If Your Body Says No

Illness is a disturbing condition.
It deals a serious blow to vital physiological and psychological processes that a person is not very aware of when healthy. Especially someone with a chronic disease
begins to realize the limits of their body through this disease. Intuitions and teachings based on the wisdom of the ancients associate physical ailments with a person's personality structure, psychological state, and especially stress. However, when it comes to the mind and body, modern medicine can overlook the emotional conditions of a person before the disease begins or how these affect the course and final state of the disease. This book strikingly reveals the effects

of stress on our health, especially the hidden stresses that we unconsciously create as a result of conditionings that come from our childhood and are so deep and skillfully placed that they can be thought of as a part of our true self . So how does stress turn into disease? What are the costs of emotional stress? What do we lose by suppressing our emotions? How do the suppression dynamics within us work? How do people's ways of conditioning their lives contribute to their illnesses? Dr. Gabor Maté explains how the mind and body are actually a whole, through the biographies of her patients and in the light of scientific data that everyone can understand. She draws attention to the interaction of the mind and body, and the inseparable integrity of emotions and physiology in health and sickness throughout life, and offers striking examples from case studies of multiple sclerosis, rheumatism, cancer, and Alzheimer's. An essential read for anyone who wants to regain and maintain their health.