The mind in many traditions is the cause and cause of well-being and sickness, it is the needle of the balance, it is the watershed and the basin in which intention is created, it is made strong, unassailable beyond relationships, emotions that can overwhelm and confuse.
The mind is the one who "holds the bridles of horses who can also become restless", to make a parallel with the philosophical myth.
What happens when the body turns against itself, as in autoimmune diseases? Let's see what triggers in body and mind
The mind and autoimmune diseases: what happens in the person
The mechanism of autoimmune diseases could be explained, in a very simplistic way, as a struggle of the body against itself, like triggering a time bomb against one's own person.
Obviously, there is no conscious will and it is also true that we do not yet know exactly the physiological mechanism that leads to that direction, nor the procedure that leads to a controllable or degenerative state. In summary, it is as if the antigens became invading viruses. If we think of the body as a system, or rather of the whole body-mind, it is as if the system went haywire ; it does not recognize what is proper to the organism and what is foreign to it.
It is known that the pathology begins in the mind and manifests itself in the body. Among the best known autoimmune diseases we mention systemic lupus erythematosus, thyroid diseases, psoriasis, sclerosis, arthritis, diseases affecting the gastrointestinal system, connective tissue diseases and vasculitis.
Among the causes we know that genetics plays an important role. Science is looking for an integrated approach, which also begins to take holistic disciplines into account.
An example above all: meditation. It seems that meditation lowers the stress levels that can lead the system to "go crazy", as it goes to regulate and normalize the brain waves, to return to that healing dimension that only gives inner silence.
Pain is not an invention of the patient and has very deep roots, rooted in behavioral habits that have strengthened to the detriment of the well-being of the psyche and internal organs, since we are a single complex system.
Resilience and disease
Autoimmune disease, the mind, emotions
In many cases the unleashing of an autoimmune disease is reduced to a fundamental inability to verbalize one's emotions. Upstream, there is also the inability to recognize them, call them by their own name, see them as such.
In many cases the autoimmune disease is explained as a defense . What do you defend yourself from? From what is called emotional disintegration.
When an emotional conflict cannot be resolved, the mind goes into alarm and a consequent defense. This creates a stress that goes well beyond the threshold that can be managed in a healthy and functional way.
The approach to the disease cannot be that of a mere reduction of the symptomatic component. We need a total revision of emotional management, an opening towards the new, a concrete piscological support.
To this porposito we point out the site of the APAI Onlus (International Autoimmune Pathologies Association) born to the purpose to divulge a determined approach to the autoimmune pathology and to help those who are affected.
