Anger Can Damage Your Lungs

Here's the latest study that shows just how much of an impact your emotions can have on your physical health. Your anger can clearly disturb your immune system.

Every feeling you have affects some part of your body. Negative emotions, like unresolved anger, are some of the most common causes of disease. Another confirmation of this is a study that describes how physical wounds can take much longer to heal when you find yourself in a marriage plagued by hostility and conflict, rather than one filled with pleasure and happiness.

Even the hyperconservative Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) admits that as many as 90 percent of the visits to the doctor may come as the result of a stress-related illness. This potentially devastating effect negativity and hostility has on your health is why I strongly recommend addressing such emotions safely, deliberately and without drugs.

The implications are very clear:

If you can't find ways to accommodate to the stress in your life, you may never ultimately heal. There are a number of ways to address hostility and the related symptoms.

They include:

• Journaling
• Meditation
• Prayer
• Energy psychology tools

In the office I am particularly fond of energy psychology tools like the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT).

EFT is a psychological acupressure technique based on the same energy meridians used in traditional acupuncture to treat physical and emotional ailments for over 5,000 years, but without the invasiveness of needles. Simple tapping with the fingertips is used to input kinetic energy onto certain meridians on your head and chest while you think about your specific problem.

To try it for yourself, review my free EFT report. However, if you are not getting the results you would like, try consulting an EFT therapist. Gary Craig has compiled a list of EFT Practitioner Referrals from the United States and the world.

Many of these therapists even offer a free 15-minute phone session in which you can ask them questions to see if you connect.