What Causes An Allergy?

Body/Soul Alignment looks at allergy as a conditioned reflex, similar to the classic demonstration shown by Pavlov’s dogs.  They salivated in anticipation of food that was associated with hearing a bell ring.  The dogs continued to salivate every time they heard the bell, soon forgetting that the response had anything to do with food.  They salivated because of the bell itself.

A similar thing happens when we are shocked or a dramatic event happens at the same time something is also being heard or seen, smelled or tasted.  These traumatic events cause feelings and memories to be stored in our emotional memory.

How Does Body/Soul Alignment Work With Allergies?

When we are triggered by a similar circumstance, perhaps even years later, our body will react physically just as though the original event were still happening.  In this way, an emotional event, even though no longer in current time, can set in motion physical responses such as stuffiness and eye-watering (grief), or irritability (anger) or hives, rash, spaciness and anxiety (fear) and numerous other symptoms that are about unresolved feelings from the past.

Memories that produce allergies always contain an element of humiliation and helplessness.  If a person with an allergy can go back in his thoughts and reconnect to the specific memory that triggered the allergy -- and unhook the helplessness -- they have a fair chance of reaching resolution to the allergy.  This sets the stage for a new way to react to the stimulus, without responding to the original trauma.

Sandy Fawcett, BBP, HHC, HMT, BA     Body/Soul Alignment

(541) 932-2798    slfawcett@earthlink.net

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Body/Soul Alignment is vibrational healing, and not medical or diagnostic in nature.  It is not a substitute for qualified medical, therapeutic, or chiropractic care, although it can work well in a complementary fashion with these and many other disciplines.