8 How Your Emotional State Can Impact Your Health

If we stay in the same toxic state of anger the same melancholy state of depression the same vigilant state of anxiety or the same low state of unworthiness those redundant chemical signals we have talked about keep pushing the same genetic buttons which ultimately cause the activation of certain diseases Stressful emotions as you will learn actually pull the genetic trigger dice regulating the cells Dice regulation refers to impairment of a physiological regulatory mechanism and creating disease When we think and feel in the same ways for most of our lives and memorize familiar states of being our internal chemical state keeps activating the same genes meaning that we keep making the same proteins but the body cannot adapt to these repeated demands and it begins to break down If we do that for ten or twenty years the genes begin to wear out and they start making cheaper proteins What do I mean Think about what happens when we age Our skin sags because it's collagen and elastin come to be made of cheaper proteins What happens to our muscles They atrophy Well no surprise there Actin and myosin too are a protein Here's an analogy