Allergies … A Novel Perspective

Have you ever considered that illness, and allergy in particular, was a meaningful biological event?

I’ll provide a concrete example of what I’m suggesting, that’s based on the research of the German physician, Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer. The premise of his work is that strong emotional experience, that is not attended to or expressed consciously, will be suppressed and downloaded into the body as illness.

Dr. Hamer’s research is a combination of meticulous interviews with patients and CT scans of their brains. He’s revealed that specific qualities of emotional shock will consistently register in the same brain areas, appearing as light colored rings. Based on embryological development, the brain location will predict the tissues or organs most likely to be affected by a specific quality of emotional shock.

Let’s take the example of a child who suffers the pain of separation each time the father, who’s a truck driver, leaves for an extended trip. The child’s pain of separation is an emotional conflict that will register in the cerebral cortex of the brain and that will eventually affect the skin as the target organ.

While the father is away and the child is distressed, there will be a subtle numbing of the skin, that’s a protection against the pain of separation. The child will feel less pain. And then when the father returns and the child experiences relief, the skin will begin to repair. The repair process involves an inflammatory process that’s accompanied by redness and itching. This restorative phase of illness would likely be diagnosed as eczema.

If this emotional conflict isn’t addressed consciously, this process is likely to repeat itself. The family may even begin to joke that the child is allergic to his father, since it’s the father’s return to home that triggers the inflammation. In truth, the father’s return to home is simply triggering the restorative phase of the healing process.

Here’s the allergy connection. If the child was eating a specific food, such as grapes, when the father first left home, grapes are forever linked to the pain of separation. Grapes become part of the stored memory of that painful event, and subsequent grape eating can trigger the same inflammatory responses in the skin.

So, as you might surmise, there’s no simple pill or herb to address this form of ‘allergy’ or illness. However, there are effective strategies that would use a combination of energy medicine and awareness tools and a willingness to address unresolved emotional experience.

You can read more about Dr. Hamer’s work on the page where I describe META-Medicine.

Dr. Templin offers online courses and consultations, and sees patients personally in his office in Lakeland, Florida. You can learn more about his course Bio-Energetic Focusing: A Revolutionary Medical Model for Self-Healing! here.

Steven Templin, D.O.M., Dipl. Ac., is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, specializing in MindBody Medicine. He is a certified META-Medicine Health Coach and nationally certified acupuncturist. He shares the underlying science and more importantly, the practical tools for resolving the unconscious energetic and emotional roots of illness. In his online course Bio-Energetic Focusing: A Revolutionary Medical Model for Self-Healing! he provides training in Self-Regulation skills, that include Bio-Energetic Focusing, HeartMath and Energy Psychology techniques,  Energy Medicine modalities, and Gastrointestinal repair for enhanced immunity, mood, and mental clarity. Dr. Templin is in private practice in Lakeland, Florida, at the Natural Medicine Center of Lakeland.