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Suppression of already promoted emotions is a rather harmful thing. Emotion suppression is an attempt to contain the volcano, leading to more explosions.
Suppressed but active emotions linger in the chest, throat and peritoneum (diaphragm). As a rule, this generates new negative emotions (other options are possible). When one emotion naturally and automatically generates another, we can say that one emotion «mutates» into another.
At the same time, the concept of “mutation of emotions” should be used carefully: when the transformation of one emotion into another does not occur as an automatic process, but is performed by a person creatively, the concept of “mutation” is hardly adequate.
There is evidence that the suppression of anger, irritation and resentment leads to fatigue and negatively affects health.
A typical mechanism: at first, a person spins the negative in himself, after which he does not give him an outlet, continuing to spin the negative inside. Anger or resentment (for example) lingers in the chest, in the throat, the resulting tension is transferred to the diaphragm, the blood is squeezed out of the stomach, the stomach bleeds, the walls of the stomach lose their protection from gastric juice. The stomach begins to digest itself — an ulcer.
At the same time, it is important not to confuse the suppression of already promoted emotions and elementary restraint, the restraint of a well-mannered person. If you do not wind up emotions inside yourself, then restraint in behavior and expression of your feelings is not at all harmful. See →
Summary
If you are calm in principle and control your emotions against this background, this is normal restraint, it is harmless. If you have an inner boil and hold yourself back for a while, that is courage. You can even be proud of yourself. And if you internally boil hour after hour, day after day, you cannot calm yourself down and only keep yourself from exploding — this is the suppression of emotions. This is stupid and bad for your health.
What to do?
The best thing is to change the situation. Correct the one who infuriates you — so as not to infuriate, if you cannot correct it — get out of this situation yourself: why spoil your own blood? If this is also impossible, release stress in safe ways: sports help, especially sports with percussion techniques help, it is always useful to at least just take a walk and get distracted. See →