Hyperthyroidism: emotional and spiritual meaning

What hyperthyroidism is

Hyperthyroidism is too much activity of the thyroid gland. Metabolism rises, so you feel the heat and you sweat. The heart races, the hands tremble, weight can fall despite hunger, sleep breaks, and anxiety is common. Graves' disease, nodules and thyroiditis are among the causes. Treatment slows the gland or blocks the effect of the hormone on the heart. It is effective, and an untreated overactive thyroid can strain the heart. Feeling busy, or feeling disappointed, does not make the diagnosis. A blood test does.

The emotional reading below is about speed, unspoken words and other people's expectations. Hypothyroidism is the slowed form of the same gland. The thyroid page takes up the word and the breath.

The emotional meaning of hyperthyroidism

You live a great disappointment at not being able to accomplish what you really want, or to express what you have to say, because you answer other people's expectations rather than your own. You feel overwhelmed by events. You accumulate what goes unsaid, and you crush your own personality. You feel obliged to meet what others expect. From that, you live rancour, frustration and hatred toward everything that does not really correspond to your expectations. You end up keeping your attention only on negative things.

You can also always listen to other people's advice without listening inwardly. You build yourself a prison that is hard to leave, because you push away the people who could help you. You feel powerless to change things in your life. On top of that, you give yourself very short deadlines, which means you always have to hurry in order to finish current projects on time. It always has to be faster. You have to botch things as quickly as possible, especially in business, and that brings a great stress. You have the impression that things are fleeting, that they disappear very quickly, and that you do not really have time to enjoy them. As when children grow up too fast, or when you worry about them too much. You have innumerable desires that are not satisfied.

When the thyroid is overactive, you often have difficulty with time and with being late. You look at whether putting so much attention on certain particular things lets you set certain responsibilities aside. You become a little like a child who lives in naivety and carelessness, hoping other people will take care of the things you do not want to be responsible for. Then the body gives you a message. You have lost contact with your deep self. You prefer to stay on the surface of things, and of your emotions, rather than go into the depth and risk unexpected discoveries.

A gentler way to hold it

You accept that life is not a sprint but a marathon. You finally realise your power. You take your decisions and you create your actions according to your inner discernment. You are a co-creator of your life. The medicine that slows the gland is what makes a marathon physically possible. The discernment is what the hurry was crowding out.

• Have a racing heart and weight loss tested. Hyperthyroidism is a hormone excess, not a personality.
• Keep the prescribed treatment. A marathon still needs the gland brought back into range.
• Ask whose expectation you are meeting. The disappointment is about what is yours and unsaid.
• Look at the deadline you invented. "Faster" is the climate, in business and at home.
• Notice attention used as a way to dodge a responsibility. Busyness can be a hiding place.
• Go one layer under the surface. The reading treats depth, not speed, as the missing contact.