Germanische Heilkunde
Discover the five biological laws that explain why symptoms start, how healing works, and what the psyche, brain, and body are really doing during changes in your health.
Discover the five biological laws that explain why symptoms start, how healing works, and what the psyche, brain, and body are really doing during changes in your health.
Germanische Heilkunde (or Germanic Healing Knowledge: GHK, also known as Germanic New Medicine: GNM) describes how and why the psyche, brain, and body work together to produce what we think of as disease.
Instead of viewing health symptoms (“diseases”) as errors, GHK shows how each symptom is actually a biological response with purpose and intelligence.
This is not a belief system.
It is a set of rules or laws that have been empirically observed in hundreds of thousands of people and animals.
GHK gives us a way of seeing the meaning behind problems, trauma, symptoms, and stress.
Every symptom begins with a biological conflict in the psyche.
You experience information, a circumstance, an event that your unconscious mind evaluates as too unexpected and demanding for your current capacity.
The psyche interprets this as existential isolation and instantly forms a biological conflict.
The biological conflict is not caused by the event or circumstances but by our own unconscious assessment of what the situation means in that instant. To the psyche, it means that pursuing a survival need will cause a survival threat. This impossible tension is what creates the sense of existential isolation.
Psyche, brain, and body are a single information-processing system, so a biological conflict in the psyche simultaneously initiates changes in the brain and in the body.
A biological conflict initiates a two-phase process in the psyche, brain, and body.
This two-phase process involves adaptation during the active biological conflict, and repair once the biological conflict is resolved within the psyche.
As long as the biological conflict is active, the psyche, brain, and body shift their priorities to function despite the conflict, reduce the felt intensity of it, and try to create the conditions to resolve it.
These adjustments arise entirely from the psyche’s meaning-making. They are not reactions to external circumstances or events.
Most psychological, emotional, and behavioral symptoms occur in this phase.
When we resolve the biological conflict in the psyche — usually by becoming conscious of the two opposing compulsions — our whole organism immediately enters the healing phase.
The psyche, brain, and body restore balance by removing now-unneeded tissue, rebuilding (and usually expanding) diminished tissue, and releasing excess fluid and metabolic byproducts. More than 80% of physical symptoms occur in this phase.
Every tissue type follows a predictable pattern in response to both a biological conflict and resolution of a biological conflict.
A biological conflict in the psyche will produce a predictable adaptive strategy in the psyche, brain, and body. There are roughly 500 different kinds of biological conflicts, each producing its own changes.
Because the different tissues of our body (and brain) originate from different developmental layers, they each have characteristic ways of helping us to:
endure and resolve the biological conflict (Phase 1), and then
repair and restore tissues (Phase 2).
Each tissue type increases or decreases its function in the way that best helps the psyche with the conflict. Most tissues do this either by increasing or decreasing in size, while some tissues just change function without tissue loss or growth.
Tissue increase is what is diagnosed as “cancer.” Tissue loss is diagnosed as osteoporosis, necrosis, ulceration, etc. Functional diminishment will show up as conditions such as multiple sclerosis or diabetes.
These changes are not pathological reactions; they are functional adjustments to enhance your sense of survival and reduce your sense of danger.
After the biological conflict is resolved in the psyche, each tissue follows its own predictable recovery pattern:
tissues that increased in size will stop growing and begin to break down,
tissues that decreased in size will rebuild or regenerate, usually to a larger, “better” size,
functional loss will usually rebound to over-function before returning to a new equilibrium based on the psyche’s updated meaning. (Some functions, such as voluntary muscle control, actually diminish even more, temporarily)
These processes are lawful, purposeful, and originate entirely from the psyche’s meaning-making — not from external conditions.
Microbes (germs) do not cause disease symptoms.
They participate in the healing phase after a biological conflict is resolved in the psyche.
During healing, tissue that grew during the conflict-active phase will become “excess” at conflict resolution and will begin to break down with the help of microbial activity.
Tissue that was lost during the conflict-active phase will stop breaking down and will begin to refill and rebuild with the help of microbial activity.
Different types of microbes participate in healing phase processes in strict accordance with the ontogenetic system. This means that dental plaque can’t cause tuberculosis, for example. Or staphylococcus can’t give you the measles.
(Note: viruses have never been seen participating in any healing phase process. They are hypothetical only)
Biological symptoms are not a mistake. They are because you are evolving.
Just as every symptom is appropriate to the biological conflict in the psyche, every biological conflict in the psyche is itself meaningful in the context of your evolution.
Health symptoms are not malfunctions or mistakes. Every change in your psyche, brain, and body — whether during the conflict-active phase or the healing phase — is an adaptive response generated by your organism to do something about biological conflict(s) in your psyche.
These tissue, functional, and experiential changes — in the body, brain, and psyche — are biologically intelligent attempts not only to resolve the conflict and repair your system, but also to establish a new, better system.
The process that produces this new-and-improved “you,” including all structural and functional adjustments across the psyche–brain–body system, is the actual mechanism of biological evolution.
Thus, every biological conflict begins because of a subjective drive to evolve — to move toward a state of greater biological safety, stability, and wellbeing.
When your symptoms make sense, your panic dissolves.
Your symptoms become messages instead of threats.
Both health issues and life problems become easier to identify, resolve, and complete.
Less conflict = less biological effort = more vitality
A simple guide to the core ideas and terms used in Germanic Healing Knowledge.