In working with clients since 1982 I have seen just about every known malady. A common question is “how can this ‘bad’ disease happen to such a good person?” To understand our bodies and how they react we need to acknowledge we have two minds.
The first is the conscious mind where I think, discern, reason, and understand time. This mind is educated through multiple sources: education, experience, parents, clergy/religion, media, peers, etc. By the very fact that our conscious mind is educated implies that it is fallible, as all knowledge is incomplete through always growing. This means that at best our decision making abilities are fraught with error and mistakes. This is not negative, just something to be aware of, a very valuable insight into learning life’s lessons, for to not learn is to resist. Resistance is any negative emotion: pride, anger, desire, fear, grief, guilt, apathy, shame; or any negative behavior: aggression, addiction, projection, avoidance, etc.
The second is our subconscious mind which governs all autonomic functions of the body: digestion, muscles, heart, hormones, circulation, immune system, etc. The subconscious mind does not think, discern, reason or understand time, it just responds to our five senses, by memory, for the purpose of survival. It does not consider that today’s reactions could be setting up a potential time bomb, overloading a system to the point of breakdown, exhaustion and disease. The subconscious mind does not distinguish between seeing a tiger through the five senses and reacting in fight or flight (sympathetic dominance), or seeing a person, place, circumstance or event through the five senses triggering a fear of failure, loss, identity, value, rejection, abandonment, shame, etc. The brain responds in the exact same way.
People are, to some extent, aware of experiences in their conscious mind and attempt to deal with them; occasionally they do deal with the experience and reconcile all on their own. It is the rare individual, however, who is aware of what is stored in their subconscious mind, being triggered consistently through the five senses and memory, leading to the proverbial “bad thing” happening to a good person.
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In Health & Service,
Dr. Roland F. Phillips