Chinese medicine considers the person as a whole. According to treatises, emotions are directly related to health. For example, a tendency to resentment, tearfulness, eternal hostility from scratch are associated with the work of the digestive tract. A person who “does not digest” the surrounding reality has difficulty digesting food.
The connection “emotions – disease” is bidirectional. This means that the emotional background can accelerate the development of the disease. On the contrary, the formed disease can correct the emotional background, making a person more vulnerable and touchy. What comes first, emotions or the body, is difficult to figure out, although some Chinese doctors succeed. It is more important not to get to the bottom of the truth (resentment due to gastritis or gastritis due to insults), but to unwind the pathological tangle and find a way to recovery.
Symptoms
At the level of the body, problems with the digestive tract are manifested by regular heartburn and flatulence, bloating, and abdominal pain. At the level of emotions, a person who does not digest the world is often offended for no reason, for reasons that are not obvious to others, he breaks friendly contacts, stops responding to messages and calls. Girls become more whiny, men become more aggressive.
A person in such a state cannot express displeasure with the world in words. He loses leverage over him and cannot change the situation for the better. Symptoms can appear both together (body + emotions), and separately. For example, at first a person began to suffer from indigestion, and after some time emotional discomfort was added, or vice versa.
Body treatment
If there are problems with the digestive tract, this, of course, is an occasion to consult a doctor and undergo an examination. In addition, Chinese doctors recommend that in such cases, first of all, adjust the diet: give up not only fast food and other junk food, but also raw foods.
Why?
The digestive tract is exhausted, does not work properly. He needs conditions in which he can relax – work “at minimum speed.” This is facilitated by well-cooked food that is easy to digest: various cereals on the water, soups, broths, jelly. If vegetables, then boiled or from a double boiler, if meat, then after a long heat treatment (boiled, stewed). Dairy products are also subject to a temporary ban. They slow down metabolic processes, and the task in this case is the opposite – “ignite the fire of digestion”, speed up metabolism.
The psychological factor
In the case of emotional “indigestion”, the first task is to learn how to verbalize discontent. Refuse the general wording “everything is terrible” and specify what you don’t like and how you would like to change it.
In this case, cognitive psychology can give good results, in which you will discuss and try to express feelings as clearly as possible. While looking for a good psychologist, keep a diary – written verbalization. From a huge variety of trainings, choose those where you will need to actively express emotions. Suitable, for example, acting classes. By acting in two directions at once, taking care of the body and working with the emotional state, you will recover as quickly as possible!