Doctors have pondered the connection between our mental and physical health for centuries. Until the 1800s, most believed that emotions were linked to disease and advised patients to visit spas or seaside resorts when they were ill. Gradually emotions lost favor as other causes of illness, such as bacteria or toxins, emerged, and new treatments such as antibiotics cured illness after illness.

More recently, scientists have speculated that even behavioral disorders, such as autism, have a biological basis. At the same time, they have been rediscovering the links between stress and health. Today, we accept that there is a powerful mind-body connection through which emotional, mental, social, spiritual, and behavioral factors can directly affect our health.

Mind-body medicine focuses on treatments that may promote health, including relaxation, hypnosis, visual imagery, meditation, yoga, and biofeedback.

Over the past 20 years, mind-body medicine has provided evidence that psychological factors can play a major role in such illnesses as heart disease, and that mind-body techniques can aid in their treatment. Clinical trials have indicated mind-body therapies to be helpful in managing arthritis and other chronic pain conditions. There is also evidence they can help to improve psychological functioning and quality of life, and may help to ease symptoms of disease.

Here are a few possible conections which are thought prvoking :

• Acne: Refusing to like and accept yourself as you are
• Addictions: Lack of self-love and avoiding to face your own fears
• Aids: Guilt related to sex and/or sexuality
• Alcoholism: Inability to accept yourself and/or your circumstances
• Allergies: You or someone else is getting in between you and your own self power
• Alzheimer's Disease: Refusing to live in your own shoes
• Anorexia: Afraid of being rejected and lack of self-love
• Anxiety: Refusing to live in the present
• Arthritis: Lack of self-love and self-acceptance
• Back Pain (Upper): Yearning for understanding
• Back Pain (Middle): Overpowered by guilt
• Back Pain (Lower): Financially unstable
• Baldness: Lack of trust in life / wanting to control every single aspect of your life
• Blackheads: Anger outbursts
• Blood Pressure (Low): Embracing a negative attitude to life
• Blood Pressure (High): Accumulation of emotional problems
• Bone Problems: Rebellion towards authority
• Bowel Irregularities: Not wanting to let go and/or feeling stuck in a particular situation
• Breast Problems (Left): Refusing to taking care and loving yourself
• Breast Problems (Right): Over-protection and inability to love someone
• Breathing Issues: Feeling unable to handle life
• Bronchitis: Bad family environment
• Bruises: A punishing attitude to oneself
• Bulimia: Hating oneself
• Burns: Unbearable anger
• Cancer: Extreme hurt and/or grief related to past experienced issues
• Cholesterol: Inability to experience joy in life
• Circulation (Blood): Feeling stuck and/or lacking ideas and positive emotions
• Colds: Unable to handle too many things and/or issues
• Cough: Feeling a deep need to make a point
• Depression: Feeling hopeless
• Diabetes: Yearning for something which is no more in your life
• Diarrhea: Running away from someone and/or something
• Dizziness: Being ungrounded and/or lack of focus
• Ear Issues: Unwilling to hear
• Elbow Issues: Not wanting to accept recent changes
• Eye Cataracts: Unable to look eagerly towards the future
• Eye Issues in Children: Closing their eyes to current family problems
• Fainting: Not wanting to cope with current situation
• Feet Issues: Not wanting to move forward
• Feminine Issues: Conflict with feminine aspects of yourself
• Fever: Anger
• Fibroids: Feminine ego being hurt by partner
• Finger Issues (Thumb): Feeling controlled and/or always worrying
• Finger Issues (Index): Going against authority and/or guardian/parent
• Flu: Too much negativity
• Gas: Hidden concerns
• Grey Hair: Stress
• Gum Issues: Unable to make one’s mind on important life issues
• Hand Issues: Unable to handle things that should be dealt with
• Headache: Criticising oneself
• Heart Attack: Focusing on material aspects in life while enjoying nothing in the process
• Heartburn: Being devoured by fear and feeling unable to go with life’s flow
• Heart Issues: Dealing with life issues through anger
• Hemorrhoids: Not wanting to move on
• Hip Issues: Feeling unable to take important decisions
• Impotence: Anger bottled up towards a past partner and/or harnessing sexual guilt
• Indigestion: Anxiety related to a recent/current/upcoming event
• Infection: Anger and/or irritation about a particular situation
• Jaundice: Feeling or being prejudiced
• Kidney Issues: Bottled-up anger that hasn’t been dealt with
• Knee Issues: Unable to be flexible with own ideas
• Leg Issues: Not wanting to move forward
• Leukemia: Lack of excitement in life
• Liver Issues: Resisting change
• Lung Issues: Fearing life and feeling unworthy
• Menopausal Issues: Feeling unwanted
• Migraine: Fears related to sex and/or letting someone into your life all the while feeling pressured by someone
• Nausea: Rejecting something
• Neck Issues: Refusing to see another’s point of view
• Overweight: Needing emotional support and protection due to insecurity
• Pain: Guilt
• PMS: Rejecting feminine aspects within yourself
• Prostate Issues: Sexual guilt and/or pressure
• Seizures: Wanting to run away from life
• Shoulder Issues: Carrying other’s issues onto you
• Sinus: Feeling irritable towards someone in particular
• Skin Issues: Feeling threatened by someone
• Slip Disk: Feeling lack of support from those around you
• Sore Throat: Inability to express your true feelings about something/someone
• Snoring: Feeling unable to move on from old patterns
• Stomach Issues: Feeling malnourished
• Stroke: Not being allowed to deal with own emotions
• Teeth Issues: Unable to think through important decisions
• Thyroid Issues: Feeling humiliated and/or repressed
• Tumors: Drowning in remorse
• Ulcers: Feeling you are not good enough
• Urinary Issues: Angerj usually towards someone of the opposite sex
• Varicose Veins: Being in a hateful/ uncomfortable situation.

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