As we age, we are more likely to eventually experience emotional upheaval, loss, and change. Many of us go from busy full-time workers or full-time parents to part-time workers, empty nests and grandparents, to full-time retirees, with or without a life partner, adequate financial resources, safe housing, or a network of relatives and close friends. . We may move from a familiar neighborhood to a different retirement community. Friends, neighbors, close relatives, and even our beloved household pets can become ill and pass away. Depending on whether we have developed positive mental attitudes, uplifting and life-affirming spiritual connections, healthy lifestyles, social contacts, and continued passion for living, which researchers describe as the formula for healthy aging, we are more likely to suffer from more illnesses. . disability and emotional instability as we age.
Complications of emotional disorders and stress
Stress accelerates cellular aging
Research is beginning to corroborate the devastating long-term effects of stress on health and aging. Telomeres, the DNA protein structures that cover the ends of chromosomes and promote genetic stability, appear to play an important role in cellular aging and disease. Elisa Epel and her colleagues examined the effects of psychological stress on telomere maintenance in 58 healthy premenopausal women. The results, which appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of December 1, 2004, indicate that women with psychological stress had shorter telomeres and less telomerase, a telomere-producing enzyme that affects cells of immune function in the blood.
Stressful jobs affect the health of older people.
In workers over 60, problems at work raise blood pressure, although these older workers often report being less upset and less sad than younger employees when work problems arise. They seem to “feel” fewer emotions, but their bodies reveal greater stressors. Older workers may be more vulnerable to heart and cardiovascular problems if they remain in high pressure jobs or situations.
Emotional stress can precipitate heart problems
Emotional stress can precipitate severe left ventricular heart valve dysfunction in patients who do not appear to have coronary artery disease. This reversible condition, called myocardial lightheadedness, cardiac lightheadedness, or myocardial stress, is caused by severe emotional stress. Research supports the phenomenon that severe emotional stress and heartbreak, such as the breakup, loss, or death of a loved one, can release a flood of stress hormones that cause the heart muscle to contract and spasm, resulting in possibly leading to serious complications and even loss of life.
Emotions affect blood cells
In the book Hidden Messages in Water, by Japanese researcher Masaru Emoto, photos of frozen water crystals imbued with different emotions appeared. Inspired by these photos, Rebecca Marina tried to replicate the experiment by photographing her own blood samples on slides while making herself feel specific emotions.
She first focused on sadness. In this photograph, her blood cells appeared to take tear formation and were seen to move rapidly (rather than slowly and slowly as we might expect) with a large number of predominant white blood cells, more than in a normal blood sample.
When she felt fear, the blood cells were moving rapidly and frantically with an increased number of white blood cells and then they stopped moving quite abruptly, as if they were exhausted.
Feelings of love it produced a slower, more placid movement and some shiny substance in the fluid. Interestingly, when she felt love, the blood cells in the “sadness” slide that was left on the screen began to change. In other words, even when his blood was no longer inside his body, his feelings of love actually affected the movement, shape, and quality of his blood cells on the slide.
But the most amazing effect was when it focused on Divine Mother or love and spiritual peace. The liquid part of the blood became clear, the movement of the cells was placid, and the cells just glided. The white blood cells that were shown had a bright white center and a pulsation in that center almost like a heartbeat! And some of the cells actually took the shape of hearts. (EFT – Emotional Freedom Technique Research)
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