Inflammation
Inflammations, Allergies & Auto-Immune Conditions
Inflammation is our body’s response to any injury.
- The first kind of injury occurs due to poor dietary habits, where we expose our body to various irritants, e.g., in the form of processed foods (colouring agents, chemical preservatives, high levels of salts, sugars, oils, etc.) or cigarette smoking (which is supposed to contain over 60 chemicals that can cause cancer).
- The second kind of injury occurs due to excessive physical exertion with fewer periods of rest, where the body cells do not get the rest time to heal themselves, resulting in more injury. These can be seen as related to an incorrect lifestyle.
- The third kind of injury occurs due to a psychological stress from severe states of anxiety, which in turn releases chemicals that trigger an inflammatory process; the more the stress, the more the inflammation.
To help reduce or heal the inflammatory health conditions, it is hence necessary to identify the source of inflammation, correct it, and heal it through the appropriate yogic approach.
Allergies can be seen as a reactive response (sensitivity) towards multiple external factors labeled as allergens. Clinical evidence has shown the occurrence of allergies as either arising from;
- Chronic inflammatory states – where the individual continues to injure their own body through repeated injuries by following poor lifestyle or dietary habits over a longer period of time. Or,
- Suppressing one’s own emotions – individuals suffering from allergies are often seen to be highly sensitive, yet suppressing these emotions for various reasons.
Autoimmunity is clinically seen to be associated with extreme sensitivities and extreme suppression of emotions.
Healing allergies and auto-immune conditions, hence necessitate a proper psychological assessment to identify factors that could be either demotivating the individual to follow the right lifestyle and food habits, or the factors that make them suppress / handle their emotions effectively.