Influence of positive emotions on the human body. The emotional state of a person - types, characteristics, features

How do emotions affect our health?

Or all diseases from nerves, and only syphilis from pleasure;)

Today I want to talk about how emotions affect us, our health in general and individual organs in particular, on psychological condition and our mood. And, as a result, on our way of thinking and acting, that is, on our worldview and life in general. Talk about how to deal with negative emotions and learn how to receive positive ones!

Let's start in order. What are emotions? And what are they?

Emotions are our subjective and purely individual attitude to what is happening. From the point of view of psychology, emotions (from the Latin emovere - to excite, excite) are states associated with an assessment of the significance for a person of the factors acting on him.

Such positive emotions as interest, pleasant surprise, joy, delight, exultation, admiration, euphoria, inspiration enrich our brain and positively affect thought processes, create internal resources for action, help our immunity to resist viruses, microbes, various diseases and, finally, support our good mood accompany and contribute to success in all spheres of life.

Negative emotions (from Latin negatio - denial and emovere - excite, excite) arise in a situation that is unpleasant for us or dangerous for our life. These are unpleasant experiences that lead to the manifestation of behavior aimed at eliminating the source of physical or psychological danger.

Emotions are the basis for the formation of various feelings. For example, the emotion of anger underlies such feelings as anger, irritation, hatred, resentment. And on the basis of the emotion of fear, such feelings as fear, horror, shame, shyness are formed.

Scientists different countries, studying the influence of emotions on human health, came to very interesting conclusions. For example, German scientists have established a connection between each individual human organ and a certain part of the brain through nerve pathways.

American scientists are developing the theory of diagnosing diseases according to a person's mood and talk about the possibility of preventing a disease before it begins to develop in this way. This is facilitated by existing preventive therapy to improve mood and accumulate positive emotions.

Emotions are closely related to the autonomic nervous system - this is a part of the nervous system that regulates the activity of internal organs, endocrine and external secretion glands, blood and lymphatic vessels, and partly muscles. That is, emotions are primary, and physiological reactions are secondary - this is the mechanism for the occurrence of psychosomatic diseases.

How do emotions affect the human body?

Why can we run much faster when we are scared?

Why does the heart begin to beat faster and faster when we are waiting for the results of an exam or speaking in front of a large audience?

Because emotions prepare us for certain actions. The corresponding emotion prepares our body for the corresponding behavior: if we are frightened, then the body is mobilized for flight; if we feel anger, then the body prepares to attack. Appropriate processes take place in the body to prepare us for action in specific situation. So, during the danger, blood clotting increases and its outflow from the surface of the body occurs - this will reduce blood loss in case of injury.

When joy arises, catecholamines are released - hormones that prevent inflammatory processes. At the same time, endorphins are released, which can reduce pain.

Emotions have the greatest impact on the cardiovascular system. Strong anger and prolonged irritation contribute to disruption of the heart and the development of a disease such as hypertension.

Blood circulation also largely depends on emotions: the pulse, pressure, tone of blood vessels change. Positive emotions cause blood flow to the skin, and also improve blood composition.

Emotions change the rhythm of breathing. People who are constantly under stress are more likely to suffer from infectious diseases of the upper respiratory tract. And in people experiencing positive emotions, breathing becomes easier.

Scientists have proven that pessimistic people with low self-esteem, often experiencing anxiety and fear, suffer more than others from headaches, diseases of the stomach and spine. Conversely, optimists are less susceptible to colds. In addition, people who often experience positive emotions fall asleep easier and sleep better, and this has a very serious effect on well-being.

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Aggression and irritation cause dysfunction of the gallbladder, chronic indigestion, heartburn, migraines, dental problems, and hypertension.

Despair, depression - affects the part of the brain that is responsible for smell, instinctive behavior, memory, sleep.

Anxiety - indigestion, diarrhea, heart problems, circulatory disorders, trembling.

Anxiety - heart problems, indigestion, dental problems, sinusitis.

Jealousy - sleep disorder, digestive and back problems, migraines.

Arrogance and haughtiness- diseases of the respiratory tract and joints, disorders of the liver.

Hatred, revenge- skin disorders, diseases of the gallbladder, liver, stomach problems, cancer.

Envy - problems with the stomach and gallbladder, indigestion, diseases of the skin, teeth, heart.

Fear - hypertension, heart disease, asthma, chronic respiratory diseases, migraines, dental disease, kidney disease, digestive disorders, problems with posture, eyes, teeth, hearing.

Powerlessness leads to hypotension, dizziness, fatigue.

Uncertainty - respiratory diseases, posture problems, liver dysfunction, digestive disorders, migraines.

Boredom - depression, circulatory problems, gallbladder dysfunction, skin and hair problems, reduced immunity.

Dissatisfaction - reduced immunity, problems with the heart and blood circulation, tightness and poor posture, increased appetite and overweight, respiratory diseases, migraines.

Rage - Stomach and gallbladder problems, dental disease, hemorrhoids, respiratory problems, heart problems, kidney and bladder problems, tension and cramps, cancer.

What to do?

In the treatment of psychosomatic illnesses, it is first important to capture the underlying negative emotion. Then the main task becomes its transformation - you need to change the negative to positive: fear - to courage, rejection - to a benevolent attitude, etc. When a person acquires inner harmony, then he and the world around him begins to perceive harmoniously.

With age, people get sick more often precisely because they wean themselves from enjoying life, while acquiring the habit of worrying for any reason. Getting rid of the habit of excessive negative experiences will help to quickly restore lost health. So have fun and stay healthy!

You can change your emotional state, and thereby improve your health, by switching your attention to what causes positive emotions.

In the world around us, there are quite a few things that can improve our mood. This is the nature around us (sunlight, sunrises and sunsets, the sea and the sound of the surf, flowers, pleasant natural smells and aromas, birdsong), and musical works containing a certain set of sounds; even the food we take orally, as well as the clothes of certain colors that we wear. And these are the topics of the following notes.

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AT explanatory dictionary Russian language the meaning of the word "abuse" according to S.I. Ozhegov - condemning and hurtful words, swearing, , which is an insult. And with every insult, the same chemicals are released into the blood of a person as when beaten. There is a stress response. And in medical terms, stress is a group of chemicals - catecholamines and steroids. The most famous of them are epinephrine and norepinephrine. In response to stressful situation associated with ordinary name calling, our body produces an excess amount of steroids that affect everything functional systems. Accordingly, stress echoes in every organ and system.

When insulting and physically punishing children, you can really, in the full sense of the word, “drive” into the child’s head what they say to him. However, this also applies to adults, although children's memory is more durable. Such a practice of communication works like a stigma, a person begins to correspond to the chosen image. Especially dangerous are the insults received from the closest and dearest people, significant adults - parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters, teachers. There is a so-called programming of fate, of course, most often this parent program. And what harm does abuse and physical punishment do to human health, this is evidenced by the numerous works of scientists involved in the study of the nature of psychosomatic diseases - I.G. Malkina-Pykh, Louise Hay, Yu.Yu. Eliseev and others.

In response to such a gross intervention, certain negative emotions arise - resentment, anger, anger, hatred, guilt. There is criticism of oneself and others. Negative emotions experienced by a person begin to have a detrimental effect on all areas of life. If it seems that no matter how much you criticize and swear, everything is like water off a duck's back, even in this case there is a negative impact with all the ensuing consequences. Here is a vivid schematic example of the influence of experienced emotions on health, violations of which can occur due to the causes of resentment, inferiority, fears, reduced self-esteem, humiliation. All this can be avoided by adequately forming relationships, especially in the family, between children and parents, husbands and wives, elderly relatives and grandchildren.

The life stories of my clients who have developed a mass of psychosomatic diseases, ranging from banal acute respiratory infections to bronchial asthma (restraint of sobs) confirm these data. Alas, we very often hear such malicious expressions: - "Idiot, mediocrity, lazybones, nothing will come of you, loser." What a delusion people fall into, uttering such words that not only hurt the soul, but also play the most important role in a person’s life, determining his entire future fate and health in general!

And some women tend to “drench” their beloved men with such selective abuse and criticism that it cuts the ear. It is strongly not recommended to speak badly about your husband, especially behind his back. People unconsciously feel how they are treated, so is it any wonder if after talking with friends about her husband there is a scandal at home, and the husband leaves in an unknown direction? The man didn't hear anything, but he felt it. It is enough to analyze your behavior and you can see clear signs of the correspondence of events.

Many women tend to call their spouse by their last name. It sounds somehow strange, dismissive, without a hint of love in his voice. In my opinion, you don’t need to call your husband that, it’s not only ugly, but also deprives a person of the opportunity to hear his own native name, because that’s what is so pleasant for everyone. Since ancient times, the name of the husband was not used at all with strangers, it was a strict ban, a taboo. If they talked about their spouse, they called him by his first name and patronymic, but they did not discuss his affairs.

Call, criticize and scold

no one at all, even mentally,

including those who are unpleasant.

Known "The Parable of the Nails" She is very instructive.

My father had a son who constantly scolded and called names. Then, however, he repented, apologized, and everything was repeated all over again. The father listened, listened, and suggested that his son hammer a nail into the board every time he scolds someone. The son, of course, hammered a lot of nails. Then the father ordered to pull out all the nails. The son did it. And his father said to him: “Do you see how many ugly marks there are on the board? Also in the soul of those whom you offended, these scars and potholes remain forever, nothing can fix them.

I want to give an example of one of my familiar families, where reigns complete harmony. The recipe for their happiness is quite simple: children are never criticized or scolded, parents spend a lot of free time together with each other and with their children. Everyone is constantly expressing pleasure, thanking and praising family members, showing every kind of attention. Mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, everyone is always looking for a reason to express their admiration for an act, an outfit, a cooked dinner, appearance, any small and big achievement.

Probably, you need to be more tolerant of each other, communicate with love and respect, try to see, notice and cultivate in any person only positive features. And if you clearly do not see them and are sure that they are not there, then try to look with your soul. The fruits will not be long in coming! Many will be satisfied and happy, especially you!

Your psychologist

Tatiana Zaitseva

Emotions affect people in many different ways. The same emotion affects different people differently, moreover, it has a different effect on the same person who finds himself in different situations. Emotions can affect all systems of the individual, the subject as a whole.

Emotions and body.

In the muscles of the face during emotions, electrophysiological changes occur. Changes occur in the electrical activity of the brain, in the circulatory and respiratory systems. With strong anger or fear, the heart rate can increase by 40-60 beats per minute. Such abrupt changes in somatic functions during strong emotion indicate that in emotional states, to a greater or lesser extent, all neurophysiological systems and subsystems of the body are turned on. Such changes inevitably affect the perception, thoughts and actions of the subject. These bodily changes can also be used to address a range of issues, both purely medical and mental health issues. Emotion activates autonomous nervous system, which changes the course of work of the endocrine and neurohumoral systems. Mind and body are in harmony for action. If the knowledge and actions corresponding to emotions are blocked, then psychosomatic symptoms may appear as a result.

Emotions and perception

It has long been known that emotions, like other motivational states, affect perception. A delighted subject tends to perceive the world through rose-colored glasses. A distressed or saddened person tends to interpret the comments of others as critical. A frightened subject tends to see only a frightening object (the effect of "narrowed vision").

Emotions and cognitive processes

Emotions affect both somatic processes and the sphere of perception, as well as memory, thinking and imagination of a person. The effect of "narrowed vision" in perception has its counterpart in the cognitive sphere. A frightened person is hardly able to test various alternatives. An angry person has only "angry thoughts." In a state of heightened interest or arousal, the subject is so overwhelmed with curiosity that he is unable to learn and explore.

Emotions and actions

Emotions and complexes of emotions that a person experiences at a given time affect virtually everything that he does in the field of work, study, and play. When he is really interested in a subject, he is full of a passionate desire to study it deeply. Feeling disgust for any object, he seeks to avoid it.

Emotions and personality development

Two kinds of factors are important when considering the relationship between emotion and personality development. The first is the subject's genetic inclinations in the sphere of emotions. An individual's genetic make-up seems to play an important role in acquiring emotional traits (or thresholds) for various emotions. The second factor is personal experience individual and learning related to emotional sphere and, in particular, socialized ways of expressing emotions and behavior driven by emotions. Observations of children aged 6 months to 2 years who grew up in the same social environment (brought up in a preschool institution) showed significant individual differences in emotional thresholds and emotionally charged activities.

However, when a child has a low threshold for a particular emotion, when he often experiences and expresses it, this inevitably causes a special kind of reaction from other children and adults around him. Such forced interaction inevitably leads to the formation of special personal characteristics. Individual emotional traits are also significantly affected by the inclusion of social experience, especially in childhood and infancy. A child who is characterized by a short temper, a child who is shy, naturally encounters various reactions from his peers and adults. The social consequence, and therefore the process of socialization, will vary greatly depending on the emotions most commonly experienced and expressed by the child. Emotional responses affect not only the personality characteristics and social development of the child, but also intellectual development. A child with difficult experiences is significantly less likely to explore the environment than a child with a low threshold for interest and joy. Tomkins believes that the emotion of interest is as important for the intellectual development of any person as exercise for physical development.

AT recent times scientists are increasingly coming to the conclusion that emotions and health people are inextricably linked. Experiments have shown that positive emotions contribute to the restoration of physiological processes in the body. Negative emotions worsen well-being and provoke the development of diseases. are interconnected.

American doctors came to an unequivocal conclusion: the more violent emotions in our lives, the more health problems we will experience.

How do emotions affect health?

Every day of our life brings us many emotions. All emotions can be divided into two groups: positive and negative.

We have been taught from childhood that negative emotions needs to be suppressed. But is it? What trace do negative emotions leave in the physical body of a person? How do negative emotions affect health?

Every emotion is energy. If negative emotions are allowed to remain in our body, over time, such emotions, accumulating, turn into clots of negative energy, creating obstacles, “blocks” for the free flow of energy flows.

The energy of positive emotions can be compared to a river, while negative energy more like a swamp. In the body of a person who often experiences negative emotions, the energy flow is disturbed, the cells and tissues of the body receive an insufficient amount of energy and building material for complete work.

Negative energy can accumulate in certain areas of the body, destroying physical body and causing disease in that area.

Emotions such as despondency, sadness, sadness, despair leave their negative energy clot in the chest and heart. It is there that the Anahata energy chakra is located - or, in other words, the heart chakra.

The negative energy of negative emotions, concentrating in the region of the heart chakra, leads to disruption of the cardiovascular system, provoking diseases of the heart and other organs located in the region of this chakra.

Anger, anger, jealousy, envy, greed disrupt the solar plexus chakra - Manipura, causing diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and neighboring organs.

On the contrary, positive emotions and health are also interconnected. Emotions of joy, gratitude, love have a beneficial effect on our health, improving the functioning of the cardiovascular and other body systems.

How to get rid of the influence of negative emotions?

Our health depends on what thoughts and emotions visit us. Therefore, it is very important to control your thoughts and emotions.

In addition, a person who knows how to control his thoughts and his emotions can always find the most optimal solution in any life situation.

How to prevent the destructive influence of negative emotions?

Negative emotions are created by negative thoughts. Therefore, if you feel the presence of a negative emotion in yourself, stop and ask yourself, what are you thinking about right now?

And try to get rid of negative thoughts by changing them to positive ones. Of course, when we get angry, angry at someone or something, it is not easy to change our attitude towards this person or situation.

But we can simply turn our attention to the good things in our lives, experiencing a sense of appreciation and gratitude. Thus, negative emotions gradually disappear, giving way to calmness and balance.

By the way, gratitude is one of the most creative emotions. Feeling gratitude, we "attract" to ourselves the positive, creative energy of the Universe, which has a beneficial effect on our life and health.

Thus, by mastering the skills of “switching” emotions, you can significantly reduce the risk that the energy of negative emotions will penetrate the body.

Well, if a negative emotion with all the ensuing consequences has already taken place, you need to get rid of it as quickly as possible.

For this I exist various methods and methods of emotional and mental cleansing.

This is simple techniques, which can be easily used by any person during the day if he experiences negative emotions. Techniques instantly remove the energy of negative emotions from our internal energy space, protect the physical body from destruction.

It can and should be controlled.

Illness is a deviation from normal life. But they get sick, even those people who lead healthy lifestyle life and take care of your body.

Negative emotions can be expressed physically - this is a "chill" in the stomach, pain in the heart, tinnitus, muscle tension and much more. These sensations disturb, cause stress.

The main variants of the occurrence of negative emotions can be divided as follows:

Some emotions are inevitable and, unfortunately, inevitable (the death of loved ones and relatives). Some emotions are hard to prevent. These are natural disasters and events related to them. And the largest share falls on sources that are not only prevented, but also depend on the person himself and his behavior. We can get such emotions absolutely everywhere. They were rude in the store, quarreled with relatives. negative emotions- these are accumulated grievances, stupid quarrels. And avoiding these negative emotions is so simple, but at the same time, difficult. Do not let a rude word fly off your lips, keep silent. Smile and be polite in response to rudeness. And one less unnecessary negative emotion. This behavior needs to be learned.

"Bad" emotions

Scientists dealing with human diseases have found that 90 percent of diseases begin with emotional disorders.

"Bad" emotions negative impact on health.

Negative emotions may not immediately manifest themselves in the form of neuroses. They gradually accumulate in the cerebral cortex and only then appear as nervous breakdowns. Negative emotions accumulated for a long period lead to changes in the functioning of all systems of the human body.

The first thing that is affected by the disease is the cardiovascular system. A person cannot influence the functioning of his physiological system, it works in addition to his desire. Therefore, failures in the normal functioning of the human body under the influence of negative emotional outbursts occur against our will. It is often quite enough just to mention the events that cause negative emotions, and the disease process starts.

Most people underestimate the role of emotions. But it is emotions that increase the heartbeat. Following the heartbeat, blood pressure changes, arrhythmia develops and other cardiovascular diseases.

Emotional stresses cause diseases and other organs. So, to functional disorders, and then to irreversible changes, negative emotions lead to the urinary system, respiratory organs, the entire gastrointestinal tract and endocrine glands.

Depressive states, oncology, autoimmune diseases - all these diseases originate in "bad" emotions. The human body weakens resistance to disease.

Positive emotions

Repairing broken relationships, eliminating anxieties, finding the positive, taking care of other people are the sources of positivity and positive emotions.

Positivity and health stimulate the formation of endorphins in the brain, which have a beneficial effect on the immune system. This hormone helps fight disease. A balanced diet, adequate fluid intake and regular exercise have a positive effect on the emotional mood.

Getting rid of negative emotions

Negative emotions can be controlled. If you learn to do this, then you can cope with the negative life situation and find the best solution to the problem.
Negative emotions come from negative thoughts. If you feel that negative emotions are overwhelming you, then try to find out their cause. The reason is not always on the surface. But it's in your interest to find out.

Did you find out? We change to positive.

Difficult? But it's in your best interest. Change your attitude to the situation, to the person.

The human brain is not a switch; it is difficult to turn an emotion on and off. So let's turn our attention to something else. An object that causes appreciation, gratitude, a feeling of joy and happiness.

The most creative emotion is gratitude, it is the carrier of positive energy. And not only. It is believed that the feeling of gratitude that a person feels for the world, for the people around him, can attract positive emotions and corresponding energy.

So, having learned to “switch” emotions, we will learn how to receive positive energy, which will favorably affect our physical condition.