Why I think balding is deeper than diet and topicals

Preface: In this post, I'm going to give my personal story of fighting with acne and then I explain how I learned of the mind-body connection and how I think it applies for hair loss too. It's quite long, but I think you'll find it fascinating.

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Let me begin with a personal story of mine:

👦 When I was a teenager, I used to struggle with acne, a lot. I didn't have the worst acne by any means, but I did have acne, and it made me feel insecure and ashamed to be seen. Here are the steps I took:

1️⃣ Better care

One of the first things people tell you (and the most obvious external "fix" when you googld) is to wash your face. And I did. I had a cleaner tonic, and while it initially seemed to work, eventually, my acne still came back. So I started seeking for better solutions.

2️⃣ Nutrition

I eventually came across a website, that talked about foods that cause acne. I was desperate, so I tried following along, even though it was hard for a teenager. Since I couldn't really make all my foods, I just decided to not eat stuff that caused acne. I ate very little sugar, took Zinc supplements and was restrictive in my diet. It was hard living like that, and I couldn't even enjoy foods that I liked! And while it mostly worked and I had quite clear skin for days or weeks, I hated that I was still sometimes getting big pimples, even though I shouldn't have, because I was taking all that Zinc that was supposed to counteract that. I remember walking home from school one nice spring day, and wishing there was some way I could eat anything I wanted and not have acne...

3️⃣ The mind-body connection

It was then that I found a (now deleted) YouTube channel called Think Clear Skin. Its mission was helping people clear acne using their own mind. Thanks to him, I learned to become aware of my emotions, learned of epigenetics, how thoughts and emotions affect the body, Louise Hay and how she reversed cancer using positive thoughts and affirmations, and more!

👉 Then, an experience that convinced me that mind and body are related, was when I one day noticed suddenly a pimple forming on my face. I immediately panicked, felt the heavy sinking feeling in my chest, dread and the need to hide... 😨 I also felt a shame like feeling creeping up that I didn't want to feel.

But then I remembered Think Clear Skin's teaching that pimples are usually trapped emotions. I then sat down and went into meditation. After imagining the pimple in my mind and allowing the feeling (shame, and whatever else I could recognize) within me, and just sat with it, I eventually noticed the tension in my stomach and chest lessening. I felt clear, and empty, in a good way.

I then went in front of the mirror, and to my astonishment, the red spot where the pimple was supposed to form, had reduced! And in the end, it didn't form into a pimple!

I was amazed - I saw with my own eyes. I had reversed the pimple formation, which I had thought impossible, having used diet and topical treatments and them never succeeding.

Since then, it has happened more, and I've been able to reduce pimples by releasing the emotion behind the pimple.

🤔 All this led me think, even at 17 years old, that maybe balding also has to do with emotional causes.

Because you can probably imagine the "stubbornness" of acne, right? Doing so many things externally, eating differently, yet it still not helping. Feeling like something deep is off, yet you can't see it nor change it. In the case of acne, it's often a supressed emotion underneath it. The pimple is a symptom, a messenger, and it's message is that there's an emotional tension feels internally stuck. Once that is released (which can be a 10 minute process), the pimple vanishes on its own, or at least reduces in size.

The stubbornness highlights why fighting with the symptoms externally doesn't fix the issue, and how dealing with the root issue solves everything needed.

Now, you've probably seen people on internet with agressive balding. They're doing everything, yet the balding is also stubborn and fighting back hard... This makes me curious, as I'm seeing the same pattern as with acne.

💬 What if hair loss was also trying to tell you something? Can you listen to the body's message? What is it trying to say? Is there a conflict underneath? Perhaps from long time ago, something deep that is causing upheaval of hair in the present day?

It may not even be anything that significant in the present day, but the old pain of that conflict might still be there in the body, that is subtly, but strongly enough contributing to hair loss (by causing low level stress).

Compared to acne, balding is a lot more complex. With it, we want to:

1) stop the hair loss (clearing the underlying emotional stressor)

2) regrowing the hair (nutrients, internal warmth, supportive environment, etc)

🧩 Ever since I started healing acne, I've been obsessed to find the mind-body cause for balding. And I've found a few clues so far:

- Conflict. Inner conflict. Possibly related to one's mom, or anger/resentment towards an authority figure. Feeling helpless or hopeless.

- In Louise Hay's book, You Can Heal Your Life, she says: "Baldness: Fear. Tension. Trying to control everything."

(Thyroid is also important in the context of hair loss. About that she says, "Thyroid Gland: Humiliation. I never get to do what I want to do. When is it going to be my turn. – Hyperthyroid: Rage at being left out.")

- In German New Medicine, they also attribute conflict, specifically separation conflict, for the cause of hair loss. "Hair loss occurs due to a loss of physical contact associated with the scalp (e.g., being stroked on the head)."

- I've also found some YouTube videos that are quite interesting and focus on the psycho-somatic aspect of hair loss. I can share the video transcripts if wanted.

Additionally, I have tens, if not even hundreds of notes in my phone about possible reasons for balding. They're mostly shots in the dark, and may or may not be true at all.

🤝 Now, solving conflicts doesn't have to necessarily have to happen externally. It happens internally for the most part. That means, solving emotional tension in you, can be done without needing to confront or fix the situation with the person causing the conflict. So if you were worried about needing to confront somebody about it, then you don't need to worry about it right now. That can be done later, when you've cleared out the emotional conflict in yourself, and can then approach from a calmer and more collected place.

Now, I have to admit, that I may have gotten too narrow-minded trying to find one single emotional root cause. Because as Carlos has shown in this course, there's more factors to it, including external. So to solve balding, we need to initially take as much as needed into account.

In fact, the emotional side I've tried to explain here, can maybe be better explained from perspective of nervous system regulation, for which there already exists a framework to take reference from.

My most recent theory is that old beliefs about ourselves (that were caused by unconscious emotional wounds) are the reason we experience internal stress and conflict. If enough of these are active at the same time, that would keep the system constantly in stress mode. I want to explore these beliefs in a later writing, possibly after having discussed it with other people too.

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Have you guys had any similar experiences? Noticing something stubbornly refuses to change, until you change something else that's more deep, and things have shifted?

I'm hoping to spark more curiosity in the possibility of healing with the power of our minds 😊

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