The Emotional Root of Physical Conditions

By Renée Morris

Our emotions are extraordinarily powerful energies that can affect our health and well-being on every level. If love has the power to heal us and make us whole again, then what can anger and shame do to our bodies and to our lives? Quantum-Touch Founder Richard Gordon once said, “When you bury emotions, you bury them alive.” This phrase struck a chord deep inside me when I first heard it. Emotions are dynamic energies that lives within us, until we release it. The implications of this on our physical body and on the trajectory of our lives is profound, and likely far more impactful than we have previously imagined.

Sometimes in this work, we see people whose conditions keep recurring despite the healing work they are doing. This can be very frustrating for the person in question who is genuinely trying to self-heal but experiences their condition returning again and again. In this type of situation, we look to the emotions for the root cause of their physical condition. Could they be holding the living energy of old emotions within them? And could it be causing imbalance or illness in their physical body and in their lives?

The answer is yes. In the following article, we will dive deeper into how this works and what to do about it. This is also the core teaching of the Quantum-Touch Self-Created Health workshop, the third workshop after Level 1 and Supercharging. We will review the main teachings of this workshop, as well, and how it came to be. So, if you’re wondering if Self-Created Health is a good fit for you, then I invite you to read on.

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Messages from Within

When we have chronic conditions or recurring symptoms, we often just simply want to get rid of them. Same with recurring negative patterns in our lives. We tend to think of them as unwanted guests in our human experience and look for ways to evict them. And sometimes we ignore them or try to suppress them. But what if these recurring symptoms are actually trying to communicate with us? What if they keep coming back because we aren’t getting the message? And what if they are connected to our buried emotions from the past?

In the Self-Created Health workshop, Quantum-Touch takes a unique and loving approach towards these unwanted visitors with the understanding that the body creates symptoms in order to mirror emotions that aren’t being expressed. Let me say that again – the body creates symptoms to mirror emotions that are not being expressed. Essentially, symptoms are the way that the body can communicate with us, and not the body failing as we might often think. I have heard people refer to their recurring symptoms as their body “falling apart” – but in our understanding, these symptoms are actually messages telling us what we need to see, understand, or release. We need only learn how to hear them and receive them before we can move forward in healing them. For some of you, you will likely resonate with this immediately. Have you ever suspected that your body was trying to tell you something but just didn’t know how to decipher the message?

The 7-Step Process for Self-Created Health

The Self-Created Health workshop teaches a simple 7-step process for understanding what the body is trying to tell you through your symptoms, and then releasing the root cause. The two emotions that are at the heart of all chronic conditions are shame and anger. The 7-step process is able to very quickly trace back the emotions you feel about your symptoms to a point of time in your past where you first buried how you felt. The idea is that we all have experiences from our past, likely from childhood, where we could not properly express the emotions we were feeling or we simply did not want to feel them. Maybe we were scared, hurt, shocked, or just did not have the ability to communicate the magnitude of what we were feeling. And so, we buried the emotions within us and life went on. But the living emotional energy never goes away and eventually transforms itself into symptoms in order to get our attention for healing.

The most remarkable part is that the symptoms mirror the original emotions from the past, thereby creating a roadmap for us to follow to get to the root. What does this mean? It means that our experience of the symptoms themselves points directly to the emotional blueprint that was created one day long ago when we were angry or felt ashamed. We often say that whenever we suppress our emotions, the body expresses them. For example, someone might describe their symptoms as an “attack” on their body. When we use the 7-step process, we can quickly uncover that moment or moments from the past where they first felt attacked and buried their emotions about it. Then years later, the body expresses those exact emotions in their symptoms. The 7-step process moves from discovering the root cause to releasing it and then to a series of steps to gain insight, integrate the wisdom of what happened, and experience deeper and deeper self-love.

Through the 7-step process, you will understand why you buried the emotions, how they parallel your current symptoms, what your condition keeps you from doing, and how your life might be different without this condition. This is all part of uncovering the root cause so that it can be released effectively. You might be surprised to discover how deeply the burying of emotions has impacted the trajectory of your life.

The 7 Steps to Self-Created Health Are:

- Discovery: Tracing back the emotional root of your physical condition.
- Release: Getting the living emotional energy out of your system.
- Insight: Understanding how and why your body created this condition from your emotions.
- Remorse: Integrating the understanding that you have created this condition and taking responsibility for that.
- Forgiveness: Experiencing genuine self-forgiveness and stepping into self-love.
- Self-Love: Detaching from what felt like an unforgivable part of you and allowing deep self-love.
- Greater Self-Love: Taking self-love to the next level into deep and transformational spiritual self-love.

And Then What Happens?

For many or even most of us, we have a marked resistance to revisiting those old emotions and circumstances that we soon discover have caused us to bury feelings that later manifest themselves as physical symptoms. We simply do not want to dig up things from the past or even remember what took place. The very thought of it can be rather distressing. So, you might be asking yourself what the point is of this process and what the pay-off is. In other words, is it really worth it? If you are anything like me, then you might want to know what the benefit is to tracing back the emotional blueprint of your life. The great news is that the end result of this process can be dramatically transformational.

When you complete all 7-steps of the Self-Created Health process fully to release the emotional cause of your physical condition, something extraordinary happens. Not only do people’s symptoms reduce and even disappear—which is miraculous in itself—but they actually feel grateful for having had the condition in the first place. Yes, you read it correctly… many people who complete this process experience the healing of their symptoms and feel gratitude for having had them. This is the power of healing the emotional roots of physical conditions. We bring healing to the past and to our bodies in the present.

When I took the workshop myself, I imagined the body’s symptoms like a growing weed. The weed’s leaves (our symptoms) are the physical manifestation. When we trace them back, we get right to the roots, just like when we trace the emotions of our symptoms back, we get to the emotional roots. The 7-step process starts loosening the weed and jiggling at its roots and then finally the whole thing can be released—both leaves and roots—symptoms and emotional roots. As I was contemplating this metaphor, I realized that in completing this process, we are likely also preventing the growth of new symptoms, or new leaves, from those same emotional roots. And it struck me that even if a person does not have any bothersome symptoms currently, that this work would be a powerful preventative measure for maintaining balance in the body and ensuring that those buried emotions be released before they create conditions and symptoms in the body. The energy is always there until we release it, so all the better if we do it proactively and save ourselves the potential suffering of physical symptoms.

The Self-Created Health Discovery

In the following story, Quantum-Touch Founder Richard Gordon shares the experience that led him to exploring the connection between the emotions and physical conditions and which led him to discovering the powerful 7-step Self-Created Health process:

“I woke up one morning in 1980 with severe flu symptoms: deep chest cough, fever, sore throat, aching bones and a splitting headache. My initial thought was that I’d be sick for at least a week, probably longer.
Then I recalled that a few weeks earlier, a teacher I had been working with suggested that all illness, in one form or another, was a result of various repressed emotions.

So, I got out of bed, sat with a piece of paper and decided to look for what I might be upset about. For the first ten minutes I looked everywhere to find an emotional issue but nothing seemed to resonate. Then I suddenly remembered that earlier in the week, I had felt very humiliated by someone’s comment. At the time, I shook it off, ignoring my emotions. But now as I remembered what happened, I let myself get angry. I cried and released with intensity for about 10 minutes.

Feeling somewhat better, I got dressed and drove downtown. I was sitting in the sun having a cup of coffee when suddenly it dawned on me that I had been sick that morning! All my flu symptoms were now completely gone! This inspired me to explore the relationship between physical symptoms and underlying emotions.” – Richard Gordon

You may now be making connections in your own life between poignant emotional moments and subsequent physical conditions, illnesses, and manifestations. Or you may not yet see the clear connections, but you feel the resonance of this understanding, that buried emotions eventually get mirrored in the body as physical symptoms. When I first read about the Self-Created Health workshop and process, I could feel my intuition get activated and simply knew that there was truth in this process. It is a powerful discovery that becomes more and more obvious the more you learn about it and integrate it into your life.

How Did Richard Develop the 7-Step Process for Self-Created Health?

Richard’s initial discovery in 1980 led to the development of a series of questions to quickly target the emotional cause of physical symptoms. This was just the beginning of the process. More was needed in order to allow for the full transformation of energetic disharmony into love to ensure that the healing would be integrated. It would be over 25 years later that the full Self-Created Health process would be complete. Self-Created Health is now offered in-person and virtually by certified Quantum-Touch instructors.

Another Dimension of Healing

Self-Created Health is one of my favorite Quantum-Touch workshops. When I took the class, it felt like I had just obtained a life-changing understanding AND was also lucky enough to receive the tools to integrate it – all of this in just 14 hours of learning. I already loved the work I was doing with the foundational Quantum-Touch techniques, but Self-Created Health opened another dimension of healing that goes extraordinarily deep quickly and is shockingly efficient. The goal of this process is really to restore wholeness. In keeping with my earlier weed analogy, sometimes our temptation is simply to pluck the top of the weed off. Sometimes we just want to remove the symptoms without finding the root. It is instantly satisfying not to see the symptoms or the weed there anymore. But the roots remain and can grow again… and they do, just like our symptoms continue to return if we don’t address the emotional roots.

Self-Created Health gets right to the root, removes the whole thing, and then fills any spaces with self-love, allowing the body to become whole again. This process really is for those who are ready to go deep and reap the benefits. If you feel the resonance of these understandings and want to take your healing work to the next dimension, then Self-Created Health just might be the perfect fit for you!

You can learn more about Self-Created Health, here:  https://quantumtouch.com/en/get-started/self-created-health