Negative Emotions Can be Deadly to Your Health

Just as negative emotions can contribute to back pain and other problems, there's evidence they can actually shorten your life. Not surprising, as positive emotions also make a difference in your blood pressure readings and your ability to heal.

An interesting factoid about the study:

Even though personality tests taken at the time showed most students scored somewhere in the middle between optimism and negativity, almost twice as many patients were judged to be pessimists (1,630) as were judged to be optimists (923).

Unfortunately, though conventional medicine appreciates the influence of negative emotions on your health, they have done a masterful job of offering ineffective and potentially toxic band aids that in no way actually treat the underlying cause.

For example, while many physicians understand depression is a problem, they choose to use toxic antidepressants to try to solve it, even though taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), the most commonly prescribed class of antidepressants, may increase the risk of suicide.

One simple way to treat the negative emotions that can harm you and your family without a drug: Learn how to use an energy psychology tool like the Emotional Freedom Technique, used daily in my practice. There are many other effective energy tools as well, and I would encourage you to try a few and see which ones you are comfortable with. They are far more likely to quickly and permanently resolve the cause of the negative emotions.

On Vital Votes, Dr. Christopher Gussa from Benson, Arizona notes:

"As a Clinical Herbalist I have seen so many problems linked to negative emotions!  Perhaps the best proof of this is the other side of the coin in which keeping a 'quiet heart' or not letting things bother you can help you live a long happy healthy life. Sometimes a very long healthy life!

"I know it sounds hard to believe but a man by the name of Li Ching Yun who was in the herb trading business died in 1933 in China at the age of at least 197! (The oldest life on record) ... Yes, he knew some amazing 'herbal secrets', but from his own words ... his greatest advise for a long happy life was, 'Do not let anything get you upset!'"

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