There is a growing consensus that illnesses in the body are trapped emotions (joy, sadness) that are affecting us in real, physical ways.
There is a growing consensus within the scientific community that illnesses in the body are trapped emotions that are affecting us in real, physical ways.
When we release suppressed, repressed, and trapped negative emotions, we can heal our bodies and our minds.
In this article, we’ll look at how emotions affect your body.
How joy can affect your body
It is natural to feel emotions in your body as physiological changes. For example, when you are embarrassed, your face turns red and you feel hot with the rush of blood on your face.
So that you know how some emotions can be felt physically in the body. Likewise, fear can make you feel tightness in your stomach and muscle tension.
We consider a mental component in how we process emotions, in how we interpret the event.
For example, if your car breaks down on your way to work, you may feel frustrated about it or you may feel like you’ve received a message that you need to slow down this morning and take care of your valuable possessions.
Deciding how to feel about a physiological emotion in your body is the mental component of the mind-body connection that determines how emotions affect your body.
How Negative Emotions Affect Your Health
“The classic definition of stress is any threat, real or imagined, and your body’s response to it. Your body’s natural stress response can have a significant impact on your immune function, brain chemistry, blood sugar levels, hormonal balance and more,” as conceptualized by Dr. Phillip Mercola of the University of Michigan.
One study looked at whether or not we can cultivate positive emotions to affect our bodies and optimize health.
They found that “negative emotions (e.g., fear, anger, and sadness) limit an individual’s thought repertoire to specific actions that serve the ancestral function of promoting survival.”
In other words, our fight or flight response kicks in when we have a negative emotion and feel aggressive or like we need to hide from the feelings.
Researchers from the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, say that “psychological factors can influence immunity and immune-mediated disease.”
Furthermore, the study found substantial evidence that factors such as stress, negative affect (emotions), clinical depression, social support, and repression/denial can influence cellular and humoral (lymphatic fluid) indicators of immune status and function.
Negative emotions have a huge impact on the body’s immune system. “At least for the less serious infectious diseases (colds, flu, herpes), there is consistent and convincing evidence of links between stress and negative affect (emotions) and disease onset and progression.”
In other words, if you are in a bad mood, feeling sad, irritable or stressed, you are more likely to get sick with even something like the flu.
How positive emotions improve your health
When you feel joy, happiness, excitement, hope, appreciation, respect, or love, your body responds by releasing endorphins and oxytocin, often called the “cuddle hormone.”
We feel good when we have these emotions and we want even more of the good, positive emotions, like a craving for drugs.
Unlike negative emotions that can get stuck in the body, positive emotions help eliminate the effect of negative emotions on the body.
Positive emotions do not stay trapped in our bodies, but they are believed to trigger cellular changes that improve the body’s normal functioning.
University of Michigan scientists say that positive emotions (e.g., joy, interest, and contentment) broaden an individual’s momentary thought-action repertoire, which in turn can build lasting personal resources, resources that also served the ancestral function of promote survival.
An implication of the broaden-and-build model is that positive emotions have a negative effect on negative emotions.
By broadening the momentary thought-action repertoire, positive emotions loosen the grip that negative emotions gain on an individual’s mind and body by undoing the narrow psychological and physiological preparation for a specific action.
In fact, empirical studies have demonstrated that contentment and the recovery of joy velocity arise from the cardiovascular consequences of negative emotions.
How you can use this information in positive ways
Learn to identify negative emotions in your body. Practicing self-awareness and mastery is key. When you notice that you feel frustrated, for example, where do you notice the changes in your body?
Once you feel these stress changes in your muscles and internal organs, you can better identify the emotion and deal with internally processing the emotion and relaxing your muscles to change the way you feel.
Shift your emotion processing by reframing your thinking from “This is frustrating” to “This is just a small setback.” Everything will be alright.’ Then work on relaxing the muscles in your shoulders and upper back by lifting and releasing your shoulders.
Many of us carry tension here, so the shoulders are a good place to start when you’re relearning how emotions affect your body.
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