Between our physical body and our mind, connecting and enveloping them, is the mysterious territory of emotions. Emotions are expressed through our body, our gestures, our look, words; and they are also connected with the mind, with our thoughts, our conception of the world and of people.
We are bubbles of vital energy in a movement constant of contraction and expansion, of charge and discharge. Energy enters our body through air, water and food, and when we assimilate nutrients and oxygen, we expel everything that we do not need or that our body cannot assimilate. This function of eliminating surplus or harmful substances is essential for health.
We feed ourselves thanks to nutrients that we extract from food, air and water, as well as from ideas and thoughts that enter our brain. But we also feed on sensations, hunches, concerns and shudders… In short, emotions that come in, leave their mark and must be discharged.
Conceived from a holistic perspective, health would consist of harmonizing these three aspects: the physical, the mental and the emotional.
In the same way that certain substances contained in the air that we breathe, once they do their work oxygenating the cells, they must be expelled, the ideas must be communicated; feelings, share, and emotions, express themselves.
Manage a whole: emotional, mental and physical
All these vital processes do not occur separately. Body, mind, heart and spirit form a whole and work intertwined, such that our state of mind influences our diet, exercise or rest affect our ideas, and positive or negative feelings influence and determine our health.
The organism functions as a complex unit, so that a blow or an injury not only causes us physical pain but also suffering, anguish and fear. And an acute traumatic process, such as the death of a loved one, can unleash serious physical health problems. However, these processes also work in a positive sense.
The Greek philosopher Heraclitus described laughter, yawning and sneezing as “sacred actions”, all of which are vital discharges.
all these expressions healing processes: yawning balances the oxygen-carbon dioxide ratio in the blood and eliminates physical and mental stress; the sigh stimulates breathing and drives blood flow to the heart; sneezing or coughing clears the airways; laughter is invigorating, relaxing and relaxes the diaphragm.