The Mind/Body Connection

Have you ever been under chronic distress and gotten a tummy ach? That is because every time we have a thought, we have an emotion. Every time we have an emotion, it releases molecules of these emotions into our bodies.

According to Richard S. Lazarus, "Stress is a condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize." In other words, it is a feeling of a loss of control.

Just so you know, stress is any type of change, even what we perceive to be good change. It is still change and it is stressful. 

There are many types of stress; however, here I am referring to distress. Of the distress, there are two types. One is acute and the other is chronic.

Acute stress is intense and short-lived. It's like when we are pulled over by a police officer. After the incident, we can calm back down, depending of course on whether we get a ticket or not.

Chronic stress is ongoing; we could have it for days, weeks, months, or even years. We have chronic stress when we are in an unhappy situation and we can't seem to find a way out. For example, a credit card bill that only grows despite payments. Or maintaining a relationship that seems bad to stay but worse to leave. We are constantly arguing with family members. We are caring for the sick or elderly.

As we know, distress is the fight or flight response. It is getting our body ready to fight or flee for our survival. When this happens, our pupils dilate, blood flows away from the digestive system to the muscles of the extremities so we have the energy to fight or run. Our heart rate increases and we are on high alert or jittery.

Although most of the time we do not have to fight or flee for our survival, but we still experience the body mechanisms of that process. Continuously releasing these stress chemicals into our bodies takes its toll on our emotional and physical well-being.

We are so used to having stress that most of the time we don't realize we have it. Some people get headaches because they tense their neck and shoulder muscles and constrict the flow of blood and oxygen to the brain.

It is difficult for our brains to function when we are under stress. When emotions go up, thinking ability goes down, we become forgetful and misplace things. Sleeping through the night becomes difficult and we become accident-prone.

The body has the ability to heal itself, but when the body is continuously out of balance, it becomes detrimental to our health, turning into physical symptoms and illness. Symptoms of illness whether physical, mental or emotional are the bodies ways of letting us know we are out of balance.

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Reasons for the Soul’s Departure

Trauma

Have you ever heard the term, "Someone was beside themselves?" like when a traumatic event happened or something that was emotionally challenging to face or go through? That is what it is like when the soul leaves the body. It is a temporary coping mechanism to a challenging event. However, if the soul does not process the feelings of the event and re-integrate, then they need someone to intervene and help them do that. Otherwise, the emotions will be trapped in the body and turn into illness.

Other ways that a soul may leave the body or become fragmented or depleted in energy is from any form of abuse. For example, if a child has a hostile caretaker, the child will try to escape back into the spirit world where they feel safe. This child will get spacey at times. They will daydream frequently or "check out" and live in their own world of safety.

If someone is in an accident, they may leave their body. The trauma is too great to deal with, so they leave.
War or violence can also make the soul leave. Any time we feel overwhelmed with an emotion from trauma and we are not able to process the feelings, we may check out of our bodies.

We, as a society, have developed dysfunctional ways of being and relating to one another. Sometimes we are not allowed to have feelings or express ourselves. Other times, we fear offending or hurting someone, or we have to follow the rules of polite society. Sometimes, we are manipulated by loved ones to "stuff it" because they want things their own way because they need to feel in control.

When emotions are not felt in our bodies or allowed expression for fear of ridicule, humiliation, wrath, or hurting someone, they can turn into physical illness. Some of the illnesses are things like asthma, urinary urgency or frequency, high blood pressure, migraine headaches, and irritable bowel syndrome.

What do you think about this? Are there other examples you can think of that might apply to the soul fragmenting or leaving the body?