Medical Students Syndrome and Anxiety

Ignorance is bliss when it comes to deal with anxiety disorder. As you might know, many medical students develop somatization symptoms. The knowledge that they acquire about diseases produces pain and symptoms in a certain spots as they put a lot of concentration and attention upon that region which causes any sensation. The mere knowledge of the location of the appendix transforms the most harmless sensations in that region into symptoms of serious perceived symptoms.

Why this happen? It is easy to explain..When a medical student thinks he has a disease in a certain location in the abdominal area he/she transfers the the brain energy (yang energy or positive electricity) through the vagus nerve to the neural intestine network. As we have explained the whole connective tissue of the body is a semiconductor which is able to conduct the electric energy through the electric channels. So the yang energy coming from the learned awareness on the abdominal area will be counterbalanced as soon as possible with the yin energy or negative electricity. This is only the case of a person without congenital blockages in which the student will suffer only a very short time (one month lets say) from somatization disorder. It is clear that as soon as the student removes the awareness from the area where it thinks he has acquired the disease the somatization disappears. A temporary problem might be with students who makes the increased transfer of yang energy from a conscious process to unconscious process by entering into a vicious circle of anxiety. The mind is like a monkey which the more you fight or resist it the more it persist. All of these cases are not for concern because the somatization period will be very short.

For instance, a student that puts the mind into the heart location will disturb the electric activity of the heart resulting in palpitation. After some time the heart will ignore this mind interference and the heart palpitation will disappear despite the conscious brain yang energy.
The problematic case will be only a student who have congenital blockages. He will suffer the somatization for a long period. He/she has to follow two solutions: To contact a Cognitive Behavioural therapist (CBT) to learn to forget the body and to distract he mind from the abdominal area. Or to try to open the congenital blockages through qigong practices.

Qigong practices will open the channels where the energy can flow freely without resistance. When the energy flows with resistance zero the body feels empty. 

I believe that body have a tremendous wisdom to self-regulate to circulate the energy. The exercise Zhan Zhuang is just a tool to help the body accelerate the self-regulation of energy flow.