Title: Dangers of Holding in Your Emotions | Eric Christopher
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Dangers of Holding in Your Emotions
Healing Through Feeling Emotions
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Content: They actually remain in the body, taking up our energy and laying the groundwork for physical ailments, illnesses and disease. “Many illnesses are quite simply the end result of emotions that have been stuffed, unacknowledged, and not experienced for years,” says Christiane Northrup, specialist in women’s health and author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom. “ Unexpressed emotions tend to ‘stay’ in the body like small ticking time bombs,” she says. “ They are illnesses in incubation.” According to experts in mind/body medicine, our emotions have a profound effect on us because they are physically linked to our bodies via our immune, endocrine, and central nervous systems. These experts agree that often the seeds for a patient’s physical problems were planted by the patient’s earlier emotional traumas. According to Northrup, millions of women suffer from chronic pelvic pain, vaginitis , ovarian cysts, genital warts, endometriosis, and cervical dysplasia, which are conditions that are the language through which women’s bodies speak to them. Edward T. Creagan, MD, an oncologist at the Mayo Clinic, says that in dealing with the emotions of grief, if you don’tface your grief, your wounds may never go away. “ Unresolved grief can surface years later as headaches, relationship issues, intestinal problems, mental health difficulties, eating disorders, chemical dependency or other issues,” he says. Additionally, holding in emotions can weaken your body’s immune system, making you more likely to get colds and other infections, as well as lead to the abuse of alcohol, tobacco or other drugs.