Biodecoding™- What Can it Teach Us?
Twenty five years ago, I read a book called Biogenealogy: Decoding the Psychic Roots of Illness by Patrick Obissier. A lightbulb came on and it has never gone out. What I retained from Obissier’s message was that illness serves a purpose. All illnesses and all symptoms that appear in the body have a meaning. The body is designed for survival and everything that it does is intentional. It is the biologies best attempt at survival. To quote Obissier...
“All illnesses have a distress as their starting point, which causes a biological conflict.
All illnesses begin upon receiving an order from the brain.
As genes contain imprinted memories of ancient adaptations to old conflicts, all illnesses are genetic and epigenetic.”
Each symptom and disease, begins with a feeling. This feeling appears in reaction to a "triggering conflict” and stimulates a biological process which appears as a symptom. The biological process that appears as a symptom or a disease, is the biological answer to solving the conflict. The symptom may be minor and fleeting, as conflicts and feelings come and go without our giving it a second thought. Or, the symptom may persist and intensify and become chronic in the case of “disease”.
What I know, through Biodecoding™, is that for a symptom to appear, there is always or almost always, a “programming conflict”. This is a conflict that happened at a precise moment in time - something that was intense to the person experiencing it. The conflict was experienced in isolation (even if there were other people around and the person did not receive support) and was not resolved. Here is where it gets weird… this conflict may have happened when a person was two years old or seven years old. It could have happened while the person was in the womb. Or even before they were conceived - one, two, three, ten, or twenty generations before conception. Sometimes this programming conflict even appears as a sequence from a “past life”. It doesn’t really matter what shows up - think of it as a metaphorical image from the soul.
“Weird can be defined as one foot in this world and one foot in another.”
You may have heard of epigenetic. But you may be wondering... how the heck are we supposed to do anything about it?
Well my friend, trust me when I tell you that you “know” so many things that you don’t think you know. When we find the correct trigger, it will lead us to the correct programming moment. And it is almost guaranteed that it is something that you know nothing about. Either a memory that you don’t have stored in the conscious mind or an ancestor’s memory.
What we do about it is to bring resources and resolution for the child or the ancestor or your mother when you were in the womb. Once we bring the resource and the psyche (which is part of the collective psyche) finds peace, it passes it along to your mind which tells your body, “crisis averted, stand down”.
It is ever so simple, not necessarily easy, but ever so simple.
As an example: A woman comes in with chronic urinary tract infections. In biological terms, this is very literally the body’s way of marking one’s territory by creating more urine. If it is burning and inflamed, there is likely a source of aggression or irritation connected to it. And if it is not going away, there is an ongoing conflict. In most cases of women, a urinary tract infection has to do with someone standing in the way of the woman being in control of organizing her territory. Once we find the moment that the conflict occurred, we follow it to the moment of the programming conflict to bring resource, a new perspective and resolution. The body no longer needs to act to “solve” the issue, as the mind has a new knowledge and experience. And so, the infection is free to resolve.
Depending on the issues - the length of time that a symptom has been going on and the complexity of the situation - the process might take one Biodecoding session or ten sessions to address one single illness, allowing beneficial growth to the whole person all along the way. Referencing another one of my articles, where I discuss the importance of emunctory, Biodecoding also helps me as a naturopath address a patient’s terrain. In Biodecoding, we are in essence weeding the terrain, clearing what is not essential, so the body can focus on vitality, aliveness and wholeness.
The conscious mind represents something like 10% of what is happening in the body and psyche. The other 90% are held in the subconscious. Biodecoding is one tool to access that which is hidden.
In love and good health,
Ajana Miki, ND, LAc