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Your Body is Your Unconscious Mind:
The Interrelatedness of Psychology and Medicine

By Dr. Pamela L. Chubbuck

Modern science is beginning to get excited about what ancient Greeks practiced in Athens and Crete, and indigenous people all over the world have known for thousands of years. Science is proving that mind and body are clearly not only interrelated, they are one. We are bodymind.            

Candace Pert, Ph.D., an internationally known and highly respected neuron- biologist has proven that emotion is not generated in the brain; it is generated in the cells themselves - all over the body. Therefore our bodies are truly our subconscious minds. Dr. Pert, author of “Molecules of Emotion”, with her husband, Dr. Michael Ruff, were the first to begin study in what is now well known as psychoneuroimmunology. Pert says that emotions are chemically instigated at the cellular level, which is where unexpressed emotions are stored. This overwhelmingly indicates that mental, emotional and physical trauma, and shock, when not expressed at the time the event occurs, create energetic blocks which lead to later problems.

We now know that what Sigmund Freud termed the “subconscious mind” is actually a measurable physical process. Freud explored awareness outside consciousness and showed that when we banish traumatic experiences to our subconscious mind, they later emerge as physical and mental ailments. Our suppressed emotional events influence our physical well-being.  On the cellular level, emotions are literally created chemically. As we store unexpressed emotions on a cellular level, illness can be caused by this stored and trapped information. Therefore, it stands to reason that to heal from our ills, we must express the information accumulated in our bodyminds.              

Wilhelm Reich, MD, a student of Freud, is world renowned for his innovative therapy which treats human beings as living moving entities full of the life energy he called orgone. Reich stated that when life energy is blocked due to emotional distress, illness is produced.              

Dr. John Pierrakos, a student of Reich, creator of Core Energetics, has studied the interface between held emotions and illness for over 40 years, and has taught that specific developmental wounding creates specific disease processes. Dr Pierrakos' book Core Energetics: Developing the Capacity to Love and Heal, explains how Core Energetics combines psychology, new physics, spirituality, and energy field and chakra system theory. Dr. Candace Pert's research is beginning to reveal the scientific underpinnings of the chakra system. Pert says that chakras are “minibrains”: points of electrical and chemical activity that receive, process, and distribute information from and to the rest of the body.