The body consistently expresses what the mind has not yet put into words — and somatic symptoms (pain, fatigue, nausea, dizziness, tension) that lack a clear organic cause are not imaginary but are a different kind of real. This is one of the most consistent findings across both psychosomatic medicine and traditional healing systems that never made the body-mind split in the first place. Taking somatic symptoms seriously as meaningful communication — without either dismissing them or catastrophizing — is the clinical and personal art here.
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