Wheezing occurs when the small airways of the lungs become narrow or constricted. This makes it difficult to breathe, and can cause a whistling sound when breathing out. Wheezing can be a symptom of asthma where a combination of swelling, mucus and muscles tightening can cause narrowing of the airways.
We all are well aware of this and we know how difficult one's life becomes when suffer from this condition.
But do we know why do we get into this condition? What causes the airways of the lungs to become narrow? What is the reason behind the muscles tightening around the air ways causing it to narrow down?
There are many reasons set to cause this condition. The cold weather, pollution in the air, pollens, air conditioning, environment with heavy dust...etc are normally considered to be the root cause of the problem.
But the question is, why these conditions do not cause wheezing and Asthma in everybody? Why only certain people are affected by these conditions? If the mechanism of breathing and the technicalities of "Respiratory System" are exactly the same in all human beings, why only few are affected, leaving the others in exactly the same environment completely unaffected?
Ever wondered why?
If you have a wheezing and Asthma, you will find that you usually have no problem in inhaling but have difficulty in exhaling. Your body is signalling that you want to take on too much. You take on more than you can do and have great difficulty giving some back. You will not admit any limitation, even to yourself. You want to seem stronger than you are just to be loved by others. You also want things to be done your way, and when that does not happen, as asthma attack is just the excuse you need to not be as strong as you seem.
The boy is studying in 8th standard and has been suffering from wheezing for about 3 years. He is presently under medication including nebulisation and inhaler (or puffer). During winter in Bangalore the boy takes nebulisation daily and the puffer is required at least twice in the nights.
The boy was brought to me for a personal health coaching. After a brief discussion with the parents, I started interacting with the boy privately.
Rajesh (name changed for the sake of anonymity) is a very nice, soft spoken and highly obedient boy. He cannot say "No" to any body. He is good in his studies and he wants to become a scientist. As I keep probing further after building good rapport with him, he reveals that he is frustrated in life because he is not able to spend enough time with his studies and he is not able to find time to conduct some interesting science experiments that he wants to do at home. When I asked him what he does with his free time, he said he doesn't have any free time because he goes for Tennis coaching in the morning and goes for Violin class in the evening. His father, a business man, wants him to play Tennis and his mother wants him to learn Violin.
Do you want to play Tennis?, I asked.
He said "NO". "My father loves Tennis and he watches all the matches that happen across the world, and he can tell you how many aces that Pete Sampras has served in all the Wimbledon matches that he played. He is so passionate about Tennis and he wants me to be a good Tennis player".
I asked him again,..."but, do you want to play Tennis?"
He said "NO".
Have you ever told your dad that you don't want to play Tennis?
"No, he will be very disappointed and I don't want to upset him" Rajesh replied.
Ok, What about Violin? Are you interested in learning Violin? I asked.
He said " I am learning it because it is my mom's wish, and I can't upset her by saying "No"
Now I hit the root cause of the problem.
I asked him, if I could help him come out of both Tennis and Violin, will be he fine.
He hesitatingly said "yes", very concerned about making his parents upset.
After giving him enough assurance, he agreed. Then I had a open discussion with mother, father and the son about his interest, and the burden that he is carrying on behalf of parents. Both the parents agreed that he can stop from Tennis and Violin classes and readily accepted to set up a small laboratory at home for his science experiments.
I gave next appointment after a week. When they visited after a week, I was informed that there was no need for nebulisation after the previous session, but the boy is taking inhaler once in a while. After another session, where the boy released all the anger on parents for all his suffocation, the wheezing completely stopped.
The boy was taking much more than what he can do and he could not say "No" to his parents and that suffocated him fully causing him the wheezing.
When energy in motion - "emotion" is not expressed fully out, it goes back inside the body and gets locked in some organ and the organ begins to suffer, putting body at dis-ease. When we can recognise the stuck emotion and deal with that and release, body returns to ease.
What emotion are you holding on inside your body and what are you dealing with?
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