Solve Mental Pain to Resolve Physical Pain
“Your mental state is the biggest factor affecting your overall health. With a sustained elevation of stress hormones come higher metabolism (fuel consumption) and inflammation; your body will respond with a multitude of physical symptoms. Secondly, and maybe more of a factor, is that when you are trapped by anything, especially mental/physical pain, your body kicks in more of a stress response in a last-ditch effort to regain control. Mental threats are a major factor in creating adverse threat physiology. Since you cannot escape your consciousness, it is a problem. Physical health follows the trajectory of your mental state.
- Sustained exposure to stress physiology causes unpleasant symptoms, illness, and disease.
- Being trapped by your thoughts and emotions (and repressed ones) creates deep anger, which is destructive. It is a driving force behind completely neglecting your health.
- Maybe the ultimate insult to being human is the “ironic effect”. The more well-intentioned you are, the greater the chances you’ll end with relentless anxiety, which compromises your capacity to live your vision.
Successful programs systematically present deeply researched tools that allow you to calm down and reroute your nervous system as well as ways to regulate your body’s chemical state. What doesn’t work is positive affirmations and generating “belief.” Just as trying to be happy ends up making you sad, wanting to be free of pain causes you to be in more pain. The way out of pain is truly paradoxical and why the sequencing is so critical; it has evolved from the successful journeys out of pain taken by many patients.”
Read the whole article at Psychology Today
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@globalBraid3744
I think this article states a truth that most people will not believe until they experience it.
For some may see it as the idea if you think positive.... it is not same i was having many illnesses and a condition worsening and in that i LEFT a toxic work place ... after that all my issues seems to clear up and although everyone has stress in life there is a difference between levels and we might not recognize how deep our level is .... If someone would have asked me at the time i would say i had average stress but in fact it was worse and once i removed the issues and health cleared up i see that i should deal with items sooner and know my limit before seeing health impacts.
@toughTiger6481
Thank you for sharing your experience! I am so proud that you took the decision to leave that toxic environment. I completely agree that sometimes we might not recognize how high our stress levels are and how much it impacts our physical health. I wish everyone was informed about burnout signs and prevention. Was there anything specific that helped you decide? It is not easy to quit a job and there are many people in the same place as you were, some thinking they cannot leave no matter how exhausted and stressed they feel.
