Do you believe that emotions can influence your health?

i have been down from moving away from family, friends and my whole life! immune system has been down for months and drs say that it should pass as i get used to me new life n routine... but its getting hard for me... Negatively its making me more ill... but i strive on thru... Hard but getting there.

I believe that is true. I am tremendously suffering from all these things you have mentioned. Recently and within last 3 years I have lost so many things, I have seen so many evil things, so many tortures both physically and emotionally done to me that I think a normal human being can't bear. Now I am questioning everytime to me why I am living? Why? Now I am suffering from so many diseases, mostly from nerve related. I think your mentioned hormone has done its all evil things against me. I am living now, but really don't know why? Thank you for releaving some pain from me.

I agree. In order to make our life healthy, we need to have a happy thought. It is useless to have medicine, vitamins, etc, if you are not happy, depressing, stress, and other things that make you unhappy, it will affecting your health in general. If I am thinking that I will have a flu, it is just come true. I really got flu. That's why in the raining season, I try to avoid of thinking about flu at all

I think i've been over thinking for almost half a year,bcz i broke up with my bf, i feel totally heart break and i can't forgive him,i hate him.i can not forget what he had done to me , i think it before i sleep,think it when i wake up, i just can't help thinking all the thinks. as for me , i'd really liket to forget everything, but i can't ,it torture me all the time, i know this feeling will produce a mental disease some day. how can i control it , tell me!

I certainly do believe that emotions can influence health as because I myself had many experiences. Whenever I am sad of tensed my heath gets bad. I start feeling weak, don't feel like eating anything. Sometimes these things do lead to very bad heath problems as you have stated and so I am do my best to control my stress levels. I do yoga which helps me a lot.

I have been working in a office for 2 year.When I encounter difficulties in my job or life, I will think about all the time until it work out.This always make me nervous. Maybe I take things too serious.It is my problem,and now I am try to get over it and I am sure I can get peace of mind.I am glad I can express my feeling here.

As a therapist myself, I have seen for myself how the negative emotions can effect a person's health. My work deals with stress management and there is strong evidence that states that feelings effect the immune system. This is because the immune system and the nervous system work together. When one part of the system is being effected, there is a sort of transmission through the nervous system to all systems. If emotions are positive and stress levels are low, the the body responds favourably. It emotions are negative and stress levels are high, the body responds by producing tension and resistance and puts unnecessary stress on all the organs. As a Zen practitioner, I practice meditation every day. I still the mind and the nervous system is calmed. Research has shown that experienced meditators and yoga practitioners have great control of their bodies. For instance, heart rates, and body temperature can be controlled to great degrees and some of the masters of the Himalayas are able to meditate in freezing conditions, in flimsy garments and not get cold. - Derek

Our life is actually composed of two parts: material and emotional parts. They affect each other as well as ourselves. When I found my job as a translator, I was very happy and active. But months later I found it boring to work in front of a computer, then I became furious everyday. Later, I suffered from bad headache and gastralgia and had to quit the job! My manager did not understand why I, such a man so interested in translation would quit. What you think will determine how you live .

it happened to my mother! from the hard working with her job and the stress made diabetes class 2 and now she can't eat a lot of stuff that she liked

Oh yes definitely. I believe it was also proven scientifically so no doubt about this subject.

I'm not sure about cancer etc but emotions definitely influence health. When i am stressed or worried I always get an upset stomach. Stress is also very bad for the heart. Negative emotions can consume so much energy that it makes sense they they also have a negative effect on the body. Conversely, positive emotions can make you feel healthier - hence why people in love often look radiant!

I certainly believe that our emotions can affect our health. As the saying goes.. laughter is still the best medicine. Having distress emotions such as anxiety, hate, anger and all the other negative emotion can affect our health in a bad way. I have seen people who are prone to high blood tensions because of their lifestyle and attitude with life. There are people that have anger-management problem and most of them may find a sign of hyper tension and heart disease. As for me having a positive outlook in life...taking every moment beautiful and special are the things that we should do in order to have a happy life. And having a happy life means having a healthy heart.

i believe that, it happened to me once. one time i was sick, back problems. ususally it heals after couple of days or a week or two, but that time was so bad, i thought that i might not be able to recover, i was scared that what if i couldn't walk in the future, blah,blah,blah, which make me very sad, i was depressed for quiet a while, that did not help me with my sickness,but make it worse, during that period i got more problems for different part of body. now i think that because of the depression, and the bad emotions, my body became weak, and it gets easy for the virus to enter. so now no matter what i try to stay happy, optimistic, because the world is just awesome.

uncontroled emotion can make so much negative influence including our health, n make a bad habbit

i know that this is a very true statement. i know that stress and all of those negative emotions will cause you to be ill. i do my best to keep my spirits high and stay away from stressful situations. sometimes it's not easy, but it just allows me to be more creative on how i deal with all that life throws at me

it is absolutely true. when we are in sorrow or depression, various kinds of diseases may occur. it is said that almost everyone has cancer cells in their body but under control. when people are in low spirits, their immune system will not work well then those cancer cells are likely to be out of control. so let's try to be in positive mood.

I believe negative emotions are detrimental too our health because I've heard of cases where people dying of a broken heart.(extreme sadness) I suggest God, self help books, calming herbs, fresh air, a new hobby and vitamins. Also try reading jokes for a good laugh every day, research shows that people who laugh more have higher immune systems.

Hi careguarden! I do believe in that statement. For me, the mind is a very strong factor in our health. It can always influence our physical condition. For instance, when we always think that we have a sickness or something, then there's a very big chance that we'll get that sickness. It's kinda like the saying "Laughter is the best medicine", because with laughter comes happy and pleasant thoughts, which in return would cause the body to release the "happy" hormones that are beneficial to our health. I'm no doctor but I really do believe in these statements since it has been somehow proven by research :)

i agree. Emotions can influence a persons health. just take note of the number of diseases which causes remained unspecified, physicians always associate it with stress.Hence, at its worst i believe it may lead to cancer because when people are stressed or sad the immune system cannot fight well with the contaminants that the system encounters.

i do think emotions highly influence ones health. for one thing there are people who when distressed cannot eat properly and therefore has weak immune system when disease strikes.