Humans experience an array of emotions,
anything from happiness, to sadness to extreme joy and depression. Each
one of these emotions creates a different feeling within the body. After
all, our body releases different chemicals when we experience various
things that make us happy 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 while you are stressed, you
will have an entirely different feeling associated more with the body
kicking 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 neither
positive nor negative? Let’s explore how these affect our body and life.
Positive vs. Negative
Is there duality in our world? Sure, you
could say there is to a degree, but mostly we spend a lot of time
defining and judging what is to be considered as positive and what we
consider to be as negative. 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 that someone
driving can get cut off and lose their lid, get angry and suddenly they
are feeling negative, down and in 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. In this case, 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 as to
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 move into a state of mind/awareness/consciousness
where we simply accept each experience for what it is and use it as a
learning grounds for us, 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 very 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 be
in negative, have self destructive thoughts and not deal with our
internal issues, possibly even cloak those issues with affirmations and
positivity without finding the route and in turn we can 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 is remaining in that area. I came across an
interesting chart that explores some possible areas that various
emotions might affect the body.
When you have a 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 pains in my back, knees, neck or shoulders, it wasn’t
exercise, physio or anything in a physical sense that healed it, it was
when I dealt with the emotions behind it. I know this because I spent
the time and money going to physio and even though I wanted and believed
I would get better, something wasn’t being addressed still. The more I
addressed the unconscious thought pattern and emotions throughout my
body, the more things loosened up and pain went away.
When you get sick or are feeling a lot
of tightness and pain, often times our body is asking us to observe
yourself and find peace once again within yourself and your environment.
It’s all a learning and growing process we don’t have to judge nor
fear.
You Have The Power
avis Suzuki wrote in ‘The Sacred
Balance’, ‘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 all the power in you
to get through anything life throws at you. Instead of labeling with
perception the concepts of negative and positive as it relates to each
experience you have in your life, try to see things from a big picture
standpoint. Ask yourself, how can this help me to see or learn
something? Can I use this to shift my perception? Clear some emotion
within myself? Realize something within 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 up. 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 until you realize the control you have over
much of what we attract within the body.
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