Mind-body connection: how thoughts and emotions affect our health
We are what we think, and emotions are more than real: they exist in time and space and have a “creative power” , they have the power to create well-being or discomfort in our bodies.
The deep mind-body connection
As early as the 1970s, Dr. Candace Pert explained “psychosomatic illness” as a mind-body phenomenon: our minds and feelings have the power to directly and profoundly affect our health and well-being.
It’s amazing, isn’t it?
Think of how much power we have, and we don’t even realize it! Our internal chemicals (neuropeptides and their receptors) are the real biological basis of our awareness. Indeed, they manifest themselves precisely through our emotions, beliefs, and expectations, profoundly influencing how we respond to external agents, situations, and to illness.
That is why it is important to pay close attention to the thoughts, and emotions related to our health, that we put forth.
Everything is closely related.
Organs and diseases have always been correlated with specific mental and emotional states, and bringing body, mind, soul and spirit back into balance is the first thing to do to make healing happen in an organic, spontaneous, and natural way.
The importance of emotions
When we have “healthy emotions” we also heal the body, because emotions are what unite the mind, and body. The know-how of the body is the result of everything we metabolize, see, feel, and touch.
Our body is made up of experiences: we are what we eat but also the way we sleep, and all the thoughts that cross our minds.
Our inner space is a rich field of silent intelligence that exerts a powerful influence on us. Repressing emotions (even, and especially, negative ones) brings disharmony to our complex physical, mental, emotional, soul, and spiritual systems.
That happens because, by repressing them, we do not let them flow freely so that they can surface and therefore we can become aware of them.
Our system is like a network of psychosomatic information: it connects the ‘psyche,’ (everything of a seemingly non-material nature-such as emotion, mind and soul) to the ‘soma,’ (the material world of molecules, cells, and organs).
Body and mind, psyche and soma. Everything is closely connected: from the higher ‘levels’ of emotions, thoughts, soul and spirit the unresolved dynamics manifest at lower levels, that is, on the physical, and biological plane.
The stress of a mind-body imbalance is exactly what creates the conditions that lead to disease. “Each cell is a small conscious being; it knows everything we know but in its own way. For example, the nerve impulse of a concern may arise in the stomach in the form of an ulcer, in the colon in the form of a spasm, or in the mind as an obsession: but they are all manifestations of the same impulse. Concern takes a different form from organ to organ, but every point in the body knows that there is a concern and every cell remembers it. Inside the body, there are infinite possibilities of mental projections.” (Deepak Chopra)
That is why it is crucial never to identify ourselves with the disease, whatever it may be: we are so much more than that! And we all have creative self-healing power.
Let’s always remember that any strong attitude, if expressed rather than held back, helps and encourages survival.
Fighting is always better than giving up!
Bringing to the surface the emotions that block us, looking at them, and metabolizing them properly helps us follow a soul path aimed at evolution.
