Dr. Don Colbert author of “Deadly Emotions” says that an emotional roller coaster saps a person of both physical and psychological health, often leaving the body and mind depleted of energy and strength. He points out that according to medical studies dealing with unhealthy emotions show the following:
· Because the mind and body are linked, how you feel emotionally can determine how you feel physically
·Certain emotions release hormones into the body that can trigger the development of a host of diseases
·Research shows a direct and scientific link of deadly emotions to hypertension, cardiovascular disease and diseases related to the immune system
·Those fighting depression have an increased risk of developing cancer and heart disease
·Emotions such as anxiety and fear have been linked to heart palpitations, irritable bowel syndrome, tensions headaches and other diseases.
Deadly emotions alter the chemistry of your body and if left unchecked can be a pervasive force in determining your daily actions. Eating while under stress causes the liver’s bile tubes to narrow, blocking bile from reaching the small intestine (90 % of digestion takes place in the intestines), which is not healthy for the body. Not only is this not healthy but what follows is equally as unhealthy. Most people who are overwhelmed with stress and deadly emotions tend to go away from eating healthy food and habits as well. Nibbling on sweets, oily chips, high sodium pleasure foods that do just the opposite of what they hope it will do. Rather than bringing the pleasure they hope, the stress and bad habits will bring more deadly emotions causing higher risk of sickness and long-term disease.
“Stress is any stimulus that places an adaptive demand on the systems of the mind and body.” Hans Seyle
By this definition, stress is not inherently bad or destructive. Stress can actually be something very productive for us as human beings; it’s only when the level of stress is beyond the capability and limits of a person to adapt to some form of imposed stimulus that the systems begin to break down. The body is created with 10 integrated systems and all of these systems are affected.
Jesus knew this as he said, “do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.”
Next week we will look at exercise physiology dealing with the types of exercise you can do and the benefits of those movements and workouts. Along with this you will see how to calculate your resting and exercise heart rate and the percentage of your max heart rate that is both safe and pushing your body and systems to the level they should be pushed to enact adaptation to the stress being put on your body.
Enjoy and have a great relaxing week!
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