How Emotions Impact Your Health

In traditional Chinese medicine, emotions play a massive, massive role in the way our organs function. If we do not take care of our emotions, we will develop disease. Sadness and grief affects your lungs. Anger affects your liver. Fear will affect your kidney, but also worry affects your spleen. Now, a lot of people don't realize the impact of what emotions actually do to you and the importance of mindfulness because without that, you're just harboring constant disease. My dad passed away at the age of 59. But it wasn't because he died from 15 years of chain smoking. It wasn't because he was an alcohol abuser. It wasn't because he got cancer. My father actually died from a broken heart. My father was lonely. Loneliness causes problems in disease. World Health Organization states that increase of risk of developing dementia by 50%. It increases the risk of early death by 25% and increases the risk of stroke and cardiovascular disease by 30%.