Recently, against the backdrop of horrendous statistics on cardiac diseases, cancer, etc., the explanation for their causes – “psychosomatics” – has been circulating more and more often. Today, psychosomatics is the name given to any disease without a scientifically proven cause. However, I would like to distinguish cause and effect in the body diseases and the role of the psyche in them.
It is no secret – all living things are controlled by metabolism. Metabolism is responsible for immunity as a form of self-regulation.
Take a cell. It lives thanks to the metabolic processes, which circulate in it. Disruption of metabolic processes in the cell will invariably lead to disruption of metabolic processes in more integrated – hormonal systems. Further, hormonal systems ‘govern’ the supply of the body organs, and disruption of this activity occurs in the weakest of these. For example, we do not remove the problem by removing the organ! After all, the problem is in the cell!
It is disturbances in the cell, its “disease”, which creates problems for the body (“soma”)! Hence, the ‘soma’ lives according to its regularities, i.e. due to the exchange regularities (in the cell, in the hormonal systems, in the organs of the body).
The psyche responsible for “psycho” has completely different regularities. Firstly, the psyche has practically no organic analogue; no function of the body organ is responsible for its functioning. The psyche is always a connection… The only thing that confirms the psyche is affect, represented in the chemical composition of the cell. Then it turns out? Only affect is responsible for psychosomatics because it is organically confirmed.
What can we conclude? Most importantly, the psyche and the body are connected by a single link – affect! With an affective nature, the psyche can activate the intensity of the affect, which can trigger cellular, then hormonal systems and, as a result, any organ of the body. Perhaps one has a chance not to believe in phantom psychosomatics, but to stop being affective and use the affective part of one’s life only in that part where there is an emotional connection and higher love experiences.
The only pattern typical to both “soma” and “psycho” is the need to exchange, i.e. the need to give back, no matter whether there is a return.
It’s no secret that we suffer more not from what we cannot receive, but much more from what we can’t give! Maybe there is a reason for so-called psychosomatics – the inability to offer, the preoccupation with oneself, the fear of not getting back what has been spent, etc.
Man is like a well – the more one chooses water in it, the cleaner it is. In addition, the longer the water stands, the more it succumbs to rotting and loss of purity and freshness…
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