How Emotions Could Be Affecting Your Health
Chronic stress can shorten your lifespan, and you’ll become more prone to a range of illnesses when negative emotions weaken your immune system. There are adverse effects of subduing your negative feelings. These effects are quite harmful, even though they can be silent. You need to learn to manage and express your negative feelings effectively, as this is a great way to keep your body in the healthiest state possible.
Additionally, giving your negative emotions too much freedom to reign can have a downside, as you tend to spiral into rumination when you dwell on them and the situations that cause them. Rumination is a driver for clinical depression; it increases your brain’s stress response circuit, and it can affect your mental and physical well-being because it may make you end up feeling worse about whatever the situation is.
Physical health consequences like depression, clinical anxiety, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, insomnia, and harmful coping behaviors like alcohol consumption, smoking, and overeating have also been linked to rumination. At times, some people firmly believe that they’re actively solving problems without realizing that they’re stuck in a ruminating rut. Rumination can be a problematic loophole to escape from.
How to Identify Negative Emotions Right Now
We often ignore our deeper feelings to suppress our emotions. Turning to social vices, drinking alcohol, overeating, and adopting worrisome habits are ways we compensate for this. Nevertheless, to regain our balance, we must identify and accept our negative emotions, and these three tips can go a long way toward helping us do so.
Listen to Your Subconscious Mind— Now is the time to start listening to your subconscious mind. That pattern of thinking you developed, which led you to neglect your inner voice, coupled with your hectic schedules, which aren’t helping, must be addressed. Listen to your subconscious mind.
Delve into your inner self. Break the cycle. All the negative emotions hidden inside you and your thought process can be analyzed when you start practicing the act of writing down your thoughts. And, in the process, you’ll get to learn more about the things you love, your relationships, subdued emotions, your weaknesses, and yourself in particular. There are times when we get hurt and tell ourselves we’ll get over it. We often say, “It’s just a small thing, it’s fine,” even though the opposite is true. For all the hurts that keep on coming back, no matter how little or unimportant you may think they are, prepare a list for them. With this, you stand a good chance of gaining a greater understanding of who you are, and you’ll be able to confront these emotions, instead of just avoiding and burying them.
On my most recent trip to Seattle, I experienced some bouts of anxiety from the current situation I’m living in. My husband Norman has been placed in an independent living quarter, which has strained our income and ability to pay all the expenses. I was unsure of my body’s reaction to the stress, as it seemed to be affecting my heart. I decided to go to the ER and get myself checked out, only to find the cause was Stress.