The Impact of Feelings on Our Health

"Your outlook having a sense of optimism and purpose seems to be predictive of health outcomes," says Dr. Laura Kubzansky, professor of social and behavioral sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Our health completely depends on our state of health. Each emotion in its own way affect to person and it is the response mechanism to the actions of people. If you feel an anger, then your heart starts to beat more often, your eyes are filled with blood, your breathing becomes more frequent, you cannot control yourself or on other side if you feel happy, your eyes are burning and shining, and the smile does not fall off your face, you just glow from the inside, at the same time illuminate the others. As we see emotions are an integral part of our lives. .

Every emotion stimulates a chemical response in your body. Positive emotions cause the production of “feel good” hormones serotonin and dopamine. Negative emotions cause the production of “stress” hormones cortisol and adrenaline. For many years people have been trying to understand the relationship between human emotions and body .Our body completely depends on our state of health, but why is it so? Emotions are not just a surge of feelings, but also health stimulant.

• Impatience and hate can affect intestinal and heart health and the most common symptoms are palpitations, chest pain, and hypertension
• Depression and melancholy can affect the large intestine, skin and lungs, the common symptoms of which are constipation, low blood oxygen count, and breathing difficulties
• Envy, frustration, and anger have a negative effect on the eyes, gall bladder, and liver. The common symptoms include hampered detoxification due to stagnant blood in the liver, excess cholesterol, and poor digestion due to imbalanced bile production
• Fear affects the urinary bladder, kidneys, and ears, and the most common symptoms are poor sexual stamina, disorders of the nervous system, excess acid production in the body, and abdominal knots
• Mistrust, anxiety, and worry can lead to poor digestion and difficulty with regard to waste elimination. These emotions usually have a negative effect on stomach, spleen, and pancreatic health

The 10 most common positive emotions are…

1. Love
2. Amusement
3. Gratitude
4. Hope
5. Joy
6. Pride
7. Serenity
8. Awe
9. Inspiration
10. Interest

The University of Michigan scientists say that positive emotions (e.g., joy, interest, and contentment) broaden an individual’s momentary thought-action repertoire, which in turn can build that individual’s enduring personal resources, resources that also served the ancestral function of promoting survival. By Dr. Mercola In 2007 Dr. Laura Kubzansky’s team reported that among 6,025 participants, those who had high levels of emotional vitality at the onset had significantly lower rates of cardiovascular disease an average of 15 years later. In 2015 they reported that among 6,019 participants studied for an average of 16 years, greater emotional vitality was associated with a lower likelihood of having a stroke. Other studies have indicated that people who retain emotional vitality during chronic illness and disability also do better.

The Women's Health and Aging Study involves more than 1,000 women 65 or older who have varying levels of disability but still live on their own. In that group, women with greater emotional vitality performed significantly better than their less-positive counterparts who had similar levels of disability on two tests designed to measure loss of function—walking speed and the ability to lift at least 10 pounds. A person can feel all the emotions, but there is one emotion or the state that affects the person most strongly. For example, previous studies have linked stress to lowered immune system function, increased blood pressure and cholesterol levels, and altered brain chemistry, blood sugar levels, and hormonal balance. It has also been found to increase the rate at which tumors grow. One of the reasons for this has to do with the way the biological stress response promotes inflammation in your body. When you're stressed, your body releases stress hormones like cortisol, which prepare your body to fight or flee the stressful event.

Your heart rate increases, your lungs take in more oxygen, your blood flow increases, and parts of your immune system become temporarily suppressed, which reduces your inflammatory response to pathogens and other foreign invaders. When stress becomes chronic, your immune system becomes increasingly desensitized to cortisol, and since inflammation is partly regulated by this hormone, this decreased sensitivity heightens the inflammatory response and allows inflammation to run rampant. While it’s not possible to eliminate stress entirely, you can help your body to compensate for the bioelectrical short-circuiting caused by emotional stress