the scientific studies that back this information up. Here is one of Dr Bergman’s YouTube videos that mirrors a lot of what I am saying here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM6DGBZrWrs

Essentially it looks like a lot of the blood pressure standards that doctors and other physicians follow was simply made up a group of physicians, without any solid basis for what was healthy or not. They have altered the blood pressure values over the years multiple times, again without scientific findings to back it up!

Mostly the “normal” range for blood pressure has generally gone down over the years. This means that it is easier and easier for GPs to say that your blood pressure is “high” and encourage you to go on blood pressure medications.

Other standards have changed too. They used to say that it was normal for your blood pressure to be higher as you age but in a lot of countries now that has been changed meaning that older people too are judged by younger people’s standards, again pressuring them to go on pharmaceuticals.

It appears to differ from country to country and physician to physician too so I’m not going to post all the figures here – go and look it up if you’re interested.

Those who live longer and healthier lives without intervention show higher blood pressures in old age

Yes, more recent and especially more independent studies (of which Dr Bergman mentions in his many talks) show that those who live the longest and with the fewest diseases have higher blood pressure as they age! They tend to take much fewer pharmaceuticals too.

Drug companies will likely say something akin to those living longer simply having looked after themselves more with certain lifestyle factors, had better genetics or living environments or were lucky. There’s no getting away from the observation however that those who take less pharmaceuticals have a lower risk of disease and live longer and healthier.

So what do these sorts of studies show? Allowing blood pressure to increase appears to allow people to live longer and healthier. Very different to what mainstream medicine wants you to believe huh?!

This makes sense when we return to what I was saying in the examples above. Higher blood pressure happens to make sure blood and nutrients reach struggling tissues thus helping to maintain their health or at the very least giving the body and you more time to sort out that issue.

Fascia and other connective tissues

Fascia you can think of as a skin-like tissue that is continuous throughout the body, connecting and surrounding all organs and tissues of the body.

If you read my previous article about tensegrity (read here) you can think of the fascia as the fabric of the tent in my example. Essentially the fascia has a big impact on posture, bone position, body movement, energy movement and in our case today especially, fluid movement.

If the fascia is scarred or restricted in some way from injuries, operations, poor posture or movement, then the fluids of our body such as cerebral-spinal fluid, lymphatic fluid and of course blood, start to find it hard to move through the body.

It is not just physical things that effect the fascia. Holding onto mental, emotional and even spiritual problems causes the tissues of the body to tense up in response to the lack of energy movement in the emotional, mental and astral densities of the aura. Those that follow my work will know that I repeat over and over again that the physical body is reciprocally related to the energy bodies and aura. So look after your physical body if you want better mental, emotional and spiritual health.

An emotion stuck in the groin/hip chakra region can cause tension in the hip flexor muscles and the fascia affecting the groin, hip joint and genital and urinary areas of the physical body as an example.

If this tension is not released either by working on the emotion and/or the physical tension (preferably both!) then fluid movement through that area will cause a lack of good fluid and blood supply, making it more likely that a disease of some sort will develop there. Depending on other stresses in that individuals life, they may get hip pain, pelvic imbalances, urinary and/or genital infections and so on.

And what does the body do to try and improve blood flow to those tense tissues and poorly moving fascia? One of them is to increase blood pressure.

Blood pressure always goes up and down through the day

It needs to do this depending on the needs of the body at any given time. If you exercise of course the pressure goes up to get more blood to the muscles so that you can exercise better or get tasks done.

Many of you who have measured their blood pressure will notice how much their mental and emotional state effects a blood pressure reading. While we often explain this effect via the nervous and endocrine systems reacting to how we are thinking and emoting, part of the reason for an increase in the figures is due to this tension I am explaining here, even if it is more related to longer term effects usually.

Don’t get caught out by a doctor if just one reading is high. Remember blood pressure can go up just by you thinking/worrying about it, even if it’s only subconscious. So, I would suggest asking for a monitor you can borrow or buy yourself to measure throughout a week. The pressure will often go down just by you getting used to taking your own readings over time.

Tension slowly builds in the body when we age

Ignoring the possibility of becoming very self aware and energy efficient such that this does not happen, as we grow older our bodies go through a lot of challenges that slowly build up tension in various ways in the body.

We get injuries or various sorts. We sometimes have operations to sort out injuries and diseases. We slowly build up fibrous or scar tissue as we repeat certain movements that gradually cause more strain through the body. We build up muscular tension in various areas through activity. We start create cysts at times when we don’t have the capacity to solve an immune system challenge. We gradually build up more and more inflammatory issues in the body in response to toxins in our food, from vaccinations, our surroundings etc that take more and more energy to deal with and less energy available to clear the various things that create tension in the body. Our bodies become slowly less resilient to infection by bacteria and funghi furthering this effect. Also from holding onto mental, emotional and spiritual traumas and limiting beliefs even, builds up tension in the physical body.

All this leads to poorer fluid movement throughout the body as the tissues of each organ and the fascia become more tense and fluid gets harder to move through them.

We can often mitigate a lot of this through spiritual, mental and emotional therapy/healing, various forms of physical therapy, good diet, sleep, rest, exercise etc. However the vast majority of us are agreeing to and thus experiencing a reality where we age and die, so there is entropy happening and we slowly have less available energy and resources to correct these tensions and restrictions in our bodies.

This results in restrictions building up over time and is probably the main reason why most of us slowly have an increase in blood pressure as we age.

I have to also mention that  inflammation and the resultant build up of plaques in the blood vessels (cholesterol is not the cause but the body trying to cover up the inflammation by the way!) as well as hardening of blood vessels due to poor uptake of the right fats (avoid seed oils and opt more for saturated fats – yes the opposite of what they tell us!) and toxin damage of various kinds are also big factors in poor fluid movement through the vessels themselves. That is a story for another blog article.

Work on the solutions to why your blood pressure increases

The things you can do to work on underlying factors of high blood pressure are vast and I cannot possibly cover all the things that might help. Here are some ideas:

1. Fascia work. There are many forms of physical therapy that work on the fascia to free up restrictions and improve fluid movement in the body. They include cranio-sacral therapy, osteopathic soft-tissue techniques, Rolfing and myo-fascial therapy to name but a few.
2. Posture. The way you hold your body can have a huge impact on tensions in the body being created or released including in the fascia. The Alexander Technique is a well-known one that I can recommend. Posture is an integral part of yoga, tai chi and chi gung of course. Using furniture to help keep a better posture is also recommended.
3. Better diet. This should be self-explanatory as your body is built and maintained on what you eat and drink. If you don’t have the resources to fight infection, build tissues, repair tissues, relieve tension, prevent disease etc then the whole body is negatively affected including an increase in blood pressure. I’d recommend seeing a naturopathic nutritionist to get started as there’s so much false information out there about what is healthy and what is not.
4. Herbs/supplements. Ideally you should get all your nutritional needs through a good diet rather than needing supplementation. However there are some herbs ad supplements that can be useful. I yet again cannot fit all of the recommendations here so please go and see a naturopathic nutritionist for more help on this.
5. Reduce toxic exposure. Including drinking and smoking, there are a lot of sources of which I’ve mentioned in the last few articles but suffice to say reduce them so there’s less pressure on the body maintaining itself and reducing the risk of diseases, including inflammation that can affect blood vessels and fascia among many things.
6. Toxic release. There are a lot of ways of taking out all the various chemicals that irritate and cause tensions and disease in the body, including detox diets of various kinds, however don’t underestimate the power of saunas. Sweating for 20 minutes in a sauna has been shown to release more toxins than all sorts of detoxifying diets that last over a month in duration!
7. Energy/spiritual healing. As mentioned, tensions in the aura manifest as tensions in the physical body and vice versa, so go see a healer like me to help sort out all the various issues that may be possible. Psychic attack, parasites, energy cysts, closed chakras etc are some of the many possible causes.

   

8. Work on your aura/energy flow. The more open you are to energy flowing through you the more energy issues of all kinds start to clear helping reduce physical tensions. Working on being present and with chakras open is the key to a lot of issues. Tai chi, chi gung, yoga and a whole host of other practices help with better energy flow as well as physical movement.
9. Exercise/move more. More body movement helps with better fluid flow through your body and so better nutrient supply and better waste removal from your tissues.
10. Work on and question your beliefs. A lot of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual tensions are due to limiting beliefs & habits that don’t serve you. Question how you view the world and what you’d like to get out of this life. Are you fulfilling your desires for this life and are your beliefs and habits stopping you doing that?
11. Work on improving your relationships. Life is all about relationships. You cannot experience being an independent consciousness without the ego comparing yourself to other people/beings/things, however this can cause separation, judgments and traumas impacting your energetic and physical tensions. Happy people are more relaxed.
12. Work on expressing yourself more truthfully. The more you become the person you truly wish to be on all levels (not just the head!) the happier and the less bodily tension you’ll hold. Let go of those habits, beliefs, jobs, etc that stop you from being so and start making little steps each day to becoming who or what you wish.
13. Therapy. This can help with many of the above points and there are a lot of types of therapist depending on you and what you want to work on. If it’s spiritual then you can see me or a Barbara Brennan practitioner for example. Psychotherapy can be very useful for a lot of people. If there are other people involved then family constallation work can be useful if you can’t get them together. There’s a lot of different therapies to pick from so go research what might be best for you.
14. Rest/relax. Sometimes it is learning to relax in challenging situations. Sometimes learning to not take on too many things. Sometimes more about better quality of sleep or other forms of relaxation. Sometimes more time for yourself rather than doing too much for others.

There may be many more practical solutions for underlying factors, including operations to remove tumors that are too far gone, antibiotics for serious infections, castor oil packs to pull out toxins, essential oils to fight infections, chanca piedra to dissolve stones in the body etc etc.

The various organs of the body and the tissues between them all have varying functions. For some people it may be just one or two organs struggling to allow blood through them that is causing a high blood pressure, where as for others it may be more organs or for others all organs generally having less permeability. For this reason what works to reduce one person’s blood pressure may not work as well for another.

Get checked by a doctor anyway!

I did start writing here about all sorts of things about the pros and cons of doctors but I’m going to save that for another article.

Essentially, there is far too much medical science out there for everyday people to understand. You can easily think you know everything after reading a few articles but that can be dangerous if it blinds you to other possibilities.

People can often know more than a doctor when they start educating themselves about a specific medical subject BUT that does not mean that they should not go to a doctor when certain symptoms start appearing.

A doctor even with all the pharmaceutical influence and bias can still pick up on a lot of things that you may not consider. You may actually have something different that what you have diagnosed yourself.

See doctors as people with a different set of ideas and tools rather than the gods that they are often portrayed as. You will not be able to spot nor solve many things that they can, especially with the diagnostic tools and treatment procedures they have and they may save your life.

Many of my articles warn against what horrible things can happen if you always follow their advice but if you treat them as an alternative source of information that you can choose to follow none, part or all of their advice in any given situation, then you will find them very useful and have a better relationship with them. Like a friend, you don’t always believe the same way nor follow their advice all the time but they are still your friend ;-).

I will say that you should absolutely pepper your doctor with questions and ask for certain tests if they don’t immediately suggest them. Remember they are a better tool for you if you stir up questions in them. Make sure you mention all signs and symptoms you have noticed even if you think they are not relevant as that could get your doctor contemplating and investigating something they might have missed otherwise.

In the case of high blood pressure, for a lot of you, not taking blood pressure medication for the reasons mentioned above would give you a better quality of life, especially if you work on the reasons why your blood pressure increased in the first place. However go get checked anyway. The underlying reason for your blood pressure might be something serious and beyond what I can cover in this article.

 

The third of many articles concerning linking physical organs and their diseases to emotional, mental, belief and other spiritual issues. I hope you have enjoyed the last two.

As before I’ll start with the more physical world explanations before getting stuck into the spiritual significance. Let’s get started!

The physical function of the lungs

The lungs are perhaps much more easily understood by most compared to the thyroid from the last article.

Essentially the lungs take in air so that oxygen can be given to the red blood cells that in turn take that oxygen to whatever cells need them, in order to produce energy. Carbon dioxide is the waste product in this energy production process which ends up in the blood before being taken out by the lungs so that you can breathe it out.

At this point, I’d like to say that you should not feel guilty about creating carbon dioxide, if you have been following all this governmental rubbish about “carbon footprints”. Carbon dioxide is what the plant kingdom feeds on! That’s why the older generations told us to talk to our house plants, because the carbon dioxide we breathe out feeds the plants and helps them grow. Remember the photosynthesis equation we were taught in schools? They need carbon dioxide to make hydrocarbon molecules. There is less carbon dioxide on the lower atmosphere because the plants are soaking it up as quickly as they can. One of many examples of how they are convincing us of something that is opposite of the truth. OK, rant over 😉

The air reaches our lungs through our nasal canals and mouth, into our pharynx (back of your upper throat), larynx (the voice-box area), and trachea (wind-pipe) before branching off left and right via the primary bronchi towards each lung and then into smaller bronchioles and finally the many aveoli, which are like small air sacs where the oxygen-carbon dioxide exchange happens.

So as you can see, the lungs are an organ of exchange. You receive one nutrient beneficial for us then release back out another nutrient beneficial to nature. So it very much relates to giving and receiving. Our ability of taking in as well as letting go. Generally you could say that the lungs represent the ability to take in life as well as give back to life.

Because it is an area of exchange and thus where all sorts of particles, bacteria, fungi, spores etc can get in, there are also a lot of immune cells inside the lungs and around the lungs such as in between the pleura (covering tissues) of the lungs. There is also mucous within the air spaces to trap harmful microorganisms and dust particles and lots of small hairs in the trachea and bronchioles/bronchi that help to move all this out of the lungs in a wave-like fashion, after which you either swallow it or cough it out.

The lungs and fatigue

The lungs are vital for supplying oxygen to the body for energy production and so any issues with the lungs results in lower energy production. This leads to fatigue, shortness-of-breath, wooziness etc related to this lower energy. And because everything requires energy, this can impact sexual vitality, immune system ability to fight infections, the ability to think clearly, the ability to repair the body and so on. This is why lung issues can make it more likely you end up with other diseases.

On the flip-side, deep breathing practices are shown to increase energy production and thus help with fighting off infections, reducing the likeliness you get ill, improve mood, think more clearly, add strength to exercises and so on. I would also add that you may notice improvements to spiritual abilities. More on that below 😉

The act of breathing

The act of breathing is a useful thing to understand for health (as well as spiritual practices, of which many mention breathing). There are a surprising number of muscles that are directly and indirectly involved with breathing. The most well-known is the diaphragm but there are many others such as the intercostal and scalene muscles which all work together to expand the rib cage and the lungs with it, helping to increase lung size and thus drawing air in via a vaccum-like effect. The opposite obviously happens to squeeze the air out of the lungs.

I mention this because the secondary effect of this lung expansion and contraction creates cavity pressure changes inside the torso and musculoskeletal movements that in turn cause a massaging of, from an osteopathic point-of-view, all the organs of the body as well as encouraging fluid movement in the arteries, veins, lymphatic system and interstitial fluids.

This greatly helps in providing nutrients and immune cells to areas of the body that need them as well as helping with waste removal from the cells. This fluid movement is vital to physical health, just as much as energy movement is vital to the health of the aura.

So few people understand how powerful breathing is for the health of the physical body. There are spiritual reflections of this process too which go beyond the scope of this article but regardless to say that breathing practices can greatly help in changing your vibration and helping you to have certain spiritual experiences!

Physical things to watch for with the lungs

Much of this relates to what you breathe in. There can be all sorts of things in the air we breathe that can be harmful to the lungs and eventually the rest of the body.

Smoking is obviously harmful as it contains free-radicals that can directly harm the lungs cells. In addition, the tar in cigarettes coats the inside of the lungs making it harder to breathe and interferes with the mucus and immune cells there. On top of that, cigarettes are known to stop the cilia (hairs) from functioning for 6 or more hours after smoking, meaning that particles are not not being removed from the lungs for that duration. Possibly never throughout the day, if they smoke both early and late in the day!

Many people know about traditional cigarettes yet many don’t know how bad vaping is in this modern world. It has already been suggested that vaping is actually worse. There are a lot of chemicals in vapes that are toxic in various ways depending on the ingredients. One of the most misunderstood is that of oils of which all vapes I’ve looked at contain. You are not meant to be breathing in oils like these. We can breath in essential oils of good quality to some degree for beneficial effect (which may be very useful for you depending on the lung issue you have) but the oils vapes contain are seed oils that, much like the ones in food, go rancid quickly after being harvested and thus become very toxic to the body. You might want to look up an inflammatory process that some American scientists call “lipofuscin”, which I have mentioned about in previous posts, of which these sorts of oils play a big role.

Those “air fresheners” that many people use, some of which you plug into a power socket (e.g. “Glade plug-ins”), spray or keep in a glass jar on a shelf often have nasty chemicals and again rancid oils in them which can be harmful like vapes. Yes, and get rid of those car fresheners for the same reasons too!

There are a whole bunch of other things you might want to consider limiting breathing in at work places depending on your work. They can include all sorts of factory chemicals, acids, oils, fibers etc which would take a long time to write about here. Asbestos is a well-known example of a fiber which when breathed in can cause scarring of the lung tissues and hence difficulty in breathing but there are many other modern chemicals/fibers to look out for these days.

At home, one consideration is the materials of your house and furniture. There are many fire retardants and preservatives in modern furniture that you should ideally not be breathing in. Anything you can do to air them out, wash or replace, especially if you have babies or children that are more likely to put their mouths against them would be a good idea.

Household paints are another good example, as often lead and other metals are used in the colouring of paints that you can breathe in. Arsenic has been used in paints in the past too, which may still be there if you own an older house in Europe for example.

I mentioned this not long ago about mold in houses that are exposed to lots of moisture. Black mold being the worst. I won’t repeat that same information here but sorting out mold, even if you don’t have any noticeable lung issues, is a must!

Your diet is something very important to consider too. Your body is literally made of what you feed it so make sure you are getting all the necessary building blocks to build the lungs in your food. A lot of the lung diseases below require a good functioning immune system to fight off infection, repair damage and of course prevent them in the first place. Not enough nutrients and harmful additives and ingredients in modern foods puts a lot of strain on the immune system!

In short there are a huge amount of things to consider. You can’t avoid 100% of them all the time in the modern world but at least get your home sorted and pick a job that doesn’t expose you to much.

Breathing exercises

I’m not going to mention specific practices here as this is a huge area to look into. Yoga, chi gung, and even Western spiritual practices include various breathing meditations that can be very beneficial to your lungs and the whole of your body in response. There are a lot of different views on what is best but essentially we don’t breathe as deeply as we should in the modern world.

It is said by some scientists that if you breathe deeply for several minutes and start to feel drowsy and light-headed afterwards, you likely have not been supplying your body with the amount of oxygen it truly needs.

As an osteopathic student, I remember how much emphasis was put on how breathing affects the musculoskeletal system and health in general by my teachers at the time, as for example what I mentioned with the cavity pressure changes above.

There are a lot of modern scientific papers and case studies that show how breathing can impact physical, mental and emotional well-being. For example, changing your rate and depth of breathing effects the types of frequencies of energy going through your brain and even what hormones and signalling chemicals are being released. Even cases where inflammatory disorders such as fibromyaligia were eased just by using focused breathing exercises daily.

For the meditators out there, slowing your breathing brings calm. Very long breaths are associated with deeper meditative states and spiritual experiences, which you might like to focus on if you haven’t had those sorts of experiences yet. Build it up slowly though and allow your body to breathe like that, rather than try to force it too much and thus stress yourself out!

Popular figures such as Wim Hof have shown how much more resilient the body can be, in his case especially against the cold, by practicing breathing techniques. He even went most the way up Everest just wearing boots and a pair of shorts – don’t underestimate the power of breathing!

Another obvious example of getting your breathing deeper is through exercise, especially cardio exercise. The benefit of exercise over stationary breathing exercises is that it also improves respiratory and metabolic efficiency and creates more movement throughout the body for good fluid mechanics – better nutrient distribution and better waste removal.

If you are doing any of this outside in nature, then you are getting even more benefits from the natural chemicals given off by plants and flowing water which have been shown to boost the health of our bodies. Plants literally give off chemicals that boost our immune systems when we breath them in as an example.

Let’s look into some specific diseases and their spiritual relevance now…

Asthma

This is a condition in which your airways narrow and swell and may produce extra mucus. This can make breathing difficult and trigger coughing, wheezing when you breathe out and shortness of breath.

It can be a minor nuisance for some and a bigger problem for others where asthma attacks can happen to an extent that they cannot get enough air to breathe, risking death. It can be triggered through exercise, chemical irritants or other airborne particles such as pollen and of course mental, emotional and/or spiritual stress. Most commonly it starts in childhood though you can get it later in life with certain experiences.

“Experts” supposedly don’t know what causes it but they think that it’s a combination of genetic and environmental factors. They also claim that there is no cure and that inhalers, anti-inflammatories and anti-histamines etc and  are needed for the rest of the life to open the airways any time asthma is triggered.

I have in the past however come across scientific case studies that show that large doses of vitamin B12 given to children before they fully develop into adulthood have greatly lessened and even completely healed asthma, so if you know anyone who is young as has asthma symptoms, then I suggest getting some good quality advice from a naturopathic nutritionist on some good sources of B12 and other nutrients that support B12, as well as looking up any recent scientific papers on this subject. Don’t just buy any B12 vitamin off the shelf as they may not be as bio-available as getting it from natural sources and of course you still need other nutrients for the lungs to be healthy too!

The key things to note here when considering the energetic causes of asthma are irritation/inflammation and an inability to breathe. This suggests that there is something in the outside world that you consider harmful or irritating to you that you don’t wish to take into yourself and hence try to protect yourself from. This can be caused by a trauma early (or late if happening as an adult)  in life that makes you not want to be in this reality, usually related to an experience of feeling trapped, stifled, smothered, suppressed or anything that makes you feel you have no freedom.

This initial trauma makes you overly sensitive to the smallest things that your psychological defense may deem a threat to your freedom, whether a small particle or mental/emotional/spiritual trigger, resulting in an attack. This relates to the initial traumas creating a sub/un-conscious belief that all things in this reality could harm you similarly, hence why you react to all sorts of things that come into contact with your lung tissues as well as challenging situations with other people.

The lungs being about letting go too, suggests that asthma sufferers have difficulty in getting these fears and traumas “off their chest”, much like they were unable to fully cry and let go when younger. They can often hold in their tears or outward expressions, thus holding onto stagnant energies in their lungs and chest area. This can be related to not being able to express themselves when younger, not allowed to breathe, not allowed to speak.

All of the above results in asthma sufferers believing that they are incapable of fulfilling their desires, that others limit their path in life and that they are destined to keep repeating the same mistakes. This can lead to even deeper issues of being numb to their desires if they keep being led/controlled by others in their society.

A lot of the solution here is to test these beliefs. Is life really as dangerous/difficult/hard as you originally thought when the trauma happened? Are all people really controlling of you and able to stop you growing and exploring the world in the way you wish or is it merely a psychological fear?

By working on your desires with little steps each day, you slowly start to prove to yourself that you can create what you wish in life and that actually other people/situations/circumstances are only as smothering and irritating to you as you allow them to be. Letting go of certain people who continue to not allow you to express yourself the way you wish might be necessary in some circumstances.

Learning to express yourself fully is important. Just like the lungs are an exchange organ, saying out loud what you want for yourself and from others can lead to better responses from others in how they can help you and be around you. Talking about how you feel and about past traumas can help “get things off your chest” and create better relationships where you feel heard, supported and valued.

Bronchitis/Bronchiectasis

These two diseases simply represent inflammation/irritation to the larger airways of the lungs. The main difference between the two are that bronchiectasis results in permanent widening of the airways, usually due to a severe or prolonged infection, whereas bronchitis does not result in this widening. Both result in coughing due to the irritation of the airways. Sometimes it’s a dry cough, sometimes with lots of mucus dependent on what is causing the infection/inflammation.

Physically, they are typically caused by toxic chemical exposure of various kinds or infection via bacteria (bacteria is actually not a common cause) or viruses (if you believe in viruses!). Most of the time with bronchitis it is an acute situation that clears up over time but with prolonged exposure to the trigger and/or a weakened immune system in can become chronic. See COPD below for more info on the chronic version of bronchitis.

Typically medications are used depending on the cause such as anti-virals, anti-inflammatories, anti-biotics, bronchodilators etc.

Energetically this represents irritation/friction with receiving from others and/or giving to others, especially in the form of communication/expression with others, especially those you spend a lot of time with in a family or work environment for example.

This could be in the form of being unable to receive the words another is saying and/or forcing the will on others, usually in the form of an argument. It could also be an argument that you would like to start but don’t speak up about – a silent argument kept to yourself.

In the former, it comes from believing that you cannot obtain the desires and expressions of self due to others, so there is a lot of blame of others in bronchitis. This can manifest outwardly in arguments or contained within if they have a more “defeated” personality.

A big part of healing this is realising that only you can fulfill the desires of the Self. Making plans and baby step towards them each day is the proper way to better express yourself the way you wish.

Others are not really the obstacles you believe and can only help you with your desires if you learn to communicate more clearly, honestly and with positive intent. The ability to listen such that you truly understand their point-of-view instead of discarding it without thought is useful to learning and seeing a different path that may benefit you.

Remember that the lungs are about giving AND receiving so you might find that truly listening and giving to your family, friends, co-workers etc might be the solution to helping you also achieve your desires.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) including emphysema & chronic bronchitis

This is a catch-all term for lung diseases that cannot be reversed, according to mainstream medicine. So if you have been diagnosed with emphysema or chronic bronchitis for example, you are deemed to have COPD.

Causes of chronic bronchitis are as bronchitis above but obviously over a prolonged period. Removing the causes mentioned above is important to prevent it progressing further.

In emphysema damage is made to the air-filled sacs called aveoli that causes them to lose their structure and form larger air sacs instead, thus reducing the surface area and efficiency of air exchange in the lungs. This obviously makes it harder to breathe accompanied with wheezing and coughing.

Emphysema is typically caused from prolonged smoking, chemical exposure, toxin exposure and/or infections, so obviously cutting out such sources of irritation is a must to at least prevent worsening of this disease.

Other possible causes of COPD include scarring and narrowing of the airways such as with chemical/toxin and especially asbestos exposure.

Energetically these diseases have a lot of similarities with the energetic causes of bronchitis above (so please read that again!) i.e blaming yourself and/or others for not fulfilling your desires and thus restrictions placed on yourself.

In addition however emphysema, as it affects the actual membrane of gaseous exchange itself suggests that there is an extreme fear of taking in life and thus has some similarities with the asthma energetic causes in that regard. Also worthiness/willingness/desire to live in this reality is a big issue here and stems from experiences that makes them fear this world or believe that it is difficult/hard/unfair/dangerous to be here. In some cases it may be related to feeling useless or unseen in this reality.

Because all causes of COPD are chronic in nature, it also suggests that there is a stubbornness, a refusal to change and/or a fear of the future. In this regard, the advice for listening to others and making efforts to express yourself and fulfill your desires as mentioned in various ways above, become even more important. Ask yourself, if your current methods/beliefs/actions for yourself and others are not getting you what you wish in life, then maybe seriously considering other advice might actually help.

Chronic conditions like this also can be procrastination. Maybe you’ve heard all the advice from various physicians and read the sorts of things written in these paragraphs before but simply not applied them. A big part of spiritual growth is feeling those emotions and hearing those thoughts that keep you away from the path you wish to take and choosing to walk down that path anyway. Again set some goals, divide them up into baby-steps and make those steps no matter how you feel or whatever excuses the ego comes up with.

Croup (laryngotracheobronchitis)

This is a respiratory infection that happens in children under the age of 5. It usually affects the larynx (voice-box) and upper trachea (windpipe). Swelling of these areas makes it hard to breathe and causes a distinctive cough similar to the sound of a seal.

The causes are similar to bronchitis but are usually more related to that made-up thing called viruses (most likely chemicals from other sources I would say).

Most of the time it is mild though in more serious cases oxygen may be needed. Usually limiting exposure to lung irritants, drinking warm fluids and looking after the general health is enough though anti-inflammatory medications are typically given too.

The energetic causes can have some similarities with bronchitis but because they are so young, the advice will be different. There is an emphasis on receiving love.

It usually happens to children that are not receiving or not feeling like they are loved. You cannot follow the bronchitis advice given above for children as they are still learning. They first need to receive love so that they know they are loved. This love then helps them love back, as well as helping them feel grounded and wanted enough in this reality such that when older they can better follow their desires.

Cystic fibrosis

This is recognised as a condition that causes thick, sticky mucus to build up not just in your lungs but also in other organs of the body especially the pancreas. Because it is a genetic mutation that occurs before birth, allopathically it is considered a life-long condition that isn’t curable and only managed.

Most people think of it as a lung condition because the mucus makes it hard to breathe and can lead to frequent lung infections, but it also affects other organs that produce mucus such as the pancreas, thus affecting the digestive tract and your ability to digest nutrients. Often cysts and fibrous tissues (scarring) can occur in these mucus producing areas too. This can lead to poor growth of the body and loose stools. Diabetes and osteoporosis are examples of diseases that can occur due to these lack of nutrients at later stages.

Medications to manage the symptoms are typically given, such as to regulate CFTR proteins, but dietry advice is very important to try and make sure the body receives enough of the right nutrients. Surgery is often needed to repair damage and remove cysts if severe.

Energetically, cystic fibrosis represents the inability to receive from life, not just in one way but in multiple ways. You could say an extreme version of many of the limitations of the other lung conditions because this lack of receiving is not just in the lungs but also evident in the digestive tract and its supplementary organs too.

Thus there is a strong belief that not only is life difficult/hard/dangerous etc but more than that – that it really won’t work out at all. There is no desire for life and hence there is indecision and even passivity in even finding, let alone starting a direction in life. Such individuals often take on the victim mentality as a result and have a “poor me” story they repeat to others and themselves. Or they may not really be present in their body much at all like the schizoid characterology in classical psychology.

You need to realise that you must have come here for a reason and therefore that there must be some value to living a human life. Looking for a purpose in life is key here, such that you learn to eventually learn to love life.

Testing out the belief that life won’t work out by trying out things and seeing that you can actually make progress is important. Also trying out a variety of things and seeing the contrast between what are like-able or not, can give you a better idea of what direction you might like to go in. Choosing something will give you more information and progress (even if some choices don’t appear to work out) than choosing nothing and ending up stagnant.

Influenza aka “the flu” including con-vid, swine flu, bird flu etc

Officially this is seen as a lung infection, that can also affect the other parts of the respiritory tracts, caused by the influenza virus. Coughs, runny nose, fever, chills, body aches, fatigue and sore throat are common symptoms.

Bird flu and swine flu are both recognised as variants of influenza A virus.  Con-vid 19 is simply a repackaged/re-marketed version of the same family or viruses but conveniently you can also have “no symptoms” apparently!

Those of you who have read a number of my articles will know my thoughts on viruses. To sum up, I see them actually as exosomes (scientists literally cannot tell the difference between exomsomes and viruses on an electron microscope image – because they are the same thing!) excreted by struggling cells and immune cells in response to cellular stresses.

Those stresses can even include by-products of metabolism building up due to poor waste removal and low nutrient supply to cells, such as due to poor diet, lack of rest and muscular tension in the body. Often though it is toxins from our environment, such as through tap water, fumes we breathe in, additives in food or pharmaceutical drugs for example. This includes toxins from vaccinations of course and this is why people are often ill after a vaccination and why I do not ever recommend any vaccinations, despite my scientific/medical back ground saying otherwise!

You have to ask yourself, am I really catching the flu from another due to this thing called a virus, or am I actually receiving toxins excreted from another’s body and/or receiving them from other sources that is causing an immune response within me? Viruses conveniently take the blame away from companies that make those toxins and put them into our food and environment. A virus is a “scape goat” in my opinion.

The Louise Hay description of energetic causes of influenza in her book “Heal your body” is quite revealing about my beliefs in viruses in the paragraphs above. I quote directly from her book here: “Response to mass negativity and beliefs. Fear. Belief in statistics.”

Personally I have not had the flu in over 20 years simply because I started to question whether you could actually catch the flu from others at all, as well as improving my diet too I’m sure. I will perhaps write an article about the beliefs of catching something from another or not in a future article and what that means energetically as well as its impact on the physical.

Getting back to energetic causes of influenza, the belief that you can catch something from another due to mass programmed beliefs and thus the fear it produces in you, appears to be a huge factor in getting the flu or not. I like how Louise Hay pointed out statistics here. Did you know that the average person has less than one leg statistically? That’s exactly the issue with statistics – most people do not fit into the “normal or “average”that statistics come up with! Just because they say that you are more likely to get the flu at a certain time of year does not mean that you’ll get it.

A lot of influenza causes relate to indecision and procrastination. There is some resistance in you due to trying to decide on following one path or another and/or making the effort to change to that other path. Often, because the flu is an inflammatory disease, there is some anger at yourself or another due to not following through with your plans and blaming self or another for that.

A big part of solving influenza energetically is realising that you are giving a lot of attention to your thoughts but are not actually acting on them to create whatever you are thinking about. So practicing on following through with your thoughts by taking active steps each day towards them is important.

I find a lot of people I have come across get this due to their work or close relationships. Remember that the lungs are closely related to your desires and the way you express yourself (throat chakra and heart chakras combined). So if you are spending many hours doing a job you don’t like i.e. not expressing yourself the way you wish for several hours a day, then don’t be surprised that you’ll end up with a cold or flu! This does not mean that you have to quit your job straight away. Rather, you could see how to better create what you desire and use your current work as a stepping stone to get closer to that. Planning and baby steps yet again are great for that.

Lung cancer incl. Mesothelioma

Cancers are a disease where the cells of the body are damaged genetically making them multiply without the body actually needing more of those cells. Often the genetic damage means that genes that are not normally expressed in that area become expressed such as hair follicles, nails or other organ tissues starting to grow where they shouldn’t. Lung cancer can happen in the bronchi, bronchioles and/or aveoli.

A major risk factor for developing lung cancer is smoking cigarettes, vapes and other toxins and chemicals that you might breathe in – see above for some sources you may need to cut out. It is the third most common cancer in many Western countries.

Mesothelioma is a type of lung cancer caused by breathing in asbestos fibers so includes also scarring of the lung tissues due to the damage caused by those fibers. Obviously there are more complications with this disease and eliminating the source of asbestos is a must and there are typically more drugs and procedures used allopathically.

Depending on where the cancer grows it can affect air passage to the lungs and/or put pressure on respiratory muscles and even on blood supply to the lungs and heart, making it hard to breathe. Initially at least symptoms can be very similar to other milder lung conditions.

Traditionally it is treated like other cancers and as I have mentioned in other articles, I consider radio and chemotherapy to be barbaric and even if they seem to “cure” the disease there is a lot of damage to healthy cells and is likely why cancers appear very often many years later. Surgery can be useful in some ways but cutting into cancers even for a simple biopsy presents a risk of metastatic spread to other areas of the body. The body keeps it contained for a reason!

I will do a separate article on cancers in general another time to go into all the ins and outs and possible treatments.

Energetically all cancers are related to self-hatred in one form or another. This hatred can stem from a deep trauma/hurt, deep resentment or grief. Because we are talking about the lungs here, this hatred of the self relates more to giving and taking in life, being symbiotic with this reality. Any trauma where that symbiosis didn’t happen, may have started a belief that you cannot have a good relationship with others and this reality in general, such that you cannot take in life and are not worthy to do that.

Many of the other lung solutions can help here. Essentially you need to forgive yourself and others and learn to love yourself and express yourself as truthfully as you can. Live life to the full.

The world, other people and your Self are not the enemy. It does not matter what has happened in the past as you are not that person anymore. You can still be very valuable to others simple by wanting to and starting to make an effort to be the person you truly wish. You wouldn’t exist if there wasn’t some importance to you. Being the version you wish for is what is wanted by source/god/all-that-is/the divine too!

Do things for others and yourself as an act of love and to show yourself that life can be symbiotic. Use the advice of goal setting and trying out new things as mentioned in the other lung disease solutions if you have trouble knowing what to do or struggle with finding a direction.

Pneumonia incl. pleural effusion

This a lung infection that causes swelling and inflammation of your lung tissues and fluid or pus build-up in your lungs and can often lead to hospitalization. It can make it difficult to breathe and you can cough up a yellow, green or blood mucus. Chest pain on breathing, restriction of breathing and the mucus are often signs that you have pneumonia rather than a cold or flu.

It is from a physical point-of-view caused by either a bacterial, viral (see my views on viruses above!) or fungal infection. Signs and symptoms can be similar to other infections. Viral pneumonia has similar symptoms as the flu and is typically allowed to solve on its own. Bacterial pneumonia is the most common and is typically treated with antibiotics.

Complications can happen if the infection starts to damage lung tissues and tissues around the lungs. This can include abscesses, cysts, holes in the lungs and pleural effusion etc.

Abscesses and holes in the lungs will cause COPD symptoms so look into the details above if that’s the case. Cysts I will deal with in another article but they essentially represent where the body does not have the resources/energy to deal with struggling cells, usually due to infection, so the body encloses that area such that it cannot spread. This is a reflection of an energetic wounding that can seem so strong that you cannot deal with it straight away.

My wife had a serious case of pneumonia years before we met which resulted in pleural effusion, which is fluid accumulating in the skin-like tissue (pleura) surrounding the lungs. She was due to have a small operation to pierce the pleura and drain the fluid but she spent the weekend applying “thieves oil” all over her chest and upper back and lying on an infra-red heating pad for most of the day. When she went back to the doctor, he said that she no longer needed an operation as the fluid around and in her lungs had gone. Don’t underestimate the power of natural remedies but also know when mainstream solutions are the best option.

Energetically there are a lot of overlaps with other infectious lung diseases so I’ll probably be repeating myself! Essentially there is a repression of your emotions. Emotional wounds that you are holding onto rather than letting go of. You are are not expressing yourself fully with your words and actions as a result.

This can sometimes make you feel like you are being backed into a corner and so feel desperate. Or sometimes it can make you feel like you are tired and giving up on life. If there is also pleural effusion, then there is a belief that you are being crushed or suffocated by your emotions and by those you perceive to be causing that.

In my Wife’s case, she said she had a domineering boyfriend at the time who wouldn’t allow her to be the strong, independent, self-sufficient lady that is typical of Swedish women. A lot of her ideas and beliefs were rubbished and she felt steered into doing what he thought was best each day. She didn’t know what to do about it and what to aim for at the time. Though the thieves oil and infrared pad were very important for her recovery, having time to herself and overcoming the hesitancy to move forwards in more productive ways for herself were also important.

A key part of working on these energetic causes is to realise that you are allowing that emotional wound or holding to dictate you too easily. If there are others that you believe are the cause of that, then you are too allowing them to dictate you and your actions too easily. Often those others are not actively nor intending to have that effect on you, rather you are too sensitive to the situation.

Emotions are a message not something that you should allow to dictate you. That wounding continues exist because you are not acting on being who and what you wish to be. As is the advice for a lot of diseases, you need to get over the fear that stops you moving forwards. Often just having that first idea of moving forwards or taking that first step, is when the pneumonia starts to heal. Create goals towards what you wish for your life and make little steps towards that each day. Each step shows you how much power you actually have and weakens the belief of that original wound or person suppressing your life.

Tuberculosis

This is a bacterial infection that most people would think just affects the lungs. However this bacteria can affect other parts of the body depending on where the bacteria gets to and where you may have weaknesses already in the body.

You can get meningitis if the bacteria affects the lining around the brain, Pott’s disease if it affects the lining of the spinal cord, Addison’s disease if it affects the adrenal glands or hepatitis if it affects the liver. So look up those diseases if you are affected.

Symptoms are similar to other inflammatory lung issues so it’s best to see a doctor if you’re unsure, in case you suffer needlessly thinking it might be a lesser problem. Fever symptoms as well as coughing up sputum and chest pain are common. If left untreated, it can cause damage to the lungs resulting in COPD and even death so antibiotics are a must a lot of the time. Make sure you always build up your friendly gut bacteria over several months at least after a course of antibiotics to lessen the risk of other complications and diseases.

Energetically there is a misuse of expression. There can again be emotional issues and traumas that are being held onto causing you to have a negative impact on yourself or others. Because this bacteria also affects the adrenals and liver there are also issues to do with power/energy especially in relationships.

This can lead to feeling powerless in life or around others and as such can turn into identifying with weakness, giving up on life and wasting one’s life. Possessiveness may be apparent if there is someone or something that helps them hold on to life in some way.

It could also lead to negative, hateful, cruel or revengeful thoughts towards others, especially if they are perceived to be the cause. This may be reflective more if the bacteria is affecting the lining of the brain and spinal cord and/or the liver where anger may manifest.

There is no breathing in life and no balance of receiving and giving in such circumstances.

Like other inflammatory lung issues there must be a testing of the belief that other’s are holding you back and that you have no power to create life as you wish. Working on those baby steps towards what you truly wish to experience is yet again the key here.

Anger at yourself or others and/or wasting away isn’t what you really wish for in life. What do you really want? Start making efforts towards that and follow the advice I’ve mentioned several times above that others can actually be of help if you speak-up and voice your concerns, needs, wants.

The majority of people are good at heart and can help you as you help them. Inflammatory issues are a resistance/fight/friction within you reflecting how you are with others and this reality as a whole. Prove to yourself that you can be symbiotic with others and that you can create ease, joy, grace with them even in challenging times.

Sadness & “getting things off your chest”

This is an emotion I notice I haven’t mentioned much so far, yet it is a common factor in lung issues. You may also wish to look up heart issues regarding sadness as the heart is also involved here.

Sadness is the emotion you get when you are not fulfilling your true desires (not necessarily what you think you desire alone!). This relates to the lungs a lot because the lungs have so much to do with expression and if you are not expressing yourself the way you wish they you are not in line with your desires and vice versa. This is why sadness is often said to accumulate over the chest, heart and lungs.

Often sadness is a little warning bell before a disease such as those listed above starts to manifest, so noticing it sooner and then working on relieving that sadness and its causes, can often prevent them from occurring.

I very often say to my clients that becoming more awakened means that you are more and more aware of bodily sensations, emotions, thoughts and/or other things beyond the body. While it can be uncomfortable picking up on many of the things you hadn’t noticed before, it also means that you can start to pick up on things before they become an issue too. Picking up on things earlier will save you a lot of stress compared to allowing something to get worse and even become life threatening before you notice something is wrong!

So the advice for lung issues is to notice when you have sadness and work on relieving the root cause – not putting effort into truly following your desires for this life.

Many people find “getting things off your chest” helps a lot. This is an English expression that simply means talking about your problems and working through possible solutions with another. It could be a person you are having trouble with or a friend not involved in the problem directly. Remember the lungs represent expressing yourself and talking with another can clear a lot of sadness simply by you giving voice to the stuck energy rather than keeping it inside. Remember too that the lungs are about both giving and receiving too, so try not to just continually take from that supportive person.

Getting things off your chest is often just a relief or an initial step however. Remember that there needs to be forward movement in thinking and action. So, after you’ve had your sadness reduced somewhat from your chat, start to make those baby steps towards the experiences you wish for.

If you find it hard to tune into your lungs and thus are likely finding it hard to know what you desire, then it is likely you have stopped being your true self to fit in with society’s norms and/or in order to survive. In such cases you may need to explore and try new things, meet new people, learn new things etc, in order to slowly get the contrast needed that will help you better read your emotions and thus know what you truly like and dislike.

As with my other articles, it is not possible to go through every disease or complication affecting the lungs in one article nor all the possible practical advice that might help in each person’s scenario. Energetically a lot of the same advice would be repeated over and over anyway as there are core themes that all lung issues share. So if you have a problem not listed here, you will likely get what you need energetically at least, by reading through the whole article and looking at themes that are common with your disease.

This is the second article in a long list I will be writing that links physical body parts and their diseases with emotional, mental and spiritual states so that you can help heal the physical and/or the energetic side.

My Wife asked for me to do the thyroid this time as she said that it’s becoming more and more common to have issues with the thyroid in the modern world. If you have a suggestion about what you’d like me to write about then feel free to email me with your request.

Like the last article, I’ll start with anatomy and physiology that can help you understand later paragraphs and also help you be more able to tune directly into the thyroid if you are learning some of the techniques on my “Learn Energy Healing” series of videos on YouTube or simply doing scanning types of meditation. I’ll also go into some physical-world things that affect the thyroid too. The energetic causes and remedies will be at the end. Let’s get started.

Physical function of the thyroid

The thyroid is located just below the cartilage you can feel at the front of the middle of your neck, called the thyroid cartilage or “Adam’s apple” that protects the voice-box. The basic shape is of two lobes to the sides connected in the middle, like a butterfly shape, but its shape can vary from person to person such as having finger-like projections growing off the middle section or being more enlarged, growing closer towards the upper chest in the case of a goiter, that may stick visibly out or not.

The thyroid is an endocrine gland and thus secretes hormones that regulate the body. This mostly affects the body’s metabolic rate (and thus energy levels), cardiovascular function, growth and development. Thermoregulation, nervous system health, reproductive health and bone remodeling are affected by its hormones too.

The things that people tend to care about with the thyroid tend to be changes in body weight, hair loss, mood and sexual energy, which all can be increased or decreased depending on how the thyroid is functioning. Later in life osteopenia and osteoporosis may also be more relevant.

The thyroid is regulated by the pituitary gland under the middle portion of the brain, which secretes TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone) that encourages the thyroid to make more of it’s own hormones – tri-idothyronine (T3), thyroxine (T4) and calcitonin. So if you are looking into thyroid problems, it is always good to look to see if there are any issues also with the pituitary gland and I will cover that gland at some point in the future too.

As an ex-biochemist who used to work in the hospital labs at Warwick Hospital in the UK, I was amazed at how many doctors would tick the boxes to test for only T4 when suspecting thyroid issues, rather than also selecting for TSH, T3 and calcitonin along with other tests such as thyroid antibodies and thyroglobulin that could help with probable causes of thyroid issues. If your doctor isn’t also testing for these other molecules when they send you for a blood test, they are doing you a dis-service and worse may end up just giving you a synthetic version of thyroxine that you take, rather than trying to find out what may be causing your thyroid issues in the first place!

T3 and T4 affect metabolism in many ways, in turn affecting temperate control, energy levels, growth, development of brain and the nervous system etc. Calcitonin lowers blood calcium levels by putting calcium into your bones and it part of a regulatory loop with other hormones controlling calcium levels in the bones and blood. Lack of calcitonin can lead to osteopenia and osteoporosis.

Despite it’s small size, the thyroid has a huge impact on the health of the whole body. This means that thyroid issues, due to the great interconnectedness of everything in the body, can result in other diseases happening around the body, so it is important not to ignore!

It would be impossible to cover all the ins and outs of thyroid function in this small article, so if you are interested I would suggest looking at more in-depth articles on the internet such as this one that has a nice summary.

Physical world things that affect the thyroid gland

Especially in the modern world, the thyroid can be very sensitive to and be negatively affected by a lot of different things.

1. Chemicals from food, drugs and other sources:

As I no doubt have mentioned over and over again, we are exposed to a lot of chemicals in modern times through our food, pharmaceutical drugs, cleaning products, fire retardents in furniture, toxins in paints on our walls, work-place related toxins e.g. components of car fluids and oils at a garage or all that nasty stuff in nail and hair salons, toxins in beauty products, toothpaste, deodorants etc. The list is endless and it seems a lot of these chemicals greatly affect the thyroid in many ways, so it is highly worthwhile looking into what you may be being exposed to and make efforts to lower your exposure to them.

For example BPA and phthalates in plastics as well as heavy metals such as aluminium are well know to adversely affect the thyroid. Both are common as food packaging and can be absorbed into the food too.

Smoking and drinking are considered major factors in a lot of thyroid diseases because of how inflammaory they are.

Chemotherapy is another way of getting a lot of toxins into the thyroid and many people do have thyroid issues afterwards. Chemotherapy doesn’t just affect the cancer in the body but the whole body via the blood and other fluids. A very barbaric form of “therapy” in my opinion and probably why cancers often reappear elsewhere or in the same place in the body years later.

2. Mold:

Mold can also be worthwhile looking into as they give off nasty chemicals that can affect the thyroid and many other parts of your body too.

Through experience, some of the nasty forms of mold including the infamous “black mold” can be found in homes across the world when you wouldn’t necessarily expect it but if you live in a damp climate (such as the UK) or have a damp area in your home it is highly recommended you look into it and get it sorted if you find it.

I have had several clients that have experienced terrible physical issues and/or psychic attacks, which despite good efforts looking into various other factors, were only solved once they discovered and removed the black mold from their homes or in one case moved house entirely.

3. Light exposure:

The thyroid being at the front of the neck means that it is also exposed to a lot of light. People are often not told about how much we absorb and digest light through our skin and via our organs. Light is literally a “food” for us and getting enough natural light is vital for our health. Why do you think “they” are constantly telling us the sun is bad for us, encouraging sun block, to stay in doors, “cloud seeding” the skies to have us be less exposed to the sun, all whilst telling us about climate change and trying to blame us for it? And yet we as a species are less healthy for following their advice it seems.

Natural light is important for the thyroid just like any other part of the body but of course don’t spend too long in the sun and get burnt. Be sensible about it! Artificial light on the other hand doesn’t contain all of the wavelengths of light our bodies need and is skewed to include more blue light rather than red light typically, which can be especially harmful for our bodily functions very early in the day and at night when naturally we would have a lot less blue and a lot more red light. If you spend a lot of time in front of computer, TV or phone screens and/or use a lot of modern light bulbs that are typically bright you might want to mitigate that and/or use clothes that cover up your thyroid. An older blog post of mine includes many tips you can use to deal with modern light and screens.

4. Halogens:

I could have written about this in the chemicals section but it’s important I felt to highlight these chemicals separately. The halogens are a family of chemicals in the periodic table of elements that include bromine, chlorine, fluorine and iodine as well as the lesser known radioactive elements astatine and tennessine (which by the way some writers contest about). The ionic versions of these chemicals which are more naturally found bound to other chemicals are bromide, chloride, fluoride and iodide.

Iodine is used to create T4 (thyroxine) which in turn is used to make T3 in various organs of the body. Clearly iodine, usually in the iodide format is needed for the thyroid to function properly. Iodine was considered for a long time as a remedy for cancers, gut issues, energy levels, immunity etc because of T4’s affect on so many systems of the body.

Many people often do not get enough iodine and worse are exposed to the other halogens more often. Because the halogens have similar properties to each other, when there’s not enough iodine, the body will try to use the other halogens if they are present, which of course causes issues in the body because you cannot make proper T4 and thus T3 from them.

Bromide was famously used in the tea that was given to soldiers in the UK in the past because it was known to lower sexual energy and thus make it more likely that soldiers would focus on their job rather than be tempted with women! I have no idea whether that is still a practice anywhere around the world but a cautionary tale regardless.

More commonly, people are exposed to a lot of chlorine from tap water around the world and of course swimming pools where in both cases it is used to kill of bacteria and other micro-organisms. Though chloride is naturally found in large quantities in different salts, large amounts and too little iodine negatively affects the thyroid.

The other common one is fluoride which is found in some places in the world in tap water and pretty much everywhere in the world in toothpaste, again to kill off micro-organisms. I remember that adults would always encourage us as kids to spit out toothpaste because they knew fluoride was harmful for the body. Yet as time has gone on, in some places around the world they say ingesting it is good for the teeth even though once it’s past your mouth it won’t be interacting with your teeth at all. I remember seeing American brands of bottled water when I was in the UAE and being shocked at those companies claiming that fluoride was a nutrient – seriously Americans, you have it bad over there! Regardless to say that fluoride is a nasty chemical and as well as being a neurotoxin it obviously has a harmful effect on the thyroid so cut out all sources of it please.

5. EMFs and radiation:

There are various forms of energy radiation that can adversely affect the thyroid but the most common ones you will come across will be x-rays and the sorts of radio-frequencies coming of off modern technologies.

X-rays are well-known to be harmful to the body by directly damaging cells – there’s a reason why lab workers stand behind lead screens when you are having your x-ray taken! While your body can cope with a single or a few x-rays and recover ok, multiple or continuous exposure is very damaging, especially if you don’t look after your health in general.

CT-scans (computed tomography) are particularly harmful as many people don’t realise that CT scans are in fact multiple x-rays – sometimes into the hundreds of x-rays depending on how big an area of the body is being scanned. I would prefer MRI scans as they can in most situations provide the same information but there are often fewer of them around and many clinicians prefer or are more used to CT scans. There are some specific tests only available via CT too. Ultrasound may be another alternative depending on the situation.

Radiation therapy, i.e. as a form of cancer “treatment”. This really in my opinion, along with chemotherapy very barbaric as even if it can be directed better at a particular region of the body than chemotherapy, it does damage healthy tissues in and around the cancer. My uncle received this treatment after cancer was found in his neck vertebrae (the symptoms of which suddenly appeared just hours after his second conspiracy-vid vaccine…) and he said that the pain in his neck was terrible after each radiation session.

Microwaves, not just from microwave ovens but from electricity “smart meters”, wifi routers, mobile phones etc are obviously for the sort of people drawn to my work harmful to the body including the thyroid, so I won’t go into any detail here.

6. Nutrient deficiencies

Along with getting enough basic nutrients that affects the whole body as well as the thyroid, there are some specific nutrients that are particularly helpful to the thyroid. They include zinc for activating T4, selenium for protecting the thyroid against inflammatory damage, iodine obviously to make T4 then T3, magnesium to in general help the body use T4 and reduce stress in general, vitamin A to help thyroid hormones function in cells and vitamin D (actually hormone D but that’s another story) which of course you should preferably get from the sun, rather than supplements.

Please pay attention to what I said in the previous article about the dangers of thinking you can simply take a supplement, rather than get it through good food!

7. Liver factors

Alcohol, refined sugars and ultra-processed foods can be particularly damaging to the liver and even though the liver is one of the best at taking stress and carrying on, even to the point of being able to regenerate if you give it the support, these foods can still make it sluggish and impair its function. Why is this important for the thyroid? Because aside from the thyroid itself the liver is one of the main organs involved in the conversion of T4 to T3.

8. High stress levels including lack of sleep

High levels of stress increases your stress hormone levels which in turn result in cortisol receptor sensitivity changes that result in your brain having more difficulty in communicating to your pituitary and thus lower T3/4 levels. Lack of sleep is obviously a huge contributing factor for stress.

Indications that you might have thyroid issues

The main symptoms to look out for with thyroid issues are sudden weight loss or gain, mood swings, slow of fast heart rate, intolerance to cold or heat, overly dry or moist skin, irregular menstrual cycles, trouble swallowing in the middle of the neck or “frog in throat” feeling or a visibly enlarged/swollen lower front of neck aka goitre.

The energetic cause of thyroid issues in general

Physically you could sum up the thyroid as being related to stimulating and increasing the energy levels of the body. Energetically this means it is related to thoughts and beliefs about how much power, or if you like, how much will you have, especially with regards to expression. Thus how well you can express yourself in life.

When I say expression, I don’t just mean what you say. The way you move, what you do, what hobbies you have, what job you do etc are all expressions of the self. If you hate your job for example and are doing that 8 hours a day 5 days a week then you are spending a lot of your time not expressing yourself the way you wish. Thus a lot of the advice here to sort out thyroid issues relates to you getting up and doing something or changing what you do in some way so that it is more in line with your true desires and thus expression.

If you have more will or feel you need to use more will to get what you want in life for whatever reason, then your thyroid will be more active in response. Similarly if you feel powerless, lack motivation or don’t care much about life i.e. lack will, then your thyroid will be more sluggish.

So one way or another thyroid issues represent misuse of will and this very much relates to a big aspect of the throat chakra – expression. If you feel you cannot be the person and therefore express yourself the way you wish in life then you will either sway towards not activating will and become sluggish or overcompensating with will and becoming overactive in the thyroid.

In the aura, I often see and feel a lot of stuck energies at the back of the neck and in the rear throat chakra rather than at the front of the neck where the thyroid is. So often energy healing is needed at an alternate location to where you think though often it is a good idea to work directly on a diagnosed organ issue.

The rear of the aura especially the rear of chakras 2-5 and the base chakra have a lot to do with the will/energy/power, so you may want to work on the back of the aura in general when you have a thyroid issue.

Physically because the back of the aura and spine are very interrellated and thus the spine has a lot to do with the will/power as well, looking at your posture is advisable. If you think that posture is only about stopping your muscles and back hurting, think again. It is well know that standing like the 1970’s super-heroine “Wonder Woman” increases testosterone in the body. Of course this has a big effect on the strength of the back of the aura too. It is no mistake that teenagers will slump a lot when they are feeling disempowered by their parents or teachers!

Hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid)

This is when the thyroid doesn’t make and release enough of its hormones into the blood stream. This results in a lower metabolism of the body in general meaning that patients will feel tired a lot of the time, even feel exhausted, gain weight unexpectantly or more than usual, have dry skin, brain fog, anxiety, inability to tolerate the cold, frequent or heavy menstrual periods, soreness, muscle weakness and numbness or tingling in the hands.

Typically it is treated by using synthetic thyroxine and monitored by testing T4 and TSH levels and adjusting accordingly, but of course testing every so often is not going to be as effective as the body’s own feedback mechanisms to get the levels right. I would obviously advise as always to look at and try and solve the original cause rather than suffer all the typical side-effects pharmaceuticals produce. Allopathically, they say there is no cure but I would argue otherwise in many cases, and trust in the body’s own healing mechanisms.

There are several types of hypothyroidism depending on whether the thyroid itself was affected directly, the pituitary gland’s ability to produce TSH was affected or the hypothalamus that stimulates the pituitary was affected.

It’s well know that certain medications cause hypothyroidism including lithium, thalidomide and amiodarone for example. Radiation therapy directed at the thyroid, congenital/genetic disorders at birth, tumors including of the pituitary gland, thyroiditis (inflammation of the thyroid) after an infection or pregnancy and low iodine intake in diet are all common causes in medical books. Diet and other environmental factors as listed above should also be considered.

Energetically, it is caused by a lack of will. There is often a feeling of hopelessness, being stifled, disempowered and inability of expressing oneself fully. Mentally there is distraction or laziness and this is reflected physically by not taking action.

This can be common if there where childhood traumas, often ones that aren’t obvious too such as those presented with the “enduring” pattern where they were not allowed to express themselves fully when growing up as a child. Usually this happens at the age when they start to say “no” and start exploring being more independant. If the parents or those looking after the child were too controlling and the child felt powerless then this can set up a disempowered pattern into adulthood.

Goal setting and actively taking steps each day to work towards those goals is important here. While in the last article we talked about this related to the eyes and being able to “see” and how to obtain your desires, the thyroid is more about your beliefs in your power and will to obtain them.

Often with the “enduring pattern” described above, people have become so used to the feeling of disempowerment and being the person they think others wish them to be, that they have forgotten what desires they had. Thus, they cannot connect easily with the heart and their own feelings to know what they wish, to be able to start goal setting. I would say simply get out there and try something new anyway so that you can at least get the contrast of that new thing with which to know better what you like and don’t like, informing you of what you may like to try the next time.

Knowing that yes, at first it will feel uncomfortable and like a lot of effort and that those uncomfortable feelings are simply part of the process of change is important. Often people who find it hard to get the ball rolling are also the best people at keeping the ball rolling once it has started! Some of the best examples of health and fitness successes are those that started extremely overweight and unhealthy but started making the effort to train and eat well because and kept going, rather than giving up half-way.

If you can build a purpose for everything you do each day it can be a very powerful way of building will. All those different tasks each day can be linked or aimed at one specific goal such as a particular sport, spiritual enlightenment, playing a musical instrument etc.

When you start to see all the little steps you make each day starting to take effect, then you start to believe that you do actually have power and control over your life, building confidence as you go. Initially courage is needed i.e. the ability to hear the discouraging thoughts in the mind, feel the uncomfortable emotions of fear, embarrassment, humiliation, anxiety etc, hear all the “friends” and family’s comments that deter you, and going and doing what you wish to do anyway.

I like the Louise Hay solution here “I create a new life with new rules that totally support me.”

Hashimoto’s disease

This is an auto-immune disease affecting the thyroid.

I have a different view of what medical professionals call auto-immune as I would ask “why would the body want to attack it’s own cells?” and though you could say that there may be cell marker protein issues making the immune system confused, I would say that a lot of this is actually due to excessive toxins in the cells causing cell damage and death which the immune cells are trying to remove because the cells themselves are telling the immune system that they are not well or are dying. A long story to explain this fully but essentially on a biochemical level it is usually an abundance of toxins that the body is struggling to remove.

Unlike Grave’s disease listed below, which is also an “auto-immune” disease, it eventually results in lower thyroid function. Initially however Hashimoto’s patients can experience periods of both hypo and hyper-thyroidism as the disease progresses and especially if different medications or diets are incorporated to try and treat the symptoms. This means that a goiter, which is an enlargement of the thyroid leading to a visible lump at the lower front of the neck, can often develop with this disease, much like what happens in hyperthyroidism.

Apart from switching from hypo to hyper-thyroidism one or more times, signs and symptoms are very much like what is listed above in hypothyroidism and treatments are typically the same. Though as always I would again advise people to look at some of the above factors and other possible causes before they throw the towel in to the pharmaceutical industry. Because Hashimoto’s is more likely in people who have other hormonal and/or inflammatory conditions you may find a common link there.

Energetically, the same as is written above for hypothyroidism applies here. The fact that your own immune system is attacking its own cells suggest energetically that there is a self-harm element in effect too. Maybe there is a lot of self-judgement for procrastinating and allowing the feeling of powerlessness to dictate your action and inaction. Maybe it is more about judging others for not giving you the time, energy, resources etc to be the person you wish and making you the victim. This is reflected in a lack of self-love to the extent that you attack yourself or feel attacked rather than follow the path to being the person you wish.

Again goal setting and making those baby-steps as mentioned above is important here for developing self-love and realising that you do have will and enough to create the you and the life you wish.

Hashimoto’s often starts off with hyperthyroidism before becoming hypothyroidism. This is likely reflected in one being scattered in attention and use of will to start with, then later feeling disempowered and giving up. So you might like to look at the energetic advice below for hyperthyroidism too.

Hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid) including Grave’s disease

This is the opposite of hypothyroidism in that the thyroid is producing too much of its hormones resulting in a speeding up of the body’s functions. This results in rapid heart rate, sudden weight loss/inability to out weight on, increased appetite, anxiety, nervousness, irritable, shaking, increased blood pressure, more frequent pooping, increased sensitivity to heat, increased sweating, hair loss, insomnia, light or missing menstrual periods, and swelling or bulging of the eyes. If left untreated it can lead to more serious issues around the body including stroke and osteoporosis.

Due to the increased activity of the tissues, the thyroid may enlarge itself leading to a goiter. This is more common with hypothyroidism and is not as common in the western world.

Grave’s disease is considered the biggest cause and is considered an auto-immune disease.  A risk factor for Graves disease is the presence of other “auto-immune” diseases in your body or your family.

Thyroid nodules (tumors that are rarely cancerous) and thyroiditis which is simply inflammation of the thyroid both can also result in excess thyroid hormone production, though the latter is often temporary. Consuming excess iodine and issues affecting the pituitary to produce too much TSH are other possible causes.

Allopathic treatments vary depending on the cause but can include surgery to cut out nodules, excess thyroid tissues or cancerous growths, drugs to suppress thyroid hormone production and radioactive iodine therapy that ends up completely destroying the thyroid leading to hypothyroidism. Other drugs to deal with the other bodily symptoms of too much thyroid hormones such as beta-blockers to regulate an overactive heart are common too.

Energetically, the cause of hyperthyroidism is related to overactive use of will one way or another.

Often, it can be a scattering of the will because of trying to do too many different things that may even be at odds with each other. If the mind is not focused on one task at a time or too little time is spent on each task, then the will is being used in too many different directions and/or weakly. This results in goals and desires not being met.

Desperation and anger can come from this and one may try to force the will even harder trying to complete all the different tasks, creating a loop where the will and belief in one’s own will is lessened over and over.

In this case, completing a thought fully without distraction and carrying out tasks to completion is important here. People with hyperthyroidism often have goals and desires in mind but it is simply a case or organising their thoughts and time properly to actually accomplish them.

Asking what is most important to do right now and organising the day/week/month so that it becomes the focus and actually gets completed, can help relieve a burden on the mind and free up time and energy to better complete the next task.

Habits is another thing to consider here. If too many processes each day are done out of habit rather than with purpose, whole days can go by without making any steps towards your desires or goals in life. Same goes for not considering your choices in life and thus the consequences of not choosing.

The first step here is to become more aware of your thoughts, emotions and actions. If you are not aware of them then you cannot choose whether they are actually the best course of action or if there is something else that you could choose instead. You will also notice that many of these thoughts, emotions and habits will distract you from the tasks you wish to complete.

You could spend time writing down all your habits so that you are more likely to notice them if you wish. Replacing them with decisions that are in line with your purpose and direction in life is important. Keep making those baby steps towards your goals and desires – this is the correct use of will.

Goiter

A goiter is an enlargement of the thyroid such that it becomes visible. You can get smaller temporary enlargements or swellings of the thyroid when it is inflamed from infection or toxic exposure. These are not considered a goiter as they are temporary. In my Wife’s case she had  an enlargement of one of her thyroid lobes after a long course of ashwaganda. Be careful with herbs and funghi please – they are not always better than pharmaceuticals if you don’t know what you are doing, what dosage to use or even how they could simply be naturally harmful for us!

You most often get a goiter from chronic hypothyroidism as the thyroid tissues enlarge to try and capture more iodine and make more T4 and T3, for various reasons. You can also get a goiter due to the different stages of Hashimoto’s disease.

Energetically, in addition to what has already been written about with hypothyroidism and Hashimoto’s disease above, a goiter represents stubbornness. Such people hold onto habits, beliefs and ways of thinking that no longer serve them. They refuse or are very reluctant to receive new ideas that may actually better themselves. This causes a stagnation in life where they are not moving closer to their desires and often refuse to move.

As you can see, this is an extreme version of the factors involved in the energetic side of hypothyroidism. In addition to the advice on this above, attention needs to be given to gaining a balance between giving and receiving.

Developing listening skills so that you actually try to understand another’s point-of-view is really important for gaining new ideas that might help you start to look for and strive for your desires for this life. Acknowledging that you are not where you wish to be in life and thus that your ideas, habits and beliefs are currently not helping you, is important to realise to start with.

Other people may have given you the experience that caused you to believe you are powerless but you are the one maintaining that. Other people can be of great help to you if you reach out and discernment with an open mind can help.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this second article and that it is giving you a fuller comprehension of bodily issues and their mental, emotional and spiritual causes as well as practical solutions. Feel free to write to me if you’d like to see a particular subject.

This is the first in the long list of articles I will be writing that links a specific body part with the types of emotions, thoughts, beliefs and spiritual experiences associated with it. I also intend to do a video version of these articles on my YouTube channel for those that prefer to listen.

It turned out to be a longer article than I was intending but I hope it helps more people as a result.

As I’ve mentioned many times, the physical body and that beyond the physical are interrelated. So if you want to solve a physical issue, you can often find mental, emotional and spiritual factors you can work on to help the physical body and vice versa.

As you’ll see with these articles, I will be relating the physical function of the different body parts to the non-physical issues a little more than the two books I recommended in my previous article – “Heal your Body” by Louise Hay and “Permanent Healing” by Daniel R. Condron. I will still advise people to have these books for the slightly different view-points they have and different corrective advice they give.

For some body parts, like with the eyes in this article, I think it is useful going into detail of the anatomy and function of them, so that the information can be better understood or put to use. I personally find that understanding the physical function of body parts better helps me to understand the energetic function behind them and thus the beliefs and traumas related to them.

I will be using a scientific stand-point to start with but bear with me so you can see how it relates…

The physical function of the eyes

You might like to remember the physical details I’m describing here for future reference, as the pineal gland, A.K.A “3rd eye”, is very similar in structure to the eyes!

The eyes are where your body allows light from the outside to come into the body via the pupil (the hole) at the front of the eyeballs. Muscles in the iris, the coloured part of the eye, contract and relax to open and close the pupil to allow different amounts of light into the eyeball. In bright light, the pupil will be very small such as when looking at the sun, whereas in the dark the pupil will be very large to try and receive more light.

The back of the inside of the eyeballs, the retina, contains specialised rod and cone cells that react to different colours of light and generate a nerve impulse each time they react. This impulse goes along the optic nerve behind the eye, which reaches various areas of the brain. This includes the occipital lobe at the back of the brain where the information is processed and then onto the frontal lobes of the brain, where sense is made of that information, or if you like, where you actually “see” what your eyes picked up.

Some of this light information goes to other areas of the brain to guide in controlling circadian rhythms i.e. the body clock of the body. This is necessary to make sure that the correct hormones and other signalling molecules are produced at the right times of day. This has a huge impact on mood, the ability to sleep and rest, as well as energy levels throughout the day. So if you have sleep and mood issues, you’re probably not going outside and getting enough natural light, especially in the morning and/or getting too much artificial light from modern appliances, especially in the evenings!

The eyes are spherical so as to be able to move around and enable vision in different directions and there are muscles around the eye, in the eye socket of the skull, that enable that movement. These muscles are controlled by cranial nerves from the brain stem.

The inside of eyeballs is simply fluid, mostly made up of water but also containing nutrients and white blood cells to clean up any infections or debris caused by damage.

At the front of the eyeballs you have the lens for focusing the light from the front of the eye onto the retina at the back. This is not like a solid lens you would find in a camera or telescope because it can be stretched to change its shape so that you can focus on distant or close objects. The muscles that stretch the lens are found around the lens and are controlled by nerves via the optic nerve, also from the brain stem.

At the very front of the eyeballs we have the cornea that is a bit like a tough skin that protects the eyes from whatever particles might land on the eyes.

While this is a brief description of the eyes, I hope it helps you identify which part of the eye you may have an issue with so that you can better tune into it during Goenka style vipassana meditations or to know what your doctor might be talking about for example. It will also help you understand the following paragraphs…

Differences in people’s eyes

Everyone’s eyes will function slightly differently because not all people’s eyes are the same, even if there are no abnormalities or diseases present.

It is well known in the scientific field that different people see different colours for example. Some people are colour-blind and cannot see a certain colour because they are missing the relevant cone cell that picks up that particular colour. Red is the most common form of colour blindness, though you can have multiple. My rock-climbing friend has a lot of difficulty telling the difference between most colours when trying to climb the colour-coded climbs that are typical of modern indoor climbing centres as an example.

Even if you can see all of the main colours, there can be differences between how many different shades of a colour you can differentiate between. This is called colour vision acuity and there are a lot of free tests online (such as here) you can find to test this yourself.

As someone who is an alternative practitioner, I would also like to point out that computer and mobile phone screens only produce a certain colour range, which is far less of a range than what you find outside in nature. So the colour acuity tests will not test your eyes for all that is possible for your eyes to see.

Moreover, I’ll give you a little warning here. If you spend a lot of time in front of artificial screens then your body will respond by not making as much of a variety of photoreceptors (because your body decides not to waste energy making things it doesn’t need). So if you wish to develop better vision and especially if you wish to train your eyes to pick up on light to do with auras and things that most people don’t see, then you’ll be far better off spending more time away from screens. The same goes for helping to heal your eyes from certain conditions. Again get outside!

This is not just some spiritual “mumbo jumbo” here. Scientifically there are people who have been found to see further into the ultraviolet range of light and further into the infrared range of light than the majority of people and in those people they discovered more varieties of rod and cone cells. You might like to look into the subject of “tetrachromacy” as an example of eye variation where such people can see it is claimed 100 million different colours due to the extra subset of cone cells being present.

I personally believe that a lot of the DNA that in the past was called “junk DNA” codes for the necessary building blocks for dormant abilities. Making extra rod and cone cells is just one example of this and there are many scientists that agree with me. It can be a right pain finding the scientific case studies related to this but please do go and search if it interests you.

Not all information from the eyes is seen

I always remember during my studies as an osteopath what one of my teachers said about the eyes. He said that the rod and cone cells in the eyes are sensitive enough to easily pick up a small candle flame from several miles away even in the middle of the day. The vast majority of people cannot see a candle flame from that distance however, because not all the information from the eye reaches the parts of the brain necessary for us to see.

There are multiple places along the different nerve routes that suppress a signal from continuing. In addition some nerves only allow a signal to continue if it reaches a certain threshold and that threshold can be altered by other nerves.

Why would the body, including the brain itself not want all information to pass through for you to be aware of it? Simply put, it would be totally overwhelming for you to be aware of every tiny thing going on with every part of yourself. As people become more aware along their awakening journey, they very often complain about physical, emotional and mental discomfort – things that were always there but now they have a better sensory capacity than they did before. Imagine taking this further and being aware of absolutely everything going on in your body at all times, every chemical reaction, every cell movement, every fluid movement, every little irritation or damage done to cells as well as every communication going on between cells. Completely overwhelming right?! The same goes for being able to see absolutely everything.

Not perceiving everything is partly due to you not using every possible sense, and thus your body not making every sensory apparatus needed to sense what you choose to ignore. Partly it is you choosing (knowingly or not) what information you’d like to focus on – afterall you are perfectly capable of sensing your big toe and what is going on with it in general but I bet you weren’t aware of your big toe until I mentioned your big toe, right?

Another big factor is belief. Your beliefs literally shape how you see things. While auras exist and can be measured easily with scientific methods, not all of you see auras and even if you do, you see it in different ways to how other people do. This is an important factor to consider with eye issues – everyone see what they choose to see, even if they don’t know that they are choosing to or not.

Different eye parts relate to different issues

Generally speaking, and this will be obvious to most people, the eyes represent how you “see” this world, this reality and the people, beings and things in it.

If you have any resistance, judgement, worry or fear of what you see then that will create and energetic resistance in the aura and around your eyes. Especially if not corrected and left for a long period, the energy will become more stagnant, flow less and thus lower the vibration of the aura. Eventually this will lead to physical stagnation of fluids, tissues and nerve impulses etc in the physical eye, leading to physical diseases.

Of course it happens the other way around too. If you have a poor diet (thus a lack of good nutrients getting to the eye), lack exercise, expose your eyes to artificial lights, don’t get enough sleep, or have an eye injury, as some of many potential examples, this will start to cause energetic shifts in the aura and create blocks there. So as you can see I often advise people to work on both the physical and the energetic when healing complaints in the body.

Each part of the eye has a different function and so are affected by a different belief/trauma/habit than others. So each case will be different.

Lets start looking at specific eye issues and what that could mean on a non-physical level. Some of these will be similar to the Daniel Condron “Permanent Healing” and Louise Hay “Heal your Body” books but with my own twist and others will be more different.

A lot of the information for the individual complaints below overlap with each other so some degree so I highly recommend reading all the different eye condition advice even if you only want to specifically look at one problem.

Because the brain is what interprets the information from the eyes, you might want to look an future articles about the brain specifically too, as well as certain diseases that affect the eyes indirectly such as diabetes.

Eye problems in general

They represent resistance to how you “see” this world and the people and things in it. If you don’t like what you see, which is of course based on your beliefs, experiences and traumas, then you are likely to resist what you see in some way, causing issues in the eye as a result. This could be a resistance to other people, organisations or things you see, or indeed how you see your Self.

Sometimes it is a case of being able to see this reality clearly, your place in it, being ok with how you see your past and what you wish for in your future without fear or worry. So the more purposeful and motivated you are in this reality the easier it is to see positive outcomes and relax with the things you see, which is why often goal setting can help a lot with eye issues.

In general the more you work on being the best version of yourself and start to see how capable you are and thus that there is a brighter outlook than you originally thought, the easier it is to clear eye problems. A lot of the time it is a case of choosing to do something about your life and actually acting on it. Sometimes it’s more about relaxing and seeing that there is actually nothing to fear. If you see the beauty in everything then you are less likely to have eye issues 😉

Like any part of the body, good fluid mechanics are important for taking away toxic by-products of metabolism and other other toxins from poor diet, habits and other chemical exposures. Also introducing more nutrients and immune cells necessary for repairs and maintenance of cells and tissues of the eye. Fluid mechanics can be improved with good movement of the eyes and the rest of the body in general and by making sure you don’t introduce to much rubbish into the body in the first place.

Reducing toxins in your body is very important for helping with basically all of the following eye conditions. The biggest sources of toxins are pharmaceuticals (with their “side effects”), poor diet (even what most people consider “healthy” these days is quite often awful for the body!), cleaning products, beauty products, toothpastes, materials used in building construction, “protective” chemicals such as fire retardants in furniture, paints and wall-papers etc etc.

Getting a good naturopathic nutritionist to help you (such as my Wife! www.thenordicnutritionist.com) can be another very important avenue to explore. For example if your body cannot or struggles to form retinol (the active form of vitamin A) from non-animal food sources then you might find upping your intake of red meats and eggs especially, might rectify that. As a side note, it is often stated that you can get retinol from fruits and vegetables but that is a lie as the vitamin A in those is actually in a different form and needs to be converted by the body into retinol. Be careful what you read and question everything!

Left eye issues are common in newly awakened people

I have found a lot over the years with new-age/newly-awakened people that the left eye is more commonly affected. In most people the left eye is the more receiving eye, being on the more feminine side of the body.

With all the talk of spiritual demons, warfare, famines, destruction of nature etc that is so prevalent in both the alternative media and main-stream media, it is easy for sensitive people to not like what they see on this planet. This often creates a lot of resistance to what they see and the left eye being the more receptive one, will often feel uncomfortable and develop diseases more often. I’ve been told that this is a common problem for ETs who have spent time looking at Earth’s issues and using our technologies if you believe in that sort of thing ;-).

Astigmatism

Astigmatism is a blurring of vision that is caused by the cornea and/or the lens being misshapened. This happens either from birth, injuries, operations or diseases like keratoconus where a combination of genetic, environmental (i.e. chemicals) and hormonal factors (from other diseases) are apparent.

Typically surgeries and/or glasses are used as practical solutions.

Energetically, blurring of vision represents not seeing clearly or a very distorted view of reality. This can be caused by not wanting to see reality or Self and can be due to extreme fear and/or holding a very biased view, rather than seeing the bigger picture and all the good in reality and/or your Self.

Learning in all aspects is a key part of solving this. It means questioning and testing your beliefs as to if they are true or not, rather than holding onto beliefs and thus methods that are clearly not helping you, despite you thinking they do. As more information flows in by this learning exploration, you see a bigger picture, have more options and choice. You see Self and things more like what they actually are, compared to what you previously believed – i.e. you see yourself and the world around you more truthfully. More clearly.

Cataracts

Cataracts are cloudy lenses within the eyes that blur vision and can eventually lead to blindness if worsened. Due to the opacity of the lens being affected you can also experience halos when looking at lights, double vision, faded colours, difficulty with bright lights or seeing at night.

It is caused either by injury or issues with nutrients getting to and toxic by-products getting out of the eye, leading to stagnation and a change in consistency of the lens, as proteins and fibers slowly break down over time. Coming off of pharmaceutical drugs, paying attention to toxic exposure from everything from cleaning products, beauty products, paint on your walls, fire retardants in furniture etc etc and changing diet to help reduce the body’s toxicity is going to play a big factor in all eye conditions in this article.

Because cataracts also blur vision much like astigmatism, there are a lot of similarities in energetic causes and solutions. Because cataracts however tend to happen slowly over time and is more common with age, it leans more to beliefs of a dark future, an inability to see the future clearly and/or dwindling joy as their abilities are perceived to lessen with time.

Like the advice for astigmatism, Goal setting and learning are important so as to show the Self that it does have the power to change things for the better. Challenging those beliefs that they can’t make anything of themselves and their future is key. Often simply trying out new things like learning a new language, traveling somewhere new, trying a new activity or hobby such as a musical instrument, painting, various sports, cooking etc to bring joy and a sense of growth and direction to life is useful.

Colour Blindness

As explained briefly above, colour blindness is simply related to not being able to see certain colours. The colour you are blind to depends on which pigments in the photoreceptive rod and cone cells you may be missing. Red is the most common blindness though some people have difficulty in seeing other colours and differentiations between each colour too.

Light is picked up by the rod and cone cells of the retina at the back of the eye. The rod cells are more concentrated to the outside vision and are more important when trying to see in the dark (and are also more important when trying to start seeing auras as explained in my YouTube video here).

Cone cells are more concentrated in the middle of vision and pick up a range of different colours dependant on the type of pigments inside the cone cells you have, and work better in daylight.

For some people it is caused by missing pigments and thus types of cone cells, though there can sometimes be neurological issues in translating the information in the brain. Missing or faulty genes can be a cause of missing pigments, either in being able to create the correct enzymes and proteins to make the relevant photoreceptors, or even those effecting other organs that may absorb, digest or convert other chemicals from food and elsewhere in the body to be able to start making those pigments in the first place.

Most people with colour blindness have it from birth due to genetic abnormalities or issues in expressing their genes fully. However people can acquire it later in life due to injuries, poor nutrition, from the effects of other eye issues such as cataracts, side effects of pharmaceutical drugs, systemic diseases elsewhere in the body such as diabetes effecting the ability to make photoreceptors, heavy metal and other chemical damage (usually again affecting the body’s systems and indirectly damaging the retina or directly damaging the retina itself) and also damage from certain lights/lasers or other work/hobby related stresses.

Vitamin A is commonly known to be needed for vision as it is used in the construction of the pigments needed in the photoreceptor cells. Most people don’t know however that there are many, many forms of vitamin A and unless there is an issue in doing so, the body will convert between different forms as needed. It is quite well known in modern times that many people are poor at or even cannot convert certain types of vitamin A and other nutrients such as beta-carotene into an active form of vitamin A, know as retinol. In these individuals they will need to get retinol directly and thus need to eat meats especially red meats, fishes, dairy products such as butter and cheese and of course eggs. Foods they try to tell us these days are “bad” for us for various reasons, that are now know to be actually very healthy!

And don’t think you can just take a few supplements to make up for a poor diet either! Most supplements are a waste of money because they are either in a form the the body can’t digest, can’t convert into useful forms, don’t come with the correct carrier molecules, have dosage issues and/or even come with harmful chemicals. So be careful out there and get stuck into eating more natural foods that don’t come with these complications. Again a good naturopathic nutritionist can be very helpful here.

Vitamin A isn’t the only nutrient needed by the eyes of course and Vitamins E and C, omega 3 fatty-acids, zinc and cholesterol and other fats (yes those things they tried to convince us was bad for us!) among many other nutrients are important too. So a balanced diet can be very useful for those where there are nutrient deficiencies and where epi-genetics rather than gene omissions or mutations are present. In fact some nutrients may make up for gene issues by getting around enzymatic reaction stages, such as retinol.

Other than dietry advice, which I’d suggest you focus on for ALL eye issues, not just colour blindness, there are other practical things you can try. They include resolving whatever other eye conditions in this article you may have first, sorting out any systemic disease or deficiency you may have such as controlling your blood sugar in the case of diabetes (and yes many people can cure type 2 diabetes permanently if they are diligent enough over a prolonged period!), ceasing taking pharmaceutical drugs, reducing or stopping toxic exposure to various chemicals and detoxing or using saunas to sweat them out, and of course taking yourself away from a workplace or activity that is directly damaging your eyes.

In the case of congenital causes that are less likely to benefit from the above advice (though I would definitely still try!), you could try to use colour blindness glasses that help to create better colour differentiation.

Energetically, colour blindness is a refusal to see the whole of reality as it is, due to fears based on past or current life experiences and traumas. It represents an unwillingness to receive all that you could receive and thus an issue in learning the whole truth, resulting often in biased or incomplete points-of view. Just as you cannot fully see things with your physical eyes you cannot perceive ideas, concepts, and people fully for what they are and can be tricked or misled more easily. Learning is thus an issue, as is the case with most eye conditions here.

Learning is a key component to solve the energetic issues here. Ask yourself how you can make up for the inability to see everything. How can you acquire that information by other means so that you can understand and “see” the bigger picture and can be more informed so you can move forward with more ease and not fear seeing everything that you didn’t want to previously.

Crossed eyes (Strabismus)

This is where each eye looks in a different direction to the other, leading to blurred or double vision. There are different types of strabismus depending on which direction the eyes look relative to each other. In some people it only happens when they are tired or stressed or worsens in those states. Often if left for a long time they end up with a “lazy eye” because only the dominant eye is used when looking.

It most often happens in children and if left untreated can linger on into adulthood. There are many causes including malformations on the brain during or after pregnancy, such as with Down’s syndrome, cerebral palsy, hydrocephalus, premature births etc. Also can be caused by issues with the skull affecting the nerves to the eye muscles and chemical imbalances affecting the brain nerves and/or muscles, to name but a few.

If there are malformations or diseases affecting vision in one of the eyes, then strabismus can happen due to the person favoring the other eye.

Eye exercises, patching, prism lenses etc depending on the initial cause, are all practical solutions and can be started at any time in life, so it’s never too late to start. It is worth remembering that the brain and peripheral nervous system are very plastic and adaptable, not like what they used to teach us in neurology in the past! So, you can very much grow nerves  by trying to make your body do something it currently cannot do, such as with eye exercises.

Energetically there are some similarities to the above two diseases because of the resulting blurred or double vision, so some of the same advice regarding not wanting to see what’s out there applies.

In addition crossed eyes represents competing or crossed purposes or view-points. Beliefs and/or directions of life that counteract each other or pull you in different directions, you could say. It can also represent not being able to perceive the world accurately or the Self accurately and can be a sign of early wounding much like the schizoid characterology in psychology where the soul/consciousness is not fully here or not fully in the body because of the perceived dangers of this world.

Working out what you really want in life, what purpose or direction in life is important here. Just like you can’t see properly when the two eyes aren’t focusing on the same object, you cannot have a clear and easy path in life if you have competing goals, competing thoughts or competing emotions. Working out what would be best, that would satisfy you best emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually and taking action to go down that path and maintain it despite distractions and thoughts/emotions/people etc trying to pull you away is key.

Also working on the desire to be in this reality, creating a reason to want to be here and be in the body are important. Knowing that you are safe, supported and wanted here is the basis for wanting to do more and be here. If you feel safe then you will feel it is safe to see what is here.

Farsighteness (Hyperopia)

This is a condition where the refractive parts of the eye are affected leading to seeing things more clearly at a distance but close objects will appear blurry and of course there are varying severities of this.

Officially farsightedness usually starts at birth, however experience shows that this can develop later in life and it is common for many elderly people to start to need glasses to read things up-close.

Structurally it is mostly due to the shape of the cornea and/or lens of the eye being affected from birth or due to how a person habitually uses their eyes and how resistant they are to using their eyes or strain themselves using their eyes especially with close objects.

If the cornea shape is the issue then it can be hard to change that without intervention. The lens shape however can be altered through exercise to some degree in the short term and to a larger degree with prolonged exercises and use over many months or years, as the pressure of the eye muscles gradually reshape the lens. Most people tend to not be told about exercises and how they use their eyes and instead fall back on more practical solutions, such as with the use of glasses or laser eye surgery.

The muscles of the body tend to alter their shape according to use, so the muscles that control the shape of the lens are affected by how a person habitually uses their eyes. For example if someone in their work and hobbies would typically look at objects at a distance with very little need to use their eyes to look at or read things close to them, then the eye muscles will tend to get used to shaping the lens that way and find difficulty in shaping the lens for closer viewing. Likewise if looking at things up-close all the time is stressful, maybe due to low light, lack of rest, being forced to do close-work that they would rather not do etc, then the strain through the nervous system may affect the lens muscles in a way so that they struggle to see up-close too.

There are a lot of practical ways to help with farsightedness and I strongly suggest doing eye exercises for some time, i.e. practice looking at closer objects (such as pencil “push-ups”) whilst learning to relax you eyes or exercises that force you to cross your eyes to exercise the eye muscles. There are a lot of exercises you can find online and it may help you not need glasses or more invasive procedures such as eye operations. One good site I can across here had a variety of exercises good for many of the eye conditions in this article.

Energetically, farsightedness represents an unwillingness or fear of being in the present. You could say that it is people that spend too much time thinking about the future, either with worry or expectation. It may be thoughts of being happy once X/Y/Z happens, day-dreaming of a nicer, happier, healthier or richer future rather than actually working on achieving that. The present time is often uncomfortable for them to look at and relax into as they look at all that is wrong with their current situation, such as being poor, unhealthy, ugly, in a bad relationship etc. Many say that it develops in old age due to continual thoughts, worries or questions about death and what to do with themselves and family for the future.

The key is to learn to enjoy the journey. The ego will always come up with yet another goal/desire for the future each time you accomplish something, so making sure that you take the time to recognise and be happy for your successes is important as well as learning to know that you are safe and can be happy in any moment even if you haven’t accomplished a particular aim yet.

If you have a particular dream for the future you wish for, make efforts to do all the necessary baby-steps each day to take you towards that. Each time you make a step, recognise that, congratulate yourself and spend time being in that state of gratitude and of how nice it feels. You’ll soon realise the more you practice, that happiness doesn’t just come at the end like the negative portion of the ego would like you to think. It can come at any time, even whilst doing the little baby-steps each day.

If it is due to getting older and fearing death or for your family after you die, educate yourself about aging and dying. Doing spiritual practices such as learning astral travel or waking in your dreams via the use of a dream diary can help you experience the “afterlife” before you actually leave here and thus give you more ease about death. Failing that, read about and talk to people who have had near-death experiences. The more you understand something the less you’ll fear it.

If you worry about your family when you go, learn about what you can do to best support them before and after you go. Sign over ownership of a house so you know they’ll have a roof over their heads, use your savings to buy an education course a family member will benefit from, say that thing you have been meaning to say to that special someone, go and do those things you’ve always wanted to do for yourself or others etc.

Glaucoma

This is a condition where vision can be affected in various ways because of pressure on the optic nerve within the eyeball. It may result in blurriness of vision, certain fields of vision not working, halos when looking at lights and progressive loss of vision towards blindness. There are many types of glaucoma and it can happen quickly or slowly and at any age though it typically happens late in life and progresses slowly.

Structurally the pressure on the optic nerve is to mostly due to the fluid inside of the eyeball not being removed as quickly as it comes out because of abnormalities at birth, injuries, surgeries and of course inflammatory issues that affect the connective tissues of the eye. Issues elsewhere in the body are important to look at especially if there is an inflammatory factor which is why diabetes, cardio-vascular conditions, what medications you are taking (such as steroid-related ones or for bladder issues) are important to resolve. Got to love those “side effects” of pharmaceuticals huh?!

Other eye issues that put strain on the eyes also seem to factor into glaucoma so sorting out those conditions first can be important. Anything that makes it hard to see such as cataracts can apply greater strain in the eyes.

Energetically this suggests a stubbornness to change and thus a resistance to receiving new ideas, perspectives and learning. This stubbornness can be related to not being willing to forgive yourself or another, a longstanding trauma or a detrimental limiting belief that you’re not willing to let go of.

This stubbornness leads to a clouding of vision and even blindness because if you are unwilling to learn and thus see things from another perspective, then you won’t be able to “see” the bigger picture and the truth of things. Like most eye issues it is a unwillingness or resistance to “see”.

Knowing that you cannot grow, experience more in life and fulfill your desires if you don’t make changes, is important for there to be motivation towards learning more. A big factor is this learning should be practicing actually listening in all it’s forms.

Listening is more than just hearing words, it is about truly understanding what you’ve received too, such that you can see a new perspective. You cannot listen truthfully if you are thinking about what to do or say next whilst in the middle of someone else speaking. Nor can you listen truthfully if you are judging them or what they say before they have even finished. If you are really listening in a way to try and understand them so that you can truly make up your on mind, then you’ll be curious and ask questions to obtain more information.

Making up you mind about a subject or person AFTER you have fully explored and listened as best you can is key here. The result is better reception, more connection to yourself and others and of course more love.

Keratitis

This is inflammation of the cornea at the front of the eyeball.

Causes officially include bacteria, funghi, viruses (if you belief in viruses!), parasites and eye injuries and objects getting in the eye (including contact lenses) which in turn can lead to infection. What a lot of the typical websites leave out is chemicals, as usual.

Practically a lot of advice is about reducing the source of inflammation and such advice is useful for prevention as well as cure. Making sure you clean your contact lenses, wear protective goggles with certain activities, avoiding touching your eyes especially when they are not clean, and of course looking after your body by paying attention to what you eat, chemical exposures, cleaning/beauty products etc are all important avenues to explore.

A lot of the advice here ties in with the refusal to receive new information or resistance to seeing something in this reality that you fear or hate and thus getting irritated by that. The result is refusing to stay in the present or conversely fighting the present. As such the advice given in the above few eye diseases is relevant here so I’ll not repeat that again!

Nearsightedness aka short-sightedness or myopia

This is the opposite in terms of physical cause to farsightedness, listed above. In other words it is a condition where the refractive parts of the eye are affected leading to seeing things more clearly up-close but distant objects will appear blurry. Like farsightedness there are varying severities of this.

As well as blurred vision at a distance, other symptoms include headaches, and eye strain due to squinting and trying to look at distant objects, especially reading at a distance.

Officially nearsightedness develops more often in the young and stabilises between 20 and 40 years old. However it can develop later into life due to long term or altered demands on the eyes such as with a change in hobbies or work tasks that force you to look at objects up-close.

Congenital causes can include abnormalities in the cornea, lens and/or the shape of the eyeball itself leading to altered refraction of the light entering the eye. Otherwise, long-term up-close work, lots of computer/phone screen time and of course chemicals (including from pharmaceuticals!) are all well-know causes.

There are practical solutions as with farsightedness such as glasses, laser eye surgery etc but as with many of these diseases, most people don’t know about eye exercises and physical health of the rest of the body affecting the eyes.

Eye exercises are as expected the opposite of farsightedness and include practicing at looking at far away objects and relaxing in that as much as possible. Eye games such as looking at stereograms, where you are forced to diverge your eyes to be able to see a 3D image within a picture can be a very useful and fun exercise to do.

See if you can see the penguins in the stereogram image below, by looking through or if you like, beyond the image. There are more free examples here: https://wallpaperaccess.com/magic-eye

Energetically nearsightedness represents either a fear of the future and/or being stuck in the past. In other words looking to the past more than looking to the future or being in the present, either in a positive or negative way. This ties in with not knowing what to do about future and thus unclear intentions, decisions and goals.

For some it is more to do with fond memories of the past and wanting more of that rather than seeing positive opportunities in the future and especially enjoying being in the present. For others it is more to do with an uncomfortable past that they have friction with but that they habitually think about. Either way that don’t see how to create what they wish in future or even what they actually want for their future at all.

Whether a negative or positive past, holding onto that past can be used to maintain a particular story or identity and often a victim mentality, rather than working on creating a better future and enjoying the present time.

Safety and trust are central here. Testing your beliefs of reality so that you learn that at least most thoughts and emotions are psychological rather than real fears can help. As with most of the eye issues mentioned here setting goals and making little steps each day to achieve them and slowly become the person you wish or have the experiences you wish is one of the main step you can do to help here.

Once you see that you can create change for the better, you will feel safer, more confident and trusting of this reality. More of a sense of receiving from the divine and more relaxed being in the present time as you fear the future less and less.

Other eye issues

I cannot go through every eye issue in this article – it is already too long for most people to take in all at once with people’s short attention spans these days! But hopefully if you understand the structure and function of the different eye parts at the beginning and read through the rest of the article, you can get a good idea of what might have caused it energetically and thus what you can do about it. Most of the advice you’ll see overlaps anyway.

For example macular degeneration where the central vision is lost usual later in life, you may link in with the advice I gave for not wanting to “see” based on traumas and other experiences in life. The fact that you still have peripheral vision suggests that like prey in the wild, you have fears of being attacked out of the blue so much that you resist seeing all the nice things and the bigger picture. Diet and learning you might say to yourself are probably two obvious things to look into to help resolve this. And of course learning that most fears are actually just psychological rather than real is useful 😉

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this first (and long!) look into the connection between physical issues and the non-physical realms of emotion, thought, mind, astral etc. There are plenty more upcoming over many months.

In the last blog post I talked about how different body parts can affect each other because they are all inter-related.

I perhaps gave too many structural examples rather than biochemical, hormonal, neurological etc examples, but I hope that article gave you an idea of how much all parts of the body rely on other parts and vice versa.

In this article I’ll briefly start looking into how the physical body reflects into the emotional, mental and spiritual realms too.

It seems from the amount of information I have come across over the years that is actually quite a common view-point in ancient arts –  to relate the physical and spiritual to each other.

A lot of people who have had sessions with me will have been exposed to the way I like to use physical issues to gain information on mental, emotional and spiritual states. And also the other way around – gaining knowledge of issues or potential issues in the physical body gleaned from spiritual issues for example.

Your beliefs thoughts and emotions have a big impact on the physical body

A lot of the people who read this will have by now come across a lot of examples of this. It is likely that is why you have an interest in healing and thus why you were drawn to my work.

There are many stories of how healing has cured or at least partially helped with the healing of physical issues. If you have been following my “Learn Energy Healing” series of videos on YouTube you will see that how you feel, think and believe has a huge impact on how effective your healing is.

One of the most well-known stories in the alternative world is of Joe Dispenza’s recovery after breaking his back at 23 years old. Several of his thoracic vertebrae and one of his lumbar vertebrae were broken after colliding with a truck during a triathlon race he was taking part in.

He was told that the fractures were so severe that multiple shards of bone had gone into his spinal cord  and that if he wouldn’t have surgery to take those out, that he would be paralyzed soon and even after surgery to remove them, he would still likely be somewhat paralysed.

He refused the surgery to the surprise of the surgeons. He believed that the body has an innate intelligence and that by directing that intelligence he could help the body have a full recovery.

He laid face-down, for 9 and a half weeks feeling into the pain and meditating on his broken back. After those weeks he was able to walk again despite the surgeons warning that he would be paralysed if nothing was done.

Joe Dispenza describes in some of his interviews in more detail what he did. He asked his body to heal itself. Crucially he had to maintain focus with his thoughts as initially his thoughts kept jumping around to different subjects, much like most people experience when they meditate. He tried to imagine the broken part of the spine as if it was already healed, both looking perfect and also feeling perfect.

He said the most noticeable shifts happened when he started to be able to picture a perfect spine from multiple angles and maintain that image for longer periods without other intrusive thoughts coming in. He said that once he could get that perfect spine image to look as detailed as in the anatomy books and maintain it clearly whilst being able to rotate and zoom in and out of that image without intrusive thoughts, that that was when he started to notice he could start to move his legs. Soon after maintaining that for several weeks he was able to make a full recovery and get full movement and functionality back to his body.

I do recommend you take a look at his books, videos and maybe attend his courses as he is a very inspirational person. Joe is not the only person to have managed to miraculously heal his body like this as there are many stories. Bruce Frantzis, a famous Qigong practitioner likewise healed his spine using different methods to get energy into his spine.

As a side note, the technique Joe used is what I use most when people come to me to heal physical complaints. The moment I am able to hold the image like Joe did for his spine, of the effected part and be able to feel into that body part too, is when most of the benefits are felt by my clients.

Hopefully this story and many other you may come across highlight how intimately the mind, emotions and spiritual realms affect the body.

The body also affects the spiritual

Just as much as the mind, emotions and spirit affect the body, the same can be said the other way around. I have a lot of examples of this over the years of my work.

One of the most common examples I come across is when people come to me complaining of astral/energetic/spiritual parasites.

When I tune into the physical body of people with these issues, in virtually all cases, they have some sort of issue with parasites, gut bacteria and/or fungi.

People’s diets these days are generally terrible. What is often considered “normal” or often even “healthy” to eat by most people in the West I find to be, in my opinion, very unhealthy.

It’s too long a subject to go into here but let’s just say that people are putting rubbish into their bodies and the result is creating favourable environments for bacterial imbalances, yeast and fungus overgrowths and even larger parasites such as worms and flukes. Diagnoses for gut related issues are going up and up every year and most simply aren’t paying attention to what exactly they are putting in their mouths!

When working on the physical side of things and thus balancing their gut bacteria, reducing yeast/fungus growths and eliminating larger parasites (which can take time!), the astral/spiritual parasites are often reduced or completely cleared without doing any direct energy healing work.

The functions of each body part gives clues to what spiritual influences they have

As an ex-biochemist and especially as an ex-osteopath, I still maintain quite a lot of information on how the physical body works. What is interesting to me is how those functions seem to relate to specific types of emotion, thought, astral experiences and beliefs.

I have found for example that those who have experiences, issues and beliefs of defending or protecting themselves from a spiritual/astral threat, that they often have a lot of stuck or discordant energies in their spleen (among other areas too).

What does the spleen do in the physical body? It has a major role in creating and maturing immune cells that defend the body against infection, especially affecting the gut via the lymphatic system that transports those immune cells.

So in this example you can see how the physical function of the spleen is related to defense/protection and people who have issues here often have more experiences of not being able to defend themselves in challenges with other people in the physical world and/or challenges in the spiritual world. Often such people avoid conflicts too.

Coincidence? I think not. Each body part and its function in my years of healing seem to be reflective of people’s experiences. Some are harder to understand than the example above and of course there are multiple organs/body parts to consider as well as the spiritual experiences being very complex too but there is a definite correlation.

Multiple sources agree

I’m not the only one who thinks this way. There have been multiple authors over the last few decades who have written books on this subject and giving advice on what mental/emotional shift you can make to create more ease with a physical issue/disease and vice versa.

Those who have studied the meridians of the body as described in the East will have an understanding of how organs are related to how energies flow, in turn affecting the mind, body and spirit. Similar views are see in all sorts of shamanic practices from ancient times.

In modern times, Louise Hay’s book “Heal Your Body” is the most common book people seem to come across. I personally prefer the descriptions in other books but many of my clients have found help reading this book.

If you can find a copy, I prefer Daniel R. Condron’s book “Permanent Healing”. This contains descriptions that are generally closer to the way I like to think. It is also a bigger book than Louise Hay’s, containing more body parts and diseases to look through. It also has a lovely description of quantum mechanics of healing and a good introduction going into detail about the concepts I have discussed here and in other articles I have written.

There are larger books out there that I can’t remember the titles of but used to own, that go into even more detail. While they are very interesting, sometimes going into too much specificity means that you often loose the bigger picture overriding your particular issues…

Building a broader picture

As mentioned in the last article, try not to loose sight of the overall picture with yourself.

Individual body parts and their related mental/emotional/spiritual significances are very useful in helping you understand your situation, but we can often go into too much detail sorting out that one thing, when working on looking at the larger issue would actually be quicker at solving many things in one go.

For example, if you realise that all your aura issues, physical issues, relationship issues etc are a reflection of how much you are willing to be the person you truly wish to be and thus how much you truly love yourself and others, then paying attention to doing things that are loving of you and others would clear up a lot of issues more quickly than trying to focus on all the little aura inconsistencies or physical issues individually.

Individual body parts coming up in future articles…

I hope this has helped create a little bit more understanding of the reflection of the physical and beyond.

Seeing as I often have a different way of looking at body parts and their related non-physical effects than the aforementioned books, I will being writing my views on each organ over the coming months. The major organs at least.

I will be relating the physical function to the sorts of thoughts, emotions spiritual experiences and beliefs more than the above books. This should give you some other ways at looking at whatever current issue you may be going through.

You might prefer my description, Louise Hay’s, Daniel Condron’s or some other author’s description of each part. Or you might find reading from multiple sources gives a bigger picture.

Either way, everyone finds certain descriptions more understandable or useful than others, so like I’ve said many times, take what’s useful and discard the rest.

I will be writing over the coming weeks about the inter-relatedness of the physical body and the spiritual world and will be going over individual body part issues and what they might mean in the mental, emotional and spiritual realms.

First I feel it is important to highlight that everything effects everything. People often get too caught up in a particular symptomatic area (physically or not) and ignore the other areas that might be directly or indirectly influencing their problem.

As I’ve said in my “Learn Energy Healing” videos, whether you are a beginner or have many years of healing experience, working on all areas is often a better way of approaching things as you are less likely to miss something important that way.

In this article I will be speaking mostly of physical examples to get certain points across. Don’t worry, I’ll be expanding these points in future articles and videos to include the non-physical too.

The body is a unit

I remember when learning to become an osteopath that there were a set of principles on which all osteopathy was based. Unlike most osteopathic courses in modern times and in most countries, I was taught both classical and more modern forms (what they often call “functional osteopathy”) of osteopathy so I’m not sure if those principles are as well known or taught as much these days.

Regardless, there was an important principle, the first principle,  that simply stated “The body is a unit.”

Essentially this means that everything in the body is interrelated and so effects each other. Even distant or seemingly unrelated parts of the body have some impact on one another.

For example, while from most people’s points-of-view the foot might not seem to have anything much to do with how the spleen functions, a classical osteopath would certainly take the foot into account if there were spleen problems.

It could be that an external rotation at the ankle and pronation of the foot causes medial pressure on the knee making the knees come together, in turn making the thigh more internally rotated and adducted. Especially if this was on one side more than the other this could cause an imbalance in the pelvic bones such as an anteriorisation of the right innominate relative to the left as compensation to try and equal the functional leg length difference. This causes pressure in the sacro-iliac joints and there to be a compensatory side-bend in the lumbar spine and thus compensations all the way up the spine, potentially limiting full functionality of the nerve roots coming out of the thoracic spine that supply the spleen, and other organs affecting the spleen, not to mention physical asymmetric pressure on the other organs around and affecting the spleen due to cavity pressure changes.

That is only a brief glimpse into the complex relationships a foot misalignment can have on the spleen, and yes we could spend many hours talking about all the mechanics and interrelations that affect both areas if you really wanted to be detail oriented.

While this is a mechanical representation of everything affecting everything in the body the same goes for chemicals, nutrients, signalling molecules and body organs that all rely on each other. The heart for example relies on blood flow from the other blood vessels. It relies on the formation of blood and maintenance of the constituents of blood thus relies on the liver, spleen and kidneys for example. Also it relies on those nutrients getting to those organs and so the digestive systems, lymphatic system and the skeleton for picking up, biting, transporting and breaking down the food to be later made into blood constituents. Also the brain and nervous system to inform the body that it is hungry and to go find food. In turn those other organs also rely on the heart to pump blood around so that they too can do their jobs too otherwise they wouldn’t have to energy to do their jobs.

In the above examples, there is so much more that could influence the spleen or heart, including water, diet, sleep, posture, movement, emotional stresses, mental stresses, chemical stresses, spiritual stresses etc!

Much in the physical body is inter-related like this and of course outside forces also play a part. I will look at spiritual example in later articles.

Tensegrity

If my technical example was a bit too much to understand, think about a basic tent.

A tent is a very good example of what we call a tensegrous structure. In other words a tent is stronger than all the individual parts that make up the tent.

The tent poles, cords and fabrics each cannot stand up on their own, but when combined together, they form the tent, which can stand up.

All the parts of a tent affect each other if moved. If you move one of the tent poles, it will slacken one or more of the cords and also warp the shape of the fabric, with some sheets feeling taught in some directions and slack in others.

The same goes for if you were to misshapen one of the fabrics or pull or loosen one of the cords first – it will affect all the other structures of the tent in response.

Now if you think of the tent poles as bones, the cords as ligaments & tendons and the fabric as the fascia, skin and other connective tissues of the body, you might get a better idea of the example I gave above, and of how the physical body is also a tensegrous structure.

Compensation

A tent also provides a wonderful example of compensation. If you move a tent pole slightly and thus cause asymetrical stress on the fabrics and cords, the tent won’t necessarily fall down straight away.

In other words the individual parts are still able to support each other and be strong enough to keep the tent up.

You might be able to also loosen a couple of cords, tighten others and cut or further warp more of the fabric, and the tent will still be able to stand up.

Usually it takes either a big shift in one part or many, many small alterations before the tent will finally fall.

This ability to still stay functional as a tent despite lots of alterations is due to compensation. i.e. the individual parts are able to compensate for the lack of perfect alignment.

If we again think of the poles as like bones, cords like tendons and ligaments and the fabrics as the different connective tissues of the body, we can appreciate that the physical body, though more complex than a tent, is a brilliant example of something that has a lot of compensatory ability.

Many of you will see examples in your own life such as asymmetiric use of you hands and arms at work, yet not causing any pains due to the compensatory ability of the body.

You may also have different leg lengths, a low nutrient diet, emotional stresses, an old scar from an appendix being taken out and many other examples that put different strains on the body but not necessarily any symptoms or obvious problems in the body. This is because the body is able to take the strain due to compensation.

The inability to compensate any longer

If your body is already taking a lot of different strains/stresses on, it might only take just one more to cause the body to be unable to compensate any longer.

It is at this point that an injury, symptom or dis-ease starts to become apparent.

The injury, symptom or dis-ease will first happen in the weakest part of the body – the part that can no longer compensate or if you like, the part that is unable to take the extra pressure that has been applied to it.

Apart from those that have developed an awareness of their bodies (such as via the Goenka  style of vipassana), most people are unaware of most if not all of the contributing factors and thus blame the one, often small change, that tipped things over the edge into injury or dis-ease.

This could be having a knee injury and blaming stepping off a pavement awkwardly, rather than realising that poor foot-knee-pelvis alignment, lack of sleep, months of junk food and of course lack of attention in the moment, as some of many possible examples, were all contributing factors to that injury.

The same happens in the spiritual world. It is common for us healers to get someone coming to us complaining of an entity problem or of another person that harmed them energetically, and them be completely ignorant of their mind, way of thinking, beliefs of other people and the spiritual world, lack of spiritual practice, not paying attention to what they are asking of spirits and of course lack of looking after their physical vessel (via diet, sleep, rest, exercise, posture, chemical exposure etc) which reciprocally reflects into the spiritual world, and many other possible factors!

Of course there are situations where there really is only one factor at play such as a fit & healthy individual with very little need for compensation, getting hit by a truck and breaking bones, ligaments tendons and fascia all in one go. The majority of the time however there is more than one factor at play and it is important to look into if real solutions are desired.

Allopathic diagnoses and their problems

With the current way of thinking in our societies, all our focus will be on the painful/problematic area rather than all the other factors that contributed to the problem. A bit like saying “the problem is a broken tent pole” rather than acknowledging the fact that there has been asymmetric fabric and cord issues as well as other pole misalignents for quite some time before the one tent pole broke.

Many of you reading this will have already figured out that most of the established medicine out there is designed not to look at the whole picture and correct that to prevent/reduce further dis-ease or injury. Rather, they just to treat the symptoms or even worse, mask the symptoms, risk and create further complications and make a fair bit of money in the process!

I hope the understanding of this brief article helps you to appreciate the interrelatedness of the physical body and on how looking after all parts is a better way at solving problems and preventing future problems.

I will talk about the relationship to the mental, emotional & spiritual aspects more in the following articles.