What emotions are the most damaging to health? Are there psychosomatic factors in serious illness? It turns out that human emotions are quite material. And some of them cause maximum harm to the body. This is how it works.
Psychosomatics is a fairly young science, it deals with the impact of emotions on the body and the causes of various bodily ailments. How to understand this issue, because everyone knows that emotions are immaterial? It turns out to be a delusion. If a person is nervous, angry, irritated, with any tangible emotions hormones are synthesized that have an effect on the body as a whole, says Dr. Pavel Evdokimenko.
Effects of negative emotions on health
Hormones released during strong emotions rebuild the work of organs and systems. Muscle and nerve responses turn on, muscle clamps occur. All this serves as proof that emotions are quite material, and the overwhelming number of ailments happen precisely from the nerves. This is approximately 70% of all diseases.
How do emotions affect the body? Does it make sense that we freak out?
The human body is the result of a long evolution. All this time, the body has been "attached" to the conditions of the wild. In nature, the evolutionary meaning of vibrant emotions is to survive. A predator attacked - you either have to fight or run away. During this time, the adrenal glands release a surge of stress hormones that prepare the body for a fight or flight. These hormones increase blood sugar, vascular tone and blood pressure, thereby providing powerful blood flow to the muscles during a fight or escape. Hormones activate the functions of the heart, thicken the blood and constrict blood vessels in order to stop bleeding in a situation of injury.
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In a hormonal sense, the body does not really distinguish between stress provoked by a predator's attack from other stress (scandal with his wife, cheating on the boss). In such a situation, the body begins to prepare for a fight in the same way as when a predator attacks. Pressure, sugar rises, blood vessels narrow. All this causes the occurrence of various diseases.
Which emotion is the most harmful
There are natural emotions that help you survive in the wild. They are not dangerous. But unnatural emotions simply interfere with survival. And they pose a health hazard.
It is harmful when any emotions are not relieved (this is any physical activity - sports, walks).
Unnatural emotions are not discharged. Therefore, they minimize the ability to survive and provoke severe ailments.
Unnatural emotions include envy, resentment, and guilt.
Feelings of guilt can produce acute leg pain, often associated with sciatica and sciatica. Resentment and envy provoke serious ailments: oncology, arthritis, type 1 diabetes.
In the early stages of evolution, resentment in nature simply did not exist. There was rage, fear, anger. For the first time in the animal kingdom, resentment arose at the stage when cohesive groups were formed (among monkeys). Some of us bear a grudge literally our whole life. Resentment provokes malignant neoplasms, ulcerative colitis, arthritis.
And a malignant neoplasm develops. Scientists do not deny that certain emotions often contribute to the development of cancer. Questioning patients revealed a peculiarity: oncology often develops after psychological shocks (divorce, loss of housing, loss of a loved one, loss of a good job, etc.).
The connection between emotions and cancer
- Cancer of the stomach, intestines, liver, pancreas - an insult to life, fate
- Respiratory cancer is a disappointment in life
- Cancer of the female organs - resentment against a man
- Brain tumor - burning resentment against parents, loved ones, jealousy
- Breast cancer - resentment against children
- Blood cancer is a grudge against life