Your emotions play an important role in your overall health.  Everyone has dealt with anger and negative emotions, we’re all human of course.  How we deal with these emotions can effect our health.

I’m sure we’ve all heard that we should never hold a grudge or hold anger against someone because it takes energy to remain upset. This is so true!

Focusing on that anger will wear your health down.

What are negative emotions doing to you on the inside?

Negative thoughts and emotions cause tension in muscles and tighten up organs in the body.  This built up tension in the muscles and organs use up energy in the body which can weaken your immune system.

This tension can also constrict the blood, energy, oxygen and vital nutrients from getting to your organs.

Negative emotions can also cause a blockage in your digestive system.  How many times have you been unable to eat when your upset?  Your stomach feels like it’s twisted in knots.  Some people eat when they’re upset but your food isn’t being digested properly.

When your dealing with negative emotions it can cause a blockage in your digestive
system.  Your digestive system can slow down keeping food from moving through your digestive tract.

Your food feels like a big lump sitting in your stomach.  If your food stay sitting in your stomach in this negative state, it begins to ferment and become purified, poisoning your system by becoming toxic.

Your respiratory system becomes disrupted causing problems with your breathing.  Your cells become deprived of oxygen increasing carbon dioxide levels.

This blockage also interferes with your circulatory system.  The tension disrupts the function of your heart which can weaken the blood vessels, cause hypertension and keep nutrients from reaching cells.

Stress is bad!

Negative emotions produce stress and cause an increase ofadrenal hormones being secreted into
the blood.  Usually when this happens our muscles would burn up the excess hormones by increasing your physical activity.  You would either run or fight.

Nowadays people aren’t as quick to act on negative emotions physically. If your boss embarrassed you in front of other employees, you may want to punch him in the mouth but you keep your anger inside.

Someone cuts you off on the highway, you really want to ram the back of their car.  You may call them a jerk when you pass by but that anger is still inside of you and it may fester for awhile.

Large amounts of hormones are secreted when you become angry and upset and are not
being burned off by your muscles or used in digestion.  It can cause damage to different organs

Unaddressed and suppressed emotions are a huge reason for unbalance in organs.

Anger can:

• Disrupt the function of the liver and bladder.
  Increase blood pressure and can cause a heart attack.

Negative emotions can change from one emotion to the next.  Sadness can become depression.  Impatience can turn to anger.  Unaddressed anger becomes hurt.  All these negative emotions poison our bodies which can then destroy our organs.

The solution to the problem with negative emotions is to channel that negative energy into
positive actions.

What should you do?

There are several things that can be done to remove negative thoughts and emotions.  I know for myself it is very difficult to get past deep hurts and anger.  Here are some things that have helped me move on and not dwell on the negative emotions.

• Forgiveness – This is one of the hardest things to do but it can free you from a lot of stress and anger.  Plus, God wants us to forgive those who do us wrong.  The person who hurt us has control when we hold on to hurt and anger because we cannot function due to what they did to us.  Forgiveness frees us from that stronghold and allows us to get on with our lives.
• Relaxation – We need to calm down and relax.  Becoming upset causes our heart to race, secretes excess adrenaline, and creates anxiety and tension in our organs.  Relaxation releases the tension and pressure.  Special exercises can be done to loosen the muscles in our neck and shoulders.
• Praying – removes the problem from you and puts it in the hands of someone who has the strength to deal with our problem.  God is bigger than our situation and he can remove the stress if we take our problems to him and leave them there.
• Warm Baths- help to soothe and calm us.
• Breathing exercises - help to release the tension and get our heart rate back to normal.
• Walking – helps to remove the excess adrenal hormones from our system by allowing our muscles to burn it up.  This keeps it from staying in our bodies and creating toxins.

These are just a few things to help keep your emotions in check.  To learn more about how negative emotions and special exercises that can help keep them under control, sign up for our newsletter.

This material does not constitute medical advice.  It is intended for an informational purpose only.  I am not a doctor and none of the following information should be construed as medical advice.  Always consult your doctor before beginning any exercise or dietary plan.  The author shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss, damage or injury, caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information contained in this blog.