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Healthy Emotions for Healthy Lives A direct connectionbetween your heart (emotion and feeling) and the rest of your bodyaffects your state of health. Neurobiologist Candace Pert and a team ofresearchers with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) haveidentified molecules of emotion. Combinations of tiny bits of proteinon the surface of cells form receptors, sensors that collect chemicalinformation carried throughout your body by other molecules calledligands. Receptors and ligands are very particular about the companythey keep; to bind together they must be perfectly matched. Someligands are natural to the body, such as peptides, neurotransmitters,and hormones; some are natural but foreign to the body, such asviruses; and others are artificial chemicals. When a ligand binds witha receptor (in what Pert calls sex on a molecular level)i informationis deposited onto and into the receptor in a biochemical exchange thathas profound effects. If a receptor waiting for a natural body ligandis unoccupied, because emotional repression has reduced the supply ofpeptides, for instance, a matching virus can dock and illness results. According to Dr. Pert: Allemotions are healthy Anger, fear, and sadness, the so-called negativeemotions, are as healthy as peace, courage, and joy. To repress theseemotions and not let them flow freely is to set up a dis-integrity inthe system, causing it to act at cross-purposes rather than as aunified whole. The stress this creates, which takes the form ofblockages and insufficient flow of peptide signals to maintain functionat the cellular level, is what sets up the weakened conditions that canlead to disease. In the 1940s, Wilhelm Reich was ridiculedfor his assertion that failure to express sexual emotions causedcancer, but the receptor-ligand biochemical model lends credence to histheories. Although Reich did not know it, modern medical sciencerecognizes that people have miniscule cancerous tumors developingwithin their bodies all the time. Pert and her fellow researchers foundthat endorphins in the blood increased by 200 percent during sex.ii Itseems quite possible that when a person is sexually fulfilled, most ofthe receptors for cancer are occupied with endorphin ligands so thedisease cant develop further. The converse might also be true: ifsexual emotions are repressed, endorphin ligands are absent andcancerous ligands can take their place. Viruses and cancerarent the only sicknesses that thrive on repressed emotion. Heartdiseasenow so pervasive that by the late 1960s the World HealthOrganization called it the world's most serious epidemiclovesemotional blocks. Of course, lifestyle choices (diet, exercise,smoking, and other physical stressors) are powerful contributors, butthey are not the only culprits. Part of the problem stems from armoringour hearts against feeling too much, not allowing them to open fully toothers. In his empowering book, Love and Survival: The Scientific Basisfor the Healing Power of Intimacy, Dr. Dean Ornish documents studiesthat conclude intimacy (emotional support and connection) is at leastas important as physical factors (cholesterol levels, blood pressure,etc.) for the prevention of and recovery from heart disease. Excerpted from our new book Sensual Love Secrets for Couples: The Four Freedoms of Body, Mind, Heart and Soul, by Al Link and Pala Copeland, Llewellyn, 2007
Emotion,And,Health,Heart,Freed