Back Pain and Emotions
Too little sleep, exercise, peace and calm, along with too much anxiety, bad foods, and inactivity all can have tremendously bad effects on your body. Back pain, neck pain, headaches, jaw pain, and joint soreness are just waiting to happen, if they haven't already.
The truth is that our thoughts and emotions, and how we handle them, have a huge effect on our everyday health and well-being. During periods of stress, they cause or exacerbate physical discomfort or injuries.
How we handle our emotions determines how they will affect us physically. Most of us never learned the art of expressing ourselves without hurting others, or how journaling, meditating, or “walking it off” or "letting off steam" were more healthy approaches to dealing with emotions like anger, resentment, depression, or sadness.
Some of us may not even realize when a powerful emotion has taken hold of us. We then react by yelling, hitting things, or turning to self-destructive habits like alcohol or drug use. Others grew up learning to be nice and to refrain from hurting others’ feelings, repressing emotions until they erupted into medical conditions.
Psychology has shown us that, by far, the most dangerous way to handle emotions is to deny or repress them. If we don’t learn to express them (in healthy ways), they stay in our bodies, sometimes for years, steadily wearing away our resistance to their destructive powers that rob the quality and quantity of life and eventually kills us.
Learning to properly express and deal with our emotions is one of the best things we can do for our overall health, and especially for any kind of back pain. Seek out wise counsel to help you with this.
The truth is that our thoughts and emotions, and how we handle them, have a huge effect on our everyday health and well-being. During periods of stress, they cause or exacerbate physical discomfort or injuries.
How we handle our emotions determines how they will affect us physically. Most of us never learned the art of expressing ourselves without hurting others, or how journaling, meditating, or “walking it off” or "letting off steam" were more healthy approaches to dealing with emotions like anger, resentment, depression, or sadness.
Some of us may not even realize when a powerful emotion has taken hold of us. We then react by yelling, hitting things, or turning to self-destructive habits like alcohol or drug use. Others grew up learning to be nice and to refrain from hurting others’ feelings, repressing emotions until they erupted into medical conditions.
Psychology has shown us that, by far, the most dangerous way to handle emotions is to deny or repress them. If we don’t learn to express them (in healthy ways), they stay in our bodies, sometimes for years, steadily wearing away our resistance to their destructive powers that rob the quality and quantity of life and eventually kills us.
Learning to properly express and deal with our emotions is one of the best things we can do for our overall health, and especially for any kind of back pain. Seek out wise counsel to help you with this.
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