Pancreatitis: emotional and spiritual meaning

What pancreatitis is

Pancreatitis is inflammation of the pancreas, the gland that makes digestive enzymes and the insulin that keeps blood sugar steady. In an acute attack the enzymes begin to digest the gland itself. The pain is usually severe, high in the abdomen, and it bores through to the back. Vomiting is common. Gallstones and alcohol are the most frequent triggers. Some medicines, very high blood fats and injury can do it too. It is an emergency. Chronic pancreatitis is the gland scarred by repeated inflammation. Stools become greasy, weight falls, and diabetes can follow because insulin fails. Low blood sugar belongs to the same gland when insulin overshoots. Treatment is hospital care, fluids, pain relief, and then the cause: a stone, alcohol, or a duct.

The emotional reading below does not explain an attack, and it does not replace the emergency department. It stays with rage, sweetness and the sadness under both.

The emotional meaning of pancreatitis

You live in a great deal of rage toward life, because it no longer offers you any "sweetness". You want to reject it. The anger is immense. You feel imprisoned by a person or a situation. You are at an impasse, and you prefer to stay where you are, with all the emotions that make you feel powerless, because you do not know how to negotiate with them. You would rather give up than make one further effort. You are full of insecurity. You let yourself go. You have no tone left, in the body, in your thoughts, or in your feelings.

Instead of waiting for sweetness to come to you, it is yours to offer yourself, knowing you deserve it. You choose to live. You drive off the dark thoughts.

The sadness behind the anger

Fleeing the feelings is the move this reading asks you to stop. Welcome them, and look at what they want to teach. Look at all the sadness hiding behind the anger. Let go of whatever in the life no longer suits, and build new frames, personal, familial and professional. That is how a life with more happiness and joy is pictured here. Cystic fibrosis is the other illness this gland is tied to in the book, a genetic one, with a different reading. A gallstone is a common medical trigger of the acute attack, which is a fact of anatomy, not a moral one.

A gentler way to hold it

• Get severe pain seen at once. Meaning comes after the blood tests, not before.
• Offer yourself one sweetness you have been waiting for someone else to provide.
• Name the impasse. A person or a situation you feel you cannot negotiate with is the prison in this picture.
• Look under the rage. Sadness is what the anger is said to be covering.
• Ask where you gave up one effort too soon. Renouncing is part of the reading. It is not a verdict on anyone in pain.
• Keep alcohol, enzymes and insulin as the doctor set them. An emotional picture does not replace those.