5 emotions more harmful to the heart
Are unpleasant, and experienced "in situations that
we perceive that diminish our welfare, such as blocking a goal, to a threat,
loss or offense," explains Rafael Bisquerra, director of the Graduate
Emotional Education at the University of Barcelona . Do you recognize? They are
negative emotions. They can be harmful because they can deleteriously affect
our health. They can contribute to the development of diseases and interfere
with recovery. "Negative emotions does not mean bad emotions," says
Bisquerra. "All emotions are legitimate and must be accepted. Evil is only
attributable to the behavior that provokes emotion, what we do with emotions,
but not the emotion itself. "
Negative emotions last longer
As the specialist
says in his book, "Psychology of emotions", some negative emotions
can trigger risk factors and diseases or enable risky behavior. And "high
negative emotions like anxiety, anger and depression, chronic levels are
associated with adverse health behaviors such as smoking, heavy alcohol use,
obesity, sedentary lifestyle, messy eating habits, etc., which negatively
influences health" adds the specialist. Neuroscience research and
psychoneuroimmunology have provided evidence that negative emotions decrease
the immune defenses and therefore predispose us to disease. 5 bad emotions to
the heart if not managed properly Studies show that there is a relationship
between negative emotional arousal (aggravation, irritation, anger and
impatience) and coronary heart disease and the hypertension .
1.
Anger and
coronary heart disease
Anger is a powerful emotion that includes a wide range of
emotions such as anger, rage, resentment, hatred, rage, anger or resentment.
They are also manifestations of anger, dislike, exasperation, tension,
excitement, agitation or acrimony. The list lengthens with other reactions such
as irritability, hostility, violence, anger, jealousy, envy, helplessness,
contempt, antipathy, resentment, rejection or suspicion. It is known that anger
and hostility are significant risk factors in coronary heart disease and
cardiovascular disease, hypertension , cancer and chronic pain. It is therefore
very important to regulate this negative emotion, "not only as violence
prevention, but also to prevent some diseases," announces the emotional
education specialist. Strategies for dealing with anger Bisquerra recommends
self-staff training, disruption and interference anger response. Also the
development of social skills and passive coping (relaxation, breathing,
meditation), cognitive restructuring and training in problem solving.
2.
Stress and
heart disease
There are things in themselves, but the assessment we
make of things that affect us. What is important is not the situation as such,
but their cognitive performance, says Bisquerra. Stress is a physical and
specific response of the body to any demand or aggression. The stress has a
high impact on the work (more than 50% of days off work are psychosocial
origin). The most common symptoms include irritability, stomach pain, unstable
mood, restlessness, malaise, compulsive obsession with work, stress, easy to
mourn, nervous tics, unhealthy appearance, insomnia, mouth sores, fatigue, loss
of sexual appetite, attack panic. It can also cause depression, it is
associated with hypertension, cardiovascular disease, gastrointestinal
problems, respiratory problems or musculoskeletal disorders. Emotional
education specialist advised cope with stress through strategies such as
positive reappraisal, planning or mental disengagement (distraction). Also it
recommends personal development, emotional regulation, distancing, or simply
solve the problem seeking social support or express how we feel. Relaxation
techniques, breathing, and meditation are very effective both in preventing and
coping with stress. Between anxiety and stress is a direct relationship is
sometimes difficult to distinguish.
3.
Anxiety
and arrhythmias
"Many people go to the doctor because they feel bad
without knowing exactly what happens in the physical sense. Basically what you
have is emotional distress, although they are not fully aware of it, "says
Bisquerra. This is anxiety, a negative emotion that amounts to a form of
potentially damaging stress. "It's a disproportionate emotional response that
exists before a possible danger, but unlikely. Anxiety is the anticipation of
danger; that might not come. "Enables a set of physiological responses
such as tachycardia , increased respiratory rate or sweating and operative
involved in escape or avoidance responses. "It is the result of a
persistent feeling of failure or frustration that generates different types of
feelings of misfortune and in its acute and chronic forms, organic
diseases," explains Bisquerra. The pentagon of anxiety include depression,
disorganization (difficulty making decisions), dependency, defense and
challenge (craving for authority). Some techniques to reduce anxiety include
relaxation, breathing, biofeedback, systematic desensitization, implosion,
modeling, social skills training, cognitive therapy Beck, rational emotive
therapy or stress inoculation training, etc. .
4. Sadness and depression
Sadness appears to loss of valuables or loved ones. It is
an emotion which predisposes to reduce to a minimum the action and feel unmotivated,
unwilling to do anything and isolated. Sometimes the sadness is manifested when
we exaggerated negative assessment of the loss. Taken to excess, the sadness
can lead to depression . Explains Dr. Bisquerra in these cases cognitive
restructuring techniques of reality are advised. You have to pay attention to
what is known in psychology as "cognitive triad": a state of mind
that makes us see us as useless, think about the future negatively and perceive
this as something impossible. The best thing to combat sadness "is to make
satisfactory activities, change catastrophism for some optimism and not set
ourselves both negatives and have a more global view of reality, make objective
and positive criticism, increase the rewarding situations, maintaining relationships
positive social, physical activity and sport and above all, distracted
(reading, cinema, music, dance ). "
4.
Pain and
suffering .
As he explains in his book
Dr. Bisquerra, suffering is an affective and cognitive, complex and negative
state, characterized by a sense of threat and inability to cope. Suffering
makes us respond emotionally depending on how we assess the situation. It is a
subjective response. A person suffers when experiencing a significant physical
or psychological harm and believed - and here lies the rub that lacks the
resources to cope. While suffering is an emotion centered in an uncertain
future, the pain is experienced in the present. It is important to know that my
emotional state affects pain perception and pain to the emotional state. This
interaction between pain and emotion means that when our state is positive
(joy, optimism, humor) perceive the pain less intense. Bisquerra notes that
strengthen these emotions helps prevent and overcome the pain somewhat, and
remember that in situations of anxiety and depression, the pain is more
intense. Emotional education is a discipline that can help us develop emotional
skills that will help us live better with our emotions.
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