When you're feeling hurt about something that's happened and you're thinking about it and then you start to feel those pangs of hurt in your "heart", is that a form of somatization (negative thought transforming into physical pain)? Or is it just the abscence of any defense mechanism?
From what I know about somatization, it's often associated with 'thinking' we have pain but subconsciously not being able to distinguish between the two,
psychologically. For instance, in phantom-limb pain where people will 'think' that their limb is in pain, even act like it, but they're not in pain. It's a dissociative type disorder.
With feeling pain in the heart when we're hurt, I don't think it's an absence of defense mechanisms, but more so with our heart/our head not being able to actually 'dis'associate between the two. Both are connected, neurologically. I think it's about letting go of attachment we feel physically, mentally, emotionally/or spiritually.
Ex- when a loved one dies or we separate from someone, we feel pain in our heart because our memories are still active/alive. As long as our brain's functioning normally, then areas associated cognitively to our emotions will actually send those responses to the heart, I think.
It's hard to separate our thoughts from our feelings, because feelings contain thoughts, and thoughts can also be a result of feelings (ex- feeling when something's out of 'consistency'- therefore, we 're-examine' our thoughts and investigate even more). Vice versa.
I think somatization relates to being 'unconscious.' The opposite of somatization is 'consciousness,' being able to cope with our raw true emotions, 'actual' physiological/psychological responses, hence, it hurts or feels good (like butterflies in our stomachs or hearts fluttering).
