Your bone health and your
emotions are linked, but
when you think of
improving your bone
health, you likely think
about doing physical
things - perhaps exercise
more, especially weight
bearing. Or eat higher
quality food. Or take
certain supplements.
While these are all
important and valid in
and of themselves, they do
not complete the picture of
what it takes to achieve
full health of bones.
That's because bones exist
in bodies, and bodies are
affected by emotions.
But can there be a link
between bone health and
emotional health? Or if
there is, is it significant
enough to affect bone
health for better or worse?
The short answer is yes,
absolutely. Here is one way
your emotional health
affects your bone health,
and affects it
significantly.
First, every emotion you
feel has a corresponding
'molecule of emotion'.
That's the term Candace
Pert, PhD., used to describe
how thoughts become
physical and direct our
bodies. That's how we're
designed.
The problem comes in when
we have emotions we don't
resolve. In other words, we
don't get done with them.
What happens then is that
they keep replaying, and
when they replay, they
bathe our bodies in those
same 'molecules of
emotion' over and over. The
short story is that in this
kind of circumstance,
those molecules make our
bodies run more acid than
is good for us.
But a bodily state that's
too acidic means all
manner of physiological
processes can't run the way
they need to. And the
symptoms we may develop
are our bodies' way of
telling us that. "Hey, we're
too acid, we can't do our
work in here!" is what
they're saying, but they
say it via symptoms. We're
too acid and we experience
nervous irritability,
feelings of suffocation,
lump in the throat, dry
mouth, we sigh frequently,
are overly sensitive to
bright light, noises, are
easily breathless,
abnormally sensitive to
pain, preferring to be alone
rather than in social
contact etc.
These are symptoms that
are occurring in our bodies
but originating in our
emotional selves. How is
our body to deal with this?
Since our bodies are smart
and self-balancing, they
work to correct this
situation right away. And
the way they do that is to
take calcium from our
bones and return it to
circulation so it moves
things back in the
direction of alkalinity.
So, an emotional state
that's 'stuck on replay' is
an emotional state that
sets the body up to rob the
bones.
Given the new science about
these links between our
emotions and our bones,
it's a good time for our
conversation about bones
to include 'emotional
osteopenia' and
'emotional osteoporosis.'
What does a healthy
emotional life looks like?
Find out at go to http://
www.emotionaldevelopment101.