Healing Metaphors A-Z - Gangrene

Gangrene
Gangrene is a necrosis of tissue and is usually the result of absent or deficient blood supply to a specific area of the body. It is most often due to some kind of obstruction. This obstruction may be the result of an injury, some type of degenerative change to blood vessels or an inflammatory process. The dead tissue must be removed in order for healing to occur. Having gangrene means that we have unhealed soul level valuelessness which is causing us to ‘self-destruct.’ This is a desperate, though mistaken, attempt to contain the problem in one area of our body and kill it off. This is a massive self-attack on unconscious and subconscious levels. We feel overwhelmed and ganged up on; part of us is dying off. The problem starts with a conflict and rather than resolve it we are killing off part of ourselves. Gangrene is the result of deep conflict and a split mind.

Chuck Spezzano and Janie Ticehurst, Healing the Body Through Mind and Metaphor