The Key to Self-Liberation: Encyclopedia of Psychosomatics Fundamental Psychological Origins of and Solutions to 1,000 Diseases and Other Phenomena

by Christiane Beerlandt

Fundamental causes, fundamental healing. Why do you get headaches? What's the origin of depression? Why are certain people susceptible to colds? How does cancer originate emotionally? Which psychological patterns cause the cholesterol level to rise? The Key to Self-Liberation is an invaluable tool for in-depth self-exploration.

Genres: Health, Psychology, Self Help, Nonfiction

928 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Christiane L.J. Beerlandt was born on 7 June 1955 in Turnhout, Flanders. (Flanders is the northern half of Belgium where Flemish, a variant of Dutch, is spoken.) In Flemish language, “Beerlandt” means BEAR land. Therefore, her last name represents fertility on earth and happiness. Her first name represents the spiritual and charitable aspect.

From childhood on Christiane wanted to relieve suffering. An innate giftedness allowed her to feel herself into the inner world of people. During her youth, she wasn’t aware of the uniqueness of her talent — she thought that everyone was like her. As an adolescent she wrote poems and prose texts that were much appreciated by her friends and teachers at school. She was also gifted on the recorder and mainly played Baroque music as well as compositions of her own.

After studying art history at the University of Leuven, she started one of the first natural food stores in Belgium. At the same time, as a pioneer, she created a network in which farmers raised their livestock in an animal-friendly way, without artificial hormones and antibiotics.

Through a spontaneous initiation experience in 1986, she felt the importance of utilizing her natural endowment in order to help humanity move forward in its evolution: toward higher awareness. At the end of the 1980s an inner inspiration led her to write down texts that later formed the basis of her book Nieuwe Dagen (New Days: not yet available in English).

At the end of 1992 Christiane took the plunge to become a full-time author. In November 1993, her first book came out in her mother tongue, Flemish: De Sleutel tot Zelf-Bevrijding (The Key to Self-Liberation). Meanwhile, this encyclopedia of psychosomatics has become a standard reference work on the psychological, emotional origins of disease. Today, it can be found on the shelves of numerous bookstores.

From then on Christiane became like an inexhaustible source. Many other books followed, as well as translations into French, German, and English. They make us aware of the deeper meaning of “Signposts of Life”: illnesses, occurrences, happenings, emotions, spontaneous food preferences, encounters with animals, astrological symbols, the language of the body, etc. These are all “signals” that can teach us a lot for the sake of our welfare and personal development.

All drawings on her books’ covers are by her own hand.

The profoundness and accuracy of the texts, written in a language accessible to all, have brought the Christiane Beerlandt Books worldwide recognition among all types of people, including many health professionals.

Between 1999 and 2015 Christiane toured extensively in Europe and Canada to give lectures, together with her life companion Dirk Lippens.

Though Christiane left the three-dimensional on 18 June 2015, she remains completely alive through her work and loving soul energy. Dirk continues to fulfill their common vocation by doing everything he can to spread her work.

Christiane Beerlandta

Reviews

[Inara · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you want to learn about the psychological origin of your disease and to understand the reason why you fell ill in the first place this book will be a rich source of wisdom for you! Of course you have to be open minded because sometimes it´s much easier to live in denial than to acknowlegde that your own thoughts and actions may have led to your current predicament. To take responsibility is hard, don´t I know it...
The author is in no way against medical treatment but she thinks your healing will be faster and more thorough if you understand the reason behind your illness. Self-awareness is the key to health in her opinion (and mine)...

[MedicalIntuitive · Rating 5 out of 5]

I began my EFT tapping practice 5 years ago. This book was recommended by an EFT Master Practitioner (who is certified in over 20 other modalities).

Over the last year, during EFT sessions, I started to somehow "sense" information about the emotional origins of a client's health condition. After validating these clues with the client, we work to neutralize the emotions.

When we finished a session, I began looking up their physical manifestation (their health issue) in this book. It has been eerily spot on every single time.

[Lauren Smits · Rating 3 out of 5]

Super goed om je kwalen en ziektes in op te zoeken en te snappen wat er psychologisch onder ligt :)

[Mijwaart Milian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fenomenaal

[Stefan Hoevenaar · Rating 1 out of 5]

Verleidelijk, verraderlijk en soms gevaarlijk psychologisch essentialisme dat gebruik maakt van Confirmation Bias, Barnum Effect en Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc.

De tekst (encyclopedie is te veel eer) noemt voor elke ziekte - lekker pseudowetenschappelijk geordend - enkele thema’s die enorm op jou van toepassing zijn of kunnen zijn, maar andere teksten doen dat net zo goed. Sommige thema’s slaan net zo goed op vele andere mensen (ouderlijk gezag; “eigen ik”, struisvogel; etc). Sommige thema’s slaan minder of helemaal niet op jou, maar die teksten passen gewoon wat minder hè, maar dat maar dat maakt de rest niet minder waar hoor! Net een geboortehoroscoop!

Ik heb een longontsteking. Volgens Beerlandt zit ik in een “diepzee van emoties”, heb ik geen doel of uitzicht en houd ik vast aan een hulpeloze babytijd, na gedoe met ouderlijk gezag, apathie, struisvogelgedrag en volg ik alles behalve mijn eigen verlangens. Tijd om een andere weg te kiezen, grenzen te verleggen en bewust met elke cel te leven!

In het kort: pure kwakzalverij.

[Tzu · Rating 4 out of 5]

I obviously skipped the parts that were irrelevant to me though after some reflection I might actually go through some of the other psychosomatic illnesses as well just to see whether the causes of my illnesses are similar because they all stem from the same root problem or because each answer to whatever disease is simply very similar.

I don't entirely agree with what Beerlandt says on some diseases, especially those people are born with or stuff that might have happened to them when they were very, very young. She claims we attract the negative stuff happening to us, even as babies, but I would beg to differ. Either way it's a very interesting way to spend some time reflecting and picking up on those things that seem true or familiar..

Recommend for anyone wanting to do some introspection.

[Monty · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sehr tiefgehende, radikale und fundamentale Impulse zu fast allen Krankheitsbildern. Liebe das Buch, da es den Geist öffnet und Aufmerksamkeit auf das Wesentliche lenkt.

Very profound, radical, and fundamental insights into almost all medical conditions. I love the book because it opens the mind and directs attention to the essential aspects.