Examples of strong connection between your physical health and your mental/emotional condition are numerous. Have you ever noticed that when you get physically sick your emotional condition worsens greatly? You are getting all irritable and generally dissatisfied with everything. This fact is one of the perfect proofs of invariable interaction of your physical health with your emotional well-doing.
This example of mine was actually very ‘light’ and almost trivial, especially if we compare it with something more serious like terminal diseases. When I worked as a hospice volunteer I saw the emotional state of people who suffered from untreatable forms of cancer and i.e. rapidly moved towards their dying day. Some of them were deeply depressed, others had ‘gained’ serious mental disorders through their terminal physical conditions.
Have you ever noticed how emotionally elated we feel when we recover from certain nasty disease? I certainly have! This shiny and new feeling of emotional bliss is closestly connected with your physical refreshed and now healthy condition. Moreover, this condition helps you make sure how important health in a person’s life is and i.e. encourages you to work on your well-doing and cherish it.
The opposite side of the medal of mental-physical health connection is, for instance, your physical condition during depression or any other mental deviations from usual norm. Haven’t you ever realized that when you are upset or stressed out, your physical health is getting worse as well? I’m sure you have which is another vivid example of firm ‘friendship’ between your physical and mental conditions.
Taking into account all that has been said you must work hard on all the aspects and ‘fields’ of the global notion of your health – if you want to stay physically and mentally healthy for as long as possible that is.
