The Emotional Basis of Disease

James H. Schrenker, M.D., Medical Director, Integrated Health Concepts, LLC

Our clinic is based upon an original idea my sister, Catherine Poole, and I hypothesized years ago. The idea that diseases are placed in our lives to teach us life lessons is the key to healing by understanding the lesson behind a specific dis-ease. Traditional medical treatment based in pharmacology and allopathic medicine is founded on symptom control. True healing from a holistic perspective comes from changing the individual, not medicating them. I have kept data and researched this idea to the point I felt comfortable opening this clinic. The following articles will help you understand this approach.

To begin, we must understand that we are not as solid as we think; we are energetic beings. An atom is 94.7% empty space and that empty space is an electromagnetic field. Your body is made up of atoms that form elements. Elements form molecules that form proteins... that form organs and eventually YOU! You are 94.7% electromagnetic field - that is a fact.

We are energetic, spiritual beings having a human experience. We are here by choice - God's and ours. We are co-creators of our existence. We are here to learn in this classroom called Earth. We learn and teach daily lessons of truth, faith, hope, choice (intent and consequence) and love, to name but a few. These lessons progress our soul toward understanding unconditional love.

Have you ever stopped to think where disease and illness fit in spiritually? Why do we suffer with disease and loss? Why doesn't God give us peace and health? The answer isn't romantic or complex. It is simple - LOVE. God has lovingly given us the gift of freewill and we can choose any direction we desire to take our lives. As we wander away from our highest path, that path we chose to learn from prior to our incarnation, we set obstacles in our way to direct us back - back toward God.

Those obstacles, or opportunities as they should be referred to, allow us to rediscover our chosen path. Those opportunities can be new jobs, new relationships, or new attitudes. These "obstacles of opportunity" may take the form of being fired, getting a divorce, having an accident, anything that forces you to examine the "why me" in your life. Other opportunities can involve your health. When you fail to heed the subtle messages directing you to your opportunities, you begin to manifest the lessons personally in your body. Dis-ease will begin as a thought or attitude, then if neglected will become intermittent and/or reversible health issues (or lessons). Eventually they will manifest as significant (seemingly) incurable conditions.

That is the foundation for the hypothesis of the energetics of dis-ease. From there I have used 12 years of clinical experience in traditional medicine and two years in holistic medicine to substantiate this theory. At the clinic, we have used some of the pioneering work done by Louise Hay, Deepak Chopra, M.D., Carolyn Myss, Dr. C. Norman Shealy, and Wayne Dyer to link spirituality, thought, and physical disease; the mind-body-spirit connection. At Integrated Health Concepts we have collected data on the links between physical disease and the energetic problems of individuals. We have been one of the first to show a direct link from a spiritual (energetic) path to a physical lesson. We have also shown that correcting the energetic disturbance leads to health and resolution of physical problems.

In a sense we have taken what is often defined as "mystical" and backed it up with substantial data, and what is to follow is the reason why this approach works. I will discuss pitfalls and successes and introduce a formula that can help you to discover why and how any physical ailment (lesson) has manifested regardless of your medical background.

Understanding Energetics

We view our bodies as being made up of tissue, bones, and water. If we take a closer scientific look at the body, we will discover that one cell has billions of atoms swirling within it. If you remember, the body is made up of atoms that form elements and an atom is 94.7% empty space; that empty space is an electromagnetic field. The universe itself is spinning wheels of energy. Everything you see is composed of swirling wheels of energy, and even the earth itself spins. Images of galaxies, the earth orbiting, Doppler radar showing a hurricane, the rotating power of a tornado are all based on swirling energy.

Our bodies embrace many swirling centers of energy. In fact wherever there is a joint, wherever there is friction, there is an energy center. Our energetic system is also referred to as the auric system and contains portals where energy enters and exits. The auric system is just as valid a system as the cardiovascular or nervous system, just less understood. As your energy field becomes denser it becomes more "physical". At its most dense, consider it your physical body.

Although there are many "friction points" (energy centers) we do have seven stronger and therefore more significant wheel-like energy centers known as chakras. Chakras are cores of consciousness that process our emotions; they are the true integrators of the mind, body, and spirit connection. Each chakra reflects certain characteristics that are present within our life. As a medical intuitive, I can look at the energetic system; and when combined with my training as a family practice physician, a medical doctor, I can see you are a direct result of energy restored and energy leaked. When I look at the body system, the chakras, and the corresponding lessons associated with that chakra, I can begin to determine who or what is affecting you in an adverse manner. Together you and I can identify your lessons.

As mentioned earlier, we are energetic beings - not only physical. We are here to know love. As we evolve during our lifetime, we are faced with many different lessons about love; sometimes we teach and at other times we learn. Our energy never dies; it merely loses the confines of our physical body. The lesson itself is energetic, it is not something physical we can see or touch. As these lessons are experienced they influence our energy, ourselves. This influence forces a demonstrable shift in our energy and therefore must cause a change in our being. These changes, when significant enough, will cause a change in our physical structure.

THOUGHTS CREATE! Or as Einstein put it E=MC². As these lessons are integrated into our energetic structure they affect it. Their effect is both positive and negative, but from a spiritual standpoint it is all good. Because if something "bad" is manifested, it is only to promote change in order to improve our qualities and move us closer to God! So diseases are really dis-eases and problems are merely lessons and opportunities. And everything does work out for the best, as it eventually brings us closer to knowing love and closer to God.

As the energy lesson interacts with our energy field it first contacts our outer auric fields. This is where life gently nudges you to change your approach, your thoughts and attitudes. This is where you may be thinking of a certain situation and that very situation will present itself in several different ways consistently and in a row. Repetitive thought, happenstance... this is where changing a potentially problematic lesson is as simple as changing your thoughts/attitudes toward it.

For example, the diabetic is learning to honor his self. If the lesson is that you matter, that you are a special spiritual being who deserves to be loved, then in the early stages of this lesson you may have self-doubt. You may have repetitive thoughts of: I can't do this, I'm not smart enough, I don't deserve this.... As the lesson advances without your understanding your worth, situations may present themselves to question your worth. "You don't deserve that", "you're dumb", or people may treat you as if you don't deserve it. Again if you choose not to stand up for yourself and claim your divine right, life will continue to give you what you're asking for - disrespect, being overlooked, put down in your job, home, etc. What all these situations are doing is giving you opportunity after opportunity to claim your divine purity. And until you do, the universe will continue to teach the lesson.

As time progresses and this lesson (opportunity) has been presented and re-presented and you fail to see the teaching by refusing to see the other perspective, refusing to change, are slow to change, or haven't made the connection between the lesson and love, the energy makes its way through the auric fields. When it is still outside the dense field of the physical body yet not in the outer auric fields, it manifests as psycho-motor agitation, depression, and anxiety; i.e., real and identifiable psychiatric manifestations. When ignored or unnoticed, a lesson here forces individuals not only to change their attitudes, thoughts, and approach, but also forces them to change relationships.

There have been volumes written on the connection between psychiatric illnesses and physical disease. When you stop and understand what actually has been discovered, it is chilling. Depression increases heart disease. Depression increases complications from surgery. Depression increases death! ...Just to name a few. Think about it - science has proven that THOUGHTS CREATE physical illness! We already knew positive thoughts create abundance; Tony Robbins created an empire built upon this concept.

As you can surmise then, ignoring or avoiding the lesson produces more physical symptoms. Physical symptoms and reversible dis-ease states are begin to appear. The energy from the lesson begins to drain energy from the chakras. Remember, the chakras are portals where energy is exchanged in and out of our physical bodies; and so at this point, not getting the lesson will cost our physical bodies some energy.

As we take longer and longer to understand this lesson and the ultimate love behind it, our bodies are drained of the vital energy. As we leak or give our energy to a situation, this decreases our body's strength in a certain area. Certain lessons drain energy from certain chakras and the chakras are associated with specific organs. Now you can see how a certain lesson that ultimately is teaching love is correlated with a specific organ.

The lesson can become even clearer by understanding the function of the organ and where it is located in the body. By knowing what an organ does and where it is located you can drill down more specifically on your lesson. Remember, the lesson is uniquely yours. Generalities exist but the circumstances and people involved are specific to what you need to learn.

What a concept! Physical dis-ease is placed or chosen in order for us to be better people. This changes the entire paradigm of medicine. Now the symptoms we are having are not to be silenced with medicine but rather listened to and learned from. At the point of understanding, the symptoms will lessen or resolve. How many times have symptoms that have been pervasive in our lives just left? How many times have things just started to get better without medical intervention? Looking back at these times of healing, what actually changed? It was our thoughts, attitudes, and actions.

"Doctor it hurts when I do this." "...So don't do that!" An old cliche, or profound advice? Think about it. When I ignore my needs and put others' needs before mine I begin to gain weight in my midsection, feel tired, and begin to resent. When I try to control people around me my blood pressure goes up, I become distracted and agitated, I feel tired and worn out. When I hold onto anger and resentment my low back aches, I feel sore and hurt all over, I feel tired, and fatigued. When you are less than perfect, ask yourself why? Then listen. What is it you need to do to correct the problem? We may not know the specifics immediately, but we know it begins and ends with LOVE!

Healing physical disease therefore takes more than just surgery, radiation, or pills. It takes the same changes we have mentioned throughout: changes in thought, attitudes, and interaction. Paramount to this is understanding the spiritual lesson behind it all.

(This article is from our 4th Qtr 2006 Newsletter)

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