Can emotions affect your health?

Wellness

oi-Staff

By Super Admin

Friday, June 24, 2011, 14:53

Good emotional health helps you cope with the stress and other problems. Feeling good about your self is the first step toward achieving emotional health. Thanks to the mind body connection, emotional health and physical health are closely related.

Many factors disrupt emotional health. Feelings like sadness, stress or anxiety badly affect your mental health. This will lead to poor physical health.

Scientists once rejected mind body connection. But now it is proved that the immune system work closely with the nervous and endocrine system to carry out its task. Our mind influences illness. Recent studies also prove the mind body connections.

How emotions affect health?

What is mind/body connection all about? Our body responds to the way we think, feel and act. This happens because of the connection between our body and mind. Stresses that affect the brain can hurt the body at the cellular and molecular level and diminish a person's health and quality of life. For example Stressful event may lead to high blood pressure Poor emotional health troubles our body's immune system. During emotionally difficult times chances are more to get cold and other infections. Cells in our gut process the information. Our brain makes messenger molecules and sends them to the immune system to tell certain genes whether to express themselves or not.

Poor emotional health may cause the following physical signs.

• Change in appetite
• Back pain
• Chest pain
• Constipation or diarrhea
• Dry mouth
• Extreme tiredness
• General aches and pains
• Headaches
• High blood pressure
• Insomnia (trouble sleeping)
• Lightheadedness
• Palpitations (the feeling that your heart is racing)
• Sexual problems
• Shortness of breath
• Stiff neck
• Sweating
• Upset stomach
• Weight gain or loss

Ways to improve emotional health.
Recognize the causes of sadness, stress and anxiety and try to avoid them. This will help manage emotional health. Understand the mind body relation well. Understanding how the mind, the endocrine system, the nervous system and immune system interact, help people conquer the stress in their lives and stay healthy.

Some helpful tips

Live a balanced life. Deal with the negative feelings wisely by focusing on the positive things in life. Positive out look improve the quality of life. Positive frame of mind can help a person overcome some of stress effects It is a health booster also. Find times to enjoy.

Express your feelings in appropriate ways. Keeping the feelings of stress, sadness or anxiety inside cause physical problem. Try to express your feeling in appropriate ways. Sharing your feeling with others help you reduce your stress.

Take care of yourself. Having a regular routine for eating healthy meals, getting enough sleep and exercising helps you keep emotional health. Overeating and abusing drugs or alcohol affects emotional health

Calm your mind and body. There are many relaxation methods that help you calm your mind and body. Relaxation methods bring your emotions into balance. Meditation is a way to achieve this. Exercising and stretching or breathing deeply is parts of meditation.

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Disclaimer: The information provided in this article is for general informational and educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or a qualified healthcare provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.