Did You Know Emotions Can Greatly Affect Your Health?

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In traditional Chinese medicine, emotions and physical health are intimately connected. Sadness, nervous tension, anger, worry, and fear are each associated with a particular organ in the body.

While some types of pain are purely the unfortunate result of something going wrong at a physical level, it's important to note that other forms of discomfort primarily relate to your emotional well-being.

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Shirai M, Soshi T. Why is heartache associated with sadness? Sadness is represented by specific physical pain through verbal knowledge. PLoS ONE. 2019;14(5):e0216331. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0216331

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