Our lives are full of emotional challenges currently with the need to ‘keep up’, the fear of missing out, the desire for good relationships, pressure to succeed and work satisfaction which can elicit lots of emotions.
However, we have been taught to not work with our emotions but to suppress and avoid them. Using screen time, alcohol, or other addictive substances to help us avoid them. When we do acknowledge them, we tend to whisk them away with phrases like “mind over matter”, “get a grip”, phrases and patterns learned from childhood. Circumventing our emotions is not good for our mental or physical health. A bit like pressing the accelerator and brake at the same time in your car creating an internal pressure cooker.
Emotions have energy and we tend to block them by holding our breath or tightening our muscles as they can be overwhelming or conflicting but in doing so it puts stress on the mind and the body causing anxiety and depression and physical issues like heart disease, intestinal problems, headaches, insomnia, and autoimmune disorders.
Do you suffer with feelings of sadness, anger, anxiety? Have you also got physical symptoms like stomach issues but are not aware that your emotions may be causing them? Are there emotions that you are ignoring?
Recent neuroscience shows that the more emotions and conflicts we experience, the more anxiety we feel. This is due in part to the vagus nerve, one of the main emotional centres of the body. The vagus nerve responds to emotions triggered in the mid-brain and sends signals to the heart, lungs and intestines which triggers our fight/flight mode and increases our stress hormone levels. So many of us are in this increased state of stress which can cause trouble with almost all of our body’s processes increasing the risk of weight gain, sleep problems and anxiety.
So, if you want to get relief from your physical symptoms, enjoy freedom from your negative thoughts and feel good about yourself then I would love to hear from you.
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