(May 1, 2016 at 11:07 pm)Losty Wrote:(May 1, 2016 at 10:59 pm)Little lunch Wrote: Apparently there are many studies to prove some sought of link between the mental and physical.
Healthy mind, healthy body. Psychosomatic.
And it goes both ways.
Eg. Am I really feeling sad or do I just have a bad dietary intake and don't exercise enough?
It makes sense to me but I could be wrong of course. :-)
Well, of course unexplained negative emotions aren't good. And maybe all negative emotions really are unhealthy, but I think denying negative emotions when there's a legitimate reason to feel them is really unhealthy too.
I don't believe in negative emotions, only appropriate and inappropriate emotions and functional and dysfunctional ways of dealing with them.
And sure, some emotions feel a lot better than others. But we evolved to feel all the emotions we do for a reason -- even deep despair, fear, anger, paranoia, sorrow. It's a question of how long it lasts and how we deal with them, it's a question of whether we beat our selves up for having them, whether we get miserable about being miserable... or not.
I think some emotions are far better for us and more healthy than others, and some are unhealthy -- just not "negative" because it's okay to not feel okay, even when it's bad for us, if the alternative, not feeling at all, is worse -- but the healthier emotions are not always available and it's more healthy to feel something, anything, than nothing: it's all about how we deal with them.
That's what I believe. We probably believe similar things, if not the same
