CyFitness CyFitness Magazine October - December 2014 | Page 16

THE EFFECTS OF
NEGATIVE
EMOTIONS ON
OUR HEALTH

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 its
happening and how our bodies will be affected. While
we can always work to more beyond our definitions of
each experience and move into a state of mind where
we simply accept each experience for what it is and
use it as learning grounds for us, we may not be there
yet and so its 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 possi- The connections between your mind and body is very
powerful and although it cannot be visually seen, the
ble to help him.” ~ Hippocrates
effects your mind can have on your physical body

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umans experience an array of emotion, anything from hapiness, 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 are
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
serotinin you will feel good and happy. 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 think positive?
Mostly of us we spend a lot of time defnining and
judging what is to be considered as positive and what
we consider to be as negative. The brain is a very
powerufl 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 suddently they are feeling negative, down and
in bad mood?Whereas someone else can get cut off
while driving and simply apply the break slightly and
move on with their day as if nothing happened. In this
case, the same experience yet ones sees it as negative
while the other doesn’t. So are things innately positive
and negative? Or so we define things as positive and
negative?

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 unhealthy lifestyle.
Our emotions and experience 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?It is likely because in that area of
your body you still hold energy released from that e
You have all the power in you to get through anything
life throws at you. Instead of labeling with perception the consepts of negative and positive as it relates
to each experience you have in your life, ask yourself how can this help me to see or learn something?
You have the tools to process emotions and illeness
quickly when you see them for what they are and
explore why the 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 that we attract within
the body.

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