Humans experience an array of emotions each day, and every one of these emotions creates a different feeling within the body.  After all,  our body does release different chemicals when we experience various things that make us happy, or sad, or angry,   and each chemical works to create a different environment within the body.

For example, if your brain releases serotonin, dopamine, or oxytocin, you will feel     good and happy. Conversely, if your body releases cortisol because you are stressed,      you will have an entirely different feeling as the body kicks into survival mode.

What about when we are thinking negative thoughts all the time? Or how about when  we are thinking positive thoughts?  What about when we are not emotionally charged    to either positive or negative thoughts? Let’s explore how these affect our body and life.

Positive vs. Negative

Is there duality in our world? Perhaps to a degree, but mostly we spend a lot of time defining and judging what is to be considered positive and what is to be considered negative, but in either instance, we’ve placed a value judgment on the experience that wasn’t inherently there.  THE STATUS QUO…  THAT’S A BIG OLE’ HAVE MERCY!!!

WE WORRY ABOUT WHAT OTHERS THINK OF US WITH OUT GIVING          THOUGHT ABOUT WHOM WE REALLY ARE OR WANT OUT OF LIFE!!! 🙁

The brain is a very powerful tool and as we define what something is or should be,            we begin to have that result play out in our world. Have you ever noticed, for example,  someone driving can get cut off and lose their temper, and suddenly they are in a bad mood, whereas someone else can get cut off while driving and simply apply the brake slightly and move on with their day as if nothing happened? It’s the same experience,      yet one sees it as negative while the other doesn’t. So are things innately positive and negative? Or do we define things as positive and negative?

Cut the Perceptions as Much as Possible

After thinking about it for a moment, you might realize that there are in fact no positive   or negative experiences other than what we define as such. Therefore our very perception of an experience or situation has the ultimate power to determine how we will feel when it’s happening and how our bodies will be affected.

While we can always work to move beyond our definitions of each experience and into a state of mind/awareness/consciousness where we simply accept each experience for what it is and use it as a learning tool, we may not be there yet, and so it’s important to understand how certain emotions can affect our health.

“If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready  to do away with the reasons for his illness.

Only then is it possible to help him.”   – Hippocrates

Mind-Body Connection

The connection between your mind and body is powerful, and although it cannot be visually seen, the effects your mind can have on your physical body are profound.

We can have an overall positive mental attitude and deal directly with our internal challenges and in turn create a healthy lifestyle,  or  we  can  have an overall negative  attitude and avoid dealing with our internal issues — possibly even cloak those issues   with affirmations and positivity without actually changing anything — and create an unhealthy lifestyle. Why is this?

Our emotions and experiences are essentially energy and they can be stored in the   cellular memory of our bodies. Have you ever experienced something in your life that     left an emotional mark or pain in a certain area of your body? Almost as if you can still  feel something that may have happened to you? It is likely because in that area of your body you still hold energy released from that experience that has lingered in the body.        I came across an interesting chart that explores what various emotions might affect in    the body.

Source :http://www.cforcestudio.com/resources/emotional-pain-chart

When you have pain, tightness, or injuries in certain areas, it’s often related to something emotionally you are feeling within yourself. At first glance it may not seem this way because we are usually very out of touch with ourselves and our emotions in this fast-paced world, but it’s often the truth. When I’ve had chronic pain in my back, knees, neck, or shoulders, it wasn’t exercise, physiotherapy, or any other physical treatment that healed it; it was when I dealt with the emotions behind it that it went away.

I know this because I spent the time and money going to physiotherapy and even though   I wanted and believed I would get better, something still wasn’t being addressed. The more I addressed the unconscious thought patterns and emotions throughout my body, the more things loosened up and the pain went away.

When you get sick or are feeling a lot of tightness and pain, oftentimes our body is asking us to observe ourselves and find peace once again within ourselves and our environment. It’s all a learning and growing process; we don’t have to judge or fear it.

You Have the Power

David Suzuki wrote in The Sacred Balance that “condensed molecules from breath exhaled from verbal expressions of anger, hatred, and jealousy, contain toxins. Accumulated over 1 hr, these toxins are enough to kill 80 guinea pigs!” Can you now imagine the harm you are doing to your body when you stay within negative emotions or unprocessed emotional experience throughout the body?

Remember, you have the power within you to get through anything life throws at you. Instead of labeling each experience you have as negative or positive, try to see things    from a broader viewpoint. Ask yourself, how can this help me to see or learn something?

Can I use this to shift my perception? To clear some emotion within myself?

To recognize something about another and accept it? Whatever it may be, instead of simply reacting, slow things down and observe. You will find you have the tools to process emotions and illness quickly when you see them for what they are and explore why they came to be. If you believe you will get sick all the time, and believe you have pain because it’s all out of your control, you will continue to have it all in an uncontrollable manner. Only until you realize the control you have over much of what we attract within the body will you begin to master.

Not a second of a normal person’s life goes by without having some type of an emotion. Whether it would be happiness or sadness, joy or depression, emotions are a crucial part of our day. But, what we should also know is that our emotions are connected to our overall health.

Depending on the emotion you are feeling in a certain moment, our body releases different chemicals and those chemicals create a different environment within the body itself.

Serotonin, dopamine or oxytocin are released when we experience happiness. On the other hand, when we feel stress our body will release cortisol, a totally different hormone that puts the body in a different state.

But what happens when we think negative all the time? Or when you are a positive person and have happy thoughts all the time? Read on and you’ll see how emotions interact with your body.

Positive thoughts vs. Negative thoughts

Sure we can be neutral sometimes towards certain things, but most of the time our brain will judge and define what is positive and what negative. The brain is a powerful tool,  as   it defines something to be positive or negative we’ll get a different reaction in our activity.

For example, if while driving you get cut off by another car, some will get pissed off and immediately change their mood to negative even if it was positive the whole time before, while some will just hit that brake a little bit and continue like nothing happened. So it seems that things are not always positive or negative by definition, but it is we that define them as such.

Change your way of seeing things as much as possible

Most of the time, there are no positive or negative things just by definition, but it is you that find them to be one way or the other. So, you are the one defining how a situation affects you and therefore how your body will react to it. We can always work our definition on certain situations, and while we do not have such self-control yet, maybe after knowing how our emotions affect our health, we can work to improve that self-control.

“If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.” ~ Hippocrates 

The connection between our body and our mind

Even though not seen visually, the connection between our mind and our body is huge. While positive thinking and inner calmness can lead to a healthy life style and self esteem, destructive thinking and unresolved issues will surely lead to an unhealthy and unfulfilling life.

Our emotions are our body’s essential energy and they can also be stored in our cellular memory. You can probably still feel pain from something that left an emotional mark from when you were in a situation when you felt overwhelmed with stress. That area of your body is likely to store the energy released from the type of experience you had.

There is likely a connection between stress and illness. Theories of the stress–illness link suggest that both acute and chronic stress can cause illness, and several studies found such a link. According to these theories, both kinds of stress can lead to changes in behavior and in physiology. Behavioral changes can be smoking and eating habits and physical activity. Physiological changes can be changes in sympathetic activation or hypothalamic pituitary adrenocorticoid activation, and immunological function. However, there is much variability in the link between stress and illness.

Stress can make the individual more susceptible to physical illnesses like the common cold. Stressful events, such as job changes, may result in insomnia, impaired sleeping, and health complaints. Research indicates the type of stressor (whether it’s acute or chronic) and individual characteristics such as age and physical well-being before the onset of the stressor can combine to determine the effect of stress on an individual.  An individual’s personality characteristics (such as level of neuroticism), genetics, and childhood experiences with major stressors and traumas may also dictate their response to stressors.

Chronic stress and a lack of coping resources available or used by an individual can often lead to the development of psychological issues such as depression and anxiety (see below for further information). This is particularly true regarding chronic stressors. These are stressors that may not be as intense as an acute stressor like a natural disaster or a major accident, but they persist over longer periods of time. These types of stressors tend to have a more negative impact on health because they are sustained and thus require the body’s physiological response to occur daily.

This depletes the body’s energy more quickly and usually occurs over long periods of    time, especially when these microstressors cannot be avoided (i.e.- stress of living in a dangerous neighborhood).  See allostatic load  for further discussion  of the biological process by which chronic stress may affect the body.  For example, studies have found   that caregivers, particularly those of dementia patients, have higher levels of depression and slightly worse physical health than non-caregivers.

Studies have also shown that perceived chronic stress and the hostility associated with Type A personalities are often associated with much higher risks of cardiovascular disease. This occurs because of the compromised immune system as well as the high levels of arousal in the sympathetic nervous system that occur as part of the body’s physiological response to stressful events.

However, it is possible for individuals to exhibit hardiness—a term referring to the ability to be both chronically stressed and healthy. Many psychologists are currently interested in studying the factors that allow hardy individuals to cope with stress and evade most health and illness problems associated with high levels of stress.

Stress can be associated with psychological disorders such as delusions, general anxiety disorder, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. However, it is important to note that everyone experiences some level of stress, and diagnosis of stress disorders can only be performed by a licensed practitioner.

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Experiments show that when healthy human individuals are exposed to acute laboratory stressors, they show an adaptive enhancement of some markers of natural immunity but   a general suppression  of  functions of specific immunity.  By comparison,  when healthy human individuals are exposed to real-life chronic stress,  this stress is associated with a biphasic immune response where partial suppression of cellular and humoral function coincides with low-grade, nonspecific inflammation.

Often, when you feel some pain, stiffness or injuries, it is often related to some emotion within. At first it doesn’t seem this way cause we live in a fact paced world, and we often leave our emotions aside. When I had chronic pain in my back and neck, it wasn’t from any exercise or any physical injuries. I spent time and money on physical therapies and nothing happened, something was not addressed. It was the emotions involved behind it. Later, when I addressed the unconscious thoughts and emotions I’ve beed experiencing, the pain started going away.

Often in that way, the body asks us to pay attention to our mental state and find peace with ourselves. It’s still a learning process for people and it is early to judge, but we need to get involved on the subject.

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