by mrfish » Sun Sep 07, 2014 11:22 am
Emotional state is related to health, BUT a lot of people who push this concept are full of shit. Being constantly agitated and stressed out may increase the level of cortisol in the body and over a period of time this might cause certain problems to develop. There are several other legitimate examples of this sort of thing. However, a lot of people go the extra mile and take things to their illogical extreme and we wind up with self-help groups designed to detox the brain or airheads chanting affirmations with the belief that it will "heal" their bodies. Ten percent of the assertions that emotional state affects health are truth, but the other 90% is utter and complete bullshit with advocates leading emotional circle jerks promising participants that emotional catharsis will clease their bodies of toxins built up from years and years of toxic thoughts. It's probably the case that people who participate in this sort of thing are hopeless anyways and too stupid to know the difference between BS and legitimate science and so at least it keeps them out of trouble.