If we analyze the word ' disease ' and dissect it into two parts, we realize that it is formed by the word ma = mother and lat = milk.
The disease assumes, then, the meaning of LATTE MATERNO, a food that nourishes and keeps alive by preparing ourselves to face existence, not only from a strictly physical and material point of view, but at the same time from an emotional, psychic and spiritual point of view .
Thanks to the nourishment (milk) the newborn, moreover in a completely instinctive way, grows and transforms itself, in the same way that thanks to the illness we all grow and transform ourselves.
The disease can then be seen as a means to transform ourselves and grow, to understand that something is not going in the right direction, the one that our self would like for us.
Before the 'disease' arrives, feelings of estrangement, dissatisfaction, sadness, nervousness, apathy, mood swings, depression, fear emerge from the depths of the heart: these are the messages that could make us change course without having to 'fall' into the web of disease.
But, we often try to minimize the signals, or even to silence them, with anesthetics of every kind: chemical, physical, emotional.
Silence, the best friend of the heart
In the din the heart skips, or at most it slips under the covers. Sometimes the din is good for the heart, it makes him feel alive, pulsating, emperor of a kingdom that must be defended and protected every day. But, from time to time, the heart needs absolute silence, the void, to be able to recharge and raise above matter.
Light, infinite, boundless spaces: it feeds on this, as well as love. And, so that love is always welcome, the heart must be able to let itself be enveloped by the silence that keeps the noise away.
To us Westerners, such an approach may seem strange, since our civilization imposes chaos, too much, excess . So out on the streets; so in the home, in offices, on premises.
The television is perpetually turned on in the houses, or at most the radio, the computer, the stereo, and every effort is made to plug every possible 'hole of silence' with words, actions, sentences made and taken for granted ... the silence scares, threatens, intimidates . Because we are not used to it.
An ancient Chinese saying says: " Praying means talking to God. Meditating means listening to it. Trust the silence ".
Our whole body thinks, therefore also our heart
One of the major contributions to the reunification of the human dichotomy in medicine is due to the pioneering work and vision of Candace Pert, neurophysiologist, director of the brain biochemistry institute of the NIMH - National Institute for Mental Health - which discovered endorphins and a vast number of neuropeptides, the molecules that transmit information in the nervous system.
It also highlighted that neuropeptides are the mediators of both information and emotions and are active in virtually all body cells: in the nervous system, in the blood, in the immune system and in the intestine. Therefore, it is possible to state that: Every state of mind is faithfully reflected by a physiological state of the immune system.
With Pert's discoveries, the purely mechanistic conception of the human body has been completely disrupted. First of all, the neuropeptides must be considered as ' psychic molecules ' in that they not only transmit hormonal and metabolic information but psychophysical emotions and signals.
Every emotional state (joy, anxiety, fear, pleasure, terror) with its multitudinous nuances called feelings is conveyed in the body by specific neuropeptides. Contrary to scientific expectations, these neuropeptides and their receptors have been found in every part of the body, and not only in the nervous system:
THE WHOLE BODY THINKS / EVERY CELL, OR PART OF THE BODY, "FEELS" AND TESTS EMOTIONS, PROCESSES ITS PSYCHOPHYSICAL INFORMATION and transmits it to each part through a dense network of extremely varied communications / ALL THE BODY IS ALIVE, INTELLIGENT AND CONSCIENTE / EVERY CELL TESTS PLEASURE OR PAIN and elaborates metabolic strategies for the collective well-being.
This concept may appear elusive to our normal understanding and to that human conscience, so steeped in rational concepts, although scientifically questionable. But sometimes it is easy to get lost in the glass of water of obviousness. Jovanotti sang in an old song "I think positive because I am alive, because I am alive" and he was not so wrong!
