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How Emotions Affect Your Health – Physically,Mentally and Through Stress
- Debi Voris
- Jul 11
- 7 min read
In today's whirlwind world brimming with economic uncertainty, global tensions, and relentless digital noise stress isn’t just a mindset. These tensions pervade every aspect of our health. It affects us physically, clouds our thinking, and catalyzes chronic stress. There’s hope. Understanding emotions and the connection between heart and mind gives you powerful tools to cultivate calm amid the chaos.
The Emotional-Physical Connection
Emotion, as Tony Robbins says, is energy in motion. Joe Dispenza says emotions are the language of our body. They both are correct.Emotions don’t just stay in the mind. They vibrationally manifest throughout the body.
Understanding Emotions and Vibrational Energy
Some people believe emotions are fleeting feelings. They are more than that, they are energetic messages. Yes, they are energy in motion. Also, each emotion vibrates at a certain frequency, and these vibrations are constantly being broadcast through your words, your body language, and your presence. Those around you feel it whether consciously or not, and your emotional vibration influences not only your personal experience and broadcast further than you think.
When you're stuck in low-vibration emotions like fear, doubt, guilt, or
frustration, everything feels harder. Your energy is heavy, and it’s like trying to run through mud. These emotions slow you down and can keep you stuck.
On the other hand, high-vibration emotions like love, peace, courage, and joy feel expansive. They uplift you and your soul. You will move through life with clarity, purpose, and ease. I created this Human Emotional Vibration Chart visually illustrates the range of emotional frequencies and the energy they emit.
Emotional and Spiritual Balance
To achieve emotional balance is awareness and understanding what is
needed. Having emotional balance is the cornerstone of well-being and with the right alignment you will thrive and enjoy your life. When you are emotionally balanced, you experience a sense of inner peace, resilience, and clarity. Emotions are no longer suppressed or overwhelming. They move through us in healthy ways, allowing us to face life’s ups and downs with grace. This doesn’t mean ignoring negative emotions. It means recognizing, honoring, and releasing them rather than clinging to or resisting them.
As I said before, negative emotions slow you down and get you stuck
physically, mentally and spiritually. When you feel you are not accomplishing what you want, you experience a level of frustration. You are upset with a relationship it can make you angry. These emotions create stress in your body and mental turbulence.
Physically your body could eventually have so much inflammation that it creates chronic stress. Chronic stress weakens immunity and disrupts digestion. When your adrenal glands are fatigued, hormones such as cortisol will spike insulin and lower your metabolism. Also, high cortisol impairs sleep. Sleeping is the time when your body will regenerate itself.Lack of sleep causes muscle tension that can induce pain.
Mentally, emotions of anxiety, overwhelm and anger will cloud judgment. You may be consumed with repetitive thinking about “what happened.” Anxiety creates a cascade of “what ifs.” You will not be productive. It will block your creativity and eventually fuel burnout and more stress that leads to feeling stuck.
Use positive emotions that are higher vibrational emotions that will get you out of your crisis. Gratitude, joy and peace are more powerful than you think. They uplift your mood and get you out of depression and repetitive thinking. When you are at peace, calm or joyful, it clears mental fog, enhances resilience, and supports both body and mind.
There are two ways to shift your emotional states. Awareness is the start.Pausing helps with awareness. While you pause, be aware how your body feels. Do a body scan. Are your muscles tense? Is your heartrate fast? Crying or cursing is a red flag. Instead of steaming in it, move past the negative emotions and releasing them is imperative. Letting go will help you. Forgive yourself and the situation. Some situations are out of control. Very possibly that person is having a bad day. You certainly cannot control
what the government is doing. So don’t be reactive and be proactive
instead by pausing and reflecting on what happened. Pause and respond in a positive way. If you can’t right now, learn how to. When you realize it is out of your control it makes it easier to release.
Do You Understand the Heart’s Secret Power?
Another way of releasing negative emotions is understanding your heart’s secret power. According to research from the HeartMath Institute, the heart produces the largest electromagnetic field in the body over 60 times greater in amplitude than the brain’s electrical field. It isn’t just a static signal. It’s dynamic according to your emotional state. Your health is more intelligent than you can imagine. It is deeply responsive to our emotions.
When it comes to fear, stress, or anger, the heart's electromagnetic field becomes chaotic. Think about it. Have you ever put your hand on heart when you are angry or scared. Your heart is racing. You are activating the Sympathetic Nervous system and getting into Fight, Flight and Freeze mode.
In contrast, when we feel gratitude, compassion, or love, the field shifts into a coherent state with your brain and shifts you into the Parasympathetic Nervous System. In that coherence, something profound happens. Your heart and brain begin to synchronize. Experts call this heart-brain coherence. While you are in this state, the heart sends signals to the brain that shift its activity. Stress hormones decrease. Creativity increases. Focus sharpens. Intuition heightens. The body begins to operate in harmony.
The heart has its own intrinsic nervous system. As Joe Dispenza says, a complex network of neurons capable of sensing, learning, feeling, and remembering. It communicates with the brain through electrical impulses, biochemical signals, and energetic resonance. However, when the mind is racing, this connection becomes blurred. The brain’s stress patterns override the heart’s wisdom.
Again, when you pause and deeply breathe diaphragmatically, you turn on the Parasympathetic Nervous System and return to calm and stillness.Your heart’s signals grow stronger. Its guidance becomes clearer.
The heart speaks in feelings of warmth, openness, expansion. It whispers, “This feels right.” When you learn to trust your heart, your life begins to shift. You will feel safer in stillness and make decisions not from fear, but from clarity.
I feel that calmness is my compass, guiding me gently through life's storms. Life isn’t always easy. Many face trials and tribulations. Some people get caught in the tornado of chaos and don’t know what to do. Calmness is the key. When you cultivate inner calm, you step out of reactivity and into your power of knowing what to do. It gives
you confidence and aligns with the steady wisdom of your heart.
Science of Heart-Brain Create Coherence
I have been talking about emotions having low and high vibrations. The heart and brain communicate via neurons. According to Psychology today the heart has over 40,000 neurons that sense, learn and remember. Some studies show that the heart sends more neurological input to the brain than vice versa.
Thus, as emotions shift, so does heart rhythm. Positive emotions generate a sinewave HRV pattern, reflecting coherence between the autonomic nervous system, heart, brain, and breath.
Use Your Heart’s Wisdom
I found these strategies help me and others. To tap into your heart’s
wisdom pause and breathe. When you concentrate on breathing slowly you are activating the Parasynaptic Nervous System. I personally like Box Breathing, where I breathe in for a count of 5, hold for 5, exhale for 5 or longer and pause for 5 again. Repeat the process. This activity will bring you to immediate coherence.
As I indicated briefly, focus on what your heart is telling you. It tells when you are at a point of crisis or joy. Remember the difference. You put your hand on your heart. Is it racing? If it is do the breathing exercise above and think of positive emotions of gratitude, compassion, or love. In this process you are redirecting your thoughts to release those negative emotions. Your heart and brain will slow down.
You can always get more analytic if you want to see what your heart is doing. HeartMath has HeartMath application you can use to see your HRV, Heart Rate Variability coherence.
Like with anything practicing will make you more aware and you will see how coherence is working. With regular practice, coherence becomes an internal default, strengthening immune function, cognitive flexibility, and emotional regulation.
Why This Matters More Than Ever
With chaotic times, inner calm isn’t just soothing. It helps you bring back to focus on how you will be ok and it’s lifesaving. Being aware of heart-brain coherence and your emotional state. When you are you are protecting your health by reducing stress hormones, balancing the nervous system, boosting immunity, and enhancing sleep and digestion.
Mentally, you will have more clarity, feel more creative, and improve
decision-making. Managing your emotions will keep you focused, develop resilience, eliminate overwhelm, and fosters confidence.
Socially, people who can create coherence become calming anchors,
positively influencing those around them.
Heart Does Cultivates Calm Mental State and Health
Our hearts are stronger than you think. They are symbols of love and
empathy. Now science reveals they're physiological powerhouses, interfacing with our brains to sculpt our well-being. Your heart helps to recognize emotions, calms you to response more positively when you pay attention. It does take practice. Overtime, you will be wiser and know what to do with stressful situations.
Remember in any crisis, you pause, breathe deeply into your heart, and choose elevated emotions, you catalyze a powerful alignment. A ripple effect from cells to mind and to those around you.
Calm isn’t a luxury. It’s indispensable. In a chaotic world, your calm is your
superpower, and your coherent heart is its foundation.
Meet the expert:
Debi Voris' transformation of releasing 70 lbs. and becoming a half-marathon runner inspired her to become a Certified Wholistic Health Coach. She is passionate about revitalizing people's health and mindset by empowering them to break through their beliefs of impossibility. Through her coaching, she guides individuals to discover and embrace wholistic solutions for a healthier lifestyle.
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