Gangrene

Tissue dies. Not somewhere in an abstract medical textbook — in your body. Cells that were alive yesterday stop functioning. They lose their colour, their warmth, their connection to the rest of the organism. What was just a part of you becomes something foreign, dead, that the body must reject.

Medically, gangrene arises from an interrupted blood supply — a blocked vessel, a severe infection, tissue damage that can no longer be repaired. The oxygen no longer reaches the tissue, and without oxygen there is no life. Viewed psychosomatically, a question presses itself forward that reaches far beyond blood flow: What in you is so cut off from your life-force that it is literally dying?

Gangrene is not a quiet signal. It is an alarm. It is the point at which your body shows you what happens when the flow of life is permanently blocked — not only in the tissue, but in the entire inner system.