Emotions and its negative impact on Body

Grief is a deep feeling, it doesn’t change you instead it just reveals you.

Namaste!…Today we’ll look at a very important aspect of life. This blog brings me a lot of satisfaction to share, the impact of negative feelings and emotions on our body, it with you. Its far from finish but a very comprehensive tool for our daily life. So with lots of hope that it would be useful for you all, lets begin!

A little background before we move…my father was a great figure, my 1st Guru, man who taught me kindness, a satisfying way to live, to fight for right, and most importantly – never give up. And these early lesson are foundation of whatever I got in my life. One day we all were shaken by surprise to know that he got cancer, that too at last stage. When we are faced by impossible then we often try to run away, most difficult part was to see the weak face that I used to see as strength. Anyway, the point is, one day he asked me “I always did right, never did bad to anyone and at best I replied back to someone who challenged me. Still why I got such a disease, Cancer!!”. He was indeed in exceptional health & strength as per his age, his food was right & disciplined, and possessed overall good personality. Later I came to know about more similar people. Since then its been my challenge to understand why people get different diseases, are they pure luck? Is there a way to understand the pattern & stop, or we can only run behind doctors to know one day that we are defeated?

Anyway, there is good article on connecting dots between physical & emotional health. Lets start here understanding how emotions are involved in creating issues in our body. I’ll write separately on Cancer (that’s 2nd challenge and fight is on). I would be very pleased if you can comment your views- if it did help you in some way. or if you can add something, or if I can help you somewhere. Lets look at our emotion, and how they impact on our body.

Intro: Emotions are an integral part of our daily life. There are positive, there are negative emotions. They also vary in magnitude and hence impact- sometimes mediate, sometimes very high. These are often driven by subconscious beliefs and long-forgotten experiences, and are a powerful force that can aid or degenerate our health.

Our emotional body is strongly linked with your immune, digestive, cardiovascular, and nervous systems. Emotions are our feeling of energy in motion. Different emotions have different frequencies. When negative feelings are not expressed, they can contribute to physical illness over time. Toxic feelings and thoughts lead to a toxic body, while positive, healthy thoughts and attitudes relax our bodies, giving us more energy and zest for life. Even the conservative Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that 85 percent of all diseases have an emotional element.

Think about the last time you really felt stressed. How did your body feel? Did you begin to lose sleep, tense your muscles more often, and generally ‘feel’ unhealthy? That’s because your body was becoming more unbalanced.  Now think, what if this keep happening more often, more tension than recovery!! The secret is understanding that the relationship between mind and body goes two ways. Psychoneuro-immunology is the study of how emotions impact your immune system, health and well-being. This startling new awareness has resulted in the emergence of a whole new field of medicine called ‘Energy-psychology‘.

Reason : Powerful emotions such as pain, fear, grief, disappointment, panic, anxiety & anger, shock our body like an electrical charge, causing lesions along your neural pathways.  This disrupts our body’s natural energy flow. Just as mind heals the body, it can also be a source of pain and disease. Studies show strong links between stress and diseases like diabetes, heart disease, hernias and gastro-related problems. Energy has to move.  If an emotion isn’t expressed (outward movement), it is suppressed (inward movement). Suppressed emotions uses up a lot of energy, which robs your body of energy that should be used for vital functions.  

Emotion’s Storage: Below are some of the examples that shows which emotions are stored in which area –

ARMS: The right arm signifies giving and the left signifies receiving. (Generally, the right side of the body is connected to the paternal, and the left is maternal). It pints to what or who are you carrying?
ARMPITS: Storage unit of what we don’t want to see anymore (Emotional)
BACK: Questioning life’s relation to support (who supports us,etc.). Confrontation for supporting yourself through love.
BLADDER: Emotional resistance to life.
BREASTS: Nurturing the Self (or lack of)
CALVES: Moving forward. Not dealing with past issues or patterns.
COLON: Not going with the flow of life..emotional resistance to change.
EYES: How do you see life? Is it according to your true self?
FEET: How we walk in this world. In which direction are we walking?
JOINTS: Flexibility or not in your situations and your attachments to them.
HANDS: Represent holding on or letting go.
HEART: Not listening to our true self through our feelings
HIPS: General support. When they slip out, it generally relates to an imbalance in how you are relating to life. Feeling the lack of love and support.
JOINTS: Flexibility to or in your situations
KIDNEYS: Holding on to angers or resentments. Being pissed off.
KNEES: Seeing life as unsupported. Inside knee; Community, job, friends. Outside knee; personal issues.
NERVES: Sensitivity towards a situation not acknowledged in the conscious mind.
OVARIES: Very sensitive past issues about creativity. Guilt.
SINUS:  Confusion. Needing to let go or make decisions on a mental level. (Sinus infections are anger in the situation. Headaches are contributed to not making a decision. Migraines are the daddy of headaches of knowing what decision to make and not making it.)
STOMACH: Carries recognition of digesting life, or not.

Here are some of points to consider when understanding impact of emotions on our body-

• According to Dr David Suzuki, 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!
• Resentment and bitterness are like acid.  They cause inflammation and pain.  Stubborn, inflexible resentment goes to the knees, shoulders, and joints–the parts of your body that are designed to be open and flexible.
• Negative emotions have a dense, slower vibration.  They are ‘heavier’, so they gravitate to the lower parts of your body.  Your legs, calves and feet store much of your trauma, resentment, jealousy, and emotional pain, both past and present.
• Emotions of faith, gratitude, and joy resonate within pituitary area of head, which is thought to be a conduit to universal energies.
• Unconditional love resonates at the same frequency as ultra-violet light, the highest visible frequency where Thymus gland resonates.
• Since body/mind/spirit are all connected, negative emotions reflect in the face and changes the appearance of eyes, skin texture, color, tension & texture etc.
• Shame has the most devastating effect, followed by guilt, apathy, grief, fear, anxiety, craving, anger and hate.
• It doesn’t help to hold back, hide or deny your emotions.  The very nature of energy is movement.  When you repress or control your feelings, their energy can’t flow outward properly and dissipate naturally.  You may think you have controlled your feeling, but the energy is still at work in your body.
• Anger damages the liver and gall bladder.  Anger toward another person is like taking poison and expecting someone else to die!
• Negative emotions tax your spleen, liver and adrenal glands and use up nutrients the body needs to sustain itself.  The result is fatigue, auto-immune disorders, and lowered vitality. 

Chemicals: As the electrical current of an emotion travels along your neural pathways, it triggers a release of chemical proteins called neuro-peptides (NPs). Each emotion has its own individual frequency. In response to each specific emotional frequency, your body releases corresponding NP’s.  NP’s communicate chemical messages throughout your body, creating physiological responses. Adrenalin, hormones, oxytoxin, endorphins–these are all examples of NPs. Each neuro-peptide creates such specific biological responses, that physical symptoms can actually pinpoint what’s really happening in your unconscious mind! For instance, happiness, joy, laughter, and orgasms cause the release of natural opiates called endorphins.  These powerful opiates make you feel good.  They boost your immune system, relax muscles, elevate your mood, and dampen pain

Adrenalin and cortisol release when you experience fear, anxiety or stress.  They cause your heart to beat faster, and blood vessels to dilate, making your skin flush.  Rapid, shallow breathing ensues.  Muscles tighten, especially around the stomach and shoulder area.  A slight sweat may break out. The purpose of adrenalin is to place your body in a high-alert rapid-response flight-or-flight state.  In emergencies, this is beneficial, as it aids escape.  But, over a long period, adrenalin can be very damaging to your body.  It suppresses your immune system, impairs digestion, uses up vital vitamins and minerals, causes pain and stiffness, makes your body acidic resulting in inflammation or body odor, and drains vitality 

And, as with many NP’s, Adrenalin is highly addictive. Body gets accustomed to over-stimulation over time, and eventually needs higher dose of adrenaline to maintain higher energy levels. Those who had history of  extended periods of adrenal overload, such as those who grew up in homes with an achoholic or critical parent, or those who experienced physical or verbal abuse, will often unconsciously attract dramas or crises in their lives to feed their adrenalin dependancy.  Or, you may crave sugar or foods to which you are allergic, as these also stimulate the adrenal gland.

Body Issues & Emotions: Lets look at the most important point- which diseases indicates to what kind of issues, or which negative energies can lead to what diseases –

1. Acne: Refusing to like and ACCEPT Yourself as you are.
2. Addictions: Lack of Self-Love and avoiding to face your own fears
3. Allergies: You or someone else is getting in between you and your own self power; IRRITATION. 
4. Alzheimer’s Disease: Refusing to live in your own shoes. 
5. Amenorrhea: Not wanting to be  a woman. Dislike of the self.
6. Anemia: “Yes-but” attitude.  Lack of joy. Fear of life. Not feeling good enough.
7. Arm: To have pain or discomfort in your arms is to feel as though you’re useless or you are not utilizing your capabilities. It could also mean that you are resisting love and/or relationships, and are struggling with it. It’s also possible that it means you refuse to embrace a new situation. It’s no coincidence then, that arms are an extension of the heart. Most “arm” issues ultimately have to do with accepting, loving, stepping forward, and letting go.
8. Arthritis: Lack of self-love and self-acceptance. Chronic bitterness. Resentment. Deep criticism of authority. 
9. Neck: pain in your neck (an extension of your shoulders) signifies that you are too rigid in your outlook and mindset. You aren’t open to other, better possibilities, and this is hurting you, as you don’t know what’s best for yourself, though you think you do.
10. Back: Lower back pin refers to- Financially unstable; lack of Trust on KARMIC LAW. Pain between the lower back and the mid-waist area indicates fear of losing something material (health, money, relationship status).The back generally represents support, hence a problem means you do not feel you’re being supported in some way or another.  Pain in middle of back indicates- Overpowered by guilt; seeking emotional support. Upper back pain indicates emotional insecurity, and a yearning for understanding. It means that you are holding yourself back from the “doing” part of love: you aren’t expressing it, you’re just imagining it. It also means you hold others to incredibly high expectations, and that you feel uncomfortable asking anybody else for help. 
11. Baldness: Lack of trust in life, fear, tension, want to control every single aspect of your life.
12. Blood Pressure: Low Blood Pressure shows Embracing a negative attitude to life, while higher blood pressure indicates Accumulation of emotional problems.
13. Bone Problems: Rebellion towards authority (Kidney).
14. Breast:  Issues in Left – Refusing to taking Care and loving yourself. Issue in Right- Over-protection and inability to love someone.
15. Cancer: Extreme hurt and/or grief related to past experienced issues. Deep hurt, longstanding resentment. Deep secret or grief eating away at the self. Carrying hatreds.
16. Calves: Moving forward. Not dealing with past issues or patterns.
17. Cholesterol: Inability to experience Joy in life (Heat).
18. Eyes: How do you see life? Is it according to your true self? Eye Cataracts- Unable to look eagerly towards the future. Eye Issues in Children- Closing their eyes to current family problems.
19. Colds: Unable to handle too many things and/or issues; Feeling of lack of Harmony.
20. Cough: Feeling a deep need to make a point, lack of proper Expression. 
21. Diabetes: Yearning for something which is no more in your life.
22. Diarrhea: Running away from someone and/or something
23. Dizziness: Being ungrounded and/or lack of Focus.
24. Ear Issues: Unwilling to hear
25. Elbow Issues: Not wanting to Accept recent Changes.
26. Fainting: Not wanting to Cope with current situation.
27. Fat: Oversensitivity. Sadness. A need for a way of protection. Where is all this weight coming from? (Can also be holding onto others’ or your own emotions in the body).
28. Fatigue: Boredom, resistance, and denying what it takes to move forward, “What’s next?”
29. Fibroids: Questioning if you are loved. Nursing pains from the past.
30. Gas: Hidden concerns
31. Grey Hair: Stress
32. Gum Issues: Unable to make one’s mind on important life issues. Not making a decision for yourself and not sticking to it if you did. Be clear, and go for it! 
33. Hand Issues: Unable to handle things that should be dealt with
34. Headache: Criticising oneself.
35. Heart: Not listening to our true self through our feelings. 
36. Hernia: Ruptured  relationships. Strain, burdens, incorrect creative expression.
37. Hips: General support. When they slip out, it generally relates to an imbalance in how you are relating to life. Feeling the lack of love and support. Feeling unable to take important decisions. 
38. Impotence: Anger bottled up towards a past partner and/or harnessing sexual guilt. Social beliefs, fear of mother.
39. Indigestion: Anxiety related to a recent/current/upcoming event
40. Infection: Anger and/or irritation about a particular situation
41. Jaundice: Feeling or being prejudiced, unbalanced person.
42. Kidney Issues: Bottled-up anger that hasn’t been dealt with
43. Knee Issues: Represents pride and  ego.Unable to be Flexible with own ideas, inability to bend.
44. Lockjaw: Anger. A desire to  control. A refusal to express feelings.
45. Leg Issues: Not wanting to MOVE FORWARD
46. Leukemia: Lack of excitement in life
47. Liver Issues: not ACCEPTING CHANGE
48. Lung Issues: Fearing life and feeling unworthy, grief. 
49. Malaria: Out of balance with  nature and with life.
50. Menopausal Issues: Fear of no longer being wanted, fear of aging, Self-rejection, not feeling good enough.
51. Migraine: Fears related to sex and/or letting someone into your life all the while feeling pressured by someone. 
52. Motion Sickness: Fear.  Bondage. Feeling of being trapped.
53. Muscles: Representing our ability to move in life. How flexible are we?
54. Nail Biting: Not liking yourself and wondering if you really have anything to offer. Questioning your worth.
55. Neck Issues: Refusing to See another’s Point-of-view, not being Flexible.
56. Overweight: Needing emotional support and protection due to feeling of lack of security. 
57. Pimples: Small outbursts of  anger, not getting in control of things.
58. Pneumonia: I’m so tired. Trying isn’t necessary anymore. 
59. Premenstrual Syndrome:  Allowing confusion to reign. Giving power to outside influences. Rejection of  the feminine processes.
60. Prostate Issues: Sexual guilt and/or pressure, giving up, belief in aging. 
61. Psoriasis: Fear of being  hurt. Deadening the senses of the self. Refusing to accept responsibility for  our own feelings.
62. Ringworm: Allowing others to  get under your skin. Not feeling good enough or clean enough. 
63. Sacrum What are you sitting on? Let’s get to the bottom issue.
64. Sciatica: Being hypocritical.  Fear of money and of the future.
65. Seizures: Wanting to run away from life
66. Shoulder Issues: Carrying other’s issues onto you
67. Skin Issues: Feeling threatened by someone.
68. Snoring: Feeling unable to Move-On from old patterns
69. Spasms: Holding onto old thoughts when old thoughts are ready to be released.
70. Stomach: Stomach problems result from the failure to acknowledge or accept a situation. Because you are rigid about not wanting to see certain parts of yourself, you have a very hard time allowing things to unfold naturally, and you have a constant tension, anxiety or worry that some situation will arise that will force you to acknowledge what you’re avoiding.
71. Suicidal thoughts: See life  only in black and white. Refusal to see another way out.
72. Teeth: Not liking your situation. (Because they are bone, it could be past life pain coming up for release. Unable to think through important Decisions.
73. Throat: Metaphysically, the throat is the center of creativity – it is the point in between the heart and the head. Physically, the throat is multi-functional. Being unable to accept (“swallow”) the reality of a situation: usually a past emotional trauma or attitude/reality of someone you care about a lot. Not believing in yourself enough to design the life you truly want, or live the way you truly need to (again, center of creativity). Inability to love everything you create. Feeling pressure or restriction regarding what you truly want to say and express. Disconnect with your true nature/individuality. Sore Throat refers to-  Inability to Express your true feelings about something/someone. 
74. Thyroid Issues: Feeling humiliated and/or repressed, feel not able to do what want to do. Hyperthyroid-Rage at being left out.
75. Tonsillitis: Fear. Repressed  emotions. Stifled creativity.
76. Tumors: Drowning in remorse.
77. Ulcers: Not feeling fulfilled. Leaving a hole and causing grief.  Feeling you ain’t good enough.
78. Varicose Veins: Standing in a  situation you hate. Discouragement. Feeling over-worked and overburdened. 

This is just an overview due to the place, you can get in touch with me for details. 

Lets have a special consideration for major negative emotions –

Release : It is very important to allow your emotions to come to the surface. Below are few ways to bring those harmful suppressed emotions on surface and release.

• 1st you understand that its natural to have negative emotions but then we must dispose them also. Like we have food, we keep good nutrients inside body and the waste is excreted.
• But continue to holding onto them is your choice. Situations can only present it in front of you, or at best drag you into it, BUT do you really need to have them and keep them!!
• Accept, take responsibility and work for resolution. Seek help if you need.
• analyze yourself and find – where these negative emotions are stored in your body? Which areas in the body are impacted and what are the emotions that you need to deal with?
• Notice which direction this feeling is moving. It has to move – feelings move all the time. For example, I want you to think about being nervous. When a person is nervous, they normally say “I have butterflies in my tummy”.
• Write down – emotions that you need to deal with, incidents that contribute majorly to these emotions, which areas of the body is impacted. These monsters are only good as you let them be. Face them, finish them.
• Take deep breaths, inhale- fresh air, positive emotions and exhale- impurities, negative emotions. People in emotional or physical pain tend to breathe very shallow. Body becomes acidic when deprived of oxygen, which  reduces your ability to cope with stress.
• Connect to a particular memory. Place hand on your body where you feel the emotion. You cannot truly let go of your emotions until you feel them fully, utilize your breath, intention, and even touch them if required to release.
• Listening to music, or saying a releasing statement aloud.
• Once the emotion has been fully acknowledged, i:e. you have felt it as deeply as possible, you will experience a release of built-up energy.
• Physical exercise, strenuous labour, or sports activities help to dissipate emotional energy and release it harmlessly.  Physical activities trigger the release of endorphins to make you feel good.  Exercise helps expel physical and emotional toxins.
• Smile, even if you don’t feel it.  The act of smiling changes your body chemistry.  You’ll feel happier! 
• Laughter is also a great emotional release!  Laughter releases chemical endorphins to make you feel happy and relaxed. You might even feel to cry and shake or laugh, but it will feel like being freed. . This is a great time to tap or massage either the point of your body that feels uncomfortable or various points that relate to the issue you are working on. You can then move, shake, dance, or simply sit or lie down to allow your body to complete the process. The most important thing is to listen to your body and go with what it says.
• Meditation is an ideal tool to achieve serenity and balance between your brain’s left and  right hemispheres.  Meditation slows your brain waves to an alpha state of 7.8-11htz.   This provides a direct link to your subconscious mind.   It’s rather like hacking into the universe’s software.  Meditation directly opens you to wisdom and inspiration far beyond analytical modes.
• Like Meditation, any spiritual or energy healing like Reiki, works like a blessing.

Disclaimer:  This is purely addressing these issues on a personal, Spiritual level only. You are always advised to seek care from a licensed medical professional.

Note: While we should ALWAYS seek professional medical help for any illness that enters in our lives, it may be very helpful to check out the meaning of these health issues from Spiritual or emotional point of view. We need to understand what our body is trying to show us. The list of diseases due to emotional impact is a short one due to space.

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