Respiratory Illnesses

Every mind-body disease begins the same way: with an unanticipated experience for which we have no practical preparation leading to a biological conflict mediated by the brain. Your respiratory system comprises functions, organs and tissues directed from very different parts of your brain for very different purposes. The key to the experience that you've had lies in the symptoms. The key to healing lies in the experience that you've had.

Here is a very general overview of the causes and disease process for major respiratory complaints.

Stuffy nose - your nasal passages respond to a stink conflict, which is usually literal but sometimes also figurative (e.g. "this situation stinks!"). The affected tissues are part of your outer skin (squamous epithelium), and they react to a problem of a bad smell in your functional environment, or a problem being able to "smell your enemy." The tissues ulcerate microscopically in order to widen the passages so you can smell better. When you get over your smelly experience, you will get a runny nose. If you also have kidney tubule syndrome, you'll get sinusitis.
After years of post-nasal drip and sinus infections from cleaning up contaminated sites, dealing with garbage and toxic spills, and also being hypervigilant to signs of fire, I can boast an exquisitely-sensitive sense of smell. You can hire me if you need to find someone and you can't get a bloodhound.

Sore throat - the inside of your mouth and throat generally relate to trying to get "the morsel," which is often in a figurative sense of getting some desired material thing. A sore throat is the healing phase of an experience of expecting to get something and then not getting it: for example, expecting to get a fabulous new electronic game for Christmas and instead getting a new church suit.

Bronchitis and cough - the skin of your bronchi is directed to respond to an experience in which you feel helpless: a threat of invasion into your functional environment. It's an experience in which you can see the bad guy outside the house and he hasn't gotten in yet but he's working on it. The tissues (squamous epithelium) will ulcerate in order to widen your bronchial passages so that you can better sense your enemy's scent in order to "read" him. Usually your bronchial musculature is also involved, resulting from a self-devaluation conflict of not being able to defend against the threat. In the healing phase of this experience, your bronchial musculature makes you have spasms while your bronchial skin feels extremely ticklish. This makes you cough and cough - sometimes for weeks or months! You're doing exactly what the dog does when his enemy the mailman is hovering outside the door threatening his territory. The part of the brain that governs the bronchial skin (squamous epithelium) also governs the process of breathing out.
Bronchitis is sometimes misdiagnosed as lung cancer or a precursor to lung cancer. This is incorrect.

Croup - is the healing crisis of a bronchial conflict. For children, this is a feeling of being unsafe.

Laryngitis - the larynx relays through Broca's area of the brain, the area that translates auditory information into voluntary speech concepts which then relay to the motor cortex for you to actually yell out or otherwise respond (or just do like me and talk for three hours straight).
The unanticipated experience that will affect your larynx is an experience of fear or threat that comes as a complete surprise. You perhaps can remember an experience in your life in which someone said something that caught you completely off guard and you just stared at them, speechless, as the moments ticked by and your face got more and more red and you frantically ran scenarios in your mind trying to think of something to do or say in the situation. This is usually the feminine response, while the masculine response is to immediately jump up and whack the offender or otherwise take immediate action. In either case, the brain ulcerates the laryngeal tissues (squamous epithelium) in order to widen the passages to make it easier to say something. Usually this conflict is accompanied by an impact on the laryngeal musculature, a self-devaluation conflict of "not being able to say something."
The part of the brain that controls the squamous epithelium of the larynx also governs the process of breathing in.
In the healing phase after this experience, the larynx tissues (squamous epithelium) will swell and there will be some discomfort and pain. There will be coughing and voice changes due to spasming of the laryngeal musculature.
Polyps can form as part of the healing process for chronic or repeating conflicts. These are not throat cancer, have nothing to do with smoking, and are actually a type of wart!

Phlegm - nested in the bronchioles in the lungs are the goblet cells, which relay from the oldest part of the brain, the brainstem. If you have a feeling, either consciously or unconsciously, that you are having trouble breathing (perhaps because you have a stuffy nose or a sore throat), your brain directs these cells to produce more mucous in order to "lubricate" the air passages to make it more possible for air to get through. When you resolve this feeling, you will cough up the extra mucous and no more will be produced - unless the extra mucous triggers a new conflict of having trouble breathing!
Smokers usually get a very phlegmy chest infection about six months after quitting smoking. It's the healing phase of the chronic smoker's cough.

Lung cancer - is always the result of a death fright. The healing phase, if you are fortunate to have the bacteria, is lung tuberculosis.

Shortness of breath - occurs in the healing phase after there has been an experience of "attack" against the lung or chest cavity. The pleura (tissue sac around the lung cavity) are filled with excess fluid, and then this healing activity is greatly exaggerated by having an active existence conflict. The sense of shortness of breath is also caused by swelling in the related brain area in the cerebellum.

Asthma - asthma is a very complicated process and always involves at least two unanticipated experiences. Either one or both of these experiences was a bronchial (helplessness) conflict or a laryngeal (speechlessness) conflict. If it is bronchial asthma, the symptom is wheezing - intensified out-breath reminiscent of the baying of a hound. If it is laryngeal asthma, the symptom is gasping - intensified in-breath. Status asthmaticus is a dangerous condition in which both the larynx and the bronchi are affected, and both the in-breath and the out-breath are intensified.

The actual asthma attack is very specifically the healing crisis of either the larynx or the bronchus conflict at the same time as either an active territorial conflict on the other side of the cortex or the healing crisis of an active territorial conflict on the opposite side of the cortex.
In the case of bronchial (wheezing) asthma, there must be a simultaneous experience, either active or in healing crisis, of one of the following:

• sexual rejection (or territorial loss for left-handed male)
• identity conflict ("where do I fit in?")
• territorial anger for left-handed male
• boundary violation in relation to partner, father, or sibling (for right-handers)
• boundary violation in relation to mother or child (for left-handers)

In the case of laryngeal (gasping) asthma, there is a simultaneous experience, either active or in healing crisis, of one of the following:

• territorial loss (sexual rejection for left-handed female)
• territorial anger
• identity conflict for left-handed female
• boundary violation in relation to mother or child (for right-handers)
• boundary violation in relation to partner, father, or sibling (for left-handers)

Asthma behaves much like an allergy in that, although the original conflicts may have been resolved, certain new experiences contain elements of the original helplessness or speechlessness experience - or the territorial ones - and the mind unconsciously conjures up the whole complicated mess again and then the brain takes this "reminder" straight to the healing crisis: an asthma attack.

The solution is to bring the original conflicts to light, in order to solve them consciously. This will break the unconscious asthma-allergy cycle.

Most conflicts are unconscious. Just bringing the conflict into your consciousness brings you most of the way to resolution and healing.