What is your Emotional Half Life?
While the previous post was on emotions and ones health, I thought this would be appropriate.
How long do your emotions affect you, or better yet your health.
We have seen in many different situations how negative emotions (fear, anger, frustration,etc) can have a dramatically negative effect on ones health.
This is often seen in those in a fragile state of health, such as a recent stroke victim looking to regain previous cognitive function, a newly diagnosed diabetic fighting to avoid a lifetime of insulin and revitalize their pancreas, etc. Please keep in mind, even in the healthiest of individuals these emotional charges can anchor in and cause damage.
Where these emotions can hang on and affect you for a long time if not released, there is often a time span right after the fact that packs a real punch. Is this true for you?
Think back to a time when you were in a emotional storm, something quite big might have happened within your life, kind of shut normal life down for a few days?
Did it affect your health? If you have high blood pressure, was it more difficult to control? Chronic pain was ever not manageable?
What was this time frame for you? Obviously everyone might be different, as well as depending on the emotional experience, but do remember, its how we perceive a situation to be. Because of this we usually find a consistency. If the emotional incident does not linger on for days or even weeks, we have seen in our practice a 72 hour window where it takes for the emotional charge to release itself out of the system, from its aggressive state?
What have you noticed?