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RHR: Do Emotions Impact Our Health?
Category: Health
Duration: 00:22:26
Publish Date: 2016-12-29 10:00:48
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In this episode we discuss:
  • An ancient concept backed by modern research
  • How do we define emotion?
  • Can early trauma affect health later in life?
  • Is there a separation between mind and body?
  • My personal experience with emotions and healing
[smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thehealthyskeptic/RHR_-_Do_Emotions_Impact_Our_Health_.mp3" title="RHR: Do Emotions Impact our Health?" artist="Chris Kresser" social="true" social_twitter="true" social_facebook="true" social_gplus="true" ] Chris Kresser: Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Revolution Health Radio. I'm Chris Kresser. Today, we’re going to answer a question from Pam. Let’s give it a listen. Pam: I had a question after listening to your recent podcast on chronic fatigue and the underlying symptoms. What are your thoughts on emotional baggage, for lack of a better term, and its impact on attracting disease or allowing disease. I have a practitioner that I see that feels like your childhood scars and emotional issues that you've carried forward up to this point in life, and sometimes energetic ancestral imprints that have been left on you from previous relatives, can have an impact on your health. I was wondering if you had a thought about that, and if so, how you suggest going about rectifying those types of things. Chris Kresser: Thanks so much for that question, Pam. It’s a really interesting topic, and the more I do this work, the more I feel that lifestyle, behavior, emotions, psychological, and even spiritual factors play a crucial role and sometimes maybe even a more important role than commonly recognized factors like diet, exercise, and sleep in determining our health. Diet, exercise, and sleep are, of course, still very important and often the most important factors, but they are more obvious and they're more likely to be scrutinized. In some ways, they're easier to change. Maybe sleep is a little bit of an exception, but most people are able to make changes in their diet and even their physical activity routine without making significant changes to who they are as a person and making changes in other areas like social support, how we relate to ourselves and the world around us, or how we relate to other people. These can really require pretty deep investigation, they require a lot of awareness, and they're not the kind of changes that can be easily made overnight. I think there’s a lot more focus on diet and exercise because they are certainly very important but also because they are areas where it’s a little bit easier for people to make quick changes.
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