Healthy Soul, Healthy Body

You can eat the healthiest food in the world and still get cancer

Episode 58 · May 23, 2024

Healing, treatment and traumaEmotions and inner life

The Truth Hurts · Episode 58 · audio in Hebrew

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The conversation

You can eat the cleanest food there is, drink nothing but green juice, do everything exactly right, and still find out that something in your body has broken down. According to Gili, health is not decided only on the plate but in the emotional system behind it: anger, grief or frustration that never get expressed do not disappear. They settle into a specific organ and weaken it. There is even a syndrome in which an emotional crisis produces symptoms in the body that are identical to a heart attack. The question is not only what you eat, but what you do with what you feel.

The truth

  • Eating healthy is no guarantee of health. There are people who eat nothing but greens and drink only what is healthy and still develop liver cancer, because it is the emotional system that decides.

  • A reality that is hard to make sense of, like young people who went out to dance and died with no logic to it at all, is also hard to digest, and that is why so many people today have trouble specifically with digestion.

  • An emotion that never gets a real outlet does not disappear. It goes down into a specific organ in the body and weakens it, and every organ has an energetic vibration of its own.

  • A study found a phenomenon called broken heart syndrome, in which an emotional crisis produces symptoms in the body that are identical to a heart attack.

  • A study showed that an emotional crisis, a breakup, being fired, a loss, can produce symptoms identical to a heart attack, including a heart that looks swollen on the scan, without it being an actual heart attack.

  • Quick-fix medicine tends to treat the symptom and not the root. Sometimes a mark on the skin is a sign of a problem in the liver, and what you need is a doctor who looks at the whole system.

Questions and answers

How does Rabbi Yuval Asherov define illness?

According to Rabbi Yuval Asherov, illness is a correct response of the body to an incorrect stimulus. It is there for the person's good and signals that their physical, emotional and psychological system is dealing with the wrong stimulus, which is why it is worth looking for the emotional root.

Why does it matter that my doctor look at the whole picture instead of just treating the symptom that hurts right now?

A doctor who focuses only on one organ or on a symptom, like marks on the skin, can miss the real cause of the problem, which is usually connected to how the body functions as a whole, the liver for instance. A holistic doctor looks at the entire system and connects the pieces, instead of just slapping on a band-aid.

What is the broken heart syndrome that the episode mentions?

A large study found that people arrive at hospitals with the full symptoms of a heart attack, including a heart that looks swollen on the scan, but the workup reveals that what they went through was an emotional crisis such as a breakup or being fired. The emotional state expresses itself on the physical level exactly like a heart attack, even though that is not what it is.

How was the emotional root of the skin problem discovered in the case of the young woman who came to Gili?

Gili asked her when the problem first started, and it turned out that it broke out during her pregnancy with her oldest daughter. From there it came up that her own mother had once given up her dreams in order to marry and move to Israel, and the daughter's body developed a skin irritation that keeps her from cooking and cleaning, so that she would not repeat the same act of giving up.

Gili's original episode description

To mark inflammatory bowel disease awareness month, this episode is about the important connection between a healthy soul and a healthy body, out of the understanding that the basis of every illness is in the soul.

Rabbi Yuval Asherov defines illness as a correct response of the body to an incorrect stimulus. The illness is actually there for the person's good. It calls us back to the basics, back to the soul. It is an opportunity to take charge of our emotional system and use it the right way.

In this episode Gili and Tal discuss the emotional challenges that come along with physical and psychological illness, and the ways to cope with them.

They talk about how much it matters to understand yourself and comfort yourself, about the way emotional stimuli can affect the physical body, about how every organ has an energetic vibration of its own, and about how handling your emotions correctly can help keep those organs healthy, which means keeping body and soul healthy.

Join us for a deep conversation about a healthy soul in a healthy body.

About the podcast

Listening to The Truth Hurts feels like sitting in on a healing session.

The truth can hurt. It’s right there in the name. But we’re not here to cause pain. Quite the opposite.

In each episode, two women sit down for an honest conversation: an Emotional Healer and her client.

We talk about healing and consciousness, faith and science, the body and soul, personal growth, energy, and different approaches to healing. Above all, we face the truth no one says out loud: everything around us is upside down.

Is this podcast for you?

  • You want to hear the truth, and you’re ready to face it. (Yes, those are two different things.)
  • You want to gain insight and improve your quality of life.
  • You want to make a change.
  • You want a deeper understanding of the laws of the universe.
  • You want to live a healthy life in body and soul.
  • You want to take away something you can carry with you for life.

You don’t need any prior knowledge. You only need the desire to explore a wide range of ideas and discover practical guidance for living.

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Gili Man Wolner, Emotional Healer. Helping you heal and grow through Jewish wisdom.

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