The human body is a very complex structure made up of many parts. Our bodies are often said to be an ecosystem, with all of the body’s components interacting. Not only are we made up of physical components, but we are also made up of emotional components. Our physical components affect our emotional components and vice versa. Think about how our emotions can produce physical tears.
Emotions and feelings are either part of the underlying causes of or the actual aggravating factors contributing to most diseases. Note this example of how emotions and feelings can directly affect how one feels in their physical body: If someone is emotionally distraught, they may have a headache, or chest pains, or ulcers, or all kinds of physical aches and pains associated with their original emotion or feeling. Therefore, if someone is angry or depressed, then every cell in their body has to vibrate with that energy transmitted to it. If that person is depressed, then their immune system is depressed, their circulation is depressed. Everything is vibrating with that same energy. If we want to be healthy and feel good, then we have to have more positive vibrations and positive energy interconnecting our emotions and our physical body.
All of the parts of our body are interconnected. The emotional part of our body is as powerful and interconnected as the physical components of our bodies, along with our thoughts and spiritual body. None of the parts can be isolated or separated. So, yes! Our emotions and feelings have a big impact on our physical health.
Emotional health and healing can be produced by: 1) Having an “inner sanctuary”; 2) Creating a positive reality; and 3) purposely producing and sending positive energy.
Forming an Inner-Sanctuary
Do you think it is possible to be stress-free in the environment we are living in right now, with all the violence in Chicago and inner-cities of America, with the crisis in Afghanistan, with natural disasters devastating populations, and with the ongoing covid-19 pandemic and its variants? The answer once again is yes! We must consciously resist internalizing these or other negative issues. We must build a strong, impenetrable place of inner peace inside our body. This is our “inner-sanctuary.” Everyone needs a place to go to within the confines of our own body – the confines of our own emotions. It is not a particular room in our house or any external place. Our “inner-sanctuary” is some place within ourselves. In this “inner-sanctuary,” no matter what is going on external to ourselves, we can be at peace.
We can still know and recognize what is going on externally. We can still lend our emotions to being compassionate, caring, and trying to make a change. However, we must maintain the peace of our inner sanctuary in order to keep positive energy flowing through our body and all of its parts. We have to learn to deal with everything outside of us without contributing to or succumbing to sickness and disease. Of course, if what is going on in the outer world causes us anguish and we cannot attain that inner peace, then we should immediately disassociate with it. We will have to stop watching the news, stop reading the newspaper, and step away from whatever is causing the agony. We will have to go inside ourselves to our “inner-sanctuary” to regain and maintain our inner peace – not internalizing or reacting to anything in a negative way.
If someone is emotionally distraught, they may have a headache, or chest pains, or ulcers, or all kinds of physical aches and pains associated with their original emotion or feeling. Therefore, if someone is angry or depressed, then every cell in their body has to vibrate with that energy transmitted to it. If that person is depressed, then their immune system is depressed, their circulation is depressed.
Creating a Positive Reality
We can create our reality by what we believe and by the words that come out of our mouths. So, if we go around saying things like “I hate my job,” “I’m not happy because I’m not being paid enough,” or other things like that, we are creating a reality. Why create a negative reality when we can change our reality by changing our words? Let’s tell ourselves, “I’m in a perfect job,” “This job is supportive,” “My boss is supportive,” “My coworkers are ideal,” “I’m not underpaid,” “I’m essentially paid what I’m worth,” and “I’m happy with the amount of money I have.” Even though none of this may be your current reality, it is the reality you want for your future. You have already created a reality with the negative dialogue. So, you are going to have to deny that reality to create a new reality.
Basically, we have to use our words to make an impression on our inner selves, our subconscious minds, so all the parts of our being will line up with this new reality. We have already created a reality with the negative dialogue. So, we have to deny that reality to create a new reality. There will be no change if we continue speaking and talking the same way. For the most part, we are what we think, and we confirm what we think by what we say. If we continue thinking in a negative way, then that has to be our reality.
For example, if a very attractive woman was to repeat over and over again that she’s not attractive, sooner or later she is going to look in the mirror and no longer see a very attractive woman. She will see the unattractive woman she created.
Another example is someone who is thin repeating over and over that they are overweight. That verbal confession will impress upon their mind that they are overweight. Their eyes will connect with their thinking and when they look in the mirror, they will see an overweight person. They may even start dieting in order to accommodate the reality that they created. This perceived reality is the underlying cause of the physical ailment of anorexia nervosa.
Tell a healthy person to repeat over and over that they are sickly and in pain and sooner or later that person will not be in perfect health anymore. That person would become sickly and unhealthy.
Emotional Health and Healing
In summary, emotional health and healing is directing people to adopt and maintain a state of peace in spite of whatever they are experiencing in their personal lives or from the world around them, It is helping people to look at the past as their past. If people carry the negative experiences from the past along with them, they will essentially weigh down their current life with things that have already passed. So, we have to release that baggage and not let the past invade our present or future.
Emotional health and healing is also helping people create their own positive reality by reprogramming the way they think. Many people have read my best-selling book, The Most Powerful Book of Affirmations Ever Written, and used it as a do-it-yourself way to emotional health and healing. They have reported on the success they have had by reprogramming their thinking as they repeat those affirmations for weeks, months, and sometimes years. That is the do-it-yourself way to emotional healing. If you do not want to wait weeks and months for the results of positively reprogramming your mind, schedule a healing session with me. One healing session can help bring about immediate change.
Dr. Sheldon Ceaser is a board-certified medical doctor. He received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth, and completed medical school and his residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Medicine, after which he worked in an inner-city clinic and at the Cook County Correctional Facility, as he was fulfilling his obligation with the National Health Service Corps.
With over 39 years of practice in the medical field, Dr. Ceaser’s primary focus is holistic health and integrative medicine, which he practices at his office on Chicago’s South Side, located at 231 East 75th Street.
