I know GNM, but now what?

The art of healing using German New Medicine

The science of German New Medicine is finding a wider audience as people are waking up to the fact that they cannot rely on the medical industry anymore. There is a lot of free information about it, especially on the brilliant website Learning GNM. But unfortunately, it is rare for someone to learn and accept the GNM concept of an emotional shock causing a physical adaptation in your body (aka ‘disease’) and then heal. This is especially true if you have been suffering for many years. Inevitably the question arises: “Ok so now what? I know what caused my body to be sick, but why am I still not better?”

Dr Hamer recognised the presence of what he called ‘tracks’, or triggers which cause symptoms to become chronic. If you have been suffering for a long time with something, the bulk of the work to get you better will consist in untangling these tracks. The longer you have had these tracks, the more they have become part of who you are and the more difficult it is to see them.

Here’s an example to show you what I mean. Let us assume you remember the event which gave rise to your symptoms. The trick now is to really understand the kernel of truth at the heart of that event. Yes, your boss fired you. But not everyone that gets fired is going to have physical symptoms. So what was it specifically for you about being fired that really bothered you? Can you take the time to be still, go into your body and bring up that memory, and then be radically honest about what it makes you feel? And if you can’t quite put your finger on it, are you willing to do this process again and again until you relax enough for clarity to emerge. Sometimes the emotion or thought at the heart of the event is too painful to acknowledge straight away. Why do we need to do this? Because unless we can identify what exactly it was about that situation or event that bothered us, we won’t be able to spot the tracks, because we won’t know what we are looking for

In my own journey to cure my digestive bloating and constipation, I could not even remember what the initial conflict event was. Bloating kind of creeps up on you. So I had to learn to be very aware of what makes me bloat today, in the present, in order to understand what my ‘tracks’ were. I resisted this process for a long time. It was too boring to be so hyper aware of my thoughts throughout the day. But I did get somewhere. I realised that when I was rushing to do something or to get somewhere, my bloating would definitely be worse. But my life is all about driving kids to various activities so it was difficult to avoid rushing. I tried to tell myself it’s ok to rush. My body does not have to react to it every time. But this wasn’t the heart of the track so it didn’t work. It was in the middle of the night when I was lying awake with my hand on my belly feeling that it was flat and not bloated, when I started thinking about a course I wasn’t sure I wanted to do but that I had committed to. Instantly my belly bloated. Because I was in a semi conscious state, my subconscious was able to show me that it was a fear of doing something wrong which would cause people to be angry at me. Finally I could see the seed of truth that lay underneath all the emotional layers. And beyond that even, I could almost taste another feeling. I sat with it for a while and realised that I could feel a gentle but relentless undercurrent of shame. I realised that when I rushed, the feeling that was causing the rushing was a fear of doing something wrong (ie arriving late) and feeling ashamed as a result.

Shame, I could now see, was the common theme behind a lot of uncomfortable feelings. So now I felt that I was getting somewhere. I even know where the shame came from. I grew up in a house where my father verbally abused my mother a LOT. Every time he was shouting and screaming at her, I never dared to challenge him. And I felt ashamed of myself every time, but she forbade it. She always said it would make it worse for her. So now I will work on healing my shame and I will see if my bloating improves, or if there is more to uncover here.

I have an image of a ball made up of lots of different coloured rubber bands. That ball is like our subconscious mind. Each rubber band represents a track. The rubber bands that are all the same colour are tracks with the same emotional ‘flavour’. Once you recognize that the red rubber band is, for example, shame, and you put that to bed, then all the other red rubber band tracks dissolve. And now you can move onto the next colour rubber band. It’s a long process for chronic disease sufferers, especially if you don’t remember the initial conflict. But it is a process that step by step brings you closer to full healing and an inner peace which is well worth the effort.