Psychosomatic? I often hear the comment “perhaps it is only psychosomatic ….. but I feel pain when I …… or I get relief from pain when I ……” and my usual response is “of course it is psychosomatic!”. This is usually met with some surprise as there are often varying connotations around the understanding of the word psychomatic. Psychosomatic means involving both mind and body. I believe the mind and body must both be in a good state for your whole self to be at ease, as in free of dis-ease, as the two parts are inseparable. It follows that if you change the mind there is likely to be a change in the body and conversely if you change the body it can also result in a change of the mind.
Medically the term ‘psychosomatic’ may be used to describe pain that you feel in your body as a result of emotional or mental stress and so is often dismissed as unimportant, much to the consternation of the sufferer. I believe that any pain is an indication of dis-ease and should be taken seriously, and as many of my clients have come to learn, the site of the pain is, more often than not, not the site of the cause of the problem, but it definitely indicates a problem. Continue reading “Mind / Body – Body / Mind & Pain”