Healing chronic symptoms - part 3

Please read part 1 and part 2 to get the most out of this post.

If there is no improvement in your symptoms after following the advice in the previous two posts, then either that event is not the conflict responsible for the symptoms, or there are still tracks which are hanging around, or there is still something about that event which is niggling at you. Let’s look at the first two of these scenarios in turn:

1. The event you remembered is not the conflict which gave rise to your symptoms

You must keep digging in your memory for any other event which has provoked strong emotions in you. It might be something subtle and not very obvious. You can use clues to help you find it. For example, try and pay attention to when you feel heightened emotion about something. Try and monitor your interior landscape more regularly, but especially when you feel just a little ‘off’. Why do you feel like that? What were you just thinking about? Why does that trigger you? Can you remember other times when you felt like this?

1. There are still tracks hanging around from the event.

Similar to point 1 above, you have to be very mindful every time you notice your condition get worse. You may already know your tracks - for example intolerances to dairy, gluten etc. If these foods trigger some other symptom not related to your chronic symptoms, ignore them for now - they will be part of a different conflict. Is there anything in your environment which makes your symptoms worse? Can you talk to yourself about it? Tell your psyche the reason it is reacting to this thing. Remind your psyche that it safe now. The event cannot happen anymore. You wouldn’t even care if it did. You are older and wiser and more resilient. You don’t need it to warn you. Remember that tracks can be thoughts and emotions you have. Using the example from part 2, if when you found out you didn’t get the promotion, your immediate emotion was disappointment and a sense of injustice, then every time you feel these emotions, you could retrigger the conflict.

I will talk about the third possibility - that there is still something about that event which is niggling at you - in the next post.