#8: How to find specific events underlying physical ailments.

Physical ailments require more thought

As we learned, discovering the specific events underlying emotional issues such as the fear of rejection, ongoing feelings of guilt, consistent resentments and all the others is relatively easy. Just search your past and list specific events where you felt rejected, guilty, resentful, etc.

But physical issues such as diseases or injuries do not readily relate to specific feelings of fear, guilt, anger and the like. Where emotional causes exist, finding them can be a challenge.

Two types of physical ailments:

Here they are:

Diseases (internally caused ailments). There are thousands of these in the medical books. From our point of view, their causes come mostly from unresolved emotional issues (our inside world), although diet and lifestyle habits can certainly contribute.
Injuries (externally caused ailments). These include accidents, bee stings, burns and other physical ailments which appear imposed upon us by the outside world.

Although there are some similarities in how these are addressed, I will treat them separately for better clarity.

1. Diseases (internally caused ailments):

The discovery process for specific events underlying diseases can be simple as asking this standard pair of questions:

“When did your symptoms first start?” followed by, “What emotional issues were present at or about that time?”

The answers might be something like:

“The symptoms started around age 13 when my parents were fighting and got a divorce. I felt guilty for the divorce and it still bothers me.”
“I felt completely abandoned when I was fired from my job 5 years ago. The symptoms began a few months later.”
“I first noticed the symptoms at about the time my girl friend of 12 years dumped me. It left a big love void in me.”
“The symptoms started in the middle of my tour of duty in the war when I felt so guilty for the things I had to do.”
“My sister stole my husband and, within a year, I could feel the symptoms. I will never get over that resentment.”

Within these answers are strong clues as to major causes of the diseases involved. Identifying a few specific events related to the emotional issues and resolving them with The Unseen Therapist may well do the job.

Simple questions can probe for underlying issues.

If the above pair of questions doesn’t bring appropriate relief, then try these alternate ones:

“If there were other emotional contributors to this ailment, what might they be?”
“Who or what have you never forgiven?”
“Who or what do you blame for your ailment or for your position in life?”
“What is your biggest guilt issue that you never told anyone?”
“What is your biggest fear?”

These questions, and many more like them, are designed to probe for emotional issues underlying the disease and they are likely to bring up causes that have been forgotten, repressed or hidden. The answers can point you to important specific events that contribute to the ailment and that can be put “on the table” for the eventual resolution by The Unseen Therapist.

But sometimes the emotional causes are the result of:

A web of specific events that intertwine over a complexity of related issues.
Generalized beliefs such as, “I deserve this disease.”
Benefits that the disease brings such as love, attention, no more responsibilities, don’t have to work, etc.
Specific events that come from infancy, past lives or repressed/hidden/forgotten memories.
Other issues that are beyond our ability to recognize.

In such cases you can usually use the “Personal Peace Procedure on a List of Specific Events” as described in my introductory book, The Unseen Therapist. As you recall, this advises you to list your bothersome specific events without any reference to particular diseases/ailments. You then perform the Personal Peace Procedure on each of those events. I know you have done this before but now you can do them more thoroughly because you have learned about aspects from a previous lesson. Even though these listed specific events are not necessarily directly connected to your issue, their variety is likely to bring relief to at least some of these more elusive problems.

Beyond that, this is where artistry comes in. While the earlier material in this lesson provides relief in most cases, these latter items require more skill. In future lessons you will learn about “Reframing – the ultimate art.” and “Asking The Unseen Therapist for hidden issues.” These advanced skills will take you a long way toward resolving even the most complex issues.

2. Injuries (externally caused ailments):

In these ailments, where no emotionally related cause seems apparent, we can usually get results by aiming The Personal Procedure at the symptom (bee sting, burn, pain, damaged body part, etc.). This will often substantially accelerate the time it takes for the healing process, perhaps by 50% or more. Depending on the severity of the injury, It may take more than one round with The Unseen Therapist and, in some cases, it may be useful to repeat it daily.

Sometimes, though, there can be emotional causes that thwart or slow down the normal healing. Your clue here is when aiming at the symptom doesn’t do much.

Example: A basketball player sprained his ankle. He came to me two or three weeks later because it was still swollen (even though it should have normally healed in less than one week). Aiming at the symptom did nothing and so I probed for emotional issues (as in the above examples) and discovered that his girl friend had recently dumped him. We resolved his heavy emotion over that and the sprain healed shortly thereafter.

So, for injuries that seem to be non-emotionally caused, try aiming at the symptoms first. If that doesn’t bring relief then probe for emotional issues that may be inhibiting the healing. Once found, resolve the emotional issues using the tools you have been learning.

Questions and Exercises

Why do physical ailments require more thought than emotional ailments?
What are the two types of physical ailments?
Why is one type labeled internal while the other is labeled external?
What is the standard pair of questions you might ask?
Five possible answers are given. Create 3 more.
What are the five alternate questions you can ask?
Create 3 more.
When would you use “The Personal Peace Procedure on a List of Specific Events?”
Where do you usually aim The Personal Peace Procedure for injuries?
When do you aim at emotional issues for injuries?
Build a set of questions or requests that you might pose for these physical ailments. Then give examples of possible specific events that might underlie each ailment.
“I’ve had migraine headaches for decades.”
“I have disease X”
“I have a breathing disorder that puzzles my doctors.”
Now build a set of questions for your own physical ailments.

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Possibilities