8.31 – Emotions : an information system
Emotions are feelings that we experience at one time or another. They can be an intimate and subjective feeling that one feels or experiences, the expression of somatic or behavioral reactions such as defense or attack. Emotions are constant, as are sensations that relate to the physical. They often go unnoticed because they do not pose a problem. When they bother us, we try to stop them or transform them. But whether they bother us or not, they play the same role. They inform us that we are affected by things, their intensity being indicative of the degree of attainment and resonance. This brings us back to an experience whose subjective significance is important enough for us to be moved in this way. The SPR, the Somato Psychic Restoration, allows us to unmask them.
Emotions are feelings that we experience at one time or another. They can be an intimate and subjective feeling that one feels or experiences, the expression of somatic or behavioral reactions such as defense or attack. Emotions are constant, as are sensations that relate to the physical. They often go unnoticed because they do not pose a problem. When they bother us, we try to stop them or transform them. But whether they bother us or not, they play the same role. They inform us that we are affected by things, their intensity being indicative of the degree of attainment and resonance. This brings us back to an experience whose subjective significance is important enough for us to be moved in this way. The SPR, the Somato Psychic Restoration, allows us to unmask them.
Just as we have several types of sensations that inform us about the various aspects of reality (sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste, movement), we have various types of emotions that provide specific information. They occur during contact with the outside world but can also be caused by what is happening within us : a thought, a memory, an anticipation, a pain… In any case, emotion always has the same function, it informs us, and is a very valuable instrument for us to orient ourselves. Feeling sadness helps identify what is missing and helps us choose appropriate actions to address it. The SPR has the tools and offers solutions to it.
A specific emotional shock or stress triggers alert affections. Each of these situations causes biochemical reactions:
- increased heart rate,
- of the secretion of adrenaline in the vessels
- elevated blood pressure.
These reactions lead to dilation of the coronary arteries, bronchi, pupils, affected muscle areas and the brain. The individual mobilizes all his living forces whatever his response : escape or attack. A hormonal storm then sweeps through the body, soliciting a multitude of neurotransmitters to better prepare it. Meanwhile, our perceptive activities, intellectual and affective, are suspended in favor of attention to this emergency situation. These states of alert are linked to fear of unemployment, emotional or family conflicts, professional anxiety or existential anguish. If this situation is only temporary, it will not cause danger, unlike a chronic situation that will see the defense system turn against itself and become self-destructive.
Chronic emotions will cause the collapse of the natural defenses by exhausting the adrenal glands which will secrete excessive and permanent corticosteroids. They will weaken the soil and predispose to bone demineralization, as will high blood pressure, cause damage to vessels under pressure and cause vascular accidents. The priority organs, the brain, lungs or muscles, are put under pressure by stress, which slowly weakens them and irreversibly damages them. The defense systems are altered :
- The thymus no longer protects the body against bacteria or viruses;
- The bone marrow makes fewer white blood cells.
- The spleen no longer fulfills its role as a blood filter.
- The tonsils are no longer a bulwark against germs and bacteria…
The medical examinations were negative and yet the functions were disturbed. Unconsciously, the patient will use the most fragile link in the chain to fix his emotional call, his point of crystallization of the failure. The PSR is quite capable of identifying its origin.
8.32 – The second brain : neuro gastroenterology
United States, 1999. Professor Michael Gershon, a neurogastroenterologist at Columbia University in New York, describes the intestine as the « second brain » for the first time. Beyond its role in digestion, the microbiota plays a major role in metabolic, immune and neurological functions.
The gut and the brain are in constant interaction. This bidirectional connection is made, above all, through the blood and sympathetic (splanchnic nerve) and parasympathetic (vagus nerve) nerves, via the secretion and release of certain molecules. 95% of serotonin, the hormone of « happiness » or dopamine, the hormone of immediate pleasure, two are produced in the intestine and take part in the exchanges between the brain and the intestine.
Between the brain and the intestine, a third player has slipped in: the intestinal microbiota, which is also said to take part in this mysterious dialogue. It corresponds to the 100,000 billion microorganisms that colonize the digestive tract. Bacteria are widely represented, with more than 1,000 species and 7000 different strains, including mainly the families of Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes.
The right relationship between these different strains and these two families is essential to promote the balance of our health. As soon as it is broken, it is called dysbiosis, which causes many health consequences. Its participation in the gut-brain axis even leads us to think that in the event of an imbalance, it could play a role in certain psychological disorders frequently encountered, such as stress or anxiety and many neurological and psychiatric diseases.
With its 200 million neurons, the intestine dialogues with the brain and participates in the regulation of our emotions. They also lodge in our intestines. 80% of these nerve cells are responsible for transmitting information from our gut to our brain. Faced with situations of stress or anxiety, our brain will send messages back to our intestine. Consequences: the latter will contract, causing spasms and modifying intestinal transit…
In times of stress or depression, the digestive system will also produce more ghrelin, a hormone that controls appetite and fat loss… Mental, digestive and metabolic health… Everything is intimately linked!
« The role of the gut microbiota in mental illnesses – depression, anxiety-depressive syndrome) or eating disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia) are thus new areas of research, » explains Francisca Joly Gomez, gastroenterologist and nutritionist, professor of nutrition at the University of Paris VII Denis Diderot.
8.33 – Manifestations
All mental activity, all desire, can be considered as a quantity of energy which, once created, seeks to exhaust itself in a passage to action. The non-realization of this desire, as opposed to reality (unattainable desire), or as opposed to moral opposition (forbidden desire), transforms this energy into tensions. The latter, and the frustrations that accompany them, can cause the individual to suffer. To alleviate this suffering, a psychic mechanism, repression, is implemented and relegates these unsatisfied desires and the tensions they generate to the unconscious. But they don’t die. On the contrary, they remain active and compulsively seek self-fulfillment.
« Unconscious contents are not accessible to conscious knowledge, but manifest themselves, act and exert an influence on the body, on the psychic balance, on the behaviour and attitudes of the subject through various symptoms and somatisations » writes A. Ancelin Schutzenberger – (Aïe mes aïeux – Deslée de Brouwer edition).
The research work consists of making unconscious contents conscious, of tracing back to the source of a disorder or a symptom. This is what the RSP is proposing. « When one follows an analysis, » writes A. Ancelin Schutzenberger, « one moves forward but one no longer knows where and, all of a sudden, the meaning emerges as if there were (Lacan) a point of Capiton joining several layers of experience and the meaning becomes luminous… linking the conscious and the unconscious ».
All unexpressed emotions are imprinted in our tissues and will be reactivated during events analogous to the primary event. The energies linked to buried psychological disorders are expressed by tensions that maintain activity. These tensions do not die and seek to express themselves by influencing behavior or by using the body envelope and its various means of information.
These symptoms or somatizations should not leave us indifferent but on the contrary encourage us to identify them. They can evolve from non-serious functional disorders, physiological, organic and psychosomatic dysfunction, to the establishment of an organic lesion characterized by the installation of structural deformities.
Illness is often experienced as an external event, but in fact it is within us that it is located. It is up to us to master and control it, otherwise we will not belong to ourselves
For the sake of clarity, we will attempt to answer three questions
- How – pain, skin, muscles, bones, vessels, organs, stress ?
- Where – Spine, upper and lowers limbs, laterality ?
- When – Start-up cycle, similar situation ? does it manifest itself ?