healing chronic symptoms part 1

A step by step practical guide

If you want to use German New Medicine to heal yourself from something chronic, then you need to know about tracks. I talked about this in the last post, but today, I want to give you some practical steps to follow. This is how I usually start with my new clients.

When we experience our original conflict shock (something which catches us off guard and not necessarily traumatic at all), our psyche takes a snapshot of everything on the scene at the time. This could be tangible things like the food we were eating, the smell we were smelling, the weather, the pollen count, the cat or dog in the room and also non tangible things, like our emotions or thoughts. If we were feeling very angry at the same time as the conflict shock, then anger might well be stored as a track. I think even hormones might be stored as a track. For example, if your blood sugar was high at that moment, then that might also be stored as a track.

This idea of our psyche taking a snapshot and storing the inputs is absolutely crucial in understanding why we just don’t get better. Because every time we encounter one of these tracks, our healing is interrupted and we relapse. If it happens to be something present in our daily lives, then chances are we'll be relapsing every day. So how do we stop this from happening? The simplest and most direct way is to try and find the original conflict shock. By bringing it to your conscious awareness and seeing that it is no longer a problem, that can be enough to dissolve all the tracks associated with it. In practice, I have found this method is usually very effective for seasonal allergies. BUT when you have a chronic skin or digestive condition for example, which you suffer from all year round, then you usually have to find the tracks as well as the original conflict.

Ok so how do we go about finding the original conflict and the associated tracks? The first step is to always try and remember when the problem first started. If it is something you have been suffering from on and off throughout your life, with gaps of a few years when you were ok, then just go back to the beginning of the latest bout. This is when clients often tell me they have no idea when their problem started. This is just a lazy answer. This just means that right now you can’t remember. So this is where you have to get creative. As you can see in the photo above, I looked through all the photo albums in the few years when I thought my bloating started. From the photos I could see that in the summer of 2017, I was not bloated. But by November of that same year, I was. So now I had something to work with. What happened in that span of a few months that was a big deal?

Can you do something similar? You must have a rough idea when your issue started (ie in your thirties). Can you narrow it down? Are there emails or texts you can look through? Records of doctor’s appointments, diary entries? Think about the places where you were working and try and remember if you had symptoms at these places. Friend’s weddings, holidays? Try and remember if you were suffering at these more memorable moments in your life. Ask friends and family.

Once you have narrowed it down, the next step is to work out what event could have happened during this period which caught you off guard and made you emotional in some way. If nothing comes to mind, set an intention that you would like to remember and make it a point to create some space in your life for the memory to surface. What I mean by that is if you are running around like a bat out of hell with no quiet time in your life, then now is probably not the right time for you to be doing this work. But if you set an intention and create some space, you will be surprised how things have a way of bubbling up to the surface.

In the next few posts, I will tell you what the next steps are once you have found a likely memory, and also what to do if you draw a complete blank.