How often do we feel bad for no apparent reason? The tensions we accumulate within us are reflected on the outside. Recent research has shown that psychological tension can lead to bodily diseases. To cure the outside, we must first control the interior, our internal conflicts.
Emotional tension slowly and inexorably damages the body, expressed through depression, anxiety or stress. Improper channeling of emotional conflict can trigger a wide range of diseases, such as diabetes mellitus, lupus and leukemia.
- In many cases people think one thing and say another.
- Feel one thing and do another.
- Are not consistent with themselves for fear of rejection.
- Abandonment.
- Criticism.
- Loss of prestige and being judged by others.
- By thinking so much about valuing others.
- We forget our own judgment.
- And this causes countless interpersonal conflicts.
Emotions that we do not express affect our health and are expressed in the body through pain and disease. Our bodies send us signals to draw our attention to the existence of something that needs to be changed, whether negative thoughts or deformed ingrained beliefs that limit our lives. Distortions play a predominant role when caused by emotional disorders.
These distorted perceptions and thoughts that the subject makes of himself, the world and the future, lead him to develop dysfunctional moods such as: phobias, depression, anxiety, self-esteem problems and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Cognitive distortions are thought flaws that humans constantly use to interpret reality unrealistically.
These perceptions come from failures in the processing of information and emotional processes without rational. They may be based on firm unreal beliefs, but distortions are not really beliefs, but habits of thought that lead to negative emotions.
Emotions influence thought and behavior, so controlling them is of fundamental importance, each event, however simple, arouses very different emotions, this is due to the limbic system, which is responsible for considering emotions as part of us and how we react to them. the world.
The simplest technique of emotional control is to learn to avoid what generates negative emotions, whether people or situations, you have to be careful when avoiding situations, since they can reinforce a style of adaptation based on self-preservation, which is ineffective for solving problems. However, negative emotions need to be controlled.
Relaxation is another of the most natural and useful techniques to control emotions before, during and after facing emotionally intense situations, when we relax we get a calm effect that allows us to visualize the situation more clearly.
The most useful techniques to control our emotions are cognitive techniques, to change emotions we need to change thoughts, because emotion and thinking go hand in hand, and if we change thought, we can regulate both our emotions and our actions. because mental repetition, the perception of thought and a change of perspective will help us heal the interior so that we can heal the outside.