It’s Scientifically proved that there is a strong connection between mental and physical health. In Ayurveda text granthas have this information since decades.The author of Natural medicines “Charaks” explained widely about the powerful connection between our emotions and body, how our emotions, spiritual, and behavioral factors can directly affect health outcomes. The beliefs you hold about yourself and the world, your emotions, your memories, and your habits all can influence mental and physical health. These connections between what is going on in your mind and heart, and what is happening in your body, form the psycho-emotional roots of health and disease.
Emotions like anger, fear, guilt, anxiety, sadness, resentment, jealousy, depression, and stress can manifest within the body and contribute to imbalance and disease. For example, you are likely already familiar with the way that fear can contribute to digestive upset or how tension can lead to headaches. When you experience emotional states like sadness, joy, or anger, physiological sensations occur in different areas of your body.
Research has proved that the body mechanisms through which stressful emotions alter white blood cell functions. Stress decreases the white blood cell response to viral infected cells and to cancer cells. Moreover, vaccinations are less effective in those who are stressed and wounds heal less quickly in those who are stressed. While stress reduce the activity of some white blood cells, stress does not compromise the function of all types of white blood cells. Indeed, some types of autoimmune disease, which involve particular subsets of white blood cells, are exacerbated by stress. The literature documents the efficacy of talk-therapy interventions in altering immune system parameters and enhancing the body’s ability to combat disease.
Whatever you think, it comes true to your body and develop disease: The way you think and feel, and the deep-seated belief patterns you hold can all contribute to the development of disease. If you do not explore and deal with painful emotions, they can create an underlying sense of anxiety, depression, or anger that can physically disrupt the body’s natural ability to heal itself. Emotional suffering, physical pain, and other sensations share similarities in their neural pathways. For example, feelings of anger or insecurity can disrupt the regular beating of the heart and the calm flow of the breath. This further activates the sympathetic nervous system in the same way that occurs when you are facing a threat, creating an even greater sense of unease and pain.
The brain is the hardware that allows you to experience mental states that are labeled the “mind.” This concept of the “mind” encompasses mental states including thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and emotions. Different mental states can positively or negatively affect biological functioning. This occurs since the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems share a common chemical reactions in the body, which allows constant communication between the mind and body through messengers like hormones and neurotransmitters. Neurological pathways connect parts of the brain that process emotions with the spinal cord, muscles, cardiovascular system, and digestive tract. This allows major life events, stressors, or emotions to trigger physical symptoms. You may have experienced this aspect of the mind-body connection when you feel butterflies in your stomach when you feel nervous, or when you heart feels like it is pounding out of your chest when you are under intense stress.
These intersecting systems help to establish the mind-body connection that influences the maintenance of health or the development of disease. For example, emotions like anxiety can trigger increased stress hormones, which may suppress the immune system and set the stage for the development of infections or cancer.
Healing Body and Mind by Rejoice healing centre
As “prevention is better than cure”, Ayurveda strongly believe that Healing and preventing disease requires a combination of emotional, spiritual, and physical approaches. There are a variety of mind-body approaches that can help you process your emotions and develop inner peace and physical wellness like the ones I teach at Rejoice Ayur Health Clinic and accompanying by STRESS AND MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM
To avoid the buildup of toxic emotions, you need to remain present and aware. Paying special attention allows you to identify emotions as they arise, process them, and choose how you react. One way to effectively express, feel, and get your feelings out is to talk about them. This can be done out loud by speaking with a trusted friend or therapist
- Yoga assans, and Meditation is a valuable mind and body practice for becoming more present and centering with mind and body. A routine meditation practices a particularly effective way to help the body modulate emotional responses and the accompanying neurochemical patterns that can otherwise flood the body with harmful stress hormones.
- Sound & laughing therapies which incredible are very helpful.
- Panchkarma therapies eq. Shirodhara, Nasya, Shiro-basti and head-massage also very helpful the way, these all can be valuable tools for increasing awareness of the body’s biological processes, such as heart rate and breathing patterns, in order to help you become empowered to manage emotions and mitigate their neurophysiological impacts
- There are a number of herbal medicines as well which can contribute to imbalances within the body, are being used to reestablish balance and promote health.
