We can understand the emotional background of certain symptoms. This understanding allows us to use the power of our thoughts. These thoughts can restore the balance necessary for our health.

It is increasingly accepted that health is not just about the proper functioning of our physical body. Instead, it involves the harmonious operation of the whole—body, mind, and spirit.

If a negative emotion disturbs our balance for a sustained period, the energies flowing through the body cannot circulate properly. Blockages and obstructions appear, which initially cause minor malfunctions in organs, but later manifest as identifiable symptoms of illness.

These symptoms are warnings, signaling us to change our approach, attitude, or lifestyle. If we look at these warning signs as symbols, we can more easily understand the often-suppressed problems within our soul.

What Do Your Illnesses Reveal?

Here is list of the emotional backgrounds behind common diseases

Achilles Tendon

• Emotional over-extension, being earthbound.

Addictions

• Longing for something else, wish for escape, seeking stimulation, yearning.

Alcoholism

• Desire for conflict-free, friendly relationships.

Allergy

• Rejecting a trait symbolized by the allergen.
  • In pollen allergy: issues with sexuality or fertility.
  • In fur allergy: discomfort with affection.
  • In dust allergy: trouble accepting impurity.

Anaemia

• Passivity, unwillingness to take in certain vital energies.

Ankle

• Rising from the earth, detachment.

Asthma

• Having swallowed many grievances. Wanting to rid yourself of them all at once, wishing to get more than you give. Aversion to the world’s “uncleanliness.”

Barrel Chest

• Puffing oneself up, pretending to be stronger.

Bedwetting

• Fear of someone.

Bladder Inflammation

• Suppressed emotions, under psychological pressure.

Blood

• Ego, vitality.

Bones

• Solidity.

Bone Deformity

• Inflexibility.

Bone Fracture

• Indicates rigidity; during healing, one must change this.

Bone Marrow Inflammation

• Anger, disappointment.

Breast Complaints

• Issues with motherhood, nurturing.

Burns

• Anger, hatred, rage.

Calluses

• Rigid views and ideas.

Cancerous Tumor

• Suppressed anger, sorrow.

Cataract

• “Shutter,” refusing to see something, dulling perceptions.

Cellulitis

• Clinging to painful memories.

Chest

• Flexibility, closeness.

Childbirth

• Surrender, letting go.

Colon

• Excessive criticism.

Colon and Hemorrhoid Problems

• Anxiety, fear.

Compulsive Eating

• Lack of stimulation.

Concussion

• A break in your current path and way of thinking, suggesting a need for change.

Conjunctivitis

• Pain caused by realization.

Constipation

• Reluctance to give, attachment.

Coronary Artery Hardening

• Suppression of emotions.

Coughing

• Reluctance to voice your opinion but signaling that you have one.

Health Issues and Their Emotional Connections

Depression

• Escape from activity.

Diabetes

• Lack of love, inability to receive love.

Diarrhoea

• Inability to use your experiences; they just “pass through” you.

Digestive Problems

• Can’t “digest” something; suppressing anger.

Dislocation

• Anger, resistance.

Dizziness

• Insecurity, instability.

Ear Diseases

• Refusing to hear something, ignoring your inner voice.

Eczema

• Battle of opposites, emotional outbursts.

Elbow

• Pushing away.

Excessive Body Hair

• Strengthening masculine traits.

Face

• Openness, self-expression; the part that most expresses who we are.

Facial Nerve Spasm

• Always wearing a mask, not being authentic.

Fainting

• Wish to escape from the world and problems. Self-protection.

Fear of Heights

• Fear of failure and lack of success.

Female Breast

• Mother-child relationship.

Female Organ Diseases

• Not embracing femininity, rejection of sexuality.

Fibroid

• Pseudo-pregnancy.

Foot Complaints

• Symbolize roots, relationship with ancestors; unclear past, feeling rootless.

Forearm

• Capacity for action.

Frigidity, Impotence

• Fear of the unknown, surrender, loss of self-control, death, opening up, or failure.

Gallbladder Issues

• Feeling that life is bitter.

Gallbladder

• Aggression, bitterness, sorrow.

Gallstones

• Accumulated pain or grievances.

Gums

• Primal trust.

Goitre

• Feeling of existential superiority.

Goitre (Alternative Meaning)

• Feeling of superiority that suffocates oneself.

Hair

• Freedom, power, boundaries, antenna, receiving external impulses.

Hair Loss, Dandruff

• Start of a new era or sign of withdrawal.

Hand

• Perception, action, the duality of palm and back.

Hardness of Hearing

• Rigidity toward one’s environment, shutting oneself off.

Head

• Control, thought, rationality.

Headache, Migraine

• Perfectionism, overexertion; intolerance of criticism.

Heart Complaints

• Excessive hatred or compassion, not living by your heart.

Heart Attack

• Overestimating one’s strength.

Haemorrhoids

• Indecisiveness, lack of flexibility.

Hump

• Separating oneself from the community, feeling a personal mission.

Hernia

• Overburdening yourself.

Herpes

• Disgust towards something.

High Blood Pressure

• Being too rigid, fixating on a problem you can’t solve.

Hip Complaints

• Fear of moving forward; need for more self-confidence.

Hoarse Voice

• Using only your throat to speak, not expressing yourself fully, keeping secrets.

Body and Emotional Connections

Indifference

• Isolation, suppressed emotions.

Incoherent Speech

• Unwillingness to be understood.

Infection

• Anger, harm, irritability.

Inflammation

• Can’t process a problem due to fear.

Insomnia

• Restlessness, fear, guilt; fear of vulnerability or death.

Intestinal Issues

• Fear of letting go of the unnecessary.

Intestines

• Hostile emotions.

Itching

• Sign of irritability; searching for what provokes you by scratching.

Knee

• Symbol of humility, introspection.

Keratitis

• Protective armour reflecting vulnerability or a sense of threat.

Kidney Disease

• Points to fear; symbolizes human and romantic relationships.
  • Right kidney: issues with men.
  • Left kidney: issues with women.

Kidney Stones

• Not enough energy or enthusiasm in your relationship.

Large Appetite

• Lack of security, fear.

Left-Side Ailments

• Examine your emotional relationship with your mother; symbolizes emotions and the past.

Liver Diseases

• Excessive anger and rage; detoxification, recognition, protection from perceived harm, integrating experiences.

Loss of Appetite

• Fear, sense of danger or threat.

Loss of Skin Pigment

• Isolation.

Low Blood Pressure

• Fear of responsibility; reluctance to go to extremes.

Lung Diseases

• Sadness, feeling insufficiently free.

Lungs

• Freedom, relationships with the outside world, communication, vitality.

Menstruation

• Self-sacrifice, surrender, letting go, rhythm, femininity.

Motion Sickness

• Feeling vulnerable, fearful, trapped.

Mouth

• Receiving, communication, connection to the outside world.

Nail

• Aggression.

Neck Problems

• Lack of harmony between mind and heart, conflicting signals.

Night Blindness

• Fear of uncertainty or the unknown.

Nose

• Emotions, sex, pride.

Nosebleed

• Self-sacrifice, yearning for appreciation; feeling neglected or unrecognized, pleading for love.

Obesity

• Feeling unhappy, unimportant, or hopeless about the future; hiding femininity behind excess weight.

Overly Straight Spine

• Appearance of excessive self-confidence.

Pain

• An alert; consider the symbolic meaning of the affected area.

Patchy Hair Loss

• Signals irregularities according to organ zones.

Pelvis

• Sexual posture.

Pathological Thinness

• Rejecting life, suppressing sexuality, guilt.

Prostate

• Masculine aggression.

Psoriasis

• Excessive self-protection, fear of vulnerability.

Pseudo-pregnancy

• Longing for pure motherhood.

Rash

• Impatience, childishness.

Rectum

• Anxiety, fear.

Right-Side Ailments

• Examine your emotional relationship with your father; symbolizes intellect, rationality.

Rheumatism

• Inability to accept oneself and one’s relationships.

Rhythm

• Universal order, life, polarity.

Runny Nose

• Wanting to withdraw from the outside world and communication.

Scar

• A deep mark left by an emotional wound.

Scoliosis

• One side is too dominant.

Shortsightedness

• Uncertainty about the future.

Shoulder Complaints

• Overburdened.

Shin

• Moving at too fast a pace.

Sides

• Right side of the body symbolizes mind and rationality; left side symbolizes heart and emotions. On the head, this is reversed.

Skin Disease

• Overly closed and rigid; incapable of being gentle or open; suppressed anger.

Sleep Problems

• Questions about death.

Small Intestine

• Conscious analysis.

Smoking

• Desire for freedom in self-realization, forming connections.

Sole, Hand, Palm

• Isolation, individuality.

Spine, Back

• Seeking support, or too much burden to carry.

Spinal Problems

• Symbolize uprightness, honesty, humanity.

Stomach Issues

• Overthinking, trouble letting go.

Stomach Ulcer

• Suppressed aggression.

Strabismus

• One-sided perspective.

Suffocating Sensation

• Anxieties.

Teeth

• Aggression, vitality.

Thigh

• Strength for progress and movement.

Throat Complaints

• Inability or fear of speaking up, not standing up for oneself.

Thrombosis

• Need for spiritual development.

Thyroid

• Unmotivated, lethargic — fear of change; overactive — stress, lack of clear vision for the future.

Tiptoeing

• Yearning for constant elevation.

Tendon Inflammation

• Not allowing yourself to take action.

Toothache

• Not doing something you want to; lack of vitality.

Tumour

• Lack of love, inability to receive love; storing old grievances and shocks; guilt.

Ulcer

• Emotional pain, lack of self-confidence.

Upper Arm

• Strength for action.

Urinary Bladder

• Psychological pressure, emotional saturation; “crying from below.”

Varicose Veins

• Inflexible, rigid, closed-off personality.

Vascular and Blood Problems

• Issues with the flow of love.

Vomiting

• Rejection of something; sign of disgust.

Walking on Heels

• Unwillingness to be thrown off balance.

Voice Mutation

• Unsure which voice to use in certain situations.