Human beings are creatures of emotions, undoubtedly they vary, ranging from happiness, to sadness, to anger, rage, elation, euphoria and the list goes on. How negative emotions can impact our health.
Each emotion has a psychological impact on the body. When you feel good your brain releases serotonin and oxytocin which are feel good hormones that arise when you’re in love or holding or hugging a baby for instance.
When you’re angry or stressed, adrenaline kicks in and your body goes into fight or flight mode. In caveman times this would occur perhaps if a lion or tiger spotted you and you would be figuring out how to run or hide. In today’s world it could be anything from the threat of losing your job, illness in the family or financial problems, heartbreak, breakups or custody battles.
This stress is your body kicking in its survival mechanism. When you’re going through a bad event, you may feel your lungs constricting and you feel like you can’t breathe. Your stomach hurts so badly that you want to throw up. Basically our emotions are connected to our bodies.
Stress releases cortisol and if we remain in this survival mode for too long, it depletes our cortisol levels leaving our adrenals and us fatigued and constantly depressed. So what we think and feel impacts us in a big way and much more than we realise.
Therefore if you feel pain in some part of your body it may be something related to your emotions. For example if you suffer from inflammation, it could be a sign that you are feeling fearful about your life. Meaning that if you are scared, your body can become inflamed.
Unexpressed or pent up anger can also make us sick, weak and exhausted. Rage is exhausting and can drain us if we carry it for too long.
So it’s extremely important to deal with your emotions, talk to someone or let it out, be angry in that moment if you have to, repressed emotions have dire consequences thus the saying silence like a cancer grows….