Jacques Martel - The Encyclopedia of Ailments and Diseases: How to Heal the Conflicted Feelings, Emotions, and Thoughts at the Root of Illness

To All Seekers of Truth

To Peddar Zask, my spiritual father

The Encyclopedia of Ailments and Diseases

This book has helped me in my personal life and also in my practice. I use it a lot with my patients because when someone has a physical blockage, it is generally coming from an emotional blockage that creates the physical symptom. Therefore, if the patient really wants to get the full mind, body, spirit connection, they have to understand where the emotions are coming from. When I explain this to them, it is not clear, but when I use the encyclopedia they tend to understand a lot more. If I compare this book to other books that I ever read on the subject, it contains the easiest and clearest way to really look into the emotional blockage and understand it properly. Using the encyclopedia in my practice has helped me become the best practitioner I can be.

PAM STILWELL-BOON, D . O ., kinesiologist, registered massage therapist, and fitness trainer

The Encyclopedia of Ailments and Diseases is not a book to read. Its a book to treasure and consult when you need guidance and support in deciphering the messages your body is trying to convey to you. All explanations are written in the first person, and the author cleverly encourages us to read in syllables, very slowly. As a result, the act of reading itself can positively affect the third chakra and the third level of the aura (the mental chakra and level). Reading becomes healing. This encyclopedia is a truly comprehensive source of information regarding psychosomatic disorders.

TJITZE DE JONG , Brennan Healing Science practitioner and author of Energetic Cellular Healing and Cancer

I have been a therapist for 21 years and work with The Encyclopedia of Ailments and Diseases in my practice daily. I highly recommend it to my clients because it can help them relieve their physical and emotional ailments. I use the encyclopedia as a complement to the techniques I use. The information it contains is comprehensive, easy to understand, and accessible to all. It provides food for thought to help my clients make positive changes in their lives.

RICHARD CL OUTIER , naturopath and massage therapist, Centre du Renouveau, Qubec

Global science has developed a holistic view of health as a phenomenon that supports its four partsphysical, mental, social, and spiritual. All of these parts are closely interconnected and in a harmonious unity, constantly interacting with each other. This book is a unique reference tool that reveals the emotional and psychological causes of illnesses. It indicates feelings, thoughts, and emotions at the level of the consciousness and the subconscious present in more than 900 diseases and ailments. It explains the method of heart integration and acceptance of information that initiates the process of healing, and it offers positive affirmations that transform ailments and illnesses. Medical workers can use this book in their practice and for research to help patients in their healing process.

OLEG SHEKERA, M . D . , professor of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

I have been using this book for a few years. At the beginning, I was only consulting when needed but recently I have read it in its entirety. This book is a real bible on the subject. You will find what emotional state corresponds to each illness or discomfort in the body. A wart? Shoulder pain? There is no coincidence. These ailments always reflect an internal conflict between your body and mind. Any therapist or individual who wishes to be in tune with their body and their emotions should use this as a reference book.

LUDIVINE STAHL , France

Im a firm believer in diving deep into the personal world of emotions and beliefs in order to unravel issues presenting in the physical body. This classic book provides healer wisdom for the reader to explore, which enables potentially unhelpful patterns or repressed emotions to be brought into consciousness, with love, for their resolution. Lots of food for thought and insight to help us understand the power of thought and emotion on our health and well-being. The magic, of course, arises from using this insight for our liberation.

NIKKI GRESHAM-RECORD , counselling psychologist, healer, and author of Working with Chakras for Belief Change: The Healing InSight Method

Acknowledgements

Lucie Bernier

I especially want to thank Ms. Lucie Bernier for her collaborative work throughout all the years we were engaged in producing this book. Her experience from her personal life and as a psychotherapist, her training in the metaphysical approach of ailments and diseases, her capacity for comprehensive thinking and her intuition have significantly contributed to advancing the work on this book.

I also want to thank the following persons for their participation in producing this book:

Ms. Denise Boucher

Ms. Ginette Caron

Mr. Laurent Chiasson

Ms. Nicole Cloutier

Ms. Fleurette Couture

Mr. Pierre Couture

Ms Heather Dixon

Ms. Louise Drouin

Mr. Paul-mile Drouin

Mr. Jean Dumas

Ms. Danielle East

Ms. Nicole Gagn

Ms. Catherine Guin

Mr. Robert Lenghan

Ms. Micheline Pascal

Ms. Ginette Plante

Ms. Denise Quintal

Mr. Denis Tremblay

My father: No Martel

Preface

I accept my healing

Becoming aware of who I am and of what I am becoming is always very exciting when my discoveries about myself and others are beautiful and positive. What happens, however, when the discoveries that result from a personal self-exploration of any sort lead me to see hidden facets of myself and make me become aware of ailments and diseases that have happened to me or that probably took place within my body?

This is what happened throughout these past few years, when I realized that diseases had subtly taken hold in me because of poorly managed emotions and that, by learning to re-harmonize this whirlwind of all sorts of emotions that inhabited me, I could acquire a healing power over any ailment or any disease that I had allowed to take over as king and master in my Temple of Flesh.

Of course, accepting to reclaim the responsibility for my own health has been a long process of introspection involving a questioning of my values and, most especially, has given me the certainty that I have the power to heal myself.

In getting there, I have had the privilege, since 1988, of knowing Jacques and working closely with him and learning many things through the numerous conferences and workshops that he gave. By his ability to present simply and accessibly a subject that many people may see as very complex, by his unconditional love and his desire to help people achieve greater physical, emotional and spiritual well-being, he has been, and still is, a pillar and a guide who knows how to help me chase away my guilt and replace it, instead, by taking charge of my own life, so that I feel increasingly free, comfortable within myself, and in charge of my life. Jacques has helped me to accept illness, of whatever sort, as a positive experience, because now it is an opportunity for me to stop and question myself about what is happening in my life. For many people such as myself, illness has given me an opportunity to ask for help, something that I quite often wish to avoid. I must remind myself that