Guilt, Sickness, & Healing (Turmeric (curcumin)....

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Chinese Traditional Medicine , marcos <ishk18> wrote:

>

> Belief systems are more than half the problem or the solution in

> many cases; see Andrea Yates, she was influenced by an extremist

> 'christian' teaching that " bad mothers go to hell and thair bad

> children will follow them " (eve's falt), and she confessed she

> killed her five children because,(in her deliriums) she was being

> a bad mother and they where 'going wrong'. Now, i don't think

> there has ever been in human history a worse, meaner and falser

> lie than this story of " original sin " .

> People get sick or well according to what they believe. " Mind

> over Matter " . If the patient has empathy and trusts the

> healer/doctor, it is half the battle! (at the least he will

> follow prescriptions).

> If we believe we are basically sick(or sinful), all the worse for

> us. If we believe we are basically healthy, good for us then!

> In the Taoist view of health, Harmony is the Golden Rule.

 

Sometimes guilt will play a role in sickness and a role in

preventing healing. I'm not talking about legitimate pangs of

conscience which people should feel so they stop doing wrong things

that are hurtful to themselves as well as to others. I'm talking

about the kind of artificial guilt that some not very nice, power-

mad, control-freak people condition into their victims in order to

destroy them and rob them of normal and healthy independence.

 

If it's normal, healthy pangs of conscience, the bad feelings will

be associated ONLY with something specific that the person really

has done or failed to do as the case may be. Also, the person will

know the bad feelings are due to something specific that the person

has done or failed to do and needs to change and possibly make

restitution for. (These are general remarks; there are exceptions.)

 

In the case of conditioned, artificial guilt, the person feels

undeserving of anything good, and that includes healing. Every time

something good happens to the person, the person automatically

feels " I don't deserve this " . The actual thought " I don't deserve

this goodness " may even intrude into the person's thoughts. This is

a conditioned response - like Pavlov's dogs automatically salivating

at the sound of a bell. It's something that some not very nice

people - abusers and exploiters - do to their victims by constantly

belittling them, making fun of them, telling them that they are

totally bad, etc.

 

I don't know how TCM deals with situations in which guilt is

blocking healing. (And blocking the person's enjoyment of life.) I

do know that trying to suppress the feeling and insisting that one

shouldn't feel that way not only does not work, it can increase the

feelings of worthlessness. What sometimes works (partially) is to

allow oneself to feel the feeling instead of blocking it and

asking, " Why am I feeling this? " The person often will realize by

consciously rememberomg the abuser/ exploiter conditioning these

feelings into the person.

 

Knowing why one has the artificial guilt is only part of the

solution. For some people, recognizing that the guilt is artificial

and was conditioned into them is then followed up by prayers for

help in setting aside this negative conditioning. Other people

require something stronger. Some sort of psycho-drama that involves

cleansing images. For example, a ritual bath or baptism or

sprinkling of water by a priet/ess. These healing techniques are not

limited to Christianity but are found in religions from around the

world. For example, Huna makes even more use of images and healing

techniques like this than Christianity does. And explains why they

work. Even people who are agnostic or atheist can benefit from

psycho-drama.

 

Sometimes having some legitimate reasons to feel guilty and change

some things overlaps with artificial guilt. These cases can be

particularly hard to treat, especially if they have progressed

beyond a certain point. There are few things more soul-destroying

than repeatedly ignoring others' suffering and making " deals with

devils " that cause others to suffer. For example, the non-abusive

parent that makes a deal with the abusive parent (the " devil " ) that

she or he will ignore what the abuser is doing to the child as long

as the abuser isn't abusing the enabler while abusing the child.

 

Sometimes the enabling parent is someone who has already been

conditioned with artificial guilt by her or his abusive parent. In

these cases, the legitimate guilt of not protecting the child is

then added on top of the artificial guilt, making the person feel

even more worthless. Sometimes the person just doesn't care about

the child (or anyone else).

 

In cases where legitimate guilt is added on top of artificial guilt,

if the person does not take steps to break the cycle - by finding

the strength and courage to do what is correct in the case of the

legitimate guilt and to confront and neutralize the artificial

guilt - eventually the person gets to a point where s/he feels s/he

is totally beyond redemption and forgiveness, and wants only

annihilation. Obviously such a person more than likely will refuse

offers of healing help.

 

Keep in mind that this psycho-spiritual deterioration isn't

happening in a vacuum. At the same time that the psyche and spirit

is deteriorating, the physical also is deteriorating. The physical

health problems make it more difficult for the person to deal with

the psycho-spiritual aspects of healing. Patients/ clients should

never be fobbed off with " it's psychological " or " it's spiritual " .

In some cases a psychologist and/or spiritual healer may need to be

called in, but the healer needs to treat imbalances via physical

means. Very often, when a person gets some physical relief (it

doesn't have to be complete at first - just some physical relief),

the person is more likely to benefit from counseling. A person who

is no longer in servere physical pain or as physically weak as the

person once was is going to feel more like tackling psycho-spiritual

issues than the person who has not gotten physical help.