For centuries, non-Western health practictioners have understood how emotions affect your health. They have taught that relaxation and meditation techniques enhance the body’s innate ability to heal itself. They have seen otherwise fatal diseases and conditions turned around merely by a patient changing his or her thought processes.
Finally, Western science is catching up with this marvelous truth. Below is an excerpt from a recent article posted on mercola.com:
[An experiment] done by the Institute of Heartmath…involved human placental DNA, which is the most pristine form of DNA. It was again placed into a container from which they could measure its changes.
Twenty-eight vials of DNA were given to 28 researchers, who were specially trained in how to generate and feel strong emotions on demand. The results were astounding.
Each DNA sample changed shape according to its researcher’s feelings:
- When the researchers felt love, joy, and gratitude, the DNA responded by relaxing: the strands unwound and actually lengthened.
- When the researchers felt anger, fear, frustration, or stress, the DNA tightened up, became shorter, and even switched off many of its codes!
- When the researchers felt love, joy, and gratitude again, the codes switched back on.
The experiment was later followed up by testing HIV-positive patients. Here, researchers discovered that feelings of love, joy and gratitude resulted in the HIV patients becoming 300,000 times more resistant to the virus than when they were not feeling these emotions.
What do you think? Do emotions affect your health?
“The codes” being referred to are the innumerable “commands”, if you will, that instruct the cells in a person’s body how to act. DNA codes inform everything from hair color to reactions to toxins to personality to immune system response.
And this study shows that when DNA is placed under stress, it may actually shut down some of its codes. When that happens, your body cannot function at an optimal level. Your health becomes adversely affected, and your risk of disease increases.
So, what’ll it be? Happy or depressed? Angry or at peace? Trusting or fearful?
I realize that it’s hard to just switch negative emotions off sometimes. If you (or someone you know) struggle with chronic negativity, whether it be depression or anger or any other emotional issue, I have two resources to offer.
1. GrowthCentral.com They offer materials to help you overcome such emotional difficulties as depression and anger.
2. GoalsGuy.com Often, negative emotions result in not having direction in life, or having lost that direction by overwhelming circumstances. The Goals Guy exist to help people to find direction, and to achieve the necessary goals to move in that direction.
May your days be merry and bright.
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