One of the first and, in my opinion, more sensitive researchers of this psychosomatic approach was the English physician Edward Bach, (1886-1936, pathologist bacteriologist homeopath). Bach believed that the soul is man’s true self, a Divine powerful being. He considered the source of illness to be mental-spiritual. He believed that primary disease arises from certain human characteristics such as arrogance, cruelty, greed, hatred, selfishness, instability, etc.
He went further on the correlation between one’s way of thinking and bodily health. He said, for example, that pride, which is arrogance and rigidity of the mind, will cause those diseases that make the body hard and rigid. Pain is the result of cruelty and man learns through his own suffering not to show cruelty to others, on either a physical or a mental level.
He referred, in his own way, to certain physical and metaphysical laws: every action is followed by a reaction; we reap what we sow; every cause has an effect. Following his intuition, he created his flower remedies, which come from certain flowers, each of which, according to his theory, helps to deal with a specific pathological mentality. I will not dwell here on flower remedies, but on his reasoning, which correlated the “pathology” of the personality with the pathology of the body. At that time, it was not easy for a doctor to formulate such views and make such a connection between mental/spiritual characteristics and health. Even today it is difficult for a doctor to express these views. Such ideas appeal to a small number of people, despite the fact that, after Bach, many doctors and researchers produced their own observations and research on the power of thoughts.
This view of health, only seemingly taken into account by science, nevertheless does not come into conflict with conventional medicine and its achievements, because sometimes the human body is so burdened that it requires corrective medication or surgical interventions. This is precisely what must be prevented through a way of thinking and living that does not cause disharmony on a mental/spiritual and physical level. Self-observation and self-awareness are needed for this.
This type of therapeutic thinking still needs to go much deeper before we can say that the relationship between thoughts and their recording on the body has been decoded, as was the case with the human genome. Perhaps a greater deepening of the energy of our thoughts and feelings will find expression in the future, following the evolution of people’s collective consciousness, so that they can know and accept their spiritual nature with the same devotion that they now show for their material nature.
