Headaches in the evening after a day of anger and tension, rashes after a stressful event, and stomachaches caused by high stress are not random events.
As of now, science evidence supports the idea that our minds and bodies are closely connected.
Psychoneuroimmunology is the study of how our behaviours, psychosocial factors, the nervous system, the endocrine system, our immune systems, and illnesses are all connected.
He says that every system has an effect on every other system, making processes in different parts of the body faster or slower.
We all know that feelings like stress, anger, tension, anxiety, fear, and insecurity are bad for our health. That's why many of us are looking for ways to feel safe, calm, happy, healthy, free, and loved.
Peter Levine is a psychotherapist and the author of Waking the Tiger. He says that the body holds all of our feelings and senses.
Embodiment of emotions means that all the feelings we have about the things that happen to us are stored in our bodies. In short, the body stores the physical feeling that goes with each mood.
There are also clear physical responses, like a racing heart when we're scared or a headache or stomachache when we're stressed. Even the strange feeling of loneliness we get when we walk into a small space has a physical counterpart.
He writes about the "pain body" in his book The Power of Now. Pain body is made up of memories of the past that have been stored in the body.
When we go through painful events, the hard feelings that come up stay with us as long as they are not removed from the system. The pain body then wakes up when we come across something that triggers it.
The flow of life is always filled with stress. To a certain point, the nervous system can handle both big and small worries by running away, fighting, freezing, or talking to others in a healthy way.
But worry turns into trauma when the nervous system can't handle it. To put it another way, the event takes over the nerve system. When all of your defences, like flight, fight, and freeze, are worn out, you experience trauma.
When we are traumatised, the prefrontal cortex (the part of the brain that controls reason, logic, math, philosophy, questioning life, and emotion) slows down. This means that the emotional brain (the limbic system) takes over and we feel a flood of strong emotions.
When we are scared, our bodies start to release cortisol, adrenaline, and noradrenaline. Here's a quick way to think about this: The forces that keep things safe are turned off, and there is full war.