Mental invitations, the real root of childhood illness

Have you ever noticed that your child becomes unwell during times of major changes, trauma and emotional stress? Maybe they’ve just started nursery, a new sibling has arrived or they’ve got a test coming up. Perhaps there’s an unwelcome visitor who creates feelings of awkwardness and judgement or an appointment coming up such as the dentist.

Disease has many triggers: poor nutrition, environmental allergens, lack of exercise and toxin overload; the real root cause to why the disease has manifested in a particular way may lie far deeper in the troubled mind.

Shamans and ancient healers have long believed that all dis-ease originates from disturbances in the mind/ psyche and they treat their patients through techniques such as chanting and invocations to access and ‘release’ the negative energies causing disruption.

Humans are energetical beings affected by everything around them that has its own energy field, even that which we cannot see or touch; whether it be mobile phone radiation or a domineering person exerting their forces of control.

Have you ever notice how some people uplift you and others make you feel drained and depleted? This is due to how our energy fields interact with others, some build your energy higher whilst others deplete it. If it becomes too depleted, disease will manifest in the body. As children are under the guidance and control of the adults surrounding them, the adults issues will have a direct affect on their well-being whether we accept it or not.

Below I have taken a selection of common childhood imbalances from Louise L. Hay’s book ‘You can heal your life’ and given their mental invitations/thoughts that have helped to manifest that particular illness.

Try not to discredit or take this information too personally; as the Buddhists teachings say, we all come here with our own karmas and the only certainty in life is that all humans will endure suffering at some level.

• Accidents – Inability to speak up for the self. Rebellion against authority. Belief in violence.
• Aches – Longing for love/to be held.
• Allergies – Denying own power.
• Anemia – Lack of joy. Fear of life. Feeling not good enough.
• Adenoids – Family friction. Arguments. Child feeling unwelcome or in the way.
• Anxiety – Not trusting the flow and process of life.
• Asthma – Smother love. inability to breathe for oneself. Suppressed crying.
• Baby asthma – Fear of life. Not wanting to be here.
• Bedwetting – Fear of parent, often the father.
• Childhood diseases – Childish behaviour in the adults around them.
• Colds – Too much going on at once. Mental confusion.
• Colic – Mental irritation. Impatience. Annoyance in the surroundings.
• Pink-eye – Anger and frustration. Not wanting to see.
• Eye problems – Not wanting to see what is going on in the family.
• Earache – Anger. Not wanting to hear. Too much turmoil. Parents arguing.
• Eczema – Breath-taking antagonism. Mental eruptions.
• Fevers – Anger. Burning-up.
• Overweight – Represents protection. hypersensitivity.
• Hay fever – Emotional congestion. Guilt. A belief in persecution. A fear of the calendar.
• Headaches – Invalidating the self. Self-criticism. Fear.
• Infection – Irritation. Anger. Annoyance.
• Inflammation – Fear. Seeing red. Inflamed thinking.
• Influenza (Flu) – Response to mass negativity and beliefs. Fear
• Jaundice – Internal and external prejudice. Unbalanced reason.
• Motion sickness – Fear of not being in control.
• Nail biting – Frustration. Eating away at the self. Spite of a parent.
• Nose bleeds – A need for recognition. Feeling unwanted and unrecognised. Crying for love.
• Polio – Paralysing jealousy, a desire to stop someone
• Stuttering – Insecurity. Lack of self-expression. Not being allowed to cry.

(extracted from ‘You can heal your life’ by Louise L. Hay)

Only you can figure out how best to help your child once you have identified their emotional imbalances. The most important remedy is nearly always to bring back a sense of security and love in to the child’s life. Allow them to talk with someone who will act as a sound board rather than offering solutions and judgements on the issues.Make them feel loved, giving them quality time and showing affection through physical affection, no matter what their age.

Sometimes a bit of TLC along with offloading their emotional baggage in a safe space is all kids need in order to feel heard and understood and begin to heal.