Bottling up emotions can affect your health

Gulf Today Report

People with debilitating health issues such as cancer, diabetes, hypertension and autoimmune diseases often deal with underlying emotional turmoil, diagnoses and reflections over their cases have concluded.

Luke Coutinho, Holistic Lifestyle Coach, says there is one question he asks almost every patient during consultation — do you have any suppressed emotions? What transpired in your life six months back or the time when you first got diagnosed with this issue?

And the strange part is it turns out each of the patients seem to have had some kind of stress or emotional downfall in their lives, he states in a report on Indo-Asian News Service.

Most of them begin to open up and share how they have been living with unresolved emotions for years, some since childhood. These include pent-up grudges, anger, guilt, resentment, jealousy, grief and hurt.

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Emotions literally translate into energy in motion. Any emotion — negative or positive is energy at the end of the day and it is supposed to flow.

Suppressing the energy and allowing it to bottle up can affect our health in a huge way.

Even science has established that unprocessed emotions manifest in the physical body in some or the other way.

If you're feeling low, depressed and are struggling with emotions, you lack the ability to express.

Expressing freely is central to your emotional well-being.

It could be any channel — talking, writing, recording your own voice note and then deleting, journaling or even setting up a consult with an expert life coach or emotional counsellor.

Coutinho contends that simply by sharing supressed emotions, his clients start to feel much better.

Therefore, expressing emotions on a regular basis can be highly therapeutic. As humans we are designed to communicate and this is the building block of life.

The first step in this is to learn how to be okay with not being okay. It is okay to have a bad day. It is okay to fail. It is okay to have a fight or an argument in a relationship.

Feel every emotion you are going through. If it makes you cry, cry and shed those tears.