Mind Body Connection
Did you know that every emotion you experience can be linked to a physical response in your body?
Mind-blowing, I know. It fascinates me truly. I spend quite a bit of time looking up what emotion could be linked to any physical symptom me or my girls are having. That’s my first go to, to see perhaps what might be under neath what’s going on in our bodies
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In simple terms, a reasoning is found in the limbic system within your brain.
The limbic system is the part of the brain that involves our behaviors and emotions that we need for survival, like feeding, sex, caring for children, and our fight or flight responses.
When we feel an emotion-based from fear, happiness, sadness, anger, love, guilt, peace/ calm, and stress, our limbic systems send hormones through our body and we have a physical response.
This month I am diving deep into the mind-body connection and how we can use essential oils to assist us with those emotions.
Everyone responds differently to different emotions. There are underlying themes that each type of emotion exhibits. In order to get to the heart of the matter and understand what underlying emotion is happening when we clench our jaw or puff out our chest (anger for example), we want to tune in and recognize what our body is doing at that exact moment when we become emotional.
We can do this for each emotion we experience as emotions manifest into physical indicators. Then support our bodies with simple easy daily habits and using our essential oils and specific products/ supplements if we choose to support best health.
To start it’s wonderful to truly get to know your body. And your families bodies to help support them.
What is your GO TO emotion when you are triggered? Anger? Stress? Anxiety? Laughter? Peace? Do you find there is often a physical symptom or association that is common with those base feelings?
We all have the same base or root emotions:
😤 Anger
😱 Fear
😞 Stress
🥺 Guilt
🤗 Happiness
😥 Sadness
😍 Love
😌 Peace
Each of these root emotions shares associated emotions.
👉For example, Love. Love has associated emotions like Passionate, Forgiving, Fondness, Empathetic, or Caring & Kindness. These emotions carry the same root. When we are looking for an essential oil to help us when we want to feel a certain emotion or combat an emotion and we are able to describe the associated emotions, we can start to dig deeper to the root emotion and try to peel back why we feel the way we feel.
Our associated emotions and root emotions can all drive physical indicators. We can not only emotionally feel anger, for example, but we can physically feel it too. That is how strong the mind-body connection can be.
I will keep adding content through blog posts on my site and smaller preview’s here on IG/ FB diving into various specific emotions. Various physical body reactions and specific oils, products and daily health habits to help use to support all.