Emotions Matter to the Heart

 

If your heart could speak what emotion would it say it is carrying around in your chest each day?

Research shows that the emotions that you experience make a difference in your heart health. Positive emotions of love, laughter, compassion, care and appreciation smooth your heart rhythms and send those warms feelings of well being throughout your body.   Stress, fear and anger have the opposite effect and create an erratic heart pattern.  In reaction to anger, fear, anxiety and the stress hormones of coritsol and adrenalin are released which increase blood sugars, blood pressure, raise the heart rate and weaken our immune system.

Learning to shift out of stressful heartfelt emotional reactions can have positive effects on the cardiovascular system and overall health. The feeling of appreciation is a concrete and simple positive emotion that you can self-generate and sustain. Find something to genuinely appreciate and focus on that.  If nothing immediately comes to mind, try recalling a time when you felt sincere appreciation and with recreating that feeling, you can smooth out those heart rhythms to gently rolling hills

Laugher is also an easy way to trigger healthy reactions in your heart, reduce physical, pain, and releases endorphins.  With a few chuckles you can bring your mind and body back into balance.  Try smiling, laughing at yourself, being around people who laugh, seeing a funny movie, and notice how often children smile and giggle.  Start a conversation by asking others the funniest thing that happened to them this week.

 The next Victorious Living Coaching Group starts February 22^nd.  The coaching group is 6 weeks in length and costs $119.00.  The $119.00 includes one FREE one to one coaching session. The group is limited to 8 women who want to build a community that promotes positive thinking, managing emotions and emotional eating, and create a vision of what they want to do next in their lives.   Visit the Victory Get Fit website for additional information.   Please contact Karen Ball, LMHC and coach at krnball2@gmail.com or 206-954-7822 to ask questions or to register.

Crave Change, LLC

Karen Ball, Coach and LMHC

206-954-7822

krnball2@gmail.com