Detox Your Emotions! 5 Techniques Of Emotional Hygiene

Between our physical body and our mind, connecting and enveloping them, lies the mysterious territory of emotions. Emotions are expressed through our body, our gestures, our gaze, words; and they are also connected with the mind, with our thoughts, our conception of the world and of people.

We are bubbles of vital energy in a constant movement of contraction and expansion, of charge and discharge. Energy enters our body through air, water and food, and when we assimilate nutrients and oxygen, we expel everything that we do not need or that our body cannot assimilate. This function of eliminating excess or harmful substances is essential for health.

We feed ourselves thanks to the nutrients we extract from food, air and water, as well as ideas and thoughts that enter our brain. But we also feed on feelings, sensations, hunches, concerns and shudders … In short, emotions that enter, leave their mark and must be unloaded.

Conceived from a holistic perspective, health would consist of harmonizing these three aspects: the physical, the mental and the emotional.

In the same way that certain substances contained in the air we breathe, once they do their job by oxygenating the cells, they must be expelled, ideas must be communicated; feelings, to share, and emotions, to express themselves.

Manage a whole: emotional, mental and corporal

All these vital processes do not occur separately. Body, mind, heart and spirit form a whole and work intertwined, so that our mood influences our diet, exercise or rest affect our ideas, and positive or negative feelings influence and determine our health.

The organism functions as a complex unit, so that a blow or injury causes us not only physical pain but also suffering, anguish and fear. And an acute traumatic process, such as the death of a loved one, can lead to serious physical health problems. However, these processes also work in a positive sense.

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus described laughter, yawning and sneezing as “sacred actions”, all of them vital discharges.

All these expressions are healing processes : yawning balances the oxygen-carbon dioxide ratio in the blood and eliminates physical and mental tensions; sighing stimulates respiration and drives blood flow to the heart; sneezing or coughing clears the airways; laughter is invigorating, relaxing and relaxes the diaphragm.