Recent study has linked specific emotions to physical sensations. Researchers tested emotional responses in hundreds of subjects and then created maps identifying locations in the body where emotions cause physical changes. BODILY MAPS OF EMOTIONS
The connection between our minds and bodies is often treated as make believe and mired in controversies. Many researchers have tried establishing the relationship and a study in Finland conducted five experiments with over 700 participants and established how different emotions affected different parts of the body. Suwen (The Book of Plain Questions) also deals with establishing a similar kind of relationship in areas of anatomy, physiology and therapy. Drawing from these, we take a look at which organ may be impacted by the emotions of joy, anger, grief, fear and pensiveness.
Joy - Heart
According to the traditional Chinese medicine, heart may be associated with the feelings of joy and excitement. Here, joy does not refer to the notion of contentment but to agitation and over stimulation. Over-excitement can cause insomnia, agitation and heart palpitations.
Anger - Liver
The emotion of anger is associated with the choleric humor and can cause resentment and irritability. It is believed that this emotion is stored in the liver and gall bladder, which contain bile. Anger can cause headaches and hypertension which can in turn affect the stomach and the spleen.
Grief/Anxiety - Lungs
According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, grief is known to affect lungs and anxiety is known to affect lungs as well as large intestine. These emotions can cause fatigue, shortness of breath or ulcerative colitis.
If fear is felt too deeply and for a prolonged period of time, it can begin to affect your kidneys in a harmful way. This explains the urge to urinate whenever one is frightened, particularly children.
Pensiveness - Spleen
Being pensive is associated with a strenuous thought process that can drain you of energy and lead to disharmony. This melancholic emotion is known to affect your spleen and can cause lethargy and lack of concentration.
Negative Emotions weacken your body, while positive Emotions strengthen your body
As we mature and encounter more stress in our daily lives, negative emotions such as fear, anger, cruelty, impatience, worry, sadness, and grief often predominate. The negative emotions have deleterious effects on the internal organs and glands, draining our life-force and undermining our health.
The five major organ systems and their associated emotions and properties.
· The heart is associated with the negative emotions of arrogance and hate and the positive virtues of kindness and love. Recent scientific research shows that feelings of love and appreciation strongly influence the heart's rhythm and its relationship to the body's physiological systems.
· The lungs are associated with the negative emotions of sadness and depression, and the positive virtues of courage and righteousness. Emotional depression is often recognized by a physical depression and collapse of the chest and lungs.
· The kidneys are associated with the negative emotion of fear and the positive emotions of gentleness and kindness. Fear is closely related to the activity of the adrenal glands that lie on top of the kidneys. The adrenal glands secret adrenalin and noradrenalin when stimulated by the body's fight-or-flight response.
· The liver is associated with the negative emotion of anger and the positive emotions of generosity and forgiveness. Physiologically, the liver is important for storing and rapidly releasing glucose into the blood. The energy of anger requires the rapid availability of metabolic energy stores in the body.
· The stomach/spleen are associated with the negative emotions of worry and anxiety and the positive emotions of fairness and openness. Most people will be familiar with the "butterflies" and "knots" in the stomach related to worry, apparently related to a network of network of neurons and neurotransmitters in the sheaths of tissue lining the digestive system, known as the enteric nervous system (Gershon, 1998).
The five major organ systems and their associated emotions and properties.
· The heart is associated with the negative emotions of arrogance and hate and the positive virtues of kindness and love. Recent scientific research shows that feelings of love and appreciation strongly influence the heart's rhythm and its relationship to the body's physiological systems.
· The lungs are associated with the negative emotions of sadness and depression, and the positive virtues of courage and righteousness. Emotional depression is often recognized by a physical depression and collapse of the chest and lungs.
· The kidneys are associated with the negative emotion of fear and the positive emotions of gentleness and kindness. Fear is closely related to the activity of the adrenal glands that lie on top of the kidneys. The adrenal glands secret adrenalin and noradrenalin when stimulated by the body's fight-or-flight response.
· The liver is associated with the negative emotion of anger and the positive emotions of generosity and forgiveness. Physiologically, the liver is important for storing and rapidly releasing glucose into the blood. The energy of anger requires the rapid availability of metabolic energy stores in the body.
· The stomach/spleen are associated with the negative emotions of worry and anxiety and the positive emotions of fairness and openness. Most people will be familiar with the "butterflies" and "knots" in the stomach related to worry, apparently related to a network of network of neurons and neurotransmitters in the sheaths of tissue lining the digestive system, known as the enteric nervous system (Gershon, 1998).
Heavy emotions stagnate particular parts of your body. You can see that each emotional state produces different energetic image. "We often think the emotions are something that happen only in the mind, but there's also lots of evidence suggesting that they also happen in our bodies" See, BODILY MAPS OF EMOTIONS
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