{"id":1378,"date":"2013-03-13T04:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T04:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2013-04-10T09:21:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T09:21:48","slug":"negative-feelings-damage-your-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/archives\/1378","title":{"rendered":"Negative Feelings Damage your Health?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"64383380-3747-48f6-841e-1b91d20b51c0\"<\/a>Negative Feelings can have a physical impact by damaging your metabolism, immune system or organs.\u00a0 Persistent bitterness may result in global feelings of anger and hostility that, when strong enough, could affect a person\u2019s physical health<\/a>. Harbouring grudges and feeling bitter will not only affect your mood, it can make you physically ill too.<\/p>\n

Philipa Gammell, Head of Wellbeing at Lomax Bespoke Fitness & Wellbeing told The Huffington Post Lifestyle: \u201cThese studies that suggest our bitter and grumpy feelings can have a physical manifestation is something that energetic medicine has known for a long time.<\/p>\n

Gammell reveals her top suggestions for combatting an attack of negativity\u2026\u00a0 Here are 7 natural mood boosters:<\/p>\n

Take time out:\u00a0 <\/b>Take a few moments for yourself, away from your desk to breathe. \u00a0A great little exercise is to close your eyes and firstly ask yourself how you are feeling both physically and emotionally. \u00a0Really take your mind into your physical body becoming aware of all the sensations, then once you have done this ask yourself how you feel, describing your emotions in a few words. \u00a0Then bring your attention to your breath, register where exactly you feel it in your body; in your nose, throat, chest or stomach, and keep this focus for about 4 breaths. \u00a0The final stage is to open up your awareness again and hear all the noise around you, ask how your body and mind feel and \u2018come back\u2019.<\/p>\n

Walk upright:\u00a0 <\/b>Get outside for a brisk walk. Walk for at least 20 minutes a day in order to increase your cardio levels which feed your body with more oxygen, wakening up the mind and the body<\/p>\n

Laugh! \u00a0<\/b>Being grumpy and despondent can have a direct adverse effect on your health.\u00a0 Smiling and laughing whenever you can, increases the intake of oxygen which in turn reduces the release of\u00a0 stress hormone cortisol, which is what inhibits and decreases the overall effectiveness of our immune system.<\/p>\n

Massage: <\/b>Massage boosts your endorphins, but it also deals with that fact the body is the graveyard of your emotions. \u00a0Using the concept that the body is entirely integrated, it is essential to address the body alongside the mind to achieve overall healing and greater wellbeing.<\/p>\n

Mindful living; living in the moment: <\/b>When you are truly in the moment the past and the future cease to exist \u2013 they are fiction, they are a figment of our imagination. \u00a0 You are no longer the constant chatter in our head, you are no longer the judgments that scream through our consciousness hundreds and thousands times a day. \u00a0 You are in this moment looking at life without judging, only accepting everything as it is. \u00a0The more you do this the better you will slowly become at properly listening to ourselves and our bodies\u2019 needs.<\/p>\n

Eat \u2018feel good\u2019 foods: <\/b>Eat more foods rich in eltryptophan (the amino acid precurser to serotonin) such as eggs, poultry, flaxseed, and nuts. Foods rich in omega 3, such as mackerel, sardines, salmon, trout, tuna and flaxseed have also been proven<\/p>\n

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Negative Feelings can have a physical impact by damaging your metabolism, immune system or organs.\u00a0 Persistent bitterness may result in global feelings of anger and hostility that, when strong enough, could affect a person\u2019s physical health. Harbouring grudges and feeling bitter will not only affect your mood, it can make you physically ill too. Philipa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[20,163,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}