CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME and/or
FIBROMYALGIA
PUTTING
YOUR HOUSE IN ORDER
Synopsis of
an illness
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This illness is characterized
by a syndrome or pallet of signs. Illness becomes part of
our identity. The process of illness begins with our
inherited predisposition to be ill. Each family
constellation brings with it myriad possibilities of
illness; those attributed to patterns inherited (genetic)
and those which we contract from outside influences.
Each part of ourselves is an identity. We can speak from
any of these, and indeed we do. The gradual build-up of an
illness from vague aches and pains unnoticed, to full
fledged pathology is heralded by how we speak and what we
say.
Change these identities or the parts of us that may speak
as above [picture], then we begin the process of
psychneuroimmunology. That is, changing our state
(pathophysiology - unease with our chemistry) through
changing our consciousness.
The body displays information for us.
From bottom to top, we are a hierachical system. We create
illness from a seed - a tiny moment, a drop in time, and
then grow the seed into full bloom. Looking at the root
cause can 'dig up' the original seed and change the
outcome.
We inherit the 'seed' material from our ancestors which may
influence us, even if this is a vague notion that you come
from a sickly lot on one side of the family. This is an
inherited pattern of discontent, although it may be played
out in many differing forms.
If we use the metaphor of your body as if it were a house,
we can get to the heart of the matter, and descibe
metaphorically something that physiologically is difficult
to describe. Your physical body can be looked at as if it
were a house, within which you live. In this house are
floors or levels, which represent your memory, physiology,
actions and thoughts.
We contain our inherited tendancies, or
'seed'
material down in the recesses of this often dark place, in
the base(ment) of us. These are often hidden away, but can
germinate, with the right triggers. We also store our
live's memories in the fabric of our tissues, again unseen.
These seeds of discontent begin to grow and germinate,
altering our physiology and sense of wellbeing. This is
our chemistry.
Altered physiology changes the instinctual
or mammalian part
of us, altering how we move and act in our lives. Altered
chemistry alters our neurotransmitters, and the way we feel
and initiate movement. When we feel good, we act well. When
feeling bad, we lack the dynamic of positive action.
When unable to change nor act with competency due to the
pains of our joints and muscles, we begin to form and
create beliefs.
'I believe I have fibromyalgia." When we
name
something, we
create a belief. Beliefs may mark or create limitations in
our human consciousness and dictates down into the
hierarchy of your self like a close loop system. This is an
endless loop that we may become held in.
As we live a life such as
this, we end up with an identity
of " I AM
sick." If we added all of this together it would go
something like this: "I am sick, as others believe
that I have fibromyalgia (or chronic fatigue
syndrome), and I certainly move and act as if, for I
feel ill and actually, this is similar to how some of
my ancestors were."
In any illness, there is always a root
problem. We need to
use the illness as the gift, to enable us to see why we
have inherited such a tendancy. The Chinese would tell us
that our 'soil' or material foundation was ripe for this
seed to begin to grow. Indeed something triggered it off.
By finding the root cause - we call this ontology - we can
help to unravel and reorganize the parts that have colluded
in keeping us ill. They - that is some bigger or more
essential part of you - has kept your illness so that in
your journey through it, you may grow and develop. In this
way you become larger than the code or DNA that you are
made of. This is evolution.
The silver lining of all of this is that whilst in the
throes of a chronic and horrible illness such as this (or
any other), we can begin to look at the components of us -
the elements that create and influence us. If we can look
at our familial patterns that we have inherited, and see
how we may be compromised in our physiology, or in our
ambition, sexuality or drive or that we carry similar
beliefs; we can start to dismantle and alter the patterns
that inhabit us.