Emotions, and the way you deal with them can affect your
health. This guide will help you understand the impact of nine primary emotions
in maintaining health. The positive emotions create a positive field which
fills your blood with the chemicals of happiness and wellbeing. They are
conducive to the building or rebuilding of the healthy heart. The negative emotions create a negative field
which fills your blood with the chemicals of unrest and unhappiness.
Navarasas are a two-thousand-year-old Indian concept of
emotions which see the mind as a space filled with positive and negative
emotions. These emotions are: love, laughter, compassion, chivalry, anger,
fear, abhorrence and wonder. Shantha or peace is the result of handling all
these emotions correctly.
Obviously, the positive emotions or states like love,
humour, compassion, chivalry and wonder put the mind in a happy and
enthusiastic state, thereby fostering health. On the other hand, the negative
rasas like anger, fear and abhorrence produce a state of mind which creates, as
described in Daniel Goleman’s book, an ‘emotional hijack’.
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