The Emotional Cause of Asthma

Asthma is also influenced by many emotions - laughing, crying, anger, panic, etc.  There are many in the medicine that believe there is no convincing proof that people with asthma are any more psychologically disturbed than their non-asthmatic peers. However, it is not possible to have an illness or disease without it having an emotional or trauma component associated with it.  Our brain and body is not a separate.  The brain and body can not work independently of each other.

Asthma can be related to birth traumas where the newborn is being suffocated by the birth process.   Or, the newborn can be having a difficulty time coming out thus weakening the lungs and the bronchioles.   Also, if parents were over protective or dominating, or demanding, they can make the child feel suffocated.

And, there are many other asthmatic scenarios that could weaken a person’s lungs and bronchioles during childhood. Do you know what your birth was like?  Birth trauma has a major impact on what your health and personality is like.

In his book, How to Get Well, 1974, Paavo Airola, Ph.D., says,

“Extensive studies show that there are two basic causes of asthma: one, the typical allergic reaction to one or more allergens; two, psychic factors. Doctors agree that many young asthmatics (according to studies, about 25%) have in common a ‘deep-seated emotional insecurity and an intense need for parental love and protection’. When emotional causes are suspected, these must be dealt with before biological and nutritional treatments can be effective.”

Emotions, feelings, thoughts such as apprehension, jealousy, fear, hate, concern, anxiety, and panic can cause muscular tension and contraction around the bronchioles. Over years, these emotions can cause muscle spasms and weakening of the bronchioles, which can then lead to asthma as a child or adult.

In his book, Cleanse & Purify Thyself, 1998, Richard Anderson, N.D., N.M.D., says,

“Our own research indicates that Love is the great key. When we understand that Love is the natural state of our beings and when Love is not flowing through our beings every moment, than some other emotion or concept is interfering. These interferences are usually emotions of great intensity or some quirk in our point of view, such as the habit of judging conditions, things, or people in negative ways, and most of the time they are unconscious. One of the activities we all need to initiate is to remove these conscious and unconscious negative emotions so that Love may flow through us. Here in lies one of the most important points in this book.”

For many healers and doctors of the past it was clear that childhood trauma and the lack of love provided an atmosphere where illness and disease could develop. Asthma sufferers need to look for and heal that emotional component that prevents them from healing, so that they can start the asthma healing.  They need to use their intuition and feel, which is the right direction to go in their healing.