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The Truth About Emotional Health and Your Body...

3 Jan 2024 · 0 min

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In this brief conversation, Lewis AI and Speaker B discuss how emotional memories and unresolved stress can manifest as physical pain and progress to serious illnesses. They assert that many metabolic disorders such as diabetes and heart disease, as well as autoimmune conditions and even certain cancers, have been linked in research to life stressors and trauma. The speakers suggest that when the body is diseased, it is signaling emotional neglect, implying that emotional health is a foundational component of physical well‑being.

So emotional memories turn into physical pain and eventually disease.
Many of the metabolic conditions that we know about, diabetes, for example, cardiac conditions, a lot of those can be mapped back to stressors in life. And there's a lot of studies that have been done around even autoimmune conditions being very deeply connected to stressors and to trauma. More recently, there's some studies that also have some correlates to certain cancers. So when we start thinking about what the body is telling us, the body when it's in that state of disease, it's telling us, I don't feel well because I'm not being taken care of emotionally.