Psychosomatic Energetics from Dr.

Banis

the 28 conflicts
of
psychosomatic energetics

• Do you feel healthy,

but would like to further develop your personal growth?

• Do you not feel 100%, yet

neither your family doctor nor medical specialists seem to be able to find anything "wrong" with you?

• Is your health chronically disturbed,

but all the treatments to date have been of little help?

• Do you have addiction problems?

• Are you chronically ill

and feel the need to try something that goes beyond conventional therapy?

• Do your children behave in a manner

that creates problems for you and as a result you find yourself at your wits' end?

continue to read ……..

dr. helge richter

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1010 vienna und 3484 st. john, austria www.helge.richter.md
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From asthma to adhd - many health conditions and disorders are often psychoenergetic in origin.

The problem is that people often react negatively to conventional therapeutic alternatives offered -
medications and/or psychotherapy: some are truly bitter and do not resolve the fundamental and
underlying problem and others often produce uncertain results and can be of long duration.

There exists an alternative: Psychosomatic Energetics (PSE) which is a successful method developed by
German physician, Dr. Reimar Banis, as a result of his naturopathic work with thousands of patients in
the 80”s and 90’s, and was first presented to the public in 1997.

Background. We have all at sometime suffered emotional wounds sometime throughout our personal
history, whether we remember them or not. We have been able to only overcome one aspect of them: the
rest continues acting in a manner more or less subconsciously, influencing our behavior and disturbing
our health.

Traditional medicine and psychotherapy also talk about this phenomenon that occurs at the root of all
traumatic experiences, called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Dr. Reimar Banis has determined the different types of emotional wounds, which he refers to as
“conflicts”. He has given each conflict a name corresponding to the behavioral disorder and has
developed homeopathic remedies capable of eliminating these emotional wounds from our subconscious.

The conflicts are true “energy vampires” which rob from a part of our vital energy. One feels weak and
exhausted but does not bother to find out why, and at times the conflict is repressed and acts
subconsciously.

Similarity. Most of us day by day can imagine the similarity with “computer viruses”: just like the
functions of a computer can be destroyed and the entire system paralyzed, the energy blocks can also
produce this effect throughout the entire organism and put ones general health at risk.

Basically what the PSE homeopathic drops do is transmit – the same as antivirus software- the correct
information with which the dysfunction is eliminated.

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Found are the conflicts of the patient via a sophisticated test method:

• with a special machine,

• with special vials to be used as an instrument for testing and
• applying the kinsiological arm-lenth test

How does the treatment work?

Through testing a conflict is found

This conflict is treated for approximately 3 months – depending on the age of the conflict

Three months later, after being retested, the conflict has been eliminated, although sometimes it may
be necessary to prolong treatment for one more month. The next conflict comes to the surface.

On average there are approximately 7-8 conflicts per person

The 28 conficts are organized in groups and localized in different regions of the body (via the
chakras). The therapy for a particular conflict also remedies the disturbance in the associated region.

Depending on the patient’s state and severity of disorder or disease, complete therapy can take from
a mew months to two years.

The success rate for common health disorders and diseases is more than 80%!!

(two clinical studies with over 300 patients resulted in an 80% of the patients considering the success of
their treatment as good or very good)

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The dissolution of conflicts offers other possibilities of invaluable benefits:

Through them on can cure:

• Chronic health conditions

• Behavioral diseases
• Chronic diseases
(many of which have a psychosomatic origin)

through this method one can:

• prevent the cause of disease

and from there,

• increase the sense of well-being

• increase the level of psychoenergetic vigor
• stimulate emotional-spiritual growth

Other than the curing success

in cases of persistent unrest with health, patients have many surprising changes:

• They are more lively, feel better and have a clearer way of expressing their personality. This note is in
a stronger voice, a more open expression on the face and certainly one aspect often resolved.

• They are stable, more sure of themselves and cheerful.

• They have better insight in their needs at all times, and more lively force to deal with the realization
of one's own desires and needs.

Increases personal authenticity.

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conflict no. 1

independence

Problems that may arise:

You don't feel good enough for yourself, typically having problems with identity.

You lack primary psychic orientation in the form of sufficient self-confidence. The basic trust has been
lost or was never present. Melancholy is a frequent tendency. The world is felt to be bad.

Children with early-childhood shocks such as divorce, death of a parent, child neglect, unwanted child.
Children with an unhappy childhood, for example parents who had hoped for a son (heir) and got a
daughter instead.

Lack of inner strength to deal with the burdens heaped upon you. Unaware of your strengths. You feel
yourself to be smaller than you really are. Tendency to shut other people out and not get attached.

Empirically, frequent pelvic problems. Bladder, prostate, uterus, ovaries, hips, and legs can be affected.

Sought-for solution:
Be cognizant of your strengths and talents. Everyone has a no-strings-attached right to life.

Positive sentence for solving conflict:

I have all the talents and skills I need to be able to fulfill my task in life.

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conflict no. 2

lack of concentration

Possible problems:

You are simply not really "here". You don't know your destiny or purpose. This conflict applies even
when rebelling against having to be in this world. Your life is lived halfheartedly and with a lack of
conviction.

You don't trust yourself to show what you are capable of. In stress situations and occasions meant to test
your abilities and strengths, you tend to beat a retreat. Tendency to postpone things or do them
unwillingly. Inclination to avoid requests or demands.

You often give others who meet you an impression of inapproachability or featurelessness.

You don´t know your own strength. Only a fraction of your potential is ever realized. Deep inside, you
obstinately engage in passive resistance. You yearn to be somewhere else very different.

Empirically, frequent pelvic problems. Bladder, prostate, uterus, ovaries, hips and legs can be affected.

Sought-for solution:

Realize that you maintain your own powers and apply them intelligently. Accept being in the world and
be thankful for it. Develop and deploy your talents and strong points with genuine enthusiasm.

Positive sentence for solving conflict:

I will focus all my impulses towards my goal in life and will stay persistent.

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conflict no. 3

loss of control/helplessness

Possible problems:

You feel helpless and in every sense paralyzed. The greater the demands, the less you feel able to find a
solution. Life is a never-ending struggle. You never dare fully be yourself, and feel 100% dependent on
others.

You are never seen as you really are. In a social setting, you feel accepted only if you live up to role
expectations. You tend to live for others as a puppet and accomplice.

You have learned from experience that giving free rein to your talents, strengths, and needs will be
immediately and unrelentingly punished. You therefore dare not do anything at all. You tend to inaction
and immobility.

You tend to be wishy-washy (undecided, playing for time, keeping things vague, postponing everything
until the last second, and so on) or, in the extreme case, to give up entirely. Basically, you do not want to
be here.

Empirically, frequent pelvic problems. Bladder, prostate, uterus, ovaries, hips, and legs can be affected.
Often helpful also in cases of leg ulcers.

Sought-for solution:

Work on the feeling of being borne by your own powers, don't let others clip your wings any more, and
develop more confidence from task to task. Develop steadfastness and rootedness. Stand up resolutely for
your convictions.

Positive sentence for solving conflict:

I am grounded deeply in life and I will grow with each task.

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conflict no. 4

strongly self-controlled

Possible problems:

You don't allow yourself to grow and live your own life. You have put on the brakes completely to your
childlike expansionist joy and keep yourself reined in far too much. There are often problems with sexual
identity. You try to salvage a ruined family environment by being obedient. You are willing to sacrifice
your life to maintain social cohesion. You were too strictly disciplined at too early an age and acted like
an adult even as a child.

You tend to suppress feelings and spontaneous life-affirming actions. Discipline, rationality, and
obedience are top priorities. You expect others to live up to your exacting life standards.

You are terribly afraid of giving in to your unruliness and joie de vivre, because that exposes you and
others to great danger.

Empirically, frequent pelvic problems. Bladder, prostate, uterus, ovaries, hips, and legs can be affected.

Sought-for solution:

Be more loving and accepting with yourself, unconditionally, with no strings attached. Learn to express
your wishes and opinions moderately yet vigorously.

Positive sentence for solving conflict:

I will treat my body and feelings with all the love and care I have.

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conflict no. 5

hectic

Possible problems:

Uneasiness and drivenness. Agitation with constant restlessness. High physical stress coupled with me
tendency to react 10 psychic stress with physical symptoms, e.g. tendency to hypertension and deep-
seated lower-back pain. Quite often irritable colon symptoms with stomachache, alternating diarrhea and
constipation. Tendency to kidney ailments.

Above-average work performance, very ambitious and very active. Tendency to perfectionism. You have
the feeling of never quite getting going and finishing something. You court recognition and praise from
others because you have a very high personal standard. You feel responsible for others' lives.

You often talk in a continuous torrent without letting anyone else get a word in edgewise. Incapable of
relaxation and rest. Belief that existence is justified only if you force yourself to record accomplishments.

You think you have to remain in harness and alert in order to not lose control. You want to be every-
where at once, so as not to miss anything and to extract me maximum from life.

Sought-for solution:

Derive strength from calming down and learn to live life itself instead of the illusion of life, and find
peace in each situation. Be contented with yourself and your abilities, even if things turn out less than
perfect.

Positive sentence for solving conflict:

I can stay calm and relaxed knowing that everything has its time.

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conflict no. 6

perseverance

Possible problems:

Tendency to clothe fear in physical ailments. External impression of being completely calm and in
control, but very apprehensive deep inside. You are fearful for inner security and your life, but don´t
want to admit it. You need to act strong and courageous for others and yourself.

You are chronically overtaxed. Often irritable colon with diarrhea and stubborn lower-back pain
(sacroiliac joint). Feeling of constant overexertion, thereby basically feeling much weaker and constantly
exceeding your limits.

You are incapable of refusing new requests and are therefore always getting more work piled on. You are
unable and too weak to pull out of overtaxing situations and grant yourself the needed respite.

You believe that you are only loved and appreciated when doing your duty. You believe that only virile
go-getters have a right to live, that betraying weakness and being fainthearted means forfeiting the right
to exist.

Sought-for solution:

Develop the ability to recognize and acknowledge your limits, and give in to the need for rest and
relaxation. Overcome your inner anxiety and trust that you'll continue to live even in a state of rest and
relaxation. Relearn to take notice of your body.

Positive sentence for solving conflict:

I know that my body has its own inner wisdom and that I am secure within.

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conflict no. 7

show of strength

Possible problems:

Actual existence does not agree with self-image. You secretly feel unsure and inferior, but hide it behind a
facade of larger-than-life self-confidence.

You don't let the outside world look inside. Actual symptoms and problems remain in the dark as you
subconsciously baffle and beguile others. You get tangled up in contradictions.

Constant alternation between feeling strong and weak, thereby looking unpredictable and unfathomable
to others. Another behavioral variant consists of cutting others down to make yourself look better.

Large external stresses stand in stark contradiction to actual inner strength.

Sought-for solution:

Honestly see and acknowledge your self-image, with its weakness and helplessness. At the same time,
learn to develop and make use of your strong points and talents. "Everyone puts on their pants one leg at
a time, too!" Modesty and sincerity are the expression of genuine strength.

Positive sentence for solving conflict:

I know about my strengths and weaknesses and I learn to accept myself as I am.

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conflict no. 8

isolated

Possible problems:

You live on an island amid strangers. You want to make contact, but are unable to approach the others.

You feel like a lonesome outcast Robinson Crusoe, all the more intolerable because there are people all
around.

You lack the means to communicate satisfactorily with others. The resulting feeling of isolation leads to
inner paralysis and lethargy.

Therefore, no attempt is made to rebel against the intolerable situation. You become very quiet and
lifeless.

Sought-for solution:

You have a right to life in any situation, and the opportunity for happiness and enjoyment.

Positive sentence for solving conflict:

I know that I am a part of a greater entity. I will feel and enjoy life with all my senses.

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conflict no. 9

pent-up emotions

Possible problems:

You try to win the sympathy and affection of others by being particularly friendly and compliant. You are
constantly attuned to the needs of others and try to satisfy them.

In this process you postpone your own desires, which leads to subliminal rancor and a mountain of
unfulfilled wishes. What others think of you is extremely important.

An unbearable pressure builds up over time, driven by the contradiction between your seeming lack of
desires while constantly being attuned to and fulfilling the wishes of others. This servile attitude
magically attracts exploiters and egotists. Moreover, your subconscious seduces other people into
egotistical and exploitative behavior. You tend to exceed your limits and overtax yourself constantly.

You fantasize someday being grandly rewarded for all this, but the actual reward never measures up to
the imagined one. This gives birth to a nagging feeling of dissatisfaction and extreme rage.

Sought-for solution:

Recognize your limits and learn to say no. Above all, learn that saying no does not automatically lead to
rejection and destruction, but rather is part of life. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." (But not more than
thyself!)

Positive sentence for solving conflict:

I keep learning day by day only to say yes when I mean yes. I don’t remain angry, but I create new
actions from my disappointments.

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conflict no. 10

wanting more

Possible problems:

A persistent feeling of dissatisfaction and the search for happiness makes you want more from life. You
are not happy or at ease with yourself way down deep, but rather feel pauperized and extraordinarily
needy.

You discover that everything in life must be taken by force if you're to obtain satisfaction. However, that
which has already been taken is not enough - it is not enough, and therefore you must always take more.
Each fulfilled wish generates three more. Good fortune is hoped for at every next turn of the road,
making you a driven person.

Your self-image tries to hide the drivenness and hunger from yourself and others by projecting an
external demeanor of conspicuous calmness and contentment.

The hunger for more out of life can find expression in the piling up of knowledge, power, luxury goods,
ideas, and countless other objects and energies.

Sought-for solution:

Learn to be thankful and contented for what you have in life, find your center and, happiness in your
center, without adding (wanting more) other people or objects.

Positive sentence for solving conflict:

I am thankful for who I am and for what I have.

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conflict no. 11

craving good feelings

Possible problems:

You are deeply discontented. The unhappiness of being frustrated leads easily to a counter-reaction,
which consists of the refusal to eat or enjoy life, nor to acknowledge your frustration.

This feeling of constant emotional hunger gives rise to unreal fantasies and a nagging driven feeling.

Subtle and subconscious tendency to provoke situations in order to experience the frustration time and
again, and to over-interpret the rejection. You often fall into a total slave role to garner indirectly a few
crumbs from the total satisfaction of the wishes of others.

You tend to various kinds of addiction and dependency.

Sought-for solution:

Recognize your needs, learn to nourish yourself emotionally and do the right thing. You should learn to
acknowledge that contentment can only co me from within, and not wait for others to do the right thing.

Positive sentence for solving conflict:

I respect my own needs and will do myself some good.

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conflict no. 12

mental overexertion

Possible problems:

You believe that you can control all feeling through rational thought processes. This need for control is
valued more highly than spontaneous expression of emotions.

However, since more than 80% of human communication is wordless - i.e., takes place subconsciously -
you constantly overtax yourself and cannot keep all your impulses under control.

This is of course very tiring, and makes you feel that you can no longer concentrate. You suspect that you
have taken on "an impossible task" and have a tendency to take flight internally.

This permanent flight tendency makes it impossible to stick to the task at hand. Thoughts of problems
and of failure predominate and you cannot trust yourself or others.

Sought-for solution:

Learn that rationality isn't everything. Learn to trust and let life's flow carry you, without always having
everything under control. It has to do with letting go of the idée fixe that everything has to be preplanned
and directed.

Positive sentence for solving conflict:

I believe that I will get new strength with every new task.

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conflict no. 13

withdrawn

Possible problems:

You feel deeply distressed and believe it impossible to get over such a severe injury. A typical example of
such a wounded ego is unrequited love, i.e., the rejection of your amorous overtures by someone who
does not reciprocate the emotion.

You not only feel injured, but also humiliated and made to look the fool. You withdraw fearfully from
human contact because you no longer expect any good to come of it. You are insulted, feel depressed,
often can't work up the energy to do anything, become apathetic and dull.

You erect walls around your fragile psyche, like a snail withdrawing deep into its shell.

Sought-for solution:

Realize that people are not always "Wicked, nasty, mean, and evil" and that much of it depends on
personal context. Thus, certain situations may have negative consequences for you, but another person
might get quite a different impression. No everything is a personal attack. Learn to open up emotionally,
make your peace with others, re-establish contact.

Positive sentence for solving conflict:

I live my life in trust and with an open mind.

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conflict no. 14

introverted

Possible problems:

You have totally shut out the outer world and feel trapped behind walls. Your thoughts go around in
circles and you feel worse and worse.

This being walled off from others is not felt as being protective; instead, you feel horribly hemmed in,
under overpowering compulsion and permanent pressure.

Your emotional freedom of movement is extremely limited, such that you become mistrustful and
timorous. This anxiety can be felt physically, emotionally, or mentally. The trigger for this emotional
retreat is often a severe emotional trauma, which you consider to be insuperable and far too fearsome.

You wall yourself into an emotional fortress which, over the long run, doesn't feel protective bur rather
compulsive.

Sought-for solution:

Recognize who the real builder of your prison is and open up again emotionally.

Positive sentence for solving conflict:

I regard obstacles and difficulties I have to face as impulses for my spiritual growth. I will keep my eyes
and my heart open for new ways.

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conflict no. 15

apprehensive

Possible problems:

You feel abandoned in a threatening world. You feel anxious and fearful, and would most like to crawl
into a hidey-hole somewhere.

The threat can be a great heart-wounding sorrow whose consequences now paralyze your initiative.
Because of your feebleness, you think your heart might stop beating at any moment.

There exists a fundamental fear that can attach itself to real-world objects such as spiders or mice - but it
can also remain quite diffuse and generic.

Some people develop a "fear of fear itself," which is like an emotional echo chamber.

Sought-for solution:

Fears block energy flows, so you should encourage everything that favors and strengthens
psychoenergetic flow.

Positive sentence for solving conflict:

I make my way in life even through grief and anxieties. I know that they are a part of life but they cannot
keep me from moving.

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conflict no. 16

panic

Possible problems:

You feel inundated by an overwhelming fear of death, like some gigantic tidal wave. You are unable to
put up any resistance to this enormous fear, in fact you feel completely paralyzed.

You feel as though the final bell is tolling and everything is irrevocably over, that the catastrophe is
inescapable.

This fear builds up to huge proportions in your imagination.

Sought-for solution:

Even the worst situations come to an end at some point, and then life goes on as always. Since fears
obstruct psychoenergetic flow, you should develop and strengthen your basic trust in the positive and
relaxing aspects of life.

Positive sentence for solving conflicts:

I listen to my heart and I listen to the voice of love, light and clarity.

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conflict no. 17

blocked feelings
emotional emptiness

Possible problems:

As the "gateway to feelings," the neck can choke off rising emotions so much that it induces total
emotional rigidity. A person acts totally in control, head-guided, as though nothing affects him any more
- almost like a robot.

Yet the repressed feelings and their expression - crying, sobbing, even screaming - have just been "put on
hold" and have not really gone away. Often, these upwelling feelings are associated with psychic shocks
and great inner horror, and here the emotional play-dead reflex instinctively insures survival.

People with an emotional "play-dead" reflex have very limited feelings at their disposal, while their
rationality continues to operate unhindered.

This can be seen in someone reporting on horrible events very unemotionally, so that listeners get the
impression that it means nothing to the reporter, since there is no emotion in the report. Yet such a person
is typically in a state of emotional shock, which splits off feeling from thinking, giving rise to the false
impression that he or she has no feelings at all.

Sought-for solution:

The aim here is to gradually release repressed feelings from their congealed state, and to re-harmonize
heart (body) and mind (reason). These patients need to learn to notice what they are prone to "gulp
down" or suppress, and to be aware of and express precisely these emotional contents. This will allow
them to be more authentic and straightforward, as they learn to say what they really mean. In this
manner, even psychic shocks can eventually be articulated and worked out.

Positive sentence for solving conflict:

I feel that I am alive, even in rough times.

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conflict no. 18

rushed

Possible problems:

In the neck region (gateway to feelings), so many impulses and drives can rush in, like a flash flood, that
the patient panics and feels overwhelmed by it all. Too much gushes forth all at once, and the brain
doesn't get a chance to step in and sort it all out.

Because so many impulses and contradictory wishes are all active at once, the patient seems rushed and
keyed up to others, confused and unclear and, all in all, fairly unstructured.

Such people suffer a great deal from the fact that they cannot express themselves clearly and make
themselves understood. They often talk very fast, trying to make listeners understand, but this just
confuses people all the more, and in the end no one knows what's going on. Both sides of this attempt at
communication are left unsatisfied and feeling like victims of circumstance.

There is often an inner restlessness which is not visible from the outside. Unexpectedly, people with the
"Rushed" theme can often see m quite calm and relaxed - but their happiness is seen in the way their
inner stream of thought flows too rapidly.

Sought-for solution:

"Strength lies in calmness" should be the guiding inner theme. Relaxed and calm breathing is often a great
aid in restoring inner equilibrium. The patient should be encouraged to do things slowly, yet correctly,
and with total conviction.

Positive sentence for solving conflict:

I will allow my inner voice to speak up and I will listen.

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conflict no. 19

faint-hearted

Possible problems:

The evasive maneuvering and irresoluteness are rooted in the inability to weigh rationally the relative
benefits of different possible courses of action and arrive at a firm decision that won't be regretted later
on. The true causes of indecisiveness include the fear of making mistakes and the hope that an even better
option might still turn up.

Yet every decision involves the possibility of error, and there will always be a better option somewhere,
sometime, that can call an earlier decision into question. Therefore, you simply have to summon up the
courage to take a stand - but this is enormously difficult for the Faint-hearted to do.

Faint-hearteds want to placate everyone in their immediate vicinity by being friendly and
accommodating to them all and scrupulously avoiding confrontation. They try hard to be diplomatic and
use delaying tactics, not realizing that they thereby suppress their own wishes and desires. Their dispro-
portionate need for harmony and their drive for freedom in their immediate environment even makes
them willing to retreat defensively a great deal. They are interested in many things, but tackle few of
them seriously, because any distraction threatens to upset the carefully-cultivated status quo.

Such persons appear from the outside to be passive and sluggish, even though they are internally busy
keeping things stable and calm. This often makes them emotionally unstable, and they wind up going in
circles without making any real progress.

Sought-for solution:

You should work courageously and resolutely to implement your plans, without obsessing about the
reactions that others might have to them. Learn to make clear and firm decisions that take the possibility
of error into account.

Positive sentence for solving conflict:

I will develope a sense for what is good for me and put this feeling into action.

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conflict no. 20

self-sufficient

Possible problems:

People with this theme often make themselves conspicuous by making abrupt behavioral u-turns. One
moment they are extremely shy and reserved, the next they're extroverted and effusive. They can seem
very subservient, but also extremely snobbish and arrogant. Like capricious April weather, they have
frequent mood swings and sudden behavioral changes.

The common denominator underlying these contradictory behavior patterns is that they always and only
orbit around themselves, considering those around them to be extras rather than costars or colleagues.
Other people are audience or merely part of the scenery; they can be airbrushed away or (u-turn!) wooed
passionately, depending on the mood of the moment.

There are frequent rivalries with all manner of people, especially when all are pursuing the same goal
and there can only be one winner. Self-sufficient persons nag, are often "badgerers", and have a sadistic
tendency to like to see other people in hopeless situations, helpless and at their mercy.

Self-sufficient persons often possess great talents and strengths that enable them to do without the
assistance of others. Such people are hard to get a handle on, and seem unapproachable - precisely
because their behavioral pattern can switch so quickly.

Deep in their souls, self-sufficient types feel unloved and disliked by everybody. Their egotistical and
even autistic behavior tends to unite others against them - which simply reinforces their prejudices.

Sought-for solution:

Most important is learning healthy and positive self-love (not narcissism!) and acquiring social skills.

Positive sentence for solving conflict:

I like to come into contact with other people because they enrich and complete my spiritual development.

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conflict no. 21

hyperactive
physical overexertion

Possible problems:

You feel harried and worn out due to continual overexertion. You are constantly exceeding your limits in
order to attain some lofty ideal or other, in the process harming yourself by overdoing it. You are
physically driven and tense, often leading to auto-aggressive displacement behavior such as nail-biting,
tearing your hair out, gnawing at your lips, and so on.

Sometimes, persistent lower-back pain and headaches (and other warning signs) will be indications of a
state of permanent overexertion.

You are always on the go, can never let yourself relax and are therefore constantly irritable and
potentially in a bad mood, feeling yourself cheated out of the less stressful side of life.

You suppress your own feelings and work like a maniac, driving yourself to the limit in the absence of
any sensible reason for doing so. Behind this are hidden subconscious desires and goals, e.g., wanting to
be indispensable and emotionally desirable to others, or being richly rewarded by fortune for having
worked your fingers to the bone.

Underlying this are a subconscious lust for power and unacknowledged aggressive impulses, as in the
"helper syndrome."

Sought-for solution:

You need to learn to recognize and respect your endurance limits.

Positive sentence for solving conflict:

I know about my power and I use it wisely in order to allow my body and my soul to stay in harmony.

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conflict no. 22

restlessness

Possible problems:

Internally, it's like being in a strong current, unable to take a break from obsessive thinking. A thousand
thoughts whir about in your mind, leading to a state of inner restlessness and compulsion. You would
like to do a thousand things at once, and your attention flits from one object to the next like a fidgety bee
that can't decide which flower to land on, and so zips about hither and yon among dozens of blooms.

Anxiety states are common, of which you might be more or less conscious. For example, there's the fear of
missing a onetime chance at something crucial, like the young lady who chases from one potential
partner to the next so as not to miss "Mr. Right."

The compulsion is based on a deep-seated feeling of dissatisfaction - or, more precisely: a feeling that
anticipates the impossibility of emotional satisfaction even as the longed-for happiness is looked for
everywhere, only to be ultimately devalued as undiscoverable and unrealistic. "That won't get me
anywhere either! It'll just turn out to be another disappointment!" mutters the restless person, already
rushing to the next thought or object.

Much-needed relaxation is made much more difficult - if not indeed impossible - by permanent tension,
and this can have physical repercussions such as tension headache, stiff neck, migraine, ringing in the
ears (tinnitus), disturbed sleep, and the like. Nervousness, lack of concentration, and irritability are quite
common.

From the outside, many internally restless persons seem completely calm, so that nobody has the least
inkling what is actually going on inside them.

Sought-for solution:
"Tranquility is strength!" is the "Restlessness Parry's" campaign slogan. You need to have the courage to
try to gel more deeply involved with experiences and feelings, without always anticipating
disappointment.

Positive sentence for solving conflict: I stay calm, balanced and centered because I know that I can develop
my strength the best way from that point.

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conflict no. 23

tense

Possible problems:

Stressed-out people are always tense and completely unable to relax. This tension is directly manifested
as involuntary tics and twitches, writer's cramp, or stiffness, i.e., of the cervical spine - but also in a stiff
and stilted manner of speaking, grinding one's teeth, and intestinal cramps. Sometimes, the tension finds
its outlet in overdone discipline or exaggerated diligence.

From the outside, people with the conflict Tense often seem extra friendly and accommodating. The face
is often deeply furrowed and the coloration sometimes ash-gray, a sign of chronic nervous strain which,
through hypersecretion of stress hormones, constricts the blood vessels in the skin, causing pale skin and
cold hands and feet, as well as prolonged cramping of facial musculature.

Yet these people's inner stress is often unnoticeable, and they themselves will only admit that their in
ability to rest and relax properly is very disturbing and annoying, like a soldier under strict orders to
stand at attention during the day, who cannot at home let go of his soldierly rigidity.

The psychic background to tension is grounded in an overly strict Superego. This often relates to a
childhood in which an age-inappropriate correctness and self-discipline was demanded.

As with the other similar Brow Chakra conflicts, tension is actually based on a fear of masking mistakes.
Basically, one is unforgivingly strict with oneself before any mistake can be made.

Sought-for solution:

Virtually nobody manages to fall asleep by counting sheep, and so, similarly, you should give up trying
so hard to relax, and look for an indirect solution, e.g., tiring the body with moderate physical exertion, or
taking up a hobby as a distraction.
Emotionally, you should be friendlier and easier on yourself.

Positive sentence for solving conflict:

I will relax and let go so I can get new strength.

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conflict no. 24

uneasiness

Possible problems:

You no longer feel comfortable in your body, as if wearing a piece of clothing that is the wrong size and
shape, so that it pinches and binds everywhere. The body is felt to be a source of discomfort, in the
extreme case even of pain and suffering. There can be all sorts of disruptive negative feelings, as if your
head or hands were too large, the neck muscles too heavy, or the spinal column twisted.

Emotionally, the predominant mood is one of silent and secret hopelessness on up to outright depression.
You feel totally out of balance, since everything is unpleasant and most of your body aches.

The predominance of bodily symptoms often causes the underlying depressive basic mood to be
overlooked. Nevertheless, the fact remains that the psychic bad mood generates the bodily symptoms.

Underneath the uneasiness is a deeply-rooted feeling of psychic frustration. You are discontented or even
hopeless. Deep within, you feel unloved or undeserving of love.

Sought-for solution:

Keep your positive signs and desires in sight, and yield to them - such as the need for rest and relaxation
and pampering (i.e., being cared for with nothing expected in return).

Positive sentence for solving conflict:

I respect my body and listen to the signals it gives me in order to show my soul the right way.

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conflict no. 25

mistrust

Possible problems:

Based on disappointing experiences, you believe that other people have it in for you. You feel surrounded
by a hostile world whose sole purpose is to hurt you and steal from you. However, you often overlook
your complicity, projecting everything negative outward.

A lack of basic trust can often be observed - everything is questioned, critically dissected and broken
down into component parts. You refuse to open up emotionally, believing it to be tantamount to
surrender. You prefer to lock yourself in, like a snail withdrawing into its shell.

You have a fundamental aversion to revealing anything about yourself. You tend to make a wide detour
around emotions and situations involving emotional insecurity. You are often very analytical and
intellectually oriented, preferring to regard everything from a rational standpoint.

People with the mistrust conflict prefer to remain in a distanced spectator role and are reluctant to get
drawn into anything that might pull them out of their center.

The real problem with mistrust is strikingly illustrated in the following statement by the billionaire J. Paul
Getty: "If you can trust a person, a contract is unnecessary; if you can't trust him, a contract is useless."

Trust is thus to a certain extent an expression of self-love, just as mistrust betrays a lack of self-love - but
also a lack of self-confidence: feeling, way down deep inside, bad about oneself. Therefore, trust
represents the essential first step toward getting closer to others and in fact being at all viable.

Sought-for solution:

The simplest way to overcome mistrust is to build up trust in yourself.

Positive sentence for solving conflict:

I know my goal and I am confident that I am guided onto the right track.

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conflict no 26

life as a battle

Possible problems:

There is an obsessive tendency to assign more importance to external circumstances (such as pos
sessions) and to maintaining a facade than to inner values. This can lead to impoverishment notions as
well as to greediness, stinginess and a dog-eat-dog mentality.

Some people seem from the outside to be very altruistic and friendly and yet, deep inside, they greatly
fear large changes: better for everything to stay the way it is, even if it means that life isn't as enjoyable as
it might be. Certain ideas are more important than reality - as when you scrimp and save for a future
pleasure without, in the process, paying enough attention to your happiness in the present.

It is extraordinarily difficult for such persons to let go of material things and behavioral patterns, or to
give away anything. This includes saying goodbye. The same applies to letting go of life itself: the very
idea of mortality is denied, and you instead concentrate exclusively on this earthly life.

This wanting-to-have can also apply to certain convictions, such as the belief that you are one of the elite
few who "know the score." You can also pile up abstractions such as knowledge or spiritual values or
good deeds as possessions though the distinguishing feature of this emotionally inappropriate attitude is
that there remains, deep inside, a nagging frustration that career accolades, fine-looking possessions, or
high-quality thoughts and ideas cannot be balanced out.

Sought-for solution:

Learn that life does not work exclusively along the lines of accountant criteria (debit and credit), and
rediscover the many modest pleasures, and inner joys, that you have up to now overlooked.

Positive sentence for solving conflict:

I am thankful for the material goods in my life and I use them wisely as tools on my way.

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conflict no. 27

unwilling to face reality

Possible problems:

Unable to tolerate reality, you banish it from your perception. Airbrushing out reality can include parts of
the external world - if, for instance you over- or underestimate the significance of particular people you
know. But you might also feel that your entire reality, dark side and all, is so unpleasant that you retreat
into fantasy worlds.

For most people, taking refuge in their "castles in the air" consists of making changes so extensive that
they can no longer remember their childhood; their own life history is foreign to them. Many also block
out parts of their inner or outer reality, or they flee into fantasy and proxy worlds. Not infrequently, this
reprogramming of reality can be seen externalIy, i.e., when someone manages to turn a minus into a plus.

In cases of drug addiction or psychosis, the conflict Unwilling to face reality is encountered with above-
average frequency. Behind all these flight tendencies and repressions lie hidden psychic misery and
intolerable frustrations that generate a dark and joyless basic mood in the overall psyche, which you try
to escape from for reasons of sheer survival. However, it doesn't change the basic problem, just your
viewpoint, by acting as if you lived in a different reality.

Good actors with the talent to move people sometimes can transport the audience to a foreign but
wonderful world and forget their own misery in the process. This is similar to what happens to those
with the conflict Unwilling to face reality, with the difference that they are deceiving themselves.

When you try to escape the pain that is part of being alive, you wind up strangling your own vitality. You
need to realize that pain is only a limited part of reality, and that life is much larger than the pain.

Sought-for solution:

Veracity and objectivity are part of attentiveness and living in the present. You should therefore practice
being in the here-and-now with full consciousness.

Positive sentence for solving conflict:

I look at reality with open eyes. I stay alert and mind my goal.

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conflict no. 28

wrong thinking

Possible problems:

The fundamental problem with Wrong thinking is primarily the refusal to acknowledge reality, so as to
be able to derive veridical and rational laws of consciousness. Right thinking leads to a consciousness that
is in harmony with 'both inner and outer reality.

But if instead you harbor false ideas that are criticized by the inner voice (the conscience of the True Self),
you betray yourself. The same happens if you deny external reality against all reason - i.e., that your
opponent in a fight will be a lot stronger than you; you'll pay in that case with a defeat and a broken nose.

In a certain sense, wrong thinking also leads to a type of broken nose, except that the direct visible and
perceptible consequences of false consciousness are concealed - namely in the subconscious, as a choking
off of vitality. You wind up with a "broken emotional nose" for misjudging reality and indulging bad
ideas that have nothing to do with the true state of the world.

You tend to dogmatic thinking. You're unwilling to deviate from your opinion, even if you have to put
up with limitations and disadvantages. This includes ancient ideologies and rigid convictions that (in my
estimation) could have come from earlier lives. There's not all that much left to be noticed of it in the
present life - except that the old ideological rigidity lingers like an undying echo and continues to have an
effect in this life. For example, if someone was a member of the privileged nobility in an earlier life, the
resulting arrogance can lead to problems if he happens to be a simple farmhand in the present life.

Wrong thinking sometimes comes about because a person, in an earlier incarnation, was forced to pay for
her beliefs with her life: e.g., having to die signifies having strong beliefs. You then have a subconscious
mental tape loop which says that commitment inevitably leads to dying. Such people are particularly
anarchistic and "liberal," in that they never again want to make a commitment: 'I´m not getting crucified
again for my beliefs!" is the general tenor of their thinking.

Refusal to commit then leads to an erratic softness and an exaggerated willingness to conform that stands
in sharp contrast to the persons true nature. Actually, the person had been "a tough nut to crack" in the
former life, a fact which is now routinely denied in order not to wind up dying for it again.

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To this also belong deep-rooted dogmas about oneself. The earlier on in development these doctrines and
deep convictions are planted, the harder it will be later on to root them out and give them up.

False social structures are often observed in the vicinity of such persons, who in a sense stage wrong
thinking as dissonant social structures, i.e., a person paranoically tyrannizes the other family members; or
a family member is "disappeared" by never, ever being mentioned, because this (un)person besmirched
the family's good name.

Many people engage in wrong thinking by turning overvalued ideas and ideals into standards of
behavior - which then constantly collide with reality. For instance, if a woman dings to the belief that "Mr.
Right" has to march a very specific laundry list of attributes, then she's going to have problems when her
man turns our nor to have them all. Therefore, value standards should to some extent harmonize with
reality, to give emotional happiness a chance. But if you think wrongly - that is, deliberately "set the bar
too high," this will automatically generate a frustrating situation.

Right thinking thus means appropriate thinking, i.e., using good common sense when setting the bar
height, taking into account both internal and external necessities and faces of the matter - bur also
allowing for (as yet unknown) future possibilities; in other words, making realistic estimates.

Sought-for solution:

Value yourself and deal attentively with yourself and your needs; this is the most important step toward
extricating yourself from the entanglements of Wrong thinking.

Positive sentence for solving conflict:

I submit my thinking and acting to a higher wisdom, and my ego is ready for service.

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the 28 conflicts

chakra 1: 1 independent
2 lack of concentration
3 loss of control
4 strongly self-controlled

chakra2: 5 hectic
6 perseverance
7 show of strength

chakra 3: 8 isolated
9 pent-up emotions
10 wanting more
11 craving good feelings

chakra 4: 12 mental overexertion

13 withdrawn
14 introverted
15 apprehensive
16 panic

chakra 5: 17 emotional emptiness

18 rushed

chakra 6: 19 faint-hearted
20 self sufficient
21 physical overexertion
22 restless
23 tense
24 uneasiness

chakra 7: 25 mistrust
26 materialistic
27 unwilling to face reality
28 wrong thinking

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