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Ever wonder why one gets a certain disease at birth or why diseases like diabetes or colour blindness run in families? Well, here is your answer. Anu Mehta, renowned META-Healing master (the only one in India) tells us certain ‘patterns’ could be influencing your health. Also Read - Akshay Kumar, Piyush Mishra, Sonam Kapoor and more Bollywood celebs who opened up on facing sexual abuse in childhood

Patterns amaze me. We often notice patterns that shape nature – the feathers of a peacock, the stripes of a zebra, the formation of shells etc. But lately, I’ve been noticing patterns that shape people’s lives and I am often awestruck by what I find. The most intriguing patterns I’ve ever encountered are the repeating diseases within a family genealogy. Also Read - Diabetes, pre-diabetes, air pollution can lead to interstitial lung disease

The first time I noticed such a pattern was within my own family. I started noticing how similar I was to my father and grandfather and how, on the other hand, my younger sister was very much like my mother. Looking deeper into these connections, I realized I often encountered similar situations in my life that my father had already experienced in his life. Furthermore, we behaved in oddly similar ways in these similar situations. Also Read - Type 2 diabetes: Are you experiencing diarrhea? The lesser-known sign of the condition

When I first hit upon this discovery, I tried looking for similar patterns that my clients were repeating. I found a repetition in ‘love affairs’ in a family genealogy and also found a repetition in the manner in which the people from this family dealt with these ‘love affairs.’ Furthermore, these repeating ‘love affairs’ resulted in similar ailments throughout the genealogy. So then I wondered: Why are members of the same genealogy from different times following the same patterns of behavior in similar situations?

It took me a while to figure out the answer to this question. Everything happens for a reason, so why was this happening? Were symptoms of these recurring patterns some sort of sign or signal? Maybe. So I did some research taking case after case, drilling down family member after family member and came to a conclusion: Breaking these recurring patterns could avoid serious disease that has been running in the family genealogy for generations. (Read: Meta-healing – understanding the why of disease before healing it)

After answering this question, I suddenly had a handful more questions stemming from my answer. If breaking these recurring patterns could avoid serious disease, would it really be possible to break these recurring patterns? And if we break them, would it be possible then to create something new? Are these patterns affected by other patterns existing in nature?

I started answering that list of questions from bottom to top. I carefully examined the different patterns that existed in everyday human life, from the fixed waking and sleeping hours, to meal times and the general behavior of us humans within each pattern.

I first picked up the notion of day and night and how it defines our life. Generally we humans sleep at night and awake at the break of dawn to go about with the same regular routines in the day repeating the same old rhyme and the same old song without even once questioning it. And the night too carries it’s own patterns.

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We sleep and our bodies ‘rest’. But are our bodies really resting? Or are they experiencing different kinds of patterns too that we are unaware of in our subconscious state? Research shows that our bodies pass through fives stages of sleep, with each stage differing in depth detected by differing brain wavelengths. So, then there must be a purpose of this sleep ‘pattern’ right? Of course there is. This pattern helps us repair and detoxify our bodies essentially.

Patterns go to the extent to even allow us to measure if a person is in the ‘day mode’ or ‘night mode’. This information can be extrapolated by measuring blood pressure, the state of breathing, body temperature, heart rate, and the amount of sugar in the blood stream. These patterns are synonymous to patterns examined using META-Health. In META-Health, the ‘day mode’ refers to the ‘stress phase’ and ‘night mode’ refers to the ‘rest phase’. The ‘stress phase’ and the ‘rest phase’ cannot take place simultaneously, but separately, which consequently means one cannot be ‘repaired’ while in ‘stress’.

If this pattern of ‘day mode’ and ‘night mode’, or ‘stress phase’ and ‘rest phase’ loses its balance, it can create a physiological imbalance within our body. The question then arises: If this imbalance in pattern has been followed for generations, would this then become a ‘norm’ of living for this genealogy? Would it then cause the physiological change within one’s body to become a permanent characteristic of the entire genealogy?

In fact, is this how a culture is formed? One learns from another in the form of an association and then imitation. A child copies his parent in the way they behave. A parent copies society. This behavior becomes the identity of a specific group or clan of people. Expectations are created and followed because one’s identity is defined by it. Anything that looks different or behaves different has a threat to break a pattern and hence beliefs are formed. This behavior and these beliefs become the root of a group’s culture. And with these specific beliefs come specific diseases. For example, if we put India itself under the spectacle, one realizes that India has the highest level of diabetic patients. Diabetes# can be linked to a single belief stemming from META-Health studies.

Then the questions arise: What creates a pattern and what can break or change these patterns we are following? What is the effect of breaking these patterns? While breaking a certain pattern may eliminate a disease, is it possible to erase the entire pattern itself?

A significant change or trauma is always responsible for creating a pattern, and can also be responsible for breaking or changing an old pattern. However, even though certain patterns are broken, it is not possible to erase a pattern entirely, but only to replace it with another, more effective one. Oftentimes, a new plan or new way of dealing with this imbalance will be discovered.

Let’s consider an example here to better understand this concept. During World War II, did society stick to their old ways? Did men and women continue playing the same roles they were playing before the war began? No. Rather society went through a shuffle. Men went to battlefields, and in order to continue running the domestic economy and fuel the war effort, women now had to venture into the public sphere, the sphere conventionally reserved for men. A woman was forced not only to be the nurturer of the family but now also breadwinner. And so a new breed of women was born. With this new way came new expectations. With new expectations came new beliefs, and consequently new diseases.

Similarly, our immediate family is simply the scaled down version of society. Each family acts as a unit and follows its own set of expectations within its culture. If you look closely, you’ll notice that even simple things like what a family unit eats, what it wears or what it considers normal will be unique to just its own unit. The list of expectations is never ending and it’s these expectations that cumulatively create a unique pattern of behavior, which is repeated generation after generation. But not all patterns are ‘bad’. Some patterns may be ‘good’ but their prime purpose is utility: presenting a unique way to deal with traumatizing situations and so they are carried forward by numerous generations of the same family.

All patterns causing diseases are ingrained in our psyche, and are usually a result of faulty perception. However, since these patterns are followed for generations within a family, they are perfected and eventually recognized as a ‘norm’ instead of the result of a faulty perception. Now that the family’s repetitive behavior has worked in the past, family members of the same genealogy in the present unconsciously use the same pattern to survive their shocks. Family members blindly follow the most walked, yet the most dangerous path.

The first step to breaking these patterns is making the existing generation of a family aware of these patterns. The one easy part of this puzzle? Nature will make sure to present to one this pattern time and time again until it is discovered and broken, or modified. Yet, generations within families unconsciously continue following this pattern because it is, after all, the norm – the expected behavior.

Confused? Here is a case study that might make you understand this concept a little better:

Here is a true story of a man (who will be referred to as Mr. X through the rest of this case study) (and his descendants) who was a principal at an elite school in Pakistan before the time of the India-Pakistan partition in 1947. At the time of partition, Mr. X’s family was forced to flee from Pakistan – never to return again – to India because of their Hindu background. His family lost everything. His sister who was eight and a half months pregnant was forced to give birth to her child on the railway platform. His family was helpless, and Mr. X began feeling unable to play the role of the man he was supposed to be.

As time passed, Mr. X found it increasingly difficult to see him and his family lose their ability to react to the traumatic situation they were in. He was also unable to deal with their loss of pride, self-respect, money and security, as now they were ‘nobodies’ in this new country on the other side of the border. After reaching India, he also found himself unemployed, whereas in Pakistan, he was in a very respectable job, which let him feeling unsettled in this newfound atmosphere.

What’s interesting? The eldest male child born as part of the next generation within Mr. X’s family suffered from color blindness, the inability to see certain colors in normal light conditions. This child was unable to decipher the colors of red and green from the color spectrum. Strangely enough, he also ended up joining the army, just like the rest of his brothers. The pattern didn’t stop there. The eldest son in the next generation within this family also joined the army.

One of the younger sons, however, decided to become a banker, in hope to earn a lot of money and gain some financial security. However, he also found himself unemployed after the Financial Meltdown in 2008, which led him to migrate back to India. And on his return to India, he was unable to find himself a suitable job, which left him feeling unsettled in this newfound atmosphere. And if you go a generation further, you’ll discover another male child with the same color blindness, or inability to decipher between red and green.

So what does this all mean? Mr. X’s sons joined the army fulfilling Mr. X’s need to react in a traumatic situation. Mr. X’s eldest son also suffered from color blindness, which matched Mr. X’s inability to see his family losing all that belonged to them. Even the colors seemed to signify something. According to another modality known as the Lüscher Color Test ##, red is symbolic of the ability to perform or act, green is symbolic of one’s self–respect. Would you call this coincidental or just another pattern? The need to react in a traumatic situation ran down into the next generation as well, and so the eldest son in the next generation joined the army. The younger son became a banker to retrieve Mr. X’s need for money and financial security. However, he too found himself in Mr. X’s position, unemployed after a world crisis. He shifted from the banking sector to the insurance sector, where he felt less respectable and less settled just like Mr. X. And his wife gave birth to a male child who suffered from the problem of the same color blindness that Mr. X’s son had.

No, the patterns don’t end here. During the war and partition, Mr. X made use of a kirpan, a curving and sharply pointed knife, as his only protection. Mr. X’s sons developed the habit of collecting knives unconsciously. And Mr. X’s son’s sons also began collecting knives. And Mr. X’s son’s son’s son also collects knives (without even having a reason to). So how does one explain all of this? Is it fair to just pass all of this as multiple events of coincidences? Or are these really just patterns running within a family lineage that need to be broken?

#One usually develops diabetes when they feel a loss of everything sweet in their life.

##A psychological test developed by Mr. Max Lüscher that uses one’s perception of colors to interprets one he/she is, and not how he/she perceives himself/herself to be.

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Published : August 19, 2013 9:40 am | Updated:September 25, 2014 4:10 pm

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