The Effects Of Negative Emotions And Thoughts On Our Body

Have you ever thought about how thoughts influence your health and your body?  Rarely do most of us pay attention to our thoughts. Sometimes we get carried away by stress, anguish, helplessness, rush … allowing our situations to generate negative emotions and thoughts.

Our thoughts and emotions are decisive in creating a biochemical reaction in the brain that sends chemical signals to the rest of the body. So once a thought is created, a series of physical reactions take place to align the brain with the rest of the body.

The body-mind connection is, therefore, a whole that generates feedback. For example, serotonin and dopamine are two neurotransmitters that our brain stimulates when we feel happy or euphoria.

In the same way it happens with negative thoughts, these can generate pain or physical discomfort that prevent us from feeling completely healthy.

We all have the ability to define the good and the bad of each situation, being ourselves responsible for giving a negative or positive connotation to each of the moments we have to go through every day.

Effect of negative thoughts on the body

Many times, the physical discomfort we feel derive from emotional stress, trauma and negative thoughts that, in addition to not contributing anything good, make us waste our energy. There are different therapies dedicated to relating physical pain with a type of emotional pain, to try to heal from both. 

Let’s look at some examples.

• According to these therapies, feeling chronic pain in the neck could be indicating that we have difficulty seeing from different perspectives, or perhaps a rigid and limited vision. They even come to say that you do not forgive yourself for past situations, which prevent you from finding your site now, generating fear of the future.
• Back pain is usually related to painful experiences that we do not want to see, avoiding facing the problem that burdens us. It may also be that you have too many responsibilities over yourself, that you don’t know or don’t want to delegate.

• A constant headache may indicate that you are holding back thoughts or feelings that you do not want to express for fear of retaliation or hurting someone.

When we are going through a moment or situation that produces anger, a biochemical effect occurs in our body that makes us increase adrenaline levels and we will relive the sensations one and many times.

Feelings of sadness greatly influence our energy and motivation to face our day to day. Sadness can cause us fatigue, excess fatigue and a significant drop in energy.

How to combat negative thoughts and emotions every day?

Just as we have good and happy moments, part of living is also going through difficult moments, which put our way of managing our emotions and decisions to the test.

To deal with the negative emotions and thoughts that can invade us at any time in our life, it is important to learn to have a positive or enriching thought of each experience, no matter how difficult it may seem.

Since by generating a positive emotion in a difficult situation, we are freeing ourselves from said situation and the traumas that may create us, thus avoiding later associating it with other difficult moments (past or future) that may make us feel bad.

Put awareness in your thoughts

Every day when we wake up we can program body and mind to take on the challenge of that new day and that opportunity we have to be well and live happily. Our mind has an impressive power and can carry out all those things that we indicate to it with great confidence.

When negative thoughts and emotions try to take over our life and health, it is important to take a few minutes to consciously reflect on how that thought is affecting us, and if it is really worth expending our energy.

Most likely, after doing this exercise, instead of lamenting and letting yourself be dominated by those emotions, you want to change your life and seek solutions to that problem that causes you negativity so that it does not affect you and rob you of your quality of life. lifetime.

Positivity and good emotions are known to help release hormones responsible for strengthening our immune system. Likewise, it was determined that negative emotions can act in the opposite way and cause a weakening of the immune system, making our body more prone to contracting different diseases.

Being a positive person is a matter of decision, good thoughts and good emotions. You can decide to be happy and learn to be.  It is worth applying a good dose of positivism, as this will improve our emotional and physical health.