Just like we’ve long known that even techniques like psychotherapy can alter brain structures, now we have pretty strong evidence that child abuse can also cause alterations within the brain, in this case in the expression of a particular brain gene.
So it’s just a week’s worth of connections… if you go back over the past decade, you’ll find hundreds of such studies demonstrating the strong connection between our mind and body’s health.
So it is no more clear than a spate of news articles from this week so far demonstrating this connection. Therefore, rather than bottling it all up inside and letting it simmer, it means finding ways to communicate with the loved ones in our lives.
That means finding healthy ways to deal with what psychologists would typically call negative emotions like anger, aggression, aggravation, fear, etcetera and reinforcing the positive emotions and behaviors in our lifetime.
It means regularly keeping tabs of potentially dysfunctional behaviors, similar to habits that can be turning into something more.
Keeping physically fit means keeping mentally fit as well. It means getting enough quality sleep every and nearly any night, and finding positive ways to relieve stress as you encounter it. Researchers found that quite straightforward course of treatment for balance problems in a bunch of children also relieved their anxiety problems. Therefore this research points out how sometimes a physical problem can mimic a mental concern, while not any child with anxiety has balance problems. Who knew that your anticipation of balance would have anything to do with anxiety? Uncontrolled anger can lead to heart problems. People with problems coping with their anger or aggravation were found to be at ten times heightened risk for future heart arrhythmias than those without such anger problems.