Is Illness Really a Mistake?

An Introduction to META-Medicine^®

Do you ever wonder what starts an illness? Have you ever experienced an ache, pain, rash or other symptom and wondered ‘Why me? Why now?’ Have you ever noticed a relationship between an illness and what’s going on in other areas of your life?

Every year, the NHS in England spends over £11 billion on pharmaceutical drugs. New drugs, state of the art procedures and testing equipment are being developed at an incredible rate in an attempt to combat chronic diseases, such as arthritis, diabetes, heart disease and cancers. And, despite all of this, one fundamental question is consistently overlooked: why do we get ill?

Is it possible that, despite 2 million years of evolution, our bodies are making mistakes?

According to the medical dictionaries, approximately 95% of illnesses are idiopathic i.e. ‘have an unknown cause’. Medical doctors diagnose symptoms, then seek a way of suppressing them. Dis-ease is seen as something that’s ‘gone wrong’ in the body. It is usually attributed to risk factors such as genetics, poor diet, lifestyle, smoking or toxicity. Yet, in the case of breast cancer, for example, the known risk factors are absent in approximately 70% of patients!

Alternative and complementary medical fields have other theories about why we get ill. For example, Chinese acupuncture may identify energy system blockages, while nutritional diagnosis evaluates the biochemical environment. Yet within any approach, if we look deep enough, there is a missing link: a definitive and proven answer to why people get specific illnesses at specific times.

Why, for example, does a lump suddenly appear in a particular place on the body? Why does someone develop asthma, eczema or a heart condition? Why do several people who appear to have the same cold virus experience different symptoms? One gets a sore throat, while another has a chesty cough, and a third person has a fever or blocked nose.

If we did know the cause, how much better would we be able to resolve our own aches, pains and unwanted symptoms? And as health professionals or therapists, how would this understanding help us to apply our therapies for more consistent results?

Uncovering the missing pieces in the health jigsaw!

In the 1980s, a brilliant medical doctor in Germany made an amazing discovery. A shock in his own life led him to study exactly why we get ill. Through his subsequent 40,000 case studies, he identified how illnesses begin with a traumatic life event and discovered which emotions cause which illnesses. When someone experiences a traumatic life event (which can range from a life-threatening situation to a minor unexpected social conflict), the body begins an emergency process. Why? To enable us to deal with the situation.

For example, if a person in danger experiences a fear of death, the body’s reaction is to take in more air in order to survive. The lung alveoli immediately increase to get more oxygen into the body. If a child experiences a sudden, unexpected physical separation from her mother, the child’s skin will de-sensitise - so that she is less affected by the separation. The emotions experienced in the moment of shock determine how the body will react.

If dis-ease is a biological programme triggered by a significant emotional shock, then it is not a mistake or something that happens randomly. Every illness can be understood as a biologically meaningful process with the ultimate goal of survival.

How could dis-ease be a meaningful process?

Have you ever had a period of stress, for example, at work, then gone on holiday, and experienced symptoms such as a cold, ‘flu or stomach bug? Could there be a connection between the stress and subsequent illness?

Every dis-ease process has two phases (see Fig 1). A symptom that is commonly considered to be a dis-ease, such as a cancer growth, osteoporosis, ache or virus, is actually only one part of an entire process.

After a traumatic event, we go into the 1^st phase. We often don’t feel ill at this point, but may experience coldness (particularly in the hands and feet), stress, tension, sleeplessness, compulsive thinking and little appetite.

Once we resolve the emotion, we go into the 2^nd phase. In the above examples, resolution could occur when the person escapes from the dangerous situation, the child is reunited with her mother, or you forget about workplace stress! In the second phase, we often feel warmer, sleepy, and later hungry, and the compulsive thinking stops. It is in this phase that we often experience typical dis-ease symptoms. There is a critical point (healing crisis) in the second phase that corresponds with when heart attacks, epileptic fits and asthma attacks happen.

Interestingly, microbes or ‘bugs’, such as bacteria, viruses and fungi only appear in the 2^nd phase. Could it be possible that rather than being our enemy, they may actually be assisting the body to heal?

Figure 1: The Two Phases

A revolution in our health understanding!

This new, advanced approach to understanding health and illness, Meta Medicine, is based on the latest research into ontogenesis, epigenetics, integrative medicine, systems and neuro-biology. Furthermore, it uses the evidence from brain CT scans to prove the organ-brain connection.

Meta Medicine seems to answer many questions that have eluded scientists and doctors for years, explaining the root cause of any illness, where somebody is within the dis-ease process, and how health issues become chronic.

Just suppose you knew what the cause of a person’s illness was, and where they were within the dis-ease process. You could work back from their symptom to the shock, and, by clearing out the emotion from the shock, assist them to return to full health. No guess work, complex hypotheses or labels of 'idiopathic' illness, just an integrative understanding of the person’s experience.

The first truly integrative biopsychosocial model of health

Meta Medicine is not a cure for a specific illness or another new therapy, it is a diagnostic tool. It is the only approach that gives us a scientific understanding of the root cause of an illness and explains the relationship between our physical symptoms (bio), how we think and feel (psycho), and our environment (social).

To find out more…

META-Medicine^® 2-Day Introductory Trainings with Robert Waghmare & Joanne Ross, IMMA-Licensed META-Medicine^® Consultants & Master Trainers, take place every other month in Solihull & Birmingham.

Join the next training to:

• Transform your health awareness

• Discover the root cause of cancers, digestive problems, musculoskeletal disorders, heart dis-ease and many other health issues…

• Find out how & why chronic health issues occur

• Gain insight into your own and clients’ health issues

• Enhance your health practice with META-Medicine^® diagnosis process and therapy design

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