This interview with Rico Brunner is based on a video podcast and has only been lightly edited to preserve its original meaning. Rico Brunner is an energy field therapist since 1998, and in this interview, he talks about how emotional wounds manifest as symptoms and why sustainable healing can only happen by addressing the underlying causes—not just the symptoms.
How should I understand your statement that you are working on causes and not on symptoms?
Basically, the causes can be found within the energy field. Each of these causes trigger, let's say, between 3, 5, 10, 15, 20 symptoms. If you work on a symptom that results from a cause, you resolve the symptom. The cause is still blocked and forms another symptom. Consequently, you work a lot and have countless successes along the way because of resolving one symptom after another. With every symptom that is resolved, one or two new symptoms are added because the cause has not been resolved.
However, if you work on the causes and the causes are then resolved, the symptoms disappear in one fell swoop. As a rule, when a cause is partially resolved and malfunctions are partially eliminated, symptoms also begin to disappear.
It's like a correlational process: the more the cause is resolved, the more the various symptoms disappear, until finally all symptoms disappear completely. From my point of view, the aim must be to resolve causes so that symptoms disappear permanently and to not just to be on the symptom merry-go-round. It would be endless work and going round in circles.
What does it mean for me if you work on the causes?
That it can take a little longer to feel that something is moving. When you work on symptoms, you tend to feel it more quickly. After all, the symptoms are what's bothering you.
So, if you work on the causes, it takes a little patience until it can unfold and the symptoms disappear on their own. It makes no sense to solve symptoms because they form anew. That's why it's important to work on causes.
In this case, do the same symptoms have the same causes?
No. There are different reasons why a symptom occurs, and it can have different causes. It therefore makes no sense and is also very difficult to use symptoms to draw conclusions about the causes, because each symptom can have different causes.
Let me take the symptom of anxiety as an example: I can be anxious because I am blocked in my sense of security. But I can also have anxiety because I am overwhelmed and can no longer cope with stress. I can also have anxiety because I lack inner support. These are three causes, simply presented, which all form the symptom "anxiety".
That is why it is so important to work. I look into the energy field and carry out an analysis. I try to find out how the energy field is blocked and where the dysfunctions for the symptoms lie.
Do I need to know what the cause of my problems is so that things can get better?
From my point of view, that doesn't matter. It is not important why a malfunction has occurred. What is important is to repair the malfunction, eliminate the causes and look at how it came about. And to strengthen it so that it cannot happen again.
The cause actually has nothing to do with the origin, with the behavior. This is because there is not only one behavior or only one situation that leads to a malfunction. There is always a series of antecedents. In other words, if someone has an experience that results in a malfunction, the energy field in that area has usually been already weakened beforehand so that this could occur in the first place.
That's why the search for the cause is not so important. It makes no sense because it would take years to get to the bottom of certain things. From my point of view, that's not efficient, and the fact of the matter remains being happy and being in your own strength.
As I gave more sessions in my practice, I found it very exciting that people who came to me with malfunctions always wanted to know exactly the “why” and “why not”. But the stronger they became, the less interested they were in the reason why. Evidently, if you want to know why something isn't working or why you're having these problems, it's always a sign that you're stuck and you're looking for other ways out. In such a case, it would make no sense to support this stuck state; instead, the malfunction should be resolved and worked on, so that it develops afterwards, and that you’re no longer interested in the actual reason for it, and you are no longer hurt.
It's like when you have a broken foot; you think about it until it's healed. Once it has healed, you forget that it was broken because you no longer feel it. An extremely healthy mechanism.
So, have I understood you correctly: Strong people have few unanswered questions?
Yes, I believe that strong people only have a few unanswered questions. That doesn't mean that they don't have questions that interest them about what happens next. They don't have any questions about themselves, about the why, wherefore and what for. Indeed, they do self-preoccupy, but they are not preoccupied with themselves because they can't help it.
When you are strong, you deal with yourself selectively, wherever necessary. The rest of the time is needed to live, to be creative, to work, to be with friends and family. Therefore, it can be said that people with only a few wounds fully “live” their lives. People with many wounds do not always live their own lives. They are constantly confronted with their wounds and the resulting symptoms and get tangled in them. Like a young cat that plays with a ball of wool and gets more and more tangled up.
That's why it's important to remove momentum and see that the injuries are resolved. By resolving the injuries, the malfunctions, you start to take an interest in life and thus break this vicious cycle.
You talk about malfunctions. Are you referring to the symptoms or the causes?
Malfunctions generally refer to the causes. More specifically, the malfunctions are the cross-section between the causes and the symptoms. In other words, the malfunction is the result of the cause. This means that you have to look at the result of the cause in order to find it. Then you work on the cause so that you can resolve the malfunction.
The cause, the malfunction and the symptoms cannot be clearly separated in that sense, because they are interwoven and part of the problem. Nevertheless, when I work on malfunctions, I work on the causes. In other words, working from the malfunction into the cause, and not from the malfunction into the symptoms. That is the big difference.
If there are malfunctions in the energy field, can I notice it myself?
Very difficult. If the malfunctions have a massive impact on you, you will notice the symptoms that result from it. The malfunction in and of itself is noticeable if it hinders your life. In other words, if I have a malfunction at a place that I don't need and whose area I don't live in, I will not notice this malfunction.
I have an example: I have the malfunction of not being able to cope under stress. However, I have a stress-free life and therefore don't realize that I'm not resilient. I only realize it when I need resilience.
Do all symptoms have the same causes?
No. The symptoms and causes are as varied as life itself. And even then it is extremely different from person to person, so the causes behave completely differently. In other words, causes that appear to be the same in people, are different again in individual people. This is because the cause and the relationship to the rest of the energy field and life is completely different.
For instance: The cause is that someone has been hurt by rejection. A malfunction has arisen from this. As a result, it may be that the rejection affects one person emotionally. For someone else, the rejection may have more of an impact on self-love.
It is therefore very different and no two people or cases in the energy field are actually comparable. That's what makes working with the energy field so fascinating, as you have to find out each time where and how the energy field works and why it doesn't work.
Can I remedy the causes myself?
Some of the causes can be remedied by yourself. This happens through the dynamics of the energy field, through self-healing.
This is a actually very natural process. We can actually resolve most of the malfunctions we encounter in life ourselves. Sometimes it takes a year or two, but our energy field begins to learn this from an early age; our systems are able to do this. My work only starts when our own system is unable to repair itself or is completely blocked.
Therefore, you don't actually have to do anything yourself to repair malfunctions because our system is actually designed to repair these malfunctions. But you can still do the following: make sure that you are strong and that you are in your own power so that your energy fields and your own power function optimally. Only then can you have the opportunity to repair more. That's why it's important to keep your focus on yourself and take good care of yourself. This has nothing to do with negative selfishness, where you take advantage of others. It's all about self-preservation and building a positive relationship with yourself.
Is this correct: if I have the strength within me and see how I can become stronger, is self-healing in a good state?
Exactly, then self-healing is as good as it can be. And that means that you repair yourself as best you can. But that is a completely natural process. You can also observe that strong, positive people deal with problems much better than weaker, less positive people. A strong, positive person simply has more emotional resilience than a weakened, perhaps not so positive person.
Thus, it makes sense to look at yourself, but you can only do this if you are strong enough. In other words, if you have a strong energy field, it's easy to say: "You need to be content." When this function works, I feel content. And if someone doesn't have this function of contentment, then they can't build up contentment at all because it doesn't work.
It's similar to when someone is afraid to go into the forest alone. You can't tell them: "You don't need to be afraid." You can close off the whole forest with the police so that nothing happens; the person will still be afraid in the forest. Malfunctions are not something rational that we can change with our minds.
Why aren't you working on the symptoms? They make life difficult for us.
Yes, symptoms make our lives difficult and cause stress. But symptoms grow back. It's like a weed that grows back, you must pull it out again and again. There are symptoms that grow back like weed and affect the system. When symptoms grow back, you can treat someone for years without anything changing; you just keep removing the symptoms as they appear. In my view, this results in someone becoming dependent.
If you work on the causes, even if it takes a few years, they should then be resolved, and no new symptoms will result at the end. If you work on the symptoms and resolve them again and again and then they grow back, it can even go so far that the energy field begins to become exhausted over time. This can lead to a breakdown. This is why it is so important to resolve the causes. Because even if you resolve symptoms, it still puts a strain on the energy field in the long term.
Summary
Symptoms are often just visible signs of deeper underlying causes. Sustainable energetic healing focuses on these root causes, not merely on the symptoms. Although working on the causes requires more patience and mindfulness, this approach leads to greater long-term stability, health, and emotional strength. Those who resolve the root causes permanently step off the “symptom carousel” and strengthen their energy field and overall well-being.
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