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Ulcerative Colitis-a Psychosomatic Disease.

What is at the root of this condition -and presumably similar conditions- is a particular attitude, a particular subconscious ‘negative’ belief resulting from infant or childhood trauma.

The following insights come from personal experience of the condition, and its complete cure.  Not, as no doubt some would like to believe, merely a temporary cure or ‘remission’.

Unresolved trauma, un-integrated psychic pain and associated negative beliefs or ‘programs’ are a major cause of physical (also emotional and mental) disease in human beings.

What is meant by these terms, and what is the evidence ?

Trauma is basically something that hurts, physically or emotionally.  A physical injury, unless of major proportions, is soon healed in a healthy individual.  Psychological trauma-a painful emotional experience- is also resolved sooner or later in a healthy adult. A fully ‘aware’ adult is actually not that susceptible to emotional pain, but that is another subject.

With infants and children it is different.  At that age we are psychologically ‘open’ or undefended, and we are very easily hurt, especially emotionally.  These are psychic pains which do not go away, though they can be repressed -put on hold for the time being- until they can be come to terms with or ‘integrated’, many years later.  By the time we become supposed adults we have become inured to family, to society and to the world as it is now by building up individual psychic (ego-) defence systems.Injury leads to inury, or a hardening around the self, with consequent deadening or insensitivity, both to one’s own stored primal pain and to that of others.

A negative belief is one that does not serve its owner well, and is generally false or untrue.  Such beliefs arise from traumatic experience and may be regarded as ‘programs’ in our mind or brain: they were a coping mechanism at the time.  For example, the common ones of “life is hard”, or (aimed at oneself and others) “idiot!”

So the inevitable (because we were ourselves so treated) insensitive treatment of our children, ranging from a fleeting parental frown to outright physical abuse, has a tremendous effect on them. An infant or child is simply unable to deal with particular traumatic experience: it is too much to handle at that age; the pain is too overpowering to feel fully, so it is stored as emotional energy in the subconscious mind or psyche in accordance with the law of conservation of energy.

I use the terms ‘psyche’ and ‘mind’ loosely because there is no proper definition of either in our present understanding.  I regard the psyche as our being; our total self.  In the original Greek it means the soul.  The psyche includes the mind and spirit.  The mind may be categorised as conscious; sub-conscious; cellular memory and super-conscious.  Sleep is simply being unconscious; not in the body but elsewhere, albeit still connected.

Where is the mind and how can energy be stored in it?   The mind as I understand it is independent (hence astral travel as experienced by the author) but permeates every cell of the body (e.g. cellular memory) and affects the acupuncture meridian system: it is not restricted to the brain or other parts of the nervous system, though conscious thought does appear to emanate from the temporal lobes and out through the skull as electro-magnetic energy.  The mind is evidently a quantum level multi- or supra-dimensional energy phenomenon, and one that is to all intents and purposes immortal.

The acupuncture meridian system is like 14 electrical circuits in the body which connect  all organs to the 7 main chakras, which are designed (yes this is teleological) to metabolise Universal energy (life-force): Man as energetic link between heaven and earth through the crown chakra in particular, the gateway of inspiration. Do you recall “Man does not live by bread alone”? Matthew 4:4.

Emotions (energy in motion) run along the ‘wires’-stemming from positive or negative attitudes. Connective tissue appears to be the physical location of these wires, if indeed there is a physical location.

Each meridian and organ relates to a specific attitude or emotion-for example the heart meridian carries anger or love and forgiveness, the stomach meridian disgust or contentment.  Positive attitudes lead to good health, negative to disease.  Note that authorities differ in points of detail: some say the liver is the seat of anger.

The mind and what is believed and so thought, comes first and leads in turn to a particular emotional flow in particular meridians which then affects particular organs, or even particular tissues and cells.  The difficulty is that what is thought may be subconscious rather than conscious, and is not easily admitted to.  In other words a subconscious program may be running.

So negative emotional energy (sadness; grief; guilt; anger; hatred; frustration etc.) can run in the acupuncture meridians: an excess of it resulting from childhood trauma or a series of such events is stored as a pool of what acupuncturists call ‘stagnant’ energy and what Spiritual healers may see as dark energy.  Such an excess blocks a particular meridian so that positive (life)-energy does not flow to the particular organ or tissue, leading to a sort of energetic gangrene, and finally to tissue changes on a physical level.  This process underlines the importance of positive thoughts.

There is another determinant of the final physical outcome, however.  This is the specific negative belief associated with the repressed emotions, which has arisen as a direct result of the original trauma.  For example, a difficult birth may result in an unconscious belief that ‘No-one helps me’.  Even before language is learnt, something in the psyche or in the mind has adopted a belief.  There is always a specific belief.  The disease literally is the original injury or insult and is symbolic of it because the subconscious mind works with pictures or symbols in the absence of language, and disease reflects a subconscious belief, a subconscious program.

What is the origin of such harmful emotional energy: does a child or an infant originate it?  Clearly this is not the case, given that it is ‘too much to handle’.  In my experience this energy runs in families -it comes through one or both parents, and is what has been expressed at or to the child.  When a parent expresses anger or frustration or disapproval or any of the legion combinations of such emotions and focuses these feelings on a child, there is an energy transfer. Medical science confuses family attitudes or ‘miasms’ with DNA; but all is inherited.

However, no one is to blame, in the sense that the parent was so affected in his or her childhood in exactly the same way: it is part of the current human condition, at least in Western society, and very few escape it.  The Bible refers to 4 generations in this context.  Many scientists, ‘intellectuals’, or ‘Spiritual’ (i.e. ungrounded) people were especially affected, it seems.  Of course there is societal conditioning too, especially in schools.

I repeat: others should not be blamed; even though responsible, and even though forgiveness is necessary.  We also have responsibility, and there are no ‘guilty parties’.  It is worth realising that in most cases our parents and teachers treated us somewhat better than they were themselves treated as children (hence the 4 generations rule).

The above is a generalised and simplified description of the cause of psychosomatic disease in human beings.  It is basically of infant or childhood conditioning or programming in an atmosphere of charged emotions.  The emotions are the carrier of the program, the hammer for the nail in the lid of the box, so to speak.

In the case of ulcerative colitis, the basic emotional content appears to be GUILT and ANGER.  The belief is “I am screwed up”.  The symbolic version of this belief is, for a male, being sodomised, but variations are also possible, e.g. a dream or ‘recovered memory’ involving a parent assaulting one with a screwdriver.

Guilt is significant because it is the negative emotion specific to the large intestine meridian.  The positive emotion here would be one of self-worth.  Note that feeling guilty is not the same as being guilty.  Low self-esteem, an inferiority complex, can also be part of the problem (but all this is denied consciously of course).

Many cases of ulcerative colitis begin with proctitis: the condition progresses upwards, in line with the symbology (“I am screwed up”-remember?).  Anger is by some authors related to the heart meridian, but is expressed symbolically and physically as inflammation or bleeding.  Generally speaking the sufferer is not conscious of these internal emotional states and may even deny them, as discovered by Freud.  The body reflects its owner precisely, however.

A female who was ‘screwed up’ psychologically by her father in terms of her sexual development (i.e. given inadequate or false beliefs) can have a recovered memory of being sexually assaulted with a screwdriver.  It was most likely not so.  It is just the only way the subconscious can communicate what happened.  And an electric drill is symbolic of being drilled in, i.e. taught, certain things as a child.  Supposed experts without the requisite understanding made too much of such a case in Western Australia some years ago.

Needless to say we have all been traumatised to a greater or lesser degree by the time we become ‘adult’.  Most really do not become adult, because parts of the psyche remain at the age of the particular traumas-so part of us will be 6 years old or whatever for the rest of our life in this world unless there is a resolution, a healing.

I had ulcerative colitis for 20 years: my cure was achieved through catharsis (emotional expression) in the supportive environment of a weekend personal development course.  All symptoms disappeared within a few days of that catharsis, when I realised I had ‘done it to myself’.  Months later a dream of being sodomised in a classroom setting -with other pupils present- eventuated, which merely confirmed in symbolic form that I had been ‘screwed up’ psychologically by my teacher in primary school, who happened also to be my father.  A great deal of pressure to perform academically, coupled with non-acceptance and non-approval of me just as I was. I was -and am- not perfect.

I do not recommend catharsis (although it may suit some): there is a less sudden technique now available in which the psyche is de-energised over a period of 2 or 3 weeks.  The technique is contained in the ‘Cutting the Ties that Bind’ psychotherapeutic methodology.

The large intestine meridian can be rebalanced by affirming “I am basically clean and good.  I am worthy of being loved” regularly -with feeling!  Negative beliefs can be transformed by a behavioural biokinesiology technique e.g. the Three in One Concepts Inc. methodology (based at Burbank, California) which I have used as a therapist. Thought field therapy may work; hypnotherapy can be effective, gestalt therapy can work, as can neuro-linguistic programming.

Actually, anything works when a person is ready to let go.  Spiritual healing has worked (but first find an authentic Spiritual healer: such a one generally does not charge). Scientology (Dianetics) also describes a valid method, despite the author’s inflated ego.  Flower essences or herbs (specific to the emotion of guilt or the state of repression) also have a part to play.

It is a question of revealing and transforming the responsible sub-conscious program: the ‘mental hygiene’ apparently recommended by  C.G.Jung but it seems followed by very few since.

Understanding and forgiveness transform anger and self-hatred into love.  Diseases are spiritual lessons; they can also be karmic.  All disease is of the mind, directly or indirectly.  Sometimes very indirectly, involving past lives, but that linkage always exists: the US psychic Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) said a lot on this.

 

Practical advice.

1. Accept 100% responsibility for your disease: you did it to you: you can undo it for you. As a human being you are not merely a machine but have unique abilities, not guessed at by Western medicine and not told to you by most religions.
2. Continue the medication for as long as it is needed, if your condition is acute: but then get off all drugs as soon as possible: all as advised by your GP.
3. Check out all food allergies or intolerances: kinesiologists and others can do this for you.
4. Restore your gut flora (sulfasalazine is antibiotic, as a ‘sulfa’ drug) with acidophilus complex or ‘natural’ yoghurt, or you may be missing out on specific ‘B’ vitamins.
5. Change your doctor if his/her mind is closed to the above mental/emotional paradigm -in many cases it will be, because many doctors have a reservoir of repressed emotional material too.
6. Avoid all abrasive foodstuffs, e.g., oats, desiccated coconut, ‘grain’ breads, parsley, – wholemeal is fine but ‘wholegrain’ is harmful to a recovering gut lining.
7. STOP high-impact sports such as jogging until you are better (it will take some months for full recovery); walk for no more than 20 minutes a day. Swimming is less problematic.
8. If an infant or child is involved; consider the possibility that children (and pets too) can take on their parents or owner’s unconscious emotional states: they have no defences against same.
9. In my experience existing support groups for people with various disease states can in practice be support groups for the particular disease! They tend to affirm continued existence of the disease; they are resistant to ‘complementary’ methodologies or paradigms, and we even see individuals competing for sympathy by being the most disaffected.  Presidents of such groups can have a vested interest in maintaining the group, thus hindering rather than helping (albeit unconsciously).
10. Beware (!!) of others, especially in your family, trying to lay guilt upon you again as you heal yourself -this can happen and can delay your healing if you allow it. Emotional detachment from or avoidance of such people may be necessary.

References

1. ‘Cutting the Ties that Bind’, Phyllis Krystal, 1993, Samuel Weiser Inc.
2. ‘Life Energy’ John Diamond M.D.,1990, Paragon House.
3. Three in One Concepts material: Daniel Whiteside, 1985 et seq.
4. ‘Love Your Disease’: John Harrison M.D., 1990, Hay House Inc.
5. ‘The Feeling Child’: Arthur Janov M.D., 1977, Abacus.
6. ‘The Power is Within You’: Louise Hay, 1991.
7. Franz Alexander (1891-1964) -the father of psychosomatic medicine.

 

I chose to be free of my childhood conditioning, in order to be in a position to best help my own child, the first person who loved me unconditionally. You can do the same by accepting help from others (eventually avoiding most medical practitioners, including specialists) as I did.  Note that you will have to swim against the stream of what most people believe, and that the paradigm described above is inevitably a considerable threat to the psychology of many individuals, including some medical doctors.  The choice is always yours, however.

 

David Collier B.Sc. Biology, B.Sc. Psychology, B.A. Sustainability, D.C.H., sometime M.IASK, Reiki II, CSIRO alumnus, University of London alumnus, University of Canberra alumnus.  dc888@tpg.com.au.  Mob. 0407102660

revised August 2020