Your body lives in the physical world, and
thus it plays a pivotal role in your overall being, including your mind and
your soul. Science has already attested to the close connection between the
body and the mind: the body affects the mind as much as the mind affects the
body.
Human
emotions, in particular, affect the physical body. In Woody Allen's
movie Annie Hall, Diane Keaton would like to know why he
wasn’t angry. "I don't get angry," he humorously replied, "I
grow a tumor instead." Indeed, toxic emotions can lead to a toxic body.
According to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), human emotions are the major underlying causes of many diseases and disorders because for centuries Chinese physicians have believed that certain body organs are related to emotional activities; for example, the heart is related to joy, the liver to anger, the spleen to obsessive thoughts, the lungs to anxiety, and the kidneys to fear. Therefore, excessive emotions may disrupt the free flow of qi, the life-giving energy that flows through the body, and thus causing imbalance and disharmony that may lead to diseases and disorders.
In addition, human
behaviors—often a byproduct of human emotions—affect the mind, just as emotions
of the mind affecting the body. According to a study at Ohio State University
The
interconnection between the body and the mind is further evidenced by the
indisputable notion that a healthy heart produces a healthy brain by pumping
sufficient oxygen and nutrients to nourish the brain through its bloodstream.
Stephen Lau
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