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One way that emotional healing could possibly have real positive effects on symptoms is if the symptoms are remnants from a real disease that have passed. As a
by Lewton 7y ago
One way that emotional healing could possibly have real positive effects on symptoms is if the symptoms are remnants from a real disease that have passed.
As an analogy. When you’re stretching your muscles, you’re generally not actually elongating any part of your body, instead you’re teaching your nervous system that it’s safe to move your muscles in the range you’re stretching into.
Most people get to experience acute back pain in their life, and will notice how this can cause your entire back to freeze up, even well past the point of where the actual thing that caused the pain has been healed.
This is the nervous system protecting your back from hurting itself.
Making it a necessary part of rehabilitation to do stretches to show your body that the range of motion is safe again.
In the same kind of way, actively working on mentally overcoming symptoms that were your body’s reaction to real disease or trauma that has since passed, can have very real effects.
This could be in the form of meditation, therapy or even faith healing(!) [0]
[0] see derren brown talk about his experiences doing faith healing as a skeptic
https://youtu.be/CCzzaDwUuDk https://youtu.be/CCzzaDwUuDk time stamp 22 minutes 18 seconds
- jvln 7y agoThe analogy about muscle streching is wrong.
- SamBam 7y agoThere's a fair bit of evidence now than most of stretching is, indeed, actually about training the body not to reflexively contract to fight the stretch. > Due to neurological safeguards against injury such as the Golgi tendon reflex, it is normally impossible for adults to stretch most muscle groups to their fullest length without training due to the activation of muscle antagonists as the muscle reaches the limit of its normal range of motion. [1] > First, they end up mostly agreeing with a body of previous research suggesting that increased range of motion following a prolonged stretching program is mainly the result of increased tolerance to the sensation of stretching, rather than actually loosening the muscle-tendon unit. [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretching [2] https://www.runnersworld.com/health-injuries/a20811349/does-stretching-loosen-muscles-and-tendons/ https://www.runnersworld.com/health-injuries/a20811349/does-...
- thisismyswamp 7y agoI developed a chest/heartbeat reflex with my chest muscles after some intense anxiety/panic times. It made my heartbeat painful and very noticeable. I had to do a lot of exposure and conscious challenging of the reflex in order to remove the anxiety connected to the reflex. I had to show my body my heart wouldn't stop if I played around with my chest muscles. I still am working on this, but I am much better. I am impressed with how much my body went along with my initial impression that my heart was at risk, developing this very strong defensive reaction!