Mental Causes of Various Diseases

The connection between soul and body was emphasized by Aristotle. Today, it is well-known: all diseases arise from a nervous basis. Three mental causes of diseases can be identified: lack of purpose and meaning in life, ignoring the laws of the Universe, and lack of self-love and negative thinking.

Mental Causes of Various Diseases

Explaining diseases at a mental level does not exclude their medical basis. Psychosomatic diseases are real, not imaginary, and therefore require comprehensive treatment: medication therapy and mental therapy for recovery from serious illness.

Let’s briefly consider the main mental causes of diseases: right and left side of the body, front and back, top and bottom.

Right Side

The right side of the body is responsible for feminine energy (regardless of gender). Any distortions on the right indicate problems in relationships with the mother. Let’s consider popular psychosomatic aspects:

• Underdeveloped side – problems in relationships with women (mother, sister, wife);
• Strongly developed side – strong feminine principle, spirit of motherhood;
• Drooping right shoulder, growths on it – lack of maternal love and acceptance, denial of your feelings;
• Hump on the right shoulder – feeling of guilt towards the mother (woman);
• Drooping right side of the pelvis – material or life difficulties of the mother (significant woman) weigh heavily on your soul.

Left Side

The left side is responsible for the masculine principle. Let’s look at psychosomatics in more detail:

• Strong left side – good relationships with the father (significant man);
• Any problems on the left, including weakness – unresolved conflicts with the father (husband, brother, etc.), unreleased grievances and stresses associated with him.

Each person has both feminine and masculine principles, internal images of mother and father. Sometimes these images and forces can contradict each other, resulting in pains on both sides of the body.

Front Side

The front of the body is responsible for feelings. Any problems on this side indicate suppressed emotions and accumulated negativity.

Back Side

The back of the body is responsible for will and reason. Problems with this part indicate that someone or something suppresses your energy, prevents you from reaching your goals and satisfying your needs. The spine is a symbol of support and life principles.

Top

The upper part of the body is responsible for moving forward, the future. Pain in the shoulders, head indicates fear of the future, inability to grow and develop. And throat pain is an indicator of the inability to express your opinion, which also hinders progress.

Bottom

The legs are responsible for the energy of the past and partly the future. What this means: pain in the lower extremities indicates fear and reluctance to move forward, which simultaneously evidences fixation on the past.

Interesting Fact! Our body and brain are connected by amazing logic. If you become more observant, you will understand psychosomatics faster. Remember how shoulders drop when we are upset or tired. Such deformation also occurs with chronic life fatigue. Or remember how we say “I’m sick of this”, “my head hurts because of you”, “my legs won’t go there”, etc. All the answers are initially within us.

People Most Susceptible to Psychosomatics

Psychosomatic illnesses arise against a background of stress. All people experience stress, some more, some less. Thus, everyone is susceptible to psychosomatics. However, certain personality traits can reduce stress resilience and place a person in a more vulnerable risk group.

These characteristics include:

• Introversion;
• Secretiveness;
• Inability to express emotions, including due to alexithymia;
• Inability to love (accept and express feelings);
• Anger;
• Irritability;
• Aggressiveness;
• Vengefulness;
• Touchiness;
• Grudge-holding;
• Pessimism;
• Negative thinking;
• Suspiciousness;
• Dependence on others’ opinions;
• Vulnerability;
• External locus of control;
• Need for total control;
• Jealousy;
• Greed;
• Envy;
• Anxiety;
• Underdeveloped sense of humor;
• Excessive demands, expectations;
• Dwelling on the past;
• Low self-esteem;
• Chronic guilt;
• Inferiority complex;
• Indecisiveness;
• Staying in the comfort zone;
• Fear of change.

People in the risk group constantly suppress their emotions and desires, live for others, fearing to upset or anger them, and work in unloved jobs. They are overly sensitive and hyper-responsible individuals who take everything personally and to heart. Often, they try to please everyone and be liked by all. They are set on destructive behavior, and negative thinking has become their habit. The common trait and root cause of such behavior is an unsatisfied need for love and acceptance.

Diseases and Their Psychological Premises

Illness is an indicator of the internal distress of a personality, the lack of harmony of a person with themselves and the world. It reflects accumulated negativity: fears, contradictions, complexes. Any health problems are the result of the behavior and thinking of the person themselves. We attract problems ourselves, and only we are responsible for our well-being and ill-being. Through diseases, the body tries to protect us from our own destructive thinking and lifestyle.

This is important! Disease is a cry for help. It’s a signal that a person needs to change their worldview, habits, behavior. Painkillers and other medications will not eliminate the cause, but only mask it, hiding it even deeper.

However, identifying the connection between a specific disease and a specific mental problem is more difficult. Firstly, each person has their own vulnerable system or organ. Secondly, the concept of stress is subjective: what becomes traumatic for one, for another, may only be a reason for jokes. Nevertheless, renowned psychosomatists over years of practice have managed to compile an extensive and detailed table of diseases and their possible causes.

Table of Correlations Between Somatic Illness and Psychological Premises

Suppressed emotions and feelings lead to diseases: fear, regret, self-pity, aggression, resentment, envy, and others. On the internet and in books on psychosomatics, you can find several tables of diseases and their causes, but the guides by Louise Hay and Lise Bourbeau are particularly in demand. Let’s discuss them in more detail.

Louise Hay’s Disease Table

In Louise Hay’s table, diseases are listed in alphabetical order, along with their causes and mental therapy for recovery from serious illness. We suggest acquainting yourself with the complete table of diseases by Louise Hay (our modified table based on the author’s theory):

As you may have noticed, the foundation of any healing is self-acceptance, self-love, belief in oneself, and the laws of the Universe. The original disease table can be found in Louise Hay’s book “Heal Your Body”.

What is Liz Bourbeau’s Disease Table?

Liz Bourbeau’s disease table is a list of diseases and their causes in alphabetical order. Each disease is considered from four perspectives:

1. Physical Blockage, or somatic manifestations of the ailment.
2. Emotional Blockage, or mental manifestations of the problem (emotional causes).
3. Mental Blockage, or thought correction.
4. Spiritual Blockage, or searching for the true cause and unmet need.

Let’s consider Liz Bourbeau’s theory using the example of sudden pain:

1. Physical Blockage. Sudden real physical pain occurs in any part of the body (without visible causes and prerequisites).
2. Emotional Blockage. This indicates a subconscious chronic feeling of guilt, a person’s inclination towards self-punishment. Pain is the most ancient, primitive, and accessible form of punishment. The desire may be related to what the person did, did not do, or intended to do. Often, the feeling of guilt is irrational. To find out which area of life causes the feeling of guilt, one should analyze the mental meaning of the part of the body where the pain occurred.
3. Mental Blockage. It is necessary to realize the irrationality of self-punishment. It does not relieve guilt, does not make life easier for the pain bearer or another person. It is a vicious circle. Guilt and pain will cease, the run will stop after acknowledging your rational share of responsibility. Usually, guilt is the result of suggestion and conviction. Who instilled this in you? Whose voice is heard? The voice of a mother, father, former friend? Change your value system, reconsider the situation, change your attitude towards yourself and the world.
4. Spiritual Blockage. To search and eliminate this block, it is necessary to understand the true cause and the main unmet need of the true Self. For this, you need to ask a series of questions from Liz Bourbeau. The fourth point is relevant for any disease (you need to ask a series of questions for self-analysis).

Questions to better understand the cause of psychosomatics:

1. What terms and definitions best characterize what I physically feel? The answer to this question shows the attitude towards the situation or person causing the problem.
2. What can I do because of the disease and what can’t I do? The answer helps to understand suppressed desires (what you want to get rid of and got rid of using the disease, what you want to do and get because of the disease).
3. If I realized the suppressed desires (from the previous point), how would my life change? The answer helps to understand the true need, blocked by imposed stereotypes and beliefs.
4. If I allowed satisfying the main need (previous answer), what terrible and unacceptable would happen in my life? The answer helps to find the main destructive attitude (prohibition, belief) that does not allow you to be yourself, love yourself, satisfy your needs and desires, self-realize. This belief is the true mental cause of physical problems.

You can find the complete table of diseases in Liz Bourbeau’s book “Your Body Says: Love Yourself!”. The table presents about five hundred different diseases and ailments.

How to Heal Yourself: Louise Hay’s Recommendations

Louise Hay suggests fighting the condition with affirmations. However, some people are skeptical about self-suggestion, and there are even those who assure based on personal experience: “It doesn’t work!”. Yes, affirmations will not help if a person does not believe in them and does not take other steps towards a happy life.

Imagine that you want to lose weight, found the corresponding affirmation, recite it several times a day, but at the same time lie on the sofa and consume ice cream, buns, candies. Will there be an effect from such self-suggestion? No. But if you make a diet plan, workouts, and thought correction, then mental therapy for healing from a serious illness will help maintain motivation and belief in yourself, achieve everything planned. And the Universe itself will start to help you, because thoughts are material. But for the world to help you, you must want to help yourself.

Louise Hay knows this, so she suggests reinforcing affirmations with other life correction methods:

1. Review of diet and eating habits. You’ve probably heard that you need to eat to live, not the other way around. But this principle alone is not enough, you need to choose individual nutrition. Right means useful and enjoyable specifically for you. For the selection of the optimal ratio and list of products, it is better to consult a dietitian.
2. Regular manageable physical activities. Among hundreds of sports, you will definitely find an activity to your liking. Start at least with regular walks, and gradually try something new. Do not focus on others, do not work to exhaustion, and do not force yourself to do what is supposedly effective but unpleasant for you specifically. You should enjoy the activities; otherwise, there will be no result.
3. Visualization, meditation. Try at least to dream. Maybe you don’t know, but dreams eventually turn into plans and reality. Imagining a desired future helps gather strength, find means to achieve this future. Retune your brain to the positive, teach it to focus attention on the good. Right now, think: what is the ratio in your life of joyful and anxious fantasizing. Don’t you imagine a bad development of events more often than a good one?
4. Psychotherapy and self-help. Not always a person can figure out problems on their own, especially when it comes to subconscious processes. Don’t be afraid to seek help. And at the same time, don’t forget to conduct self-analysis, apply simple methods of thought correction (exercises, training, psychologists’ recommendations). And, of course, it is important to be active in all senses: physically, intellectually, socially. Activity is necessary for both the body and the brain, plus it is an excellent means of prevention and stress relief. Chemical processes triggered during training and intellectual activity improve brain function, stimulate the production of happiness hormones, calm, improve mood, increase endurance, speed up metabolism. And activity in life allows you to continuously develop and self-realize.

Remember that you need to move only on the path of your development. Preserve individuality, respect your needs, abilities, features. Only under this condition, development will proceed quickly, pleasantly, and easily. Harmony with yourself is more important than anything else.

Important! Maintaining mental and physical health requires constant work on oneself. For a harmonious, happy, successful life, it is necessary to carry out daily prevention and correction. It is necessary to cleanse the mind of negativity and fill it with positivity.