“Humans experience an array of emotions, anything from happiness to sadness to extreme joy and depression. Each one of these emotions creates a different feeling within the body. After all, our body releases different chemicals when we experience various things that make us happy. Each chemical works to create a different environment within the body.
For example, if your brain releases serotonin, dopamine, or oxytocin, you will feel good and happy. In contrast, if your body releases cortisol while you are stressed, you w
ill have an entirely different feeling associated with your body kicking you into a survival mode.
What about when we are thinking negative thoughts all the time? What happens when we are usually thinking positive thoughts? Maybe sometimes we are not emotionally charged to either a positive or negative thought. Let’s explore how these different emotions affect our bodies and life.
Positive vs. Negative
Is there duality in our world? Sure, you could say there is to a degree, but mostly we spend a lot of time defining and judging what we consider as positive and what we consider as negative. The brain is a very powerful tool. As we define what something is or should be, we begin to have that result play out in our world.
Have you ever noticed, for example, that someone driving can get cut off and lose their temper, get angry, and suddenly they are feeling negative, down, and in a bad mood? Whereas someone else can get cut off while driving and simply apply the breaks slightly and move on with their day as if nothing happened. The same experience… yet one person sees it as negative while the other doesn’t. So are things innately positive and negative? Or do we define things as positive and negative?
Eliminate Perceptions As Much As Possible
After thinking about it for a moment you might realize that there are, in fact, no positive or negative experiences other than what we define as such. Perhaps our very perception of an experience or a situation has the ultimate power to determine how we will feel when it’s happening and how our bodies will be affected. Maybe we should work toward moving beyond our definitions of each experience. We could, instead, move into a state of mind or awareness or consciousness where we simply accept each experience for what it is and use it as a learning ground for us. But since we may not be there yet, it’s important to understand how certain emotions can affect our health.”
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